What Does Aquaman's Box-Office Success Mean For The DCEU's Future?

3. Embracing The Weirdness Of DC Comics

There's a reason many assumed Aquaman simply wouldn't work on screen. In the comics, he's an inherently silly character, from his scaly gold-and-green appearance to the fact he's a guy who talks to fish. Hell, he's a dude who milked a cow with an octopus.

Put simply, DC Comics isn't afraid to get really weird. There's all kinds of zaniness on the page, little of which has been translated to screen before so many of the movies (since Nolan revived Batman in 2005, at least) have adhered to the gritty, dark, and serious tone of The Dark Knight Trilogy. Aquaman, however, decides to completely flip this.

It knows that it has a weird superhero who talks to fish, and so completely embraces that aspect. Ok, the octopus may not milk a cow, but it does still appear - and play the drums, no less (itself a reference to Aquaman's comics octo-buddy, Topo). That's good news for the future, too, because it signals that weird does work, and DC are ready to go in on that. There are obviously chances for that in both Shazam! and Joker, but going into the future we should see a DC unafraid to get a little wild and whacky.