Heartbreak, a shocking twist and Nina’s origin story

The season finale of Creature Commandos — titled “A Very Funny Monster” — is now streaming on Max, and we’re finally learning Nina Mazursky’s tragic origin story. It is revealed that when she was born, her lungs were mostly outside her body. Fortunately, Nina’s father was a scientist and created a machine that allowed his little girl to breathe.

It is clumsy and uncomfortable, and Nina’s mother chooses to leave, believing that they would have been better off letting the girl die as a baby. Nina’s father comes up with a procedure to transform her DNA and allow his daughter to breathe normally, but it goes wrong and she turns into the monster we’ve seen in the series instead.

Now only able to breathe underwater, Nina is mercilessly bullied in high school and eventually decides to run away and live in the sewers as her true self. Unfortunately, when she is seen in Star City, the teenager is captured and when her father tries to intervene, he is shot and killed.

Back in the present, Task Force M infiltrates Princess Ilana Rostovic’s castle in Pokolistan, where they see the princess meeting with another monstrous visitor a few days before. Before we find out who it is, Eric shows up and is promptly shot down – and spat on – by The Bride before he can deliver Rick Flag Sr.’s message.

Meanwhile, Waller manages to talk to Rick, who warns her that she is wrong about Ilana. Along with John Economos, she travels to Professor Macpherson’s home, finds the remains of Clayface, and learns that they have been tricked by Circe.

When the princess takes a morning swim, the bride tells Nina that she has to go into the water and kill her. Arming the girl with a knife, she finally admits that Nina is a monster just like the others, and it’s clear that the purist Task Force M member finally feels accepted.

Just as Nina is about to deliver the killing blow, Weasel runs into the water to warn the princess. A fight breaks out between him and Doctor Phosphorus, but the distraction is enough for Ilana to see Nina, disarm her, and repeatedly stab the monster to death. It is only then that a soldier rushes in with orders from Waller to stand down.

As Weasel is hailed as a hero, the Bride confronts the princess and the truth is revealed. Turns out Circe wasn’t lying and Ilana really wants to create World War III. She seduced Flag into siding with him, hoping it would be enough to convince him to kill the Amazon. When that didn’t work, she sent one of her knights to spy on the team, and after he saw the real McPherson meeting with Waller, Ilana hired Clayface – who was in the CCTV footage – to replace the expert and get ARGUS to believe that she I was an impostor all along (protecting her plan for world domination).

Thus, the bride shoots the princess in the head, not to stop WWIII, but for her friend, Nina.

Later, the team returns to America and John takes The Bride to the “Non-Human Internment Division”, a new wing of Belle Reve given to her as a show of gratitude by Waller. It is there that she meets her new team: Weasel, Doctor Phosphorus, an updated, massive GI Robot, Nosferata, Khalis and The Suicide Squad‘s King Shark!

And yes, there is a scene after credits.