And the grateful nation of America, through Economos, gives her a new team of Commandos to lead: Weasel, Doctor Phosphorus, a rebuilt GI Robot (also Sean Gunn), Nosferata, Khalis (a mummy-like villain) and King Shark ( Diedrich Bathers).

“Well, are you in?” asks Economos. “What else am I supposed to do?” shoots The Bride right back.

That’s cool and all, but Ilana’s needlessly convoluted plan relies on Waller making several assumptions about Clayface and MacPherson. The also depends on Ilana knowing what Circe’s vision of the future was about… Something we never get an indication of throughout the series (did they ever talk before the events of this series? Do they even know each other?)

It also strangely takes the strong theme of toxic masculinity through Circe leading a group called the Sons of Themyscira (SofT) to take over the all-female island that was featured in the first three episodes… And then instead, Circe gives a completely different motivation, and makes one woman the villain, another woman her killer, and seems to ignore the initial ideas from the first half of the season completely. In fact, Frankenstein (David Harbour), the living embodiment of toxic masculinity, is almost literally an afterthought in the episode: As soon as he comes to reclaim “his” bride, she knocks him off a tower, presumably killing him. almost immediately, spat on his face (more on that in a second).

While the first half of the season dealt with varying levels of toxic masculinity, the latter half, and especially this final episode, doubled down on the theme of “what makes you a monster.” You could maybe tie the two together—the SofT boys were a different kind of monster, after all—but with Circe disappearing in the second half of the season and Nina dying for no other reason than to motivate The Bride (she tried to kill Ilana, but Weasel stopped her and gave Ilana enough of a chance to kill Nina first), there’s a lack of clarity in theme and plot direction that doesn’t help the confusion over Ilana’s strange plan.

Regardless, the show is over and everything is wrapped up with a nice bow at the end of the episode, right? Wrong!

Does Creature Commandos have a Post-Credits scene?

…But wait, it is still not all. After the credits we get a final scene. Eric Frankenstein is alive, and as after his first encounter with The Bride hundreds of years earlier, he is being nursed back to health by yet another old lady. He explains that the events of this episode make him fall even more in love with his perfect bride, then asks the old lady what soup she’s feeding him.

The answer? Spider soup. “The taste is disgusting,” says Frankenstein. “Yes,” says the old woman. And Season 1 of Creature Commandos ends in earnest as they continue to eat the soup. To paraphrase Adam Driver on Girls: bad soup.

How does the Creature Commandos Finale Season 2 set up?

First things first: yes, there will indeed be a Creature Commandos Season 2, as it was renewed by Max on December 23, 2024. However, it will likely be a new mission with a new team led by The Bride. While Nina is dead, that team will likely include Weasel, GI Robot, Doctor Phosphorus, Khalis, Nosferata, and King Shark.

That said, a lot depends on what happens to any of these characters going forward in the DCU, and the actor’s availability given time. Since animated series tend to take about two years to make seasons, unless Creature Commandos Season 2 has been secretly in the works for a while, we probably won’t see it until 2026, at the earliest; and there’s a lot to come in the DCU before that. Speaking of which…

The Creature Commandos Finale and James Gunn’s DCU

The clearest way Creature Commandos sets up the DCU is the inclusion of Creature Commandos, who could now appear in live-action—or additional animated series—if the story calls for it.

More specifically, Rick Flag Sr. however, no longer in charge of the Creature Commandos at the end of season 1 and is recovering from his coma. We know Grillo will reprise his role in both Peacemaker Season 2 and Superman, and whether we’ll see him deal with the events of this series is TBD. But he is at this point in Amanda Waller’s employ, just not in charge of a team.

However, there are a number of other setups for the DCU throughout the series, and we won’t run them all down, but here are a few dangling plot points:

• Clayface looks very dead from this episode. There are ways around that, of course, but it points to the version of the character we’ll see in Mike Flangan’s Clayface movie as either a prequel; or a brand new Clayface.
• In Circe’s vision of Ilana’s global apocalypse, she stood side by side with what looked like Gorilla Grodd, a classic The Flash villain. Since the character otherwise didn’t appear in Creature Commando’s season 1, it certainly seems like an eye-catching inclusion that could be followed up somewhere.
• Back during the GI Robot episode, we met Dr. Will Magnus (Tudyk again), who used GI Robot’s design to create heroes The Metal Men, something that could probably be followed up at some point as well.
• But the biggest elephant in the room is Wonder Woman and Themyscria. The season started with Circe leading her SofT (Sons of Themyscria) into Pokolistan, the late MacPherson studying Amazonian culture and having a very Wonder Woman-esque helmet in his house, and we even got to see a dead Wonder Woman in Circe’s vision . We know the DCU has plans for Superman and Batman, but what about the third part of the Trinity? There’s a lot of setup here in Creature Commandos, as far as we know at this point, no gain. Come on, Wonder Woman. The whole world is waiting for you.