Creature Commandos Episode 7 expands the DC Universe with these 11 Easter eggs and references, plus classic comic book locations

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Creature Commandos Episode 7 features exciting DCU Easter eggs and references, including key locations from the original comics. The first season of the DCU animated show has wrapped up, and there are some nods and connections to past DC projects while hinting at an exciting future. It includes a collection of new and old faces that are teased in the episode’s final scene.

Featuring Task Force M reassembled on Pokoristan following the events of Creature Commandos Episode 6, the truth about Circe’s dark vision for the future is finally revealed while the team attempts to kill Princess Rostovich. Featuring some major deaths and some exciting connections to the larger DCU, Creature Commandos’ finale is full of surprises to end this first season. To that end, here are the biggest and best Easter eggs and references we could find in Creature Commandos Episode 7.

11

“Can you do it, Ghost Rider?”

classic marvel heroes

In Creature Commandos episode 7, the Bride refers to Dr. Phosphorus as “Ghost Rider.” With a clear resemblance to the motorcycle-riding, flaming skeleton Marvel hero, this nickname is very accurate. Likewise, this is also a notable dig considering the references to Marvel in DCU projects. Like the multiple Marvel references seen throughout The CW’s Arrowverse, this has happened from time to time, although very rarely.

10

nina’s father

Connection to the original Creature Commandos comics

Nina’s DCU origin has some differences from the comics, but there are some connections, such as her father still being a scientist. In the original comics, Myron Mazursky adopted Nina, who was already an amphibian girl he discovered while researching monsters during World War II. However, he told her that she was his biological daughter and that he had transformed her to cure a lung disease she had at birth. Similarly, Myron was also the founder of the original Creature Commando.

Now, it was revealed that Nina Mazursky is really Myron’s biological son, who was born with a lung disease in the DCU show. As a result, Myron attempts to cure his daughter using the aquatic animal’s DNA, giving her the discovery and gills, which makes her feel no pain, but can only breathe underwater. . So while it’s interesting to see James Gunn flip the script on Nina’s origin by making Myron’s fiction a reality, Myron has no ties to Task Force M other than being Nina’s father. Apparently not.

9

Major comics locations referenced in the DCU

Star City, Bludhaven, Metropolis

As a child, Nina lived in Star City, the hometown of the hero Green Arrow. Similarly, Star City News confirms the existence of Nightwing’s city of Bludhaven and also mentions Superman’s city of Metropolis. In episode 7 of Creature Commandos, Star City News reveals that experts from both cities will be brought in to find and capture Nina once her presence in the sewers and rivers is documented and made available to the public. Confirmed. DCU fans got their first glimpse of Metropolis in the trailer for 2025’s Superman, but now we know that Star City and Bludhaven exist and what that means for the future hero’s debut. Excited to know.

8

weasels can’t swim

Confirmed for 2021’s “The Suicide Squad”

Creature Commandos episode 7 mentions Weasel’s inability to swim, and an earlier episode shows Weasel drowning while trying to save Princess Ilana, who had been kind to her. Weasel’s inability to swim was revealed in 2021’s The Suicide Squad when he almost drowned and died almost instantly because no one on Waller’s team checked to see if he could swim. Hilariously proven. That said, it was Suicide Squad’s post-credits scene that confirmed Weasel survived a drowning ahead of the animated Creature Commando’s debut.

7

Mary Shelley’s Matilda

author of frankenstein

At the end of Creature Commandos episode 7, the Bride is seen looking through Princess Rostovich’s library before killing Ilana. In particular, she stops at Matilda, written by author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote “Matilda” after the publication of “Frankenstein.” Or the modern Prometheus of 1818.

6

“Sadistic Disney Princess”

Princess Ilana flips the script

The bride calls Ilana “a power-crazed, sadistic, narcissistic Disney princess who wants to destroy the world.” The Disney princess moniker is quite appropriate considering that throughout the series Ilana was portrayed like the stereotypical innocent and kind Disney princess. She was also shown befriending animals like weasels.

5

Francine Langstrom, aka Seabat, joins Task Force M

Batman villain Man-Bat’s wife

Francine Langstrom’s Sea Bat appears as a new recruit to Task Force M. She-Bat, wife of Kirk Langstrom’s Man-Bat, previously appeared in episode 4 of Creature Commandos. In the comics, Francine ends up ingesting the same serum that transformed her. Her husband boarded Man-Bat to save the children, and at one point she was a member of the DC team known as the Outsiders. She also has a past with Dr. Phosphorus from the comics, who once kidnapped her, and it’s quite humorous to see the two of them playing ping pong in the DCU.

4

Aten or Charis II

Mummies with ties to Creature Commando

A mummy is shown knitting in the background of Task Force M’s new wings. This is likely either Aten or Charis II, both of which are DC mummies, and whose pages include the history of Creature Command. Aten served as a communications officer, and his bandages had healing properties. The same was true for Karis, who had more diverse supernatural powers and also served as a team medic. So it will be interesting to see which mummies join the DCU’s Task Force M in the future.

3

Upgraded GI robot

Rebuilt for Creature Commando Season 2

It was revealed that Amanda Waller had the GI robot rebuilt following Creature Commandos episode 3, but with a larger body. As a result, the GI robot likely had new and more modern weapons at his disposal, while at the same time being much more powerful and powerful compared to his original body, which was destroyed by the Amazonian sorcerer Circe. Of course there is.

2

return of king shark

Perfect for Task Force M

King Shark, aka Nanaue, first appeared in 2021’s The Suicide Squad, and is an excellent addition to Task Force M. He’s one of the few survivors of Task Force Shark is still working for Waller and seems to be quickly befriending the rest of Task Force M’s monsters. In the live-action version, King Shark was voiced by Sylvester Stallone, but in this new animation, Nanaue’s voice is voiced by Diedrich Bader.

Thanks to this new King Shark appearance and past references to Suicide Squad in Creature Commandos, you have to wonder where the other survivors of Task Force X are. Perhaps Bloodsport, Harley Quinn, and Ratcatcher II are also still at work in Waller’s other missions, like Peacemaker in the spin-off series. It would certainly be fun to see them again in the future of the DCU, directed by James Gunn.

1

Eric Frankenstein is still alive

His mission of love continues

In the post-credits scene of Creature Commandos, Eric Frankenstein is bandaged up and eating disgusting “sparrow drop” soup with the gypsy woman who served as his informant in the previous episode. It was confirmed that he survived the wounds he received in “The Bride.” This suggests that Eric will also return in the DCU’s future, either in Creature Commandos Season 2 or elsewhere.

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