If you look closely, James Gunn’s Superman has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to Batman, and fans are already excited about the possibilities.
After its soft launch with Creature Commandos, Superman is the big-screen debut of Gunn’s DC Universe, introducing audiences to a rebooted world of gods, monsters, and all the heroes and villains in between.
If you look at all of the DCU movies and TV shows in development, there’s a broad range of projects; Supergirl, Lanterns, and Clayface, all of which have very different tones. A new Batman movie is also in the works, as well as The Batman Part 2, which is (allegedly) an Elseworlds film – in other words, it’s not part of the main canon.
Whether or not things will stay that way remains to be seen. Superman doesn’t meet or mention Batman in the new film, nor does the caped crusader appear in any form – but there is one small Easter egg.
Gotham City sign spotted in Superman
As Superman enters its final act and people are fleeing from Metropolis (don’t worry, no spoilers), you can see a road sign for Gotham City.
While Metropolis and Gotham aren’t that close in the comics, it appears the DCU is carrying over one of the changes from the SnyderVerse: putting them “right next to each other.”
“It made sense to us and worked for our story that they were kind of sister cities across a big bay. It’s like Oakland and San Francisco, kind of,” Snyder earlier said at Comic Con.
To be clear, we still don’t know if a bay separates them in the DCU, but if there’s a road sign on your way out of Gotham, it’s probably nearby, if not within reasonable driving distance.
“Seeing the street sign that says, ‘Gotham City next right’…. oh yeah it’s coming,” one user wrote. “The Gotham City sign in Superman… please give us SuperBat already,” another wrote with an edit of David Corenswet and Robert Pattinson. “Thinking about that Gotham City sign in Superman,” a third posted.
Corenswet has already expressed interest in his Superman meeting Batman, and according to the Wall Street Journal, the aim is to “eventually re-establish all the company’s best-known characters, including Batman and Wonder Woman, and unite them in a new Justice League film.”
The question is, will it be another Batman, or will Gunn give into pressure (or maybe he’s been bluffing all along) and fold Pattinson’s Dark Knight into the DCU?
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