Creature Commandos simply wrapped up its first season on Max, marking the (form of) first official entry within the new DCU overseen by James Gunn. The seven-episode season supplied the whole lot followers may need from a Gunn-penned DC undertaking, with loads of over-the-top violence, smartass humor, and character growth that humanized its inhuman antiheroes. So how did Gunn and the workforce wrap up the season, and the place does the ending go away the characters?
Word: spoilers for Creature Commandos Episode 7, “A Very Humorous Monster,” under
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December 5, 2024
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Indira Varma
, Frank Grillo
, Zoe Chao
, David Harbour
, Sean Gunn
, Alan Tudyk
, Anya Chalotra
, Maria Bakalova
, Viola Davis
, Steve Agee
, Benjamin Byron Davis - Seasons
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Episode 7’s Character Focus
Early on in its run, Creature Commandos established the format of breaking apart its foremost plot to enter prolonged flashbacks of its foremost characters’ lives earlier than they had been taken to Belle Reve, with every character getting their very own highlight. In Episode 7, “A Very Humorous Monster,” the highlight falls on Nina Mazursky, the aquatic girl who has to put on a water swimsuit in an effort to breathe.
Episode 7 provides viewers a glimpse at Nina’s upbringing. The daughter of a distinguished scientist named Edward, she was born together with her lungs exterior her physique. Reasonably than let their little one die, Edward builds a particular swimsuit that may permit her to breathe, however the equipment is heavy and causes undue stress on her tiny physique. Attempting to treatment the problem, Edward then injects Nina with DNA from amphibious creatures, which has the unlucky (although completely forseeable) facet impact of turning her right into a form of human/fish hybrid unable to breathe water.
Now pressured to reside in a watersuit, the flashbacks go on to point out Nina’s childhood and adolescence, positioned in a personal faculty the place she’s relentlessly bullied by her classmates, main her to run away from dwelling and search a life within the metropolis’s waterways. She’s ultimately found and captured, and Edward is tragically shot useless by a police officer when attempting to get near her by means of the throng of onlookers. Nina is taken away, presumably to Belle Reve.
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Nina Should Carry Out a Mission
Again within the present’s current day, Episode 7 brings the season’s arc to a detailed, because the Commandos (minus Flagg) make their approach contained in the citadel to hold out their mission of assassinating the Pokolistani princess Ilana. They’re working on intel from the Themysciran sorceress Circe that Ilana will carry concerning the finish of the world, although Flagg is satisfied this may increasingly all be an elaborate hoax. Sadly, he is too badly injured from his struggle with Clayface in Episode 6 to get to Pokolistan himself and cease them.
The Commandos discover Ilana taking a swim in a pond, and so they determine one of the simplest ways to kill her is for Nina to swim up beneath her and take her out. Reluctantly, Nina agrees. The opposite Commandos look on anxiously, significantly Weasel, who would not wish to see Ilana killed after their sport of fetch in Episode 1, reminding him of the little lady he used to play with in his personal flashback in Episode 4.
Because the Commandos come nearer to their objective, Amanda Waller appears to be like into Flagg’s story, going to the house of Dr. McPherson, the Themyscira scholar that helped confirm Circe’s imaginative and prescient. They uncover her useless physique and the stays of Clayface, and Waller lastly believes Flagg that the entire thing was a setup to homicide the princess. She tries to name the order off, however she’s too late; Nina’s already within the pond with a knife at Ilana’s again. Every part appears to be about to go in response to plan, till Weasel blows it by leaping into the water to warn Ilana. She sees Nina creeping up from under, and the 2 interact in a struggle that ends with Ilana grabbing the knife and stabbing Nina useless.
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The Commandos Have been Tricked
So evidently a disaster has been averted, albeit with the unlucky sacrifice of Nina. Weasel will get pets from the troopers for his heroism whereas the Bride confronts Ilana with the reality. She reveals that Ilana is who Circe stated she was, and that the entire thing with Clayface was a ruse to make the Commandos suppose she’d been arrange. The truth that they noticed her assembly with Clayface on safety footage positively helps this concept. Ilana tries to tug a gun on The Bride, however she’s not fast sufficient, and The Bride places a bullet in her head. The Commandos then rapidly go away the palace earlier than the troopers uncover the reality.
Again at Belle Reve, The Bride talks with Agent Economos, who tells her that Waller is not afraid to point out her gratitude when it is deserved. He reveals Job Pressure M’s new dwelling base, a barely extra soft wing of the jail the place the workforce have a couple of extra creature comforts. It additionally seems there could also be a couple of new members, just like the vampiric Nosferata, historical Egyptian Khalis, and everybody’s favourite King Shark, making a return look after The Suicide Squad. Better of all, she’s greeted by a a lot bigger, rebuilt model of G.I. Robotic, although it is unclear if his earlier reminiscence is undamaged.
And with that, Season 1 of Creature Commandos involves a detailed. Followers should wait till Season 2 to seek out out what sort of fallout The Bride’s killing of Ilana can have, if the workforce really prevented Armageddon or possibly inadvertently pushed it ahead. The collection was lately renewed for a second season, so fortunately this is not the top for this merry band of misfits.
All episodes of Creature Commandos are streaming on Max.