WARNING: This story contains IMPORTANT SPOILERS for Black Adam and the future of the DCEU.
It’s not uncommon for the post-credit scenes of major films to leak online shortly after a theatrical release, but Dwayne Johnson’s closing moments Black Adam film have found their way online a whole week before the official premiere date of the film. What’s more, it brings in a huge spoiler that could take a small amount of wind out of the comic book’s sails. Read on carefully if you want to avoid the details.
In recent weeks, there have been many rumors on the internet suggesting that Henry Cavill will soon finally be reprising his role as Superman and that the first of his new appearances in Black Adam. Now, the leaked post-credits scene has revealed that this is no longer a rumor and the Man of Steel returns to the big screen to challenge Black Adam and set up a massive future showdown between the two.
While Twitter did its best to remove the videos, it’s widely known that it’s nearly impossible to ever make it disappear from the web, and the footage has now made its way onto TikTok and other video-sharing sites. The attempt to remove the footage suggests that Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a copyright complaint to block the videos with the leaked scene, but the content of the video is still available and available in many places.
When it comes to the leaked scene itself, the highly anticipated return of Henry Cavill’s Superman takes place with the mighty hero emerging from a cloud of smoke and approaching Black Adam saying, “It’s been a while since someone has made the world this nervous. “
Black Adam and Superman’s meeting was teased in DC’s League of Super-Pets
While the news of this post-credits scene won’t come as a huge surprise to anyone, it should also be remembered that there was a tease of this coming hidden in plain sight in the animated movie’s post-credits scene, DC’s League of Super-Pets this summer. In that scene, Black Adam was on his way to confront Superman, but due to unforeseen circumstances, the two never come to blows. Now it looks like the pair will be sharing screen time in the DCEU’s live-action arena sometime in the future — something Johnson had already hinted at. He previously said:
“We can’t go there right away. Now we’re in a great place where we’ve delivered for the public. And when I say ‘we’re listening to the audience’, they know we mean it. And when we say, ‘we “Building the DC Universe,” we mean it. This is what we mean. And when we say, “Welcome home,” you know who I’m talking about.”
When and how Black Adam and Superman will meet next time has yet to be revealed, but with rumors that Henry Cavill has also filmed scenes for next year The flashand David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, explaining that a ten-year plan is being drawn up with Black Adam possibly at the center, may finally find its place in the DCEU in the coming years.