'The Flash' has a slightly foolish end-credits scene. Right here's what it means for the way forward for DC.

• Warning: There are spoilers forward for “The Flash.”
• The most recent DC film, starring Ezra Miller, has one additional scene following the credit.
• Jason Momoa makes an look as his “Aquaman” character in a comical scene that drags out.

Be sure you keep till the very finish of “The Flash” for one additional scene after the credit.

The Ezra Miller-starring DC film options the return of Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry/Aquaman in a low-stakes scene that primarily serves as a reminder that his superhero, Aquaman, returns later this yr to the massive display screen in his personal sequel.

When you left theaters early and missed it, here is a breakdown of the scene and what it means.

What occurs: The Flash discusses the occasions of the film with a drunken Arthur Curry

Barry Allen/The Flash (Miller) helps Curry/Aquaman (Momoa) out of a bar.

As Arthur kicks his legs out, Barry explains how he cannot get drunk due to his excessive metabolism. A really drunk Arthur claims he “cannot get drink both.” He clearly can.

Barry asks his Justice League comrade to pay attention as he tells him about two totally different variations of Batman he noticed all through the film who weren’t Affleck’s Caped Crusader. 

“They had been all Batman. They had been all Bruce Wayne, however every of them was a very totally different particular person,” Barry tells Arthur.

“So on the opposite line-time,” Arthur drunkenly slurs.

“Timeline,” Barry corrects him.

“…I am the identical man?” Arthur asks.

“Yeah, really, just about,” Barry reassures him.

That is a lie.

Within the movie, Barry goes again in time to stop the dying of his mom. When he will get caught previously, Barry shockingly discovers that he modified the longer term.

Within the alternate timeline, the Justice League does not exist. There isn’t a Marvel Lady, Superman was killed and by no means made it to Earth (his cousin, Kara, landed in Russia the place she was locked up), and Arthur Curry was by no means born. As a substitute, Arthur’s father has a canine by the identical title.

Batman exists on this timeline, as Barry tells Arthur, however he is performed by Michael Keaton, not Ben Affleck. Keaton reprises his position because the Darkish Knight from WB’s Tim Burton “Batman” movies within the early ’90s.

On the movie’s very finish, when Barry fixes the timeline, Affleck’s Batman is not within the current. As a substitute, Barry runs into George Clooney’s Batman. The Oscar winner performed Bats in 1997’s “Batman & Robin.”

The scene between Arthur and Barry drags on for about one other minute with Arthur talking numerous nonsense.

“Thanks for making it extra easier for me, Mr. Easy Extra,” Arthur tells Barry earlier than strolling right into a pole and falling into an enormous puddle that is bigger than the size of his physique on the sidewalk.

Arthur begins rolling round within the water along with his eyes closed calling out to “Harry” as an alternative of Barry.

When Barry tells Arthur he thought he’d be staying on his sofa, Arthur proclaims he now lives within the puddle earlier than placing resting his face head down.

A second later, he raises his head to ask Barry for extra beer.

“Pay with this,” Arthur says whereas taking off a hoop and handing it to Barry.

“Arthur, that is Atlantean treasure,” Barry informs him.

Arthur then begins singing: “Acquired no cash for the sailor swimsuit. I am a sailor.”

As Barry walks away with the ring, agreeing along with his pal, he assures himself that Aquaman’s high quality, and the scene cuts to black.

This largely looks like an advert for Momoa’s ‘Aquaman’ sequel out later this yr

The slightly goofy scene, which fits on for a lot too lengthy, principally looks like a reminder to followers that Momoa might be again on display screen in December in a long-awaited sequel to 2018’s profitable “Aquaman” film. (It is the highest-grossing DC prolonged universe movie.)

Based on Warner Bros., the sequel, which would be the remaining movie within the DCEU earlier than James Gunn’s DC Studios’ reboot, will comply with Aquaman as he protects Atlantis from an historic energy.

Although the scene is predominately goofy, it could have a bigger which means which affords sneaky closure to WB’s former DC universe.

Barry possible returned to a wholly totally different timeline that does not matter to the way forward for the DC universe

In January, Gunn beforehand introduced “The Flash” “resets the entire DC universe.” 

Close to the film’s finish, when Barry went again in time to repair the timeline one final time, as an alternative of letting issues play out as they initially did, he barely altered the previous once more to make issues higher for his father sooner or later.

Whereas every thing else appeared again to regular within the current, Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne was changed with Clooney.

Clooney’s shock look as Wayne indicators that whereas Barry thought he returned to his personal timeline, he really exists in one other one now.

This was one thing Barry seemingly tried to broach with Arthur within the end-credits scene earlier than Aquaman stumbled right into a puddle. 

If we’re to take the ending at face worth, Barry now exists within the “Batman & Robin” universe.

This might permit WB to shut the door on this model of the Flash and the DC prolonged universe with the intention to begin recent with Gunn’s imaginative and prescient. 

Nevertheless, it is unclear if that is the ultimate time we’ll see Miller swimsuit up. Regardless of authorized hassle and abuse allegations in opposition to the actor,  “The Flash” director Andy Muschetti has mentioned Miller will proceed taking part in the character if a sequel occurs.