What Does [Spoiler] At The End Of The Batman Mean?

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Refreshingly for a modern superhero movie, The Batman has no post-credit scene. It does, however, have a scene right at the end that, had this been part of the Marvel machine, likely have been used as a mid-credit scene to tease the next outing. While the Riddler is left to rot in his cell at Arkham, a prisoner speaks to him. But who is this prisoner, what does it mean, and will he be back in the next Batman movie?

We have some concrete answers, but we don’t know for sure what they mean. Still, there are more than enough clues here for us to analyse and dissect exactly what the scene means.

Major spoilers follow for The Batman. But really, the title should have given that away.

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While the MCU didn't invent post-credit scenes, the idea has become synonymous with the universe, with sequences often being used to tease either the current character's next appearance, or the next movie or television show in the continuity overall. It's a technique used so reliably that the MCU has begun to wink at it with jokes and Easter Eggs, and often having multiple scenes per credit sequence. Most recently Spider-Man: No Way Home caused some controversy because its post-credit scene was a trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a trailer that was publicly released shortly after.

This may be why The Batman doesn't have a post-credit sequence. While the DCEU has tried to copy the MCU, The Batman exists outside of this universe as its own thing, and therefore might have wanted to avoid leaning into superhero tropes. There's also the added pressure a post-credit scene brings. If you introduce a character in a post-credit sequence, you're basically