These days if you release a superhero movie and there isn’t at least one post-credits scene, your audience is going to feel robbed. Marvel set the tone with its movies teasing future installments, letting the characters have fun, or both. The latest DCEU movie, Justice League, follows suit with two post-credits scenes.

Spoilers ahead for Justice League.

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The Fastest Man Alive

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The first scene, which comes in the middle of the credits, has Flash (Ezra Miller) and Superman (Henry Cavill) getting ready for a race to the Pacific Ocean. They have a joking bet where Superman says Flash is out of the League if he loses and Flash says he’ll tell everyone he won if he wins.

Flash racing Superman has long been a staple of the comics going back to 1967 where the comic book cover teased, “Who Is the Fastest Man Alive?” Within the body of Justice League, the movie notes Superman’s speed twice: once when he’s awakened and sees a speeding Flash (who is surprised that Superman can see him) and the second time when Superman flies out to greet a Flash who can’t seem to find a family speeding out of town.

While it’s a cute stinger, it feels like something that would work much better if both characters had been better established before Justice League. The Superman we got in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is aloof and unsure of his place in the world rather than the grinning boy scout we see in Justice League. As for Flash, there would be a lot more of a payoff if we had spent an entire film where he revels in being the fastest man alive and then he learns there’s someone who may be faster. The mid-credits scene between Flash and Superman is nice, but it feels like it belongs to a different DCEU where the first two Superman movies weren’t so po-faced and we had spent a little more time with Flash.

The Legion of Doom

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The second scene is the “serious scene”. It starts off in Arkham where a guard tells “Luthor” to turn around and exit his cell and the inmate doesn’t respond. When the guard approaches the inmate, we see that it’s just a bald guy who apparently had the job of just standing there until someone noticed that the real Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) had escaped to live on his yacht. We then cut to a speedboat manned by Deathstroke (Joe Manganiello). Deathstroke (aka Slade Wilson) boards the yacht and talks with Luthor, who observes that superheroes now have their own little team. He ominously says to Deathstroke, “Shouldn’t we have a league of our own?”

In theory, I like this idea. If a Justice League sequel happens, I’d much rather see the Justice League go up against the Legion of Doom rather than Darkseid or some other intergalactic villain. The problem is that this Legion of Doom would be led by Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor, and unless the actor decided to radically change his performance for Justice League 2, he’s pretty much unbearable. Of course, they could always recast the role, and I wouldn’t be opposed to that since this Justice League is all about trying to reboot the franchise into something better than what came before.

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