Man Of Steel: What We Would Have Done After the Credits

Director Zack Snyder elected not to go with an after the credits scene in Man Of Steel, and several fans have expressed their disappointment over sitting through the credits and not getting a tease for the future DC Cinematic Universe. With that in mind, ComicBook.com came up with some ideas on what we would have liked to see as the after the credits scene in Man Of Steel. Try not to pay too much attention to the specific details of how we would have had them play out; that's really just how we see it in our head. Then again, there are things in the movie we would have written differently, and so Goyer probably could come up with something a bit more in keeping with the tone of the film.

Lex LuthorScene opens with an underling in a suit talking to someone off-screen. The man in the suit says, "Smallville's entire town square was wiped out, estimated $500 million in damages. Extensive destruction across large sections of Metropolis, over $700 billion in damages. We've already seen to it LexCorp will be awarded the construction contracts to repair the damage." The scene pans over to the back of an office chair. As the chair swivels around, a bald man in a business suit is revealed. The bald man smiles and says, "This Superman could be good for business. We just need to find out who he is and make sure he understands that everyone in Metropolis works for LexCorp." There's an equally great idea for a teaser trailer out there, taken from the Lex Luthor: Man of Steel comic. An almost identical adaptation of the "opposite sides of the glass" image from that film could be used to really give a sense for Lex's character.

Batman Scene opens with Clark Kent returning to his apartment after his first day of work at the Daily Planet. Clark has just hung up his jacket in a closet, when he realizes someone is in the room with him. Clark whirls around to see Batman calmly sitting in a chair in his living room. Clark stutters, "Who are you?" Without flinching, Batman replies, "I'm Batman. And we need to talk." Alternately, just seeing the intimation of Batman--the cave, the computers, his chair--would probably be enough. It could be like Thanos in The Avengers where you wouldn't even need to cast the real guy because all that you would need would be to see him...watching. Brainiac This one would have been tricky because, let's face it, it would be hard to pile an alien invasion threat on top of an alien invasion threat by way of a post-credits sequence without feeling like what The Avengers already did. For that reason, I'd embrace the science-fiction elements of Man of Steel and pick up with the House of El...in Kandor. Pan out from the Bottle City until we see Brainiac standing next to it, watching Earth through a screen. If he had to say a word, which I'd advise against? Something like "Hmm." or "Metropolis...?"

Green Lantern Corps Tomar-Re, the Green Lantern of Sector 2813 (where Krypton was formerly orbiting its sun), arrives at the scene of the destruction in space, only to be alerted by his ring to the destruction on Earth...at the hands of a Kryptonian. This one, admittedly, came from a friend who suggested that Tomar's visit to Krypton should be played for laughs, arriving with the kind of "Alright, guys, I'm here to save--Oh!" approach. It also could have been used, in the case of our more serious approach, to establish which Green Lantern Warner Bros. wants to use for the Justice League film--but perhaps adding something that specific would have involved a little too much tipping of the cards from Warners.

Doomsday It's way too early to do this, but it would still be great only because of how cinematic the introductions/teases were for the character in the comics. Imagine the last thirty seconds or so of the closing credits, after the music goes quiet, being overridden by a rhythmic "clang! Clang! Clang!" Fade to total black, but don't stop the sound effects. The clanging noise changes a bit, apparently breaking through whatever it was banging against, and you get the mad scramble, the roaring, the rustling you'd imagine from a beast like Doomsday crawling up through hundreds of yards of rock and dirt. In the final moment, not relaly long enough to be processed, his gloved, bony hand pummels its way up through the ground a la Night of the Living Dead.