Creature Commandos, the first official DCU project, has ended its first season, and with the finale, added another DCEU character to its roster.

By the end of the season, with only (spoilers) The Bride, Weasel and Dr. Phosphorus surviving the events of the princess assassination, the team needed to be built back up. And speaking of built back up, we see an upgraded GI Robot who is actually not dead after all, in addition to new DC members we haven’t seen before, Khalis, a revived mummy, and Nosferata, a vampire who at one point fought Superboy. Both have previously been Creature Commandos in the comics.

Then we have added another DCEU member, King Shark, who appears in the finale to join the DCU team. He of course was a main member of James Gunn’s reformed Suicide Squad team in the second movie, which was part of the reason Gunn was given the keys to the DCU.

I just checked and King Shark was voiced in Creature Commandos, briefly, by Diedrich Bader, an actor who has previously voiced Batman in both Harley Quinn and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. This is different than uh, Sylvester Stallone, who voiced King Shark in Gunn’s Suicide Squad movie. Though I would not have expected him to show up for a line or two.

The addition of King Shark continues to blur the lines between Gunn’s old DCEU projects, Peacemaker and The Suicide Squad, with the new DCU, with this being the latest in a long line of crossovers.

Essentially the entire cast of Peacemaker is continuing on into the DCU, especially Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller. It’s been said John Cena will reprise his role, and the entire second season of Peacemaker will be canon to the DCU with some sort of explanation attached.

The events of The Suicide Squad movie also appear to be canon with Rick Flagg Sr. losing his son at the hands of Peacemaker. Few members of the Suicide Squad in that movie survived, but that includes Weasel, Ratcatcher II, Bloodsport, King Shark and Harley Quinn.

Of those, Weasel and King Shark are now confirmed to still be in the DCU as well, but that leaves open questions about characters like Idris Elba’s Bloodsport and most pressingly, Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn who appeared in a full three DCEU movies, both Suicide Squads and Birds of Prey, opposite Jared Leto’s (limited screen time) Joker. I think it’s safe to say that Leto will not be back, but given that Harley was such a big part of Gunn’s movie, all of which appears to be canon, fans are wondering if she’s going to reprise that role.

The likely answer is…no, probably not. First of all, there is no indication that any DCU projects are going to feature Harley Quinn in the near or even far future right now. The only Batman-related project on deck is The Brave and the Bold, and she should not be a part of that story.

Second, Margot Robbie seems to be moving on from the role. In a Variety interview after The Suicide Squad, Robbie said:

“I always wanted Harley to be a character that would get passed on to other actresses to play, the way there are so many iconic male characters. That was always the dream for her. Harley’s so fun and can go in so many different directions. You put her in someone else’s hands and it’s like, ‘What are they going to do with her?’ The options are endless.”

That sounds pretty definitive, but what could happen is that Robbie’s DCEU Harley stays canon in the DCU, at least with the events of her final film, but simply another actress portrays her moving forward. But again, we are talking years and years away, and the only Harley we are going to see for a while is Kaley Cuoco’s animated version.

But hey, King Shark is back!

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