David Ayer Explains Suicide Squad’s Credits Scene (But It’s Still Confusing)

Suicide Squad director David Ayer is attempting to explain the film’s baffling post-credit scene, but his explanation isn’t much help. The star-studded Suicide Squad was a DC Universe film that focused on villains, rather than heroes. With Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Deadshot (Will Smith), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), and other criminals working together for Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), the Suicide Squad took on their first enemy to massive fanfare. The film was a huge success, boasting $747 million at the box office, though it earned negative reception among critics and audiences alike.

A major piece of Suicide Squad’s struggles was that its post-credit scene didn’t make any sense. With Bruce Wayne promising that his friends would help him take down Waller if she stepped out of line, the lore of the entire DCU was completely muddled. Years after Suicide Squad’s release, David Ayer took to Twitter to try to clarify the issue. Check out his post below:

Suicide Squad director David Ayer is attempting to explain the film’s baffling post-credit scene, but his explanation isn’t much help. The star-studded Suicide Squad was a DC Universe film that focused on villains, rather than heroes. With Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Deadshot (Will Smith), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), and other criminals working together for Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), the Suicide Squad took on their first enemy to massive fanfare. The film was a huge success, boasting $747 million at the box office, though it earned negative reception among critics and audiences alike.

A major piece of Suicide Squad’s struggles was that its post-credit scene didn’t make any sense. With Bruce Wayne promising that his friends would help him take down Waller if she stepped out of line, the lore of the entire DCU was completely muddled. Years after Suicide Squad’s release, David Ayer took to Twitter to try to clarify the issue. Check out his post below:

By the time Suicide Squad premiered, Batman hardly had many friends left. Ben Affleck’s Batman was returning after Batman v Superman, and allies were few and far between for the Dark Knight. Superman was still dead, and there were few other active superheroes at the time. To make matters worse, when Batman tried to recruit Wonder Woman, she was completely uninterested, claiming that she walked away from humanity decades before they ever even met.

Before Justice League, he had never even met the rest of the League. The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg were little more than names in a file to him. In fact, they were files that Waller directly provided to him. Even in his personal life, his friends were gone by the time Suicide Squad was released. Robin was dead, and he made no effort to seek out another partner. Besides Alfred, Batman was a lone soldier. Despite what Ayer is insisting, there were no friends left for him to recruit.

If Batman never lost Robin, the post-credit scene in Suicide Squad might have made more sense. Instead, it feels like either a head-scratching mistake or a blatant bluff on Batman’s part. Of course, with Ayer claiming that the reference is to the Justice League, the bluff theory is officially dead. In retrospect, the post-credit scene in Suicide Squad still doesn’t make any sense at all.