The first two episodes of Creature Commandos are now streaming on Max Malaysia.

James Gunn, the co-head of DC Studios, is the writer and executive producer of the series. The official logline states the show “tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails… they’re your last, worst option.”

The cast includes Steve Agee as Economos, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana, Anya Chalotra as Circe, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel, David Harbour as Frankenstein, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, Indira Varma as The Bride, and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller.

The Creature Commandos series will begin the new DCU or DC Universe, with the upcoming Superman movie in July 2025 set to be the first live-action movie. You can read more about the rest of the planned movies and TV shows in the DCU by heading over here.

Episode 1

Circe (And Themyscira) Makes Her Debut In The New DC Universe (DCU)

It’s only the first few first minutes of the first episode of Creature Commandos but the new DC Universe (DCU) is not starting quietly or slowly.

We’re already introduced to a major DC Comics villain in the form of Wonder Woman villain Circe, and the episode mentions Themiscyra as a myth, confirming that Wonder Woman has yet to make her official debut in the DCU.

Rick Flag And Amanda Waller Returns From The Old DCU, The Creature Commandos Are A Replacement For The Suicide Squad

You’ll be familiar with both Rick Flag and Amanda Waller if you’ve watched 2016’s Suicide Squad and 2021’s The Suicide Squad. They started the Suicide Squad and now they’re going to start the Creature Commandos.

However, this is Rick Flag Sr., the father of the Rick Flag from the movies. Waller confirms that the Rick Flag from 2021’s The Suicide Squad is dead, making that movie canon to the new DCU.

Their conversation together confirms that the Suicide Squad AKA Task Force X already existed in the new DCU but they were forced to shut down by the Government and so the Creature Commandos are essentially the replacement. The loophole is that Amanda Waller can’t build a team with ‘humans’, so she finds non-human ones, hence ‘Creature Commandos’.

The episode introduces each member of the Creature Commandos.

First up is the Bride. And yes, the iconic Frankenstein’s Monster also exists as a character in DC Comics, so she is likely related to him. He will show up later.

Dr. Phosphorus is a Batman villain and his powers are no joke (basically controlling and emitting radiation).

While introducing the Weasel, Amanda Waller also confirms that the events of 2021’s The Suicide Squad is canon and that this is the same Weasel from that movie.

G.I. Robot, a machine from World War 2.

Nina Mazursky. In the comics, she was an agent of S.H.A.D.E. and was part of the original Creature Commandos.

Meet DC’s Frankenstein

The episode ends with the introduction of Frankenstein. In the comics, Frankenstein made his debut in 1948 in an issue of Detective Comics, and while he doesn’t appear much these days, he’s been a part of S.H.A.D.E., Seven Soldiers and most recently, Justice League Dark.

Nothing much happens in the first episode, besides the Creature Commandos arriving in Pokolistan for their mission and spending time there.

Episode 2

The Origins Of The Bride

We learn the origin of the Bride, as she was created by Victor Frankenstein as a love interest for Frankenstein. It’s revealed that she rejected Frankenstein but fell in love with her creator instead, Victor Frankenstein.

However, Frankenstein gets jealous and murders Victor Frankenstein, which is why the Bride hates Frankenstein.

From the on, over the course of around almost two hundred years, the Bride would continuously try to escape from Frankenstein, who never stops trying to harass her.

Both The Bride And Nina Are Mortally Wounded By Circe And The Sons Of Themyscira

Will they die after just two episodes? Nina seems pretty useless in battle but it’s unlikely for the Bride to die so early, considering that we just learned her whole origin and backstory.

There you have it, folks, a pretty good first two episodes for Creature Commandos.

Only five episodes left to go.

Until next time, excelsior!