James Gunn Confirms 2 Characters in the History of Metahumans DCU Mural Are 'Important' in a Script Being Worked on Right Now — but Who Are They? | SDCC 2025

The rebooted DC Universe is successful afloat swing, with Superman retired present and HBO Max amusement Peacemaker Season 2 retired soon. But what other does DCU steward James Gunn person up his sleeve for fans? In an interrogation with IGN astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2025, Gunn gave america a scoop that fans who person worked retired who’s who successful the History of Metahumans DCU Mural volition find precise absorbing indeed.

If you haven't seen Superman yet and you're wondering what each the fuss is about, the movie reveals that metahumans person played an progressive relation successful the DCU for the past 300 years, and the mural depicts which costumed heroes person appeared truthful far.

This week, Gunn published the afloat Hall of Justice History of Metahumans mural online for each to see, sending fans into a frenzy arsenic they tried to enactment retired the individuality of each of the 26 featured characters. This was the archetypal clip fans could spot the mural intelligibly aft it was shown successful blink-and-you’ll miss it signifier during Superman.

Anyone instrumentality your fancy?

Which 2 volition marque it into the DCU?

“Listen, fans person done a beauteous bully job,” Gunn told IGN. “I deliberation they've recovered each of the antithetic characters. But yeah, I volition conscionable accidental that successful 1 of our scripts we're moving connected 2 of those characters are benignant of important.”

Which characters are they, we followed-up?

“I’m not going to archer you!” Gunn responded successful typically tantalizing fashion.

Let’s commencement with what publication this mightiness notation to. There is simply a agelong database of DCU projects either waiting for scripts to beryllium finalized oregon successful production. Gunn is reportedly considering expanding the rebooted beingness with TV spinoffs for characters specified arsenic Mister Terrific and Jimmy Olsen. Could either of those diagnostic the 2 characters successful question?

We precocious learned that Booster Gold volition astatine slightest get an HBO Max pilot. Paradise Lost is inactive supposedly successful the works, arsenic is Sgt. Rock. Then there’s Swamp Thing, Lanterns, Clayface, The Brave and the Bold (the DCU's upcoming Batman movie), Waller, and plentifulness more.

As for who’s really successful the mural, we’ve got a rundown of each quality we were capable to identify, including the likes of Atomic Knight, Gunfire, and Sandman (Wesley Dodds). In truth, it could beryllium anyone successful the mural, and it could subordinate to immoderate project, announced oregon unannounced, successful the works astatine DCU. But fixed Gunn went arsenic acold to driblet this large tease, helium indispensable beryllium assured they volition yet beryllium realized on-screen.

All 26 characters successful the History of Metahumans DCU Mural:

• Sister Symmetry/Madame Xanadu
• Silent Knight
• Exoristos
• Black Pirate
• Miss Liberty
• Whip Whirlwind (Max Mercury's Wild West persona)
• Super-Chief
• El Diablo
• Iron Munro
• Ghost of Flanders
• Sandman I (Wesley Dodds)
• Amazing-Man
• Zatara the Magician
• Liberty Belle
• Bulletman
• Bulletgirl
• Max Mercury
• TNT
• Dan the Dyna-mite
• Phantom Lady
• Atomic Knight
• Freedom Beast
• Wildcat
• Vibe
• Gunfire
• Sean Gunn's Maxwell Lord IV

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