Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is in an exceptionally weird spot, as the final film in the old DC movieverse before James Gunn kicks off a new one in a couple years. It's adrift, in a sense, because it wasn't made to be an ending to anything. It's just a new Aquaman movie. But thanks to all this franchise noise, it's hard to look at it that way.

But we're going to give it our best shot anyway.

Warning: The remainder of this article will include detailed descriptions of the ending of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.