What we do in the series finale of Shadows turns the main character into Batman

Spoilers We have the final of What We Do in the Shadows.

“What We Do In the Shadows” is one of the best TV comedies of the last few years and is an all-time great TV show based on a movie. For six seasons, he’s given us delightful, weird, exciting stories that look at the dull inertia of immortality and comedy extracted from the fact that the series’ centuries-old vampires are so apathetic about their existence that they basically waste their lives. Oblivious to anything happening outside their home and unconcerned with anyone but themselves. In a sense, It’s an anti-“Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End” Because instead of looking at the fleeting nature of time and finding melancholy in it the way anime does, What We Do in the Shadows simply has its cast of lovable clowns willingly ignoring it all.

This does not mean that the characters are completely static. Sure, the series brilliantly combines the immutability inherent in sitcoms with the immortal nature of its main characters, but even if they try to deny it, the vampires of Staten Island have changed — if only a little. Laszlo (Matt Berry) cares for his neighbor Sean (Anthony Atamanuik) over the course of the show, and becomes warmer and more patient with Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) after raising him as an infant for a season. Likewise, the uncompromising Nandor (Kevan Novak) comes to see his former friend Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) as a friend rather than an employee (and even if he fails often, he learns to be better).

Nowhere is this more evident than in The final episode, amidst several fun endingshas Nandor found a new purpose in the afterlife. After doing a good job for once and realizing he likes the feeling in the penultimate episode, Nandor spends the finale contemplating a career change to become a crime-fighting vigilante. He even offers Guillermo the role of his friend. That’s right, Nandor wants to be Batman – and when Guillermo immediately points out the resemblance, Nandor is oblivious to the existence of another bat-caped crusader with a secret lair under his mansion.

Somehow, despite never having heard of Batman or having any idea what a superhero is, Nandor nails every bit of the Caped Crusader’s aesthetic. He has come up with a plan for his secret hideout in a cave beneath the house, accessible only by an elevator connected to his coffin. He also wants a super-fast computer and a complete costume with cape and mask.

It’s certainly a funny gag, especially since Nandor spends the entire finale trying to convince Guillermo that their crime-fighting partnership will be equal, right before asking him to design the entire Batcave and elevator on his own. However, what makes the story work is that it is Nandor, the former high deputy of the House of Gulnidar and a fierce general in the Ottoman army, who wants to start doing good.

Of course, only a man who specializes in violence and extravagant clothing would consider the life of a superhero like Batman as a means to justice. Like Nandor said, he’ll already kill people because of his vampiric nature, so why not make sure he’s killing the right people? He certainly wouldn’t be using an obvious name like Batman, but rather the most readily available, non-copyrighted name of all, “The Phantom Menace” as his nickname.

The culmination of this hilarious con story comes at the end of the final episode, as Nandor invites Guillermo to his coffin for a heart-to-heart talk, only to pull a lever and reveal that he has already built the secret elevator down to his coffin. His new crime-fighting hideout. It turns out that Nandor has been working on the mechanism for a while without relying on Guillermo to do it for him. We don’t know what the future holds for the vampires of Staten Island (and Guillermo), but hopefully there will be some adventures in battling bad guys for The Phantom Menace and Kid Cowboy.

“What We Do in the Shadows” is now streaming in its entirety on Hulu.