Did everyone forget that Matt Reeves' universe already has its Lady Clayface? Eve Karlo (Carmen Ejogo) in The Penguin shares a surname with Basil Karlo, the original Clayface. Like him, she's a performer who plays whatever role keeps her safe. That's why fans read her as Reeves' take on the character, so Clayface can't also be in that universe. It's also why Matt Hagen is the lead in this film. And James Gunn has said outright that Clayface is part of the DCU, not Reeves' Batverse.

Let's talk about the ending of Clayface. There are two ways to read it: the obvious one, that he ate Caitlyn, or (the more likely one, IMO) that he can split himself into two independent doppelgängers, each able to think and act on its own.

When Jane Foster lifted Mjölnir, she was transformed into the Mighty Thor, complete with a full suit of armor. But when Captain America proved himself worthy in Avengers: Endgame, he didn't get any new armor. Why the difference?

The Avengers: Doomsday trailer shows both a cracked Mjolnir and a clean, intact one in the same footage because the hammer is temporarily existing in two mutually incompatible states at once, and the trailer is the only place that glitch is visible. Mjolnir was shattered by Hela in Ragnarok, then effectively restored (or replaced via the time-heist version) by the end of Love and Thunder and Endgame. In ordinary physics that is a finished event. In the MCU’s version of the multiverse, objects that have been both destroyed and preserved across branching timelines can be forced into a brief superposition when Doctor Doom starts collapsing or overlapping those branches. The cracked hammer is the version that stayed broken after Ragnarok in one timeline; the clean one is the version that was reforged or retrieved from the past in the main timeline. Because Doom is actively interfering with the structure of those timelines, both versions are being pulled into the same physical moment. The hammer does not choose which state to settle into until the conflict is resolved, so both appear in the trailer depending on which shot the camera catches. That is why Steve Rogers can still summon it. Worthiness is not tied to a single physical object but to the concept of the hammer across its possible states. As long as any version of Mjolnir still recognises him as worthy, the enchantment routes the nearest available instance to his hand, cracked or not. The dual appearance is not a continuity error or a different hammer; it is the visual symptom of Doom’s reality-warping having already begun, and the trailer simply failed to hide the intermediate stage where both histories are still coexisting.

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