The DC Universe animated movies are incredibly popular among fans and a great way for younger comic book readers to familiarise themselves with this world's characters.
Often overlooked due to the fact they're released through Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (meaning they skip theaters and go straight to Digital and Blu-ray), many big-name actors lend their voices to these movies, including the likes of Jensen Ackles, David Dastmalchian, and Stephanie Beatriz.
They also sell well and with two or three titles a year - in 2023, we're getting Legion of Super Heroes, Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, and Justice League: Warworld - the DCAU slate is not to be sniffed at.
However, with DC Studios looking to create a new shared universe across movies, television, video games, and animation, what does the future hold in store for the Tomorrowverse?
"We’re dealing with all that," Gunn tells DC.com. "Some of that stuff will continue as Elseworlds, but a lot of other stuff we’re starting to bring into animation with [Warner Bros. Animation President] Sam Register so that we’ll have things that are connected with this."
"I think there have been a lot of really marvelous DC cartoons, so we’re going to keep moving forward with that."
It sounds like these movies will continue, no great surprise when it would be nigh-on impossible for DC Studios to release as many as two or three in-continuity animated features per year. Putting them under the same Elseworlds banner as The Batman would be far from a bad thing, though it would be fun if one or two of them occasionally tie into the wider DCU.
It is, however, becoming clear that DC Studios will be making a lot of tough decisions in the coming years. Still, with so many voice actors working on these movies, we sense a lot of unhappiness if these animated roles only go to live-action performers moving forward...