WARNING: This article contains mild spoilers for Aquaman #36 by Dan Abnett and Riccardo Federici, in stores now.

The events of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's multiverse-altering event series Dark Nights: Metal sent shockwaves throughout the DC Universe. As much as the series was a conclusion of the creative team's run on Batman, it also served as the stepping stone for new types of stories starring the DC pantheon to be told.

We've seen the arrival of the Omega Titans in Justice League: No Justice, and the Dark Gods have begun to make their presencefelt in Wonder Woman. But that's only the beginning.

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Now, Aquaman #36 reveals that Metal also had an effect on Atlantis: there are now cracks in the foundation of the city and, clearly, that can only mean that there are big changes coming for the sunken kingdom.

Near the end of the issue, a group of Aquaman's freedom fighters find themselves underneath Atlantis where Vulko notices there are now fissures in the foundations of the city. "These fissures! They weren't here the last time," he exclaims. "Seems Atlantis has shifted on its foundations... Rath's work...? Or something else?"

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The "something else" makes it clear that the question is actually referring to the events of Metal, which saw the multiverse altered and the Source Wall fractured.

Dark Nights Metal Atlantis future

Somehow, the ensuing confrontation, or perhaps the breaking of the Source Wall itself, managed to affect the foundations of the city and now, change is on the horizon. This is more than likely the first steps taken toward the inevitable future that was glimpsed at the end of Dark Nights: Metal #6, a future that showed Atlantis risen from the depths.

Once its foundations are broken, perhaps the underwater city will rise. Or perhaps the only way to save it from sinking any further will be to bring it to the surface once more. One way or another, it appears as if the future glimpsed in Metal #6 is coming faster than anticipated. The tides are turning, and with them will come big changes for Aquaman, his kingdom and the DC *universe as a whole.

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