Spoilers before the finale of What We Do in the Shadows.

What We Do In the Shadows is one of the best TV comedies of the past few years and an all-time great TV show based on a movie. For six seasons, it gave us wonderful, weird, steamy stories that looked at the dull immobility of immortality and the comedy mined by the fact that the show's centuries-old vampires are so carefree about their existence that they basically waste their lives. oblivious to anything going on outside their house and uninterested in anyone but themselves. In a sense, it's the anti-"Frieren: Beyond Journey's End", because instead of looking at the fleeting nature of time and finding melancholy in it the way the anime does, What We Do in the Shadows simply has its cast of affable fans willingly ignore it all.

This is not to say that the characters are completely and utterly static. Sure, the series brilliantly combines the lack of change inherent in a sitcom 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 Barry) really cares for his neighbor Shawn (Anthony Atamanuik) throughout the show, and he grows warmer and more patient with Colin Robinson (Mark Proksh) after he baby-raises him for a season. Similarly, the Ruthless Nandor (Kajvan Novak) comes to see his former acquaintance Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) as a friend rather than an employee (and even if he often fails, he learns to be better).

Nowhere is this clearer than in the series finale, which amidst several hilarious endingscausing Nandor to find a new purpose in the afterlife. After doing a good deed for once and realizing he likes the feeling in the penultimate episode, Nandor spends the finale contemplating a career change and becoming a crime-fighting vigilante. He even offers Guillermo the role of his assistant. That's right, Nandor wants to become Batman - and when Guillermo immediately points out the resemblance, Nandor is unaware of the existence of another bat-caped crusader with a secret lair beneath his palace.

Somehow, despite never having heard of Batman or having any idea what a superhero was, Nandor nailed every part of the Caped Crusader's aesthetic. He comes up with a plan from his secret lair in a cave under the house, which can only be accessed by an elevator connected to his coffin. He also wants a super-computer and a costume complete with cape and mask.

Sure, it's funny, especially since Nandor spends the entire finale just trying to convince Guillermo that their crime-fighting partnership will be equal, right before asking him to design the entire cave and elevator himself. However, what makes the story work is that Nandor, the former High Viceroy of Al Qolnidar and a fierce general in the Ottoman army, wants to start doing good deeds.

Of course, only a guy whose specialties are violence and extravagant clothing would come up with the life of a superhero like Batman as his avenue for delivering justice. As Nandor says, he's already going to kill people because of his vampiric nature, so why not make sure he kills real people? Granted, he won't be going with such an obvious name as Batman, but with the much more accessible and not at all copyrighted "The Phantom Menace" as his moniker.

The icing on the cake of this hilariously delusional story comes at the very end of the final episode, where Nandor invites Guillermo into his coffin for a heart-to-heart, only to pull a lever to reveal that he actually built the secret elevator to his new fighting lair against crime. 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 Staten Island vampires (and Guillermo), but here's hoping there are some bad-guy-fighting adventures for The Phantom Menace and Kid Cowboy.

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