We have a completely spoiler free review right here. After that three hour runtime, and plenty of satisfying and exhausting emotional pyrotechnics to go with the cosmic ones , Endgame had nothing to gain by adding anything else. Even movie theaters seem relieved, using it as an excuse to clear out audiences faster so they can show the film as often as possible.
The practice proved so popular that the studio began inserting two scenes, a mid credits and a post credits scene. The mid credits scene soon became the more dramatic, and the one the most likely to impact or set up future films in the series, while the post credits was often less story driven and sometimes even purely comedic. In the process, it undoes one of the most annoying things about Avengers: Endgame.
At the end of Shang-Chi , Wong makes his second cameo of the movie, this time grabbing Shang-Chi and Katy Aquafina and dragging them through a portal to meet the Avengers. Specifically, we see Captain Marvel and Bruce Banner, who appear via holograms to discuss the importance of the Ten Rings. Instead, we need to talk about the Hulk. Marvel also squandered multiple opportunities to clearly explain the origins of Smark Hulk.
This could be a nod to Bucky's future status as an honorary Wakandan, or simply a sly comics nod. As for why this scene wasn't in the actual movie since it bookends the Captain America: Civil War after-credits scene that set up Black Panther in the first place, Black Panther is very much an insular story—both narratively and thematically—and trying to shoehorn an MCU tie-in into Ryan Coogler 's film would have detracted from the story at hand.
There's only one after-credits scene in Avengers: Infinity War , which is probably appropriate because you need the full credits sequence to emotionally recover from the ending of the film, in which half the universe's population—including many MCU characters—disappear into dust after Thanos gains all six infinity stones.
In the scene, Nick Fury Samuel L. Jackson and Maria Hill Cobie Smulders are hearing chatter about destruction and invading ships, while the scene around them looks like it's straight out of Left Behind or The Leftovers. They begin to start formulating a plan when a car crashes right ahead of their vehicle. They exit to see a helicopter fall out of the sky. He pulls out a pager-like device and activates it before turning to dust himself. This emblem is the logo for Captain Marvel, the new superhero played by Brie Larson who's getting her own solo movie in March Captain Marvel takes place in the s and co-stars Jackson as Nick Fury, presumably setting up their relationship before we get to Captain Marvel's arrival in Avengers 4 , which hits theaters in May So that's where this scene leaves us.
Scott is headed into the Quantum Realm to retrieve some Quantum Energy that can be studied and perhaps used to heal Ghost. Scott goes down to the Quantum Realm, gets some energy, but when he asks the team to pull him back up, he gets no response. It's a heck of a kicker as Ant-Man and the Wasp took place before the events of Infinity War , and we learn here not only who gets dusted, but that Scott is in a very precarious position heading into Avengers 4.
After-Credits Scene 2: This one is mostly silly, but it does give us a sense of the aftermath of the Thanos snap. The camera glides through Scott's empty home as we hear the Emergency Broadcast Signal on the television, only to find a giant ant playing the drums in Scott's house.
Again, silly, but we do get the sense that the Earth will be a very changed place when we get to Avengers 4. Adam Chitwood is the Managing Editor for Collider.
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These post-credit scenes stoke excitement for the next movie and tease how it might relate to the one you just saw. This even applies to non-superhero movies like Vice. Some films even used the scenes to wrap up plots from the film, like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies in the s. As franchises became a staple of Hollywood filmmaking, some films would even run the trailer for the next movie after the film, like at the end of The Matrix Reloaded.
But Marvel did leverage the post-credit scene as it never had been used before. That prompts Nick Fury Samuel L. This is the first time we see Nick Fury and hear about S. Even before Marvel Studios began production on Iron Man , they planned to eventually film a movie that brought characters with solo films like Iron Man and Hulk together to fight one bad guy, as often happens in comic books.
Marvel replaced Norton with Mark Ruffalo and stopped making Hulk solo films. The studio would like you to pretend this movie does not exist. Not really, but it is further confirmation that an Avengers movie is going to happen. Remember, in that was a really big deal. Agent Phil Coulson Clark Gregg drives into the middle of the desert, gets out of his car and makes a phone call.
The camera then zooms in on the hammer of Thor Chris Hemsworth. Yes, in that it sets up the model for future Marvel post-credit scenes. The moment was filmed by Thor director Kenneth Branagh and directly teased the next movie in the universe.
Fury seems to be none the wiser, as he leaves the mind-controlled scientist alone in the room with a very valuable object. Loki will return as the main villain in Avengers and an ancillary character in several future films. Not only does it hold immense power, but the Tesseract turns out to be an Infinity Stone — one of the stones that Thanos uses to destroy half of all life in the universe.
At the end of the first Captain America movie, Steve Rogers, who has been frozen since , wakes up in modern times. We see an alien credited as The Other inform a shadowy figure that the Avengers protected Earth from Loki and his alien army. The mysterious figure then turns and reveals himself to be Thanos, a purple alien played by Josh Brolin.
He smiles. Thanos is the biggest of big bads. He will be the man — err, alien — behind the curtain in Guardians of the Galaxy and the featured villain in Avengers: Infinity War. In the comics, Thanos collects Infinity Stones because he is in love with Death — yep, the physical manifestation of death — and wants to destroy the universe to impress her. Ultimately, Marvel Studios decided this storyline was too far-fetched for the films.
The writers changed his motivation to killing half of all life in the universe for vaguely environmental reasons. Not at all. Chris Evans had a beard at the time for the movie Snowpiercer , so he had to hide his face behind his hand. Tony Stark seems to be sharing his emotional problems with a therapist, but the camera cuts instead to a sleeping Bruce Banner. Like much of the plot of Iron Man 3 , this scene could not be less important to the larger arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Volstagg explains that the Aether is an Infinity Stone, and they cannot keep it on Asgard because another Infinity Stone, the Tesseract, is already there.
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