How Marvel Killed The Post-Credits Scene

My big take away is that studios need to stop pretending to have a plan and actually formulate a plan.

The problem with post credit scenes nowadays is that it emphasizes what a movie sets up is more important than what's in the actually movie, when the opposite should be true.

My favorite end credits scene in the MCU was the Shawarma scene from Avengers. No future setup for additional hype, just a funny post-ending where all our exhausted heroes are chowing down in silence.

Harry Styles appearing at the end of The Eternals was truly one of the most bizarre and pointless post-credits scenes the MCU have ever done

Nothing beats a bloopers compilation at the end of a Pixar movie

The best post credit scene without a doubt is Spiderman Homecoming’s. Earlier in the movie while Peter was at highschool, we see that his teacher turned on a boring video where Captain America gave some basic advice directed at students. When the final credits finales rolled, we see a white room and Captain America walks on screen. He then talks about how patience is an important skill and that sometimes you might patiently wait for something only to be disappointed. Now remember that this movie released right during the peak of the MCU, between Civil War and Infinity War, so the end credit scenes was super important. I remember anxiously waiting for the credits to end to get some hint towards what’s going to happen next and when I saw this I started laughing out loud. It was one of the funniest things ever to me and that’s why it’s my favorite end credit scene.

I honestly miss the post credits scenes that were just the characters hanging out and relaxing, like the Avengers post credits scene. I tend to prefer the ones that are just funny epilogues, rather than teases that go nowhere.

The thing is the post-credits scenes we used to have before marvel (for example in the Pirates of Caribbeans trilogy) or in the first marvel movies teasing the avengers, felt more like a secret scene, a brief easter egg, a sort of blink-and-miss-it curiosity for the rare fews that would have had the weird idea of watching the end credits. Now it's clearly established that we HAVE TO watch the end credits, those scene aren't a secret and aren't used as such any more. It's no longer a quick joke or a dispensable but sweet candy, it's become a mandatory scene, so why the hell wasn't it in the film? The mid-credit of Black Panther is more like an epilogue than a joke or a teasing and therefore it should have been before the credits. We lost the excitement of secrecy and the feeling of having unlocked a bonus scene, now it just feels like watching the scene is doing what is expected from us if we want a chance of following the story.

The Post-Credits scenes worked so well back in Phase 1 because they didn’t blatantly show what was coming next. Nick Fury talks about the “Avengers Initiative”, Tony mentions to Ross they’re putting a team together, Coulson spots Mjolnir, Fury tells Selvig humans have always had a History with the Tesseract, and even the Thanos tease, it still left things vague for fans to anticipate whatever’s coming next. Now characters from whatever series is happening next are showing up, with costumes and all, like Clea, Beast, and Maria Rambeau as Warbird.

I just watched Casablanca, released in 1942. After the credits, there was an hour and 41 minutes of post-credit scenes. I watched them all; well worth the time.

They turned it around in a way that today, people don't get excited to see a post-credit scene but rather get angry when they don't get a post-credit scene.

I find it pretty hilarious that Across the Spider-Verse accidentally made the Morbius post-credit scene make sense

For me the worst part of post credit scenes is that I now wait for the credits in every movie, doesn't matter the genre, which maybe it's even a good thing since the credits gives acknowledgements to everyone who were a part on it

Technically, the ending of Batman Begins would work like a post credit scene (as it hyped up the potential return of Joker), yet it was actually part of the movie and fitted in perfectly.

Tails appearing at the end of the Sonic movie was super hype. Didn’t get as hyped about Yoshi in the end of the Mario movie tho, but it was still pretty neat

I like the type of post credit scenes that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and John Wick Chapter 4 had. Stylisticly different (comedy vs tragedy), but they expand on a side character in a "I wonder what happened to that guy" type of way. Both scenes are ones that don't fit in with the main run of the movie, but work as individual scenes. They don't change the main story and you wouldn't know, if you missed them.

I remember there was a version of the post credits in Iron Man 1 where Fury mentioned Spider-Man and mutants.

The trouble with extended universes or some other way of tying movies together, is that if one movie falls they all fall eventually, like a stack of dominos.

The MCU managed to make the concept of the multiverse that had existed happily in the comics for five decades seem old and tired after five years. No particular surprise that they could accomplish the same thing for the post credits scene in record time too.

The first Nick Fury Post Credit Scene hyped me a lot when I was a kid. Today it's so overused that it lost the impact to me