Physician Extraordinary (2016)
We now come finally to the mega-franchise that the majority people bring to mind within the trendy generation after they pay attention the time period “post-credits.” It’s time for the Surprise Cinematic Universe gadget, which has normally rewired how moviegoers attend movies, a minimum of relating to blockbusters. Just about each and every one of the most MCU’s 30-some movies have a post-credits scene. And in truth, nearly all repay by some means, both as a gag, a (uncommon) emotional beat, or, maximum usually, as a longer industrial for some other Surprise film down the road.
Which is what makes Physician Extraordinary (2016) an strange one. With the Surprise Studios device just about a decade outdated at this level, this movie has the logo’s first post-credits teaser for a sequel or narrative building that will by no means be adopted up on. If you don’t recall, Stephen Extraordinary (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Baron Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) were pleasant for lots of the movie’s operating time. Within the 3rd act, on the other hand, Mordo is needed to make a virtually inexplicable heel flip the place he loses religion in magic. This seems to be a precursor to a post-credits scene by which Mordo is printed to be weeding out all wizards and magic-users, announcing there are “too many sorcerers.”
… He’s then by no means observed once more, a minimum of within the MCU’s major timeline. This implies we don’t witness Extraordinary come into battle along with his former colleague and semi-friend, and even what the killing of sorcerers method for Earth. The subplot is solely dropped and by the point Extraordinary were given a sequel six years later, he somewhat limply has a throw away line in regards to the Mordo of his universe being a jerk. In case you say so, Stevie.
Spider-Guy: Homecoming (2017)
Surprise created some other dangling thread this is it appears by no means being picked up on in Spider-Guy: Homecoming, the primary of 3 well-received Tom Holland Spidey flicks. On this finish credit, the movie’s major villain, Adrian Toomes/the Vulture (Michael Keaton) is in jail the place he encounters an inmate who must be acquainted to comics readers: Mac Gargan (Michael Mando). Mac finds there’s a rumor that Toomes is aware of who Spider-Guy is, which is correct. But Vulture denies it. It’s an intriguing tease, suggesting that in spite of being despatched to jail through 16-year-old Peter Parker, Toomes likes the child sufficient to stay his secret secure… or possibly use it to actual his personal non-public revenge. The film additionally appears to be putting in a Sinister Six movie, as any comedian e book reader is aware of Gargan turns into the Scorpion (a reality teased through a tattoo on his neck).
This in fact by no means got here to move. Sony Photos’ personal plans for a Sinister Six film almost certainly performed a task on this, main in the end to Keaton’s Toomes being unceremoniously teleported to the “Venomverse” within the misbegotten Morbius film final yr. However even that seems like Sony perhaps salvaging spare portions, since Morbius simplest got here after two extra Holland-led Spidey motion pictures deserted Keaton’s Vulture and his intriguing dynamic with Parker, as an alternative favoring simply bringing again all of the Raimi favorites. Plus, Electro.
Justice League (2017/2021)
This could be probably the most confounding collection of post-credits scenes ever compiled into one movie… or somewhat two variations of the similar movie. There are even two variations of the similar post-credits scene! Within the theatrically launched minimize of Justice League, which was once closely rewritten, reshot, and reedited through Joss Whedon, we see a now proudly bald Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) invite the Batman villain Deathstroke (Joe Manganiello) aboard a yacht in City harbor the place the supervillain has absconded. He then, in right kind Whedon model, makes a pun about developing “a league of our personal.”
