Marvel wants you to watch all the end credits before Avengers: Endgame
To get fans ready before Avengers: Endgame releases this week, Marvel Studios shared a Twitter thread of all their post-credit sequences. We tell you why it was a notable update
It’s a very exciting time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe right now. As the countdown to Avengers: Endgame draws closer (we’re at t-2 right now, people!), MCU’s biggest players spent the last few months serving treats in the real world to include the rest of us in the thrill. Last May, Robert Downey told an American publication that “five of original six Avengers got a tattoo”, referring to the Avenger logo he, Johansson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and Jeremy Renner got inked on their skin (Mark Ruffalo “opted out”). And just days ago, Brie Larson and Scarlett Johansson walked the red carpet at the Endgame premiere sporting versions of Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet on their hands—Larson’s picked a golden Irene Neuwirth cuff with five jewelled rings featuring tourmaline, aquamarine, and emerald; while Johansson complemented her glittering Versace chainmail dress with a one-of-a-kind Sonia Boyajian cuff with chains connecting to multiple rings. With its superheroes going all out to commemorate the much-anticipated end show, the mothership was clearly not going to be left behind. To add their own spin to the promotions, Marvel shared an all-inclusive thread of every single MCU post-credit on Twitter with the caption, “From the end credits to the end game…”—the perfect description, if you ask us.
For loyal fans of the immensely popular franchise, the end credit scene was one of the highlights of the entire experience of watching the movies. So it might be disappointing to some that according to rumours, Avengers: Endgame will conclude sans post-credits—the first Marvel movie without a visual teaser stacked at the end.
It doesn’t take a die-hard fan to know that this is critical information, since these post-credit sequences have become core to Marvel’s identity, always giving hints to the audience about what can be expected next. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) ended with Nick Fury contacting Captain Marvel on a pager, Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) saw Scott Lang trapped in the Quantum Realm without his friends, and Captain Marvel (2019) saw Carol Danvers meeting the Avengers in the present after answering the page. (You can see all of them on the Twitter thread, here.) Considering Endgame marks the end of Phase 3 for MCU (we recently learned that Marvel Studios would refer to their first 22 films as The Infinity Saga), it makes sense that the creators have skipped on the post-credits because there’s nothing left to tease fans with before the commencement of Phase 4.
But all is not lost. There’s talk on the grapevine about a mid-credits scene, and maybe even a post-film montage of Marvel’s first MCU decade and everyone who made it what it is today. Another theory says that there is just an audio stinger at the end, when the Marvel logo appears. Mostly expected to be the sound of metal hitting metal, this one is open to interpretation, but it has been suggested that the clang is reminiscent of Tony Stark forging his first Iron Man armour. Guess we’ll just have to wait to find out what makes it to celluloid.
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