The Marvel movie has two post-credits scenes. What can we expect from them? There is an alleged leak that should not be paid too much attention and another that poses a new scenario for Marvel movies and series.
With the first reactions and criticism of the Marvel movie Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, confirmation has come of the number of post-credit scenes it will have: two, one in the middle of the credits and another at the end. As you can imagine, the content of the post credits of Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has not been revealed, beyond the fact that they connect with the narrative of phase five, which is the same as saying nothing.
During the last week it has allegedly leaked that one of the scenes directly connects with Loki season 2So, for the first time, a post-credits scene from a Marvel movie would connect to a Marvel series and not just serve to connect movies together. This alleged leak has a certain logic.
The post credits of the Ms Marvel series connect directly with The Marvels and, deep down, the Loki series has presented the great villain of the new phases of Marvel. What happens is that the reverse path had never been done until now, if this leak is confirmed.
It was something that fell by its own weight, given that there are hints of what is to come with Kang, the character of Jonathan Majors from now on, scattered throughout the series and movies, starting with the Darkhold of WandaVision, Shang-Chi’s rings and Ms Marvel ‘s bracelets . The reverse path was a matter of time. If confirmed, it would be the first time that there is a post-credits scene of a movie that connects with a series.
What doesn’t make sense is the unfounded rumor (at Esquire we don’t give it any credit at all, you know we’re pretty unfriendly to anything that that thing called source doesn’t confirm!) that the ship of the 4 will appear Fantastic for rescuing Scott (Paul Rudd) and Hope (Evangeline Lilly) from the Quantum Realm.
But there is more, it turns out that Deadpool, Logan, 838, Monica Rambeau, two Spider-Man, Morbius and a variant of Black Panther would also appear in that scene. This false information, aside from being a full-fledged fan fiction exercise , loses sight of what the post-credits of Marvel movies are and what they are for and, above all, what their degree of real scope is. We are not talking about expectations, but about what they actually do.
We have already told you more than two and more than three times in Esquire that the origin of Marvel’s post credits is in the movie All in a Day, which impacted Kevin Feige many years before he became the boss of Marvel Studios, when he was just a movie buff. This movie showed him that there could be a small reward at the end of the movie for those who stayed to see the credits.
“[The idea of introducing post-credits scenes] came to us [while making Iron Man], ‘Well, we don’t have the X-Men, we don’t have the Fantastic Four, we don’t have Spider-Man, but we have everything else. Even though ‘everything else’ hadn’t become a big movie before, or didn’t have the recognition that other characters did, we had the opportunity to start putting certain heroes in other heroes’ movies, which hadn’t happened. before. It hasn’t been done before. It’s an advantage of what’s to come,”Avengers Infinity War in an interview in Entertainment Weekly.
And that’s where Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury came in. “We wanted Nick Furira to be the character that weaves the characters together, but we didn’t want to interrupt the movie. You know, if Sam Jackson with an eyepatch showed up in the middle, it could be jarring. I figured the only people who would stick around during the credits they were people who would know who the guy with the patch was,” he explained.
And how did these scenes turn into something else? “It varies from movie to movie, and it always comes down to, what do we think would be a fun extra at the end of the movie? What do we think would be a fun thing that’s a little outside of the narrative, but tied into the larger overall narrative? That would be the fun payoff for people who hear all of our names? Sometimes, like with Nick Fury, the idea came up during filming and we were able to shoot it at the time.
The scene in Iron Man 2 , which is basically Coulson going to the desert and finding the hammer, it came up when I was reading drafts of the Thor scriptand I read that little section where he stops and says, “Sir, we found him,” and I said, “Oh, that’s the scene! Let’s move production on Thor soon, so we can put him in the Iron Man 2 post credits.” “. And so with everything.
The best thing about Feige’s statement is this: “[The ending] is before the credits, that’s how we see it. That’s the conclusion of the story we’re telling, and then if there’s a credits scene after that ends, it’s usually something that relates to the movie you just saw that’s extra. At the end of the credits, that’s what’s coming,” he says.
