How Marvel Killed The Post-Credits Scene

who the hell are you Nick Fury director of Shield oh I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger initiative remember this obviously it changed the movie industry forever but maybe not in the way you're thinking today the MCU is the most dominant form of film making on the planet and as such this cute Easter egg idea of storing secret information after the in credits of a film has caught on and it's the perfect symbol for everything wrong with Hollywood today but I think a bunch of guys like us should team up could do some good intriguing before we get too deep into today's topic please be sure to subscribe to n nostalgic in order to stay up todate with all our Marvel videos sure Iron Man is what everyone thinks of when they talk about post-edit scenes but it wasn't the first by a long shot in fact the very first time a film ever had a post-edit scene was the Dean Martin spy film The silencers from 1966 the movie in question is an attempt to capitalize off the rampant popularity of the James Bond franchise every Bond film ends with a post credit message saying James Bond will return so not to be outdone by this the silencers features a post credit sneak peek at the sequel titled murderer row however this film might as well be lost to the Sands of Time by today's standards there were many other films that featured post-credit scenes over the uing 40 years Masters of the Universe airplane The Muppet Movie to name a few but it would be Ferris bu's day off that would cement the idea into the public Consciousness you're still here it's over the scene is as iconic today as when it was first released so much so that Deadpool even parody it oh you're expecting a teaser for Deadpool 2 well we don't have that kind of money despite being the secret weapon of the film industry the post-edit sequence wouldn't fully catch on until it was embraced by the first wave of Marvel films in fact all of the press and preview screenings of 2008's Iron Man did not feature the now Infamous post credit scene that linked Tony Stark to a wider world of superheroes from there the MCU would use the post-credit sequence as a way to build height for their upcoming projects Thanos was introduced in the post-credit scene of the first Avengers movie and the stakes were raised when he dawned The Infinity Gauntlet at the end of Age of Ultron as the first three phases of the MCU marched toward the finale of infinity war and endgame the post-credit scenes worked more or less in concert with one another to layer the key pieces of narrative real estate they built anticipation about the ultimate showdown between the Avengers and Thanos with the fate of the universe at and there was a storyline building through all the films and a figure head that was easily identifiable for both the Casual fan and the hardcore alike fine I'll do it myself but the problem wasn't just marvel other films started to use these post credit scenes with the intent on building anticipation for their future releases and sequels but they didn't go nearly as well look at what Marvel's direct competition DC attempted to do the original ending of the theatrical release of Justice League ended with Deathstroke in Lex Luther meeting on a yacht teasing the establishment of the dceu's Legion of Doom he and his odd little friends are forming some sort of League shouldn't we have a league of our own and that went nowhere the same thing can be said for DC's post-credit attempts with Shazam Wonderwoman 1984 Black Adam and Suicide Squad even going as far back as DC's first attempt at starting an interconnected Universe Green Lantern their teas of the Sinestro core landed about as well as everything else in that movie green wow I know right literally every one of these setups went nowhere or were immediately abandoned by the corporate overlords making the entire Convention of post-credit scenes feel less cool and unique and more just like something the filmmakers had to do out of obligation you better not be wasting my time no I have too much to live for as we move deeper into the 2010s even non-s superhero Fair like the monsterverse GI Joe and Fast and Furious tried to get in on the post credits party most of this is pretty awful and here's where we get back to Marvel where the idea of sitting through yet another 15minute long credit sequence seems less preferable than just getting up and walking out of the theater by the end of phase four the post credits hype machine has run its course there doesn't seem to be any real connectivity or direction for the next three phases of the MCU the post-credit scene at the end of Thor love and thunder that's gone basically nowhere Star Fox in the end of the eternals don't expect that to show up anytime soon the doctor strange post-credit scene well that one might be the worst of all you caused an incursion then we're going to fix it on the surface the introduction of Clea and the confirmation that we're officially heading towards Secret Wars should be exciting but it's not a clear narrative path in the way that Thanos was communicated to audiences it's just a portal opening up and Doctor Strange being told there's more Adventure in store and to make things worse it completely nullifies the ending of the movie We just watched why did we just spend 2 hours with Steven strange to have his growth as a character and The crucial consequence for his hubis hand waved away in 2 seconds the mcu's obsession with expanding ever outwards is reaching a Breaking Point Sony has their very own Universe of Spider-Man lless films and their post-credit scenes are without a doubt the most painful and not at all thought out the key example being the Stinger for morbius the sequence shows an incursion happening and then the vulture appearing in a prison cell we quickly see his release and then a middle of nowhere rendevu with morbius thanks for meeting me Doc I've been reading about you I'm listening I'm not sure how I got here has to do with Spider-Man I think there's no way there's any sort of grander plan for the Sony spider Universe of cash grabs you can just feel it on every level so Not only was this tacked onto a terrible movie but it's a terrible setup for a definitely non-existent plan for a future Sinister 6 film it's just insulting on every level and that's the problem with all these current post credit scenes they're not included because the filmmakers have a grander vision like the original Iron Man Sting they're included because the corporate powers that be want everyone to think there's a grander vision at hand take for instance the most recent Transformers soft reboot in that post-credit scene they set up the idea that the Transformers are going to be joining a secret governmental agency named GI Joe will that actually ever happen is there a plan for a Transformers and GI Joe crossover movie no definitely not GI Joe has been screwed up each of the three times it's been on the big screen already there's no way anyone would put any forethought or planning into this project even Marvel is completely out of gas when it comes to generating hype via post-credit scenes when the Marvel started tracking at only $70 million or its opening weekend what did they do include a new post credit scene featuring a major Marvel character that is seemingly only there to keep us on the hook for future installments not every film is meant to launch an interconnected universe and similarly not every installment in said universes are going to have Skyhigh stakes and yet yet these Studios can't afford that they want every possible dollar rung out of every potential movie goer thus the post-credit and mid-credit scenes are required to generate as much excitement for future stories as possible we expecting Sam Jackson show up with a ey patch and a saucy little leather number go go we need to face it inedit surprises have run their course they're played out and they've been abused by every single movie with delusions of launching a franchise is there a time or a place when they can be used effectively of course but not every movie needs one there's only one problem things are only going to get worse even beloved Indie Studio a24 seems to be chasing the franchise money just like everyone else reportedly trying to get out of the autour driven space and into the more IP driven big budget realm of film making so what's the lesson to learn from any of this too much of a good thing isn't good and if you want a diverse selection of films to be made you need to support them maybe when Craven finally gets released don't go see it Sony doesn't need your money and at the end of the day we already know the post-edit scene is going to suck and well that's all we have for this episode what do you think is there a post-credit scene that you think works better than Iron Man's let us know in the comments below otherwise please remember to like comment and subscribe for more videos just like this [Music] 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Length: 8min 28sec (508 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 17 2023