Needless to say, it got comic book fans excited for more Marvel Studios-made movies. It's still one of the best end-credits scenes Marvel has ever released because of its simplicity and its effectiveness in teasing the future of an entire cinematic franchise. He's there to discuss the Avenger Initiative with Tony, thus teasing the future team-up of the Marvel superhero team, the Avengers. To non-comic book fans, the scene could come off as unexciting - especially at the time - but those who knew what was happening could only dream of all the possibilities.Īfter defeating Iron Monger, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) heads to his living room and sees a mysterious man standing in the dark, who turns around and introduces himself as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. It didn't just set a precedent for all other MCU movies to include end-credits scenes but also potentially set up future installments. The Iron Man post-credits scene was the one that started it all. Here's your guide to why all Marvel fans should stay after the end credits. With Spider-Man: No Way Home bringing more stingers, inevitably, we've put together a comprehensive guide to every mid-credits and after-credits scene in MCU movies and what each of them set up. Related: MCU Post-Credits Scenes That Need Updating (After WandaVision's Change)
Regardless, with a decade and more than two dozen movies under their belt, there are a lot of credits scenes for audiences to remember, which can understandably be quite tough, even for the more die-hard fans out there. Of course, while some MCU post-credits scenes tease future Marvel installments and story arcs, others are merely fun codas for comic book and MCU fans to enjoy that's the benefit of having multiple end-credits scenes in one film. Ever since Jon Favreau's Iron Man hit screens in 2008, the studio has made it a habit of using end-credits scenes in their films - something Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige wanted to emulate from Ferris Bueller's Day Off - so that audiences would stay and see who made the movies, while also allotting them time to tease future movies. Over the past 10 years, Marvel Studios has created a whopping 42 MCU end-credits scenes across 27 movies so far.