Though not created by Marvel, post-credits scenes transformed into a staple of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since they interconnected the different stories in it, but MCU Phase 4 is dynamically making the post-credits scenes issue more deplorable. Other than Avengers: Endgame, which avoided post-credits scenes as the film addressed the finish of a significant time span, all MCU movies have something like one post-recognize scene, with various including two. While various MCU post-credits scenes offered diversion, their principal focus from the beginning of MCU Phase 1 was to set up a relationship between the single film and the characters it introduced and the overall story of the MCU stages.
MCU’s most critical post-credits scene in 2008’s Iron Man famously introduced the Avengers drive by having Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) confront Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) about revealing he was Iron Man. Though the fundamental Avengers film simply happened four years sometime later, MCU Phase 1’s post-credits scenes intentionally familiar either the accompanying Avenger with get their autonomous film or 2012’s Avengers. Miracle’s Phase 2 continued with the custom of significantly interconnecting the MCU films, with Thanos returning all through it in various post-credits scenes after his most memorable post-credits appearance in a long time’s, making him an irrefutably huge player gathering his powers and gadgets – as he did in 2014’s Avengers: Age of Ultron’s post-credits scene where he got the Gauntlet – before his show in 2018 as Avengers: Infinity War’s enormous delinquent.
MCU Phase 3 continued with the custom as well. Its post-credits scenes would overall familiarize new characters with old ones thinking about Avengers: Endgame (2016’s Doctor Strange) or continued with stories from past post-credits scenes (2018’s Black Panther). In any case, Phase 3 also started having post-credits scenes that familiar stories not yet went with regular item (like Doctor Strange’s ensuing post-credits scene or the Spider-Man: Homecoming one did). Miracle’s Phase 4 just made the issue of post-credits scenes introducing characters and stories that won’t have a spot in the greater universe for quite a long time more deplorable, with The Eternals tolerating the best situation as both post-credits scenes either introduced an individual that will be tracked down in Phase 5 (Mahershala Ali’s Blade) or one who isn’t totally clear when he’ll show up again (Harry Styles’ Starfox).
Miracle’s After Credits Scenes Are Increasingly A Problem Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Val in Black Widow; Harry Styles as Eros in Eternals While Marvel’s TV shows were affected by what happened in the motion pictures previously, Phase 4 rushes to have more TV shows than films as a needed piece of the story, as they helped set up the multiversal and tremendous round sections that will happen in the going with stages. This energetically impacted how post-credits scenes worked, as films, for instance, 2021’s Black Widow went to enlighten what could have happened in TV shows not excessively far off (December 2021’s Hawkeye). Yet this extended the opportunity of interconnectedness in all MCU things – and it could moreover be seen the other way round, as Loki season 1’s fulfillment on a very basic level set up 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – it furthermore exacerbated Phase 3’s issue of introducing story round fragments that really haven’t paid off, as Phase 4 did.
MCU Phase 4 post-credits scenes overshadowing the movies they appeared in was another recognizable issue. Harry Styles’ show as Starfox in Eternals’ most important after-credits scene ended up being such a big deal that it almost eclipsed the Eternals’ set of experiences. Similarly, it also isn’t absolutely sure where Starfox will appear immediately, as he would be central to Eternals 2’s story, but that isn’t definitively reserved for the present in either Phase 5 or 6. He could moreover appear in The Marvels, yet that is speculation and impressively more uncertain than what post-credits scenes pushed about in MCU Phases 1 and 2. Basically, Black Widow’s after-credits scene was a shrewd association as it related Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to both Natasha’s sister Yelena (Florence Pugh) and Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s John Walker (Wyatt Russell), yet it moreover obscured Black Widow’s central story, as many were left examining what that suggested and Yelena being in Hawkeye rather than focusing in on Black Widow’s last presentation.
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Miracle’s Hulk Reveal Makes The MCU’s End Credits Problem Even Worse Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner in She-Hulk and Avengers Endgame She-Hulk familiar another layer of issues with MCU post-credits scene, as to let Jen Walters (Tatiana Maslany) be spoiled by her cousin Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), Bruce expected to appear in his human design rather than his Smart Hulk one. This provoked Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings to have one of its after-credits scenes where Banner appeared as his human self to analyze the Rings’ possible start, but the support for why he was human again when stood out from his Endgame version of Smart Hulk wasn’t available till one year afterward in She-Hulk, where he finally explained for Jen that he sorted out some way to be human so his arm could recover better there. As it was figured out by She-Hulk creator Jessica Gao, the messed up Shang-Chi after-credits scene was there just to have the choice to legitimize Smart Hulk’s change back to Bruce Banner, making the post-credits scene more perplexing rather than a keen irritation as they were in the past MCU Phases 1 and 2.
While it’s implausible – and, shockingly, most likely sad, as they showed critical and enchanting already – that Marvel will stop using post-credits scenes, it should be believed that they’ll get back to feature a somewhat definite story roundabout fragment from now into the foreseeable future. Miracle’s Phase 4 has, starting as of late, just had the choice to convey a basically comparable proportion of advancement impelling and somewhat jumbling post-credits scenes. In a perfect world, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe recuperates its equilibrium following the finish of the Avengers age thanks to the new entrancing characters introduced in Phase 4, it will have an all the more clear point of view on what to imply of Phases 5 and 6 later on Marvel post-credits scenes.