Note: Contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame.
Avengers: Endgame is the conclusion to the first 11 years of the MCU. One of the things the cinematic institution is best known for is its post-credits scenes.
Ever since the first Iron Man, Marvel fans have known that you don't leave as soon as the credits start rolling or you'll miss at least one extra scene. More often than not, this has involved a tease for a future movie and one comic scene.
Fans would have expected the same with Avengers: Endgame, with some hoping for an (unlikely) MCU entrance for the X-Men or Fantastic Four.
That doesn't happen, of course, but Avengers: Endgame goes one further and rips up the rulebook entirely by not having a single credits scene.
That's right, no tease for Spider-Man: Far From Home or future MCU offerings (which are all still unknown at this point), and we don't even get a shawarma reprise with the Avengers chilling out after their latest battle.
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What we get instead is a nice tribute to the Avengers who started it all way back in Phase 1 of the fledgling MCU.
After the majority of the cast (and there's a lot of them) have been credited, the actors from the original Avengers movie – Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner – each get their own credits card.
As scenes from their adventures in the MCU are shown, each actor's name appears with their signature to mark the (potential) end of their time in the Marvelverse.
And at the very end of the credits, the sound of someone hitting metal is played – which would be none other than Tony Stark making his very first suit way back in the first Iron Man movie in 2008.
The lack of post-credits scenes is a first for Marvel, but it feels right for Avengers: Endgame's position as the culmination of a 22-movie arc.
We know that the MCU will continue past Avengers: Endgame and that there will probably be another Avengers movie. So we don't need a tease for any future, as that would take away from the finality of Endgame's climax.
It's fitting that instead of being excited by what's to come, you leave Endgame savouring the last time we'll see all of the OG Avengers together.
Avengers: Endgame is out now.
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