Avengers: Endgame · 2019
The post-credit scene that was deliberately absent
A film that ended a decade of post-credit teases by refusing to give one, and used the empty slot for a sound recorded eleven years earlier.
Anthony and Joe Russo10 min read
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Post-Credit Details
Scenes, cards, and sounds placed after the credit roll, and the history of a convention that trained audiences to stay seated.
The post-credit scene began as a joke at the expense of the credit crawl and became an industrial habit. Somewhere in between, it turned into a storytelling device with its own grammar: the tag, the tease, the sting, the sound cue with no picture attached.
These guides examine individual examples and the convention as a whole, including how release-day changes and later re-releases altered what audiences actually saw.
3 guides
In Post-Credit Details
Guardians of the Galaxy · 2014
The post-credit joke and the museum behind it
A post-credit scene that resurrects a notorious 1986 flop, a museum shot stacked with characters from other films, and cameos drawn from a low-budget studio.
James Gunn11 min read
Iron Man · 2008
The post-credit scene that rebuilt a strategy
Thirty seconds after the credits, a studio announced a decade of films. This is what was actually in that scene, and where the convention came from.
Jon Favreau11 min read
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