Post credits are some of the most precious moments of a movie, as they lay the groundwork for the sequels to come. Post credits become quite popular with franchisees and often create a much bigger hype for the movie that is yet to come while creating goodwill for the brand which transforms every customer or client into a potential fan. Post credit scenes are also a way of saying thank you to every viewer or fan who stayed back after the movie got over and went over the list of people who were involved in the making of the movie. Post credit scenes often consist of a very important retcon which creates a bridge between a lot of things that the fans can expect in the future. Here is a list of post-credits scenes that led to something much more incredible and awesome in terms of the movie franchise and story.
Iron Man
The real tradition of post-credits began with ‘Iron Man’ (2008), which serves as the first actual chapter to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This movie marked the return and emergence of Robert Downey Jr. and the near-perfect direction by Jon Favreau, made the movie a smashing hit. The movie attracted multiple positive reviews and a tremendous pull at the box office too.
In the post-credit scenes of the Iron Man movie, we saw Nick Fury approaching Tony Stark with an initiative called ‘The Avengers Initiative’ and post that all hell broke loose. Fans could not stop talking about the hint that was revealed in the post-credit scenes and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took its next big leap to fame and prosperity.
Pirates Of The Caribbean
To this date, Black Pearl remains one of the best directed and told stories of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The introduction of Jack Sparrow as the best pirate and the love blossoming between a bladesmith and the daughter of a governor has got a certain pull to it.
By the 3rd sequel, we saw Turner leaving aboard the Dutchman and Elizabeth is left on land with a box containing Turner’s heart and a baby in her womb. Fans who stuck around till the pot credit scene saw Turner returning home and being welcomed by Elizabeth and their 10-year-old boy.
Fast & Furious
The Fast & Furious franchise has become a moneymaker for the universal studios. Since the premiere of its first movie in 2001, the movie has gathered a fan following across the globe. The franchise’s 7 sequels after the premiere of its 1st movie have just made the fanbase rise in numbers. The franchise boasts of high-octane car races with multiple action-filled sequences of car chases, money heists, and many more plots.
The cast for the movie includes members like Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Gal Gadot, and in the most recent trailer sequel John Cena. In about the 5th sequel of the movie, the director included a post-credit which showed that Letty, Dominic’s girlfriend is somehow alive after an undercover bust on which she was working on had gone bad. They had also included one in the 3rd sequel of the movie which did not make sense until the premiere of the franchise’s 6th sequel where the post-credit scene from the 3rd sequel made sense.
Hangover
One of the best comedy franchises of 2009, starring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis & Ed Helms. The movie revolves around three friends of which one is a teacher, another is a dentist and the third one is just a rich jobless poker champion. The main catch of the movie comes in the post-credits when the entire incident of the movie is unfolded from a trail of pictures captured on one of the friend’s camera.
Deadpool’s Ferris Bueller homage
One of the most famous and R rated movies of the century gave adults a slight taste of the flavor called Deadpool. From the opening credits with references to Ryan Reynolds as the ‘God’s perfect idiot’ and director Tim Miller being referred to as ‘Overpaid tool’. Deadpool was about a mercenary who suffers from a terminal illness and agrees to undergo a government-led medical procedure for a chance to getting cured and leading a normal life but ends up getting regenerative powers which also triggers his terminal illness to spread across his body, thus the full-body costume.
Deadpool singlehandedly saved Ryan Reynolds’s career and in the process ended up becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie. At the end of the Deadpool movie, in sort of a homage to a legendary movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” Ryan Reynolds makes an entry post-credits while wearing Ferris Bueller’s bathrobe and mocking the audience to leave as there was nothing left to see. Eventually admitting that Cable will appear in the movie’s next sequel.
