Turns out it’s stopped sending its signal because Captain Marvel has arrived - she appears in their lab, looking at them all distrustfully, and she asks: “Where’s Fury?” Why is that promising? They don’t know what it does, but they assume it was important.
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When Rhodey tells them it’s “stopped doing whatever the hell it was doing,” they try to figure out how to reactivate the pager. They’ve retrieved Nick Fury’s pager they’re aware that his final act was activating it and they’ve been monitoring to see what it’ll do. Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), James Rhodes (Don Cheadle), and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) are watching the worldwide death toll still actively mounting, as they try to come to terms with the aftermath of their battle with Thanos. What happens in the mid-credits scene?Ĭaptain Marvel’s mid-credits moment seemingly takes place a relatively short time after Avengers: Infinity War. In a mid-credits scene, Captain Marvel abruptly catches up to the current MCU timeline - and the way it does bodes well for the sequel Avengers: Endgame, in theaters April 26th. While the new MCU film Captain Marvel sets up why he’d reach out to her in a crisis, it takes place well before Infinity War, back in the 1990s.
Usually, though, they’re a way of building anticipation for an upcoming film in the series, like when Avengers: Infinity War ended with Nick Fury summoning off-world hero Captain Marvel with a dated-looking pager, just before he dissolved in the wake of Thanos’ universe-changing finger-snap.
Occasionally, they’re just visual gags and callbacks to previous story elements, like Ant-Man and the Wasp’s 20-second view of Ant-Man’s abandoned house, with a super-sized ant playing his drum set. But over the past decade, Marvel’s post-credits scenes have become an institution. Spoilers ahead for Captain Marvel ’s mid-credits and post-credits scenes, for Avengers: Infinity War, and for one big gag in Captain Marvel itself.īack in 2008, when Nick Fury arrived at Tony Stark’s house to invite him to join the Avengers Initiative after the credits rolled, the sequence felt like most post-credit scenes did back then - a little in-joke for dedicated viewers who cared enough to sit all the way through the credits, instead of bolting for the doors the moment the action stopped.