The FIRST MCU Post-Credit Scene 😱 #shorts #marvel
1,129Though Daredevil (2003) was the first Marvel movie with a post-credits scene, it was 2008’s Iron Man that really launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe: specifically, when Nick Fury visits Tony Stark to tell him about “the Avengers Initiative.”
Marvel president Kevin Feige explained that the idea to use post-credit scenes in the MCU came from the fact that, as a child, he used to enjoy actually sitting through the credits of films and seeing who worked on them. When he watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off for the first time, finding there was an additional scene after those credits was a transformational moment; he recalled feeling that “it was like a little reward for me for sitting through the credits.” He has cited Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as inspiration for the post-credits scenes in the MCU; additionally, however, it occurred to him that putting a stinger at the end of Iron Man was a good way to cue audiences in on the sheer scope of what Marvel had the rights to by “putting certain heroes in other heroes’ movies, which hadn’t been done before.” In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Feige explains that putting these other characters–such as Nick Fury–and the plots of other films in the middle of the movie currently playing would be jarring and interrupt the storyline of that film. Putting it at the end proved a perfect way to connect the movies to the MCU to one while at the same time allowing each individual film to remain its own independent entity.