Random MCU Mid/Post-Credits Scenes That Make No Sense (14 items)

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  (#12) Captain America: The Winter Soldier

  • Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Sebastian Stan, Robert Redford, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Stan Lee, Callan Mulvey, Jenny Agutter, Bernard White

  All things considered, the mid-credits scene from Captain America: The Winter Soldier is an important one. It leads directly into Age of Ultron, introduces two heroes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, and furthers the Infinity Saga by revealing that Loki’s scepter was really the Mind Stone all along.

  But it’s also a jarring and abrupt smash-cut from a film that has come to be considered one of the greatest spy thrillers of this era. One moment, Steve Rogers is dealing with political intrigue and secret societies - and the next, a man with an eye-patch and a glowing scepter is giving superpowers to random European teenagers.

  The scene at least tries to address the dissonance with Wolfgang von Strucker’s final line, “It's not a world of spies anymore. Not even a world of heroes. This is the age of miracles, doctor.” That’s all well and good, but it’s a weird thing to hear at the end of a two-hour movie about spies and politics.  
   
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  (#3) Thor: The Dark World

  • Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Howard

  The mid-credits scene in Thor: The Dark World closes off the film’s plot by having Sif and Volstagg deliver the Aether to Taneleer Tivan, the Collector - because, as Volstagg puts it, “the Tesseract is already on Asgard. It is not wise to keep two Infinity Stones so close together.” 

  It is only after the Asgardians depart that the Collector ominously declares “One down, five to go.”

  This scene both debuts an important character from Guardians of the Galaxy and provides the first mention of the words “Infinity Stone,” so it’s an integral one to the overall plot of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But it’s also a strange decision on behalf of the Asgardians, and one that doesn’t bear much scrutiny.

  Forget Taneleer’s moral ambiguity. If keeping the Stones separate is the goal, why would they give one to a being who is literally named the Collector? Of course, he’s going to want to collect the rest - that’s the entire purpose of his existence. His decision to immediately start going after the Power Stone barely counts as a betrayal - what was he supposed to do? Not collect?
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  (#11) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

  • Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Sylvester Stallone, Pom Klementieff, Kurt Russell, Elizabeth Debicki, Tommy Flanagan, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn

  Stan Lee’s cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 pokes fun at a long-time fan theory that he’s been secretly portraying a Watcher this entire time, but it also raises some questions. For one, Lee tells the Watchers about his time as a “Federal Express man,” but that’s a reference to his cameo in Captain America: Civil War - which is set two years after this film. Does that mean Stan the Man is a time-traveler too?

  The last of five post-credits scenes doesn’t clear up the matter of Lee-as-Watcher-informant any more - it only further complicates it. The Watchers silently bail on him as he laments, “You were supposed to be my lift home! How will I get out of here?” Does this mean that the Watchers are in the habit of recruiting informants, shooting them through time and space, and then abandoning them on random moons once they’re done with them? 

  And if so, who’s guarding the galaxy from this group of sociopaths?
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  (#5) Thor

  • Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo, Clark Gregg, Jaimie Alexander, Tadanobu Asano, Josh Dallas

  The first Thor film is a rather large departure from the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to this point, but it snaps back to the main plot in the post-credits scene. Dr. Erik Selvig is called in by Nick Fury to examine the Tesseract - but is then shockingly revealed to be under the mind-control of Loki!

  Except that shouldn’t really be possible. Moments earlier, Loki was falling into an Asgardian abyss to his presumable demise, and he’ll eventually end up rescued by Thanos - but at what point does he take over Selvig’s mind? It makes more sense to be after his meeting with the Mad Titan and acquisition of the Mind Stone, but then that would mean that the scene actually takes place long after Thor.

  Even if that’s the case, how exactly is Loki controlling Selvig from such a distance? In The Avengers, Loki needs to touch people with his scepter to brainwash them, but according to this scene, he’s also apparently able to do it from galaxies away. To make matters even more complicated, Loki goes on to tap Selvig with the scepter in The Avengers - but why would he need to re-mind-control a man already under his thrall?
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  (#2) Avengers: Age of Ultron

  • Robert Downey, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Kretschmann

  The mid-credits scene of The Avengers introduces Thanos, and then the post-credits one from Avengers: Age of Ultron sends him off on his quest for the Infinity Stones. He walks down a high-tech corridor, puts on the empty Infinity Gauntlet, and says “Fine, I’ll do it myself,” in foreboding fashion.

  But with just five words of dialogue, the Mad Titan raises a lot of confusing questions. First and foremost, why is this scene being shown now? The timing and phrasing would imply that the events of this film were yet another attempt by Thanos to gather the Stones - but then that means that he planned for Loki to lose the Mind Stone and have it affect Tony Stark’s new robot, which seems like a major stretch.

  The moment also contradicts its sequels, Infinity War and Endgame, in multiple ways. Thanos says he’ll do it himself and gears up, but then proceeds to sit on his purple behind - until Nebula and Gamora spill the beans on the Soul Stone years later. And why does he have the Infinity Gauntlet already, anyway? Thor’s visit to Nidavellir makes it seem like the glove had been constructed recently, but apparently it’s been in Thanos’s possession all this time - and Eitri has just been chilling in the dark for the interim.

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