List of Post-credits Scenes

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Post-credits scenes are a recurring staple in the feature films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, during which one or more shorts clips are shown during and/or after the closing credits. The clips usually foreshadow future films, resolve a plotline from the film, or provide comic relief.

Movies

Phase One

Film	Image	Description
Iron Man		Tony Stark enters his mansion only to be greeted by Nick Fury, who assures him that "Iron Man" isn't the only superhero in the world before bringing up the Avengers Initiative.
The Incredible Hulk		In a pre-credits scene, Tony Stark meets a drunken Thaddeus Ross at a bar and tells him that a team is being put together.
Iron Man 2		In a cut-down scene from Thor, Phil Coulson drives towards a crater in the New Mexico desert, where a large hammer has crashed, and reports the discovery to his superior Nick Fury.
Thor		Foreshadowing The Avengers, Nick Fury welcomes Erik Selvig to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility and, after showing him the Tesseract, asks him to investigate the object further. Selvig agrees, revealing that his mind is being controlled by Loki.
Captain America: The First Avenger		In a cut-down scene from The Avengers, Nick Fury gives Steve Rogers an assignment with worldwide ramifications.
The Avengers		In a mid-credits scene, The Other informs his master of Loki's defeat before noting that challenging the Avengers would be courting Death, prompting Thanos to smile at the prospect.
		The Avengers assemble at the Shawarma Palace and eat in silence due to their combined exhaustion from the Battle of New York.

Phase Two

Film	Image	Description
Iron Man 3		After recounting his battle with Aldrich Killian and his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder, Tony Stark realizes Bruce Banner slept through most of the story. Thinking nothing of it, Stark begins telling another story, much to Banner's chagrin.
Thor: The Dark World		In a mid-credits scene foreshadowing Guardians of the Galaxy, Sif and Volstagg entrust the Aether to Taneleer Tivan, unaware that he is planning to track down the remaining Infinity Stones and Tivan mentions that now he has 5 left.
		While entertaining several colleagues in her London flat, Jane Foster sees a portal open on her balcony and runs outside to find Thor, whom she happily embraces. Meanwhile, a flock of birds attempts to flee from the Frost Beast.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier		In a mid-credits scene foreshadowing Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wolfgang von Strucker makes his way through a facility where the Scepter is being studied and approaches a pair of holding cells containing Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
		A disguised Winter Soldier infiltrates the Captain America exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution and comes across a memorial for Bucky Barnes.
Guardians of the Galaxy		In a pre-credits scene, Groot dances to "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5 as Drax the Destroyer sharpens his two knives. When Drax turns his way, Groot freezes only to continue when Drax looks away.
		Taneleer Tivan sits in the ruins of his museum as Cosmo walks over and licks his face, prompting Howard the Duck to declare that the act was "gross".
Avengers: Age of Ultron		In a mid-credits scene, Thanos, growing tired with the lack of progress in his crusade to obtain the Infinity Stones, dons an Infinity Gauntlet and vows to personally seek out the Stones.
Ant-Man		In a mid-credits scene foreshadowing Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hank Pym shows Hope van Dyne an advanced yet unfinished prototype of the Wasp Suit, prompting her to state "It's about damn time".
		In a cut-down scene from Captain America: Civil War, Captain America and Falcon discuss what to do with a trapped Winter Soldier. With "the accords" preventing them from contacting Tony Stark, Falcon recommends "a guy" who can help them.

Phase Three

Film	Image	Description
Captain America: Civil War		In a mid-credits scene foreshadowing Black Panther, Steve Rogers watches Bucky Barnes go back into cryostasis and thanks T'Challa, who has granted them asylum in Wakanda until a cure for Barnes' mental programming can be found.
		Foreshadowing Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter Parker rests on his bed as Aunt May inquires about his black eye. As soon as she leaves the room, Peter inspects his Web-Shooters and watches as they emit a spider-shaped symbol.
Doctor Strange		In a cut-down scene from Thor: Ragnarok, Doctor Strange asks Thor why he brought Loki to Earth. Discovering that they are searching for Odin, Strange offers to help on the condition that the three return to Asgard once their mission is completed.
		Karl Mordo confronts Jonathan Pangborn and takes away his magic, explaining he is doing so because there are "too many sorcerers in the Earth".
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2		In a pre-credits scene, Kraglin Obfonteri tries to use the Yaka Arrow only to run away after accidentally stabbing Drax in the shoulder making him scream.
		Stakar Ogord, inspired by Yondu Udonta's sacrifice, brings his wife Aleta Ogord and comrades Martinex, Charlie-27, Krugarr and Mainframe together and proposes they reassemble their old team.
		Ayesha tells her chambermaid she is creating a being capable of destroying the Guardians of the Galaxy, deciding to call her creation "Adam".
		Peter Quill walks in on an adolescent-sized Groot playing a video game and shows his disgust over the vines Groot has shed all over the room. Groot responds in a mocking tone, further annoying Quill.
		The Watchers walk away from their informant as he implores them to stay and listen to his adventures.
Spider-Man: Homecoming		Adrian Toomes encounters Mac Gargan in prison and learns that he has "friends" looking to kill Spider-Man before being confronted with a rumor about him knowing who the young crimefighter is. Toomes denies knowing Spider-Man's true identity and leaves to see his family.
		Captain America films a public service announcement on the importance of patience and breaks the fourth wall, informing the audience that they waited around for nothing.
Thor: Ragnarok		In a mid-credits scene foreshadowing Avengers: Infinity War, Loki visits Thor in his quarters and asks if going to Earth is a good idea as a large spaceship appears in front of theirs.
		The Grandmaster attempts to placate the citizens of Sakaar by declaring the revolution a draw while everyone look at him with a serious face.
Black Panther		In a mid-credits scene, T'Challa travels to the Vienna International Centre with Nakia, Okoye and Ayo to speak before the United Nations, stating that Wakanda will open its borders and utilize its resources to help the wider world.
		Foreshadowing Avengers: Infinity War, Shuri visits a convalescing Bucky Barnes, who has awoken from cryostasis, and tells him he has much to learn.
Avengers: Infinity War		Foreshadowing Captain Marvel, Nick Fury sends a distress signal to an unidentified individual via pager as he, Maria Hill, and several Atlanta pedestrians corrode to dust.
Ant-Man and the Wasp		In a mid-credits scene foreshadowing Avengers: Endgame, Hank Pym, Hope van Dyne and Janet van Dyne are watching Scott Lang harvest quantum particles when they start to disintegrate due to Thanos' victory, leaving Lang trapped inside the Quantum Realm.
		The Giant Ant continues to play Scott Lang's electronic drum set as the Emergency Alert System echoes throughout Lang's house.
Captain Marvel		In a mid-credits scene foreshadowing Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff and James Rhodes are speaking with Bruce Banner about the Transmitter Pager when Captain Marvel appears and demands they tell her where Nick Fury is.
		Inside Nick Fury's office, Goose jumps onto his desk and, following several attempts, regurgitates the Tesseract.
Spider-Man: Far From Home		Peter Parker and Michelle Jones finish their date as Pat Kiernan presents a breaking news bulletin. To Parker's horror, The Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson releases footage leaked by the late Quentin Beck in which Beck suggests that Spider-Man murdered him to keep all the credit for stopping all the Elementals' attacks and ordered the deaths of many others, after which he reveals to the world that Parker is Spider-Man.
		"Nick Fury" and "Maria Hill" are revealed to be Talos and Soren in disguise. At Soren's urging, Talos contacts the real Fury, who is commanding a ship crewed by Skrulls, and informs him of the unexpected complications they faced in their mission to stop the Elementals.

Behind the Scenes

• Kevin Feige started to place the post-credits scenes at the end of each Marvel Studios film partially because he wanted audiences to stick around and acknowledge the people who worked on the film. He was inspired by the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which caused Feige to watch the end of all credits for films he saw when he was younger. In the post-credits scene of that film, the titular character, portrayed by Matthew Broderick, breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that the movie is over and they should go home.
• When the time to shoot the post-credits scene of Iron Man came, an alternate version of the scene was filmed in which Nick Fury mentions to Tony Stark that he has become part of a "bigger universe" in which there are "gamma accidents", "radioactive bug bites" and "an assortment of mutants". This version ultimately went unused from the finished film likely because Sony Pictures Studios owns the film rights of Spider-Man and 20th Century Fox owned the film rights of the X-Men at the time.
• Louis Leterrier initially intended to film a post-credits scene for The Incredible Hulk showing the Abomination, reverted back to his human form, chained and imprisoned in a box, but the scene was never filmed.
• According to Stellan Skarsgård, the post-credits scene of Thor wasn't included in the screenplay he first read: they only sent him the pages for it after agreeing to appear in The Avengers.
• When Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely early considered using the Hulk on Captain America: Civil War before removing him to not reveal his whereabouts after Avengers: Age of Ultron, there was an early draft with a post-credits scene featuring a stinger of Hulk.
• Ryan Fleck revealed in an interview with Empire that an idea for the post-credits scene of Captain Marvel involved Yon-Rogg's ship traveling through the Devil's Anus and landing on Sakaar, seemingly setting him up to be forced to compete in the Grandmaster's Contest of Champions.
• The first post-credits scene in Captain Marvel was originally filmed as part of Avengers: Endgame.
• Avengers: Endgame is the first film not to have a post-credits scene, though a few weeks after its initial theatrical release, a trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home was added at the end of the credits. The movie's initial theatrical release featured the sound of a hammer striking steel after the credits, a reference to Tony Stark creating his first suit of armor in Iron Man, which Joe Russo has stated was their way of saying goodbye to him.