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Marvel Studios has turned sitting through a movies credits into a competitive sport.
Franchises you never thought would have (or need) post-credits teasers now pump them out regularly TransformersxG.I.
but at one point, the MCU had perfected the formula.
Exhibit A: the teaser that totally flatlines at the end ofCaptain America: Brave New World.
Usually, these stingers feature either new characters (Thor!
), new places (Wakanda!
), or new concepts (Multiversal incursions!).
At the very least, they functionas jokes.
The one at the end ofBrave New Worlddoes none of the above.
It features the films hyper-intelligent villain, The Leader a.k.a.
Ive seen it in the probabilities, Ive seen it plain as day.
All you heroes protecting this world, you think youre the only ones?
You think this is the only world?
Mr. Stark, youve become part of a bigger universe.
You just dont know it yet.
But Fury was teasing superhero crossovers en route to a then-unprecedented Avengers team-up.
(That film was centered around anow-discardedmultiverse villain.)
Several films at this point have featured the cross-pollination of characters from different realities.
Simply mentioning that more of this might happen isnt much of a promise.
