If you stuck around until the end of Iron Man back in 2008, you would have been treated to a very cool scene featuring Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury telling Tony Stark about the "Avengers Initiative." It was that which not only helped give birth to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it but also laid the groundwork for Earth's Mightiest Heroes to finally assemble on the big screen four years later.
While it may not be the flashiest stinger Marvel has delivered, it's still actually Kevin Feige's favourite!
"I love them all for so many different reasons. The Nick Fury one obviously, because it was the first. Two things that have happened as we have continued making our MCU movies is, I remember Stan Lee cameos, there would be a couple of people in the theater who would clap, and then there would be a couple more, and now every single person in the theater knows Stan and recognizes Stan."
There's no denying that Marvel Studios has changed the game when it comes to after-credits scenes as rival studios have scrambled to keep up and often failed to capture the same sort of magic. Feige then went on to weigh in on the impact they've had and the way moviegoers are willing to stick around.
"It was the same thing [with credits]: Sometimes there would be three people left in the theater for a tag and now it’s like, it varies, but it could be three-quarters of a theater staying, or as people start to leave, they’ll go, ‘Where are you going?’ which I find very entertaining. So I would say the Fury one because it was our first. We planted our flag on that. And the shawarma one just because we pulled it off. It felt so perfect." Which MCU after-credits scene is your favourite? Sound off below.
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