Thunderbolts* director reveals Russo brothers directed THAT post-credit scene and what does it mean for the MCU

If you have seen Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers already, then read away… if not, there are big spoilers beyond for the movie’s post-credit scene.

So…

As is the way with many Marvel movies, Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers has two credit scenes, one mid-credit and one-post, the mid-credit scene is played for laughs and adds little to the story, however, the post credit one – the longest post-credit scene in a Marvel movie yet – does actually set up what comes next in the MCU.

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The scene opens with the Thunderbolts* – now going by The New Avengers and using The Watch Tower – formally Avengers Tower – as their HQ and they’re discussing the team name and how Sam Wilson AKA Captain America, isn’t happy with them using it but during the banter, an alarm goes off warning them that a ‘trans-dimensional’ ship has entered Earth’s atmosphere and when the team put it on the screen, we see a very futuristic looking rocket ship (you can see it here) with a giant ‘4’ on it – this baffles the team but we, the viewer know that this is, of course, hinting at The Fantastic Four, which hits cinemas in July.

However, the scene tells us what we can expect at the end of Fantastic Four too.

“That [scene] was shot maybe four weeks ago, and I did not direct that,” says director Jake Schreier, “That’s the Russos on the set of Avengers: Doomsday. I got to be there, which was very fun, to watch your buddies go on to this grander scale.”

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The trailers for Fantastic Four have shown us that the movie doesn’t take place on the Earth that the MCU primarily take place on and it’s a world where the FF are the only heroes (Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn), and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) ) which means that when Galactus, the massive world-eater, appears to destroy their Earth, the Fantastic Four don’t defeat him and likely and up fleeing to our reality to get away from him and maybe warn that this reality is next.

So, yes, what we are seeing is the Fantastic Four fleeing their world which has been destroyed by Galactus and arriving at the MCU’s Earth 616.

So, there you have it.

I’m just wondering if this means the Fantastic Four will be a more serious team moving forward since they have lost their world and everyone they loved?

Anyways, thoughts? I know you have ’em.

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Source: Variety