The thirty fifth MCU film, Captain America: Courageous New World, comes with quite a lot of questions MCU motion pictures solely sporadically face, like “How does this relate to present politics?”, together with the same old ones, like “What ought to I watch to arrange for this film?” and “Does it have a post-credits scene?”
Courageous New World does have a post-credits scene, for what that’s value, nevertheless it’s a baffling one, significantly in contrast with the MCU’s common behavior of utilizing the post-credits area to drum up pleasure for the following film on Marvel’s roster. Let’s dig in.
Does Captain America: Courageous New World have a mid-credits scene?
Nope! Which can also be a major shock, since even MCU motion pictures with no post-credits sequence often nonetheless throw in a mid-credits beat to wrap up some small little bit of enterprise from the film. On this case, although, you’ll have to attend all the way in which to the tip of the credit to get your ultimate shot of Cap.
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Does Captain America: Courageous New World have a post-credits scene?
It does. However whereas that’s the query everybody at all times Googles whereas sitting within the theater watching the credit roll by, the actual query needs to be “Was that post-credits scene shot 15 years in the past and by no means up to date? What the hell is that trade about, and what are we imagined to get from it?” Full spoilers for the scene forward.
What occurs in Captain America: Courageous New World’s post-credits scene?
The sequence opens with the film’s large villain, Samuel Sterns, incarcerated in The Raft, the MCU’s floating jail for superpowered people. (Tim Blake Nelson was established within the position as Sterns in 2008’s The Unbelievable Hulk. As of this film, he nonetheless hasn’t been labeled “The Chief,” the identify of this character in Marvel Comics continuity.) Captain America (Anthony Mackie) comes to speak to him, apparently having been advised Sterns has one thing to say.
Sterns’ message is the type of menace that will usually be designed to arrange a future Marvel film: “It’s coming. I’ve seen it within the possibilities. You suppose that is the one world? Let’s see what occurs when you need to shield this world from the others.”
What the hell does ‘the others’ imply?
So okay. I do know Samuel Sterns has been imprisoned at a authorities black website for the previous 15 years, the place he’s been doing life-sustaining medical work for “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford) out of a dirty, neon-lit lab that appears like a torture dungeon from a Noticed film. So possibly he doesn’t have a ton of entry to the information, to go along with his in-depth entry to the American army personnel information he has throughout his partitions. However “defending your world from the others” is most of what Marvel heroes have been doing since round 2011’s Thor.
Does Sterns know Thor got here from a special planet, and so did an enormous damaging robotic that made an enormous mess on Earth? Did he miss out on the Chitauri invasion in The Avengers? What about Thanos’ lackeys smashing up New York Metropolis and Thanos himself obliterating half the life on Earth (only for starters) in Avengers: Infinity Struggle? Or the full-on Thanos invasion in Avengers: Endgame, or the worldwide alien terrorist plot of Secret Invasion, or the alien that actually hatched out of the earth in Eternals, prompting a lot of the plot of Courageous New World?
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“Different worlds” invading Earth is outdated, outdated information within the MCU. Heck, even the upcoming franchise installment The Improbable 4: First Steps goes to take care of an alien invasion… which occurred again within the Nineteen Sixties.
So possibly he means “different worlds” within the multiverse sense? This might be much more logical, since that’s a more moderen MCU menace, identified to fewer folks. However Courageous New World is the penultimate film within the MCU’s Part 5, the second a part of the “Multiverse Saga” — even when Sam Wilson himself hasn’t been coping with multiverse incursions, it’s fairly acquainted floor for MCU followers, who’ve been getting a pile-on of multiverse-focused tales since season 1 of Loki again in 2021. Which makes Stearns’ menace really feel fairly tame — the equal of Mike Myers’ Dr. Evil in Austin Powers: Worldwide Man of Thriller rising from 30 years of cryo-sleep, fully out of contact with the worth of recent cash, and launching a blackmail plan for “One meeeeeeellion {dollars}!”
In step with Marvel’s common foreshadowing, although, it feels just like the “different worlds” menace ought to in some way be queuing up the eventual menace of Dr. Doom, which appears to have changed the multiversal menace of infinite Kangs that Marvel Studios needed to scrap after Jonathan Majors’ assault trial. Perhaps Doom is an alt-universe villain now? Or he has extraterrestrial ties? Or possibly there are aliens we don’t learn about coming in Thunderbolts* in Might? It doesn’t matter what the reply is, it certain isn’t clear in a means that will make it really feel like a significant teaser right here. And it seems like a weak, imprecise jab to purpose at somebody who simply stood his floor towards Purple Hulk.
