Does Dark Phoenix have a post-credits scene?
The new X-Men movie has been cited as the last in the series
For the last few years, hidden scenes after the credits of superhero movies have become the Done Thing – but maybe that’s starting to change.
After all, Marvel’s epic Avengers: Endgame did away with the post-credits scenes earlier this year as a mark of its status as the conclusion of the MCU’s saga until that point (though there was a little treat for fans if they waited), while superhero films from other non-Marvel studios have sometimes shied away from them in the past.
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And now, with the release of 20th Century Fox’s final X-Men movie Dark Phoenix – the last film in production before Fox’s sale to Disney, who also own Marvel and have their own plans for the X-Men characters – fans will also be greeted with nothing after the credits.
Yes, that’s right – the franchise that actually kicked off the trend for superheroic post-credits stings back in 2006’s The Last Stand ends without any, so if you’re hoping to see any teases about where the X-Men will go under Marvel, you’ll come away disappointed.
In a way, this is hardly a surprise. Post-credits scenes are traditionally used to tease future films and new villains, and given that the X-Men are ending this version of their existence without any such future projects in development, it makes sense to keep things simpler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl65sgNDPg8
And perhaps we’re being churlish, sitting here and complaining about waiting through the list of everyone who worked on Dark Phoenix without a treat at the end.
The filmmakers themselves might think so – because there is actually a short message at the end of the credits noting the “15,000 jobs” created by the movie and the hundreds of thousands of work hours it generated. Don’t those people deserve a cursory watch of their name after all that effort?
Maybe it’s a coincidence, or maybe this message is where fans might expect a secret scene to remind us why the credits are there in the first place.
And maybe it’s a nudge to stay and appreciate people’s work in future, even without a Wolverine cameo hidden at the end…
X-Men: Dark Phoenix is in UK cinemas now