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00:00Now, seemingly the vast majority of movies will feature a sting during or after the credits,
00:06usually as a tease as to what will come in the future. However, not all of these scenes
00:11actually amount to anything. So with that in mind, here with movie post-credits scenes that
00:16went absolutely nowhere. Sinestro's Yellow Ring in Green Lantern. The sad truth is that no one
00:23enjoyed this movie, and it's even been ridiculed by Ryan Reynolds on numerous occasions in the
00:28years since. The franchise is as dead as a franchise can be, leaving one thread dangling without a
00:34resolution. The post-credits scene shows Mark Strong's Sinestro donning the Yellow Ring he
00:39wanted to use against Parallax earlier in the film. This was a clear setup for the character evolving
00:44into his typical villainous form in the future. However, with Reynolds now firmly planted as the
00:50world's Deadpool, the critical and commercial failure of Green Lantern, and no real call for
00:55return to this particular universe, the chances of ever seeing this version of Sinestro in his
01:00classic yellow suit are as low as they could possibly be.
01:03Deadpool Lives, X-Men Origins Wolverine
01:06Having been killed off in the climactic battle, sorry let me just change that there quickly,
01:10in the bullsh**, why the f**k am I watching this with Wolverine and Sabretooth, it turns out that
01:15Wade Wilson's healing factor is actually stronger than the brothers believed. So while his head was
01:19removed, the post-credits see him open his eyes, and a hand picks up his decapitated head. This teased
01:25the return of this nightmare version of Deadpool, but luckily we were saved by this film being an
01:29absolute skip fire, so the tease ended up being cut mercifully short.
01:34Terminator Ginice Ice
01:36Terminator Ginice Ice, and I will never call it anything different because of that stupid spelling,
01:40is the fifth entry in what was once a sublime and unblemished franchise. Paramount was so certain
01:46that they had a winner on their hands that they greenlit two sequels before Ginice Ice premiered.
01:51Although the previous Terminator films had self-contained stories, these follow-ups would
01:55actually continue the Ginice Ice plot, with Skynet, portrayed here by Matt Smith,
02:00serving as the overarching villain of the trilogy. Even though Cyberdyne's systems was destroyed in
02:05the movie's climax, the post-credits scene shows Skynet's core survived. Just before the scene cuts to
02:10black, Skynet's AI appears, proving his war with humanity is far from over. Sadly, these proposed
02:16sequels were canned after Ginice Ice didn't make as much money as the studio had hoped.
02:21A new version of the team, Charlie's Angels. In 2019, Elizabeth Banks took the incredibly
02:27outdated concept of Charlie's Angels and brought it into the modern world. The film had mixed reviews,
02:33to say the least, but its woeful box office numbers are what ultimately killed the franchise.
02:38With a return of just $78 million, Banks will likely never get the opportunity to follow up on the
02:44threads she teased during the six post-credits scenes at the end of the movie. These included
02:48cameos from the likes of Hailee Steinfeld, Lily Reinhardt, Ronda Rousey and more as other Angels,
02:55and who would have made one hell of an ensemble cast had a sequel found a way to incorporate all
02:59of them? Outside the cameos, however, there was also the more simple tease for the future of the
03:04franchise, when Elena was finally able to earn her Angels tattoo. Though this was a clear indication
03:09that there was more to come from the titular trio, it is all but a certainty that this iteration of
03:14Charlie's Angels is done for good.
03:16I'll Be Back, Masters of the Universe
03:18After He-Man has broken out of Skeletor's servitude and beaten him in battle, the villain
03:22is sent beneath the throne room within Castle Greyskull, presumably to his death. But then,
03:27in the post-credits stinger, Skeletor's head is seen rising from the waters of the pit,
03:31and he does his best Terminator impression, threatening,
03:33I'll Be Back. Would it fuck though, as the film failed to make its budget back or sell
03:39enough toys to warrant a sequel, so any potential franchise was dead on arrival? And it's a shame
03:45too, because Frank Langella's Skeletor was easily the best thing about the whole film,
03:48and seeing more of him wouldn't have been entirely unwelcome.
03:51Power Rangers
03:52Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was a television show revolving around five teenagers endowed with
03:57alien technology to battle the forces of evil. It was silly. It was brilliant. These heroes were
04:02originally led by the Red Ranger, Jason Lee Scott. But over time, Tommy Oliver, aka the Green Ranger,
04:08joined their team and eventually became their champion, the White Ranger. Even though it was
04:12cool to see Zordon, Alpha 5, Rita Repulsa, and the Megazord in the 2017 live adaptation,
04:18Power Ranger fans were pretty upset, because Tommy didn't actually make an appearance. However,
04:23he was mentioned. In the teaser at the end, we see a grumpy teacher at registration repeatedly
04:28calling out Tommy Oliver's name. The camera cuts to a teen's empty desk with his green
04:32jacket visible on the back of the chair. Although Power Rangers was meant to spawn four installments
04:37with Tommy joining the group in the sequel, that ship sailed after Power Rangers bombed at the
04:41box office and Hasbro reacquired the film rights. Another Mighty Morphin Power Rangers adaptation is
04:46currently in the pipeline, but it will have no connection to this 2017 film.
04:51The return of Lobster Johnson, Hellboy. David Harbour himself has said that part of the reason his
04:56iteration of Hellboy failed was that if it wasn't from Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman,
05:01fans didn't want to see it. And even though this was picked up on before filming began,
05:06the Troubled reboot still tried to build and set up its own universe.
05:11Now there were two major teases at the end of the movie, the first being Abe Sapien just before the
05:16credits started rolling. But as if that wasn't enough, there was then also a further tease for the
05:21future of the franchise in a mid-credits sting as well. As Hellboy starts mourning the death of
05:26Professor Broom, he was greeted by Lobster Johnson, a character that had been introduced in flashbacks
05:32earlier in the movie and who was supposedly dead. Johnson told Hellboy that he had won the battle,
05:37but the war was far from over, clearly teasing further battles to come. But with the Hellboy
05:42franchise set to go in a completely new direction, with a new iteration, unless we have some kind of
05:47Hellboy No Way Home situation going on, it's unlikely that we're ever going to see David Harbour in the
05:53role again, and unlikely that these particular storylines will be continued.
05:57Tony Stark and the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk. At the end of the Incredible Hulk, General
06:01Thunderbolt Ross sits back in a bar necking booze when all of a sudden your dad's secret crush,
06:06Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark enters to goad him about the use of super soldier serums,
06:10and then mentions that he's putting a team together.
06:14What if I told you we were putting a team together?
06:16Now on paper, this is just one of many links to the Avengers. However, in practice, it makes no
06:22sense. Stark coming to Ross is a pointless move as Ross doesn't have a clue where the Hulk was.
06:27Instead, this looks to set up the Hulk as the villain of the Avengers, and Stark is offering
06:32Ross an option to deal with the threat. This obviously went nowhere as the universe was changed
06:37after the film flopped more than the Hulk's big green penis when freed from those magical purple
06:41trousers, and while being a bit of a menace in the Avengers, was definitely on the side
06:45of the good guys.
06:47Transformers The Last Night
06:48Now even though we can all agree that the Transformers films aren't exactly great, it
06:52was pretty awesome for fans to see Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Soundwave in live action. But
06:57there is one guy that the rabid fanbase has been dying to bear witness to on the big screen,
07:02Unicron. However, we had to wait until the fifth movie, Transformers The Last Night,
07:06before the world-consuming robot was finally mentioned. Here, the film's antagonist mentions
07:11how Unicron resides in the Earth's core, and she must drain the planet to destroy him.
07:15Even though she's defeated in the climax, she actually reappears in The Stinger,
07:19admiring Unicron's horns, which have penetrated the Earth's surface. Sadly, this was the first
07:24live-action Transformer film to bomb, causing the Unicron story arc to be firmly placed on the
07:29backburner.
07:30The Birth of the Albino
07:32Hitman Agent 47
07:33After an underwhelming film in 2007, Hitman was rebooted in 2015. Unfortunately, this was
07:41received even worse than the original picture. The 8% score on Rotten Tomatoes definitely speaks
07:47for itself. Throughout the movie, Zachary Quinto's Smith acts as the antagonist, but is ultimately
07:52killed by Agent 47. Until that is the reveal in the post-credits scene that he is still alive.
07:58His electrocution left him with white hair, something that would have acted as his origin
08:02story in becoming the Albino, or Albino, depending on where you're from, a character from the
08:08Hitman games.
08:09Ironically, for a movie that seemed to ignore a lot of the Hitman lore, this was something
08:13for those familiar with the franchise to really get excited about. Even in spite of the lacklustre
08:18reception to the movie, a sequel was reportedly still in the works. However, this, as well as
08:23any chance, Aziz Zachary Quinto, in this new form on screen, was killed by Disney after
08:27the Fox acquisition.
08:29The Frost Monster
08:30Thor The Dark World
08:32With all the chaos surrounding the finale of Thor The Dark World, we suppose it was easy
08:35for a few things to get lost in the confusion. The Convergence was in full swing and all
08:39the worlds were colliding, Dark Elms were appearing all over London and gravity was just
08:44going crazy. Even after the dust had settled and the good guys had won, there was still a giant
08:49crashed spaceship in the middle of London, so it was nice to see, the week after the
08:53movie opened, that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. showed a team clearing up the mess. Yet, it's
08:58utterly baffling that no one ever mentioned chasing down a huge frost monster that was
09:02last seen running around London in the end credits. It begs the question, did anyone actually
09:07catch that thing or is it still running loose in a major city? Now, it's obviously meant
09:11to be a gag seeing as how it's framed, but seeing as they went to the lengths to show
09:14the craft clean up, a little nod to this rogue would have been much appreciated. Although, if it
09:19was bouncing around Tottenham, I doubt that anyone would have noticed.
09:22The Amazing Spider-Man
09:23When Sony rebooted the Spider-Man movie franchise, the studio was hell-bent on incorporating the
09:29Sinister Six, a group of supervillains brought together solely to destroy the webcrawler.
09:33Now, at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man, we see Kirk Connors, aka The Lizard, in a prison
09:37cell speaking to a man in the shadows. This man, Gustav, debuted in the 1999 novel The Gathering
09:43of the Sinister Six. The Amazing Spider-Man series was meant to culminate with the web-slinger
09:48facing off against this insidious sextet, which was founded by Gustav. But after The Amazing
09:53Spider-Man 2 underperformed, this series was cancelled and this saga was left unfinished.
09:57The Silver Surfer survived Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer
10:02Chances are, when you think of the Fantastic Four sequel, you think about how the movie took
10:07one of the most beloved villains of Marvel's first family and relegated him to being nothing
10:12more than a faceless cloud. However, believe it or not, there was more to the movie than the
10:16injustice done to Galactus. Now, we're not talking about the wedding of Reed and Sue here,
10:20but instead, the appearance of the Silver Surfer.
10:24Noren Rad was actually a very enjoyable aspect of this sequel, serving as something of a conflicted
10:29villain with a strong redemption arc. By the end of the movie, in spite of being the one that
10:33heralded Galactus to Earth in the first place, the Silver Surfer heads out into space to fight the
10:39Devourer of Worlds. To save the world, he destroyed Galactus, but in doing so, made the ultimate
10:44sacrifice. Yet after just a few credits rolled across the screen, the image was shown of Noren
10:49floating through space, opening his eyes just before he left the shot. The plan was to introduce
10:54a spin-off focused around the Silver Surfer, but like any other potential Fantastic Four
10:59sequels, it was killed by the poor box office return from Rise of the Silver Surfer, and of
11:04course, the emergence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
11:07More Aliens. Battleship. The fact that Battleship, a movie based on a board game starring Rihanna,
11:13had the cheek to include a post-credits sequence was bad enough, but the blatant sequel tease
11:18of an alien reaching out of a rock might be one of the most overconfident and hilarious
11:22displays in recent memory. I would have believed the terror in the faces of the kids more if
11:26the alien was clutching the script for the sequel. That would have been truly awful.
11:30Thankfully, the franchise was sunk soon out of the gates. What a shame. Am I right?
11:35X-Men Apocalypse. In X-Men Apocalypse, Professor X's students get kidnapped by the mutant experimental
11:41group Weapon X. After breaking out of their cell, they release one of their prisoners,
11:46unaware that it's actually Wolverine. After the credits, government agents storm the facility
11:50and have their underlings remove all evidence that anything happened there. Even though we see
11:54these men taking samples of Wolverine's blood, we don't know who they are at first. Only in the
11:58last second does the penny drop, well, at least for comic fans, because the final shot shows the
12:03label Essex Corp., instigating that they work for Nathaniel Essex, better known as Mr. Sinister.
12:09Because Sinister is a master geneticist obsessed with cloning the perfect life form, it makes sense
12:13that he would covet Wolverine's DNA. So when it was announced that the following X-Men film Logan
12:17would revolve around Wolverine teaming up with a girl cloned from his blood, fans assumed that
12:22Sinister would factor into the story somehow. But it never came to be. Despite the fact the insidious
12:27supervillain was rumoured to pop up in Deadpool 2, X-Men Dark Phoenix or the New Mutants, Sinister
12:32has yet to appear in live action. Jack's voodoo doll, Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides.
12:38Captain Jack Sparrow robs shoulders with some of the most notorious and dangerous people in the
12:42world. From Barbossa to Davy Jones and Captain Salazar, there were plenty of people who would have
12:48been happy to see Captain Jack dead. One who wanted to keep the pirate alive, however, at least for the time
12:54being, was Blackbeard. He wanted Jack to lead him to the Fountain of Youth, and as something of an incentive
13:00to get him there, he crafted a working voodoo doll. The mini effigy was thrown over a cliff at one point
13:06as proof that Jack would survive the jump. However, the doll itself wasn't seen for the rest of the movie
13:11until it wound up on the same shore that Jack himself had marooned Angelica. The woman he betrayed and
13:17deserted looked up with a smile, clearly excited at the prospect of revenge. However, six years later,
13:23when Jack Sparrow returned to screens in Salazar's Revenge, there was absolutely no mention of either
13:29Angelica or the doll. Some have theorised that Angelica's possession of Little Jack could explain
13:33the fact that he lost his luck in the fifth movie, but this isn't really how a voodoo doll works.
13:38Instead, the story thread was seemingly abandoned entirely.
13:42Bullseye is fine. Daredevil. I would hate to be Bullseye in the Daredevil film. Your one superpower,
13:48besides being able to choose scenery, is being able to aim really, really well. And then you spend all
13:55of your time missing your target. That's got a sting. Well, that and being thrown through a window
14:00and breaking all of your bones when you land on a car. The post-credits sequence shows the aftermath,
14:05with him in a full body cast and only a couple of fingers free. There's a fly in the room annoying
14:09him, so he moves to pick up a toothpick from the table next to him. The sound of the fly stops as he
14:13hits it, and we get a shot of his eyes looking supremely happy with himself. This tease that he would
14:18indeed be back, but with sales more red than Daredevil's suit, this post-credits sequence,
14:22much like Bullseye, missed the f***ing mark.
14:25Ghostbusters 2016
14:27The 2016 version of Ghostbusters was met with an absurd amount of negative feedback,
14:32long before the movie was even released. People were gunning for this movie to fail so bad that
14:36it didn't have a chance, regardless of how the finished product turned out. Nevertheless, the director
14:41had so much belief in the reboot that he included a stinger that set up the next installment.
14:45In this scene, Patty is studying electronic voice phenomena by listening to old recordings.
14:50When Erin and Abby ask if she's found anything interesting, Patty says,
14:53I heard something really weird. What's Zool?
14:56Because Zool was Goze's minion in the original Ghostbusters, this scene implies the villains
15:00would return in the sequel. Even though the film received a positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes,
15:042016's Ghostbuster was review-bombed by trolls and didn't do well at the box office. Because of the
15:10backlash, it was no surprise when the studio scrapped everything and instead made a follow-up to the
15:14original film. Although this sequel ended up incorporating Goze and Zool, it had no connection
15:19to the 2016 reboot.
15:21Bison chooses world domination Street Fighter. The 1994 Street Fighter film holds just 11%
15:28on Rotten Tomatoes and is widely regarded as one of the worst video game adaptations in an industry
15:33filled with poor video game adaptations. When the credits began, audiences were led to believe that
15:38the villainous Bison had perished, only for the post-credits scene, something that was completely
15:43ahead of its time in the early 90s, to confirm that he was actually alive. The computer rebooted,
15:48Bison's hand burst through the floor in the most cliche way you can imagine, and he selected
15:53world domination. Of course, neither Bison nor Street Fighter ever returned. There was no sequel
15:58to speak of, which is unsurprising taking into account the film's woeful reception, even in spite
16:03of rumblings of a return in 2003. Thankfully, Street Fighter has largely been kept to the world
16:08of video gaming ever since. I think they learned their lesson.
16:11The Pimp. Idiocracy. After defying the odds and fixing America's food shortages, dust bowls,
16:16and economy within a week, Luke Wilson's Joe, despite the hiccup of being temporarily sentenced
16:21to death for causing mass unemployment, is elected vice president and eventually resident.
16:26He marries former prostitute Rita, and they have the world's smartest three children, and
16:30the film ends. In a post-credits sequence, though, Rita's former pimp is shown getting
16:35out of the same sort of cryopod that brought Rita and Joe to the future. He puts on a hat
16:39and swaggers away saying, I'm gonna find this hoe. It might have mostly been a gag, but this
16:45seems to suggest the possibility of a sequel in which the pimp comes after Rita. While there
16:49was talk of a spin-off back in 2012, things have been quiet since, and one can only imagine
16:54him wandering forever in search of his missing hoe. We've all been there, right, lads?
16:59Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales
17:02The fifth Pirates movie, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales, was far from perfect. In
17:08fact, it was the weakest entry in the swashbuckling franchise. However, the blockbuster did a serviceable
17:12job at wrapping up loose ends. Barbossa reunited with his daughter before dying, Will Turner freed
17:17himself from the Dutchman curse, and Jack Sparrow got a monkey, so everything turned out well.
17:22Since everything was tied up in a neat little bow, this would have been the perfect time to put the
17:26series to bed. But we weirdly got a tacked-on stinger that said, screw that. In this scene,
17:31Will Turner is seen sleeping with his wife when he has a vision of Davy Jones insinuating the
17:35captain would return in a future installment. But due to the underperformance of this film,
17:40the franchise's future is uncertain.
17:43More Infection
17:44Slither
17:44The end of James Gunn's excellent and underappreciated horror Slither sees the few survivors led by Nathan
17:50Fillion's Sheriff Bill, see off the monster by filling him with propane and exploding him,
17:54at which point all of the infected victims die. We've all been there. Right, lads?
17:58Everyone lives happily ever after, despite some injuries and the credits roll.
18:02But then this cat rocks up. Has a lick at the dead monster because cats love a free and disgusting
18:08meal, and we hear the sound of it being assimilated. Cue an image of John Carpenter's The Thing,
18:13and we all go home wishing for a sequel. Well, we would if anyone actually went to see the film,
18:17as it performed so badly that Universal distanced themselves from the project
18:21and any future installments. Sad times.
18:24Venom Let There Be Carnage
18:26Venom Let There Be Carnage's teaser is one of the few films with a stinger kind of better than the
18:31movie itself. While Eddie Brock and his symbiote are on vacation, he finds himself transported to a
18:36parallel universe. Upon looking at the television, he sees a news announcement revealing Spider-Man's
18:41identity as Peter Parker. Not only does this scene prove Tom Hardy's Venom is now a resident of the
18:46MCU, it looks like he's going to be battling the wallcrawler in the near future. But one month later,
18:52Spider-Man No Way Home was released, which contradicted this very notion. In No Way Home's
18:56post-credits scene, Eddie is teleported back to his world, having never crossed paths with the
19:01webhead. Before he disappears, a glob of his symbiote remains, suggesting that it will fuse with
19:05somebody else turning them into the MCU's Venom. One thing that we do know is that this Venom will not
19:10be Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock, even though that is exactly what was heavily implied in Venom Let
19:16There Be Carnage. Billy Batson knows Superman, Shazam. When Shazam was released in 2019, it
19:22represented a shift in the tone of the DCEU, from the dark and broody to something brighter and more
19:27fun. Earlier in the picture, Freddy claimed that he was friends with Shazam and that the hero would
19:32be coming to school to have lunch with him. His bullies made fun of his claim, asking if Superman
19:36would be coming too. In the post-credits scene, this joke is paid off, as Billy, in his Shazam
19:41form, walks in and proclaims what a great friend Freddy is, then to be joined by the Man of Steel
19:47himself. Well, from the neck down at least, as his face is never actually shown. So Shazam knew
19:52Superman well enough that he would do him a favour such as this, and yet their friendship was never
19:56explored further? Huh?
19:581. Superman Returns Black Adam
20:00Now, at the time, this was Hollywood's worst-kept secret, but the return of Superman signalled
20:05something big in the future of the DC Extended Universe. Though his chest had appeared in Shazam
20:10and his silhouette made an appearance in Peacemaker, this was Superman's first real DCEU appearance
20:16since Justice League. One of the biggest marketing tactics of Black Adam was promoting a power shift
20:22in the DCEU, and bringing the titular character face-to-face with Superman was paramount to that.
20:28Such two heavy hitters facing off could have been something special, but in reality, it really
20:32didn't matter who was opposite Supes upon his return. This was about Henry Cavill. However,
20:37shortly after the movie released and the English actor could officially confirm his return to the
20:41role, James Gunn dashed everyone's hopes. Not only would Black Adam be shelved, no longer a part of
20:47the future of DC's plans, but Cavill would be replaced as the Man of Steel for Superman Legacy
20:52and in the DCU in general. Justice League, either version. Rarely has a post-credit promised so
20:58much and delivered nothing. Justice League's first cut concludes with Lex Luthor telling the
21:02mercenary Deathstroke that it's time to form a league of our own. This implies that Lex will,
21:07as he did in the comics, set up the Injustice League, or the Injustice Gang, or the Anti-Justice
21:12League. I mean, there is a lot of leagues. But it doesn't matter in the slightest, because the
21:15sequel was scrapped after the film suffered a calamitous production. But after the original
21:20director Zack Snyder released his cut in 2021, we got a batch of new stingers. The first post-credit
21:25scene shows Lex revealing Batman's identity to Deathstroke, setting up Ben Affleck's solo Batman
21:30movie. Bruce Wayne has a vision of Darkseid decimating the world and turning Superman into
21:35his own minion. After this vision ends, Martian Manhunter formally introduces himself to Bruce,
21:40saying he'll help the league in the future. Since Warner Bros. isn't interested in continuing
21:44with the Snyderverse, these story arcs are just stuck in limbo, much to the devastation of DC fans
21:49around the world. However, many people never thought that Zack Snyder's Justice League would ever
21:53get released, so it is possible that these post-credit scenes will get some payoff in the
21:58future. But I wouldn't hold out much hope of that.
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