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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
00:10actually 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
00:34without a resolution. 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 a
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. Having been killed off in the climactic battle,
01:09sorry let me just change that there quickly, in the bullshit, why the fuck am I watching this
01:13with Wolverine and Sabretooth, it turns out that Wade Wilson's healing factor is actually stronger
01:17than the brothers believed. So while his head was removed, the post-credits see him open his eyes
01:21and a hand picks up his decapitated head. This teased the return of this nightmare version
01:26of Deadpool, but luckily we were saved by this film being an absolute skip fire,
01:31so the tease ended up being cut mercifully short.
01:34Terminator Genice Ice
01:36Terminator Genice 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. Now Paramount was so
01:46certain that they had a winner on their hands that they greenlit two sequels before Genice Ice
01:50premiered. Although the previous Terminator films had self-contained stories, these follow-ups would
01:55actually continue the Jine Ice Ice plot, with Skynet, portrayed here by Matt Smith, serving as the
02:01overarching villain of the trilogy. Even though Cyberdyne Systems was destroyed in the movie's
02:06climax, the post-credits scene shows Skynet's core survived. Just before the scene cuts to black,
02:11Skynet's AI appears, proving his war with humanity is far from over. Sadly, these proposed sequels
02:16were canned after Jine Ice 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
03:13of Charlie's Angels is done for good.
03:15I'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!
03:36Would it f**k, though, as the film failed to make its budget back or sell enough toys to
03:40warrant a sequel, so any potential franchise was dead on arrival? And it's a shame, too,
03:45because Frank Langella's Skeletor was easily the best thing about the whole film, and seeing more
03:49of him wouldn't have been entirely unwelcome.
03:51Power Rangers
03:52Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was a television show revolving around five teenagers endowed
03:57with alien 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, joined their
04:08team and eventually
04:09became their champion, the White Ranger. Even though it was cool to see Zordon, Alpha 5, Rita Repulsa,
04:15and the Megazord in the 2017 live adaptation, Power Ranger fans were pretty upset, because Tommy didn't
04:21actually make an appearance. However, he was mentioned. In the teaser at the end, we see a grumpy teacher at
04:27registration repeatedly calling out Tommy Oliver's name. The camera cuts to a teen's empty desk with his green jacket
04:33visible on the back of the chair. Although Power Rangers was meant to spawn four installments with Tommy
04:38joining the group in the sequel, that ship sailed after Power Rangers bombed at the box office and
04:42Hasbro reacquired the film rights. Another Mighty Morphin Power Rangers adaptation is currently in the
04:47pipeline, but it will have no connection to this 2017 film.
04:50The 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, fans didn't
05:02want to see it. Even though this was picked up on before filming began, the troubled reboot still
05:08tried to build and set up its own universe. There were two major teasers at the end of the movie,
05:14the first being Abe Sapien just before the credits started rolling. But as if that wasn't enough,
05:19there was then also a further tease for the future of the franchise in a mid-credits sting as well.
05:24As Hellboy starts mourning the death of Professor Broom, he was greeted by Lobster Johnson, a character
05:30that had been introduced in flashbacks earlier in the movie and who was supposedly dead. Johnson told
05:35Hellboy that he had won the battle, but the war was far from over, clearly teasing further battles to
05:41come. But with the Hellboy franchise set to go in a completely new direction, with a new iteration,
05:46unless we have some kind of Hellboy No Way Home situation going on, it's unlikely that we're ever
05:51going to see David Harbour in the role again, and unlikely that these particular storylines will be
05:56continued. Tony Stark and the Avengers. The Incredible Hulk. At the end of The Incredible Hulk,
06:01General Thunderbolt 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.
06:13What 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 sense.
06:22Stark coming to Ross is a pointless move as Ross doesn't have a clue where the Hulk was. Instead,
06:28this looks to set up the Hulk as the villain of The Avengers, and Stark is offering Ross an option
06:33to
06:33deal with the threat. This obviously went nowhere as the universe was changed after the film flopped more
06:38than the Hulk's big green penis when freed from those magical purple trousers, and while being
06:42a bit of a menace in The Avengers, was definitely on the side of the good guys.
06:47The Last Knight.
06:49Now even though we can all agree that the Transformers films aren't exactly great, it was pretty awesome
06:53for fans to see Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Soundwave in live action. But there is one guy that the
06:58rabid fanbase has been dying to bear witness to on the big screen, Unicron. However, we had to wait until
07:04the fifth movie, Transformers The Last Knight, before the world-consuming robot was finally mentioned.
07:09Here, the film's antagonist mentions how Unicron resides in the Earth's core, and she must drain
07:14the planet to destroy him. Even though she's defeated in the climax, she actually reappears in
07:18the stinger admiring Unicron's horns, which have penetrated the Earth's surface. Sadly,
07:24this was the first live-action Transformer film to bomb, causing the Unicron story arc to be
07:28firmly placed on the backburner. The birth of the albino, Hitman Agent 47.
07:33After an underwhelming film in 2007, Hitman was rebooted in 2015. Unfortunately, this was received
07:41even worse than the original picture. The 8% score on Rotten Tomatoes definitely speaks for itself.
07:47Throughout the movie, Zachary Quinto Smith acts as the antagonist, but is ultimately killed by Agent 47.
07:54Until 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 Hitman
08:08games. Ironically, 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 any
08:23chances he's Zachary Quinto in this new form on screen, was killed by Disney after the Fox acquisition.
08:29The Frost Monster
08:30Thor The Dark World
08:31With all the chaos surrounding the finale of Thor The Dark World, we suppose it was easy for a few
08:36things to get lost in the confusion. The convergence was in full swing and all the worlds were colliding,
08:41dark elms were appearing all over London, and gravity was just going crazy. Even after the dust had
08:47settled and the good guys had won, there was still a giant crashed spaceship in the middle of London,
08:52so it was nice to see, the week after the movie opened, that agents of S.H.I.E.L
08:55.D. showed a team
08:56clearing up the mess. Yet, it's utterly baffling that no one ever mentioned chasing down a huge
09:01frost monster that was last seen running around London in the end credits. It begs the question,
09:06did anyone actually catch that thing, or is it still running loose in a major city? Now, it's obviously
09:11meant to be a gag seeing as how it's framed, but seeing as they went to the lengths to show
09:14the craft
09:15clean-up, a little nod to this rogue would have been much appreciated. Although, if it was bouncing
09:20around Tottenham, I doubt anyone would have noticed. The 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 Kurt Connors, aka The Lizard, in a prison cell
09:37speaking to a man in the shadows. This man, Gustav, debuted in the 1999 novel The Gathering of the
09:44Sinister Six. The Amazing Spider-Man series was meant to culminate with the web-slinger facing
09:48off against this insidious sextet, which was founded by Gustav. But after The Amazing Spider-Man 2
09:53underperformed, this series was cancelled, and this saga was left unfinished.
09:58The 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 one of
10:07the most beloved villains of Marvel's first family and relegated him to being nothing more than
10:12a faceless cloud. However, believe it or not, there was more to the movie than the injustice
10:17done to Galactus. Now, we're not talking about the wedding of Reed and Sue here, but instead,
10:21the appearance of the Silver Surfer. Norrin Radd was actually a very enjoyable aspect of this sequel,
10:28serving as something of a conflicted villain with a strong redemption arc. By the end of the movie,
10:32in spite of being the one that heralded Galactus to Earth in the first place, the Silver Surfer heads
10:37out into space to fight the devourer of worlds. To save the world, he destroyed Galactus, but in doing
10:43so, made the ultimate sacrifice. Yet after just a few credits rolled across the screen,
10:48the image was shown of Norrin floating through space, opening his eyes just before he left the
10:52shot. The plan was to introduce a spin-off focused around the Silver Surfer, but like any other
10:58potential Fantastic Four sequels, it was killed by the poor box office return from Rise of the Silver
11:03Surfer, and of course, 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 of an
11:18alien reaching out of a rock might be one of the most overconfident and hilarious displays in recent
11:23memory. I would have believed the terror in the faces of the kids more if the alien was clutching the
11:27script for the sequel, that would have been truly awful. Thankfully, the franchise was sunk soon out of
11:33the gate. What a shame. Am I right?
11:36X-Men Apocalypse
11:37In X-Men Apocalypse, Professor X's students get kidnapped by the mutant experimental group
11:42Weapon X. After breaking out of their cell, they release one of their prisoners, unaware that it's
11:46actually Wolverine. After the credits, government agents storm the facility and have their underlings
11:51remove all evidence that anything happened there. Even though we see these men taking samples of
11:55Wolverine's blood, we don't know who they are at first. Only in the last second does the penny drop,
12:00at least for comic fans, because the final shot shows the label Essex Corp, instigating that
12:05they work for Nathaniel Essex, better known as Mr. Sinister. Because Sinister is a master geneticist
12:10obsessed with cloning the perfect life form, it makes sense that he would covet Wolverine's DNA.
12:15So when it was announced that the following X-Men film Logan would revolve around Wolverine teaming
12:19up with a girl cloned from his blood, fans assumed that Sinister would factor into the story somehow,
12:23but it never came to be. Despite the fact the insidious supervillain was rumoured to pop up in
12:28Deadpool 2, X- Dark Phoenix or the New Mutants, Sinister has yet to appear in live action.
12:34Jack'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 world.
12:43From Barbossa to Davy Jones and Captain Salazar, there were plenty of people who would have been happy to
12:49see Captain Jack dead. One who wanted to keep the pirate alive however, at least for the time being,
12:54was 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
13:05point
13:06as proof that Jack would survive the jump. However, the doll itself wasn't seen for the rest of the
13:11movie until it wound up on the same shore that Jack himself had marooned Angelica. The woman he
13:16betrayed and deserted looked up with a smile, clearly excited at the prospect of revenge.
13:22However, six years later when Jack Sparrow returned to screens in Salazar's Revenge,
13:27there was absolutely no mention of either Angelica or the doll. Some have theorised that
13:31Angelica's possession of Little Jack could explain the fact that he lost his luck in the fifth movie,
13:36but this isn't really how a voodoo doll works. Instead, the story thread was seemingly abandoned
13:41entirely. Bullseye is fine. Daredevil. I would hate to be Bullseye in the Daredevil film. Your one
13:48superpower, besides being able to choose scenery, is being able to aim really, really well. And then
13:54you spend all of your time missing your target. That's gotta sting. Well, that and being thrown
14:00through a window and breaking all of your bones when you land on a car. The post-credits sequence
14:03shows the aftermath, with him in a full body cast and only a couple of fingers free. There's a fly
14:08in the
14:08room annoying him so he moves to pick up a toothpick from the table next to him, the sound of
14:12the fly
14:12stops as he hits it, and we get a shot of his eyes looking supremely happy with himself.
14:17This teased that he would indeed be back, but with sales more red than Daredevil's suit,
14:21this post-credits sequence, much like Bullseye, missed the f***ing mark.
14:26Ghostbusters 2016 The 2016 version of Ghostbusters was met with an absurd
14:30amount of negative feedback, long before the movie was even released. People were gunning for this movie
14:35to fail so bad that it didn't have a chance, regardless of how the finished product turned
14:39out. Nevertheless, the director had so much belief in the reboot that he included a stinger that set
14:44up the next installment. In this scene, Patty is studying electronic voice phenomena by listening
14:49to old recordings. When Erin and Abby ask if she's found anything interesting, Patty says,
14:53I heard something really weird. What's Zool? Because Zool was Goza's minion in the original Ghostbusters,
14:59this scene implies the villains would return in the sequel. Even though the film received a
15:03positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, 2016's Ghostbuster was review-bombed by trolls and
15:07didn't do well at the box office. Because of the backlash, it was no surprise when the studio
15:11scrapped everything and instead made a follow-up to the original film. Although this sequel ended
15:16up incorporating Goza and Zool, it had no connection to the 2016 reboot.
15:21Bison Chooses World Domination Street Fighter
15:24The 1994 Street Fighter film holds just 11 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and is widely regarded as one of the
15:30worst video game adaptations in an industry filled with poor video game adaptations.
15:36When the credits began, audiences were led to believe that the villainous Bison had perished,
15:40only for the post-credits scene, something that was completely ahead of its time in the early 90s,
15:45to confirm that he was actually alive. The computer rebooted, Bison's hand burst through the floor in
15:50the most cliché way you can imagine, and he selected World Domination. Of course, neither Bison nor Street
15:56Fighter ever returned. There was no sequel to speak of, which is unsurprising taking into account
16:01the film's woeful reception, even in spite of rumblings of a return in 2003. Thankfully,
16:06Street Fighter has largely been kept to the world of video gaming ever since. I think they learned
16:10their lesson. The Pimp. Idiocracy. After defying the odds in fixing America's food shortages,
16:16dust bowls and economy within a week, Luke Wilson's Joe, despite the hiccup of being temporarily
16:20sentenced to death for causing mass unemployment, is elected vice president and eventually president.
16:26He marries former prostitute Rita, and they have the world's smartest three children, and the film
16:30ends. In a post-credits sequence, though, Rita's former pimp is shown getting out of the same sort
16:35of cryopod that brought Rita and Joe to the future. He puts on a hat and swaggers away, saying,
16:40I'm gonna find this hoe. It might have mostly been a gag, but this seems to suggest the possibility of
16:46a sequel in which the pimp comes after Rita. While there was talk of a spin-off back in 2012,
16:52things have been quiet since, and one can only imagine him wandering forever in search of his
16:56missing 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 fact,
17:08it 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,
17:17Will Turner freed himself from the Dutchman curse, and Jack Sparrow got a monkey, so
17:21everything turned out well. Since everything was tied up in a neat little bow, this would have been
17:24the perfect time to put the series to bed. But we weirdly got a tacked-on stinger that said,
17:29oh, screw that. In this scene, Will Turner is seen sleeping with his wife when he has a vision of
17:34Davy Jones insinuating that the captain would return in a future installment. But due to the
17:39underperformance of this film, the franchise's future is uncertain.
17:43More infection, Slither. The end of James Gunn's excellent and underappreciated horror
17:48Slither sees the few survivors led by Nathan Fillion's Sheriff Bill see off the monster by
17:52filling him with propane and exploding him, at which point all of the infected victims die.
17:57We've all been there, right lads? Everyone lives happily ever after, despite some injuries and the
18:01credits roll. But then this cat rocks up, has a lick at the dead monster because cats love a free
18:07and
18:07disgusting meal, and we hear the sound of it being assimilated. Cue an image of John Carpenter's The
18:13Thing and we all go home wishing for a sequel. Well, we would if anyone actually went to see the
18:17film as it performed so badly that Universal distanced themselves from the project and any
18:22future installments. Sat 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 somebody
19:05else turning them into the MCU's Venom. One thing that we do know is that this Venom will not be
19:11Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock, even though that is exactly what was heavily implied in Venom Let There Be
19:16Carnage. Billy Batson, no Superman, Shazam. When Shazam was released in 2019, it represented a shift
19:22in the tone of the DCEU from the dark and broody to something brighter and more fun. Earlier in the
19:28picture, Freddy claimed that he was friends with Shazam and that the hero would be coming to school to
19:33have lunch with him. His bullies made fun of his claim, asking if Superman would be coming too.
19:37In the post-credits scene, this joke is paid off as Billy, in his Shazam form, walks in and proclaims
19:43what a great friend Freddy is, then to be joined by the Man of Steel himself. Well, from the neck
19:48down
19:48at least, as his face is never actually shown. So Shazam knew Superman well enough that he would do
19:54him a favour such as this, and yet their friendship was never explored further? Huh?
19:57Number 1. Superman Returns Black Adam Now at the time, this was Hollywood's
20:02worst-kept secret, but the return of Superman signalled something big in the future of the
20:07DC Extended Universe. Though his chest had appeared in Shazam and his silhouette made an
20:11appearance in Peacemaker, this was Superman's first real DCEU appearance since Justice League.
20:17One of the biggest marketing tactics of Black Adam was promoting a power shift in the DCEU,
20:23and bringing the titular character face-to-face with Superman was paramount to that. Such two
20:28heavy hitters facing off could have been something special, but in reality it really didn't matter
20:33who was opposite Supes upon his return. This was about Henry Cavill. However, shortly after the
20:38movie released and the English actor could officially confirm his return to the role, James Gunn dashed
20:43everyone's hopes. Not only would Black Adam be shelved, no longer a part of the future of DC's plans,
20:48but Cavill would be replaced as the Man of Steel for Superman Legacy and in the DCU in general.
20:54Justice League, either version. Rarely has a post-credit promised so much and delivered nothing.
20:59Justice League's first cut concludes with Lex Luthor telling the mercenary Deathstroke that
21:03it's time to form a league of our own. This implies that Lex will, as he did in the comics,
21:08set up the Injustice League, or the Injustice Gang, or the Anti-Justice League. I mean,
21:12there is a lot of leagues. But it doesn't matter in the slightest, because the sequel was scrapped after
21:16the film suffered a calamitous production. But after the original director Zack Snyder released
21:21his cut in 2021, we got a batch of new stingers. The first post-credit scene shows Lex revealing
21:26Batman's identity to Deathstroke, setting up Ben Affleck's solo Batman movie. Bruce Wayne has a
21:32vision of Darkseid decimating the world and turning Superman into his own minion. After this vision ends,
21:37Martian Manhunter formally introduces himself to Bruce, saying he'll help the league in the future.
21:42Since Warner Bros. isn't interested in continuing with the Snyderverse,
21:45these story arcs are just stuck in limbo, much to the devastation of DC fans around the world.
21:50However, many people never thought that Zack Snyder's Justice League would ever get released,
21:54so it is possible that these post-credit scenes will get some payoff in the future.
21:58But I wouldn't hold out much hope of that.
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