10 Movie Cliffhangers Nobody Cared About

Despite being the penultimate mainline X-Men movie, X-Men: Apocalypse was actually intended to set up a whole new era of X-Men films prior to Disney's acquisition of Fox.

The post-credits scene showed a fleet of men in black suits raiding William Stryker's (Josh Helman) Weapon X facility and retrieving samples, before a closing shot of a briefcase reads, "Essex Corp."

First and foremost, this meant absolutely nothing to non-comic book fans, who wouldn't in any way appreciate that this was teeing up Nathaniel Essex aka Mister Sinister to be the X-Men series' next big bad.

Secondly, given that this movie had literally just spent 144 minutes ruining one of the most iconic comic villains of all time, Apocalypse (a depressingly squandered Oscar Isaac), why the hell would anyone be excited that the same creatives were adapting Mister Sinister next?

The most damning proof that nobody cared, though? X-Men: Apocalypse under-performed at the box office, and follow-up Dark Phoenix - which ultimately didn't feature Mister Sinister anyway - was an outright flop, effectively sealing the franchise's fate.