10 Post-Credits Movie Scenes That Changed Everything
These post-credits scenes are absolutely essential.
Post-credits scenes are incredibly commonplace nowadays, and while the Marvel Cinematic Universe certainly didn't invent the idea, it absolutely popularised the concept with mainstream audiences and filmmakers alike.
While it's fair to say that many post-credits scenes are just throwaway gags that have no bearing on the main story whatsoever, sometimes they're so damn fascinating and pivotal you might wonder why they weren't just included as part of the main movie.
And in the case of these 10 post-credits scenes, they were impactful enough to ensure you wouldn't quite think about things the same way ever again.
Whether you stayed put in your seat and saw these scenes on your first viewing or were shocked to hear about them years later, these scenes seriously reframed the film's narrative.
In the very least they made the ending hit totally differently, and they might have even caused you to reconsider the entirety of the story you were just told. Either way, it ensured that your next viewing of the movie was quite unlike any other.
The lesson here? It pays to stay to the end...
10. Sinners
Let's kick things off with what's quite arguably the very best film of the year so far - Ryan Coogler's incredible Sinners.
The end of the film, with Smoke (Michael B. Jordan) slaughtering the KKK before succumbing to his wounds, feels so complete that most likely didn't expect Coogler to include anything else.
But boy, how he did.
In the middle of the credits, Coogler includes a lengthy epilogue set in 1992 where an elderly Sammie (Buddy Guy) is confronted by the vampiric Stack (Michael B. Jordan) and Mary (Hailee Steinfeld), who are revealed to have unexpectedly survived.
They offer Sammie immortality but he refuses, instead performing a song for them before they leave.
It's a brilliant, affecting cherry on top of the main story which assures the audience that Sammie had a long and fruitful life, while confirming that Stack and Mary are still out there somewhere, living life as ageless but agonised beings.
It's so damn vital it's basically the real ending of the movie, no matter that many cinemagoers had already left by the time it showed up.