Captain America: Brave New World Post-Credits Scene Explained – SlashFilm

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Though already a mainstay within the Marvel Cinematic Universe for over a decade, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) has lastly acquired his first huge-display solo outing as the brand new Captain America in “Brave New World” … however, in its remaining moments, the main target is put squarely on what could occur subsequent. Sure, the movie itself left lots to be desired, as you possibly can learn in my assessment for /Movie. The circumstances are considerably lower than perfect for a movie meant to arrange, properly, a courageous new world the place our hero positions himself because the chief of no matter type the Avengers takes within the years forward. Whereas the precise make-up of that workforce is but to be revealed, the blockbuster does not miss one final alternative to tease the risks they could face. MCU followers have been skilled by now to stay round for the put up-credit stingers to come back, and this specific one in “Brave New World” could require a bit of extra rationalization than others on this franchise.

To set the stage, “Brave New World” unspools as one huge conspiracy centered on varied conflicts: the tentative treaty crafted across the discovery of adamantium on the “Celestial mass” left within the Indian Ocean after “Eternals,” the private misgivings between Sam and Basic President Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford), and one hidden grudge that has been brewing within the shadows for properly over a decade and a half by now. The reveal that the mysterious “purchaser” backstage is none aside from Tim Blake Nelson’s Samuel Sterns/The Chief from “The Unimaginable Hulk” could not have come as an enormous shock (at the least, not for many who’ve been following the breadcrumbs all alongside), however what comes subsequent is definitely certain to lift eyebrows.

The put up-credit scene picks up mere moments after the tip of the movie. After his grand plan to unleash the Crimson Hulk as revenge towards Ross is thwarted by Cap, Sterns finally ends up a prisoner on the Raft. His superhuman capability to course of chances and anticipate the long run, nevertheless, hasn’t misplaced a single little bit of its efficiency. Whereas speaking to Sam, the villain drops an ominous foreshadowing about “the others” who will arrive presently and pose a good better menace. Let’s dig into what precisely this may imply.

“It is coming,” Samuel Sterns foreshadows within the put up-credit scene of “Brave New World.” “I’ve seen it within the chances, seen it plain as day. All you heroes defending this world, and also you assume you are the one ones? Do you assume that is the one world? We’ll see what occurs when you need to shield this place … from the others.” For almost all of the runtime, the movie hardly strays removed from its (comparatively) grounded tone. Sam and his sidekick/new Falcon Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez) solely ever commerce fists with varied henchmen, minor antagonists like Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito), and, in fact, the Crimson Hulk absolutely unleashed within the climax. In any other case, the concept of combating off alien invasions and different fantastical risks is chalked as much as the sorts of heroic feats that solely Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers may deal with.

So how does this abrupt and sudden trace concerning the multiverse slot in? It is a bit of exhausting to say, in all honesty. At no level does the script arrange and even vaguely suggest that any multiversal menace may be bearing down on our characters, till this second. This can be a far cry from the put up-credit scene in 2012’s “The Avengers,” as an illustration, which left loads of wiggle room to construct as much as that jaw-dropping reveal that none aside from the Mad Titan Thanos had been pulling the strings within the background. However because the multiverse has performed a bigger position in current Marvel motion pictures and reveals, it is simple to interpret this second as a warning of what is to come back: Robert Downey, Jr.’s Physician Doom.

In fact, Sterns’ maddeningly imprecise warning is not referring to only one particular person, however a plurality: “the others.” That may imply the menace needs to be far better than only one particular person, even Physician Doom. Nonetheless, there may be a simple rationalization for that, as properly. 

Maybe there is a less complicated rationalization for why the “Captain America: Brave New World” put up-credit stinger feels prefer it comes out of nowhere. Take into account the chance that this was initially meant to arrange one thing very in a different way within the MCU, solely to be repurposed as soon as plans modified. There is not any hiding the fact that this sequel went via greater than its justifiable share of behind-the-scenes reshoots, however what if sure readjustments have been mandatory via no fault of its personal? One controversy looming giant over the MCU for fairly a while was the allegations of harassment and abuse surrounding star Jonathan Majors, whose authorized conviction lastly pressured Kevin Feige’s hand to drop him altogether — and, with him, all the storyline of Kang the Conqueror and the Council of Kangs.

What if all of this occurred too late for “Brave New World” to totally account for? If followers parse Samuel Sterns’ remaining monologue as a dire warning of the Kang menace, which was established within the waning moments of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” then his reference to “the others” definitely makes much more sense. However, since determined instances name for determined measures, it is comparatively straightforward to think about that Feige and director Julius Onah determined that the scene as initially meant nonetheless basically works, this time as a broader name to arms towards the multiverse as an entire. That method, it may nonetheless tease a bunch of multiversal threats (together with Physician Doom) which will very properly be within the offing. Technically, that interpretation would make this the MCU’s first in-universe clue establishing the arrival of Marvel’s hottest villain forward of “Avengers: Doomsday.”

For now, all we have now are educated guesses and theories as to how this put up-credit scene will issue into the general MCU. Till then, “Captain America: Brave New World” is presently taking part in in theaters.