History Main / TheStinger

*** Notably this stinger is implied to be a FramingDevice [[spoiler: as [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis Otacon says he wants to pass on Snake's story.]]]]

** ''Guns of the Patriots'' even has a second Stinger. It's the first in the MGS series to ''not'' reveal some sort of conspiracy. Instead [[spoiler:features Solid Snake explaining to Otacon that he's finally going to retire from the battlefield and live out the remaining months he has to live peacefully. He also quits smoking.]]

* In the WesternAnimation/{{He-Man|And theMastersOfTheUniverse}} live-action movie ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'', [[StayingAlive Skeletor's head is shown popping out of some strange pool of pink liquid and shouting "I'll be back!"]]. Given that there was no sequel and WordOfGod says that Skeletor fell to his death, it's not quite clear why they put that in.

** There are even people who refer to The Stinger as "The Skeletor" because of this.

* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'': All episodes save the first and last end with a single piece of dialogue by one character that slightly {{foreshadow|ing}}s a future event. The final episode ends with [[spoiler:a CrypticConversation between Celestia and someone heavily implied to be Mia Fey, indicating that she was the one who recommended Phoenix for Rainbow's defense.]]

A name for any [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-credits_scene post-credits scene.]] It was once used as a type of {{Easter Egg}} for people who stuck around for the credits when most people had left the theater/changed the channel.

* Several novels in ''TheCulture'' end with an epilogue which is generally humorous/uplifting even if the end of the novel proper was {{bittersweet|Ending}} and/or followed Banks' [[KillEmAll "trademark"]].
* One notable exception to this pattern is ''Look To Windward'', whose epilogue depicts [[spoiler:a shape-shifting Culture assassin taking horrific revenge on the Chelgrians who had orchestrated the foiled terrorist plot by torturing them to death in terrifyingly sadistic ways. For example, it turns into a swarm of bees to suffocate one of them. It also makes sure that the attacks are recorded, so that the rest of the Chelgrians get the message. Bearing in mind that the plotters are ''unarmed monks'', this is quite a departure in tone for a novel that is not generally either scary or action-packed, and which portrays the Culture almost exclusively favourably up to this point.]]
* Daniel Silva's GabrielAllon novels tend to have epilogue's in which Mossad tracks down and assassinates any villain who escaped by the end of the novel proper (e.g. in one case, a character who had planned explosions is himself mailed a bomb which [[KarmicDeath kills him]].

* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' had one, which was so obviously and shamelessly tacked on, and comes so completely [[{{asspull}} out of nowhere]] that it seems like an intentional parody of stingers. After returning from the battle with the BigBad, [[spoiler: Stocking [[FaceHeelTurn slices Panty into 666 pieces and declares that she's actually a demon]]. Then [[BigBad Corset]] reappears and tells Brief that he'll have to follow the pieces to the next city over and unlock another hellgate to save Panty. Also, Garter spontaneously dies for no reason, then comes back to life for no reason.]] Yes, [[GainaxEnding this is a Gainax anime]], [[MindScrew why do you ask?]]

* ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' has a scene with Bullseye after the credits.

* ''{{Pacific Rim}}'': [[spoiler: Hannibal Chau cuts his way out of the baby Kaiju]]
-->[[spoiler: ''Where's my Goddamn Shoe!'']]

** ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley stranded in space, wishing he could apologise for his stint as the BigBad of the game's second half.]]

* After the credits of ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'', you are treated to one of two different endings, depending on whether you rescued all of the saveable classmates or not.

** ''Film/TheAvengers'' has a mid-credits scene revealing [[spoiler:the ManBehindTheMan who gave Loki his scepter and the Chitauri army to command is Thanos.]] And after the full credits, The Avengers has a scene showing [[spoiler:the team tiredly and quietly eating lunch at a shawarma place Tony suggested.]]
** ''Film/IronMan3'' has some good comedic competition for ''The Avengers''; [[spoiler: the film began with Tony [[FramingDevice narrating]] the events [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis seemingly to the audience]], but the stinger reveals that he's pouring his heart out to [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] - ''who's fallen asleep.'' He wakes up to Tony's exasperation, but Banner just apologetically points out that he's NotThatKindOfDoctor]].

* In the 2004 ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}'' remake, a last segment is interspersed with the credits, showing (through video camera footage) the surviving main characters [[spoiler:traveling on the boat they escaped to at the end of the film. They find a zombified head gnashing away in a rowboat, struggle with the lack of food, potable water and gas, before finally reaching their island destination. Unfortunately, they take one step onto the shore and are promptly chased back towards their boat by a rampaging horde of the undead.]] This entire segment was belatedly filmed and added to the final print after preview audiences complained about the film's original abrupt ending.

* In the 2004 ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake, a last segment is interspersed with the credits, showing (through video camera footage) the surviving main characters [[spoiler:traveling on the boat they escaped to at the end of the film. They find a zombified head gnashing away in a rowboat, struggle with the lack of food, potable water and gas, before finally reaching their island destination. Unfortunately, they take one step onto the shore and are promptly chased back towards their boat by a rampaging horde of the undead.]] This entire segment was belatedly filmed and added to the final print after preview audiences complained about the film's original abrupt ending.

* ''{{Dreamfall}}'' features a cryptic flashback scene after the credits, where Mannie Chavez ([[spoiler:who is actually Cortez, the {{mentor|s}} from the original ''TheLongestJourney'' and a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon in human form]]]]) helps Brian Westhouse (who easily qualifies as the most ambiguous character of the game) reach a Tibetan monastery though a heavy blizzard. The situation is worsened by the fact that it was Westhouse's stay in the monastery that allowed him to travel to the parallel world, which kicked off the StartOfDarkness described in the game.

* In the 2004 ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake, a last segment is interspersed with the credits, showing (through video camera footage) the surviving main characters [[spoiler:traveling on the boat they escaped to at the end of the film. They find a zombified head gnashing away in a rowboat, struggle with the lack of food, potable water and gas, before finally reaching their island destination. Unfortunately, they take one step onto the shore and are promptly chased back towards their boat by a rampaging horde of the undead.]] This entire segment was belatedly filmed and added to the final print after preview audiences complained about the film's original abrupt ending.

* In the 2004 ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}'' remake, a last segment is interspersed with the credits, showing (through video camera footage) the surviving main characters [[spoiler:traveling on the boat they escaped to at the end of the film. They find a zombified head gnashing away in a rowboat, struggle with the lack of food, potable water and gas, before finally reaching their island destination. Unfortunately, they take one step onto the shore and are promptly chased back towards their boat by a rampaging horde of the undead.]] This entire segment was belatedly filmed and added to the final print after preview audiences complained about the film's original abrupt ending.

* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'': All episodes save the first end with a single piece of dialogue by one character that slightly {{foreshadow|ing}}s a future event.
** ''Part 2'': [[spoiler:''"M... Mia!?"'']]
** ''Part 3 - Phoenix'': [[spoiler:''"Rainbow Trash? Heh, good one. I prefer Lamebow Dash though."'']]
** ''Part 3 - Twilight'': [[spoiler:''"Rainbow Dash! I came as fast as I could!"'']]
** ''Part 4'': [[spoiler:'''Sonata''': Because unlike everyone else, I know...]][[note]]This is the only stinger with an associated video. All the others are on a black screen.[[/note]]
** ''Part 5'': [[spoiler:A conversation between Celestia and someone heavily implied to be Mia, indicating that she was the one who recommended Phoenix for Rainbow's defense.]]

* In the 2004 ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake, a last segment is interspersed with the credits, showing (through video camera footage) the surviving main characters [[spoiler:traveling on the boat they escaped to at the end of the film. They find a zombified head gnashing away in a rowboat, struggle with the lack of food, potable water and gas, before finally reaching their island destination. Unfortunately, they take one step onto the shore and are promptly chased back towards their boat by a rampaging horde of the undead.]] This entire segment was belatedly filmed and added to the final print after preview audiences complained about the film's original abrupt ending.

** [[spoiler: [[DeadSpace3 ...Ellie?]] ]]
* If one stays on the ''The End'' screen at the end of ''KidIcarusUprising'''s credits, [[spoiler:Hades]] will address the player.
* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'', if you kill 100 demons during the credits, a scene in which Virgil is in the demon world and ready to chalenge Mundus, the BigBad of the original game & the demon Sparda (Dante & Vergil's father) sealed in the Underworld.

* In ToTheMoon, It shows Dr. Watts next to Rivers and Johnny's graves by the lighthouse, obviously thinking about something before Tommy and Sarah arrive with Dr. Rosalene. The two children leave and soon Eva gets a phone call for another patient. The two Doctors start to leave, only for [[spoiler: the screen to flash red for a second, like when they were insides Jonny's memories and he was getting closer to death. Dr. Watts notices and takes out a bottle of painkillers, gulps it down and glances around as if to make sure that no one saw before leaving. This implies one (or even both!) of two things: One, he's addicted to the painkillers or two... he's dying.]] It also has a SequelHook in the form of the game's title with a checkmark next to it.

* A number of episodes of ''TheSimpsons'' end with the characters interacting with the shushing woman in the Gracie Films logo after the end-credits (often in reference to something which has occurred in the episode itself). In some instances, the characters respond directly to the woman (eg: "Bart Star", which has Homer yelling, "You're cut too, shushy!"), while in others the "shhh!" itself is substituted with dialogue from the episode (eg: "Homer the Great", where Carl's "Shut up!" is heard in its place). In addition, for the Treehouse of Terror episodes, the normal Gracie Films music is replaced by a spooky organ version.

** ''TheLooneyToonsShow'' did this as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' had the episodes of [[PostScriptSeason Season 4]] end with humorous stingers.

** This may be a ShoutOut to the taxi passenger in ''{{Airplane}}''

* Similarly, there's a clip at the very end of ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' showing the guy who got into Ted Striker's abandoned taxi at the start of the movie, saying, "I'll give him another twenty minutes!" And in the {{sequel}}!, the hijacker asks for his bomb back. ''Airplane 2: The Sequel'' also features an end-of-credits gag with WilliamShatner. The end of the credits proclaims "Coming next summer: Airplane 3!" ... and we cut to Shatner echoing Robert Stack's line from the first movie: "That's exactly what they're expecting us to do!"

* At the end of the credits to the film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', a facehugger can be heard scuttling around.

* Israeli teen vampire drama ''Split''’s first season’s last episode ends with [[spoiler:Dima and his clones dancing around, with Dima saying, ‘The blood age is over... Now it’s our turn! OUR TURN!’ and finally roars ominously at the camera]].

* In the 1998 version of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'', one egg was not destroyed. But it's the final scene, not after the credits. This provided the setup for ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', which was generally thought of much more highly than the film.
* ''Film/BatmanReturns'', Catwoman [[CatsHaveNineLives is alive somehow]]. Again, final scene.

-->-- [[http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/3/6/how-to-synergize.html This]], ''Webcomic/BasicInstructions'' strip.