History TheStinger / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/MasterZIpManLegacy'': This film contains the first ever credits scene in the ''Film/IpManFilmSeries''. Placed during the credits, it shows Cheung's son, Fung, returning to the same bully that gave him a black eye earlier. The result is a CurbStompBattle that leaves the bully with two black eyes, and Fung with two new friends (Who used to side with the bully) wanting to learn Wing Chun from him.

* Early ''Film/JamesBond'' movies conclude with "James Bond will return..." up until ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', when it suddenly became infrequent in the series. Later restored following [[ContinuityReboot the third instalment in the rebooted series]], however, with ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' confirming the next film, ''Film/{{Spectre}}''.

* ''Film/MasterZTheIpManLegacy'': This film contains the first ever credits scene in the ''Film/IpManFilmSeries''. Placed during the credits, it shows Cheung's son, Fung, returning to the same bully that gave him a black eye earlier. The result is a CurbStompBattle that leaves the bully with two black eyes, and Fung with two new friends (Who used to side with the bully) wanting to learn Wing Chun from him.

** ''Film/LChangeTheWorld'' contains a short scene, [[spoiler:[[Film/DeathNoteTheLastName set mere minutes before L's final meeting and death]]]]. He closes his case book and leaves his desk. The screen goes black, and these words appear:

** ''Film/LChangeTheWorld'' contains a short scene, [[spoiler:[[Film/DeathNoteTheLastName set mere minutes before L's final meeting and death]]]]. He closes his case book and leaves his desk. The screen goes black, and these words appear]]:

** ''Film/TheKingsMan'': A mid-credits scene shows that [[spoiler:Erik Jan Hanussen has secretly become the new Shepherd, now building a new Flock group. He already has [[UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin Lenin]] on his side, and welcomes someone credited as the "Moustached Man", who sports a familiar undercut as well...]].

* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' has [[spoiler:Eggsy going back to the bar to get his mother away from Dean, as well as to re-enact Harry's beatdown of Dean's crooks]].

* After the credits for ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' end, there's a scene with Constantine visiting Chas Kramer's grave. Chas appears in "[[HalfHumanHybrid halfbreed]]" form (half-angel [[WingedHumanoid with wings]]), then rockets up into the sky.

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* While post-credits scenes have become heavily associated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' (made by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox rather than Creator/MarvelStudios) that first made the stinger into a staple of superhero movies and especially those based on Marvel products:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Professor X transfers his mind into the man with the coma...
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' had, depending on your screening, either a now-amnesiac Logan in a bar, "drinking to remember" or the [[LosingYourHead living disembodied head]] of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, having gained his mouth back and his MediumAwareness as well. There was also General Stryker getting arrested, but everyone got that one.
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Two years later, Magneto is shown to have regained his mutant power and Xavier is revealed to be alive. They both meet with Logan at an airport and ask him to join them [[SequelHook fighting the new weapon that the humans have created to destroy the mutants.]]
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': En Sabah Nur uses his MindOverMatter powers to build a pyramid in Ancient Egypt while his Four Horsemen are seen in the background.
** ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'': The after-credits scene is where [[MediumAwareness Deadpool tells the people in the audience to go home, since the show's over]] (while dressed as [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] to make sure the ShoutOut is clear). However, he later relents, and uses the time left in the movie to mention that the sequel will bring [[spoiler:Cable]] into the mix.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': [[spoiler:It involves the abandoned Alkali Lake facility being raided by Essex Corp. If you don't understand the significance, the X-Men villain Mr. Sinister's name is Nathaniel Essex. The genetic info about Wolverine may be used to create X-23.]]
** ''{{Film/Logan}}'': [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The ''[[Film/DeadpoolNoGoodDeed No Good Deed]]'' teaser for ''Film/Deadpool2'' is shown before even the studio logo appears, almost as if it were one of the theatrical trailer previews. It doesn't appear [[NoExportForYou outside the U.S. and Canada, though]].
** ''Film/Deadpool2'': A mid-credits scene where [[spoiler:Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio manage to repair Cable's time travel device and give it to Deadpool. He uses it to undo Peter and Vanessa's deaths. Then he travels to the final battle of ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' and kills that version of Deadpool. Then he murders Creator/RyanReynolds before he can accept his role in ''Film/GreenLantern2011''.]]
** Averted with ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' and ''Film/TheNewMutants'', as both films were released after the Disney buyout.
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* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'':
** ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' has a stinger, [[spoiler: in which Amanda Waller is seen negotiating protection with Bruce Wayne in exchange for the files about metahumans she possesses. She implies that she knows Bruce is Batman, and Bruce tells her to shut down her Task Force X project in return, or else his [[Film/{{Justice League|2017}} friends]] will.]]
** ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' had a stinger added to later releases that was not present in the theatrical release. [[spoiler:Etta Candy recruits Diana's surviving WWI teammates Charlie, Sameer, and Chief to retrieve a device that will later be known as a Mother Box. They ask why they should follow her, and she kicks the ass of an angry bar patron who tried to attack Charlie. Impressed, they agree to follow her.]]
** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' has a mid-credits scene and a post-credits scene. The first one is a light-hearted moment involving [[spoiler: the Flash and a resurrected Superman having a friendly race.]] The second is a SequelHook: [[spoiler: Lex Luthor, having escaped prison, approaches Deathstroke with the idea of forming "a league of our own."]]
** ''Film/Aquaman2018'' has a mid-credits scene that shows [[spoiler:David Kane/Black Manta had survived his battle with Aquaman. Some fishermen find him floating on the sea barely conscious and rescue him. While he is recovering from his injuries, Dr. Stephen Shin, a man obsessed with proving Atlantis is real, approaches him and says he knows Kane's equipment is from Atlantis, and asks where it is. Kane says he'll tell him if he helps him find and kill Aquaman.]]
** ''Film/Shazam2019'' has a mid-credits scene that shows Dr. Sivana in jail and [[spoiler: the caterpillar- like creature Mr. Mind paying him a visit.]] It then has a post-credits scene where Shazam and Freddy are doing another super powers test and trying to see if Shazam can communicate with fish, like Aquaman, only for Shazam to think that it's stupid.
** ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': Parodied when after the credits, Harley's voice asks the audience what they are still doing there. She decides to tell them a secret about Batman, [[InterruptedByTheEnd only to be cut off mid-sentence]].
** ''Film/WonderWoman1984'': After the credits, [[spoiler:the legendary Amazon, Asteria, whom Diana thought was dead, appears and saves a girl from a falling pillar.]]
** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': A mid-credits scene [[spoiler:revises the meeting between Lex Luthor and Deathstroke. Instead of asking to form a league of their own, Luthor tells Deathstroke to eliminate Batman and reveals Batman is Bruce Wayne]]. The post-credits scene has [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne have a nightmare of a BadFuture where Darkseid rules the world and has control over Superman, with Lois Lane, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman dead. Batman has formed a resistance of himself, Cyborg, Flash, Mera, Deathstroke, and reluctantly, the Joker. Joker taunts Batman about all the friends he had lost, but Batman briefly renders him speechless by revealing that when Harley Quinn died, her LastRequest was for Batman to kill Joker. Just as Superman finds them, Bruce wakes up and is greeted by the Martian Manhunter, who thanks him for assembling the Justice League and saving the world, then tells him they will be in touch to prepare for Darkseid's invasion.]]

* Delightfully subverted in the SciFi Original ''Kaw'', where the reveal that the killer birds aren't dead comes immediately before the credits (they attack the hero as he walks into his bedroom).