No Post-Credits Scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron

No second helping of shawarma for Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

No Post-Credits Scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron - Joss Whedon

Of all the MCU post-credit stingers, it's hard to top the non-epic epicness of the shawarma scene at the end of Marvel's The Avengers. Which is partly why director Joss Whedon and Marvel head Kevin Feige decided not to include a post-credit tag at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron.


In a recent interview with, Whedon explained that he and Feige tried to come up with something but ultimately went the other way. "It didn't seem to lend itself in the same way, and we wanted to be true to what felt right," he said. "The first rule of making a sequel is take the best moments and do something else. Don't do the Indiana Jones gun trick again differently. Just go somewhere else. Don't try to hit the same highs, because people will sense it."

To clarify, "There will be a tag," Feige said -- that is, a brief, epilogue-like scene that pops up shortly after the credits begin -- as is tradition with Marvel movies. "But there's not a post-post-credits scene."

"And that's not a fake-out," Whedon added. "We want people to know so they don't sit there for 10 minutes and then go, 'Son of a bitch! I'll kill them!'"

Additionally, Feige shot down the rumor that Captain Marvel would show up in Age of Ultron, although he did note that a secret female character would appear, one that fans might already be familiar with. "It's not a big deal. But it's a good character," he said.

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