This article includes spoilers for the film “Captain America: Brave New World.” If you haven’t seen it yet, read our review first. Does a film qualify as a Marvel Cinematic Universe installment if it doesn’t feature at least one post-credits scene?
“Captain America: Brave New World,” which opens this Friday and is directed by Julius Onah, marks the beginning of the franchise’s ongoing efforts to get back on track. “Brave New World” is the first of three MCU films scheduled to be released in theatres in 2025, following a year in which there was only one release from Marvel Studios: “Deadpool & Wolverine” in July.
The movie, which features Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson as the title character for the first time following the events of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” may be even more thrilling for die-hard fans because it also suggests that the Avengers will be reassembled.
The post-credits scene in “Captain America: Brave New World” plays it close to the vest, even though it creates some suspense for what’s to come.
In the only scene, which comes after the full credits have rolled, Wilson pays a visit to Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson) in the Raft, a maximum-security facility for superhuman inmates.
Sterns warns Wilson, “It’s coming,” after the new Captain America foils his attempt to exact revenge on President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford).
Sterns says from his cell, “You all heroes, you think you’re the only ones saving the world? Is this the only world, in your opinion? When you have to keep this spot safe from the others, we’ll see what happens.
While Sterns warns Wilson that the multiverse is on the horizon, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are aware that the multiverse has existed for a long time. From “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (2021) and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (2022) to “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (2023) and even “The Marvels” (2023), the multiverse has been a component of films since the Disney+ series “Loki” tore apart the boundaries between the worlds. “Deadpool & Wolverine” enjoyed it to the fullest.
The post-credits scene from “Brave New World” demonstrates that, despite the franchise’s departure from Kang the Conqueror, its primary antagonist, the multiverse’s collision path cannot be stopped.
There’s no denying that the MCU has been advancing steadily towards a new Avengers collaboration. “Avengers 5″—now known as “Avengers: Doomsday”—has long been a fixture on the horizon, despite numerous changes to the timing and the actors in front of and behind the camera. To find out exactly how Robert Downey Jr.’s character, Doctor Doom, will use the multiverse to further his goals, fans will have to wait until 2026.
The May release of “Thunderbolts*,” which at least seems to take place in a well-known area of the multiverse, is the next film on the Marvel cinema schedule. Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) are among the past villains who will be brought together in the movie to form a new group of antiheroes.
Marvel will then release “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” to begin Phase 6. The First Family seems to inhabit a retrofuturistic universe that is uniquely its own, based on the teaser images. On July 25, the movie opens in theatres.
