Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniais almost ready to open up Phase 5 of the MCU and take fans on a new dive into the dangers of the Quantum Realm. With the film being given the red carpet premiere treatment in Los Angeles on Monday, word has now been released about how many post-credit scenes the movie will have. Like many other MCU movies, it seems thatQuantumaniawill deliver two stingers at the end of the movie, one mid-credits and one post-credits for those willing to stick it out through several minutes of cast and crew names.
The first Marvel movie of 2023 is expected to be one of the biggest MCU releases of the last three years, which is quite curious considering the previous Ant-Man movies have been regarded as something of a breather among more dramatic installments of the franchise. This time around though,the stakes are higher, the multiverse is expanding, and Kang the Conqueror is ready to step up and make a claim on the Marvel universe. With the movie expectedto have an impact on many upcoming MCU filmsand shows, the question is which upcoming movies the post credits scenes will actually link to.
While Marvel have a tendency to include one mid-credit scene that teases something to come, and a final scene that usually either is a bit of a throw-away moment or ties up a loose story thread, the level of threat inQuantumaniamay not lend itself to a jokey second post-credits scene, but that is something many will only find out when they see the movie in theaters across its opening weekend.
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Will Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Change The MCU Forever?
For many people, the devastating ending of Avengers: Infinity War, a film that essentially saw the villain win and the heroes defeated, was only beaten by the arrival ofAvengers: Endgamea year later. Whilean Ant-Man moviedoesn’t seem like it can compete in the same arena,Quantumaniais being pitched as its ownEndgameand the conclusion of the film is likely to set the scene for what is to come on the journey toAvengers: Secret Warsin 2026.
While this kind of claim has been made before, withDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessfailing to quite meet the lofty expectations of fans who wanted to see more multiverse, more madness and just more of everything. One of the greatest challenges of Phase 4, which itself was more of a reflective phase than a progressive one, was matching the expectations set byAvengers: Endgamethat every movie was going to continue to be bigger and more sprawling than the last. This clearly is something that wasn’t sustainable, and Phase 4 managed to drag over-hyped fan theories down a few notches. Now Phase 5 has nowhere to hideand Marvel Studios has to start once again building up interest, hype and investmentof fans before attempting to makeAvengers: Secret Warschallenge the movies at the top of the highest grossing movies of all-time list.
