All 93 MCU credits scenes in release order, from Iron Man to Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and what each one leads to.
Updated October 6, 2026
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Marvel Studios made the credits scene a habit. Starting with Nick Fury's surprise visit in Iron Man, these short clips have introduced new heroes, revealed villains years before they took center stage, and connected movies that otherwise had little to do with each other. Some are just jokes, but plenty of them matter to the story.
Each title below lists how many scenes it has and when they play. The scene descriptions are hidden so you can check whether to stay seated without spoiling anything. Open a title to read its scenes, or jump to how the scenes connect to follow a storyline across several movies.
2008 · Movie
1 post-credits
Tony Stark comes home to find Nick Fury waiting for him in the dark. Fury tells him he is not the only superhero in the world and says he is there to talk about the Avengers Initiative.
The scene that started it all. It was the first hint that these movies would share one universe.
Leads toThe Avengers
2008 · Movie
1 pre-credits
Tony Stark finds General Ross drinking alone in a bar after his failed hunt for Bruce Banner, and tells him a team is being put together.
The first time a character crossed over from one MCU movie into another.
Leads toThe Avengers
2010 · Movie
1 post-credits
Agent Coulson pulls up to a crater in the New Mexico desert and calls Fury to report that they found something. At the bottom of the crater lies Thor's hammer.
Leads toThor
2011 · Movie
1 post-credits
Fury takes Erik Selvig into a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, shows him a glowing blue cube called the Tesseract, and asks him to study it. Selvig agrees, without realizing Loki is speaking through him.
The Tesseract holds the Space Stone, making this the first Infinity Stone to appear on screen.
Leads toThe Avengers
2011 · Movie
1 post-credits
Steve Rogers, freshly thawed and taking his frustration out on a punching bag, is visited by Fury, who brings him a mission that could change the world.
In theaters, the scene was followed by the first teaser trailer for The Avengers.
Leads toThe Avengers
2012 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Loki's alien handler reports the failed invasion of Earth to his master and warns that challenging the humans means courting death. The master turns and grins. It is Thanos.
The first look at the villain the next six years of movies would build toward.
The worn-out Avengers sit in a wrecked shawarma restaurant, eating in total silence after the Battle of New York.
2013 · Movie
1 post-credits
The whole movie turns out to be Tony telling his story to Bruce Banner, who fell asleep partway through and admits he is not that kind of doctor.
2013 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Sif and Volstagg hand the Aether over to the Collector, reasoning that keeping two Infinity Stones on Asgard is too risky. Once they are gone, the Collector reveals he wants to own all six.
Introduced the Collector and named the Infinity Stones as a set for the first time.
Leads toGuardians of the Galaxy
Thor returns to Earth and reunites with Jane in London, while one of the frost monsters left behind by the battle roams loose in the city.
2014 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
In a Hydra lab, Baron Strucker studies Loki's scepter and shows off two prisoners who survived his experiments: the twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff.
Leads toAvengers: Age of Ultron
Bucky Barnes, in civilian clothes, walks through the Smithsonian's Captain America exhibit and stops at the memorial to his own life.
Leads toCaptain America: Civil War
2014 · Movie
1 pre-credits · 1 post-credits
Baby Groot dances in his pot to the Jackson 5, freezing every time Drax looks his way.
The Collector sits in the ruins of his museum. Cosmo the space dog licks his face, and Howard the Duck finds the whole thing disgusting.
2015 · Movie
1 mid-credits
Tired of his servants failing, Thanos slips on an empty Infinity Gauntlet and decides to go after the Stones himself.
Leads toAvengers: Infinity War
2015 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Hank Pym unveils an unfinished prototype of a new Wasp suit and offers it to Hope, who says it is about time.
Leads toAnt-Man and the Wasp
Steve and Sam stand over Bucky, who is pinned in a vice. Since they cannot call Tony, Sam mentions that he knows a guy who can help.
This is actually footage from Captain America: Civil War, where Sam's guy turns out to be Ant-Man.
Leads toCaptain America: Civil War
2016 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
In Wakanda, Bucky chooses to go back into cryo-sleep until his Hydra programming can be fixed, and Steve thanks T'Challa for giving them a place to hide.
Leads toBlack Panther
Peter Parker nurses a black eye in his bedroom. Once Aunt May leaves, he tests a new feature on his web-shooters and it projects the Spider-Signal onto the ceiling.
Leads toSpider-Man: Homecoming
2016 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Strange asks Thor why he brought Loki to Earth. When he hears the brothers are looking for their father, he offers to help find him so they will leave sooner.
The scene plays out in full early in Thor: Ragnarok.
Leads toThor: Ragnarok
Mordo, now disillusioned with the Sorcerers Supreme, strips Jonathan Pangborn of his magic and declares that the world has too many sorcerers.
2017 · Movie
4 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Kraglin practices with Yondu's whistle-controlled arrow and accidentally stabs Drax.
Moved by Yondu's funeral, Stakar Ogord gathers his old Ravager crew and suggests they get the team back together.
Ayesha, the golden Sovereign leader, reveals her answer to the Guardians: a new, perfect being she names Adam.
Leads toGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Peter Quill complains about the vines all over the room, and a moody teenage Groot ignores him and keeps playing his video game.
The Watchers walk away from their chatty informant while he is mid-story.
2017 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
In prison, Mac Gargan tells Adrian Toomes his friends on the outside want Spider-Man dead and asks if Toomes knows who he is. Toomes keeps Peter's secret.
Nine years later, Gargan finally returns as the Scorpion in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Leads toSpider-Man: Brand New Day
Captain America delivers a school video about patience and admits you waited through the credits for nothing.
2017 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Aboard the refugee ship, Loki asks whether heading to Earth is a good idea, just as an enormous ship appears in front of them.
The ship is Thanos's Sanctuary II, and Avengers: Infinity War opens right after this moment.
Leads toAvengers: Infinity War
The Grandmaster crawls out of his wrecked ship and tries to calm Sakaar's rebels by calling the revolution a tie.
2018 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
T'Challa addresses the United Nations in Vienna and announces that Wakanda will share its knowledge and resources with the world.
Bucky wakes up in Wakanda, now called the White Wolf by local children, and Shuri tells him he has much to learn.
Leads toAvengers: Infinity War
2018 · Movie
1 post-credits
As people across Atlanta crumble to dust, Fury pulls a modified pager from his car and sends a distress signal before he fades away too. The screen shows a red and blue starburst.
The only credits scene in Infinity War, and the reason Captain Marvel came out between it and Endgame.
Leads toCaptain Marvel
2018 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Scott Lang goes into the Quantum Realm to collect particles, and Hank, Hope, and Janet turn to dust while he is inside, leaving him stranded.
Leads toAvengers: Endgame
In Scott's empty house, a giant ant keeps drumming away while an emergency broadcast plays in the background.
2019 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
The surviving Avengers are studying Fury's pager when it stops transmitting. Then Carol Danvers appears behind them and asks where Fury is.
Originally filmed for Avengers: Endgame.
Leads toAvengers: Endgame
Goose the Flerken hops onto Fury's desk and coughs up the Tesseract.
2019 · Movie
1 extended ending · 1 mid-credits · 2 post-credits
The original 2019 release had no credits scene, only the faint sound of Tony Stark hammering his first suit from Iron Man. The Avengers: Endgame Encore re-release in September 2026 added an extended ending and three credits scenes that lead directly into Avengers: Doomsday.
Steve and Peggy's dance is interrupted by a knock at the door. The visitor is Loki, who says he can help them both.
Leads toAvengers: Doomsday
Follows on fromLoki Season 2
After the events of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Bruce Banner is locked in an underground cell recording notes on his research when Doctor Doom appears and takes the Hulk.
Leads toAvengers: Doomsday
Follows on fromSpider-Man: Brand New Day
At the TVA, Ouroboros watches two Earths collide in an incursion, then sees alerts for thousands more. The multiverse is collapsing.
Leads toAvengers: Doomsday
Follows on fromLoki Season 2
Doctor Doom forges his iron mask.
Leads toAvengers: Doomsday
2019 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
J. Jonah Jameson airs doctored footage from Mysterio that frames Spider-Man for murder and then reveals to the world that he is Peter Parker.
No Way Home picks up seconds after this cliffhanger.
Leads toSpider-Man: No Way Home
The Fury and Maria Hill from the movie are revealed to be the Skrulls Talos and Soren in disguise. The real Fury is relaxing on a Skrull ship in space.
Leads toSecret Invasion
2021 · Movie
1 post-credits
At Natasha's grave, Yelena meets Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who hands her a new target: Clint Barton, the man she blames for Natasha's death.
Leads toHawkeye,Thunderbolts*
2021 · Series
3 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Monica sneaks into Agatha's house and finds the basement, but "Pietro" catches her.
Director Hayward reveals that S.W.O.R.D. used Wanda's energy to power up Vision's original body, which wakes up completely white.
Leads toVisionQuest
A Skrull disguised as an FBI agent brings Monica a message from a friend of her mother's: she is needed in space.
Leads toSecret Invasion,The Marvels
Wanda lives alone in a remote cabin while her astral form studies the Darkhold, until she hears her sons calling for help.
2021 · Series
2 mid-credits
Loki wakes up in a ruined wasteland after being pruned and finds four other Loki variants looking at him.
A TVA file on Loki gets a stamp: Loki will return in season 2.
Leads toLoki Season 2
2021 · Series
2 mid-credits
John Walker welds together his own version of Captain America's shield.
Leads toThunderbolts*
Sharon Carter gets a full pardon and her government job back, then calls a contact to say they now have access to government secrets and weapons.
2021 · Series
2 mid-credits
Back in her own universe, Captain Carter teams up with a Natasha variant, who shows her a Hydra armor suit with someone familiar trapped inside.
Topaz finds what is left of the Grandmaster after his race against Iron Man and Valkyrie.
2021 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
At Kamar-Taj, Wong introduces Shang-Chi and Katy to Bruce Banner and Carol Danvers, who appear by hologram. The ten rings are sending out a signal no one can trace. Afterwards, Wong takes them out for karaoke.
Xialing takes her father's place as head of the Ten Rings organization.
2021 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Thena, Makkari, and Druig are joined on their ship by Eros, Thanos's brother, and his companion Pip the Troll, who say they know where to find the missing Eternals.
Dane Whitman opens an old chest holding a cursed black sword. Before he touches it, an unseen voice asks if he is sure he is ready.
The voice was meant to set up a Blade movie that has not been released.
2021 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Eddie Brock gets a crash course on the Avengers and the Snap from a bartender, then disappears back to his own universe. He leaves a small piece of the symbiote behind on the bar.
The original theatrical release ended with a teaser trailer for the next Doctor Strange movie.
2021 · Series
1 post-credits
The full "Save the City" number from Rogers: The Musical, the Broadway show that opens the series.
2022 · Series
1 mid-credits
Arthur Harrow is taken from a psychiatric hospital and shot by Jake Lockley, a third personality who still serves Khonshu.
2022 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
A sorceress named Clea stops Strange in the street, tells him he caused an incursion, and pulls him into the Dark Dimension to help fix it.
Pizza Poppa stops punching himself as soon as Strange's spell wears off and celebrates that it is finally over.
2022 · Series
2 mid-credits
Damage Control agents watch footage of Kamala using her powers at AvengerCon and decide to bring her in.
Kamala's bangle glows and she vanishes from her bedroom. Carol Danvers appears in her place, very confused.
Leads toThe Marvels
2022 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Zeus, very much alive and bandaged up, sends his son Hercules to bring Thor down.
Jane Foster arrives in Valhalla and is welcomed by Heimdall, who thanks her for protecting his son.
2022 · Series
2 post-credits
Groot's art supplies and finished drawing float off into space.
Groot takes a sip of a drink, hates it, and swats it away straight into Rocket.
2022 · Series
5 mid-credits
Jen keeps teasing Bruce about Steve Rogers' love life, until Bruce lets slip a detail from Steve's USO tour.
She-Hulk does chores around her parents' house, lifting a car and mounting a TV.
Jen signs Megan Thee Stallion as a client, and the two of them dance in her office.
Wong and his new roommate Madisynn hang out at Kamar-Taj, watching TV and arguing about drinks.
Wong opens a portal into Emil Blonsky's prison cell, breaks him out, and takes him back to Kamar-Taj.
2022 · Movie
1 mid-credits
On a beach in Haiti, Nakia introduces Shuri to T'Challa's son, Toussaint, who reveals that his Wakandan name is T'Challa.
2022 · Movie
1 post-credits
Rocket and Cosmo decorate Groot like a Christmas tree, and Groot drops his arms, sending every ornament to the floor.
2023 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
A council of Kang variants gathers, worried that the Avengers have started meddling with the multiverse after one of them was defeated.
Marvel later dropped Kang and made Doctor Doom the main villain of the Multiverse Saga.
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Loki and Mobius watch Victor Timely give a talk about controlling time. Loki recognizes him as a variant of He Who Remains.
This is footage from Loki season 2.
Leads toLoki Season 2
2023 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
The new Guardians, led by Rocket, protect a village from a horde of aliens while debating their favorite songs. Rocket picks Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love".
Peter Quill eats breakfast with his grandfather back on Earth, ending with a promise that the Legendary Star-Lord will return.
2023 · Movie
1 mid-credits
Monica Rambeau wakes up in another universe, where a variant of her mother is by her bedside. Beast walks in and goes to tell Charles that she is awake.
The first X-Men character in an MCU movie. Kelsey Grammer's Beast returns in Avengers: Doomsday.
Leads toAvengers: Doomsday
2021 · Series
1 mid-credits
Sylvie escapes to 1982 Oklahoma and walks into a fast food restaurant, where she cheerfully orders everything on the menu.
2024 · Series
1 mid-credits
Wilson Fisk listens to a news report about the New York mayoral race and starts to take an interest.
Leads toDaredevil: Born Again
2024 · Movie
1 post-credits
The credits open with a montage tribute to the Marvel movies made at 20th Century Fox.
Deadpool plays TVA security footage of Johnny Storm crudely telling Cassandra Nova exactly what he thinks of her, to prove a point to Wolverine.
2025 · Movie
1 post-credits
Sam visits Samuel Sterns in prison. Sterns says he has seen countless possible futures and warns that other worlds are coming, and asks how Sam will protect Earth from them.
Leads toAvengers: Doomsday
2025 · Series
1 post-credits
Frank Castle tricks a guard and starts breaking out of his cell.
Leads toDaredevil: Born Again Season 2,The Punisher: One Last Kill
2025 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
In a grocery store, Alexei tries to get a stranger excited about a cereal box with the New Avengers on it. She does not recognize him and quickly leaves.
Fourteen months later, the New Avengers argue over Sam's trademark lawsuit when they pick up a ship from another dimension entering Earth's orbit. It has a giant 4 on the side.
Filmed during production of Avengers: Doomsday.
2025 · Series
1 post-credits
Parker Robbins visits Zelma Stanton at her shop and asks for her help, saying he needs a sorcerer.
2025 · Movie
1 mid-credits · 1 post-credits
Sue reads to four-year-old Franklin in the Baxter Building. When she steps away and comes back, a cloaked man holding a metal mask is sitting with her son.
Doctor Doom's first appearance in the MCU.
Leads toAvengers: Doomsday
H.E.R.B.I.E. watches the opening of an old Fantastic Four cartoon on TV, then switches it off.
2026 · Movie
1 post-credits
A Spider-Man tracking app logs a new sighting. Instead of New York, the map glitches and zooms out until it places Spider-Man somewhere in outer space.
Leads toAvengers: Doomsday
Many credits scenes only make sense together. These storylines run through several titles, mostly in the credits. Spoilers ahead.
Phase One used its credits scenes to tie five separate movies together, with Nick Fury quietly recruiting heroes until The Avengers brought them all into one movie.
Fury mentions the Avengers Initiative for the first time.
Tony tells General Ross a team is coming together.
S.H.I.E.L.D. finds Thor's hammer in New Mexico.
Selvig starts studying the Tesseract for Fury, with Loki inside his head.
Fury gives Steve Rogers his first mission in the present day.
The team assembles to stop Loki, who has stolen the Tesseract.
Thanos spent six years mostly in credits scenes, building up to his arrival in Avengers: Infinity War.
Thanos smiles at the idea of fighting the Avengers.
The Aether goes to the Collector, who wants every Infinity Stone.
Thanos puts on the Gauntlet and decides to collect the Stones himself.
His warship blocks the path of the Asgardian refugees.
Thanos finally takes center stage.
Two credits scenes show the Snap hitting outside the main story, and both lead directly into Avengers: Endgame.
Fury sends a signal on his pager as he turns to dust.
Scott is stranded in the Quantum Realm when the Snap hits.
Carol Danvers answers the pager and joins the remaining Avengers.
Scott's escape from the Quantum Realm gives the Avengers the idea for the time heist.
Bucky's recovery from the Winter Soldier is told almost entirely in the credits of other heroes' movies.
Bucky visits his own memorial at the Smithsonian.
Steve and Sam have Bucky restrained and need outside help.
Bucky goes back into cryo-sleep in Wakanda.
Shuri wakes him up and the kids call him the White Wolf.
Bucky fights alongside Wakanda's army.
Peter Parker's credits scenes keep coming back to who knows his identity, from the first Spider-Signal to the whole world forgetting him.
Peter tests the Spider-Signal on his ceiling.
Toomes keeps Peter's identity secret from Mac Gargan.
Mysterio's footage reveals Peter's identity to the world.
A spell makes the whole world forget Peter Parker.
Peter starts over alone, and the credits find a Spider-Man in outer space.
The street-level corner of the MCU uses TV credits scenes to hand the story from one show to the next.
Fisk hears about the mayoral race.
Mayor Fisk takes over New York, and Frank Castle breaks out of his cell.
Matt and his allies fight back against Fisk.
Frank Castle gets a story of his own.
Almost every Marvel release since 2025 has ended with a hint about the next Avengers movie, and together they point to Doctor Doom and a collapsing multiverse.
Monica Rambeau ends up in the X-Men's universe.
Samuel Sterns warns Sam that other worlds are coming.
The New Avengers spot the Fantastic Four's ship arriving from another dimension.
Doctor Doom pays a visit to Franklin Richards.
Spider-Man is tracked to somewhere in outer space.
In the Encore re-release, Doom takes the Hulk, the TVA watches Earths collide, and Loki visits Steve and Peggy.
The Avengers face Doctor Doom.
WandaVision's credits scenes sent its two leads in different directions, and both stories continue in later titles.
S.W.O.R.D. brings Vision's body back as the White Vision, and Wanda starts studying the Darkhold.
Wanda's search for her sons through the multiverse.
The White Vision returns in his own series.
You can skip the credits on these. Marvel has used credits scenes less often lately, especially on Disney+.
No credits scene. The special ends when the story does.
None of the six episodes has a credits scene.
No credits scenes, even after the two-part finale.
The animated series has no credits scenes.
None of the four episodes has a credits scene.
No credits scenes. The finale wraps up Simon's story on its own.
The finale has no credits scene, likely because The Punisher: One Last Kill followed a week later.
No credits scene, but the song over the end credits is worth staying for.