Regarding Age of Ultron's post-credit scene
The movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have established the common procedure to place little scenes after and during the credits sequence, in order to hint at future movies or to give hardcore fans recognizable things to adore. With The Avengers, their first big intra-universe crossover movie, this concept was then further played with by placing a (more or less) relevant mid-credit scene into the credits and a rather irrelevant (or humouristic) scene at the end of the credits, an approach employed by the following MCU movies from then on.
However, Avengers: Age of Ultron, was notably missing a 2nd post-credit scene, it only had the normal mid-credit scene showing an Infinity Gauntlet-acquiring Thanos (as far as my limited understanding of those matters allows me deduce). Now while I couldn't care less about those scenes personally, the absence of such a scene was rather notable, seeing that this is yet again an instance of their flagship sub-franchise which one would have assumed to drive the whole post-credit scene mess even further ad absurdum. But rather than that they went a step back.
So I would like to know if there is any official word or strong evidence why this decision was made to limit it to "only" one classic mid-credit scene. Has there been a strong aversion to the trend of multiple post-credit scenes in the public to which they reacted? Did they just want to take a step back to a more humble approach and the multiple post-credit scenes were just an experiment? Or was this maybe even to deliberately mess with an audience that has been trained to look out for those scenes as part of the movie experience?
Best Answer
Director Joss Whedon has said that they tried to come up with something to top the Avengers post-credit shawarma scene, but they just couldn't come up with anything that they thought was better.
We all came at it separately—we don’t want to chase that. That was a jewel and a weird little quirk.
It didn’t seem to lend itself in the same way, and we wanted to be true to what felt right. 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.
Reference: Avengers: Age of Ultron won't have a post-credit scene, Joss Whedon says
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Does Age of Ultron have post credit scenes?
Avengers: Age of Ultron only had one credits scene, which showed Thanos putting on the Infinity Gauntlet and saying, "Fine, I'll do it myself," thus teasing his eventual arrival on Earth.Does Age of Ultron have 2 end credit scenes?
Another double end-scene, nice. The first foreshadows Avengers: Age of Ultron. We see Wolfgang Von Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann) studying Loki's scepter/mind stone. He turns to two survivors of tests involving the scepter - Quiksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen).Does Marvel What if have post credit scenes?
Yes, it does!Why does Marvel put post credit scenes?
\u201cIt's a way to keep the fun of the movie alive a little longer. Like, there is absolutely no reason for any human being to care about Starfox, but put him in a post-credits scene played by Harry Styles and suddenly people are looking up obscure mid-'80s Avengers comics,\u201d White says.Avengers Age of Ultron: Meaning Explained (Mind Stone)
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