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FIVE OF THE BEST POST-CREDITS SCENES ...

- Gemma White

‘Venom’ meets ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

Spider-Man: No Way Home was a look to the past, to the legacy of Spidey, bringing together the three actors who had played the superhero – Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire.

In contrast, the film’s postcredit­s scene pointed to the future, as Venom’s Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is whisked away – collateral damage of Dr Strange’s spell – leaving a little of his black symbiote behind.

‘The Avengers’ shawarma scene

After Tony Stark is yelled back to life by Hulk, he suggests they head to a “shawarma joint about two blocks from here”. Cue the team sat around a table in the badly damaged Shawarma

Palace, while the owners sweep up, the superheroe­s eat their post-victory dinner in silent camaraderi­e.

Shaw joins ‘Fast & Furious 6’

Just when the audience thought the franchise couldn’t get any more testostero­ne-fuelled, the post-credits scene of the sixth movie in the instalment upped the ante.

Showing Han’s death in Tokyo, as the fan favourite lay dying, Jason Statham emerged as Decker Shaw, the brother of the film’s villainous Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), hellbent on revenge.

Kip and Lafawnduh’s wedding in ‘Napoleon Dynamite’

The scene for anyone who didn’t think the love shared by Kip and Lafawnduh, whom he met in an internet chat room, was real. Kip’s post-oath rap was a highlight, as was Napoleon’s arrival on horseback.

Tony’s not alone in ‘Iron Man’

“You think you’re the only superhero in the world?” Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury asks Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man as he returns to his hilltop mansion after revealing his identity.

With his next 10 words, Fury launches the highest-grossing franchise in cinema history: “I’m here to talk to you about the Avenger initiative.”

 ?? Marvel Studios ?? The shawarma scene at the end of ‘The Avengers’
Marvel Studios The shawarma scene at the end of ‘The Avengers’

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