Marvel-post credits scenes: Eternals named most surprising

This may come as a surprise to many - Eternals, after all, is the lowest-rated MCU movie of all time, currently sitting at a 6.3 out of 10 on IMDb and 47% on Rotten Tomatoes. But perhaps this result makes sense. Many avoided watching the movie due to the poor reception it received, and so it is likely that a higher number of Marvel fans opted instead to search for the post-credits scene online.

Those who did were rewarded with not one, but two scenes. The mid-credit easter egg features a surprise appearance from none other than popstar Harry Styles, debuting in his role as Eros. The final post-credits scene, for its part, teases the forthcoming introduction of Mahershala Ali’s Blade into the MCU.

The release of Spider-Man: No Way Home was one of the biggest cinematic events in recent memory, so it is no wonder that the movie’s post-credit scene is the second most searched-for in the MCU, with a global monthly total of over 112,000 searches. Much like Eternals, No Way Home features two scenes after the movie’s end. The first is a continuation of the surprise end credits scene in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, introducing the symbiote antihero, a property of Sony Pictures, into a shared universe with the MCU. The second post-credits scene is a trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which was released earlier this year.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings comes in third, with over 100,000 global monthly searches for its post-credits scene. Another 2021 release, Shang-Chi also features two such scenes. The first shows sorcerer Wong introducing our titular hero and Awkwafina’s Katy to The Avengers, whilst the second follows Shang-Chi’s sister Xialing as she takes charge of their father’s Ten Rings organisation, likely setting up a future sequel.

The MCU movie with the fewest post-credits scene searches is 2008’s The Incredible Hulk. Though not technically post-credits, the movie’s closing pre-credits scene is actually a historic one, teasing the introduction of The Avengers to the franchise. However, since Mark Ruffalo replaced Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, the movie (and scene) have largely been forgotten and brushed aside over time.

Methodology
To find what the most popular Marvel post-credits scene of all time is, Top10Casinos first compiled a seed list of every Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film ever released, along with year of release.

They then collected data on the global monthly search volumes for each movie’s post-credits scene, using Ahrefs Keyword Explorer.

Various applicable terms were used to substantiate results. These included: ‘[movie] post credits scene’, ‘[movie] post credit scene’, ‘[movie] post credits’, ‘[movie] end credits scene’, ‘[movie]’ end credit scene’, ‘[movie] end credits’, ‘[movie] hidden scene’, ‘[movie] secret scene’, and ‘[movie] stinger’. Alterations of each movie’s title were also used, e.g. Spider-Man: No Way Home - searches used were ‘spider-man no way home’, ‘spider man no way home’, ‘spiderman no way home’, and ‘no way home’.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was excluded due to being too recent (not yet released) to yield any search results.

A table was made to rank the movies by search volume for post-credits scenes.

All data was collected on 08-11-2022 and is accurate as of then.

The full dataset can be found HERE.

 

 

 

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