What might happen
Will there be a post-credits scene?
Will Avengers: Doomsday have a post-credits scene? Almost certainly - here's what a Doomsday stinger is likely to tease and how it sets up Secret Wars in 2027.
Almost guaranteed. Every Avengers film has one, and with Secret Wars one year away, expect at least one stinger that directly teases the finale.
You can basically bank on it. Marvel has never released an Avengers film without a post-credits scene - not one, across the entire history of the franchise - and with Secret Wars arriving in December 2027, Doomsday has an obvious job to do on its way out: point the audience straight at the finale. The only real questions are how many stingers there are, and what they show.
A ritual since 2008
The Marvel post-credits scene isn’t a bonus; it’s a covenant with the audience, and it goes back to the very beginning. Iron Man (2008) ended with Nick Fury stepping out of the shadows to mention “the Avengers Initiative” - a single scene that promised a shared universe before one really existed. Since then, the stingers have become some of the most talked-about thirty seconds in blockbuster cinema: the first glimpse of Thanos turning to smile at the camera in The Avengers; the whole exhausted team eating shawarma in silence; the Infinity War tag where Nick Fury pages Captain Marvel as he crumbles to dust. Marvel has trained two generations of moviegoers to sit through every last credit - and it has never once broken that promise on an Avengers film.
The stinger that’s already out there
Here’s the detail that makes Doomsday’s credits scenes a near-lock rather than just a safe bet: one of them appears to already exist. When Thunderbolts* hit cinemas in 2025, its post-credits scene teased the arrival of a mysterious ship and the team’s pivot toward a “New Avengers” future - and according to those involved, that scene was shot for Avengers: Doomsday, deployed early to plant the connective tissue. In other words, Marvel is treating this film’s stingers as load-bearing setup, important enough to start seeding a full year ahead of release. That is not the behaviour of a studio about to skip the tradition.
What a Doomsday stinger might tease
No reactions exist yet, so this is informed reading of the tea leaves - but the likeliest candidates are:
- A direct Secret Wars setup - a first look at Battleworld, an incursion in progress, or Doom making his next move.
- A new arrival - a character deliberately held back from Doomsday stepping forward for the finale, the way Infinity War used its tag to introduce Captain Marvel.
- A survivor beat - confirmation of who lived through the carnage, and the first hint of how the fight-back begins.
There’s a structural reason the stinger matters more here than usual. Doomsday is a part one, and part ones live or die on the promise of what comes next. Infinity War is the gold standard: it ended on devastation, and its lone mid-credits scene - that pager beeping in an empty street - was the flicker of hope that kept audiences buzzing for a full year until Endgame. Doomsday will need exactly that kind of exit: a single image that turns a downer ending into unbearable anticipation.
There’s a reason the stinger became such an institution. Over eighteen years, Marvel turned the end credits into an event - a shared ritual where an entire cinema stays glued to its seats, phones down, waiting for one more scrap of story. It has produced some of the franchise’s most iconic moments: Nick Fury’s cameo that launched everything, the Chitauri leader flinching as Thanos turns to smile, Thanos himself later snapping on the gauntlet. Those thirty-second scenes have introduced characters, pivoted entire phases, and sent audiences sprinting to the internet to argue about what they just saw. Skipping that on the second-biggest film of the entire Multiverse Saga would be almost unthinkable - it would break a promise Marvel has kept, without a single exception, since 2008. If anything, the real risk with Doomsday isn’t that there’s no stinger; it’s that there are several, and you’ll want to be in your seat for every one.
How many to expect
Recent Marvel tentpoles usually carry one mid-credits scene - the story-relevant one that advances the saga - and sometimes one post-credits tag, often lighter, a joke or a final tease to send the crowd out buzzing. For a film this pivotal, the mid-credits slot is the one to watch closely; that’s where the Secret Wars material almost certainly lives. Don’t be surprised if Marvel splurges on both for an occasion this size.
So, should you stay in your seat? Absolutely. Leaving early means missing the single most important thirty seconds of connective tissue Marvel will offer between now and Secret Wars. The moment credible reactions land, we’ll post a full, spoiler-tagged breakdown of exactly what the stingers show - see does Avengers: Doomsday have a post-credits scene.
Our call: likely - effectively certain. Expect at least one scene, built to hand the baton straight to the finale. Don’t be the person shuffling out as the lights come up; you’ll regret it.