The following put up comprises SPOILERS for The Marvels. Do not watch till after you may have seen The Marvels. Maybe don’t learn it even after that. You can by no means be too cautious the place spoilers are involved.
The last trailer for The Marvels leaned closely into the chance of huge Marvel cameos displaying up out of nowhere on this film. Title playing cards warned potential clients that in the event that they didn’t see the movie, they’d miss out on a “moment” that “changes everything.” It additionally included a line from Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury saying “they’re here” with out revealing who they have been speculated to be.
The line got here after references to the multiverse and holes in actuality, suggesting some recognizable characters from different universes might present up for the first time in the primary Marvel Cinematic Universe. For Marvel nerds, the most evident factor the studio might be teasing there’s the debut of considered one of the two signature Marvel groups who had Fox movie franchises however have but to hitch the MCU correct: The Fantastic Four or the X-Men.
Well, that didn’t fairly occur. And I don’t assume any second in The Marvels “changes everything” in the MCU. Buuuuut the movie’s post-credits scene does function the shocking debut of a beloved Marvel character who beforehand appeared (in considerably completely different kind) in a Fox Marvel film.
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To set the stage: The dramatic climax of the movie sees the villainous Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) ripping a gap in the cloth of actuality which Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) should work collectively to repair. Captain and Ms. Marvel blast their energy into Monica, who then makes use of their mixed talents to stitch actuality again collectively. For no matter cause, Monica does this from the different facet of the gap — i.e. the facet that’s in one other actuality separate from the primary MCU. When she closes the gap, she stays trapped on the different facet. Her pals mourn Monica as if she is gone, maybe endlessly, however Marvel followers know that is “The Multiverse Saga” we’re watching, and meaning she is going to again.
Sure sufficient, Monica returns earlier than the closing credit even end rolling. After the primary closing titles seem, Monica reappears in a hospital mattress. Sitting at her bedside is her mom, Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch), who was Captain Marvel’s finest pal in Captain Marvel and made a short look in a flashback earlier in The Marvels. In the primary MCU, Maria died of most cancers; on this alternate actuality, she is one way or the other nonetheless alive — and she or he has tremendous powers and is known as “Binary,” considered one of the codenames that Carol Danvers has utilized in Marvel Comics via the years.
She’s not alone, both. Joining her on this high-tech hospital is Beast — the furry blue mutant and longtime member of the X-Men. Although the character is absolutely CGI, he’s voiced by Kelsey Grammer, who beforehand performed Beast (that point in prosthetic make-up) in X-Men: The Last Stand.
Beast deduces that Monica comes from “a reality parallel to our own” and says that “Charles asked for an update” about her well being — clearly referring to Charles Xavier, the head of the X-Men performed in the Fox X-Men franchise (and just lately in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) by Patrick Stewart.
Does this “change everything”? That feels beneficiant. But it does get the MCU one small step nearer to completely introducing the X-Men, by far the most necessary Marvel property that the firm’s personal studio has but to adapt to their large movie and TV universe. This Marvels post-credits scene continues to be an alternate actuality, which means this model of Beast would possibly by no means be seen once more, or would possibly solely be seen in one other transient cameo. But Marvel is constructing in the direction of an Avengers: Secret Wars film — and if the film is something like the comics, it would function many various Marvel characters from many various alternate realities.
So Monica, Maria, and Beast might seem in that movie in that context; as residents of this alternate universe the place the X-Men are going full power and Binary is a part of the group. (In the comics, there was a interval the place Binary spent lots of time hanging out with the X-Men.) The subsequent MCU film can be Deadpool 3 — and it’s very attainable that that movie takes place in the similar universe as this post-credits scene.
But that’s only one attainable possibility. Marvel might not even know the way this tag will repay at this level — it might simply be a option to give impatient followers a bit of trace of the X-Men with out having to fret an excessive amount of about the advantageous factors.
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