Pretty much since the iconic Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) cameo first screened at the end of 2008’s Iron Man, the forward-thinking post-credits scene has been a must for any superhero movie… Or heck, any blockbuster, really. Audiences have come to understand that if you leave the theater before the credits start, you’re missing out on “important” information that impacts The Future of Cinema. But with the dawn of James Gunn’s new DCU with Superman, that’s all changed – and frankly, for the better.
Spoilers past this point, but the Superman post-credits and mid-credits scenes don’t tease anything in particular; they’re just sweet and funny, respectively. The mid-credits scene is essentially the motion poster that was released months ago, with Superman (David Corenswet) and Krypto sitting on the moon together, looking at the Earth. The end credits scene has Superman and Mr. Terrific (Edi Gathegi) looking at a building in Metropolis that didn’t quite come back together the right way after they sealed a massive, extra-dimensional rift in the movie proper.
