Over more than a dozen years, Marvel has proven that the story doesn’t end when the credits roll — there’s always a post-credits scene teasing something new. But with Thunderbolts*, Marvel proved that credits aren’t something you sit through to get to the teaser; they can be an extension of the story itself.
End titles, the illustrated sequences showing the stars before the main end credits, are usually full of striking images and symbolism, but Thunderbolts* took them one step farther. Hot on the heels of the reveal that the asterisk after “Thunderbolts” was because the team was truly called the New Avengers, the end titles expand on how America reacted to this unlikely super squad through fictional headlines and magazine covers in the months after.
