First off, I'd like to say that whatever happens to the Ant-Man movie I hope its for the best and I was saddened at the news of hearing Wright and Marvel split so late. We were waiting for this for 8+years? And it was Wright who fought so hard to get Marvel to even do an Ant-Man movie in the first place, way before Iron Man 1 and the birth of the MCU.
But anyway, let's discuss the possible mid/post credits teaser that could be attached with Guardians of the Galaxy...
As many of you know Marvel movies all end with some kind of mid/post - credits scene ( I would've used "teaser" instead of "scene" but one post - credit scene is wasted...IMLOOKINGATYOUIRONMAN3) that shows something or someone that continues a plot point from one movie to the next.
So lets recap, In Phase 1 we had...
Iron Man : The Nick Fury SHIELD Revelation - The one that started it all
Incredible Hulk: Stark makes a proposition to General Ross - Assumed to be about the Hulk, but later retconned as about being the Abomination in a Marvel One Shot
Iron Man 2: Thor's Hammer Mjolnir -
It's Hammer TIME!
Thor : Selvig, Loki, Fury, Tessaract -
A lot going on here, with the Cosmic Cube reveal and that SHIELD is in possesion of it. Then we find out Selvig has some how been influenced by Loki himself.
Captain America : The First Avenger : The Wake up to present day and the Avenger's Trailer -
A doozy of a mid credit and post credit scene, one of the most memorable ones for me. "I had a date." line and the bonus Avengers Trailer.
Avengers: And at the end we got this big MOFO that was revealed...
And now we're in Phase 2.
But let me discuss something first. If you noticed in all the Phase 1 credit scenes, it was always something leading into the next film. And whatever/whoever it was it was pretty much directly involved in the film RIGHT AFTER the film it was attached to. [The Avenger's reveal of Thanos was more of a "This is what's behind everything thats happening in this Phase and it's an over arching Villian behind the scenes" sort of tease rather than a direct lead to the next film.]
What I noticed is that In Phase 2, the credit scene takes something from the film it's in and then shows you something in the film, skips the film right after it and connects it to the film two movies ahead of it.
Here I'll show you the difference in Phase 2 and you'll see the pattern I noticed.
(the thing connected or from the movie its attached to)
(the thing connected or from the movie its skip to)
[I'll skip over the Iron Man 3 end tease because that was a dissapointment.]
In Thor 2: The Darky Dark Darkiest World's mid credit stinger
We get Lady Sif and
Volstagg (the thing connected or from the movie its attached to)
Who are from the THOR universe.
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Benicio Del Toro as the Collector in... I guess the Collector's Collection room?
(the thing connected or from the movie its skip to)
But wait he's from the cosmic side, for Guardians of the Galaxy right ? and what's this? Infinity Stones? and he just needs
....dundundunnnn....
"4 more"? waitwaitwaitback the hell up. The next movie is Winter Soldier where's my Winter Soldier TEASE?!
Then months pass and boom one of the greatest Comic Book Movie's is released:
CAPTAIN AMERICA THE WINTER SOLDIER. 'murica F*** YEAH!
Which in the mid credits tease has
Baron Von Strucker
(the thing connected or from the movie its attached to)
A rogue from Captain America's Universe fiddling with Loki's Glow stick of destiny and awaken the abilities of these two freaks:
Quicksilver running around... quickly and Scarlet Witch...Changing the probabilty of those blocks..or witching, whatever. some shit like that.
(the thing connected or from the movie its skip to)
but they're not from Guardians of the Galaxy? Where's the direct Guardians tease? Its the next film?
Nope, we get a tease for The Avengers: Age of Ultron, is what we get. Which was awesome in its own right.
So pretty soon GOTG will come bouncing along and what is the midcredits tease gonna be there you ask?
Well Agents of SHIELD (the tv series that some love/hate) has revealed that Aliens have been coming and going as they please in the MCU. Some we know about and some no one knows about, (it was shown Lady Sif saying something along the lines of "don't worry no one has visited Earth in a long time, otherwise we would've known") But we know better. Coulson saw the blue alien which we suspect is Kree. Skye is from well, the SKY. And they showed her "father" who seemed to be bathing in blood at the end of Season 1. Or something. While also revealing that the Lady In the Flower Dress may also be of extraterrestrial origin with her knowledge of Skye's true parentage.
Then we got the news about the Agent Carter series which will show the MCU in a period we haven't seen yet. Possibly the 1950's/1960's - 1970's and the foundation of SHIELD.
Wright's idea for Ant-Man had a similar timeline in mind with a young Hank Pym in the 60's with an in-period pulpy spy film tone going for it, well for at least part of the film.
Guardians of the Galaxy deals with the present and basically a lot of cosmic level stuff. But the one thing that ties it back to the already established MCU is the Inifinity Stones(that orb thing is specualted to be a Time Stone), Thanos, and Peter Quill's Earth origin where he was captured by Yondu in the 80's.
So we got Aliens, 1960's-1970's, child of the 80's, Early SHIELD, Infinity Stones, and a young Ant-Man?
I think GOTG's Post credits is:
J'son of Spartax and father of Peter Quill
(the thing connected or from the movie its attached to)
in the late 60's/early 70's meeting up with...
Patrick Wilson as the Young Hank Pym of that era
(the thing connected or from the movie its skip to)
Maybe the script had to tie-in way too much of this cosmic stuff and things not having to do with Hank/Ant-Man's Origin Story or even the How to Steal an Ant-Man arc. This then pushed Edgar Wright to quit.
What do you think of the theory and what do you think happened behind Wright leaving? Sound off below