Since the original Iron Man premiered in 2008, we knew it was part of a colossal plan to cross movies in the same shared universe.
It’s a film that presumed a post-credits scene (the arrival of Nick Fury with Tony Stark) that prepared us for what would come next, a formula that would replicate the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) tapes to prepare the ground for the films that followed.
Now that finally came Avengers: Endgame, the movie that ends with the MCU as we know it, Marvel decided to put in line all the postcredit scenes that lead to the Russo brothers’ tape (only those that have to do with the Avengers, Thanos and the Stones of Infinity).
Here they are in order:
“You’re part of a bigger universe, you just don’t know it yet” (Iron Man, 2008)