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First of all, congratulations to all of us for surviving the harrowing three hour spectacle that is Avengers: Endgame. The movie not only wraps up the Infinity Saga but mostly ties up the storylines of the core group of six Avengers.
As with all Marvel films, there is a small stinger at the end of the final credits, and it’s not a visual scene, but a sound. If you listen closely, there’s the ping, ping, ping of iron being pounded out on an anvil.
So, what does that mean? According to Entertainment Weekly, It’s a call back to the first Iron Man film, where viewers first saw Tony Stark, trapped in a cave in Afghanistan, pounding out the metal for what would become his first Iron Man suit. The noise is a nod to the start of not just his storyline, but to the movie that birthed the entire MCU.
Marvel usually teases what’s next for them as a franchise in terms of films, but this time around, the stinger doesn’t look towards the future, only asks us to remember the past.
