13 superhero movie post-credits scenes that never amounted to anything

While the post-credits scene phenomenon seems to be mainly associated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was used for earlier Marvel movies before the comic book giant began producing its own releases. One such example is the 2003 adaptation of "Daredevil," with Ben Affleck playing the titular character.

During an intense battle midway through the film, Daredevil fights and defeats his adversary Bullseye (Colin Farrell), throwing him from a belltower after the villain was shot in both his hands.

The post-credits scene reveals that Bullseye survived the fall and that he still had his accurate aim when throwing a syringe at a fly.

With a voiceover saying, "Evil always survives," the scene seemed to imply that Bullseye might return to fight Daredevil in a future sequel, but a subsequent movie never materialized.

The 2011 "Green Lantern" movie appeared to set up a sequel with Sinestro (Mark Strong) as a villain.

The film follows Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) on his journey to becoming the Green Lantern and even shows him training under Sinestro.

Halfway through the film, Sinestro asks the Guardians of the Universe to let him forge a yellow ring of fear to help stop the film's villain, Parallax. Hal disagrees and stops Parallax before Sinestro can carry out his plan.

The post-credits scene seems to suggest that Sinestro still built the ring, which may have corrupted him to evil. Unfortunately, due to negative reviews and underperformance at the box office, the film never received a sequel.

"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" was the last movie in the first "Fantastic Four" franchise at 20th Century Fox. However, the post-credits scene seemed to imply there would be more movies.

After the Silver Surfer sacrifices himself to save Earth from the cloud version of Galactus, the post-credits scene shows that he survived the encounter. Unfortunately, due to the movie's poor performance at the box office, a third movie was scrapped.

The less said about "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," the better. But the one good thing it did do was get rid of its weird adaptation of the merc-with-a-mouth, Deadpool — as long as one does not watch the post-credits scene.

In this version, played by Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool has been transformed into the ultimate warrior by giving him teleportation, adamantium spikes going up his arms, laser eyes, a healing ability, and the inability to speak by sewing his mouth. Eventually, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) fights him in the final battle and defeats him by cutting his head off.

Yet one of the post-credits scenes shows Deadpool's hand reaching his face. His eyes then open, showing that he's still alive despite being decapitated.

Fortunately, Fox decided to reboot Deadpool instead of trying to include this version in future adaptions. But this scene still leaves a comic-inaccurate Deadpool somewhere around the X-Men universe.

The first "The Amazing Spider-Man" film was the only one in the franchise to receive a post-credits scene.

In the scene, Lizard (Rhys Ifans), now in his human form, is visited by a man in the shadows (Michael Massee) and asked if Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) knows about what happened to his parents.

The same villain does appear in the second film but again only has a minor role, helping Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) create a team to fight Spider-Man.

Fans will probably never find out what this mysterious man's true intentions are since the franchise ended after the sequel and Spider-Man was rebooted again.

"Thor: The Dark World" appeared to set up the Collector (Benicio del Toro) as another character looking to bring together the six Infinity Stones for some nefarious purpose.

In the post-credits scene, Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander) and Volstagg (Ray Stevenson) give the Collector the Reality Stone for safekeeping. After they leave, he menacingly says, "One down, five to go."

However, we never see the Collector actually try to collect the other Infinity Stones. He is unable to obtain the Power Stone in "Guardians of the Galaxy" and Thanos (Josh Brolin) takes the only stone he did get, the Reality Stone, in "Avengers: Infinity War."

The scene was a weird way to introduce the character, and so far Marvel has not done much with him since.

Tom Holland's second outing as the web-slinger in "Spider-Man: Homecoming" featured not one but six Spider-Man villains: Vulture, Shocker, Prowler, the Tinkerer, Darter, and Scorpion.

However, most of the villains were not direct adversaries of Spider-Man in the film.

Halfway through the film Mac Gargan (Michael Mando), the real name for the villain Scorpion in the comics, tries to buy alien tech from Vulture (Michael Keaton). He is quickly thwarted by Spider-Man and arrested.

In the post-credits scene, Mac meets up with Vulture again and asks if he knows Spider-Man's real identity so that he can get revenge. Vulture denies that he does, but the scene does imply that we may see Mac return to fight Spider-Man as the villain Scorpion to complete his vendetta.

Five years later, the storyline feels like it has been left behind.

While "Doctor Strange" was the introduction for Benedict Cumberbatch's new hero, it also set up his foil with Chiwetel Ejiofor's Baron Mordo.

Mordo is already a sorcerer of the mystic arts when Strange begins to learn his talents but he believes in sticking to the rules, while Strange is all about taking shortcuts.

At the end of the movie, Mordo leaves the sorcerer's order but the post-credits scene sees the character take the abilities of another sorcerer before saying that Earth has "too many sorcerers."

This appeared to imply that Mordo would face Strange in the sequel to get rid of all the sorcerers, but instead "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" only features a Mordo of an alternate dimension.

Mordo could return in another sequel but, for now, the post-credits scene feels pointless.

"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" introduced Lex Luthor to the DC Extended Universe, played by Jesse Eisenberg.

The post-credits scene in the following movie, "Justice League," showed Luthor breaking out of prison and meeting up with another villain, Deathstroke (Joe Manganiello).

Lex tells Deathstroke Batman's real identity and the scene appears to tease the two villains working together to take down Batman and the resurrected Superman.

However, the film bombed at the box office and thus there was never a direct sequel made.

Instead, after fan demands, DC released Zack Snyder's version of the film, which did not follow up on the storyline.

The post-credits scene in 2016's "X-Men: Apocalypse" appeared to tease the arrival of the villain Mr. Sinister.

In the scene, we see a group of men go into William Stryker's Weapon X facility and open a freezer with a vial of blood marked "Weapon X."

This is put in a suitcase with the label "ESSEX CORP," the corporation owned by the supervillain Mr. Sinister in the comics.

Unfortunately, no plans came to fruition for the character before the end of Fox's X-Men universe, leaving the post-credits scene a reminder of what could have been.

Before Cavill's return in "Black Adam," a faceless Superman made an appearance at Billy Batson's school to surprise his friend and foster home brother, Freddy Freeman.

This seemed to imply that Superman might appear in future "Shazam" movies but there are no plans for him to appear in the sequel. Instead, it could just be a fun sign that Shazam is now regarded as a hero, making friends with the other heroes.

The 2019 reboot of "Hellboy," starring David Harbour as the hero, had two post-credits scenes teasing more trouble for the titular character.

In the first, Hellboy is drunk at his father's grave before the ghost of his ally, Lobster Johnson (Thomas Haden Church), appears to warn him that "evil is coming" and that the war is not over.

In the second, Baba Yaga (Troy James) tells a mystery character to kill Hellboy and deliver his eye, after the hero escaped her clutches earlier in the movie.

Unfortunately, the reboot bombed at the box office and there are no plans for a sequel.

At the end of the latest DC film, "Black Adam," the titular character (Dwayne Johnson) is warned by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to stay in his country, Kahndaq, or she will send in someone to stop him.

Black Adam, of course, doesn't listen and destroys the drone that Waller was communicating through.

As the dust starts to settle, Superman (Henry Cavill) appears and tells Black Adam that they need to talk.

This was meant to be Cavill's triumphant return to the DC franchise after multiple misfires for their connected universe. However, two months after the film premiered, new DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran nixed plans for Cavill to return.

Cavill announced on Instagram earlier this week that Gunn and Safran do not have plans for him to return as Superman for the moment as they work to create a game plan for DC's universe. This means it is unlikely that fans will see the man in blue and Black Adam duke it out in a live-action movie.