Although Marvel movies are often credited with having popularized post-credits scenes, they have a long history in the world of movies. They originate all the way back in the 1960s, making sparse appearances until they became more popularized in the 80s and commonplace today. As a result, there are plenty of great movies with post-credits scenes that predate the MCU.

8 Airplane!

Leslie Nielsen is widely known for his work in deadpan comedies such as The Naked Gun and the short-lived TV series Police Squad. However, his first transition into the genre came with the 1980 movie Airplane! In the movie, Nielsen plays Dr. Rumack, whose flight from LA to Chicago goes haywire when the pilots and passengers fall sick due to food poisoning.

The movie also included a post-credits scene, which calls back to an earlier part of the movie in which Robert Hays’ ex-pilot, Striker, abandons his taxi to spontaneously board a flight. In the post-credits scene, Striker’s taxi passenger remains waiting in the vehicle, proclaiming that he will only wait for Striker to come back for another twenty minutes.

7 The Great Muppet Caper

Jim Henson’s work with the Muppets dates back to the 50s, but his directorial debut didn’t come until 1981 with The Great Muppet Caper. The movie finds the central cast of The Muppets involved in a jewel heist, featuring human co-stars like Diana Rigg, John Cleese, and Peter Hughes. Like any typical Muppet movie, there’s romance, suspense, and comedy.

Like The Muppet Movie, the first Muppet movie which was released in 1979, this movie also features a post-credits scene. The Muppet Gonzo appears with a camera and “takes a picture” of the audience, before promising to send everyone a copy as the screen goes black. If only real-life audiences actually received the photograph that Gonzo took of them.

6 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of the most famous movies by writer-director John Hughes, the mind behind Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. It stars Matthew Broderick as the titular truant teen, who breaks the fourth wall repeatedly throughout the movie as he skips school and ropes in his best friend Cameron and his girlfriend Sloane.

One of Ferris’ most iconic fourth-wall breaks comes after the credits. Appearing in a robe, Ferris tells the movie-going audience that the show’s over and that they should go home. The iconic scene was even replicated in the 2016 movie Deadpool, with Ryan Reynolds’ titular superhero mimicking the moment while teasing the appearance of Cable in the sequel.

5 School Of Rock

Richard Linklater’s 2003 comedy School of Rock features one of the best performances of Jack Black’s career. The comedian plays a musician who poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, where he discovers his class’ predisposition for music and organizes them into a fully-functional rock band. All the while, he must keep up the ruse that he’s actually teaching them.

The movie’s heartwarming ending finds the band achieving mild success, as well as the approval of all their parents. The credits roll during one of their band rehearsals, with Black improvising a song that devolves into a fourth-wall break as he commentates on audience members still watching, before the movie eventually cuts to black.

4 Daredevil

A fact that may surprise many fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that Iron Man wasn’t the first Marvel movie to include a post-credits scene. 2003’s Daredevil, starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, includes one that teases a future for Colin Farrell’s interpretation of Bullseye. Unfortunately, the Netflix reboot of Daredevil meant that this didn’t pan out.

In the scene, Farrell’s character sits in a hospital bed in a full body cast after an earlier scene in the movie in which Matt Murdock threw him from a clock tower. Testing his precision, Bullseye grabs a nearby needle and uses it to pin a fly against a wall from afar, before quipping his own character’s name, showing his injuries haven’t deprived him of his abilities.

3 Napoleon Dynamite

The post-credits scene at the end of Napoleon Dynamite is not well-known by those who aren’t diehard superfans of the cult classic. The 2004 comedy stars Jon Heder as the titular high-schooler living in Preston, Idaho. A running joke regarding Napoleon’s brother Kip having a dubious online relationship is paid off at the end when his pen pal appears.

The end-credits scene furthers this recurring joke, as Kip and his new bride, LaFawnduh, are getting married in a beautiful open plain attended by the entire cast, save one. Napoleon soon appears on horseback, giving the newly-tamed stallion to the bride and groom to ride off on, while Napoleon watches alongside Pedro, Uncle Rico, and Deb.

2 Crank

The 2006 action movie Crank stars Jason Statham as an LA hitman who is poisoned and must keep himself alive through adrenaline rushes until he finds and kills the man who poisoned him. The directorial debut of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, it co-stars Amy Smart and Jose Pablo Cantillo, with cameos by Glenn Howerton and the late singer Chester Bennington.

Though the movie is steeped in pretty hardcore, high-octane action, it ends with a brief but charming end-credits sequence. The plot of the movie is recreated in an 8-bit video game, before the “player” gets a Game Over which flashes on the screen for several seconds. It’s enough of an Easter egg to make audiences actually want to play a Crank video game.

1 Step Brothers

Step Brothers is another ridiculous entry in the Will Ferrell cinematic universe, pairing him up with John C. Reilly as two 40-year-olds living with their parents who must adjust to becoming step-siblings. One scene in the movie that outlines the characters’ immaturity finds them being ambushed by children. Their characters are even forced to lick dried-up dog poop.

During a mid-credits scene, Ferrell and Reilly’s characters return to the children’s playground on a helicopter and proceed to dole out their revenge. As a bonus, there’s an additional post-credits scene in which the two begin to sleepwalk again, calling back to earlier scenes where the two sleepwalk and disaster ensues as a result of the mess they make.

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