The mid-credit and post-credit scenes in The Fantastic Four: First Steps go where you think they’ll go… at least, until you stop to think, What does this really mean?

In spite of dangling plot threads scattered across 17 years of post-credit scene teasers, Marvel has yet to slow down its efforts in dangling a sequel carrot at the end of every MCU movie. We even get mid-credit scenes now, too! That’s a lot of setup potential.

But the one plopped into Fantastic Four might be the clearest alley-oop in Marvel history. All roads lead to Avengers: Doomsday, currently in production. But how this mishmash of MCU Phases 5 and 6 and Kevin Feige’s rewired continuity plans come together in a coherent, fulfilling way is the real mystery teased in this brief look ahead.

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