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This publish consists of spoilers for The Marvels.

The Marvels had every thing: the return of Captain Marvel a.okay.a. Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), the big-screen debut of Ms. Marvel a.okay.a. Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), and the ascension of Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) to full-fledged superhero. It had that illustrious trio teaming up, turning into The Marvels, and saving the day from Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton), a ravishing Kree alien with an enormous hammer and a maniacal thirst to empty worlds of their pure sources. It had a bunch of aliens that appear like cats, with a music from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s feline musical as well.

Given all that, you’d suppose that Marvel may maintain off on introducing extra stuff. However that is Marvel, a studio that can’t assist however connect a teaser or some type of Easter egg to its movies. And for longtime superhero followers, this film has an enormous one.

The Marvels credit scene teases the introduction of the X-Males, once more

Within the film’s finale, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Monica Rambeau have to repair Dar-Benn’s mess.

Earlier than perishing, Dar-Benn makes use of a large quantity of energy to tear by way of area and time, creating, as Monica describes, a wormhole into one other universe. Sure, it’s again to the multiverse for the MCU, however fortunately it’s quite simple right here: Nobody must know Kang or quantum realms or any of the difficult stuff discovered on this yr’s Quantumania. Monica has to make use of her gentle powers to patch up the outlet so that every universe stays intact.

Monica is ready to seal them shut, however in doing so, she crosses over to the parallel universe. Captain Marvel tries to avoid wasting her, however she’s too late. The film ends with Monica separated from Carol and Kamala.

Within the credit scene, Monica wakes up in what seems to be some type of medical unit. She seems to be over and sees a lady who seems to be her lifeless mother, Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch). The girl doesn’t acknowledge Monica and pulls away. Monica slowly begins to place collectively that though this lady seems to be like her mother (in any case, it’s the identical actress), she isn’t the Maria that Monica is aware of. She may not even be Maria in any respect.

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Whereas each ladies are attempting to piece collectively what’s taking place, somebody unseen enters the room and begins briefing them. The male voice explains that Monica was discovered floating in area by somebody referred to as Binary, and Binary took Monica in for medical care. Monica, the voice says, appears to be from a special universe. The digicam pans up and divulges that the individual talking is Beast a.okay.a. Hank McCoy a.okay.a one of many X-Males. Kelsey Grammer, who performed Beast in Fox’s X-Males films, reprises his function.

Beast tells Monica that Charles (as in Charles Xavier, head of the X-Males) needs to talk to all of them and that the girl she thinks is her mother is Binary, the hero who saved her. The scene cuts as Monica places all of it collectively that she’s trapped in a parallel timeline and has to determine the way to get again residence — in all probability with the assistance of Beast, Binary, Charles, and probably the X-Males. The X2 theme from the 2003 film performs because the scene ends.

What The Marvels’ post-credits scene means

The scene is important for a variety of causes, however the largest one is that it teases the potential for the X-Males discovering their approach into the MCU ahead of later. Since Marvel re-acquired the movie rights to X-Males (as a part of the Fox acquisition), followers have been ready to see when and the way the corporate would carry mutants into the MCU. Earlier than Marvel turned the Avengers right into a multibillion-dollar film franchise, the X-Males, together with Spider-Man, have been the corporate’s most recognizable and worthwhile heroes.

If the X-Males exist in a parallel universe and Monica Rambeau is there too, it stands to cause that there might be a storyline wherein one or two of our merry mutants tag alongside along with her when she will get again to the primary timeline.

However that’s not all.

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That is now the second time an X-Man has appeared in an MCU film. In 2022’s Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, Charles Xavier a.okay.a. Professor X (Patrick Stewart), seems in, sure, a parallel universe. However Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) kills him in a match of rage. Professor X’s dying in that beforehand seen universe would point out that Monica is definitely in a special world from the one we noticed in Multiverse of Insanity. Which means there are no less than two parallel universes within the MCU wherein X-Males exist and have interacted with the primary MCU timeline. And if there are X-Males in these alternate realities, it might counsel there is likely to be some variation of the X-Males and mutants already current in the primary MCU timeline.

The opposite surprising factor that occurs within the credit scene is the reference to Binary. Within the comics, Binary is Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers’s strongest kind. Carol turns into a cosmic entity and this permits her to journey on the velocity of sunshine and command the ability of the celebrities. Whereas this comedian e-book incarnation possesses Carol’s human consciousness, their Binary is known as a better or extra highly effective autonomous being. She’s an ally to the X-Males (primarily as a result of the X-Males are in area lots and since the X-Males are buddies with Carol) however prefers to journey and journey solo within the cosmos, zooming from galaxy to galaxy. The X-Males often stick near Earth.

Provided that Binary is related to Carol Danvers, it might be that the girl Monica thinks is her mother (and once more, performed by the identical actress) is definitely that universe’s variant of Carol. Or, maybe in that universe, Maria Rambeau turns into Binary herself, which might clarify why she doesn’t know Monica.

What’s clear is that the introduction of Binary and twisty reprisals of all these X-Males characters are going to spur fan theories and hypothesis — and that’s one thing Marvel wants given the lackluster state of the MCU. It’s an thrilling crossover with a variety of potential. The rub is that we’ll solely discover out precisely how the X-Males will issue into the MCU when Monica and the trio reunite — at any time when which may be.