Fast X ending and post-credits scene, explained

polygon.com:

Not every movie ending needs explaining, but judging from the theater-wide “Whaaaaa?” noises and subsequent buzz of baffled conversation that greeted the end of Fast X in the screening where I saw it, Vin Diesel’s latest Fast and Furious sequel might demand a little more investigation than the average explosive action movie.

Buckle in and we’ll try to figure it out together, starting with the post-credits scene, then backing up to the movie’s final mystifying shot.

[Ed. note: End spoilers for Fast X ahead, obviously.]

Remember the big, loud public feud between Fast and Furious franchise star Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, where Johnson said he was never coming back to the series, and Diesel kinda tried to publicly guilt him into returning, and Johnson said that was a jerk move, and that there was “no chance” he’d come back? Welp, he came back. His Fast and Furious character Luke Hobbs shows up in a post-credits cameo that makes it clear he’s on the hook for Fast XI, or Fast X: Part Two, or whatever the next movie in the series is ultimately called. (I’m hoping for Fast XX, so the rumored third part of this finale arc can be Fast XXX, which will both cheekily link the Fast and Furious franchise to Vin Diesel’s short-lived XXX movie series, and seriously mess with the Google rankings of pornographers who thought they’d have a field day with Fast X.)

The clip actually comes mid-credits — there’s no very-end-of-the-credits clip, so after Hobbs shows up, you can head home. The Hobbs clip has that “shot much later than everything else in the movie, on an unrelated set thrown together at the last minute” vibe that’s familiar from retrofitted-after-the-fact movies like Snakes on a Plane and Joss Whedon’s Justice League. In the