The Marvels’ mid-credits scene teases a future the MCU is barely prepared for

polygon.com:

The release of a new Marvel movie means at least one more mid- or post-credits scene setting up the franchise’s future, and The Marvels is no different. And just like the rest of the films leading up to the announced Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and the multiversal Secret Wars, there’s a lot going on in the scene.

Portals to another universe, Marvel Comics deep cuts, and a celebrity voice cameo — let’s break it down.

[Ed. note: This piece contains big spoilers for The Marvels.]

At the end of The Marvels, Monica Rambeau made the ultimate sacrifice, sealing a rift in the walls between universes but leaving herself stranded on the other side. And in a scene midway through the credits, we check back in with Captain Rambeau, in a hospital bed in a mysterious location. In the chair next to Monica is a woman who looks like her mother, Maria, but swears she’s never met Monica in her life. And across the room is a blue, hairy man in a lab coat referring to a guy named Charles, telling Monica that she was picked up after she crossed through a tear in spacetime.

Monica appears to have arrived in a universe where the X-Men exist — Doctor Hirsute Fursuit over there is Hank McCoy, aka the Beast, voiced by Kelsey Grammer, who played the character in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, and the Charles he is referring to is, presumably, Charles Xavier, Professor X.

A final shot in the scene reveals the costume that this mysterious version of Maria Rambeau is wearing: the red-and-white duds and twin-star emblem of the Marvel Comics superhero Binary.

Nope! Maria Rambeau does exist in Marvel Comics — but she’s not close with Carol Danvers and has made very few appearances. Making her Binary is really a combination comics and movie reference.

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