What the Post-Credits Captain Marvel Scenes Mean For the MCU (SPOILERS)

Warning: Spoilers follow for Captain Marvel.

Captain Marvel is in theaters starting today, and as always that means post-credits scenes to discuss. As Uproxx notes, there are two scenes that take place after the film, one in the middle of the credits and one afterward. The first scene in particular teases what’s to come in Avengers: Endgame.

The first scene is (of course) the mid-credits scene, which features Captain America, Black Widow, Rhodey, and Bruce Banner at the Avengers Compound in the aftermath of Thanos’ snap that wiped out half the universe. The group is in crisis mode, particularly afdter Nick Fury’s pager seen at the end of Infinity War stops working. Before the group can figure out what to do, Carol Danvers shows up and asks for Fury. This will obviously play into Endgame, as Carol has been teased as a major player in the team’s plans to defeat Thanos and questions of how she would join up with the group were rampant. It also suggests that she could be that conspicuous gap in the lineup seen at the end of the Endgame trailer.

The second teaser comes at the end of the credits, and features Goose. Goose, as those who watch the movie know by the end of the film, isn’t a cat but is actually an alien creature known as a flerken. The end credits scene is set in 1995 and sees Goose make his way into Nick Fury’s office, climb onto his desk and spit up the Tesseract. This connects the film to The Avengers and explains how SHIELD had access to the Tesseract in the first place, which is where Loki eventually uncovered it. How it went from Howard Stark in Captain America: The First Avenger to where it starts in Captain Marvel isn’t known.