WI: No Post-Credits in Iron Man 1

[Lothal]

What if Samuel L Jackson or Nick Fury never appeared in Iron Man announcing the Avengers Initiative? Would the MCU as we know it never exist? Would the modern concept of the Cinematic Universe never come up? How would the movie business be like nowadays?

 

[Electric Monk]

It was all planned out ahead of time. Once they are under way derailing the MCU requires Iron Man to tank hard—totally plausible, given that it didn't have a script and Marvel were unable/unwilling to delay the film given their contract commitments. The only reason they made Iron Man was because they were setting the whole thing up for Avengers after all, so therefore the only way to stop that is to have Iron Man implode as a movie. Just skipping the end credits does nothing.

 

[The Tai-Pan]

It was all planned out ahead of time. Once they are under way derailing the MCU requires Iron Man to tank hard—totally plausible, given that it didn't have a script and Marvel were unable/unwilling to delay the film given their contract commitments. The only reason they made Iron Man was because they were setting the whole thing up for Avengers after all, so therefore the only way to stop that is to have Iron Man implode as a movie. Just skipping the end credits does nothing.

yeah, it wasn't like they filmed the End Credits then suddenly realized they could make Avengers. It was the other way around.

 

[aaronupright]

The whole film was a risk, and OTL got its ass kicked at the box office with The Dark Knight. As well as by critics.
To tank the MCU, it needs to fail. The EndCredit scene is irrelevant to that.

Of course if they did not film the end credits scene then we are spared a world where people at the end of a film and furiously tapping into phones to check if the movie has such a scene.