Stingers lacking the metafictional aspects also gained prominence in the 1980s, although they were still primarily used for comedy films. Post-credits scenes became useful places for humorous scenes that would not fit in the main body of the film. Most were short clips that served to tie together loose ends—minor characters whose fates were not elaborated on earlier in the film, or plot lines that were not fully wrapped up. For example, all five
Pirates of the Caribbean films include such scenes.
Napoleon Dynamite features a stinger that reveals that Kip and LaFawnduh get married, a scene that was included in its
wide release. In the film
The Cannonball Run,
bloopers from the film are shown. One of the stars in that picture,
Jackie Chan, later featured
outtakes during the credits of many of his films, often showing him getting injured doing his own stunts. Even when post-credits scenes started to be used by films with little comedy development, the same format of giving closure to incomplete storylines or inconsequential characters remained in use. Using humor in such scenes is also still common for more serious films, as in the film
Daredevil, in which
Bullseye is shown after his defeat by Daredevil in a full body cast. Other films eschew the comedy in favor of a twist or revelation that would be out of place elsewhere in the film, as in
X-Men: The Last Stands post-credits scene in which
Professor X is shown to be alive after his apparent death by the hands of the
Phoenix. Another example is the stinger at the end of
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets which features a post-memory loss
Lockhart. A third example occurs in
Young Sherlock Holmes: during the entire credits, a
sleigh is seen traveling in the
Alps to a mountain inn; at the end of the credits, the passenger Professor Rathe (presumed to be dead), also known as "Eh-Tar", signs the register as "
Moriarty". With the rise of pre-planned
film franchises, post-credits scenes have been adopted in order to prepare the audience for upcoming sequels, sometimes going so far as to include a cliffhanger ending where the main film is largely stand-alone. The cinematic release of
The Matrix Reloaded demonstrated the sequel set-up use of stingers by featuring the
trailer for
The Matrix Revolutions. Another example is the ending of the supernatural horror film
Annabelle: Creation (2017), set in Romania, 1952 and see the character of
Valak, the demon nun from
The Conjuring 2 (2016) gliding towards the viewer before it darkens, teasing the spin-off prequel
The Nun (2018). Some films, including
Richard Linklater's
School of Rock, take the idea of the post-credits scene to its limit by running the credits during the main action of the film. In this example, the characters perform a song in the last minutes of the film, and the credits run inconspicuously until one character sings the line "the movie is over/but we're still on screen". The
Marvel Cinematic Universe has made extensive use of
mid- and post-credits scenes which typically serve as a teaser for a future
Marvel Studios film. For example, the post-credits scene of
Iron Man 2 shows
Phil Coulson locating
a large hammer at the bottom of a crater in a New Mexico desert, thus teasing the release of
Thor the following year. The post-credits sequence of
Captain America: The Winter Soldier introduces the characters of
Pietro and
Wanda Maximoff, who join the franchise in
Avengers: Age of Ultron. Other times these mid- and post-credits scenes serve primarily as gags, such as the post-credits scene in
The Avengers, which has the
Avengers eating
shawarma in a derelict restaurant in the aftermath of the film's climactic battle, or
Spider-Man: Homecoming, which features
Captain America educating the audience on patience. The credits of many
Pixar films, including ''
A Bug's Life (1998), Finding Nemo (2003), The Good Dinosaur (2015) and Finding Dory (2016) have included humorous mid-credits scenes. A Bug's Life
(1998), for example, parodied the trend of bloopers at the end of movies by including fake blooper scenes of the characters making mistakes or goofing around on the "set" of the movie. Toy Story 2 (1999) and Monsters, Inc. (2001) followed suit. Other Pixar films, such as Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Inside Out'' (2015) have included an epilogue that plays during the credits. An unusual use of the post-credits scene is to fulfill contractual obligations. In order to secure the
personality rights to produce
The Disaster Artist, a
biopic of
Tommy Wiseau, the filmmakers were obligated to include a cameo by Wiseau himself. This scene was filmed, but relegated to the post-credits sequence of the film. ==In video games==