Captain America: Brave New World’s Ending Almost Teased a Clearer, Different Threat

The post - credits scene ofCaptain America : Brave New Worldsure is … something , huh . Chances are you already cognize what it is , but if not , both it and what it could ’ve been will be botch here .

At the end of the film , Sam Wilson inflict the charm Samuel Sterns in the lower levels of the Raft . stern ominously tells Sam he knows what ’s do next , and intones that Sam wo n’t be prepared for attacks from other worlds and “ the others . ” Vague as it is , you may cipher this worry the multiversal occupation come inAvengers : DoomsdayandSecret Warsthat everyone who is n’t Doctor Strange or Monica Rambeau is basically unaware of . But it seems at one peak , those “ others ” may have been referring specifically to theIlluminati , Marvel ’s collection of supergeniuses who made their MCU debut inDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness .

In a recent interview withBrave New Worlddirector Julius Onah , TheWrapbrought up the Illuminati , who it claim was in an early draught of the film and afterward rationalise during reshoots . ( Later , scooperAlex Perezclaimed they would ’ve been a grouping of hero from other worlds , unlike theMultiverseversion all coming from Earth-838 . ) Onah stressed he could n’t say specifically , but he did observe that fundament ’ lyric “ are purposely leave vague in that C. W. Post - credit for a reason . ” And while the intent behind it plainly shift , he said some kind of admonition was always last to close out the film , since by then , Marvel had “ a clearer mental picture of where things were go . The goal was to make indisputable that we were doing it at a clip which , because of the tap , nobody was write . ”

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Why would the Illuminati have been inBrave New World ? In the funnies , Steve Rogers was part of the team , and antecedently clashed with them in the lead up to the multiverse - focusedSecret Warsevent in 2015 . When he fight their plans to build a weapon that could deliver their Earth at the cost of other universe , they wipe his memory , and when he eventually regained those retention , he used the Avengers to go after them . So there issomeprecedence to the Illuminati andaCaptain America crossing itinerary — though that does n’t block their potentialcameosinBrave New Worldfrom feel as out of nowhere as Sterns ’ resolve .

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