While post-credits scenes have been around for a long time, it's really the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has popularised them, using them to tease future films or just as cheeky jokes.

While accepting an award at BAFTA's 2018 Britannia Awards, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed the very personal reason that he is so keen on them.

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"Movies bring people together, but they also bring people together behind the scenes," he said. "At Marvel Studios, we've been putting a scene after the end credits in all of our films since the very beginning. The fans love it – it's a tease of something to come.

"But the real bonus is that the audience is going to sit there and look at all the names of the hundreds of thousands of people who work so hard to bring these movies to life. That really inspired me as a kid, to see all those names, and I hope it inspires people today."

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Sitting through to the very end of the credits has become standard behaviour for movie fans (and comic book movie fans in particular) over the decade since the MCU launched.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 currently holds the record with five mid- and post-credits scenes.

Feige received the Albert R Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment. Other honourees included Cate Blanchett, Jim Carrey, Emilia Clarke, Damian Lewis and Steve McQueen.

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