This time, the end really is the end.

Avengers: Age of Ultron writer-director Joss Whedon says the film won't include a post-credits scene, as he doesn't think there is any way to top the post-battle shawarma scene in 2012's The Avengers. "We all came at it separately—we don't want to chase that," he says. "That was a jewel and a weird little quirk."

"It didn't seem to lend itself in the same way, and we wanted to be true to what felt right. The first rule of making a sequel is take the best moments and do something else. Don't do the Indiana Jones gun trick again differently. Just go somewhere else. Don't try to hit the same highs, because people will sense it."

Even so, audiences might want to stick around after the movie ends. "There will be a tag," Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige tells Entertainment Weekly. "But there's not a post-post-credit scene."

And no, Whedon isn't joking. "There is nothing at the very end. And that's not a fake-out," he says. "We want people to know so they don't sit there for 10 minutes and then go: 'Son of a bitch! I'll kill them!'"