Avengers 5 & 6 Are Finally Set To Pay Off A 15-Year-Old Iron Man Deleted Scene

A deleted Iron Man post-credits scene could finally be paid off during the MCU‘s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty or Avengers: Secret Wars. When Iron Man was released, Marvel Studios already had plans to expand beyond the character into a larger cinematic universe of superheroes, starting with the Avengers, because the company had film rights to all those characters. In the official Iron Man post-credits scene, Nick Fury visits Tony Stark to tell him about the Avengers initiative, saying, “Mr. Stark, you’ve become part of a bigger universe. You just don’t know it yet,” which was a clever nod to audiences about what Marvel was planning at the time.