“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is filled to the brim with so much superhero action, characters, art styles, and dimension-hopping shenanigans that you might not have even noticed the lack of a signature comic book movie staple: the post-credits scene.I myself honestly forgot to look out for one, but I think that was because the absolutely brutal cliffhanger left me reeling and I figured that “Aw, c’mon!” feeling was what the filmmakers wanted us to walk out of the theater with.Turns out I was partially right.
In an interview with IndieWire, producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller talked about their original plan for a post-credits scene, and one of the main reasons they nixed it was because it was “hard to beat where we left off.” Their original idea for a post-credits scene required a bit of a set-up for the pay-off to work and that further complicated the idea.
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