The first scene with Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton) getting interrogated by Mac Gargan (Michael Mando), who in the comics would go on to become Spider-Man adversary Scorpion and later Venom, is perfunctory and fine. It’s a nice moment and a lot can be read into the fact that Toomes (aka Vulture) doesn’t give up Peter Parker (Tom Holland) as the secret identity of Spider-Man. But it also feels like a bit of unnecessary leather chewing.
The real deal comes after the credits have rolled. It’s one of those PSAs that have been sprinkled throughout the film that feature Captain America (Chris Evans) dolling out life lessons to incredibly-bored high schoolers. And the message of this particular PSA is particularly on point: Patience. Cap says something about how sometimes it’s worth the wait but other times it’s just a huge disappointment. It’s perfect.
It’s a wonderfully subversive riff on not only the Marvel Cinematic Universe post-credits sequences, which almost always take great pains at setting up the next phase in the universe, but also on these post-credits sequences as a whole. But since it’s done, like everything else in "Spider-Man: Homecoming" with charm, humor, and an affable level of loveable charm — it doesn’t feel mean-spirited or sarcastic. Instead, it feels like the best post-credits sequence of the summer of 2017 and the single greatest post-credits sequence in the history of the MCU.
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