If you haven't seen The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but still want your X-Men: Days of Future Past fix, the post-credits sequence for the upcoming mutant flick is online now for your viewing pleasure.
Putting teasers for future movies after the credits in Marvel flicks has become something of an institution. Stay in your seat until the credits finish rolling and you're bound to get a glimpse of what's to come next in the massively popular superhero franchise. But while the Avengers, Spider-Man, and the X-Men have largely occupied separate cinematic spaces (read: studios) in the Marvel Universe, two recent post-credits sequences have connected them, just a little bit.
First, the scene at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier featured cameos from two famous X-Men villains, then Amazing Spider-Man 2 gave us a peek at the much-anticipated Days of Future Past. It's unlikely any real cinematic overlap will happen—the X-Men characters teased after Winter Soldier are played by different actors than those in Fox's mutant films and the above teaser appeared after Spidey's new flick as Sony's favor to Fox for snagging the movie's director Marc Webb—but we can dream.
The new bonus scene wisely deploys fan-favorite Jennifer Lawrence, who first appeared as the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in the 2011 film X-Men: First Class and has risen to A-list fame as the star of the Hunger Games film franchise. When an unctuous official tries to transfer some mutant soldiers to an unspecified location where they can "run a few more tests," Mystique responds to the veiled threat in the same way she always does: by kicking people in the face. "Where's Erik?" one of the soldiers asks as they flee, referring to her long-time ally, Magneto (aka Erik Lehnsherr). "I'm on my own now," she replies. Clearly, she can handle that.
X-Men: Days of Future Past hits theaters May 23.
