Captain America: Brave New World’s Ending Almost Teased a Clearer, Different Threat

The post-credits scene of Captain America: Brave New World sure is…something, huh. Chances are you already know what it is, but if not, both it and what it could’ve been will be spoiled here. At the end of the film, Sam Wilson visits the captured Samuel Sterns in the lower levels of the Raft. Sterns ominously tells Sam he knows what’s coming next, and intones that Sam won’t be prepared for attacks from other worlds and “the others.” Vague as it is, you can figure this concerns the multiversal business coming in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars that everyone who isn’t Doctor Strange or Monica Rambeau is basically unaware of. But it seems at one point, those “others” may have been referring specifically to the Illuminati, Marvel’s collection of supergeniuses who made their MCU debut in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. In a recent interview with Brave New World director Julius Onah, TheWrap brought up the Illuminati, who it claims was in an earlier draft of the film and la ... Read full article.