The following contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, in cinemas now.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse co-director Joaquim dos Santos recently revealed why the animated blockbuster doesn't feature a post-credits scene.

Dos Santos explained why the sequel to 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse doesn't include any additional material after the credits roll in an interview with Collider. "Honestly, I think the one element of it is that the -- without spoiling it -- the very, very last beat of the film, we had discussed making that post-credits, but then we were just like, 'You know what? This needs to be before the credits.' So it was about which of those several moments in the end, should we make any of them post-credit?"

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"We explored Miles tied to the punching bag, we talked about that as a post-credit," Dos Santos continued. "We talked about Gwen and Peter B. going back, we talked about that being post-credit, but then we ended up settling on what I love, which is this kind of cross-cutting between the plight of all these characters kind of catapulting us into that next film, and knowing that the cavalry is coming for Miles." Dos Santos' comments come after another member of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's directorial triumvirate, Kemp Powers, confirmed that the movie was also originally meant to incorporate large-scale live-action sequences that were scrapped during the animatics stage of the production.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ultimately used live-action footage sparingly, an approach that Powers described as adhering to a "most bang for the buck" storytelling philosophy. Aside from recycling archival clips of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's webslingers, the sequel boasts a specially shot cameo of Donald Glover as an alternate universe incarnation of protagonist Miles Morales' uncle, Aaron Davis. Glover is dressed as Davis' villainous alter-ego The Prowler during his cameo, which at least one pop culture pundit has since theorized may foreshadow the plot and themes of Across the Spider-Verse's follow-up film, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse also includes a short scene designed to emulate stop-motion animation and set in a LEGO dimension. The scene was produced by a single animator: Preston Mutanga, the 14-year-old behind the LEGO-themed YouTube channel LegoMe_TheOG. According to Dos Santos, Mutanga landed the gig after Across the Spider-Verse co-writers and producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were both impressed by his LEGO recreation of the film's teaser trailer.

Source: Collider