The following contains spoilers for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, now in theaters.

Based on the popular fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has hit theaters. The movie takes inspiration from the structure of the games, its classes of characters and usual environments. It's not easy to adapt Dungeons & Dragons, as the game is so open and malleable to the individual players who are participating. Despite that challenge, the movie does deliver an entertaining adventure that pays homage to its source material.

The movie centers around Edgin (Chris Pine) and his best friend Holga (Michelle Rodriguez), who wish to be reunited with Edgin's daughter after a heist gone wrong landed them in prison. They must put together a team to free her from the manipulation of their previous associate, who betrayed them. Together, this unlikely party faces off against a legendary evil to save the day. But while Honor Among Thieves is not currently part of an extended film franchise, the film includes does have something after the credits worth sticking around for.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Has One Post-credits Scene

Chris Pine's Edgin talks to a reanimated corpse in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

There is one post-credits scene in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. It is a callback to a moment earlier in the film that pays off a joke. While on their adventure, the party uses an artifact that allows them to communicate with the dead. They are attempting to find a magical helmet that will give them access to an enchanted vault full of treasure. The magic allows them to ask a dead person five questions before they are returned to death. They speak to a few corpses, which fulfills the comedic potential of the magic. But they use up their five questions too quickly while figuring out how the question process actually works when they ask if the question they ask counts as a question and the various spinoffs of that conversation. They also accidentally leave one corpse behind after only asking four questions.

And it's this corpse that is the focus of the post-credits scene. The audience is returned to his location, only to discover that he's still waiting for the fifth question that will return him to his grave. The party has not returned to ask him anything, so he's stuck in the world of the living. It's a funny moment that shows the consequences of the party's actions within the world and also speaks to their proficiency as heroes. They aren't perfect, but they leave an impact along the way.

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Why the Dungeon & Dragons Movie's Post-Credits Scene Is Great

A corpse speaks to Edgin in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

This moment is great for a couple of simple reasons. The first is because it's a punchline to a joke that remains effective even upon re-watch. The premise of the joke still holds up because it's dependent on occurring after the events of the film, and the fact that this corpse will be there re-watch after re-watch actually makes the joke funnier.

The other reason this moment is worthwhile is that it doesn't do anything significant to set up a greater franchise or shared universe. So often, post-credits scenes are used to tease the next installment, which immediately moves the audience away from the story they just watched and shifts their focus to the next movie. These kinds of scenes don't really hold up in re-watch because they lose their significance after the next project's release. It becomes a redundant ad rather than a moment that adds its own value. It's refreshing that Honor Among Thieves' post-credits scene keeps the focus on the current film and encourages the audience to think back on what they just watched.

To see the corpse return, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is in theaters now.