The Toxic Avenger post-credits scene flips the script on the trend: 'What is the most boring vers...

Director Macon Blair wanted to throw in one last laugh to parody the typical movie postcredits scene. The Toxic Avenger postcredits scene flips the script on th

Director Macon Blair wanted to throw in one last laugh to parody the typical movie post-credits scene.

The Toxic Avenger post-credits scene flips the script on the trend: 'What is the most boring version of that?'

Director Macon Blair wanted to throw in one last laugh to parody the typical movie post-credits scene.

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Peter Dinklage's Toxie in 'The Toxic Avenger'. Credit:

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**Warning: This article contains spoilers from *The Toxic Avenger*.**

Everything about this year's *The Toxic Avenger* is about flipping the script, including on superheroes and the horror genre itself. Why would the post-credits scene be any different?

The Peter Dinklage–led horror-comedy, about Winston Gooze's transformation from lowly janitor to super-powered mutant and local hero, features an ending credits tag that is a parody of the typical movie post-credits scene.

"What we were having fun with was the idea of like, 'What is the most boring version of that — the most deflating, deliberately underwhelming version of an end-credit scene that we could have?'" director Macon Blair tells **.

The scene in question shows Toxie (Dinklage) giving a bland TikTok–style cooking tutorial for a grilled cheese, while his stepson, Wade (Jacob Tremblay), dances in the background.

Toxie (Peter Dinklage) in 'The Toxic Avenger'.

Yana Blajeva/Legendary Pictures

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Blair points to the feeling the audience had at the end of Christopher Nolan's 2025 movie *Batman Begins,* even though it wasn't a post-credits scene. "When he turns over the playing card and it's the Joker, the theater went f---ing bananas," he says. The same goes for the Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) post-credits scene at the end of Joss Whedon's 2012 flick*The Avengers*. "As a comic book fan, that was a lot of fun," Blair adds.

"I think what happened was it started to be an expectation and you *have* to do one," Blair explains. "Then it's like you are waiting for the end-credit scene. It's good to watch the credits 'cause a lot of people worked hard, but you're waiting for the end-credit scene, and if it's something kind of underwhelming, then it deflates all the fun of having seen the movie."

For *The Toxic Avenger*, however, that was the point.

Peter Dinklage's Winston Gooze in 'The Toxic Avenger'. Legendary Pictures

The movie also closes out with a jokey title card listing the sorts of sequels Blair could do if it makes enough money. The titles included are gags — *2oxic 2venger* and *Toxie vs. Dracula vs. the Unicorn's Horn (in Space) *— and* *there's even a footnote stating, "Sequel green light provisional on $1 billion [domestic] box office."

Still, Blair says, "I am obviously thinking about other adventures for these characters … If somebody [at the studio] were to ask me what I would want to do, I would certainly want to talk about that. I really loved working with these people; that would be the main draw."

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He continues, "The thing at the end [of the movie] was another example of me and the editors getting punchy: 'We have to send the movie out for finishing — let's put one last little sprinkle of something in there at the last minute.' It wasn't scripted. It was just something generated on the last day of post-production and kind of slapped in there to feel like we had thrown everything in that we could."

*The Toxic Avenger* is playing now in theaters.**

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