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Patient sits through every second of every credit sequence on the possibility of a post-credits scene. Has done this for films that do not, historically, feature them. Has sat through 14 minutes of French crew names for a slow domestic drama. Has, on one occasion, been the only person left in the theater at the end. The cleaner was, patient confirms, patient. Patient waited anyway. There was, inevitably, no scene.
Chronic. A single Marvel film in 2008 trained the pattern.
None. 'You never know' has been said about a Bergman retrospective.
Patients with Terminal Post-Credits-Scene Completionism typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Terminal Post-Credits-Scene Completionism — a terminal condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Post-titulorum persistentia maxima. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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