Avengers Endgame broke records when the film was recently released, with fans of the MCU
dying to know how the Infinity Saga would end, and which characters’ we’d be reunited
with and which we’d be losing by the film’s conclusion.
That being said, some were a little critical about the follow up to Infinity War, despite
it critically being a stronger film than its predecessor.
So today, we’re taking a look at things the film was questioned or criticized for
with our list of the top 10 major things wrong with Avengers Endgame.
Personally, I was a big fan of the film, and felt that it was a complete love letter to
fans, so I’ll be attempting to be as objective as possible.
Also, keep in mind, this list is filled with spoilers for Avengers Endgame, so proceed
at your own risk if you haven’t seen it yet.
With that in mind, let’s get to it!
10 Falcon is the next Captain America Endgame concludes with a beautiful moment
featuring Steve Rogers finally getting that dance with Peggy Carter, about to live out
the life he never had.
It’s sweet and heart-warming and everything we could have possibly wanted for the character.
In the scene prior to it, we see an older Cap return to where the time machine was set
up, with Hulk, Bucky and Sam seeing him seated looking out at the water.
Bucky nods to Sam to go over, and Steve gives Sam his shield, passing along the mantle of
Captain America.
This angered some fans – in the comics, Bucky is the character who initially takes
over the mantle from Steve, with Falcon eventually becoming Captain America later on.
9 Stucky Speaking of Bucky, many fans felt that the
final chapter of the Infinity Saga really didn’t give Bucky and Steve’s friendship
the proper send –off it deserved.
Rather than give us a final emotional moment between the two, many felt that Sam robbed
the Winter Solider of it, being the one who got to talk to Cap at the end of the film.
The relationship between Bucky and Steve has been crucial to the MCU, with it being one
of the main reasons that Steve and Tony end up getting into their feud that results in
the conflict in Civil War, even though Steve knew what horrible things Bucky had done while
under HYDRA’s control.
He never gave up on him.
And to not give us a proper ending to their saga felt a little insincere.
8 The Rat
7 Iron Man grabbing all the stones from Thanos without having an immediate
damaging effect 6 Fat Thor
Here’s one that will stir up some controversy in the comments.
Arguably some of the best comedic moments in the film are courtesy of the god of thunder,
Thor.
After he decapitates Thanos towards the beginning of the film upon learning the mad titan has
destroyed the infinity stones, Thor goes into a pretty deep depression, and is revealed
5 years later to be living in New Asgard in Norway, living in a house, drinking lots of
beer, and playing video games – including Fortnite – with Korg and Meek.
But this upset some people – while Chris Hemsworth in a fat suit made many chuckle,
others felt like him being the butt of many fat jokes made fat shaming and body shaming
an acceptable thing.
Others felt that poking fun at his trauma and mental health was a negative treatment
of what the character was going through.
That being said, he still kicked some major ass in the final battle for Earth at the end
of the film.
5 Steve Rogers & the timelines Time travel is complex, and while Endgame
managed to lay out its rules concerning time travel and the creation of alternate realities,
some of the events that happened in the film complicated things.
Or rather, clearly impact different timelines, causing them to splinter and become new alternate
realities.
So when Cap goes back to return the infinity stones, he may be resolving issues in those
timelines, but the damage has technically been done, and alternate timelines due to
other events (ike Loki teleporting away with the tesseract) now exist.
But perhaps the most infuriating part about this is that Steve stays behind in the past,
and then returns to the same location as their time machine in the prime timeline.
How can this be, if him staying in the past technically would have been a big enough event
to alter the timeline?
How did he get back to the prime timeline?
And are there now going to be major consequences somehow because of this?
Did he time travel again and go back to the prime timeline after Peggy died?
Because otherwise, the prime timeline would have two Steve rogers – one frozen in ice,
another alive and well and married to Peggy Carter.
4 Captain Marvel Captain Marvel historically earned 1 billion
dollars at the box office when it came out, which is big for Marvel’s first female led
superhero movie.
But one of the criticisms concerning the character and her appearance in Endgame was that she
wasn’t involved in the movie as much as the rest of the cast of characters.
Quite frankly, most of us should have seen this coming – Endgame, while it did involve
almost every single MCU character, was really about concluding the story arcs of the original
Avengers team members, which it most definitely did.
Carol Danvers will be a major player moving forward, and although we didn’t get to see
as much of her hanging with the other Avengers as we’d like, I’m sure moving forward
into Phase 4, we’ll definitely get our fill.
3 Tony Ruins Infinity War When tony snapped, he effectively killed Thanos
and his entire army – aka the Thanos from 2014, and his entire 2014 army.
This means that there is no Thanos in 2014, meaning Infinity War will never happen in
that timeline.
It’s a bit difficult to confirm whether this is actually a thing, since technically,
Cap would go back and return to the stones, but if we’re following the time travel rules
laid out in Endgame, that still means there’s a brand new timeline that was created in which
2014 Thanos is dead and gone.
2 No Cap Red Skull Scene When Cap has to go back in time to replace
all of the infinity stones back to their timelines, many fans were a little disappointed about
a major missed opportunity – that we never got to see a Captain America Red Skull reunion
scene.
Cap would’ve had to go back in time prior to 2014 on Vormir and give the Soul Stone
back to the spirit of Red Skull, who was the guardian of the stone there.
HOW WONDERFULLY AWKWARD AND AMAZING WOULD THAT HAD BEEN!
But nope, we never got to see it.
Realistically, it probably wouldn’t have fit into the narrative that well at that point
in time, but here’s hoping the Russo Brothers filmed a now deleted scene that captured the
encounter.
1 No post credit scene And last but not least, let’s talk about
the thing that’s always last but not least when it comes to Marvel movies – the post
credit scene.
Endgame didn’t have one, which left fans divided.
Some completely understood - the post credit scenes are typically ways of getting audiences
hyped over what’s to come next, laying down ground work for what we can expect the next
handful of MCU films to entail or explore.
End credit scenes were typically how the lead up to Infinity War and Thanos’ incoming
threat were developed.
And for Endgame to not have any post credit scenes felt right – it was the end to the
saga, and it’s better to let it breathe, especially with that nice little sound effect
homage to the 2008 Iron Man that played instead over the Marvel title card.
Then there’s the flip side of that – MCU titles are usually expected to have post credit
scenes.
It’s become the norm.
So deviating away from that left some fans majorly disappointed.
What are your thoughts on this?
Would you have preferred to have gotten a post credit scene?