Avengers: Endgame clocked in at a whopping three hours, making it the longest Marvel
movie to date, but there are still scenes that were cut from the final film that we
never got to see!
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan and in this video I'm revealing all the deleted and
fake scenes from Endgame.
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Of course, we'll be discussing spoilers, so take care if you haven't seen the film yet.
And there's timestamps for each main section in the video description below.
If you were devastated by Black Widow's heroic sacrifice in Endgame, then you'll be shocked
to know that a stack of Natasha scenes were cut from the final film.
First is a deleted scene of Nat at target practice where she's keeping her shooting
skills sharp.
Another cut scene of Nat training has her punching a boxing bag, showing her relentless
determination to keep going.
And in another cut scene of Nat sitting by herself in the rain, we can see how lonely
she is.
All these deleted scenes throw more light on how Black Widow was really the only original
Avenger who refused to give up on the mission over the five-year time jump.
Although the Avengers hunt Thanos down on his 'garden' planet and kill him, it doesn't
reverse the snap and so, over the five years that follow, Tony, Steve, Bruce, Clint and
Thor all go their own way with only Nat staying on at Avengers HQ where she's determined to
keep the mission going, with surviving heroes like Rocket, Okoye, Captain Marvel and War
Machine reporting in to her.
It would have been nice to see these deleted scenes to show what Nat was going through,
especially given how she reveals to Steve and Clint that the Avengers were her one true
family.
But I suspect they were likely cut for time, as I can see they weren't absolutely essential
for the story.
Another deleted scene for Black Widow comes later during the time travel portion of the
movie when she and Hawkeye are on their way to Vormir.
There's a clip cut from the final film where Nat and Clint seem to be taking a moment before
they head on down to the Soul Stone planet and it looks like this was probably some additional
foreshadowing of Nat's eventual fate.
And a small moment from the first trailer of Natasha looking on in shock at the carnage
that Hawkeye has unleashed on the Yakuza in Tokyo was also chopped from the final movie.
We all know already from Avengers: Infinity War that Marvel love to use fake and deleted
scenes in trailers to throw fans off the scent when trying to figure out spoilers.
And in Avengers: Endgame, Marvel have dialled up the level of misdirection and trickery
to eleven.
For example, in the final battle, during Captain America's fight with Thanos, the Mad Titan
repeatedly brings down his huge double-bladed sword on Cap's shield, smashing it several
times and leaving only part of it intact.
But to avoid revealing this, in the trailers when we see Cap dragging himself up from the
ground, his shattered shield has been replaced with an unbroken one.
In another shot from the battle, when Cap tightens the shield strap on his arm as he
readies himself to face off against Thanos again, in the movie, the shield is broken
at this point, but in the trailer we see it still in one piece.
In Infinity War, Bruce Banner wasn't able to summon his inner Hulk successfully; but
in Endgame, during the 5-year time jump, Banner finally comes to terms with the green guy
and rather than trying to treat him as a disease, he embraces him and becomes Professor Hulk,
getting what he calls the best of both worlds.
To avoid this reveal before the movie was released, Marvel digitally removed Hulk from
any scenes in the marketing materials.
In this scene, where Rocket and Banner go to New Asgard to find Thor, in the movie Professor
Hulk is actually right behind Rocket as the racoon opens the door; but in the trailer,
he was digitally erased.
And in this scene where War Machine meets Ant-Man, in the movie, Professor Hulk walks
into the scene; but in the TV spot, the big green guy was removed.
Another major character change that Marvel wanted to hide pre-release was Thor's transformation
from a bicep-busting hero to an overweight, depressed God of Thunder, or what the Internet
is calling "Fat Thor".
Although Thor "went for the Mad Titan's head" when they found him on the "garden" planet,
afterwards he fell into a deep depression, abandoning his role as ruler of the Asgardians
and instead playing video games with Miek and Korg while eating tons of junk food and
drowning his sorrows in beer.
So, when Marvel presented us with shots of Thor with his battle-ready Infinity War look
in the trailers, it was a complete misdirect.
For other Endgame trailer scenes, they completely removed the Asgardian god so we wouldn't see
the overweight Thor.
In this scene of the Avengers figuring out their Time Heist plan, both Thor and Professor
Hulk have been digitally erased from the shot.
In a similar bit of trailer trickery, Thor and Hulk were removed from this shot of the
team walking towards the time travel machine at the Avengers Facility.
Another attempt at misdirection is how Marvel edited this shot of Thor to make it look more
like he was somewhere like Wakanda.
In the movie, this scene actually takes place after Thor killed Thanos on his farm, but
in the trailer, the surrounding background has been altered to give it a different look.
There are some scenes teased in a TV spot that were deleted from early in the movie
where Captain Marvel is with the team and they're looking at screens of missing heroes.
Carol, Steve and Rhodey are all wearing the same clothes they had on in a scene which
was in the movie where Captain Marvel proposes going to Thanos's 'garden' planet to take
the infinity stones back.
And there's also a similar deleted scene from a trailer where Banner is looking at screens
of Scott Lang, Shuri, and Peter Parker who are missing.
It's also strange that Endgame is missing any mention of Nick Fury's pager from the
Infinity War post-credits scene.
Marvel kind of addressed this by releasing the post-credits scene from Captain Marvel's
movie just before Endgame came out.
"And tell me the second you get a signal, I wanna know who's on the other end of that
thing.
Where's Fury?"
It's surprising this post-credits scene of Carol meeting the team wasn't included in
Endgame with some additional footage of her learning about the snap, because the Russo
Brothers have previously used post-credit scenes from other Marvel movies in their own
films.
For example, the Bucky post-credits scene from Ant-Man appeared in Captain America:
Civil War.
Just before the Avengers split off into teams to visit different timelines and retrieve
the Infinity Stones from the past, Cap gives them all a pep talk and they put their hands
together in a circle.
For the trailers though, the time heist devices that they're each wearing on their gloves
have been removed.
By the way, suitably enough, this shot is an easter egg to a New Avengers comic book
in which Marvel's Illuminati discuss the existence of a multiverse and multiple parallel realities.
And to avoid giving away more clues about Endgame's time travel, in the trailers, Marvel
disguised the fact that this scene takes place in 2012 during the Battle of New York.
In the movie, Steve is wearing his blue Captain America outfit from the first Avengers film,
and not his Infinity War costume we see here.
"You trust me?
I do."
And the hand-shake between Tony and Steve at the end of that clip was also cut from
the final film.
To avoid giving much away about the film's third act, Marvel made a huge number of changes
to any scenes in the trailers taken from the final battle against Thanos.
In this scene of Iron Man, Cap and Thor walking towards the Mad Titan, Thor's hammer Mjolnir
has been erased.
The existence of Mjolnir in Endgame, and how Thor acquired it by going back in time to
Asgard, needed to be kept secret as, before Endgame, the hammer was last seen in Thor:
Ragnarok where Hela destroyed it.
This brief clip of Hawkeye fleeing down a burning tunnel should actually show Outriders
engulfed in the flames behind him, but to avoid revealing that, Marvel scrubbed them
out of the trailer.
Clint was also carrying the new gauntlet with the Infinity Stones at this point in the film,
another detail that was wiped out of the trailer.
During this scene of Rocket and War Machine assembling with Cap and the other heroes,
in the movie, Giant-Man is rising up behind them, except in the trailer he's been removed.
Captain Marvel has a couple of new haircuts in Endgame which Rocket makes a joke about
early on in the movie, but the short hairstyle which Carol sports after the five-year time
jump in the film was replaced in the trailers with Captain Marvel's helmet and mohawk as
previously seen in her solo movie.
And hair-related misdirections weren't limited to Captain Marvel's role in Endgame.
In this trailer clip where Nat sees Ant-Man on the video camera arriving at the Avengers
facility, she's still got her blond bob from Infinity War, even though it happens five
years in the future.
But, in the actual movie, at this point Natasha's hair is long, loose, and mostly red mixed
with some blond.
By the way, Scott's line from the trailer when he asks to be buzzed in was also deleted
from the film.
A character who never showed up in Endgame, and who many fans missed, was Vision who Thanos
killed before the snap in Infinity War.
Concept art of a ghostly grey-white Vision leaked before Endgame suggesting we might
have seen the android return.
Many fans had theorised Vision would return in Endgame because when he was killed in Infinity
War he was drained of his colour, a possible allusion to the transformation of his character
in the comics after he was resurrected by Hank Pym.
But even though Vision didn't appear in Endgame, he IS returning to the MCU with Scarlet Witch
in the not-too-distant future.
Another technique Marvel used to try and prevent secrets from leaking out was by giving actors
notorious for leaking spoilers only partial scripts and then filming multiple endings.
In an interview with E! News, Mark Ruffalo revealed that he shot five different endings
for the movie.
"I'm like shot five different endings to this movie.
I didn't even get a whole script to this movie.
I don't know why.
The script I did get had... had dummy scenes in it."
And I've got a separate video on that and how despite all that Ruffalo still managed
to accidentally leak the actual ending of Avengers Endgame many weeks before the film
was released.
Tap in the top of the screen to check that out or there's a link in the video description.
A cameo which appears to have been cut from Endgame is by 13 Reasons Why star Katherine
Langford who was rumoured to be playing one of two possible characters in the movie.
The first was Kate Bishop, one of the Young Avengers in the comics who became Hawkeye
at a time when Clint wasn't around.
Kate Bishop also worked with Clint for a while after he returned, and if Langford did film
something, it's possible it was a teaser for Hawkeye's upcoming TV series on Disney+, which
Variety says will show Clint passing the Hawkeye mantle on to Kate Bishop.
Before Endgame's release, another rumour was that Langford would play Tony Stark's daughter
Morgan.
This doesn't line up with the fact that Morgan Stark was only 5 years old in Endgame, so
that rumour seems unlikely unless she was meant to appear to Tony as a vision of an
older Morgan in a flash-forward or dream.
When fans of the actress asked her on Instagram what her character was supposed to be in Endgame,
she simply replied with a mysterious "…"
So, do you wish any of these deleted scenes had been included in Avengers: Endgame?
And what do you think about many of the scenes in the trailers being faked or digitally edited?
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