AVENGERS ENDGAME ENDING EXPLAINED Avengers Endgame is finally out and DAMN,
was that a conclusion OR WHAT FRIENDS!
The final film for the Infinity Saga in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally tied
up a lot of loose ends, especially when it came to Thanos and that fun little snap of
his.
Now, before we breakdown everything that went down, fair warning everyone – this video
is FULL of spoilers.
There’s a ton of spoilers.
Consider this video a summary of what happened, who died, who didn’t come back and what
we can expect moving forward in the MCU.
So, once again friends, this video is a giant, giant spoiler and will ruin the film for you.
We’ve got a spoiler free review also on our channel, so now is your last chance to
head on over there.
Good?
Alright, let’s do this!
WHAT HAPPENED The film begins with a scene in which we see
Hawkeye, Clint Barton, witness his whole family being dusted.
It’s then followed by the rescue of Tony Stark and Nebula – Carol Danvers arrives
when Tony is practically on his death bed – and she brings the Guardians’ space
ship, which they were on, back to Earth.
From there, Nebula tells them where Thanos would be – the place he intended on going
after completing his plan.
The Avengers head on over there, only to discover he’s already destroyed all of the stones,
and Thor kills him.
More on that later.
Then, we see Scott Lang exit out of the Quantum Realm – how did he get out?
His van was impounded, and a rat accidentally activates the Quantum Realm machine in the
van, shooting Ant-Man back out of it.
After an incredibly heart wrenching scene where Scott finds out what had happened and
realizes his daughter Cassie is still alive, he heads on over to the Avengers compound
with a plan to go back in time.
They recruit Tony Stark – who, now, has a daughter named Morgan, and is trying to
go on with his life.
Tony eventually comes around, and the team come up with a plan – to time travel into
the past at key moments in the MCU’s history, retrieve the stones, and reverse Thanos’
snap.
A lot goes on – to keep it simple, Thanos in the year 2014 finds out that the Avengers
are attempting to reverse his successful snap – this happens because Nebula who had gone
back to that year was on the same network as the 2014 Nebula.
Because of this, after the Avengers succeed in getting the stones and put together their
own gauntlet using one of Iron Man’s blaster gloves, 2014 Nebula (who snuck back to the
present day after stealing present day Nebula’s time travel GPS) opens the time travelling
machine portal for them.
The Avengers put this new gauntlet on the Hulk, who manages to snap and bring everyone
back – but we don’t see them yet.
Then all hell breaks loose – there’s an epic battle, with Thanos destroying the Avengers
compound, and fighting Steve, Tony and Thor – who might I add, had gone into a bit of
a depression and developed a beer belly – yes, Chris Hemsworth is in a fat suit for most
of the film – and the mad titan gives them a major beat down.
Until Captain America uses Thor’s mjolnir – which Thor brought back from his time
travel mission – to beat the crap out of Thanos.
But Thanos still has the upper hand, and his army shows up.
But fret not!
All of the dusted heroes, including the Wakanda army, show up thanks to Doctor Strange’s
portals, and a major battle goes down.
There’s a ton of fantastic moments in it.
Scarlet witch fights Thanos.
Iron Man and Peter Parker have an adorable moment.
Thanos manages to get the gauntlet, and Captain Marvel fights Thanos – and almost beats
him until he rips off the power stone from the gauntlet and uses it to toss her away.
But then Tony Stark intervenes, and fights Thanos, grabbing the stones from him, and
snaps, all while saying “I am Iron Man.”
Thanos is defeated, his army is dusted, and the heroes win!
BUT, because of using the stones, Tony is drained and damaged, and ends up dying.
I cried like a baby.
There’s a funeral for Tony, and everything is wrapped up.
It’s sad, but incredibly cathartic.
More on that in a minute though.
So, long story short – the Avengers time travelled to collect all of the stones, with
Ant-Man proposing the idea and Tony Stark needing to do the science behind it to make
it happen.
They got the stones, Thanos in the past found out, and he attacked them right after they
successfully brought everyone back.
A major show down happened, it was epic, thanos was defeated and Iron Man sacrificed his life.
And I cried like a baby.
WHO DIED There were three major deaths in the film
– Thanos, Black Widow and Iron Man.
And not Cap!
But more on that in a minute.
Thanos bit the dust twice in the movie, once quite literally.
Within the first few scenes of the movie, the remaining Avengers – Cap, Bruce Banner,
Black Widow, Rhodey, Rocket, Nebula and Captain Marvel all head on over to the garden – a
small quiet utopia that Thanos had built for himself that we got a glimpse of at the end
of Infinity War – and attack him, only to find out he used the stones to destroy the
stones.
In anger, Thor decapitates him.
His second death was at the hands of Iron Man when he snapped – Thanos was all like
“I am inevitable” and Tony was like NAH MAN I TRICKED YOU AND I RIPPED THE STONES
OFF YOUR GAUNTLET, I AM IRON MAN!
And Thanos witnesses his entire army being dusted before he himself is dusted.
Let’s talk about Black Widow now.
So when the Avengers time travelled to get the stones, Black Widow and Hawkeye go to
Vormir to get the Soul Stone.
You see where this is going – because they went back in 2014, they encountered Red Skull
just like Thanos did in Infinity War.
And after fighting each other over who should sacrifice themselves, Black Widow bests Hawkeye
and takes one for the team.
It’s incredibly tragic.
But in terms of Natasha’s story arc, the film really gives her a solid emotional narrative,
with her story coming full circle- the Avengers changed her for the better, and she would
do anything to save her family and bring them all back.
Her death was incredibly similar to Gamora’s in Infinity War.
And lastly, Tony’s death.
Tony, at the start of the film, had rebuilt a life for himself, and had finally started
a family with Pepper.
His daughter Morgan is super adorable.
And when he travels back in time, he actually meets his father, just years before he’s
born (the team had goofed on getting one of the stones so they had to travel back to the
70s to get more Pym particles, and get the tesseract at a SHIELD compound).
His sacrifice saved the day, and as many people had predicted, he would be the one to finally
defeat Thanos since his story and emotional arc were so strongly tied to him and Thanos
being foils of sorts.
Considering that the Infinity Saga began with Iron Man and ended with Iron Man is quite
poignant and powerful.
The funeral scene that followed featured some real heart breaking moments – almost everyone
who played a significant role in the MCU up until this point was there – and his funeral
pyre had the empty arc that read Proof the Tony Stark had a heart on it – you’ll
remember this from the Iron Man trilogy – that was something Pepper had given Tony in the
very first Iron Man.
There’s a lot of throw backs throughout the entire film like this, with Endgame being
very conscious of the continuity from the last 10 years (and was chalk full of references,
so be sure to check out our easter eggs you missed video on our channel after this).
CAPTAIN AMERICA’S RETIREMENT So what about Captain America?
One of the hottest debate prior to the film’s release was that Chris Evans, who plays Cap,
was retiring from acting after this role, leading to much speculation concerning Cap
being killed off.
Instead, after Tony’s funeral scene, we got a scene where Cap, the Hulk, Sam Wilson
and Bucky all gather around the time travel machine, with Cap going back to return all
of the Infinity Stones back into their original time line.
Previously, when Hulk Banner went to acquire the Time Stone, he came across the Ancient
One, she warned him about the dangers of removing the stones from their time lines.
So naturally, someone had to go back and take care of this.
Cap is sent back, with the intention of him returning moments later, but he decides not
to return.
Instead, he stays in the past – we then see him down by the water, moments later,
a little distance away from the time machine.
He’s old, having gone back and lived life, just like Tony had told him to try to do.
Cap gives Sam his shield, and passes on the Captain America alias to him.
We then see a wedding ring on his finger, and we cut to the final scene of the film,
where we see Steve dancing with Peggy Carter, finally happy.
WHO DIDN’T COME BACK Now we know whose gone from the MCU, let’s
talk about who didn’t come back – aka, when the snapped was reversed, who didn’t
we see?
Because that final battle scene had EVERYONE IN IT.
Almost.
One of the biggest things the film successfully did was make sure that the consequences of
Infinity War actually stuck – meaning, Gamora remained dead, Vision remained dead, Loki
remained dead.
But here’s the twist.
Gamora from 2014 came with 2014 Thanos and Nebula to the present day, and is now somewhere
in the MCU, unknown.
Loki in the 2012 timeline the Avengers travelled back to in order to get the stones from the
Battle of New York used the tesseract to teleport away, hence why Tony and Steve (who by the
way, settled their differences, yay!) go back to the 70s.
So that means there might be a chance we see him again.
More on that in a minute.
Vision, on the other hand, was no where to be seen.
We did get a nice throwback to him when we saw Tony with Howard Stark, and Howard got
into his car, driven by Jarvis, their butler, who had a very similar voice to Visions – it
was nice to see where tony’s inspiration came from.
THE FUTURE Speaking of Vision though, this brings us
to our next point – the future of the MCU.
We know that a bunch of series have been commissioned for Disney’s streaming service, including
a show featuring Hawkeye, one with Loki, one with Bucky and Falcon, and another with Scarlet
Witch and Vision.
So concerning the android, that can mean one of two things – somehow, the character will
be brought back, or, that was a way of avoiding spoilers as far as Marvel Studios is concerned,
and we’ll just be getting a show that follows Scarlet Witch.
It’ll be interesting to see in the coming days what details we’ll get on those spin
off series.
Considering the tentative names of the shows released don’t match up with the characters
– aka the falcon and the winter soldier – things might be changing.
Falcon is now Captain America.
So hey, there might be some news coming our way soon.
What else?
Well, Thor has seemingly joined the Guardians of the Galaxy.
His story ended with him hopping on the Guardians ship, and us getting some great little bickering
between him and Star Lord as to who the leader of the group was.
We also see Peter Quill trying to locate Gamora, to no avail.
Hawkeye, now with his family returned, had a scene with Scarlet Witch where he and Wanda
lament over the ones they’ve lost.
He’s getting his own show, and we can’t help but wonder if it’ll have something
to do with the West coast Avengers – in the comics, Hawkeye is the chair of the West
Coast Avengers, a team started by Vision in retaliation to the Secret Wars story event,
fulfilling the need of having more than one team of superheroes to help aid the Earth
in times of crisis.
What about Wanda?
Well, if her show doesn’t involve Vision, she might have something to do with the X-Men
– we saw some X-Men easter eggs in the scene where Scott Lang stumbles upon a memorial
for the Vanished, and looks for Cassie’s name – a few X-Men names were on the memorial.
Once again, head on over to our channel after this video for more info about those easter
eggs!
What about the rest of the Avengers team?
All whose left is Bruce Banner, really.
Will he be a part of the next iteration of Avengers?
Nicky Fury and Maria Hill were present at Iron Man’s funeral, meaning it’s likely
that Fury will want to continue the Avengers initiative, and who best to lead them then
the one who inspired the name of the initiative, Carol Danvers?
There’s also a lot of speculation that we’ll see fan favourite Valkyrie join the film.
And perhaps Spider-Man, who became an official Avengers in Infinity War, will also be a part
of that team.
Considering the trailers for his upcoming sequel depicted Nick Fury turning to him when
in a time of need, it’s likely that he’ll be a hero who steps up in the next couple
of years of MCU movies.
For now, we know that the next film in the pipeline is Spider-Man far from home, and
that we’ll be getting another Black Panther film and another Guardians sequel.
Whether or not that Guardians film will involve Thor though is to be determined.
END CREDITS SCENES There weren’t any!
Makes sense since this was the end of the Infinity Saga.
Instead, the mid credits featured a lovely montage of all of the characters who had appeared
in the MCU, or at least the major ones who made an appearance in Endgame.
Alright, there we have it friends!
A brief summary of what went down.
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