Avengers: Endgame is the biggest Marvel movie (maybe the biggest movie movie?) ever made,
wrapping up the “Infinity Saga”, which includes all 22 MCU films
dating back to 2008’s Iron Man.
The three-hour movie is chock full of cameos of some of your favorite Marvel characters.
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The movie opens with Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, who was conspicuously absent from Infinity War.
We see him giving archery lessons to his highly-skilled daughter while his two sons and wife Laura
(Linda Cardellini) picnic in the background.
Before we get to spend too much time with the happy family, everyone but Clint
turns to dust.
Sorry, Hawkeye!
After that, we find Tony Stark & Nebula drifting in space.
Just before their ship runs out of oxygen, our newest (and most powerful) Avenger arrives:
Captain Marvel, who carries the ship home to Avengers HQ.
We see photos of some of the fallen, including former supporting players Dr. Selvig (Stellan
Skarsgård) and Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter.
Then, FIVE…
YEARS…
LATER… we head to a “Snap Support Group” where Steve Rogers is helping a group of survivors
move on from their losses.
He listens to a sad story from one of the bunch, none other than Joe Russo, one half
of the directing duo!
Joe’s had small roles in both Winter Soldier and Civil War, so now he’s got himself a
hat trick.
Also present is Jim Starlin, who wrote the Infinity Gauntlet comic and created Thanos,
Gamora, and Drax.
Meanwhile in San Francisco, a friendly mouse
(get it?)
helps Ant-Man return from the Quantum Realm.
He and the van are locked in a storage facility, but he exits with the help of a very confused
mustachioed guard, who is actually Ken Jeong.
Ken starred on Community and the pilot of that show was directed by, you guessed it,
The Russo Brothers.
After Scott arrives at Avengers HQ, the team plans out a “Time Heist” via the Quantum
Realm to recapture the Infinity Stones from years past.
Rocket & Professor Hulk retrieve Thor, who kind of let himself go the last few years.
He’s living in a coastal town dubbed “New Asgard,” alongside Ragnarok favorite Valkyrie
(Tessa Thompson) and his new roomies Korg and Miek.
With the team assembled for the Time Heist, we begin a massive onslaught of cameos, via
retellings of some benchmark moments in the MCU ...
First up is NEW YORK, 2012.
The first familiar face is Loki (who’s decidedly not dead) trying to weasel his way out of
prison time.
In walks agents of SHIELD - well, HYDRA, “but we didn’t know that yet” - Agents Brock
Rumlow (later known as Crossbones), Rollins, and Sitwell appear to guard the Mind Stone.
After an elevator ride and a fight with his younger self, Cap walks off with the stone.
But a run-in with Secretary Pierce, Robert Redford, and a very angry Hulk allows Loki
to vanish with the Tesseract, presumably to his Disney+ series.
Meanwhile over at the Sanctum Sanctorum, Hulk convinces The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton)
the benefits of taking the Time Stone to the future.
In ASGARD, 2013, Fat Thor and Rocket sneak around the castle to steal the Reality Stone
which is stuck inside Thor’s old flame Jane Foster.
Natalie Portman wakes up and walks off screen, in one of the quickest cameos in the whole
movie.
Thor does get some nice face time with his dearly departed mother Frigga, played again
by Rene Russo, who begs him to eat a salad.
Out in 2014 space, Rhodey and Nebula get the Power Stone away from Peter Quill on MORAG,
with Chris Pratt reprising his memorable opening dance sequence from Guardians vol 1.
Meanwhile, 2014 versions of Thanos, Gamora, Nebula and Ebony Maw race to Morag to foil
our heroes’ plans.
Nice to see Gamora & Nebula working together again, but man, they’re on the wrong side
this time …
With the loss of the tesseract, Tony & Cap must head farther back in time to NEW JERSEY
1970 to re-acquire it, as well as some Pym Particles from Camp Lehigh.
First up we see a hippie cruising past who’s none other than a 1970s version of
Stan “The Man” Lee.
Then, another Community star, Yvette Nicole Brown, gets suspicious of our time travelers.
We see a de-aged Michael Douglas as Hank Pym in his lab, and Tony gets - and gives - some
fatherly advice to Howard Stark, played again by John Slattery.
Steve unknowingly walks into the office of Peggy Carter (Haley Atwell), and on their
way out, Howard quickly asks his driver Jarvis why Tony looks so familiar.
Jarvis is played by James D’Arcy, who played the butler on ABC’s Agent Carter - making
him the first and only MCU actor to appear on TV before debuting on the big screen!
After a somber send-off for Natasha, a big green snap, and a sabotage of the time machine,
Thanos returns to Earth to enact his inevitable punishment.
Just as all hope is lost and Thanos’ entire army approaches (including Cull Obsidian,
Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive), a Moljiner-wielding Captain America looks around him to see every
fallen Avenger arriving through ‘sling rings.’
In addition to all of our favorite dusted heroes, we get the first appearance of Rescue,
aka Pepper Potts, as well as the first Avengers battle with The Wasp.
Plus, Captain Marvel returns from her interstellar mission and the female A-Force assembles in
a soon-to-be-iconic frame.
Once the battle ends, the team members return to their families for the first time
since the snap.
We see Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda, flanked by her two children.
Happy Hogan comforts young Morgan Stark, who inherited her father’s love of cheeseburgers.
And Peter heads back to school, greeted by his good pal Ned.
We’ll see you two in a couple months, Far from Home!
Our heroes gather one more time, to honor Tony Stark’s ultimate sacrifice.
As the camera pans from group to group, we see our first glimpses at the likes of
Thaddeus Ross,
Harley Keener (the kid from Iron Man 3, now a young adult)
Janet Van Dyne,
Aunt May,
Maria Hill,
and of course, Nick Fury.
Well, that wraps up our cameo list from Avengers: Endgame.
Did we miss anyone?
Who would you have liked to see on-screen one last time?
Let us know in the comments below.
Thanks for watching!