- The first official details for
Avengers 4 have been revealed.
Details have been scarce on Avengers 4
with Marvel wanting to keep a tight lid
on what will happen in the follow up to Infinity War.
The house of ideas is so determined to keep the details
of the follow up a secret that they're
skipping Comic Con this year to avoid
spoiling the film.
No Hall H Marvel Studios panel,
now that's some serious commitment
to living a spoiler free existence.
That said, we do have some spoilers.
So, if for some reason,
and based on the box office returns,
that seems impossible,
you have not seen Avengers: Infinity War,
now is your spoiler warning.
Thanks to a license magazine called License Global,
new details on the plot of Avengers 4
have emerged this week that gives us
our very first synopsis of the fourth Avengers film.
And get ready, drum roll please, here it is.
"A culmination of 22 interconnected films
"the fourth installment of the Avengers saga
"will draw audiences to witness the turning point
"of this epic journey.
"Our beloved heroes will truly understand
"how fragile this reality is
"and the sacrifices that must be made to uphold it."
Whoa!
That was not very detailed at all.
What happens to Cap and Tony?
Will Gamora escape from the Soul Stone or not?
And will Spidey and T'Challa and Bucky,
and literally everyone who was dusted get undusted?
Alright, so we knew we wouldn't get that level of detail
from a simple synopsis,
especially this far out from the May 2019 release date,
but that was just straight up vague,
or at least vague on the surface.
There's not a lot to mine
from this synopsis at first glance.
In fact, the first part of the blurb could easily
describe Infinity War if you just swap out 22 for 18,
and fourth for third.
But that last part has gained some interest
on the interwebs, already sparking a whole bunch
of theories on what could happen
to the leftover Avengers in the aftermath
of Thanos' dusty snap.
Now, a couple of key details in the synopsis
are raising eyebrows, particularly the mentions of
sacrifices and reality.
We've already seen a lot of sacrifices in Infinity War.
Vision asking Scarlet Witch to destroy the Mind Stone,
which gave him life in an effort to keep that stone
out of Thanos' grasp,
and Gamora asking Star-Lord to kill her
so that she can't tell Thanos
where to find the Soul Stone,
then being sacrificed by her big purple dad anyway.
But we think the sacrifice mentioned here
means that the leftover characters
will have to take some kind of huge loss
to fix what went wrong in Infinity War.
Whether it's sacrificing their lives, minds,
bodies, or souls, it sounds like the remaining crew
will have to give up something major
to save those who were dusted.
And for the two most senior remaining Avengers,
Steve Rogers and Tony Stark,
this could mean they'd get their big out
in a noble way.
Maybe Cap dies or loses his super solider serum,
and finally grows old.
Or Tony Stark dies and downloads his consciousness
into an AI, becoming Jarvis 2.0.
Who knows?
There are still lots of possibilities.
And, as for that little mention of how fragile reality is,
well we already know that reality has been
dramatically altered following Thanos'
gauntlet assisted snap, which led to the loss
of half of the universes' population.
Could Thanos' little stunt have been like
pulling on a thread of a tapestry,
and now the fabric of reality is falling apart?
That certainly tracks with the synopsis,
but there are most likely other factors in play.
Now, we've previously theorized that Avengers 4
would have a time travel plot based on set photos
of the team in 2012's Avengers era New York,
but it looks like the Russo brothers
have debunked the time travel theory,
which has led the internet to offer up
an alternative, the BARF.
That's right, the binarily augmented
retro framing technology with the unfortunate acronym
was introduced by Tony in Captain America: Civil War,
and was seen in an Avengers 4 set photo.
Plus, in an interview on MTV's podcast,
Happy, Sad, Confused, back in January,
Joe Russo dropped a hint that we should consider
the BARF to get an idea of the direction of Avengers 4.
In any case, there are tons of ways that this could
all play out, but we've got a long time before
we'll even see a trailer,
and even longer before the movie hits theaters,
so we'll just store this reality gem in our pockets
and keep the theories coming because that's our job,
and we need them.
With any luck, Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel
will give us some more details
on how things will shake out in Avengers number 4.
But what do you folks think?
Is this enough info to spin a theory on?
How are you dealing with the long wait until Avengers 4?
And does the internet still care if Hawkeye
shows up in the next Avengers?
Who's Hawkeye? - [Man Off Camera] I forgot.
- I don't know.
Let's discuss.