Avengers: Endgame is just a week away, and fans are patiently waiting to see how our
favourite heroes are going to fix the mess Thanos started in Infinity War.
And who, if any, will save the day.
And who will perish at the hands of the Mad Titan.
So today on Beyond the Screen we’re going to be counting down the Top 10 Avengers Endgame
Theories.
Lets jump in.
10 Bucky Barnes Will Become Captain America Now, rumours have been abuzz about Captain
America no returning to the MCU following Endgame -- thus leading most fans to believe
that he will likely die during the battle to save the fallen.
So, this has left fans kicking around the idea that maybe someone will step up to replace
him -- and who will that be?
None other than his BFF Bucky Barnes.
Now, this wouldn’t be a huge shock as Barnes did become Captain America in the comics after
Steve was killed in Civil War.
However, as we know, the MCU hasn’t really been abiding by the comics.
Now, it’s not clear how they’ll make this work, but it’s a near certainty that if
Cap dies Bucky will take up the mantle of Captain America.
9 Nova Will Make An Appearance This is something comic fans have been hoping
to see for a very, very long time.
After Guardians of the Galaxy, the Power Stone remained on Xander, under the care of the
Nova Corps.
Leaving fans desperately hoping that when Thanos would arrive to claim it, a showdown
between the Mad Titan and Nova would ensue.
However, that didn’t happen, with Marvel having the fight take place-off screen and
glossing over it with exposition.
Many fans still hold out hope that Nova will make an appearance in Endgame.
Considering Thanos presumably destroyed the Nova Corps which would leave Nova pretty pissed
off.
President of Marvel, Kevin Feige, even hinted that Nova would be coming soon to a theatre
near you.
So, fingers crossed it’s Endgame.
8 Quicksilver Will Return From The Dead I mean, this is a stretch but I’m into it.
It was a devastating turn of events when Pietro Maximoff sacrificed himself in Age of Ultron
to save Hawkeye.
He is a hugely popular character in the comics, so it was shocking to see him killed off so
quickly with just the one film under his belt.
However, lets entertain the notion that Endgame will use time travel to take down Thanos -- and
thus bringing the dead back to life.
Couldn’t the dead be Quicksilver?
If behind the scenes pictures are anything to go by, Ant-Man winds up at the battle of
New York, an event that occurs long before we get to see Quicksilver.
Here’s hoping.
7 Captain America Will Die Yup, you all knew this one was coming.
Avengers: Endgame is set to be Chris Evans’s last movie, and as sad as it may be, it makes
a lot of since that his version of Cap will be big farewell in an epic moment of sacrifice
during the final battle.
However, as previously stated, it doesn’t mean it will be the end of Captain America.
In the comics the mantle has been passed along to Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson -- with most
hoping that Bucky will be the one to receive the Shield.
6 Loki Faked His Death...Again This isn’t new to Loki, oh no, as we know
he has faked his own death before.
However, something about his death in Infinity War felt a little too permanent for many fans
liking.
But, don’t fret, he may just be saved with some very interesting theories posed by some
sharp-eyes fans.
Redditor RadKarth states how in Thor: The Dark World, Loki fake his death, and he does
this by using a mirrored version of himself.
Now, if you look carefully, the reversed version of Loki uses his left hand.
When Loki attempt to stab Thanos at the beginning of Infinity War, he present the Tesseract
with his right hand and thrusts his dagger at Thanos with his left.
So, perhaps that version was actually a mirrored version of Loki, and he could still be alive
somewhere, and could still play an integral role in Endgame.
5 The Quantum Realm Might Save Everyone Now, the Quantum Realm is a tricky beast and
an incredibly dangerous dimension where the concepts of space and time become irrelevant.
To access the realm you must either use a Sling Ring or shrink yourself down to a subatomic
size using Pym Particles.
Now, right off the bat we know that the Stones don’t work inside of the Quantum Realm,
hence why Ant-Man wasn’t dusted at the end of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
One theory, however, suggest that Thanos caused a rift which split the universe in two.
The universe we saw at the end of Infinity War is the “normal” MCU, while the second
universe looks much the same, but is populated by the dusted heroes.
In order to return universe back to its original state, a tunnels needs to be found that can
bridge the gap.
This is where Ant-Man comes in, who may be the only hero capable of fixing this using
the Quantum Realm.
4 Iron Man Won’t Survive No surprise there, sadly.
Even before Infinity War was released theories were rampant that Tony wouldn’t survive,
and those theories have not died down.
Robert Downey Jr. has been Stark since 2008, with it seemingly looking like Downey is ready
to take a step back -- with him even expressing an interest in moving on to other roles outside
of the MCU.
So, what better way to make this happen than to kill him off?
However, other fans are predicting that Tony Stark will retire, with the actor making a
handful of cameo appearances in upcoming MCU movies.
We’ll just have to wait and see though.
3 The Dead Are In The Soul Stone We know very little about the Soul Stone -- with
fans only getting their first glimpse of it when Thanos sacrificed Gamora -- with Thanos
waking up with the Infinity Stone in his hand.
One fan theory states that perhaps her sacrifice didn’t reveal the stone, but instead it
turned Gamora herself into the Soul Stone.
This would make a lot of sense, considering following the snap Thanos sees a young Gamora
in a setting that looks a whole lot like the Soul Word, and the Soul Stone.
So, if this theory is correct it mean Thanos didn’t kill half the universe, they were
just transported inside the Soul Stone.
2 Doctor Strange Let It All Happen Now, this theory deviates from how the Avengers
will defeat Thanos, but instead suggest that Thanos may actual fix everything himself.
As we remember, painfully so, that the heroes on Titan almost removed the Gauntlet from
Thanos’s hand by exposing him to an emotional and mental attack by Mantis.
They do this by tapping directly into his mind, while Quill ruins the day by beating
the crap out of the Mad Titan and waking him from his trance-like state -- and thus allowing
him to eliminate half the life in the universe.
Now, this theory speculates that this played out exactly how Doctor Strange wanted.
As we know, Strange looked into over 14 million versions of the future and foresaw just one
where the heroes won.
Knowing this, he willingly gave up the Time Stone to Thanos, something he previously claimed
would never happen.
So, in this case Strange orchestrated the attack where Mantis and Quill force Thanos
to confront his emotions.
Thanos will be the only one able to undo what happened, and that moment of emotional vulnerability
will be what pushes him to reset everything.
1 Captain Marvel Will Save Everyone Ok, this one is dense but bare with me.
As we learn in Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers gets her powers from the Tesseract, aka, the
Space Stone.
Thus informing us that the most powerful hero in the MCU is powered by one of the Infinity
Stones.
So, with that being the case, Danver’s connection with the Space Stone suggest that she may
actually be able to wield its full power, like Thanos does in Infinity War, without
actually holding the stone itself.
Saying that, maybe the Avengers don’t need the Infinity Stone to undo Thanos’ Snap
in Endgame, if Captain Marvel’s powers can match that of the Space Stone.
Well, there we have it!
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