There stands a good chance that Avengers: Endgame might mark the final film for several
Marvel favorites, but in the weeks leading up to the film's launch, the cast is keeping
their minds off such grim outcomes.
The Endgame press tour has been filled with both laughter and emotional moments.
However, there's no escaping the fact that the end is nigh, and that Earth's Mightiest
Heroes will face a dangerous fight in Endgame.
One member of the Endgame team who isn't letting the rest of the cast forget that harrowing
reality is none other than Thanos actor Josh Brolin, who has delivered a terrifying reminder
to his fellow MCU stars.
Taking to Instagram, Brolin posted a photo of a set chair with the Mad Titan's name written
on it, plus the Infinity Gauntlet carefully sitting atop the seat's back.
He wrote in the caption:
"When you all are done with all your interviews and your talk shows, I'll slip this perfectly
fitting gauntlet back on and tell you a story about your future."
"He's pretty good at that."
"Right?"
Just as Brolin's post hints, the Avengers: Endgame crew has been incredibly busy promoting
the ensemble pic.
What they haven't been able to do during those events is, ironically, talk about what's coming
in Endgame, if they even know themselves.
"I didn't even get a whole script to this movie.
I don't know why.
The script I did get had dummy scenes in it."
Marvel is keeping an airtight lid on Endgame details, and for good reason, as the studio
doesn't want to ruin the movie-going experience for anyone or risk damaging what's meant to
be the culmination of 11 years of stories in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
That said, the interviews the Endgame stars are giving are essentially hype-boosters rather
than detail-dishings.
In some ways, the lack of plot specifics and the hesitancy to talk too much about Endgame
is a distraction from the inevitable: the un-dusted heroes are all but guaranteed to
go head-to-head with Thanos once more.
Still, everyone knows that's coming.
The Endgame teasers, specifically the most recent special-look trailer, point toward
the Avengers crafting a plan to take down the Mad Titan, reverse his Decimation, and
resurrect the fallen heroes, plus the billions upon billions of other lives that were lost
post-snap.
What that mission entails is a total mystery, though.
A theory that has gained more traction than others is that the team will gear up in their
new suits, which look kinda similar to the one Hank Pym wore in the Quantum Realm in
Ant-Man and the Wasp, and travel back in time to stop Thanos from ever coming close to getting
his hands on the Infinity Gauntlet.
Another notion is grounded in something Captain Marvel said in the latest look at Endgame:
"So let's get 'em.
Use them to bring everyone back."
"Just like that?"
"Yeah."
The heroes may not turn back the clock, but may instead remain in the existing timeline,
journeying through space to rip the Infinity Stones straight from Thanos' hand.
Speaking of the Infinity Gauntlet, there's also the idea that the mystical armored glove
won't be as powerful in Endgame as it was in the final moments of Infinity War, which
saw both the Gauntlet and Thanos' arm suffer damage as a result of the Snap.
The glimpses at Endgame we've gotten so far hint that the Gauntlet is charred, and the
Russo brothers previously revealed that, quote,
"The power that it takes to use all six stones is significant and clearly damaged the gauntlet
and damaged Thanos."
Joe Russo added during a Q&A session following a screening of Infinity War that Thanos' arm
is burned, and explained that the damage extends to other parts of his body, including anything
that's on his arm, like the Infinity Gauntlet.
Russo said:
"The physical price is the extreme power that it took to enact his plan, he paid for physically,
and when he sits down on the steps at the end of the movie you can see that it actually
carries up into his neck and onto his face.
His arm is f---ed up and anything attached to his arm is f---ed up."
So even though Thanos will evidently slip the Gauntlet back on and spin a terrifying
tale about what his vision of the future holds for the heroes he didn't kill in his Decimation,
there's a chance that the damage he has already done to the Gauntlet and to his own body will
throw a wrench in his overall plan, whatever that may be.
Right now, the ratio of answered questions to unsolved mysteries surrounding Avengers:
Endgame is pretty low, and no matter how hard we speculate about what could happen in the
film, the only way to get the truth is to wait patiently until the film opens in theaters
on April 26.
You know what that means.
"We're in the endgame now."
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