Monthly Archives: April 2019

This Minor Endgame Moment Is Actually Pretty Major

Warning! Full SPOILERS ahead for Avengers: Endgame!

Avengers: Endgame, the epic culmination of Marvel’s 22-film Infinity Saga, involves a major narrative time-jump for its characters, resurrecting those who fell in Avengers: Infinity War five years later.

The MCU timeline had generally been lined up with the year that an MCU movie came out. So that’s why the Battle of New York is definitively set in 2012, the year Marvel’s The Avengers was released. Of course, Spider-Man: Homecoming infamously mucked things up when it opened in 2017 by saying the Battle of New York happened eight years earlier, which would have set it in 2009 instead of 2012. And just to make things even more confusing, it turned out that Homecoming was actually set in 2016, the same year as Captain America: Civil War meaning the Avengers would have had to take place in 2008. But Endgame clearly reaffirms that the Battle of Manhattan took place in 2012 so Spider-Man: Homecoming messed up.

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Avengers: Endgame’s Biggest WTF Questions

Full spoilers follow for Avengers: Endgame! If you haven’t seen the movie yet and don’t want to know what happens, jump in your Quinjet and get out of here now…

The culmination of 11 years of Marvel movies has arrived, and Avengers: Endgame doesn’t disappoint… in raising lots of questions! Yeah, yeah, yeah, it also doesn’t disappoint in giving fans a great send-off of the first decade of the MCU’s shared mythology. But again, lots of questions too!

Let’s break down the biggest, most puzzling bits from the film, and maybe explain a few as well along the way…

Who Was the Mystery Kid at Tony Stark’s Funeral?

Tony Stark’s lakeside funeral includes appearances by all of the surviving Avengers as well as Michelle Pfeiffer’s Janet Van Dyne, Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill, Marisa Tomei’s Aunt May, William Hurt’s Thunderbolt Ross … and one particularly noticeable teenager who’s there all by himself. But who is he?

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Avengers: Endgame’s Biggest WTF Questions

Now that Avengers: Endgame is in its third weekend, maybe we can all put our heads together and answer some of the film's biggest WTF questions! Let's discuss them in the comments below after you read through them...

Full spoilers follow for Avengers: Endgame! If you haven’t seen the movie yet and don’t want to know what happens, jump in your Quinjet and get out of here now…

The culmination of 11 years of Marvel movies has arrived, and Avengers: Endgame doesn’t disappoint… in raising lots of questions! Yeah, yeah, yeah, it also doesn’t disappoint in giving fans a great send-off of the first decade of the MCU’s shared mythology. But again, lots of questions too!

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How Avengers: Endgame Picks Up On THAT Infinity War Plot Thread

Warning: This story contains FULL SPOILERS for Avengers: Endgame!

Thanks to a little time travel to the year 2014, Gamora plays a key role in Avengers: Endgame despite being killed by Thanos in Infinity War. However, her whereabouts at the end of the movie raise some questions, so here’s a breakdown of what happened to her and if the original Gamora is dead or alive.

Be sure to check out IGN's review of Avengers: Endgame!

First things first...

Is the Original Gamora Still Dead?

Unfortunately, all signs point to the original Gamora still being dead. Thanos did kill her to trade her soul for the Soul Stone in Infinity War, but with all the time travel hijinks, Black Widow also dying for the Soul Stone, and the Hulk snapping the Vanished back to life, it’s not unreasonable to think the original Gamora could have also found a way back to the land of the living. But as Hulk explained, he tried his hardest to bring Black Widow back to no avail, so we can assume the same rule applies to the original Gamora. It seems when a soul is traded for the Soul Stone, it’s a permanent exchange that not even the combined Infinity Stones can reverse.

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How Avengers: Endgame Picks Up On THAT Infinity War Plot Thread

Warning: This story contains FULL SPOILERS for Avengers: Endgame!

Thanks to a little time travel to the year 2014, Gamora plays a key role in Avengers: Endgame despite being killed by Thanos in Infinity War. However, her whereabouts at the end of the movie raise some questions, so here’s a breakdown of what happened to her and if the original Gamora is dead or alive.

Be sure to check out IGN's review of Avengers: Endgame!

First things first...

Is the Original Gamora Still Dead?

Unfortunately, all signs point to the original Gamora still being dead. Thanos did kill her to trade her soul for the Soul Stone in Infinity War, but with all the time travel hijinks, Black Widow also dying for the Soul Stone, and the Hulk snapping the Vanished back to life, it’s not unreasonable to think the original Gamora could have also found a way back to the land of the living. But as Hulk explained, he tried his hardest to bring Black Widow back to no avail, so we can assume the same rule applies to the original Gamora. It seems when a soul is traded for the Soul Stone, it’s a permanent exchange that not even the combined Infinity Stones can reverse.

Continue reading…