AVENGERS ENDGAME SPOILERS + MY THEORIES & COMMENTS
It’s been a week since I saw Endgame and I think it’s really the time for me to write some comments about it.
The First Part of the Movie
- It was kinda smart as in a couple of minutes it foiled almost every theory ever made about it.
- It was good as they showed us our heroes humanity, the way they struggled to move on after the snap and how alone, responsible and broken they felt.
- It was too long: they could’ve used half - or at least a third - of that time to cover some of the plot holes left at the end of the movie, or to show us something more interesting. For example, Imagine if there was no scene about Hulk taking pictures with his fans and instead of it we’d got Steve’s meeting with Red Skull. Wouldn’t it be amazing? Yes.
- Thor and Hulk were destroyed. Those characters went on a journey since we first met them, and starting from Ragnarok to finish with Endgame, they ended up going backwards instead of moving forward. They were hilarious in some moments, yes, but mostly they looked ridiculous and ooc. I mean… Hulk’s dab dance? WTF?! Thor spending his days playing fortnite? It looked a little excessive to me honestly.
- I loved the way Natasha and Steve kept counting on each other like the family they were supposed to be. They give each other strength and support, and love. They were amazing. Truly.
- Tony’s speech almost made me cry. Of course I knew that was not his end, - it was too soon -, but I almost cried anyway. Watching him suffering pained me. I was trying to figure out how they would manage to get out that situation when Carol showed up and I almost screamed. And CAN WE TALK ABOUT TONY LETTING NEBULA WIN, PLEASE?!
Basically, Ant man came back to our world to find out half of the population had been wiped away, and he has this idea of time traveling because why not? Let’s mess with our minds a little more.
They explained that if they went back, their past would not change anyway, but at the same time Bruce says that when they remove an Infinity stone from its timeline, they create an alternative reality. Now, sure Steve put them back to where they belonged when they were not of use to the Avengers anymore, but still, there’s a Loki who fled with the Tesseract in 2012 and I don’t think that Steve faced him and fixed it on his own: I mean, it took the six of them to defeat him the first time! So, didn’t that create a different reality? There is an Infinity stone out of place after all.
Still, I can’t see how Thanos could do the snap if his 2014 version is dead. All I’m saying is that the timeline we saw remains unchanged, but we can’t actually know whether there is an alternative timeline in which IW never happened or not. I like to think there is because this would mean that there is a reality where Nat, Tony and Steve are still alive, together and maybe happy. Just we’ll never see it. Unfortunately.
Plus, the soul stone. A soul for a soul, right? Given that Steve returned the stone, couldn’t he get Natasha back?
Tony. I expected Tony to die at the end of this movie but seriously guys that hurt too much, I was not ready at all. He finally had the family he deserved and wanted but could not sacrifice half of the living beings on earth just to keep his happiness. WHAT A CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. He started from fighting for himself to almost sacrifice himself in Avengers 1 and to actually do it in the end. Chapeau, Iron Man.
Steve. And here the thing gets complicated. I expected Steve to die as well,though his death would have broken me, - you know, favorite character and so on. We were ready for just one of them to die, so the only way to completely destroy our hearts was to kill both of them off. They didn’t, and somehow this was even worse.
It’s like we were robbed of our proper goodbye to Cap. I am, of course, happy he got the love of his life back (though I can’t see how this will not affect the timeline tbh), but up to Endgame, things happened. First of all, Sharon Carter. And here everything gets weird. Secondly, he made a journey during which he changed and came to accept what had happened to him. In the end, it was all thrown away. It’s kind of ooc for me that he just left Bucky in the present, friends who needed him, and went back to the past. And at the same time I can’t actually see him just sitting there when he could prevent shit to happen. Though he promised Nat to move on, and maybe, after losing Nat and Tony, he realized that the only way for him to move on was to go back. Because yes, I think he wouldn’t have come back if they had been alive. And Bucky followed his own path after CW, so they had already gone on separate ways.
As I said, it’s tricky. A lot.
It’s like Tony learnt from Cap to sacrifice himself and Cap learnt from Tony to put himself first for once.
Natasha’s death. That I didn’t expect. Well, actually I did, being her my second favorite character and being used to watching my favorite characters die all the time. But you know, I thought that the soul stone required the soul of the one you love the most, and there was no way that Clint loved her more than his family. So I thought he was the one better suited for the sacrifice. And instead that wasn’t the case and she died. But I didn’t want any of them to die anyway. And it hurt because she said “see you in a minute” and then she didn’t come back. And Steve’s reaction when he realized she was gone forever. My poor heart.
This movie truly messed up with me.
- Pepper was amazing and the scene of all women fighting side by side was MARVELOUS. I wish Natasha was there though.
- Poor Morgan lost his father, they were so cute and happy, my heart can’t handle this.
- Thor giving away his throne was… I don’t know, that’s tricky as well. His whole path was about becoming worthy and gaining the awareness he needed to be a just king. So it makes sense he didn’t feel like ruling at that moment, he lost himself and needed to find the right path again, but giving the throne away? Sounds too much to me imho. But I also don’t think we’ve seen all of Thor, so… Maybe they’ll fix it later on.
- Gamora. 2018 Gamora is dead, 2014 one is alive. What. About. Her? If the past remains unchanged, does it mean that she has only four years left to live (in perfect final destination style)? Or maybe she died when Tony snapped? Or she just run away to follow her own path again, as originally in 2014 she left Thanos and changed from a bad to a good guy, doing we don’t know what exactly. Maybe she’s meant to do it again, (just in the future) before meeting Quill again.
- The Scarlett Witch is FIRE. Can’t wait to see her show! (Also, Loki’s. I wonder if it will start from him fleeing with the Tesseract or if it will be a prequel like the movie about the Black Widow)
- Ronin. It was like Natasha and Clint’s position were reversed and this time it was down to Natasha to save him and she did it. She’s so loyal to her friends, her family, the family she found in the Avengers. She deserved so much better.
- I expected that they had to face either Loki (the one who fled with the Tesseract, after he did it), as a sort of coming back to the start, or Thanos from the past. It was Thanos and I was happy. I still hope we’ll see Loki with his character development intact again.
- The final battle was INCREDIBLE. AMAZING.
- When I was at the cinema, I was 99% sure there was no scene after the credits. I waited anyway. And it was only when I saw that black screen that I realized it was really, really over. That was the moment I had to repress other tears.
- I’m gonna stop now. I just want to say that, in spite of all the plot holes and things I don’t agree with and that were done, or things that I thought could’ve been done better, I loved this movie. It’s the end to an era that meant - and still means - a lot to me and it was AMAZING. I will bring all those characters and those stories with me forever. Nat, Steve and Tony in a special way. One day I’ll come to terms with the fact that this is all. But not today.
