Read the Spanish version of this story here. After the dust batch of Thanos’ big snap in Avengers: Infinity War, it’s impossible not to…
Read the Spanish version of this story here.
After the dust batch of Thanos’ big snap in Avengers: Infinity War, it’s impossible not to go into Avengers: Endgame believing at least a few of our favorite characters had to come back. And hoping Cap and friends would somehow find the only way — the 1-in-14-million way — to save the day and make things right again.
If you haven’t watched Endgame and you’re still reading, I’m going to assume you don’t care about spoilers (which you can get plenty of here). Otherwise, consider yourself warned. I’m going to go through all the deaths, the deaths we hope may end up being something less definitive, and the actual resurrections in the latest MCU movie.
Endgame starts right where Infinity War left off. Instead of seeing countless people vanishing, we get a devastatingly intimate view of what the Snap does to loved ones as Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) heartbreakingly loses his wife and children.
The next victim of the movie is Captain America’s beard. We knew this major spoiler from trailers and posters, but that doesn’t make it any easier to lose Chris Evans’ heroic hirsuteness. Hair is a major symbol of how characters change during the time jump, and Cap’s clean-shaven chin represents his optimism for a clean slate.
Surprise! Next to die is none other than Thanos himself (Josh Brolin). Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) cuts him down to size, and then a frustrated Thor (Chris Hemsworth) does what he wishes he’d done in Infinity War. This had me thinking Endgame might pay homage to Psycho with a bold plot twist that the movie’s main bad guy wasn’t actually the main bad guy after all. Alas, time travel came to the rescue and Endgame proved not to be a Hitchcock movie.
Before his head was separated from his body, Thanos destroyed all the Infinity Stones.
Cut to five years later, which puts us in 2023. A random rat flicks a switch and brings Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) back from the Quantum Realm. I know, he wasn’t dead, just stranded, but it’s good to have him back. Especially because he pitches the whole time heist idea to Cap and the Avengers, setting the plot in motion and ultimately saving the universe. All thanks to that rat!
We already knew from posters showing the living in color and the dead in black and white that Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) was probably OK.
