The Ancient One: The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) died during Doctor Strange. Much of the script suggests a laid-back Richard Linklater movie with superheroes". [2] The website eventually calculated the film's final net profit as $890million, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participations, and other costs; box office grosses and home media revenues placed it first on their list of 2019's "Most Valuable Blockbusters". Thanos creator Jim Starlin also appears as a grieving man. Part of the journey is the end. This has no effect on her 2023 self: Tony Stark explains earlier in the movie that changing actions in the past doesnt have a butterfly effect in the present but rather creates a new, totally separate timeline. This is a reference to Marvel being absolutely physically and psychologically incapable of going 2 minutes without including a shitty joke line. In the present, an elderly Rogers passes his shield to Sam Wilson. [140], Following the release of the second trailer for Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) on May 6, Marvel began showing it at the end of Endgame screenings with a message before the film from Far From Home star Tom Holland telling the audience to stay until the end of the credits to see the trailer. Write to Eliana Dockterman at eliana.dockterman@time.com. [62] Co-director Joe Russo (credited as Gozie Agbo) has a cameo appearance as a grieving gay man, which is the first time an openly homosexual character has been portrayed in an MCU film. Thanos (Josh Brolin) is unequivocally defeated in Avengers: Endgame, to the point he dies twice! Growing up in the English countryside on a mixture of Star Wars, The Simpsons and Aardman, Alex is a lifelong movie obsessive. And it is also worth noting that my count doesn't include those in Thanos's Endgame army, not even Thanos himself. It does not pan out, and Thor pretty ruthlessly kills him. Sadly, this Nebula never got to have that redemption like her future self; she never got to embrace Gamora properly or see the evil in her father. [175] In its thirteenth weekend the film made $1.2million, which put it over the threshold to top Avatar's all-time record. The Infinity Stones werent meant to be used by the average human. None like this. [147] The IMAX Enhanced version of the film was made available on Disney+ beginning on November 12, 2021. Promotional partners included Stand Up to Cancer, Mastercard, Ulta Beauty, the Audi e-tron GT concept car (which appears in the film), McDonald's, GEICO, Coca-Cola, Google, General Mills, Hertz, Ziploc, Oppo, and Synchrony Financial. Still from 'Avengers: Endgame' featuring Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and Captain America/Steve Rogers (Chris Evans). Presumably the events of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. [91] Feige explained that the films were originally scheduled to be filmed simultaneously but were ultimately shot back-to-back, as "It became too complicated to cross-board them like that, and we found ourselvesagain, something would always pay the price. After all, characters like Black Panther and Spider-Man had to return for scheduled solo sequels and the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. "[198], Richard Brody, writing for The New Yorker, was more critical of the film, opining that the good acting was not matched by comparable skill from the directors. Of course, there were two Avengers who did die in Endgame. NEXT: 5 Best Things About Avengers Endgame (& The 5 Worst), Who Dies In Avengers: Endgame? Reveals Kraglin's Unseen Appearance in New Avengers: Endgame Photo", "Avengers: Endgame explained: Does Natalie Portman's Jane Foster return? Avengers: Endgame had just as heartbreaking results, with both fighting for the other to die, with Natasha eventually falling to her death, one that sent fans into a deep feeling of heartbreak and surprise. Next:Avengers: Endgame's Post-Credits Surprise Explained. More striking, Vision (Paul Bettany) isn't resurrected either. Several of the original Avengers die in their mission to bring back their disappeared fellow heroes. Answer (1 of 2): Onscreen? First is N atasha Romanoff aka Black Wido w (Scarlett Johannson), who sacrifices herself on Vormir so that the Avengers can attain the Soul Stone. This is the end of the 22-movie story that Marvel Studios has been telling for the past 11 years, so the stakes couldn't have been higher - and costs more brutal. Thanos (Josh Brolin) first dies in the present when Thor (Chris Hemsworth) cuts his head off, but thats not the end of the villain. This was even deemed to be the case after Thanos wiped out half of all life in the universe at the end of Avengers: Infinity War: although the likes of Black Panther, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man turned to dust, everybody knew they'd come back in the second part. It's become a pattern in superhero movies for "faceless armies" to be the ones to take the brunt of theheroes' hits. Tony Stark: Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) sacrificed himself in order to save the universe at the end of Avengers: Endgame. Kellyanne, George Conway, Divorcing After 22 Years, A Year On, Ukraine's Embattled Nuclear Plant Turned Russian 'Military Base', Greece To Wrap Up Search At Train Crash Site As Anger Simmers, China Parliament To Vote On State Reform Plan, New Cabinet, Mega Millions Jackpot Grows To $188 Million. With a new era beginning, the film has its share of death. [211] Shortly after, Destin Daniel Cretton, who directed Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), was confirmed as director of The Kang Dynasty. There arenot many cinematic achievements that are as impressive as what happened withthe Infinity Saga, the first twenty-three films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But there arefar sadder deaths. FULL SPOILERS ahead for Avengers: Endgame!. We wanted to be able to focus and shoot one movie and then focus and shoot another movie. But half their schoolmates would have stayed on earth, grown up and graduated.). According to an April announcement, we know now that Tom Hiddleston will reprise his role on an upcoming Disney+ show about Loki. Screen Rant's Managing Editor, Alex Leadbeater has been covering film online since 2012 and been a permanent fixture of SR since 2016. Heimdall: Thanos and his children murder Thors friend Heimdall (Idris Elba) when they invade Thors ship. The 2018 versions of Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Midnight all got killed in various ways inInfinity War. READ MORE: We Ranked Every Single Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie. [142][143], Avengers: Endgame was released in the US on digital download by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on July 30, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on August 13. Meanwhile, Rocket and Thor travel to Asgard in 2013;[d] Rocket extracts the Reality Stone from Jane Foster, while Thor gets encouragement from his mother, Frigga, and retrieves his old hammer, Mjolnir. Jarvis, the namesake of the Stark AI that helped create Vision, does appear inAvengers: Endgame played byAgent Carter's James D'Arcy. Offscreen may be a different question. I say that because, according to information provided by Marvel executives, from MCU . [173] It made $17.2million the following weekend (and a total of $22.3million over the four-day Memorial Day frame), crossing the $800million threshold domestically. The two films will serve as the conclusion to Phase Six of the MCU. They then spot an old Steve on a bench: He decided to stay in the past and live out his life with Peggy. READ MORE: How to Stream Every Single Marvel Movie. [4], The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 94%, with an average score of 8.2/10, based on 555 reviews. Avengers: Infinity War had lots of casualties, and new posters for Endgame clued us in on some more. They likely return to the Sanctum Sanctorum. 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First is Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow (Scarlett Johannson), who sacrifices herself on Vormir so that the Avengers can attain the Soul Stone. Black Widow: When Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) go to Voramir, they learn from Red Skull that they will have to sacrifice something they love in order to attain the Soul Stone. The climax of the saga - with Spider-Man:Far From Homebeing more of an epilogue - was Avengers:Endgame,a film with its flaws, but also a movie that provided a satisfying, emotional, and epic experience. Vision: It seems like the actual deaths not dustings that occurred in Avengers: Infinity War are permanent. If all those who were willed. A past version of Gamora (Zoe Saldana) is running around, and a past version of Loki (Tom Hiddleston) managed to sneak away from everyone after the Battle of New York using the Tesseract, meaning they can both show up again. [114], Silvestri described the score as having the most versatile tone of the franchise, ranging from "thunderous percussion and powerful brass" for the action sequences to minimalist, jazz-inspired music for Ant-Man and the Quantum Realm. There is no seeming impact on the timeline from this. 3 will probably follow his quest to find her. [205] In February 2022, the Avengers assembling moment was named one of the five finalists for Oscars Cheer Moment as part of the "Oscars Fan Favorite" contest for the 94th Academy Awards, despite the film not being eligible for other Academy Awards that year. A lot of characters die or stay dead in Avengers: Endgame. The re-release began on June 28 in the United States, across 1,040 theaters. [41][66] Katherine Langford was cast as an older Morgan, but her scene was cut from the final film. Originally in 2012, Loki was apprehended and . Phase 4? He - along with 2014 versions of the Black Order, Outriders and other forces - aredusted by Tony Stark's snap. When Tony snaps his fingers at the end of that battle, Thanos and all his henchman disappear. Starkleaves behind a hologram message for daughter, Morgan. In the three weeks it was measured by the service, the trailer was number one for all and had the top two percent of respondents express interest in seeing the film since the service's introduction in March 2018. Still from 'Avengers: Endgame' featuring Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). Rogers returns the Stones and Mjolnir to their proper timelines and remains to live with Carter in the past. 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[79] That same month, Kevin Feige said the films were titled as two parts of a single film because of the shared elements between the films, but he felt they would be "two distinct" films, not one story split across two films. She does have an Iron Man suit though if she wants to use it. 1 Film of All Time", "Gone with the Wind Still Beats Avengers: Endgame at the Box Office When Adjusted for Inflation", "Oh, Snap! [83] Feige and the Russo brothers indicated the title was being withheld because it would give away plot details for this film and Infinity War. [155], On May 4, the film's earnings at the global box office passed the entire theatrical run of Infinity War and became the fastest film ever to gross $2billion worldwide, amassing the amount in only 11 days (beating Avatar, which did so in 47 days). During the battle with Thanos, 2023 Nebula confronts 2014 Nebula and shoots her. He shows up as an old man to pass his shield off to Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie). [210] Feige later stated that the Russo brothers would not be returning to direct the films. "[194] Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Avengers: Endgame achieves and earns its climactic surge of feeling, even as it falls just short of real catharsis". At Stark Tower, Rogers retrieves the Mind Stone from Hydra sleeper agents, but Stark and Lang's attempt to steal the Space Stone fails, allowing 2012-Loki to escape with it. Rogers and Stark travel to Camp Lehigh in 1970, where Stark obtains an earlier version of the Space Stone and encounters his father, Howard. Black Panther/TChalla: Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) makes a regal reappearance right when Captain America looks like hes about to face Thanos alone. Iger added, "Given the popularity of the characters and given the popularity of the franchise, I don't think people should conclude there will never be another Avengers movie. [77] Radio Liberty alleged that the Russian government postponed the film's release in that country to promote Russian-produced films. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) died by taking the Infinity Stones from Thanos at the last second and using them to turn the purple alien and his crew to dust. In theaters April 26, 2019! He still may play a role in future Guardians movies. Avengers: Endgame marked an end to the MCU's Infinity Saga. Reuniting in the present, the Avengers place the Stones into a gauntlet that Stark, Banner, and Rocket have built. [197] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal acknowledged the unique achievement that Avengers: Endgame accomplished as the conclusion of the Infinity Saga, calling the final battle "inevitably unwieldy [] but thrilling all the same, and followed by a delicate coda. Perhaps the most significant criticism directed towards the MCU for a good while was the lack of memorable villains. Based in London, he oversees a global news & features team based in NY, LA and beyond. Who dies in Endgame? The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election. Hulk uses them to bring back everyone who disappeared half a decade prior just as Thanos jumps forward in time himself and attacks Avengers headquarters. The Thanos that the team fights in the finale is a version from 2014, just before Guardians of the Galaxy. The trailer also set a record for Twitter conversation for a film trailer in the first 24 hours, generating 549,000 mentions. [141] In June, Feige announced that Avengers: Endgame would be re-released in theaters with seven minutes of new post-credits footage, including a Stan Lee tribute, an unfinished deleted scene, and the opening scene of Far From Home. Since it looks as if Ned has not aged, he probably was caught up in the Snapture too, and now has returned. Thanos is determined to stop them and attacks the Avengers compound. Despite a brief jaunt in Mathematics at Durham University, film writing was always his calling. [115] The film also uses the Ant-Man (2015) theme by Christophe Beck, the Doctor Strange (2016) theme by Michael Giacchino, and the Captain Marvel theme by Pinar Toprak. Its unclear, however, if she survives the encounter. After traveling through time to return the Infinity Stones, Steve found Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and settled down with her to live happily ever after. It received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 92nd Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. [105] Downey, Evans, Ruffalo, Hemsworth, Johansson, and Renner were de-aged to their 2012 appearances for scenes recreated from The Avengers (2012). Ned: Peter Parker spots his best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) during his first day back at school. [c] At the Sanctum Sanctorum, Banner convinces the Ancient One to give him the Time Stone after promising to return the various Stones to their proper points in time. Leaves behind. "I am Iron Man,"is a line that will go down in history, and his final breath, alongside the reactions and funeral attendance from those who loved him, only made it thatmuch moreagonizing. Related:Avengers: Endgame's Ending & Marvel Movie Future Explained In Detail. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) suggests that Vision is permanently dead at the end of the film when she and Hawkeye reminisce over the loss of Vision and Black Widow, respectively. [124] In early December 2018, ahead of the first trailer's release, Graeme McMillan of The Hollywood Reporter spoke to the "fevered anticipation" surrounding it and felt "remarkable", which was mostly "fan-created, without [the] noticeable direction from Marvel or the filmmakers involved" and that the amount of knowledge surrounding the film without any type of promotion was "a kind of brand awareness" that the most distributors want for. Lussier felt Disney and Marvel could focus on the original Avengers team members, who make up the majority of the living characters, but noted it would be more beneficial to show the return of the dead characters, which would create a "mystery and curiosity about how they come back" and a "whole new level of interest" for the film "while having all the stars front and center". agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) shows up for the battle against Thanos and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) appears later at Tony Starks funeral. Thanos took the stone from him, but we dont know if Thanos killed the Collector or left him alive. This presumably means that there are two Steve Rogers in this universe: The one who was frozen in the lake, woke up and fights with the Avengers, and the time-traveling one who assumes a secret identity and spends his life with Peggy. Fast forward to 2023, or one year for viewers, and audiences see this same search for the Soul Stone, this time by Black Widow and Hawkeye. the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), returns for the final battle to fight alongside Ant-Man (Paul Rudd). Despite rumors swirling, he did not die in Avengers: Endgame, but Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) certainly isnt joining another fight. "[88] The 2013 Asgard scenes were shot at Durham Cathedral in Durham, England during production of Infinity War in early May 2017. (N.B. He escapes with the Tesseract during the time travel visit to the events of The Avengers, essentially splitting the timeline. Happy Hogan: Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) will probably play a mentorship role to Tony Stark and Pepper Potts daughter. Warning: This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Still from 'Avengers: Endgame' featuring Nebula (Karen Gillan). After over a decade of storytelling throughout 23 movies, the Infinity Saga has finally reached its finale with Avengers: Endgame.The Marvel Cinematic Universe went through some major changes over .