Now that I’ve seen Captain Marvel, I can’t help but think what Avengers: Endgame will bring.
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I’m thinking that since Captain Marvel got her powers from an infinity stone, that has to play into how they undo what Thanos did. I’m not sure how though.
They did establish that, because Scarlet Witch got her powers from an Infinity Stone, she could destroy one. I imagine that the same holds true for Captain Marvel.
I think the key is with what Dr. Strange said moments before his death: giving Thanos the time stone was the only possible way to win.
Since we saw that Strange, Iron Man, Spider Man, and half the Guardians nearly had the gauntlet off Thanos, I’m assuming that if they had taken the Gauntlet they would have ultimately lost. (Because they would hide it, Thanos would eventually come tracking all the stones again, yada yada)
Clue No. 2 is Thanos being in that alternate plane with young child Gamora.
I think EndGame is going to spend a lot of time inside Thanos’ head, he’ll find the guilt unbearable, he’ll realize that ultimately it was ineffective, and he’ll reverse what he’s done.
But that would be visually uninteresting, so instead there will be lots of angry superheroes, Ant-Man will use the quantum realm to climb inside Thanos’ head, and Natalie Portman will do something.
I don’t think Thanos will undo it himself. I think the Avengers will get the gauntlet, do an “undo” snap, then destroy it. The “how do they get it” is the big unknown for me.
And don’t forget, at they end of the movie, they’ll all stand on a hill, have a Coke, and sing.
I think Tony alive for the time being was the goal. I’m of the opinion that stopping Thanos/reversing the snap will require a sacrifice be made (one way or another), and Tony will be the one who dies. I’m hoping that Steve gets to be with Peggy somehow in the end as well.
Everyone (including me) is assuming that the snap will get reversed or made to have never happened through some kind of time travel or quantum realm shenanigans. I wonder how that will work for the version of the characters that survived the snap. Do they revert the snap and then blink out of existence as the timeline changes to one where the snap never happens?
My idea was that the plan will involve somehow communicating to Thor that he should go for the head in the fight with Thanos. I’m unsure on the logistics of how that might work though :).
I expect that several of the Avengers will be dead, including Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and a couple more. That will allow the franchise to continue with new, cheaper actors.
He also used it after the snap. He used the time stone to heal himself and the space stone to get out of there. I’m thinking he can still use the stone individually, but using them all at once again is out of the question.
Keep in mind: Strange has seen the future. So he not only knows that giving up the time stone lets Thanos undo the destruction of the mind stone, he knows exactly who dies as a result of the snap.
Letting Thanos have the stone when he did had to have some purpose, else he could have just given it up earlier and saved everyone some trouble. It can’t be to “save Tony”, because Tony’s imminent death was only imminent because Strange hadn’t yet yielded up the stone. Give it up at ANY point before then, and Tony survives anyway.
One possible reason to wait to give it up is that it affected who lived when the snap occurred. That could be because it was vital that Wanda destroy the mind stone first, it could be because exactly when the snap occurred affected who lived or died (like the time signature of the snap had an effect on the RNG), it could be because yielding it up earlier might have resulted in more people dying naturally before the snap for some reason, including some of the ones who actually survived it, etc.
It’s abundantly clear that Captain Marvel will have an important role to play in stopping Thanos. Whether that’s because she’s the only one who can actually go toe-to-toe with him, or because she has some power that allows her to further the plan (which it is pretty clear involves going back into the past; X-Men: Days of Future Past anyone?) is yet to be seen.
Loki is dead dead, so don’t look for too much help from him. Except in the past, where he’s likely to be on Thanos’ side as they deal with the events of the Battle of New York in an effort to gain control of either the mind stone or the space stone (or both).
See, this is why I’m thinking Thanos’ guilt will be an issue. The confrontation demonstrated to Thanos the difference between Quill’s love and Thanos’ love for Gamora – and her love for them.
It’s also why I don’t think it’ll be as simple as getting the gauntlet, because in all those possibilities, there weren’t others where Quill kept it together long enough for Spidey to pry the glove off the last finger?
The surviving Avengers all start hearing a distorted cover of “All Along the Watch Tower” before realizing that they are all Cylons, and always have been.
