The Most Thought-Provoking Avengers: Endgame Theories Out There (Or At Least the Most Fun)
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It goes without question at this point that Avengers: Endgame is the most anticipated movie of 2019 and there are plenty of Avengers: Endgame theories floating around. The fact that advance tickets to Avengers: Endgame opening weekend are gone in many markets, and that when tickets were released, movie ticketing sites could not keep up — their websites crashing or holding wannabe ticket holders in long queues — it is clear that everyone wants to know how the dusted will return. (You’d think The Beatles were having a reunion concert, with John Lennon and George Harrison risen from the dead.) Or, if you’re a pessimist, you may believe that the Avengers will fail and Thanos victorious once again.
But, we know that isn’t entirely the case because Spider-Man: Far From Home releases in theaters in July 2019 – and Spider-Man was dusted in Avengers: Infinity War. So yea, there’s a big Avengers: Endgame spoiler for you: Some of the dusted will return in Avengers: Endgame. Who and how, though, is up for debate. But wait, what if Spider-Man: Far From Home takes place before Infinity War?
This is where Avengers: Endgame fan theories come into play. Avengers: Endgame fan theories have floated around since Avengers: Infinity War’s release but they went into hyperdrive after the first teaser trailer for Avengers: Endgame was released.
With every trailer since the theories have grown. Who is correct? Who is full of nonsense? Is anyone going to be right? They’ll be plenty of Avengers: Endgame spoilers come release date, especially since overseas markets get Avengers: Endgame on April 24 and the United States April 26.
Google translate may come in super handy if you want Avengers: Endgame spoilers opening weekend, or you can just wait and read a spoiler-filled review. For now, let’s take a look at the best Avengers: Endgame theories floating around the internet-verse. FYI: Everyone seems to believe that Scott (Ant-Man) in the Avengers: Endgame trailer appears years into the future at Avengers HQ, which will help make sense of some of these theories.
Avengers: Endgame Theories
6. Avengers: Endgame Will Feature Time Travel
It doesn’t take a genius to consider the possibility that the Avengers will travel back in time before the snap to thwart Thanos (or die trying). Or go forward and backward to make things right. This Avengers: Endgame time travel theory does not believe collecting the stones before Thanos is the answer (that’s too easy).
Speaking of time travelling, it's become pretty evident that the survivors of the Decimation will travel into the past to…do...something … I’m going to debunk a theory that became popular about why they go back in time. That theory is that they go back in time to collect the Infinity stones before Thanos. No. That can't be it. That's literally not possible. If they even attempted to get one stone, they ruin EVERYTHING. If you get one stone and take it to the future so that it doesn't exist at any point until when you arrive back in the present, all of reality will be changed.
You take the Tesseract for example, Red Skull never comes into possession of it and is never transports to Vormir to protect the soul stone, Captain America never gets to the future, Thanos is never able to do the snap and therefore, could cause massive repercussions. If you change ONE thing about the past, the future could gave catastrophic results. So, why did they go into the past? To get the necessary equipment required to build something that will allow them to go into the soul stone. Sounds crazy, right? But stay with me here.
Tony is saved somehow (Probably Captain Marvel) and is back on Earth with the Avengers. Antman has come back from the future with the Quantum Realm rigged van. Tony and Bruce figure out that they need to build something that saves everyone who died without changing the past. The equipment they need was destroyed or went missing in previous battles with enemies. So they build time travel watches using power from the Quantum Realm to retrieve equipment from the past without running into their past selves and before it's destroyed.
On a side note, this fan theorist thinks Captain America sacrifices himself to save everyone else. They are not alone.
“Let me be very clear.. Steve Rogers will die in this movie and the next Captain America is either the Winter Soldier (the star on his arm is there for a reason!!) or Falcon.. (thanks to comics!!)” — Hosnims/Reddit
5. Captain Marvel Will Work With Thanos (An Avengers: Endgame Theory With a Twist!)
Captain Marvel in Avengers: Endgame was a theory all on its own before Captain Marvel hit theaters, and now, she may not be a friend to the Avengers if you believe this Avengers: Endgame theory.
The more footage that is revealed in the trailers, the more I’ve begun to think that Captain Marvel’s introduction will take place near the beginning of the film.
In the footage shown at CinemaCon, it seems like almost immediately after she arrives at Avengers HQ, the team will depart for Titan 2 to face off with Thanos again. The difference this time is Captain Marvel is with them.
They will encounter Thanos, and just as he is about to succumb to Captain Marvel, he uses the Mind Stone to take control of her mind the same way Loki used it in The Avengers.
Thanos did not do this to any other heroes in Infinity War because he did not have the Mind Stone until the very end. And once he got it, there was no need to deploy the Stone’s power in that way. He just needed it to perform the Snap.
I think he will realize that Captain Marvel is a legitimate threat. So instead of just killing her, he will turn her against the rest of the Avengers. The Avengers will quickly retreat back to Earth, leaving Thanos with a mind-controlled Carol on Titan 2 who will effectively be his new Black Order, singlehandedly.
The Avengers will be forced to accept defeat. That is, until Scott Lang appears outside their HQ some years later... Tl;dr After battling Captain Marvel, Thanos will take control of her mind with the Mind Stone and use her as his new Black Order. Avengers will retreat knowing now there is REALLY no way to defeat Thanos.
4. Avengers: Endgame Theory That Speaks Chess
So after this last and possibly final trailer I started thinking a lot about where the term endgame comes from: a Chess game. I also thought of that image where Thor, Iron Man and Captain America are walking towards Thanos.
Considering that this may be early in the film. I believe that in one of these early battles against the mad titan there will be a great loss. That compared to what Tony Stark envisioned in Age of Ultron. Similar to chess, Tony would have loss many of his chess pieces, his friends, at the time: Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, Cap, Black Widow. Tony is in the Endgame.
Returning to earth, time will pass until he runs into Ant-man, this will give Tony the idea to travel through the quantum realm back in time. He will do this to acquire past avengers that he had lost, he will have to go to different timelines to achieve this. This is similar to a promotion move in Chess, when a pawn is replaced with a piece previously lost.
This is when we see our heroes walking in Avengers HQ with the quantum suits. This will be the key to stopping Thanos from initially acquiring all the stones. Thanos will find this out and come to Avengers HQ with 3 stones. Instead it will be a perfectly balanced battle in which the Avengers will have somehow collect 3 of the stones and Thanos will have the other 3, creating a perfectly balance, epic battle between the two opponents.
In order to beat the mad titan, Tony will have to sacrifice himself in order to defeat Thanos they will undo the snap. After the defeat of Thanos the OG avengers will return to their timeline but not before telling the new avengers that if they ever need them they know how to find them. This will be passing of the torch. We will be left with no original avenger in the MCU’s current Timeline, but will be able to recruit them from various timelines, allowing them to come back if they are ever needed.
I do believe that a lot of the trailer footage is very deceiving and very order. And it may be possible that not all the OG Avengers really die in our timeline.
3. The Dusted Are in the Soul World/Realm Via Quantum Realm
When dusted, you don’t die — you go somewhere else.
There are many theories out there that all the life that was dusted is actually in the soul world/realm. I agree on that. But hear me out. What if our heroes find a way to access the soul world but the people there don't want to be undusted.
We know that Gamora is in the soul world and also we know that she is a child there. It is safe to assume that she took a form (or the stone took it for her) when she was the happiest in her life, i. e. before Thanos killed her family and half her planet population. What if that is some kind of a general rule?
Whoever goes to the soul world takes a form of her/himself when that person was the happiest. Being in the happiest state the dusted character don't want to come back. But how do our heroes find a way to the soul world. My quess is through the quantum realm.
There are a number of theories suggesting that the Hank Pym technology will be used to time travel. I'm not excluding that possibility, but what if that same technology can be used to access the soul world also?
After IW the RB said that they skipped the Xandar scene because it would be just another grand fighting scene with a lot of CGI but with no actual emotions attached to it. Thanos collecting all the other stones had a lot emotions to it – death of Loki, Vision, Gamora, stabbing Tony. Anyway Russos have proven us that they don't just want to make a movie with a lot of special effects where the heroes will beat the shit out of the bad guy. They want to give us an emotional roller-coaster.
All the other theories here focused more on how will the Avengers defeat Thanos and undo the snap, with the possibility of either Cap or Tony dying, maybe some other characters. But knowing the Russos brothers work that just doesn't seem enough, in a sense that some mayor unexpected emotional twist is missing. Thanos wining in the A: IW was a huge shock for all of was. A: EG being the culmination of all Marvel movies will provide us with even greater shock.
My money is on the dusted people not wanting to come back after Tony, Bruce, Ant-man or someone else finds a way to reach them through quantum realm.
Everyone is obsessed with "undo-ing" the snap. What if they don't? What if instead Thanos didn't actually wipe out half the universe's inhabitants with the snap, but instead created an alternate universe and tossed half the occupants into this other universe via the "dusting". And this alternate universe is the one that Marvel moves forward with in the future. What if the people who lived at the end of Infinity War are actually the ones who get left behind?
... Everyone who got "dusted" is strongly implied to still be alive moving forward in the Marvel franchise (Spider-man, Nick Fury, Dr Strange, Black Panther, Wasp, Most of the Guardians, Bucky, etc). Everyone who is still alive at the end of Infinity War, have very uncertain futures in the movies moving forward (Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Nebula, etc). Looking at the list of "survivors", while it would be sad to no longer see them on the screen, they've kind of had their run already. All the new guys got snapped, all the veterans were left behind.
... If the snap gets undone, we still have headlining superheroes (Cap, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, etc) all waiting to launch into action to save the day again. That's a problem based on the future planned movie schedule. That means you'd have to kill off or explain why every major surviving character becomes retired after End Game's credits roll. That's difficult to achieve. Almost impossible to achieve even with 3 hours.
... People who were "snapped" exist in an alternate universe and will continue the Marvel franchise forward with limited knowledge of what happens in End Game. People who "survived" the snap will either be left behind in the old universe or sacrifice themselves to save the other universe. And the new universe is where all the new Fox Marvel characters will appear.
2. To Stop Thanos, Let Him Win in New York
Back to time travel, but in this instance, it’s back to the battle of New York for an Avengers: Endgame theory.
Tony Stark will realize that the Avengers can not win by defeating Thanos on present. He and Captain America will go back in time to the moment of New York invasion. We all know that Thanos was the one behind that invasion.
In the first Avengers movie, the plan was to close the portal which Loki opened in order to stop the invasion. However, now the plan has changed completely! Tony wants the invasion to succeed to that Thanos will come to earth and this will be the perfect chance to kill him before he has the infinity stones.
In the latest released Special Look clip of Avengers Endgame, we see Thanos being beamed to Earth. That’s because this is happening in the past during New York invasion where he still did not have the stones, and he is being beamed through the opened portal. You see Thanos in his full armour, because he was ready for war and ready to come to earth once his army takes over. We know that Thanos has retired after the snap and he put the armour down as the fight was over, and that is another evidence that this shot is taking place in the past. If you look closely, the shot was done carefully in order not to show the hands, because he does not have the Gauntlet yet!.. instead, he has his old double blade weapon.
Most probably, Captain America was shocked by this plan and that’s why we see Tony in a clip asking Captain America whether he trust him!! If you look closely, you will recognize that the back ground is the same scene of New York battle field.
In the last scene of the Special Look, we see Tony, Captain America and Thor approaching Thanos.. ready to fight him. ‘Thor’ that you see in this shot is the ‘old Thor’ from Avengers one.. we do not see Thor’s face in the shot as his long hair will be the spoiler for the entire shot!
In this scene, Thanos and Tony will have a conversation, and most probably Tony will use the expression: “I’m cursed with knowledge”, and that’s why Thanos used the same expression in Infinity War when he recognized Tony during the fight.
1. The Most Tragic Avengers: Endgame Theories: Everyone Dies!
If this is the end of the Avengers as we know them, might as well kill them all.
In this theory i'm referring to Hawkeye, Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor, Captain America, and the Hulk. I'm sure there are more reasons than we can all collectively think of for why they are calling it Avengers Endgame, but i think the biggest meaning behind it that it's truly the end for our original team.
Not saying that all of the original avengers will die some kind of heroic death, have some kind of ultimate sacrifice for the greater good, or some unfortunate betrayal from someone who was believed to be an ally. I think they will be clever in the way they decide to resolve each of the original Avenger's story arcs.
For instance, we know black widow has a prequel movie in the works, so i would not be surprised if she was killed in AE in some fashion. Hawkeye is also someone I believe will die in the movie because if what we all believe to be true about his family being snapped then Hawkeye really has nothing left to lose and will meet his demise.
Hulk and Thor are a little more difficult to predict,in my opinion. If the Hulk does turn into professor hulk there may not be a huge need for him from a story standpoint in some future movies. I kind of have a feeling the Hulk will meet his demise, just not sure how. I'm just trying to imagine the feeling of losing someone who we thought was indestructible and how it would cause a huge threat to the avengers. Thor may decide to leave earth to rebuild his home and start a new life away from the team. I could see Thor dying trying to seek vengeance against Thanos, but have a feeling he will come out alive.
Captain America and Iron Man are clearly the hardest to predict. If i were to take a guess, i would say Captain America would make an ultimate sacrifice of his life for everyone else's. Whatever that might mean in this film. Iron Man i could see being more in the realm of retirement with potentially having a baby on the way and being done with the whole "saving the earth" chapter in his life. I'm torn on Iron Man because i have a gut wrenching feeling we will lose both Captain America and Iron Man in this film. I don't want it to be true, but my hope is Iron Man retires instead of dies and just helps finance the team from the sidelines.
With some heroes surviving and others being their final film due to death, i think it would allow for some future potential story lines that Marvel hasn't even conceived yet. Think about an older Thor being gone for 10-15 years just for him to become an integral part of a future story line where they seek him out to get his help. Or Tony Stark just becoming more of a JARVIS type resource to the new Avengers after this phase is complete. Perhaps his financing and tech allows for some small cameo appearances. Hoping for the best, but have a feeling we all need to buckle up and prepare for the worst.
So this is a follow up on a theory someone just posted: What if everything we think we know about Endgame is wrong? What if everyone actually stays dead?
Let's look at the evidence. The only real evidence we have that people will be unsnapped is the spiderman FFH trailer, that Disney is greedy (Black Panther made a billion), and our own desperate desire to believe that the characters we love didn't die.
Let's look at each starting with spiderman, how do we know it happens after endgame? Yes one marvel producer, Amy Pascal said that it started after endgame. But that was back in 2017! Feige has never said that and she definitely wasn't high enough to know the whole script. What if FFH actually ends mintues before IW starts? What if the bus we see Peter on is actually taking him home from the trip and then BOOM he is in central park battling Pigface guy? We know that marvel lies, constantly, and maybe they decided to do a different spiderman like Miles Morales etc.
Black Panther is the second franchise that's ruined by the snap. But is it really? We have no real proof that Shuri is dead (again the trailer hints/darkened posters are almost blatant misdirects). And while people liked Wakanda, most of us agree Tchalla was less interesting than Shuri or Killmonger. What if Shuri is the new black panther? I mean Marvel definitely will want to include more diverse casts now that they've been called out on it and I think she would be awesome as the first black female main character. I don't think the BP franchise would take that big of hit if she replaced Tchalla.
Obviously we want the characters to come back, but the reality is I would be disappointed if they just undo everything, it is just bad storytelling. The only thing more shocking then IW is tricking everyone AGAIN in EG. People STILL don't believe marvel would kill everyone which is why it's a great idea. The comics are notorious for switching out characters all the time, what better way to start Phase 4 than the snap making the old cast gone and new people to take their place? It's a great oppourtunity with the new push to add diversity.
And while we can't trust Marvel the highest level people have mentioned multiple times that they won't be bring people back.
And for a bit of fun and my favorite comment to all of the Avengers: Endgame theories I read comes from GreggoryBasore.
Q: What aren’t we expecting in Avengers: Endgame?
A: The Spanish Inquisition
This is by no means all of the Avengers: Endgame theories floating around, but they are some of the best and most thought-provoking. If you want to read more, go to Reddit and see for yourself. Or just wait until you can see Avengers: Endgame in theaters and know exactly what Avengers: Endgame theories were correct (or totally bonkers). And grab your ticket now because there may not be any left in time for you to avoid spoilers.
