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Hey, what was that?
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I went forward in time to view alternate futures, to see all the possible outcomes of the coming conflict.
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How many did you see?
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14 ,605 ,000.
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How many did we win?
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One.
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That hesitation from Doctor Strange as he looks into this face.
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Did Doctor Strange look all the way into the future of Doctor Doom?
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Welcome back to New Rockstars.
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I'm Eric Boss, and this is a breakdown of everything you missed in 2018's Avengers Infinity War, the next title in our Doomsday Essential Breakdown series.
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Revisiting this movie for the first time in six years, we seriously found 200 details that we're going to share with you in a scene -by -scene breakdown of this movie,
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along with all of the parallels that the Russo Brothers seem to be bringing back in Avengers Doomsday.
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okay over the opening marvel studios title card we hear a
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distress signal being broadcast through space this is the asgardian refugee
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we are under assault i repeat we are under assault
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that is the voice of thor director kenneth branagh future star
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of christopher nolan's tenet interestingly this film bookends with a distress call from another director, director Nick Fury.
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This is a ship that we last saw at the end of Thor Ragnarok, with that film's mid -credits scene showing the coming attack from Thanos in the Black Order.
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Half of the Asgardians escaped this attack, including Valkyrie, Korg, and Meek to arrive at New Asgard in Avengers Endgame.
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You can actually see them fleeing in the Grandmaster's pleasure craft from Thor Ragnarok, the Commodore.
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That ship does seem to be just floating here, but I assume
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that they were able to get away before Thanos power -stoned
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statesman among the bodies on the ground we see is roscoe
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one of the gladiators from sakar who joined the rebellion with
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korg we seriously never caught this detail until we revisited the
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movie here loki rolls his eyes as ebony mom monologues as
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if he's heard these diatribes before my humble personage bows before
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your grandeur yes the words ebony ma says here are a direct quote from what mephisto says to thanos
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and the infinity gauntlet storyline by jim starlin loki has some history with Thanos.
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He was around Thanos for at least a year following the
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events of Thor before the Mad Titans sent Loki to Earth with the Mind Stone Scepter in the Chitauri army.
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Now Thanos preaches.
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I know what it's like to lose.
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Turns the legs to jelly.
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You talk too much.
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At 29 minutes of screen time, Thanos has the most screen time of any character in this film.
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Thor has only half, 14 and a half minutes.
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This framing here perfectly reflects that disparity, with the Avengers so small and defeated that we initially don't even recognize him at Thanos' feet.
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The writers framed Thanos as the true protagonist of the story, it really is his journey, making Thor his structural antagonist.
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Had Thor gone for the head, he would be the hero of the story.
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Instead, he's this movie's crazy axe murderer.
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So this whole idea of failure turning the legs to jelly, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers wobble off their feet by the end of this movie, and when Thanos fails in Avengers Endgame, he's gonna be all jelly too.
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Loki tries to call Thanos his bluff, but when he sees the damage the Power Stone can do to Thor, he relents and reveals the Tesseract.
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Thor thought it was destroyed on asgard as it was placed in odin's vault after the battle of new york
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but loki did indeed swipe it during ragnarok he reveals the
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tesseract out of thin air similar to how dr strange will
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reveal the time stone loki calls back tony in avengers i
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have an army we have a hulk we have a hulk thanos beats the crap out of hulk and
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if you look closely in many of the shots he seems
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to not be using the power stone though there are some
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shots where the power stone looks slightly illuminated it's kind of hard to know
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when he is and is not using it this is really the last of conqueror thanos that we see in this movie.
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He now removes his armor, retiring to a spiritual quest.
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Josh Brolin based his performance on Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.
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Two delusional baldies.
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Stubble is visible on his head, suggesting that he deliberately shaves it out of a similar dogmatic commitment.
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Seeing Hulk lose in a physical hand -to -hand fight in this movie just makes us very, very scared of Thanos in this moment.
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Unfortunately, it would start a trend in some of the titles after this, where Hulk was just unfortunately nerfed out of his true abilities.
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Heimdall summons the power of the All -Fathers to send Hulk back to Earth through the Bifrost as a warning.
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Loki mentioned in Avengers that dark magic could be used to teleport someone even without the Bifrost.
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With the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the All -Father have to muster to conjure you here?
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Your precious Earth.
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Here is actually where Ebony Maw does the humble personage line.
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While Mephisto was not part of this story, Sacha Baron Cohen, of course, will be cast as Mephisto in the Ironheart series, and it's rumored to appear again in Ghost Rider.
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Loki tries a hidden dagger trick on Thanos, the same one that he pulled on Thor in Avengers, but Thanos is too quick.
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He uses the space stone to stop the dagger in its place.
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Good thing he just put that stone in the gauntlet.
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Loki's death is preceded with his memory of Odin's recent death and acknowledgement of him as a son.
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I, Loki, Prince of Asgard, Odin's son.
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He even turns to the left with the same framing and expression when he says Odin's son.
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This Loki spent his time post -Battle of New York ruling Asgard by pretending to be his father figure of Odin, but eventually came to love Odin and see Thor as a true brother.
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However, Loki variant L1130, who was created during the time heist, will have to learn to love his family
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and become the god of stories through the centuries he spends
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in a time loop in the TVA trying to save the multiverse.
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There was a time when I thought Infinity War was a story of sacrifice, and it is in a way.
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The theme spoken in this movie is we don't trade lives.
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But on a deeper level, Loki and Heimdall's shocking early deaths establishes this as a story where Thanos' victory is already preordained.
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It's a story of mourning.
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How do we accept the deaths of loved ones?
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And what kind of monster would think that watching a loved one die would make things better?
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Thanos, that's who!
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Thanos is a psycho Malthusian eco -terrorist.
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He's wrong on so many levels, something that Cindy Moon will ask about in Spider -Man Brand New Day.
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But the Avengers' stubborn refusal to let any of them die, ever, is naive.
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In this movie, they are taught a brutal lesson in triage.
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They are able ultimately to undo everything Thanos does in the snap, but all the deaths before the snap cannot be undone.
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We'll have to see what lessons the Avengers take away from this encounter when they take on Doctor Doom in Doomsday.
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Will they be more willing to make those sacrifices knowing they can't just pull the time heist all over again?
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Holst's Bifrost trajectory takes them past the sun first and then past the moon.
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A Redditor charted this out to propose that there was a solar eclipse at this time, which the ancient Norse peoples interpreted as a sign of the coming Ragnarok apocalypse.
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Had they placed the eclipse over Norway, Hulk's vector would land him on the eastern seaboard.
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Banner lands in the Sanctum Sanctorum with a warning, just as Silver Surfer does in the Infinity Gauntlet comics.
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The Cloak of Levitation wraps around Doctor Strange.
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Later, Bruce Banner wears Strange's casual clothes.
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Tony Stark tells Pepper Potts about his vivid dream of a kid named Morgan, a dream that will come true in Avengers Endgame when they have a daughter named Morgan.
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As we learn in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, dreams are simply our view into the lives of different versions of ourselves across the multiverse.
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So Tony was peeping on a multiversal Tony that already had a Morgan.
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Now, there was a deleted version of the scene where Happy Hogan would have rolled up on a golf cart
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and then gone chasing after Bert, the paparazzi, played by Joe Russo.
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No, after that, you two should just elope.
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Because this media circus that's going on is driving me crazy.
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Okay.
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This is me on edge.
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I'm sorry.
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Because I'm trying to keep all the pictures out of the paper and off the internet so your wedding's not ruined.
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No one's working harder than you.
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Remember that kid from TMZ that you had me trade paint with on the FDR drive?
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Well, I got a case against me now.
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That's my fault?
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Yeah, it's your fault lose him half lose him half like
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the godfather it's really funny now you gotta go to court that's why
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when you get out of the cart
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and just de -stress just walk like this burt i see
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you burt hold on burt you son of a bitch come
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here burt come here man we gotta get him a girlfriend
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here in the scene we see how tony has installed a housing for his nano suit on his chest
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because he's not gonna be caught flat -footed pepper says
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that he doesn't need it
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but tony reassures her i'm just trying to protect us future us's
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and that's it just in case there's months from the closet instead of you know shirts tony's setting up
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that he needs a nano suit here now to protect the
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future versions of them is a hint of the time travel shenanigans
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that would round out this two -part story items in the past
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that protect the future dr strange shows up
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and bruce banner is back on earth for the first time since age of ultron
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and gives tony a desperate hug they all retreat back to the sanctum sanctorum where wong
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and dr strange catch tony up on infinity stones big banks and six elemental crystals huddling across the virgin universe
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These infinity stones each control an essential aspect of existence.
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In this scene, Tony looks at the cell phone that Steve Rogers gave him at the end of Civil War, and we see that there's an unopened text message on there.
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Like at some point, Steve Rogers tried to reach out to him to further explain his position, and Tony just never really opened it.
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Bruce gives the whole exposition on Thanos, and Tony doesn't even blink, because this is the moment he's been waiting for.
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Tony bickers with Strange.
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You could destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of.
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Did you seriously just say hitherto undreamt of?
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Are you seriously leaning on the cauldron of the cosmos?
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In the comics, Doctor Strange uses this cauldron of the cosmos to help Spider -Man look backwards in time, just like Strange's cryptic one plan will require the Avengers to do.
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And I love this detail.
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It's pretty easy to miss.
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But the Cloak of Levitation totally acts independently, kind of like Aladdin's magic carpet and smacks Tony here.
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In the scene, they mention making balloon animals, which is a nod to Doctor Strange's Jimmy Kimmel bit.
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And they also reference the Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor, a hunk of hulk of burning fudge, which we will see Bruce Banner eating in Avengers Endgame.
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Bruce is shocked to hear he's a flavor, probably because he wants a fat royalty check.
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Tony wants Doctor Strange to destroy the Time Stone, which he refuses to do.
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Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change.
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And this stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos.
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As we will see from the Ancient One in Avengers Endgame, the masters of the mystic arts are very serious about protecting the Time Stone.
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But Doctor Strange is right.
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Time is their best chance at defeating Thanos.
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Bruce tells Tony that Thor is gone, for in his mind, he must be dead.
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Here's where Tony pulls out the flip phone.
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It's actually a 2011 AT &T Z221 envelope icon.
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It's so funny to watch these earlier Marvel movies.
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They never have iPhones.
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Meanwhile, on a field trip, Peter Parker's Spidey Sense triggers his arm hairs, kind of like the tiny hair spiders actually use to sense vibrations.
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We're not showing you a photo because, you know, a lot of arachnophobes watch these videos and we don't want to freak you out.
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Peter slaps on his web shooters that activate around his wrists.
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He'll take these to Europe with him, using them against the water elemental in Venice.
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He leaves Stan Lee's school bus wearing a shirt reading, Lettuce, the Taste of Sadness.
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He's going to get a big mouthful of lettuce as this movie ends.
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He leaps off the Queensborough Bridge, because our boy is from Queens, after all.
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This is a bridge next to Roosevelt Island Tramway that Peter
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and MJ will stand on as they run from the press in Spider -Man No Way Home.
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This is also a bridge that I think goes over Roosevelt Island, where the DODC facility is, where that Ventmax sticker is that Sarah Gray will obsess over.
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As they face down Squidward and his big friend, Doctor Strange is able to conjure the spell known as the
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Winds of Watoom to nullify the wind damage being created by Thanos' Q -ship, a clear sign to Tony that magic is perhaps powerful enough to take on Thanos.
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Tony scoffs, but you know he's impressed by the world of magic he's suddenly being introduced to.
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Tony's new Mark 50 nanotech armor absorbs his sunglasses as he takes them off, Meaning he just did this as an intimidation tactic.
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These glasses are powered by Friday and look very similar to the Edith glasses that Tony will leave behind for Peter Parker.
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During this fight, Ebony Maw burns his hands on the Eye of Agamotto, like the Nazi with the headpiece in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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And then when Wong severs Cole Obsidian's hand, on the other side of the portal, you can see that Bruce Banner already had his fists up, ready to go.
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For this quick save, Tony invites Wong to his wedding.
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And considering Wong wasn't dusted, he might have actually gone.
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Peter Parker follows Tony's orders to save the wizard on it
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and ends up on the ascending spaceship uh mr stork i'm
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being beamed up i guess peter parker knows star wars
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and star trek tony shoots up to save peter inside his
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helmet you can see his nanotech preparing to assemble into the foot booster love
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that little detail later on in the movie
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when they're on titan tony's heads -up display shows the nanobots prepping the missiles
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that he's about to fire at thanos this booster was an upgrade
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that tony made after his failure to catch up with roadie in civil war he's not gonna let
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that happen to peter tony tells friday to unlock 17a one
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of many examples of the number 17 in the mcu this
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shoots out what becomes peter's iron spider suit this is a suit
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that he wanted to give to peter at the end of
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spider -man homecoming this suit was inspired by the civil war comics where it also had mechanical legs waldos
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which first appeared in amazing spider -man number 529 during the
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civil war event pepper pots calls tony as he exits earth's
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atmosphere with a call quickly dropping out this is similar to
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how tony tried to call pepper as he was guiding the
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nuke through the portal in the 2012 adventures film only that time Pepper didn't see the call.
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We catch up with the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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This is several years after we last saw them in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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2, noticed by Peter Quill's facial hair.
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They're singing along to Rubberman Man, which was a song written for the Spinner's producer's son to cheer him up for being teased about his weight.
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This song would be on Yondu's Zune, and in the next scene, Peter Quill gets fat shamed, so his real daddy is kind of cheering him up from beyond the grave.
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Teen Groot plays a handheld version of the arcade game Defender, somewhat similar to the arcade game Galaga
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that the S .H .I .E .L .D agent was playing on the Helicarrier in a 2012 Avengers film.
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Mantis has always been hilarious to watch the background of all these movies.
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After Peter tells them to put on their mean faces, she does practice gnashing her teeth.
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Later on in nowhere, she creeps with her hands and fingers folded downward like a praying mantis.
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They bring Thor on board and cannot help but comment on how chiseled he is.
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And when he wakes up, the God of Thunder learns about Gamora's history with a mad titan.
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Your father killed my brother.
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Oh boy.
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stepfather.
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Technically she hates him as much as you do.
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This echoes how in the first Avengers Thor was quick to point out
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that Loki was adopted when Natasha said that he murdered 80 civilians.
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When Thor approaches Gamora she reaches for her sword, God Slayer, to slay this god if she needs to.
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If you've been wondering how Thanos started off with a power stone already in his gauntlet, Thor informs the Guardians that Thanos stole it the previous week when he decimated Xandar.
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We still don't know how badly Xandar was destroyed by Thanos
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but we can assume that he and his Black Order killed off at least half of the population.
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Anything that was undone by Hulk's snap in Endgame only fixed what had been done after Thanos' original snap, so it would not have been done the destruction of Xandar.
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Hopefully, we're going to learn more about Xandar's fate in the upcoming Nova movie, written by Michael Waldron.
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Thor heads off to Nidavellir with Rocket and Groot to build a Thanos -killing weapon, since Mjolnir was destroyed by Hela in Ragnarok.
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Before leaving, he assures the Guardians that the two Infinity Stones on Earth are safely with the Avengers.
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Time and Mind Stones are safe on Earth, they're with the Avengers.
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The Avengers?
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The Earth's mightiest heroes.
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Like Kevin Bacon?
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He may be on the team.
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I don't know.
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I haven't been there in a while.
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Mantis will eventually kidnap Kevin Bacon in an effort to give
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her half -brother Peter Quill a Merry Christmas present in the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special.
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Quill wants a Thanos -killing weapon, too, but Thor warns.
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You simply lack the strength to wield them.
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Your bodies would crumple as your minds collapsed into madness.
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But not our boy Steve Rogers.
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He can wield both Mjolnir and Stormbreaker.
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Back on Earth, we jump to Edinburgh, Scotland, where Vision and Wanda have been hanging out.
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We learned in an Infinity War prelude comic that Wanda fled to Edinburgh to stay low after the events of Civil War.
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Vision found her there and they rekindled their budding romance.
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White Vision will return to Edinburgh in the upcoming Vision Quest series as he seeks to recover his memories.
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We see him working there in the trailer
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and we see the bar top that they used to frequent where they carved their initials into it in a heart.
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Wanda scans Vision's Mind Stone, visually foreshadowing the way that she'll blast this thing out of his head later.
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I just feel you also foreshadowing Vision's final words to her in this movie.
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I just feel you.
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And something that gets heartbreakingly called back in WandaVision.
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I can't feel you.
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Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight arrive to get the Mind Stone.
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Glaive stabs Vision with his glaive.
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It's a powerful weapon that can prevent Vision from phasing and can also block the energy beam from the stone.
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Wanda begins to stitch up the wound with magic when the backup arrives, but this is why Vision can no longer phase for the rest of the movie.
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Steve Rogers appears from behind a passing train as Silvestri's Avengers theme plays.
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Interesting that he appears from behind a train.
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The Russo brothers have recently, when talking about Avengers Doomsday, compared their process for that movie to Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.
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And memorably, Harmonica at the beginning of that movie appears from behind a train.
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This kind of makes me think
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that maybe they really do view Robert Downey Jr. as the stunt -casting good guy as the bad guy as Frank, and that Harmonica might be Steve Rogers' analog.
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Now remember, Steve tore off the star emblem from his suit.
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Through the tears underneath, Cap still wears the older scale mesh armor that he used to have.
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Natasha has gone blonde, as she's still in hiding following Civil War, and wears a gray vest.
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That we learn in the Black Widow film that she got from her sister figure, Yelena Belova.
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Both the vest and the hairstyle.
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Natasha manages to stab Glaive with the Glaive, causing him and Proxima Midnight to retreat.
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Natasha will think that she killed him when she runs into Proxima again in Wakanda.
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Where's the other friend?
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He will pay for his life with yours.
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But Proxima uses this ruse in order to get Glaive closer to Vision.
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We see the gang hopping into a Quinjet and head back to the Avengers compound, which steve calls home this calls back what he said at
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the end of age of ultron you're right i'm home
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but steve won't truly feel home until he stays in the past creating a branch timeline
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and probably screwing things up for dr doom we get a
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flashback of thanos's attack on gamora's home world the zehobore where he used the black order
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and the chitauri to kill off half of
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that planet society we see him meeting a young gamora played
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by ariana greenblatt ariana would go on to play young ahsoka
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tano in the live action ahsoka series the guardians arrive on nowhere
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which will later be their base of operations in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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3, as they sneak up on Thanos, you can hear him say to the collector, Everyone in the galaxy knows you'd sell your own brother
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if you thought it would add even the slightest trinket to your pathetic collection.
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His brother would be the Grand Master, played by Jeff Goldblum in Ragnarok.
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One of the collections in the vault is a Blue Man, a nod by the Russo brothers to the form that Tobias Funke took throughout Arrested Development.
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Worth noting that this intact vault was a reality stone illusion, so Thanos totally conjured a Blue Man from his own imagination.
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Another reality stone clue that fans spotted when the Blu -ray came out, when Gamora stabs Thanos, the dagger, after she pulls back, doesn't have Thanos' blood on it.
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Proof that this was actually an illusory stab.
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But yes, Thanos does already have the reality stone, formerly the Aether from Thor The Dark World.
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The stone glows red in his gauntlet, similar to a specific red gem that we noticed in the armor for Doctor Doom in the Avengers Doomsday trailer.
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We know the power the Infinity Stones have, so if Doctor Doom doesn't intend to save or reshape his universe in some way, he likely sought out the Infinity Stones in his own universe of the 828 Earth.
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Thanos uses the Reality Stone to break Drax into cubes and Mantis into ribbons, almost like how Wanda Maximoff spagettified Reed Richards in the 838 universe in Multiverse of Madness.
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Quill tries to fulfill his promise to kill Gamora instead of letting Thanos capture her, but Thanos turns his blasts into bubbles.
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This is the last time Quill will see this Gamora, so in a way, this is her moment of death for him.
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Back at Avengers HQ, Stephen McFeely cameos as one of Secretary Ross' aides.
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Natasha and Bruce reunite, having not seen each other since the end of Age of Ultron.
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But I'm sure Bruce is not ready to admit he now has a son named Scar with a terrible haircut.
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Vision says, Thanos threatens half the universe.
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One life cannot stand in the way of defeating him.
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But it should.
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We don't trade lives, Vision.
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The Avengers could have just skipped ahead to Vision's fate, but their stubbornness to surgically sustain his soul gives Thanos enough time to get the time stone and reverse whatever they do.
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That refusal to trade lives ends up costing everyone everything, forcing them to trade lives nonetheless, to mourn.
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In Wakanda, T 'Challa provides Bucky with his new vibranium arm, replacing the arm that Tony blasted off in Civil War.
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T 'Challa refers to him as the White Wolf, a moniker that comes up in the Falcon and the Winter Soldier series.
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There's a White Wolf in Marvel Comics, but it's not Bucky, rather a different foreigner who was adopted by King T 'Chaka after surviving a plane crash.
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Ebony Maw tortures Dr. Strange.
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They were originally designed for microsurgery.
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A cruel irony for Strange, whose pre -sorcerer specialty was microsurgery, some concept art revealed an alternate version of this scene with Tony saving Strange by putting him in the nanotech.
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And we know from behind -the -scenes footage
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that they did shoot some version of the scene where Tony Stark would have been wearing the Cloak of Levitation.
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Peter Parker's plan to save Doctor Strange is to blast Ebony
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Maw into space like Ripley does to the Xenomorph Queen in the really old movie Aliens.
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Though technically she does a similar trick at the end of the first Alien film.
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Peter tries to meet Strange's cloak of levitation, but it brushes him off.
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He'll spar with that same cloak in Spider -Man No Way Home.
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Strange asks if Peter is Tony's ward, a reference to Batman having Robin as his ward.
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Strange says...
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If it comes to saving you, or the kid, or the Time Stone, I will not hesitate to let either of you die.
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Finally, someone speaking some sense in this movie.
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The other Avengers' losses of loved ones and mentors felt like avoidable mistakes.
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Strange lost the Ancient One, but she taught him that death gives life meaning.
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Strange is totally willing to sacrifice others, even the Time Stone itself, if it means winning an endgame.
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We also know that Stephen Strange across the multiverse will go to extreme lengths to protect their universes.
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The Stephen Strange of the 838 universe formed the Illuminati to make tough decisions like this
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and even use the Darkhold in the effort to defeat that universe's Thanos while also wiping out an entire other universe.
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Thanos uses both the Power Stone and the Space Stone to separate Nebula's parts and torture each piece, double the amount of pain that he gave Thor, he tells Gamora.
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But I never taught you to lie.
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That's why you're so bad at it.
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In Guardians Volume 2, Nebula also was unable to lie.
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You know, you'd think an evil supervillain would learn how to properly lie.
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And in Endgame, she ends up echoing Thanos' lying policy.
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My father is many things.
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A liar is not one of them.
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Thanos reveals Nebula in Gamora's conversation from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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2, so there was some sort of map to the Soul Stone that Gamora burnt to ash.
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I wonder who originally made that map, and if that map exists in the 828 universe, is that how Doctor Doom could have found the Soul Stone in that reality?
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I don't know why, but the month of September always feels like a major transition for me.
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Like, I haven't been in high school since high school, but because I spent so many of my formative years treating September like the start of some big new adventure,
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it's just hard to flip that switch off and it's not just the residual inertia of going back to school.
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A lot of the patterns I developed before I had the right context or self -awareness to appreciate them still linger.
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Something my therapist has reminded me of that's really helpful is
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that now I can apply adult context and agency to some of those feelings.
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So yeah, it's September and if I'm feeling geared up for a big new adventure, why not just lean into it?
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On the Milano's pod ship, Thor laments his many losses, including his brother Loki, but he tries to amp himself up.
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Thanos is just the latest on a long line of bastards, and he'll be the latest to fill my vengeance.
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Fate wills it so.
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And what if you're wrong?
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Well, if I'm wrong, then what more could I lose?
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Thor will face an even greater enemy in the form of Dr. Doom in Doomsday, and at that point, he will have something more to lose his adopted daughter, Love.
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Thor, Rocket, and Groot find the ruins of Nidavellir and Eitri, played by Peter Dinklage.
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Eitri is pissed at first since they were supposed to be under Asgard's protection.
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Nidavellir is one of the nine realms, and with Odin dead and Ragnarok having come to pass, there was really no protection for the dwarves of Nidavellir.
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Eitri revealed that he had forged the Infinity Gauntlet with a mold.
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The screenwriters interpreted that the gauntlet Thanos had in the Age of Ultron post -credits scene was a practice gauntlet.
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So if that's true, that really leaves the MCU with four total gauntlets.
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There's the Age of You post -credit Practice Gauntlet, the Fake Gauntlet, and Odin's Vault, Thanos' Infinity War Gauntlet, and ultimately Tony Stark's Nano Gauntlet.
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They assemble a new weapon.
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In theory, it could even summon the Bifrost.
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It have a name?
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Stormbreaker.
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Stormbreaker is the name of the battle axe that Beta Ray Bill carries as Thor.
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It does have Bifrost powers.
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Notice the mold is engraved with a symbol
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that a bifrost scorches into the ground strange cushions the crash landing on titan for tony
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and peter oh you won one that tony will give strange
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and in the one out of 14 million 605 futures they succeed the one sacrifice play
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that strange reminds him of in endgame he always trembles his hand
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which he also does when confronting the guardians here and
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when surrendering the time stone just him tracking
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that his hands were never fully physically healed this faction of
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the guardians run into them as well since Nebula sent a message to Mantis while she escaped.
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Quill has his mask again even though that mask seemed to get destroyed in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2.
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This was a continuity error
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that kind of irked James Gunn since he had no control
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over the Guardians in this Russo's directed movie even though he is credited as a producer on it.
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This left him needing to have a contrived reason why Quill
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didn't have his mask in Volume 3 saying on Twitter
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that Quill left his mask in the desk drawer on Nowhere when he rushed off to save Rocket.
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But Gunn would kind of have his revenge by having Nebula
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somehow steal Bucky's vibranium arm in the Guardians holiday special and gifted to Rocket for Christmas.
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There never is an explanation of how Bucky has his arm again in Captain America Brave New World or Thunderbolts.
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I guess the Wakandans just gave him another one or he just somehow got it back.
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But yes, this fight is where we get this wonderful exchange.
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Where is Gamora?
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Yeah, I'll do you one better.
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Who's Gamora?
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I'll do you one better.
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Why is Gamora?
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I mean, that question of why is Gamora is kind of the thematic answer of this movie.
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Gamora represents the sacrifice that the protagonist of the story, Thanos, is willing to make, and the kind of sacrifice that the other antagonists, who we consider to be the heroes, is not willing to make.
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Once you understand that why of Gamora, this whole movie does turn on its thematic axis.
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I like the detail of the gravity on Titan being reduced, and we see Mantis bouncing and Drax yawning, which might not just be because he's bored, but because the reduced gravity would make the air thinner,
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resulting in him yawning in order to get more oxygen.
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We do see a variant version of Titan in Multiverse of Madness where the Illuminati were able to kill
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that Thanos thanks to the Darkhold and even drove Thanos' double -edged sword into his chest.
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The A38 Thanos was stopped by the Illuminati before he collected all the stones.
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You can see his gauntlet on Titan that he's missing the Mind Stone and the Time Stone, meaning that he didn't get all the way to Earth in that universe.
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While Doctor Strange reviews the 14 ,605 ,000 possible outcomes for their battle with Thanos, I like how the green rings around his forearms rotate back and forth.
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Kind of like he's scrubbing through film reels.
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This time spent studying the tape will also give him proper
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knowledge of what spells to throw at Thanos in their upcoming fight.
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But yes, here is the question we asked.
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Did Doctor Strange look all the way into the future beyond Endgame to see Doctor Doom in Doomsday in this moment?
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Well, Doomsday and Secret Wars are going to give us more context to what Doctor Strange knew and when he knew it.
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But I think a key detail we have to remember when it comes to the usage of the Time Stone, the user of the Time Stone can only see their own future or their own past.
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Because using the Time Stone has to fast forward or rewind a specific being.
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So when Strange fast forward into the future, since he got dusted, he would have had to skip past this dark period that he would have been unable to see.
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It would have gone straight from the moment he dusted on Titan to the moment he undusted five years later, went through one of Wong's portals, and showed up on the Battle of Earth.
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But using the Time Stone to glimpse into the future doesn't give you omniscience to everything that happens everywhere in that future.
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So for the purposes of Tony Stark here, Stephen Strange was only able to see himself in the future in the Battle of Earth in
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that moment that he told Tony Stark that he would have to sacrifice himself
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and specifically Tony Stark's sacrificial play in his death.
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And that's probably the source of Doctor Strange's nerves here
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because he understands that at some point he's going to have to tell this guy that he's going to have to die.
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It's also crazy to consider that Doctor Strange knows that in order to make all of this possible, in order to have any kind of reality on the other side of that blackout period, that he would have to surrender the Time Stone
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and kind of let Thanos win so that there would be one reality on the other side of that, meaning that the surviving Avengers figured out some way around it.
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And that Doctor Strange, once he glimpsed ahead to that moment in October 2023, was able to deduce that the surviving Avengers must have used time travel,
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a time heist, to bring back stones that would have been otherwise destroyed.
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But either way, Doctor Strange is so nervous, partly because he knows that Tony Stark is going to have to sacrifice himself.
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But by extending that logic, using the Time Stone on yourself only gives you a vision of where you are in the future.
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Maybe Strange also looked further and got a glimpse of himself in the events of Multiverse of Madness,
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learning about incursions, and then eventually serving someone else in an unfamiliar kingdom with his hair in a ponytail.
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So rather than recognizing the face he's seeing now as the face of the Doctor Doom figure he was serving, I just think Strange might sense a kind of familiarity,
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that there's some kind of cosmic connection between the really creepy beyond, beyond fate that he saw and where he is right now.
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He's just a little confused.
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On Vormir, Thanos and Gamora encounter Red Skull, the big surprise cameo of this movie.
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Red Skull was teleported right here by the Space Stone
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that was held inside of the Tesseract when he held it in Captain America the First Avenger.
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Now he floats like a ghostly figure.
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Red Skull is played here by Ross Marquand, replacing Hugo Weaving from the first Captain America movie.
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Marquand is a prolific voice actor, providing the voice of Ultron in the animated What If series and Professor X and Apocalypse on X -Men 97.
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He says, Thanos' father was Alars, an Eternal.
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We didn't learn anything new about Thanos in the Eternals film, but we did meet his adopted brother Starfox, who is an Eternal who fled Titan before it was destroyed.
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Because there were Eternals on Titan, does that mean that there was also a Celestial Seed inside of that planet?
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And because life on Titan died out due to lack of resources, does that mean that the Celestial Seed inside of it never grew?
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Maybe that's what Thanos was up to all along, trying to stop these dang Celestials from hatching by reducing populations.
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In this moment, Thanos puts his hand back to keep Gamora behind him, a protective instinct setting up his coming sacrifice of her as even more heartbreaking.
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And the fact that Red Skull identified her as daughter of Thanos, despite him not being her real father and kidnapping her, meaning
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that he was the truest parental figure to her soul during
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this whole sequence thanos carries gamora's all things balanced dagger in his belt we only realize it
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when she snatches it to end her own life
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but it's another bubbles reality stone illusion meaning that he kept up
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that illusion the whole time as a trick to just keep her online with the possible failsafe
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that she would have to take her own life one final
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lesson in using this dagger as a symbol for his dark
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understanding of balance i love how thanos's true love tear trickles right into the trench
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that was already on his cheek as if this guy was designed and naturally selected to mourn.
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As we see Gamora dead on the bottom of the cliff, if you look closely, you can see bloodstains on the ground around her, meaning that others over the years must have tried to acquire the Soul Stone and failed.
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Their sacrifices were for nothing, because they didn't really love that much the person they threw off the cliff.
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Cap and the gang arrive to the Golden City of Wakanda.
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Bruce embarrasses himself by bowing.
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He couldn't even pronounce Wakanda a few years ago.
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Wakanda.
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Wakanda.
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Shuri gets to work on vision while T 'Challa brings his forces to face the incoming threat, including getting Steve a shield.
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Get this man a shield.
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Steve had left his shield with Tony Stark at the end of Civil War.
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T 'Challa embraces M 'Baku on the battlefield.
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M 'Baku will eventually take T 'Challa's place as leader of Wakanda, following the events of Black Panther Wakanda forever.
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As one of the landing craft crashes into the dome, you can see on War Machine's chest the name Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, with R .E .T at the end, indicating he's retired from the military.
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You can also see later that the armor is now marked 004, an upgrade to the Mark III suit in Civil War, and it still bears the Air Force insignia.
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T 'Challa tells the Black Order, Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood.
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Solid foreshadowing, Thanos gets his dust and the blood of those he wounds.
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That victory again comes from Thanos' willingness to trade lives.
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They're killing themselves.
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Natasha's concerned look signals her dread.
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We don't trade lives, but they do?
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Yeah, they're probably gonna win.
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The Wakandans chant.
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Keep on back!
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Keep on back!
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This was the war cry that translates to hold or hold fast.
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We actually heard it first in Black Panther.
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Keep on back!
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Keep on back!
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In that context, it was the River Tribe's call.
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T 'Challa is saluting and paying respects to his love Nakia, mother of his child.
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T 'Challa and Cap lead the charge.
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They both have enhanced speed, but T 'Challa is just a step ahead.
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The last time they sprinted together, one was chasing the other in Civil War.
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Now they run together side by side, Cap on his left.
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E -Tree smashes the Stormbreaker mold, meaning this weapon could never be forged again.
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The molten Uru also appears to flow into a second forge, which at first I thought was for the back half of the hammer, but both pieces are beside each other when he breaks the mold.
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Maybe it's the missing handle, but that would be a weird thing to make out of Uru.
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Just saying, Eitri might have been using the company printer ink for some personal projects.
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Along the bladed edge of Stormbreaker, Asgardian runes translate to loose the dogs of war, a famous paraphrase from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.
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Groot winces as his branches singe, and he cuts off his arm for the handle.
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Groot, like Doctor Strange, gets that personal sacrifice as key to victory.
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And now, anytime Thor swings Stormbreaker, Groot will kind of be at his side.
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I like the detail in Thor Love and Thunder that Thor ends up planting this handle, kind of like a tree, because it is kind of a living part of Groot.
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As a Flora Colossi, as Thor calls Stormbreaker, it rises and crackles with lightning, as Thor is the one imbuing it with the power of the God of Thunder.
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The three ride the Bifrost to Wakanda, leaving the burned symbol on the ground.
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Bring me Thanos!
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It's really fun to rewatch this moment.
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You kind of just want to stand up and clap here.
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But you have to remember, Thor is kind of the antagonist due to the movie's structure, so this is kind of like Michael Myers showing up in the final fight.
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Thor's appearance rallies the other heroes, especially Bruce Banner, who is relieved to see his buddy Thor actually did survive that encounter with Thanos on a statesman.
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Meanwhile on Titan, Thanos arrives to find the Maw dead, but the Time Stone here on Doctor Strange.
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He explains his mission to Strange.
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With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers.
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They would all cease to exist, and I call that mercy.
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And then what?
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I finally rest and watch the sunrise on a grateful universe.
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The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
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Perhaps Dr. Doom will feel the same way in Doomsday, making the hard choices to save a universe from destruction.
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But Doom's desire could be to watch the sunrise on a grateful battle world.
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Thanos begins to use his stones in these interesting combinations, which you can really tell because they light up when they're being used.
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He uses the Power Stone to blast through Tony's debris and the Reality Stone to turn that into bats.
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He combines the Power Stone and the Space Stone to harness fire from Tony's explosives and redirect them as a flamethrower.
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Everyone begins attacking as Dr. Strange conjures the Sacred Sword of Ashanti to attack the Mad Titan.
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Strange uses his Cloak of Levitation to stop Thanos from making a fist, while Spider -Man punches and kicks coming through portals.
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And when that doesn't work, Strange uses a spell known as the Crimson Bands of Sitorak to wrap around the gauntlet, the device used in the New York Sanctum Sanctorum that Strange used to capture Kaecilius,
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and the first Dr. Strange was also called the Crimson Bands of Sitorak.
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Peter Quill uses his Gravity Snare on Thanos, the same device that he used to hook the Power Stone orb in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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1, using it again to regain a type of stone possession.
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And I love how the Russos show these inserts where we
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can see the gauntlet just starting to come off of Thanos' hand.
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We can see his palm.
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We were so close to winning.
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But Peter Quill learns the wrong thing at the wrong time.
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Where is she?
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He mourns!
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What does this monster have to mourn?
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Amora.
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What?
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He took her to Wormir.
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He came back with the Solstil. that she did it.
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Tell me you didn't do it.
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I had to.
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No, you did it.
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Stop.
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Stop.
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Stop.
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Now coming out of Mantis's mind sedation, Thanos tosses the heroes off of him and blasts Peter Quill and Drax and Nebula with the Power Stone.
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But when we come back to Thanos, the Soul Stone is weirdly glowing.
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That's.. definitely the orange one on his knuckle.
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Maybe he spared Nebula's soul here, or maybe he needed to combine the soul combination since Peter Quill is half celestial.
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Thanos uses another stone combination of the power stone to smash up a nearby moon with chunks, and then the space stone to spike all of those chunks down at them.
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Back in Wakanda, Rocket again shows his interest in spare body parts.
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How much for the arm?
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Oh, I'll get that arm.
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As mentioned before, Nebula will get that arm for Rocket in the Guardians Holiday Special.
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There's a lot of really fun character vignette moments here.
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Thor
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and Steve also catch up as they haven't seen each other since Thor left Earth at the end of Age of Ultron.
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Wanda comes down to the battlefield
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and shows off some of her immense chaos magic as she tosses aside the giant mechanical tunneling blades.
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Okoye rightly quips, Wanda will end up going one -on -one with Thanos later in this movie
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and then once again during Endgame and hold her own.
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Banner continues to beg Hulk to come out, but Hulk refuses there actually was a deleted scene during this moment where banner
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and hulk had a whole conversation in the hulk buster suit
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and ultimately he would have burst out of it as smart hulk something
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that was also teased in the promotional images for the movie and the very first teaser in november 2017.
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smart hulk would have then met sam and natasha in another deleted scene you want to take this one
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i could decide to show up here we go I learned that That's okay
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We worked it out In fact, I'd say it's gone from worst case scenario to Well,
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I don't know if it's best case But at least it feels very,
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very manageable I hear it too How are we doing out there?
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We're doing okay.
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But ultimately, the Russos decided to save Smart Hulk for Avengers Endgame
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and purposely used shots of Hulk in the trailer
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that were not in the final film to combat all the spoilers that were coming out ahead of the film's release.
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Banner uses his handy Hulkbuster arm to clamp onto Cull Obsidian's stump from his severed arm earlier, blasting him off to his death, similar to a move
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that Tony Stark used on the Hulk with his armor during their battle in Johannesburg in Age of Ultron.
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Vision also comes full circle in his killing of Corvus Glaive, surprise impaling him with the same weapon that Corvus used on him in Edinburgh.
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Wanda, Natasha, and Okoye finish off Proxima Midnight, so even though the Avengers lose to Thanos, they do manage to kill off all of the Black Order.
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Well done.
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We don't want to kill you.
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But we will.
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That's really gross.
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Back on Titan, we get a badass wizard duel between Thanos
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and Strange that the writer is actually based on the Vincent Price vs. Boris Karloff duel in The Raven.
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Strange first fires the bolts of Balthak at Thanos.
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Thanos replies to the blast from the Power Stone, which Strange blocks with the Mirror Dimension.
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When he tries to trap Thanos to the Mirror Dimension, Thanos shatters it with the Power Stone and then uses the Space Stone to turn these pieces into a black hole.
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Strange blocks that with the Shield of Seraphim
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and then transmutes the pieces into butterflies with a spell known as the Hoary Hosts of Hogoth.
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It's an effect similar to Thanos' bats, just much sweeter.
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The writers also revealed
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that Strange was originally going to drag Thanos into a vision of the bones of his victims
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and a trial with the Living Tribunal, judging him guilty.
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You can see some of this in the official concept art book.
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Strange uses his Images of Icon spell to duplicate himself, but Thanos uses the Soul Stone again to identify
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which Strange is the real one and the Power Stone to wipe out all of the duplicates.
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Since these were actual copies of Strange and not just projected illusions like Loki would create, you can actually see the multiple souls quickly jumping back into
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strange's prime body similar to a soul returning after an astral projection thanos then uses the space stone
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and reality stone to pull strange into his grasp moving all of the space around him
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and under his feet as well
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so now the fight spilled over into a tony stark versus thanos fight
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and this fight actually echoes tony's past foes in reverse order
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he has a thruster powered hook like his shotgun armor against
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aldrich killian in iron man 3 this actually cuts thanos all
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that for a drop of blood echoing iron man 2 whiplash's line
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if you can make god bleed then people will cease to believe in him
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and then after stabbing tony thanos tilts over paralyzed tony just
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like obadiah stain did in the first iron man thanos smartly focuses on tony stark's head during this battle knowing
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that he would waste nanobots protecting his brain strange gives up
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the time stone to save tony stark knowing it's going to be part of the one plan that he saw working.
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And that future of the endgame of this grand chess match is what Doctor Strange references here with this line.
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We're in the endgame now.
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Back in Wakanda, Steve is actually able to hold back Thanos.
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I like how Josh Brolin includes a subtle look of surprise and kind of respect that this Terran can hold him back.
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We see Thanos doing the slow motion certain death march.
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And while he could completely kill every person he faces, I kind of like the detail that he spares their lives, knowing that the fair, cruel justice of just snapping the six stones will select
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which of them were designed to live and die.
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He really doesn't want to take any more lives than he has to here.
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Wanda starts to destroy the Mind Stone while holding back Thanos and his five Infinity Stones.
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This woman is strong.
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She manages to kill Vision, one of his many deaths to come in the MCU.
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Thanos brings him back with the Time Stone and then kills him again by yanking out the Mind Stone.
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Vision's lifeless body will be brought back to life by Tyler Hayward at Sword in the WandaVision series, and that White Vision will return to Edinburgh for Vision Quest.
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Thor throws Stormbreaker at Thanos, which is able to cut through the power of all six Infinity Stones,
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which means that Doctor Doom must be incredibly powerful to stop that same axe with only his finger in Doomsday.
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But Thor is blinded by vengeance, and he surrenders the hero title to Thanos, because victory would have been his if he aimed a little higher.
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You should have gone for the head.
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i love thor's no like any crazy antagonist the moment he gets defeated
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thanos arrives in the soul stone realm to be teased by young gamora presumably smart hulk
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and tony went there too after their snaps in endgame they
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did film a deleted scene with tony stark meeting a grown -up morgan in the soul stone realm
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and i think the filmmaker said that when Hulk went there he saw Natasha.
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Thanos portals away
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and you can see a green glow on his wound suggesting
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he might be using the time stone to reverse the injury somewhat.
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There's also some red glow in there to suggest he's using the reality stone to somehow warp the wound.
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Really all the stones are glowing here
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and all the colors can be seen in the wound suggesting it takes all six stones combined to shake out Stormbreaker here.
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For the dusting the VFX artists settled on desaturated dust to
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connect with the spiritual ashes to ashes dust to dust concept
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but also to make it easy for the particles to disappear into the background, the floor, the street.
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It's not like piles of ash, it's just kind of dust scattered amongst the soil and then gone.
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James Gunn later tweeted that Groot's final I am Groot to rock it translates to dad.
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Wanda throws her head back in anguish, her last thought being her murdered love.
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On Titan, Dave Bautista delivers a heartbreakingly high -pitched quill as his final word.
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Dr. Strange assures Tony that there was no other way, but maybe he should have found some other way to spell
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out the entire plan to him first you know at least give tony a heads up
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that he will need to figure out time travel
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but i don't know maybe dr strange just understands
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that an ego like tony stark will need to feel like
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he came up with the idea himself peter's spidey sense gets
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one last devastating use as it senses the oncoming pain that's
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why he does a few seconds after the rest i don't
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want to go i don't want to go sir please oh you don't want to go meaning
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that peter parker knows this is happening as opposed to being caught by surprise Peter looks up at Tony and says, and then he fades.
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Actually, if you watch this clip with IMAX aspect ratio, Tony Stark's hand is clearly a digital artifact, and it kind of goes unnaturally rigid, and just kind of yips right out of the frame.
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Afterwards, Tony looks at this hand and holds it to his face, trying to embrace the dust that actually just slipped through his fingers.
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Back on his garden farm planet, Thanos watches the sun rise, just as he promised.
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And then what?
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I finally rest.
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and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe.
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A god resting on the seventh day.
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In the corner, we see his armor hanging as a scarecrow, just like Farmer Thanos in Jim Starlin's comics.
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We get a post -credits scene of Nick Fury using a souped -up pager to call for Captain Marvel, who would be introduced between Infinity War and Endgame.
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Now, those people who dusted from the helicopter, which then crashed, are they going to be okay when they get snapped back into existence?
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Yes, the filmmaker said that Hulk's wish in Endgame was for everyone to come back safely.
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Everyone ends this movie on their asses the avengers feel the
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sting of the lives they fought to never trade now just dead in their hands anyway
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but thanos also feels the pain of sacrifice as gamora told him what did it cost
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everything but ultimately he wins this
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because he actually faces the morning okay we have now caught
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up with the re -release of avengers endgame that's going to
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be coming next week on avengers 25th this channel will be publishing a re -breakdown of avengers endgame
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that will include any new bonus footage for avengers doomsday that's gonna be on the channel next friday
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but we will also have another video
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that just breaks down the new stuff we learned
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and what we can theorize from it
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that will either come to the channel on thursday night
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or early friday morning comment down below with your thoughts revisiting
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Why This Avengers: Infinity War Clip Is Perfect for English Speaking Practice
This video’s dialogue is a goldmine for learners because it blends casual banter, dramatic tension, and technical storytelling—mirroring real-world language variety. The mix of quick exchanges (like Loki’s eye-rolls paired with sarcastic remarks) and longer, emotional monologues (Thanos’ “I know what it’s like to lose”) helps you practice pacing, intonation, and emphasis. Plus, the characters use natural contractions (“did you see?” instead of “did you see”) and colloquial phrases (“talk too much”), making it ideal for sounding less scripted and more fluent.
Breaking Down Natural Speech Patterns
Let’s analyze a few lines to see why they work. First, “Hey, what was that? I went forward in time to view alternate futures…” The short, direct question “Hey, what was that?” uses a rising intonation to show curiosity, a common pattern in casual conversations. Next, “How many did you see? 14,605,000. How many did we win? One.” The pauses between the numbers and the stark “One” create dramatic effect—this rhythm is key to conveying gravity in speech. Finally, “Loki rolls his eyes as Ebony Maw monologues as if he’s heard these diatribes before.” The phrase “as if he’s heard these diatribes before” uses a conditional structure to imply familiarity, a natural way to express subtlety in English. These lines aren’t just words—they’re lessons in how to *feel* language.
A Simple Shadowing Routine to Master This Dialogue
Shadowing (repeating lines aloud immediately after hearing them) is a proven way to improve pronunciation and fluency. Here’s how to use this video: Start by watching a 10-second clip, then pause and repeat each line, focusing on matching the speaker’s tone and pace. Use a shadowing app or shadowing site to record yourself—apps like Shadowspeak or Shadow Speech can help you compare your recording to the original. For tricky lines (like Thanos’ “I know what it’s like to lose”), slow down the video speed, practice the rhythm, then gradually speed up. Do this daily for 10 minutes, and you’ll notice your speech becoming more natural. Remember: the goal isn’t to memorize, but to *internalize* how native speakers connect words and convey emotion.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | you've been seeing · he's been waiting · you've been wondering |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to frequent · used to have · used to capture |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you thought it would add |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has installed · has always been · haven't been |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.