Avengers Endgame (2019) Comic Book Easter Eggs & Analysis (Part 1)

Hi, I'm Eric Gloss and I'm Phillip Molina and the Avengers game was the best emotional rollercoaster. Roller coasters that redefine quantum physics and kill your best friends may require two people to take them down because those roller coasters are not safe. There's so much film to sift through three hours of satisfying nods to marvel beyond an even more subtle layer of meaning hidden in the visual and background details and sneaky little nods from the filmmakers to reward obsessives like us for rewatching the film. and again. and over and over again, which we've already done and haven't slept, we'll cover it all scene by scene and spoiler warning in case you know we've already predicted something too well and your life is already ruined, I'm sorry if any I haven't seen the movie yet, what's it like to have your mind intact?

It must feel good. The Avengers

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begins at the farm of Clint Barton, Hawkeye, M.I.A, and Infinity War, and now, facing its turn of angst, its opening line is an archery lesson. To his daughter Lila, played by Ava Russo, the real-life daughter of co-director Joe Russo, he says: You see where you're going now, let's worry about how you get there. Hearing this in the opening image of an arrowhead reflects the deeper meaning of the game. As a story about destinations and trajectories in this time-to-come heist, a term coined by a guy Clint last saw clinging to one of these aerodynamic tips, identifying the destinations will be a much easier challenge than the meticulously precise trajectory a the one they should aim for. succeed at it, so we're already noticing some nods to past MCU films.

Hawkeye wears an ankle monitor that he and Scott Lang had to wear after their involvement in the civil war because they are both family men and couldn't get it. in the team cap they could not run away and abandon their families. Also, this exact target they're practicing on already showed up in Clint's barn in Age of Ultron and Clint calls his daughter Hawkeye, which is actually kind of crazy, that name almost never happens. it's said out loud in the mcu it's like he's ashamed of it but it indicates that maybe Lila Barton could be being set up as a future figure in Kate Bishop's legacy ah but not so fast because you can't really shoot an arrow in your stack. of dust Clint's entire family lila his wife laura his children cooper and nate they all dust and if you're listening closely the sound mixers work in an ominous rumble of thunder that accompanied snapdramath and infinity war in wakanda oh god oh yeah , I call this later, I will never call it annihilation, moving on to the Marvel Studios title that wiped out all the dusted characters that used to be there, like Black Panther, Star-Lord and Groot, and left only these six original Avengers, They also erased Ant-man, which is a little rude because the guy wasn't dead but was just in the quantum realm for the survivors, I guess that's as good as being dusted off but not to stand up and the The music here is dear, Mr.

Traffic Fantasy, and that's a song that must have sounded like the Zune that Yondu left Peter Quill in Guardians Vol 2. Although the lyrics perfectly reflect what we're asking Tony Stark to do. In this movie, dear Mr. Fantasy, play us a tune, do anything, take us out. out of this darkness, make it agile, please don't be sad, if you had a right mind, we wouldn't have met you in all these years. Tony is our lord fantasy and rescues the universe from the post-Thanos darkness with one agile move. All of the mad scientist that maybe if he had had a right mind all those years ago we would not have known you all these years, these 11 years that we spent with him, so rigid and the nebula is on board the Benetar, they are adrift.

In space, far away from Titan, they are throwing these folded soccer balls, not only does this foreshadowing begin to throw Ant-Man later in the movie, soccer will essentially be the name of the game in the third act of the movie with the stark's gauntlet as the ball passes from avenger to avenger in this great race to the goal line, although with all this unnecessary roughness it's more like rugby nebula ends up winning this game for the first time for her considering she always loses to gamora during her youth when they would have to train for thanos, which leads to her becoming a walking pile of remains in the nebula from the

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s the infinity gauntlet has a big victory in this comeback against thanos and this game movie shows the first victory of the nebula on screen, then Tony records a goodbye message to Pepper and her helmet saying that they have been stranded for 22 days, one day for each MCU movie, which would have been a nice way for him to spend that time, but probably I didn't have access to Netflix.

Stark also did a similar recording with the helmet for Pepper and Iron Man 3, and here it is. It starts off by saying not to post it on social media, which is both a meta comment for fans to not spoil the ending of the game on social media, but it's also a callback to the opening of the first Iron Man. No. I want to see this on your myspace. God, that's such an old movie, now Tony ends the message by saying goodbye by saying: It's you, it's always been you, which is what he told Pepper when he made her CEO of Stark Industries in Iron Man 2.

It's you, always. it has been you and as he says this tony slides his thumb along the eyepiece of the helmet as if he were wiping away a tear the helmet has scars and damage on its right side foreshadowing the appearance of stark at the moment of his death mortally wounded by his gauntlet snap on his right side captain marvel then rescues tony and nebula and watching this movie alone it's not entirely clear how carol danvers knew where to find him and if she just stumbled upon him or something captain's post credits scene Marvel showed her arriving at the Avengers headquarters on Earth and that scene was Not in this movie, so maybe Carol learned through the rocket where Benatar's homing signal was and tracked it that way.

Surely that would also mean that Thor wasn't interested in saving them, who knows, when he later tows them back home, although Tony is now fighting. Enduring

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of that is due to Earth's gravity, as Titan and space have lighter gravity than Earth, but Tony has also become incredibly frail and looks like he was hoping the VFX team would be the ones to thin him out. digitally. a lot and that created a really interesting contrast next to the cap, you have to remember that Chris Evans was also digitally reduced in the first Captain America, so this visually links Tony Stark to the brave self-sacrificing hero Steve Rogers, as it started and something like that kind of close to the end for Tony, but we'll actually get to more details about Stark and Cap's opposing endpoints later inside Avengers HQ.

The screen shows other MCU Snap victims, including Oh My God, Dr. Eric Selva, your favorite Thor movie, remember in the dark world he had. That crazy board actually featured several theoretical physics concepts that ended up being true in this movie, things like the shrew's cat, referring to quantum theory in which an unobservable thing exists in multiple states until we look at it as the multiples. realities that this film presents. The time travel version creates or the way our brains were like, oh, okay, but also wait, huh, as we look at these things one day, I'm sure they'll call it Schrodinger's Loki.

You'll see why Stark reignites the debate he had with the limit and age. of ultron recovering this image of an armor around the world and them losing but losing together that scene in ultron was the origin of the

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as the title of this movie we are the

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we can arrest arms dealers all our lives but that's Up There is the End of the Game sounds like a good title, so now Rocket is wearing this stylish blue suit that's a nod to the blue-buttoned jumpsuit he wore in the 2008 Guardians

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s by Dan Avnet and also by Andy Lanning.

He explains that Thanos created the Infinity Stones, it's my favorite

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of the movie, it's actually very subtle, an unprecedented surge of energy. We know that the stones emit gamma radiation, which gave Bruce Banner his powers, so this energy wave could have a side effect that resulted in a boom. Mutants are being introduced across the universe in the MCU right now. Is here. I said it was my favorite part of the movie. That is not true. I love this movie in so many different ways, but X-Men could happen now. Nebula may explain that. Thanos' retirement planet is called Garden, which is another example of how the Mad Titan is depicted as a spiritual figure in an infinite war.

Thanos said that after gathering the six stones he would finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. the god of the old testament in the

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of genesis who created slash destroyed everything in six phases and now rests in the seventh with this garden that serves as the garden of paradise of Eden from the movie, then Thor greets Captain Marvel, but in the table in front of him are Hawaiians. sweet rolls and beer, it's Athena from creature comforts brewery and then drinks tropical from creature comforts, so right now we already have this indication of how Thor has been carbon loading into his depression, leading to the melted ice cream appearance it has.

Later they also fly the Benatar through a hexagonal wormhole in space which is the same one we keep seeing, we saw it in the Guardians movies and Captain Marvel, that's how they get to Titan Two and then there's this close-up of the capsule. As the stars pass by, it's actually similar to the closeup of the eye that is in the Stargate sequence in the movie. Nerds know this space odyssey from 2001, but it's also in the opening shot of Blade Runner. Cap looks at a compass that shows a photo of Peggy Carter. The long-time love from another era keeps her on this compass as a way to symbolize the way she was his moral compass and the way she is a sort of north star that guides his thematic journey in this film when Cap He sat next to her bed and followed her. soldiers she told him the world has changed none of us can go back all we can do is the best we can and sometimes the best we can do is start over.

Now it's interesting to see how those exact words inspired the endgame to find a way. come back before the world changed and start over then in titan 2 thanos has now retired as a sweet old farmer who hangs up his armor like a scarecrow just as thanos actually spends his post-snap retirement in the comics, there's a chance to his wounded glove grazing the strange corn stalks which actually feels like a nod to ridley scott's shot in gladiator, the warrior maximus is coming home, he keeps dreaming about it, but finally, when he finally understands it, it's because he's dead , so it really is like Thanos's.

Death here we're about to see because of course the Avengers crashed Thanos' dinner which is very rude and then they realized he used the stones to destroy the stone nebula, it says the many things of my father, a liar, is not one of them and the movies really. he goes on to point out that thanos never really lies in infinity war, he told gamora, but i never taught you to lie and in guardians vol 2, quill tells nebula, you know, you'd think an evil super villain would learn to lie properly. Thanos never needed to. He taught his daughters to lie because it was also a failsafe so they couldn't betray him and his refusal to lie makes him that much scarier since every threat he makes is a literal promise, then Thor goes for the head and kills Thanos.

At first it's really a false victory, now I'm sure it's exactly what we wanted Thor to do and I'm sure there's satisfaction in the blow that Brolin's head makes when Brolin is on the ground, but it's like watching Brad Pitt surrender to his wrath and execute the bald villain from another spiritual based story sev then number seven then like john doe death is what thanos wanted here and now the heroes are in an even grimmer state the movie then jumps five years into the future Screenwriters Marcus and McFeely wanted to evoke that The reaction viewers have to surprising jumps in time and television shows like Fargo and Lost, this allows them to start over and reimagine each Avengers and surprise us with the way each one responds to Lost.

Post-apocalyptic New York in a different way is totally covered in fog with ships moored on Liberty Island and Cap then says that he saw whales in the Hudson River, since you know that fewer ships have cleaned the water and the marine life has been less hunted, but actually, if you watch that shot again, you can see the whales breaking the surface. there in the water cap sits on aGrief Support Group featuring a great cameo from co-director Joe Russo playing the first openly gay character in the MCU describing a depressing date he had to go on. Russo has played many different characters in all the wonder of it. movies the surgeon who faked nick fury's death and the winter soldier the psychiatrist dr. brassard in the civil war and bert the photographer in a deleted scene from infinity war the group is actually led by another cameo by jim starlin author of the infinity gauntlet series and co-creator the character of thanos and we move on to san francisco where the ex's van Scott Lang's convict was stranded after Ant-Man and the Wasp is now in storage but the unit number is 616.

A nod to Marvel's 616 base reality number in the Marvel Multiverse of the comics, in fact we saw Spider -Man in the incredible Spider-verse movie. The original Peter Parker was from Earth 616 and now the MCU is establishing the existence of multiple realities in this live-action universe. Then the quantum tunnel spits Scott out. and alert a security guard played by Ken Jeong if you weren't sure if it was him, yes it was him. The Russo Brothers worked with Jiang in the comedy community, and in fact, there is another community cameo with Event Nicole Brown later in the film.

I've also cast community actors Danny Poody and also Jim Rash in previous films, but here's the thing. Jeong's character, the security guard, is reading a

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by J.G Ballard called Terminal Breaker. It is a collection of short stories from 1964, one of which is titled Endgame. Ballard is known for his post-apocalyptic fiction and, considering the times, it makes sense that people are researching this type of literature, the Black Death of the Middle Ages that devastated half of Europe and actually also led to the popularity of dark and truly morbid themes in literature and art. Scott finds this monument installed in the park with names of victims which are of course, all

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, one is Roberto de Costa, also known as the mutant sunspot from the x-men comics, really the first firm recognition of the x-men characters in the mcu, there are also a lot of names of people from the team who worked on various marvel movies and tv shows, but there are really too many dimensions, so let's go over all the good stuff and then back up, oh , how was it there, milk and back at adventure headquarters?

Natasha holds a conference call while she prepares a sandwich, cutting it diagonally. which is perhaps a nod to Nick Fury, who in Captain Marvel revealed that he refuses to eat sandwiches diagonally, perhaps Natasha cuts her sandwiches that way as a force of habit to keep Fury's hands out of her lunch. Also during this call okoye mentions an underwater earthquake which could be setting up the existence of namor and atlantis in the mcu, they are in battle with wakanda in the comics from various eras so we could be setting that up right now, also Carol Danvers just has to shout out a cute new haircut, I don't love it but hey, does it mirror the look he has in the comics and also when he turns to Roadie and gives them that longer than normal look saying be careful, that might actually be a nod to the romantic relationship between Captain Marvel and actor Don Cheadle? in the comics or wait, there is no war machine and on the chair next to natasha are some ballet slippers, this suggests that natasha is probably returning to her ballet training from her youth in the kgb, perhaps as a way to keep her focused and centered, perhaps as a form of Self-Discipline Scott Lang shows up with the van babbling about time and the quantum realm and how the last five year period really seemed like only five hours to him.

Janet Van Dyne, if you remember, hinted at the existence of time vortexes in the quantum realm. in Ant-Man and the Wasp and don't get caught in a time vortex, we won't be able to save you, this leads them to Tony Stark's new home, everyone is on farms, Stark is fulfilling his retirement dream that he mentioned in the end of age of ultron maybe i should take a page out of barton's book build pepper a farm i hope no one blows it up pepperidge farms oh my god it's all the time his daughter is morgan the name he gave pepper at the beginning of infinity war that she wears a blue Iron Man helmet that Tony says he was making for Pepper joking that she never wears anything he buys her, foreshadows the later reveal of Pepper's new rescue armor revealed in the final battle, then Tony compares the Scott's time heist plan with the plot behind. into the future and when Scott says the rules are to never bet on sporting events or meet your past self, obviously those are things Marty Mcfly does in Back to the Future Part 2, although the entire final plot of the game is actually structured in a manner quite similar to that of the heroes. sneaking into their past selves in the background of past movie scenes falling in love with their mothers is really amazing, the screenwriters actually said that they brought in professional theoretical physicists, they brought them in to consult them on this story and they told them that real quantum physics doesn't follow the rules. hollywood rules one of those physicists could have been david deutsch of oxford whose clear name appears here quantum fluctuation messes with the scale of the table which in turn triggers the deutsch proposition davidoish is one of the world's leading proponents of interpretation of the many worlds of Quantum Mechanics that propose that alternative histories and futures exist, which is really the basis for the version of time travel in Avengers Endgame.

Deutsche moves on to the reveal of Bruce Banner, who has now fused his brain with the Hulk's muscle power, sort of like the Eric he's adapted to. Of the version of the character of Professor Hulk in the comics, the writers said that while working on Civil War they were inspired by the old Marvel What-If comics and dreamed of pursuing crazy hypotheses for the Avengers and Endgame, such as? What if Hulk was intelligent? celebrity, what if thor is fat, what if hawkeye becomes a killer and also in general, what if, what if the

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lost, there are also a few more cameos here, the kids who asked hulk for autographs are joe and anthony russo in costume or not, it is in fact, his denis and his nephews, the eldest, also made a cameo in winter soldier, while the boy who recognized the cap at the stark museum looks at a photo of himself and peter parker He notices that Stark Industries' certificate is upside down because it's just a fake photo to convince Aunt May that Peter's internship was legitimate.

There is also a nearby photo of Howard Stark. Tony's father hints at Howard's appearance. Stark later cracks the time travel code by running a simulation on an inverted Mobius strip. This movie's version of, I guess, folding a napkin in half. and sticking a pencil through it and stark puts his daughter to bed I love you tons I love you three thousand adorable because Morgan is referencing the fact that a ton equals two thousand pounds so she loves Tony three thousand truly her father's daughter , but he said I love you tons that would be four thousand so she's like she's a girl she's a girl dark also rejoins the team and says that Scott's hilarious age fluctuation was the result of the epr paradox which is actually Einstein Podulsky Rosen's paradox is also connected to Schrodinger's cat idea basically that subatomic particles change when observed and measured, so Scott's meddling in the quantum realm made it too chaotic to control, so the Stark's solution is these quantum realm bracelets that allow you to move through time instead of time moving through you, Stark tells Cap that I simply want peace to show him a peace sign, it's a nod to their past rivalry and also not actually the opening scene of Iron Man, yes peace, I love peace, being out of a job with Peace Stark seals the deal by returning the caps shield restored after its damage in civil war, But even more interesting, Stark also pulls out a reddish-orange briefcase from his trunk.

Photos from the leak set revealed that this briefcase was labeled vomit by stark and civil war binary augmented retro framing memory technology. We don't see Stark explicitly vomit in the game's ending, but he could have been used to help the Avengers scan his memories about his encounters with the Infinity Stones in the past or to help record his post-mortem goodbye to Pepper and Morgan that projected out of his helmet later, thus passing to the new colony of Asgard located in Townsburg. norway, this is the same place where odin actually fought the frost giants in the first thor movie and it is the location of the church where the tesseract was hidden in ragnarok odin sat on these norwegian cliffs telling thor remember this place In the comics it says that the Guardians established a similar colony on Earth, a floating city in Asgard, near Broxton, Oklahoma, which is really creepy for normal Oklahomans.

We get confirmation that the other asgardians led by valkyrie were saved by thanos at the beginning of infinity war and then we meet my favorite character in this movie fat thor is the best answer to the lack of free shirt chris hemsworth has brought to the mcu more than no one meek lives with and korg from ragnarok core is voiced by ragnarok director taika watiti and wears the same pineapple shirt watiti wore in comic con korg plays fortnite and asks thor to scare away a troll named noob noobmaster69 im going to fly to your house, go down to that basement where you hide, rip off your arms and stick them up your butt, maybe it's just me.

But doesn't this seem like a nod to the hairy, flabby Ehrlich Bachman roommate in Silicon Valley who defended Richard from the neighborhood bullies? You go into your house and buy me five Adderalls or I'll rip your throat out. Yes, that could be it. a reference that they are making in a Disney movie talking about the psychopath Natasha finds Hawkeye in Tokyo and while he flies in half of the city's buildings, the lights are off, reflecting that half of its residents are gone, Hawkeye has adopted finally the ronin incarnation of this character. He is a lone Japanese warrior, he kills the yakuza boss Akihiko, a yakuza villain from Marvel comics, he and Clint engage in a long non-stop sword duel and the filmmakers were able to pull it off because Akihiko is played by tough Japanese actor Sanata Hiroyuki. , who has played a ton of yakuza and samurai roles all over the place, including Shenzhen Yoshida in Wolverine, at headquarters, banner scott and rody debate the rules of time travel in this movie, they reference travel stories in the past tense, like back to the future, terminator, time police, beautiful jump. time machine in the hot tub, but the first reference is Star Trek, which was actually a direct inspiration for the endgame plot.

The writers said that it was Kevin Feige himself who tasked them with bringing time travel to the endgame story and Feige compared the story to the ending. episode of Star Trek The Next Generation that featured multiple alternate timelines, all having to converge to save the universe. Rudy suggests killing Thanos when he was a baby, a nod to the baby Hitler premise we saw in Deadpool 2, but Banner explains that time travel in this movie doesn't result in a domino effect change to his own timeline. , creates a new branching timeline along with the original timeline that remains unchanged, so after a successful test with Clint, the gang reunites.

Stark calls Thor Lebowski because the guy looks exactly like Jeff Bridges. Playing the guy in the Big Lebowski Bridges also played Obadiah Stain in the first Iron Man and Thor being the guy now is also kind of a call to the gatekeepers who marvel at his incredible physique in Infinity War. He's not a guy. a guy, this is a man, the adventures then brainstormed their time theft, which led them to revisit the plot of past Marvel movies, so amazing, including Thor: The Dark World, in which Thor, drunk, he had been mocking the dark elves. Oh, scary, there's that photo of Jane Foster and actually that's the same picture from the first avengers when coulson explained why he wasn't in that movie, they realized that three stones were in new york at the same time, the stone space and the tesseract, the mind stone, the loki scepter and the time stone in the sanctum sanctorum in aya vagamoto's necklace located on the bleakest street actually originally the screenwriter said that the first drafts showed tony stark going to asgard , instead of considering that the ether and the tesseract were briefly there at the same time, Tony was apparently going to be an invisible. stealth suit and then have to fight heimdall, who might see him there.

They also rejected ideas of going to Morag while he was still underwater or going to thetriskelion and they said that someone would just get in their car and drive to Dr. Strange's house, yeah, finally Joe Russo just said: Hey, this is the endgame of the Avengers, why don't we go back to the first Avengers and everyone closes the front door and very quickly, the secondary details of this brainstorming session are incredible? Hulk eats this ice. cream flavor, hunka hulk fiery fudge, remember it was ben jerry flavor, one of wong's favorites in infinity war, hulk hulk fiery fudge is our favorite, that exists and, yes , nebula just can't use chopsticks apparently, so taxi gives her her previous mission. they talk and throw their hands around and it creates this really cool image that they really focus on from the shot above.

Tony Stark's original arc reactor has the same design that his fists are making on the time travel device platform. I'm sure that's all in reality. foreshadowing the return of the original arc reactor in the funeral scene, it also foreshadows the weakness that Tony's old school arc reactor contains, which the current Tony is really going to exploit, plus that practical shot is similar to the issue's cover of the new avengers. in which the Marvel Illuminati used the Infinity Stone to reassemble the Infinity Gauntlet so that the Avengers would then descend into the Quantum Realm by flying through vortexes or time texts.

They resemble wormhole tunnels that split in different directions, reflecting the branching timelines that these interruptions to the main timeline will cause, okay, let's analyze each stone quest one by one, first let's talk about the stone of the time they made up by going to the battle of New York from the first Avengers movie in 2012, but Banner Hulk finding the ancient one in the middle of this battle on the roof of the sanctum santorum confirms that the sorcerers were actually helping in this battle of new york right behind the scenes protecting his own territory just the roof of his building now he could be saying that the ancient one was not the guardian of the shrine of new york before strange remembers that it was the drum master but maybe the drum was right in the ground level here and the ancient one was giving up on the roof and yes everyone wants to see Tilda Swinton again, the ancient one hits the banner of his Hulk body in the astral plane just like he did with Steven Strange when they met for first time in Commartosh and although there are four years left before Strange becomes a sorcerer, the old man is aware of him and his destiny as supreme sorcerer, since remember that she does have The time stone, she probably uses it to see the future, so I guess if the ancient one made someone else aware of Strange's overall future importance, that might explain how Hydra considered Strange a person of interest in 2014.Bruce Banner Stephen misses anyone who's a threat, so that the ancient draws a large timeline and explains to Banner how removing the stones causes the timeline to split into branching realities.

His theory of timeline meddling was already established by Mordo in Doctor. The strange temporal manipulations can create branches in time, but Banner then tells him that Strange willingly gave the time stone to Thanos and a small light shines on the ancient one shining on his forehead. We were all excited because suddenly all of our theories that Doctor Strange had a mysterious plan involving timelines were confirmed, except they weren't exactly what we predicted, but they were very close. The ancient said she couldn't see past his death, but she trusts that the future stranger will know more about the intricacies of the timelines than anyone else next. the reality stone in any form in asgard back in 2013 during the events of thor the dark world loki jane foster and thor's mother scrubs reappear from that movie freak asks thor what's wrong with his eye and he says it turned out injured in the hurricane battle which is a callback to when he and sif remembered the hurricane battle in the dark world.

I remember you celebrated the hurricane battle so much that you almost started the second one. There's actually another really cool mcu

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This was aged for a thousand years. Barrels built from the wreckage of the Grund Hill fleet are not intended for mortal men nor is Omaha Beach Punty, stop trying. to scare us and after the rockets steal jane's ether the asgardians chasing him scream loud rabbit apparently the rocket looks like all the asgardian rabbits it just means that the asgardian rabbits are pretty fucked up, they're really big guys, next to the space stone and the mine stone is in the avengers tower and is back in the battle of new york in 2012. One really interesting thing about this sequence is the way it connects the dots between the end of the first Avengers movie and what came next, we've always wondered about some details here, for example, he had previously randomly appeared with this gag in his mouth, which could have been for a lot of strange reasons, but it was actually because Thor slapped him after Loki wouldn't stop impersonating the other. the avengers like cap setting up loki's subsequent impersonation in the dark world, then agent sitwell brock rumlow and secretary pierce, they all show up and they are all secretly part of hydra, so when they take loki's scepter, sitwell mentions bringing it to the list of doctors, which ultimately explains how he came to have the scepter at the beginning of Age of Ultron Cap, of course, then gets it back in the callback to the Winter Soldier's famously cool elevator scene, but he avoids the fight entirely by simply whispering Hale Hydra which is actually a reference to the comics where cap is potentially a member of hydra and has similar little speech bubbles, yeah that awkward moment in caps history that we all forget in the lobby , Thor says they're heading to lunch, a nod to the shawarma post-credits scene. after the avengers and tony have reenacted the infiltration of civil war armor into his past self, knowing that in 2012 that was before he underwent his arc reactor surgery in iron man 3. and that old school arc reactor would make that version of Stark vulnerable. to sudden cardiac arrest like he was in the first Iron Man movie, but Stark is so adept at the timeline of his own armor generations that he knew an electric shock from Thor's hammer wouldn't kill him because he remembers in the first fight from that movie. with thor, the lightning simply supercharged his suit in every mcu movie, iron man's new armor fixes vulnerabilities that were exposed in previous movies, kind of like that nanotech armor, infinity war was just a way to prevent ant-man from being able to slip into the cracks.

As he did not participate in the civil war, Tony's knowledge here of his own history allows him to exploit a previous flaw in his own system, so Capp uses the same tactic to defeat his past self. and score the mind stone. The two Capps have the big fight. with the youngest saying he could do this all day and the old man rolling his eyes saying uh i know but the current cap breaks the key by saying bucky is alive which yeah that's the mcu equivalent of saving to Martha, but it's actually not just that because The Current Cap is actually remembering his fight with the Crossbones in the Civil War when Romelo distracts him and breaks his concentration by mentioning Bucky.

Now your friend, your Bucky, what did you say? Martha Stark almost got her way with the space stone, but her pie forced the Hulk to take the stairs causing the Hulk to crash through the door and punch the present Stark later in the film, Stark says the past has a way of play with you, so the present Stark also walks away from this medlin with some bruises thanks to his past self taking revenge. In 2012, Loki snatches the tesseract and the portals, likely creating a new branching timeline, but this forces him to remember the last time the space stone and the extra pin particles were in the same place and he realizes than in 1970 his father, Howard Stark.

I worked with Hank Pym at the Shield base at Campbell Lehigh in New Jersey, which is the camp where Steve Rogers trained in his first movie and where Cap realized that Hydra had corrupted Shield and the Winter Soldier, that base was destroyed, so , Stark and Cab jump again and here. We see Stan Lee's final cameo. He plays a pacifist hippie who drives by a military base shouting "Make love, not war," but actually the bumper sticker on the car also says "Nuff Said," which was one of Stan's catchphrases. Also, Cap's stolen uniform has the name on it. roscoe in it roscoe simons was the name of the character who briefly took command of captain america when steve rogers went nomad in the comics, meanwhile, tony's stolen jacket features the old school shield logo from the comics, all This time seems to borrow a little from the opening of Christopher Nolan's film, which is a similar group heist that featured perfect timing and layers within layers and here, in this deeper layer, as he steals the tesseract, Tony Stark has a cathartic reunion with his father, much like the father-son catharsis in the opening underlayer howard stark finds tony saying he's looking for dr. zola a reference to zola the agent of hydra who secretly corrupted the shield and the cap finds peggy carter's office reminding her of her wonderful north star in this movie and then enters hank pym's laboratory where Ant's original helmet passes Man from the comics and steals some vials of Pym Particles.

Now we'll discuss all the complicated timeline ramifications in another timeline, but we should note that it's not really clear if Cap ever returns these Hank Pym particles, hence these missing vials. could be the source of hank pym's distrust of howard stark. could you make me your errand boy and now you're trying to steal my research? Howard's driver is actually Edwin Jarvis, the origin of Tony Jarvis's voice and the artificial intelligence that would later become the vision played by James Darcy, who actually plays Jarvis in the television series Agent Carter and this is in actually the first character to go from Marvel TV to the movies.

Sorry, all those promises to Netflix actors and the move to the power stone in Morag the Planet at the beginning. from the guardians of the galaxy in 2014, Natasha kicks orloni, which is exactly what peter quill did to that thing in the opening credits of the guardians and once again we hear Red Bones come and get your love from the volume mixtape one, but I love this. a lot and it's also a back to the future reference, just being able to see things from a different perspective now and that perspective has Nebula and the roadie listening to Quill singing it out loudfrom a distance but they can't hear the music that's on the soundtrack so it makes them look even more idiotic, they were able to grab the temple orb pretty easily but the nebula gets stuck because their net intersects with the nebula past, who along with Gamora was still Thanos' daughter here when the sisters realized it. that thanos has found the first infinity stone gamora expresses hesitation well, it's the first of six her subtle hesitation here masks a hidden concern about thanos' overall plot that will later justify pascamore's sudden decision to change sides and while learning about Nebula's connection to Avengers Thanos' past calls them Rebels, which is a nod to the post-credits scene that revealed the MCU Thanos in which the other described the Avengers in this exact way and cannot be ruled out. and plus I'm going to die suddenly when ronan stabs me in the neck and finally the soul stone in vormir, whose nebula you previously described as a domain of death at the very center of celestial existence.

His use of the term celestial could be a nod to Marvel's celestials: they are ancient divine beings who we know from the Collector's story and guardians of the galaxy and have a history with the infinity stones, the red skull told Thanos that the soul stone has a special wisdom unique to the other stones, perhaps the celestials establish the soul stone in Vormir with a stone guardian and this blood sacrifice, all to make it extremely difficult. so anyone can gather all the stones while Clint and Natasha head to Vermeer Clint says we're a long way from Budapest referencing the backstory between these two that was alluded to in the first Avengers movie.

You and I remember Budapest very differently in Captain Marvel. Fury mentioned that he only worked in cities that start with the letter b, which led to some speculation that the Black Widow solo movie could be a prequel with Hawkeye and Fury finally showing us what happened in Budapest and when these two meet. with Red Skull, he greets them as natasha son of ivan clint son of edith remembers that red skull greeted thanos as lars being his father's name the fact that red skull greets clint as son of edith barton his mother could be a nod to the comics where clint was abused by his father and was actually more connected to his mother, maybe Red Skull as the keeper of the soul stone has any idea to see which father figure really defined your soul and identity.

Natasha says that she never met her father named Ivan, so some say that her father could be Ivan. vanco whiplash from iron man 2, but i don't think so, ivan is also one of the most common russian names, also after a heartbreaking but somewhat rough fight, natasha sacrifices herself so that clint can get the stone and reenact the same pose and exactly the same. music of gamora's death in infinity war natasha dying here means that the gamora of this timeline never needs is a life for a balance of life as all things should be, which brings us to the end of the second act and as we watch forward.

In this third act we realize that there is so much more that we want to break down so many Easter

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, so many connections to everything else and this has been a long video, it's a three hour long movie that we are breaking down so we want to give this. The next act is due diligence and really the third act of the movie is pretty much its own movie on its own, so we'll break it down into a separate breakdown that's coming out tomorrow if it's not ready yet. I'm going to explain the incredible amounts of Marvel Easter eggs and cameos, how this new Thanos makes Infinity War's Thanos look like a saint, and how the hell the cap left this timeline or timelines.

I bet you're wondering if he had to interact with Red Skull. again to get the sauce back, can you put this back in too? Who knows, we'll cover all of that in the next video, but in the meantime, let us know which past timeline you want the endgame to spend more time exploring, comment below with your thoughts, and also keep an eye out for part two of this breakdown and subscribe to the new Rockstars Marvel podcast, it's called Inside Marvel, this will be there, the next one will be there and awesome, the podcast will have this content before, so if you can't. wait go get it as soon as you can wherever you get your podcast on iTunesspotify follow me on twitter at fimo and on instagram phillip molina follow me on instagram and twitter at eavos thank you all so much for watching we made it oh wait no , we have another full video, God no, oh boy, we'll get back to work. you