Was Endgame The Final Avengers Movie? Why Another Is Inevitable
Avengers: Endgame seemed to bring the Avengers’ story to a fitting close, but their cinematic return in Avengers 5 nevertheless seems an inevitability. Endgame, along with the preceding Avengers: Infinity War, served as the most climactic and conclusive films of the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), collectively known as the Infinity Saga. The saga began with Iron Man, providing cinematic origin stories for multiple superheroes who would join forces as the Avengers and attempt to stop Thanos (Josh Brolin) on his quest of acquiring all the Infinity Stones and using them to erase half of the population of the universe.
Avengers: Infinity War showed Thanos to be devastatingly successful: wielding the Infinity Gauntlet, and harnessing the power of all the Infinity Stones, he snapped his fingers and half of the population faded to dust. Avengers: Endgame then saw the surviving Avengers’ retaliation, conducting a Time Heist to collect the Infinity Stones themselves, bring back the dusted half of the population, and then eradicate Thanos. The Avengers were successful in their plan, but Endgame was still not devoid of tragedy.
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The film provided closure to the stories of many of the characters introduced by the Infinity Saga and seemed like a definitive conclusion to the story of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Many fans of the franchise may even be torn between wanting the Avengers to return and wanting Marvel to maintain Endgame’s flawless conclusion. Indeed the story could remain closed for some time, but the return of the Avengers seems inevitable – perhaps just not from where Endgame left them.
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