The 27 biggest questions we take afterwards seeing 'Avengers: Endgame'

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When you dry your tears afterwards "Avengers: Endgame," you're going to accept a lot of questions.
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  • Warning: There are massive spoilers and discussion for "Avengers: Endgame" ahead. Practice non read this if you haven't seen the motion-picture show.
  • Afterwards a few showings, INSIDER wrangled the burning questions we take almost the movie, and some answers where possible.
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"Avengers: Endgame" is an epic culmination of 22 films for the ultimate fan, but it's far from perfect.

Some of the pic'due south holes go much clearer upon a second and third go-round when you lot're less emotional over the picture show'southward many tear-worthy moments.

After multiple close watches, INSIDER gathered a listing of the lingering questions (and some answers) nosotros have at present that we're out of the "Endgame."

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1. How did Captain Marvel know where to observe Tony Stark and Nebula?

Helm Marvel arrives at just the right moment to save Tony.
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This is something that initially bothered me while watching the movie. Helm Marvel conveniently shows up the moment Tony Stark is dying and brings him and Nebula home from space. How does she know where to find them? We were given the answer to this back in March.

In that location's a post-credits scene in "Captain Marvel" that looks equally if it's a scene from "Avengers: Endgame." Marvel released it online for you to watch hither. That scene never appears in "Endgame" simply is extremely important for understanding how Tony gets back home.

In information technology, Captain Curiosity arrives at the Avengers HQ, where she meets Helm America, Blackness Widow, Bruce Banner, and more than. She finds out Nick Fury is missing, and the scene ends.

It can be assumed this is where she also meets Tony's fiancée, Pepper Potts. Tony has been sending her transmissions from infinite via his Iron Man adjust. If she's been receiving those messages, so she was likely able to tell Helm Marvel where to find Stark and Nebula.

2. Why is Helm America onetime at the motion-picture show's cease? How did he age?

Captain America shouldn't exist able to age because of the super serum, correct? Eh. Maybe non in the movies.
Marvel

If y'all were initially thrown off past seeing an older Captain America at the picture'southward finish, in 2023, y'all shouldn't be. Yes, Cap was injected with the super serum, but he didn't age because he was put on ice and frozen in 1945. Nick Fury tells him in "Captain America: The Showtime Avenger" that he'southward been out for almost 70 years.

This may have thrown some people off because in the comics Captain America doesn't usually age considering of the super serum. He did get older when he had it sucked out of him at one betoken by a villain.

Even if the super serum was slowing downward Cap's ability to historic period, he probably could've asked someone, similar Howard Stark, to whip up something to allow him to abound old with the love of his life.

3. When did Captain America become dorsum in fourth dimension and did he make Peggy'due south married man and children disappear?

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Cap went back to effectually 1945 to exist with Peggy and got older. (I originally thought Steve went back to 1970, only the cars at the finish of the picture wait like they're from the '40s. That aligns with the showtime of "Endgame." Cap said he left the love of his life in 1945 and so it makes the most sense he would return to that bespeak of fourth dimension so Peggy wouldn't move on.)

Here's something nosotros didn't await. Co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo told Entertainment Weekly Captain America goes dorsum to live in another dimension with Peggy in the past. It turns out Steve Rogers didn't wipe out Peggy's married life with some other family in his original timeline and that he wasn't secretly her married man all of this fourth dimension, trying to go on it a surreptitious. (Bummer!)

"All you tin do by going to the by — and for a grapheme similar Cap[tain America], living in the past — is create an alternate future. So this is a world in which alternate timelines be," "Endgame" Joe Russo told the Los Angeles Times.

4. Does Hawkeye now take a bunch of enemies, and, if so, is he putting his family unit in danger?

I think Clint Barton messed up big time.
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Later on Clint Barton/Hawkeye loses his family unit at the moving picture'south kickoff, he goes downwards a actually dark path. In a nod to the comics, he takes on the change ego of Ronin, a lone vigilante ninja.

We see Barton killing an entire group of men in Tokyo and hear well-nigh other "work" he's doing with a Mexican cartel. Now that Hawkeye's reunited with his family unit, all that stuff doesn't only disappear. Yep, he killed a bunch of men, but are any of the scorned nevertheless alive?

I wouldn't be surprised if the past 5 years come back to haunt him. With his family back, it's not just Hawkeye that his enemies would be after.

This may be something that will exist directly addressed on the reported Disney Plus streaming evidence almost Hawkeye.

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5. Did no one get to schoolhouse for the five years after the "Infinity War" snap? Is going back to school super weird if some of your classmates weren't affected by "Infinity War"?

Ned and Peter are back together, but some of their classmates take to be older than them now.
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How did that work? At the film'southward end, in 2023, we meet Peter Parker reunited with his best friend, Ned, at school. My blood brother, who I saw the film with, thought it was funny that 5 years passed and Spider-Human was still in high school. However, it completely makes sense. They oasis't anile a day since the snap. For them, no fourth dimension has transpired.

But what about the people in their grade who weren't snapped? Did they just continue with school, graduate, and become on into the real earth? If that logic'due south followed, then Ned and MJ (Zendaya) must have disappeared in the snap too, forth with some of their other friends. We know the "Spider-Homo" sequel "Far From Home" takes place moments after the end of "Endgame."

Will some of their friends be in higher? Are there younger kids who are now the same age as them? I feel like a lot of this is just going to be ignored.

6. How does no one dice from Thanos directly shooting up the Avengers HQ?

This moment was all for show.
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When 2014 Thanos arrives in the future, he wastes no fourth dimension trying to take out the Avengers. He hitting his target squarely and leveled the building, and somehow no ane managed to take more a scratch on them. I'yard calling shenanigans.

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7. Is the time travel in "Avengers: Endgame" sound?

The remaining heroes team upwards to face Thanos in "Avengers: Endgame."
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I'1000 not a scientist, otherwise I'd be off studying breakthrough physics. So I'g non going to pretend to know whether the time travel in "Endgame" checks out.

Lucky for us, Newsweek asked some scientists to expect over the science in the movie, and they said "Endgame" did a pretty good job in its effort to "attach to current high level-thinking virtually time travel."

For what it's worth, the time travel in "Endgame" is explained rather chop-chop. Not a lot of time is spent on it, so I just accustomed whatever I was watching on screen for the most function without worrying too much. If Tony Stark tells me he figured out how time travel works, I trust him. I've put my trust in him since 2008's "Iron Man," and he hasn't steered us also wrong (other than "Age of Ultron" with his murder bot). I won't stop now.

For those who care, Bruce Banner says that if you lot modify something in the by it won't necessarily alter the hereafter. OK. That'south why the group doesn't go dorsum in time and kill baby Thanos. (That's actually discussed in the film.) When the grouping goes back in time to acquire the Infinity Stones before Thanos, Banner is told that when they're done using the stones in the present, they must render them to the exact moment they retrieved them from the by, otherwise they'll cause multiple realities.

Newsweek referred to this as the Many Worlds theory.

8. Why did the Avengers option those specific moments to go dorsum in time?

I dear the opening scene of "Guardians of the Milky way," just there was a improve moment to get the power stone. Was Glenn Close non effectually to reprise her part as Nova Prime number?
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Tony, Bruce, Clint, Natasha, and the residuum of the Avengers could have picked any moments in the past to revisit to gather the Infinity Stones alee of Thanos. So it's a little puzzling that the team went back to several tricky moments to assemble stones.

For instance, instead of revisiting "Thor: The Dark World" to extract the Reality Stone from Jane (Natalie Portman), wouldn't information technology have been easier to retrieve it from the Collector at the film's end? That'southward where Thor had it dropped off. Likewise, Thor'due south home of Asgard was home to the Tesseract for years before Loki removed it from a basement tunnel.

The aforementioned goes for the Power Stone in "Guardians of the Milky way." Rocket Raccoon was with Peter Quill when it was left with the Nova Corps on Xandar. It just seemed as if the team went out of their way for unnecessary reasons. I estimate the movie would take been a lot shorter and less exciting if everything was piece of cake, only it makes our heroes look incredibly airheaded. No one was rushing them to head into the past. They had all the time in the world to go their plan in order.

Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely told the NYT in an informative read about the movie that they almost traveled to Asgard for multiple stones.

"In the beginning draft, nosotros didn't go back to the [original] 'Avengers' film," said McFeely. "We went back to Asgard. Merely in that location'southward a moment in the M.C.U., if yous're paying very close attention, where the Aether is there and the Tesseract is in the vault. In that iteration, nosotros were interested in Tony going to Asgard. He had a stealth conform, so he was invisible, and he fought Heimdall, who could meet him."

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9. Why doesn't time to come Nebula die when past Nebula is shot and killed?

Nebula unexpectedly becomes a vital function of "Endgame."
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The majority of "Avengers: Endgame" takes identify in 2023, five years after the events of "Avengers: Infinity War."

Late in the movie, Nebula from 2014 time-travels to 2023. She'south then killed by Nebula from 2023. If future Nebula kills her past cocky, shouldn't she exist expressionless too?

I suppose she'south live because Bruce tells the group earlier that your by self doesn't affect your future, but I'one thousand really having a tough time seeing how Nebula continues to exist if she's simply been wiped from history.

ten. We can bring Gamora back afterward existence killed in "Infinity War," but you're telling me yous tin can't bring back Black Widow?

Did they really need to kill Black Widow?
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This is where the fourth dimension-travel stuff started to bug me. Red Skull said anyone who gives their life for the Soul Stone cannot come back from the expressionless. He didn't explain why. When pressed for answers, Hawkeye tells Thor to become and talk to Red Skull himself.

Gamora was killed in 2018's "Infinity State of war" because of the stone, and she's now back (even though information technology's a past version of herself from before those events). If we're playing by those rules, then couldn't the team just get a Black Widow/Natasha from the past and bring her back into the hereafter?

Bruce Banner simply says there'due south no way to bring Blackness Widow back, without explanation. Later on he mentions that when he snapped his fingers wearing the new Infinity Gauntlet he tried to bring her back but simply couldn't. Some forcefulness wouldn't let him.

Earlier in the film, Imprint is told past the Ancient One that right after they utilize the Infinity Stones to fix their timeline, they need to return them to the moments in which they were removed. If not, they will take opened up some bad alternate realities. I'm wondering whether some of those bad alternate realities would have occurred if they tried bringing a Nat from another bespeak in time into 2023.

xi. How like shooting fish in a barrel is information technology to put the stones back in fourth dimension?

Did we simply forget Helm America would have to reinsert the Reality Stone into Jane somehow?
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The Ancient Ane told Bruce Imprint that equally soon as they reverse the effects of Thanos' snap, they need to return the Infinity Stones to the exact moments where they retrieved them. Otherwise, time as they know it could split into different realities where terrible events could occur.

At the film'southward terminate, we meet Captain America volunteer to go dorsum in fourth dimension and put the stones dorsum. He apparently has no problem doing this. Honestly, it seems equally if it should be a chip tougher to do that. Wouldn't there be even more versions of himself in some realities he has to deal with?

It also seems it would exist more of a hassle inserting the Aether back into Jane in "Thor: The Dark World" instead of extracting it. I would actually like to come across how Captain America goes about doing that without getting caught.

12. 1 more idea almost this: How exactly does Captain America return the Soul Stone?

None of us are always going to sympathise how the Soul Stone works.
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How does that work? Does he just hand it to Red Skull? Shouldn't he be able to get Natasha dorsum?

You need to trade a soul to get the Soul Rock. It seems you should get something in exchange for returning it. What a rip-off.

xiii. Why didn't they utilise the time machine to just get more Pym Particles?

Why are Tony Stark and Scott Lang acting like Hank Pym (above) doesn't be in 2012 to visit?
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Several times throughout the movie, Ant-Man makes it very clear they have a small supply of Pym Particles to travel back in time. Once they're used up, that'southward it! But if they but traveled back to a moment earlier Pym vanished, the team could have easily had a possibly unlimited supply of Pym Particles. At the least, Pym could have provided them more.

This is even more mind-extraordinary when Tony, Helm America, Bruce Banner, and Ant-Man go to 2012 to learn three Infinity Stones at once. When Tony loses the Tesseract, Emmet-Man tells him he blew it and that they take enough Pym Particles only to render dwelling.

Tony and Cap decide to go farther dorsum in time to get some more than Pym particles. But they could take just stayed in 2012 and flew to Hank Pym to inquire him for more. I gauge all of that wouldn't have been equally fun.

14. Where were all these missing characters?

The finish of "Endgame" makes this unabridged romantic subplot in "Ceremonious State of war" feel foreign.
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"Avengers: Endgame" features a lot of characters, including some faces from past movies. However, nosotros were surprised that a few characters were nowhere to exist found, including Ant-Man'south best friend, Luis; his ex-wife, Maggie; Sharon Carter; and the Vision.

We were convinced Luis would accept helped his all-time friend out of the Quantum Realm if he wasn't amid those lost at the end of "Infinity War." Why fifty-fifty bother with the Sharon Carter and Cap romance in "Civil War" if we were never going to run across her again? I was also surprised that Tony never tried to rebuild some form of Vision/Jarvis. He can figure out time travel in no time, merely rebuilding a friend? Nah.

One of the biggest mysteries to me while watching was why we never saw either of Cassie Lang's parents briefly on screen. Was Cassie simply living on her own? I need answers and closure.

15. Where was the villain from the beginning of "Guardians of the Galaxy"?

This is Korath. He's also in "Captain Marvel."
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If we're post-obit the events of the 2014 film, after Peter Quill gets the Power Stone, he'due south met past Korath, who tries to take it from him. He conveniently never shows upwards to face Nebula and War machine though.

sixteen. How exercise Nebula'southward 2023 memories sync up with her 2014 self?

This was a doozy.
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The moment that Nebula heads dorsum in fourth dimension to 2014, her past self gains awareness of all her memories.

What is going on, and how does that make whatsoever sense? I've interpreted information technology as if all of Nebula'southward memories are stored in something similar to Apple's iCloud, which is unfortunate for the Avengers. Nebula in 2014 is more auto than human being. Thanos has basically ripped her autonomously and rebuilt her with robotic parts. When Nebula goes back in time from 2023, she unexpectedly syncs up with other self.

Still confused? Information technology'due south like when you purchase a new iPad or phone and you're able to download all your content from the cloud. It makes sense, but it's awfully convenient to keep the plot moving forth.

17. What was the betoken of making such a big deal out of Project Pegasus in "Helm Marvel"?

Projection Pegasus is also in "The Avengers."
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Information technology seemed like a very clear setup for the entire time-travel story. It's blatantly said in "Captain Curiosity" that Project Pegasus involved Wendy Lawson was trying to figure out how to harness the energy of the Tesseract — the cube that held the blueish Infinity Stone — to create a light-speed engine.

What would that have been used for? Probably to travel through time and space. Still it'south never fifty-fifty mentioned in "Endgame."

Yous can read more than on Pegasus hither.

18. Is Loki's fate inverse at all now that he escaped with the Tesseract in 2012?

Loki may exist on a totally different path at present.
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When Tony and Ant-Homo went back in time to 2012, they changed things up for Loki. Instead of returning to Asgard with his brother Thor, he wound upward with the Tesseract and escaped into the unknown.

Where'd he go? We have no idea. Do his actions still lead to his death in "Infinity War"? Also unclear. We know Loki is amidst the few characters to get a Disney Plus show.

Is his Disney Plus streaming evidence going to take identify somewhere in this new timeline of events?

xx. Where did Gamora go, and will she return to the Guardians of the Galaxy?

Quill may desire to find Gamora, but she may non want to exist establish.
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The Gamora we know at present has no memories of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Every bit a issue, she but left and disappeared after Thanos and his ground forces vanished in thin air. When Thor boarded the Guardians' ship, you could come across that Quill was searching for Gamora with no luck.

Where did Gamora go? Is she even really out there?

What would be interesting is if Gamora actually vanished with Thanos and everyone else from 2014. Nosotros don't know what Tony wished for when he snapped his fingers. He didn't know Gamora. He could have wished for all the bad guys to exist gone, or for everyone from the incorrect timeline to vanish. It would be devastating to lose her once more, but it would actually clear things up and make them a bit less disruptive.

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21. Who was that teen at Tony's funeral and why was he at that place?

Do you remember Harley Keener? He was in "Atomic number 26 Human being 3."
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That was a grown-upward Harley Keener from "Fe Man three." He'south the child who helped Tony piece of work through some of his PTSD afterwards the Battle of New York.

"We were thinking almost who was important in Tony'south life, simply on a very grounded level. And that was a character who'd shared a special moment in time with Tony. Information technology felt organic for him to be there," co-managing director Joe Russo told the Los Angeles Times of having Ty Simpkins back for that pocket-sized moment.

22. What's next for the Hulk?

The Blob seems to be on his own at the terminate of "Endgame."
Curiosity

Thor left his other buddy back on World. Bruce Banner's BFF Tony is gone, Helm America is an old man, Natasha's dead, and Clint is back with his family. Disney still can't do its ain standalone Hulk movie considering it doesn't have the rights for that, then will nosotros encounter him team up with someone else?

I'g absolutely OK with Banner hulking out with Peter Parker equally the two grieve a common friend. Maybe Hulk volition head dorsum to the Sanctum Sanctorum and properly introduce himself to Doctor Foreign. He already went in that location twice now, in "Infinity War" and "Endgame." That doesn't seem like a coincidence. If Mordo'southward alive, Strange tin use some friends.

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23. If the Aboriginal I really sees everything, shouldn't she have seen that Bruce would come to her?

Were you surprised to see Tilda Swinton back?
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If not, does the Ancient One who afterward meets Doc Strange know of everything that will come to laissez passer?

24. Who is Blackness Widow's dad?

Black Widow said she didn't even know her father's proper noun in "Endgame."
Marvel

If you go back and watch every "Avengers" movie, there's always a brief explanation of moments from Black Widow'due south life. In "Endgame," Red Skull mentions her begetter's name. Loki besides mentioned her dark by in "Avengers."

I'm guessing this will be something at the heart of the planned "Black Widow" movie.

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25. So that Black Widow movie is a prequel, right?

It seems we'll exist visiting Blackness Widow's by. It's been teased a lot before.
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Nosotros watched her give her life to larn the Soul Stone, and Hawkeye and Bruce Banner made information technology very clear several times that she's not coming back.

The only logical style for her to come back in a moving picture would be in flashbacks. We only know bits and pieces of Black Widow'south harrowing past then far.

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26. What happened in Budapest?

Are nosotros ever going to find out what mission Nat and Clint went on years ago? They won't finish talking about it.
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Clint Barton and Black Widow have, nearly every time they've been on screen together, vaguely talked almost something that happened in Budapest. After eleven years, nosotros still have no idea what they're talking about.

Perhaps Hawkeye will be in this "Black Widow" movie as well.

27. How does time in the Breakthrough Realm work? Information technology appears to have worked differently for Scott Lang and Janet van Dyne.

Janet van Dyne was in the Breakthrough Realm for 30 years. Scott was in there for v. Only one of them anile.
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Scott was in there for five years and said information technology felt similar v hours. Janet was in at that place for xxx years, and information technology's rubber to say that more than 30 hours passed for her. She doesn't announced to have anile whatsoever slower.

As the dalek in "Doctor Who" say, "explicate."

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