Despite the fact that Avengers: Infinity War has been out for a little over two months, fans of the behemoth Marvel Cinematic Universe have already set their sights on next year’s sequel. Which is understandable, considering of Infinity War ended. SPOILERS FOLLOW.
As we all now know, by the end of Infinity War, Thanos achieves his goal of uniting the Infinity Stones and snaps half of the universe’s population out of existence and into thin air.
The ending of Infinity War was divisive, to say the least. While some people found it to be shocking and brave, I found it to be quite cheap, as half of the characters who evaporated already have sequels in the works.
However, if Marvel — and the rumored title of Avengers 4 — is to be believed, then we ain’t see nothing yet.
via Esquire:
Because Marvel fans currently have nothing better to do, this weekend they checked the resume page of Avengers 4 cinematographer Trent Opaloch and noticed he listed a film called Avengers: End Game. He’s since updated his resume and changed the title to Avengers 4, but the damage had already been done.
A number of fans have pointed out that this is a reference to a scene in Avengers: Infinity War, when Doctor Strange is searching through every possible outcome in the battle with Thanos to see if there’s any possible ending in which the Avengers can win. Out of 14 million possible outcomes only one has the Avengers winning. Just after Doctor Strange hands the Time Stone over to Thanos, he tells Iron Man, “We’re in the end game now.”
This hints at the theory that everything that we see playing out is part of Doctor Strange’s plan, which is to allow Thanos to win first before Strange goes back in time to reverse everything that happened.
While the Russo brothers — the directors of the films — have insisted that the title of the Infinity War sequel would not be coming from the dialogue of the movie, “End Game” just makes too much sense and seems to be the most logical option.
