Avengers: Endgame

"This time travel thing that we're gonna try and pull off tomorrow, it's... it's got me scratching my head about the survivability of it all. But then again, that's the hero gig. Part of the journey is the end."

- Iron Man

Avengers: Endgame is a 2019 superhero film, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The film is a sequel to The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Avengers: Infinity War and a crossover/sequel to Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel. It is the twenty-second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Infinity Saga, as well as the tenth film of Phase Three. The film was released in the United States on April 26, 2019 and re-released under the title Avengers: Endgame - With Bonus Content on June 28, 2019.

The film is directed by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo, and stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon and Josh Brolin as Thanos.

Synopsis
The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured the Avengers ranks compels the remaining Avengers to take one final stand in Marvel Studios' grand conclusion to twenty-two films, Avengers: Endgame.

Plot
Clint Barton, still under house arrest due to the Sokovia Accords, trains his daughter Lila in archery at his homestead. Under his tutelage, she scores a bullseye and he congratulates her on her efforts. Nearby, Laura prepares a picnic while their two sons, Nathaniel and Cooper, play catch. Clint turns his attention away from Lila for a moment to respond to his wife, but when he returns that attention back to her, she is gone. Surprised and visibly startled, he calls out to his other family members, but they too have vanished; victims of the Snap. Three weeks after the Snap, Tony Stark and Nebula are adrift in space aboard the Benatar. Nearly depleted of supplies, Stark uses the helmet from the Iron Man Armor: Mark L to chronicle their possible final days with the hope that the helmet will be recovered Pepper Potts before falling asleep. Nebula, having developed an unlikely friendship with Stark during their journey, places him in the pilot's seat and retreats to the corridors of the ship. Tony's sleep is disturbed by the arrival of Captain Marvel, who carries the ship back to the New Avengers Facility on Earth. Stark is reunited with Potts and the remaining Avengers who survived, including Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, James Rhodes, and Bruce Banner. Stark tells Rogers that he lost Peter Parker upon seeing him. Rocket Raccoon sees Nebula alone and realizes that all his friends are also gone. The two sit together and hold hands in silent grief.

Now inside the facility, Rogers asks Stark if he has any clues as to where Thanos may be. Tony then erupts into a furious tirade stemming from unresolved issues between the two over the course of the events of Ultron and their civil war. Stark continues: if they had stood together, they may have been able to defeat Thanos. After this outburst, he faints, exhausted and emaciated from his trip through space. Stark is given a sedative that will put him out for a while, giving him time to heal. Returning to the topic on trying to find Thanos, Danvers wants to go after him right away. However, the rest of the team is not so easily convinced of the idea. Rogers tells her they don't even know where he is, but Danvers says she knows some people who may. Nebula says there is no need because she knows where Thanos is, referencing "The Garden" that Thanos had planned to retreat to after achieving his goal of the Snap. Based on her information, Rocket pulls up a 3-D diagram of its location and states that when Thanos used the stones on Earth, it let out a large burst of energy. The same signature, he states, appeared two days ago on a different planet.

With this new information, the team of Avengers set out to confront Thanos and retrieve the Infinity Stones in hopes of bringing half the universe's population back, leaving Stark behind. They all get aboard the Benatar and plot a course through the Universal Neural Teleportation Network to Titan II. Finally tracking the signal to Thanos' farm in the Garden, Danvers then first heads onto the planet to do recon, only to find that the planet is undefended and Thanos is alone and unguarded——he has no Armada, no ships, and no guards.

In his simple hut, Thanos goes about his daily routine; however, he is visibly crippled with horrific burns on the left side of his body, presumably from use of the Infinity Stones. Danvers suddenly bursts into the house surprising Thanos and quickly pins him down with assistance from Rhodes and Banner, after which Thor severs Thanos' left arm and Gauntlet completely off with Stormbreaker. To the Avengers' surprise and dismay, Thanos' gauntlet does not contain any of the Infinity Stones. Upon interrogation, Thanos explains that the Stones would offer "nothing but a temptation," should he keep them. He explains that after completing his goal, the Stones had served their purpose and thus he used their energies to reduce them to atoms so that what he did could never be reversed. The Avengers accuse him of lying, to which Nebula responds that while her father is many things, he is not a liar. Thanos thanks his adoptive daughter for believing him. Enraged, Thor decapitates Thanos, killing the Mad Titan. When Rocket asks what he has done, Thor replies that this time, he "went for the head"; referencing Thanos's scornful remark on his failure to defeat him in the Infinity War. The Avengers then depart Titan II, having realized that there is nothing they can do to bring everybody back.

Five years later, Earth's remaining population has attempted to persevere against catastrophic losses. The scope of the losses has traumatized the world and has stagnated much of their progress. Rogers now participates in and/or runs a support group for citizens of New York City who are trying to cope with surviving The Snap and their losses. Tony is revealed to be living in a simple cabin with Pepper and their young daughter Morgan, now feeling a sense of peace despite the weight of what happened five years earlier.

In a U-STORE-It Self-Storage facility in San Francisco, a rat accidentally activates the Quantum Tunnel in Luis' Van, finally pulling Scott Lang out of the Quantum Realm after he was trapped there at the end of Ant-Man and the Wasp. Disoriented and confused, Lang (who believes he was only gone for five hours) wanders a post-snap San Francisco. Realizing something terrible must have happened, he comes across the Wall of the Vanished, a memorial site for listing the names of those lost in the Snap. He frantically scans the names, hoping that he doesn't find his daughter's. Relief gives way to bewilderment as he doesn't find her name, but instead his own name. Arriving at Cassie's home, he is shocked when he is greeted by his daughter, now a teenager, and the two reunite in a tearful, joyful reunion and hug. After realizing that Hope van Dyne, Hank Pym, and Janet van Dyne were among the vanished, Lang travels to the New Avengers Facility in New York with Luis' Van. At the New Avengers Facility, Romanoff, now the leader of the Avengers, is concluding a meeting with Nebula, Okoye, Danvers, Rocket, and Rhodes, regarding the continued repercussions of The Snap throughout the universe. Following the dismissal, Rhodes remains behind to give a status update regarding his former teammate and her friend, Clint Barton, who has become a vigilante. Rhodes suspects Barton is responsible for the deaths of multiple Mexican Cartel members, which upsets Romanoff. Despite his apprehension, Romanoff pleads with Rhodes to continue tracking Barton. Rogers enters the room and the two console each other, admitting that while they've now devoted their lives to helping others move on from what happened, neither of them ever can. The gloomy mood is interrupted when Lang arrives on the compound. While initially skeptical, the two realize that Lang is indeed alive and welcome him into the facility. Upon arrival, he is greeted by Romanoff and Rogers, his idol, and the three begin discussing the means of his survival where Lang explains his own experience in the Quantum Realm and how they might use it to undo the events of the Snap. The trio, with limited knowledge about the Quantum Realm and time travel, then seek out Stark. At his lakeside home, Stark is enjoying quality time with his daughter when Rogers, Natasha, and Lang, arrive. Stark immediately understands the nature of their visit but obliges their inquiry. When Lang proposes the idea of a "Time Heist", Stark quickly criticizes the idea, fearing that altering the past could erase their very existence as it stands. Stark just wants to put the past behind him and tells them he's finished with the Avengers. Not wanting to give up, Rogers, Romanoff, and Lang leave and meet with Bruce Banner at a diner. After the Snap, and both Hulk's and Banner's defeat at the hands of Thanos, Banner restarted his research into Gamma Radiation and used it to morph his body to have the appearance and strength of the Hulk while retaining the intelligence and control of Banner. Despite his meager knowledge of quantum physics, claiming it was "outside of my expertise," Banner agrees to help them experiment with the idea. While Tony is washing dishes he accidentally gets a picture of his dad wet, then coming across a picture of himself and Peter Parker. Being reminded of how he lost him on Titan all those years back, he uses F.R.I.D.A.Y. to simulate models for time travel in the Quantum Realm. Despite expecting and hoping not to fail, he succeeds just before giving up using an inverted Möbius strip model. After having done so, he discusses with Pepper the morality of time travel and about what he should do with his latest discovery: whether he should lock it up in a box and throw it into the bottom of a lake or whether he should take it to the remaining Avengers. He feels that he and Pepper were lucky that they were both spared and now have made an amazing life together, but he can't deny that everyone around them has suffered unimaginable horrors and should be helped. Pepper asks Tony if he could live with his conscience if he kept the secret to himself, and this seems to convince him to return to the Avengers. At the New Avengers Facility, Banner, Rogers, and Romanoff run an experiment with time travel by trying to send Lang back in time. Instead of sending him through time, they send time through him: he turns into a child, an old man, and finally a baby before only they manage to restore him to normal. Rogers the room, contemplating outside of the building about what to do next. Stark arrives to extend his helping hand and asks if the whole team is getting back together. Rogers told him they're still working on gathering everyone who's available. Tony tells Rogers that he's agreeing to help on the condition that trying to reverse what Thanos did won't reset what has happened since, as he doesn't want to lose his daughter. Rogers agrees that's how it should be. The two men finally put aside their differences, and Stark returns Rogers' shield.

Nebula and Rocket arrive in the Benatar and Rhodes flies in with his suit. Scott, eating outside, sees his taco destroyed in the wind from the Benatar's landing. Banner and Rocket travel to New Asgard in Tønsberg, Norway which is now home to the few Asgardians who are left, but not before Banner offers Scott a new taco. They meet Valkyrie, who now works on the fishing docks, who tells them Thor is not doing well. Thor is revealed to be depressed following his failures; he has gained considerable weight, become an alcoholic, and spends much of his time playing  with Korg and Miek. Although Thor tries to put on a carefree attitude, he nearly breaks down upon Thanos' name being mentioned by Banner. When it seems as if an appeal to emotion will not work on Thor, Banner and Rocket convince Thor to come with them by promising him a beer. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Barton attacks a group of Japanese Yakuza members and dispatches them one by one, including their boss, Akihiko. Romanoff, watching the scene, approaches Barton in an attempt to bring him back to the Avengers. At first, Barton wants nothing to do with the plan. But after some convincing by Romanoff, Barton returns to the Avengers' headquarters with Romanoff.

At the Avengers Facility, Banner and Stark have completed the construction of their own Quantum Tunnel and Advanced Tech Suit's and are preparing for test runs. Rhodes argues the suggestion of traveling back in time to kill 'Baby Thanos' to which Banner explains that altering events in the past will not alter the present but will instead create an alternate universe; leaving the only feasible course of action of acquiring the Infinity Stones to restore everyone in the present time. Believing himself to be expendable, Barton volunteers for the first time travel test and is transported to a time period on his farm before the Snap. With disbelief and hope, he calls out to his daughter but is brought back to the present before she sees him. With the test proven a success, the Avengers proceed with the next phase of preparation which is to determine the location of each Infinity Stone in the past. This presents a challenge: as they possess a scarce supply of Pym Particles to operate with and no means of replenishing because Hank Pym perished in the snap, they only have enough for one round-trip each. As the team discusses their past encounters with the Infinity Stones, they manage to recall the placement of each Infinity Stone in time. Fortunately, they realize the Time, Space, and Mind Stones were all present in 2012 New York City, in relatively close proximity with each other, following the Battle of New York. However, the other three Stones were only accessible to them in different places and times, with the Reality Stone being present on Asgard in 2013, and the Soul and Power Stones being present in 2014 on Vormir and Morag respectively. With their targets located, the Avengers split into three separate teams: Thor and Rocket to Asgard, Nebula and War Machine to Morag, Romanoff, and Barton to Vormir; and Rogers, Stark, Banner, and Lang to New York. In 2012 New York City, the team of Banner, Lang, Rogers, and Stark review their mission objectives and disperse. Banner heads over to the New York Sanctum where he encounters the Ancient One, who explains to Banner that Doctor Strange is not yet the Sorcerer Supreme. Banner tries to persuade her to give him the Time Stone, but his initial attempt fails. The Ancient One educates Banner on the effects the Infinity Stones have on reality and possible ramifications that may result from the loss of just one. Though Banner makes a compelling argument, she is not convinced until he reveals that Strange willingly relinquished it to Thanos, making her realize that Strange's actions were part of a bigger plan. The Ancient One loans Banner the Time Stone and he promises to return it and the others once they've finished with them before departing for the Quantum Realm to rendezvous with the other Avengers. Meanwhile, Stark and Lang infiltrate Stark Tower in the aftermath of the Battle of New York. After watching Loki's arrest, Stark departs in the Iron Man Armor: Mark LXXXV to the lobby area, carrying Lang. Lang plants himself onto Stark's 2012 counterpart who is transporting the Tesseract. However, the past Avengers are comforted by Alexander Pierce who wants to take the Tesseract from Stark. Scott causes a distraction by interfering with the 2012 version of Stark's Arc Reactor and sending Stark into cardiac arrest, allowing the present Stark to secure the Tesseract. However, as Stark attempts to exit the area, the 2012 version of Hulk bursts into the lobby from the stairwell, causing Stark to drop the Tesseract. In the confusion, Loki manages to retrieve the Tesseract and uses its power to escape. Meanwhile, A S.H.I.E.L.D. STRIKE team comprised of undercover HYDRA agents are taking Loki's scepter to Dr. List. Rogers is tasked with retrieving it. Brock Rumlow, Jasper Sitwell, Jack Rollins and other undercover agents of HYDRA are transporting the scepter by elevator. Rogers enters the elevator and presents the ruse that he has been ordered to take the Scepter, drawing suspicion from Rumlow and Sitwell, who doubt that Pierce has allowed a man outside of HYDRA to carry the weapon. Knowing that this will clear their suspicions, Rogers mutters, "Hail HYDRA," earning their trust and acquiring the scepter. After getting the scepter, Rogers encounters another obstacle in the form of his 2012 counterpart, who has mistaken him for Loki in disguise. The two fight, but present Rogers uses his knowledge of Bucky Barnes' status to momentarily stun his 2012 self, then managing to subdue his 2012 counterpart with the Scepter.

The team of Lang, Rogers, and Stark regroup as Stark and Lang admit they botched their mission and there's no way to find the Tesseract now. However, Tony realizes that he can find a place and time where he can retrieve not just the Tesseract, but additional Pym Particles that he can use to return home. Scott is given the Scepter to return to the present while Stark and Rogers travel to Camp Lehigh in 1970.

Thor and Rocket, having been able to locate Jane Foster on Asgard, set out to use a device to extract the Aether from her body. Thor, however, gets distracted at seeing his mother, knowing that she will die later that day being killed by Kurse. He then abandons Rocket to go get some mead but is caught by Frigga, who talks to him knowing that he is from the future. Upon Rocket retrieving the Reality Stone and escaping Asgardian guards, Rocket interrupts Thor's talk with his mother, but Thor takes the chance to reclaim Mjølnir and say one final goodbye to his mother before he and Rocket return to the present. Rhodey, Nebula, Romanoff and Clint time jump to 2014 Morag. Romanoff and Clint use the Benatar to travel to Vormir. Nebula and Rhodey go inside the Temple Vault and watch Star-Lord dance, both remarking on what a carefree idiot Quill was before knocking him out. They use his tools to break into the Vault and Nebula takes the Power Stone at the cost of her flesh on her arm. However, somewhere else in the universe aboard the Sanctuary II, Thanos says that Ronan the Accuser has found the location of the Power Stone. He is sharing this with Gamora and Nebula when suddenly, the two Nebula's systems start interfacing with each other. Although present Nebula is unaware, the past Nebula broadcasts her future self's visual feed. Thanos has his daughter examined by Ebony Maw and sees images of his success from the future. Past Nebula swears her loyalty to her father, and Thanos decides to use her to achieve his aims quicker than he ever thought. A malfunctioning Nebula is stuck in 2014 while Rhodes travels back to the present time. Nebula is then found by the 2014 versions of Thanos and Nebula, who uses present Nebula's time-traveling device to travel forward in time and impersonate her future self.

Rogers and Stark arrive in 1970 as the Watcher Informant drives by, currently posing as a hippie. Rogers and Stark split up to locate the Pym Particles and find the Tesseract. Tony goes into the basement to look for the Tesseract in storage, but is slowed when he runs into his dad Howard Stark, who is looking for Arnim Zola. He then gets to the talk to his dad about his own birth, who is expected that very day. Stark sees his father in a new light and, now a father himself, understands what he went through raising him. He manages to indirectly thank Howard for everything while maintaining his hidden identity. Rogers uses a distraction phone call to coerce Hank Pym into leaving his lab while he sneaks in and grabs the Pym Particles. On his way back, Rogers has to hide in an office, which turns out to be the office of Peggy Carter. He briefly reflects on what he could have had with Carter and spots a photo of himself on her desk. He makes the rendezvous with Stark and returns to the present. Meanwhile, Romanoff and Barton are greeted on Vormir by Red Skull. Once they are informed of the sacrifice they have to make, the two argue over who should make the sacrifice for the Soul Stone. Both are ready to sacrifice themselves for the other, so they both try to throw themselves off the cliff. Although Clint makes the jump, Romanoff saves him using her grappling hook and ends up hanging by his hand. She convinces him to let her go, as there's no way to save her now, and she falls to her death. A devastated Barton claims the Soul Stone and returns to the present without Romanoff. The team return to the New Avengers Facility in 2023 with all six Infinity Stones. They immediately notice the absence of Romanoff and Barton informs them of her death. The remaining Avengers take a moment by the lake to mourn her death before proceeding with their plan to use the Stones. Stark, with help from Banner and Rocket, creates a Nano Gauntlet to harness the stones, and Rocket starts a debate over who should use it. Thor insists upon being the one to wield it, claiming to be the strongest, but the others argue that using the gauntlet at full power channels more power than he's capable of safely handling both as a human and in his poor physical condition. Ultimately, Banner realizes that his physical form and relationship with gamma radiation make him the only safe candidate to use to the gauntlet. Banner puts the gauntlet on and it causes him intense pain as the energy from the stones surges through him. While many want him to take the gauntlet off, Rogers confirms that Banner is capable of continuing and Banner snaps his fingers seconds later. Banner suffers major damage to his right arm and shoulder but believes he was successful in restoring the universe's population. This is proven true when Barton gets a call from his wife, Laura.

Moments later, the 2014 version of Nebula activates the Quantum Tunnel to allow passage for Thanos' Sanctuary II, which carries an armada. Thanos opens fire on the facility, destroying the buildings. 2014 Nebula returns to her father, who chargers her with retrieving the stones while he waits for the Avengers. Back on board the Sanctuary II, Gamora asks the future Nebula what happened between them. Nebula admits that she was determined to kill Gamora more than once, but the two eventually formed a bond as sisters and became friends. Gamora, who always had reservations about her commitment to Thanos, finally turns on him and frees present Nebula. In the aftermath of the attack in the rubble, the Avengers are separated. Thor, Rogers, and Stark are near the top of the rubble, so they decide to attack Thanos on their own. Barton finds the gauntlet deep in the rubble and protects it from the Outriders. Past Nebula returns in disguise and he hands over the gauntlet, but before past Nebula can kill him, Gamora and present Nebula intercept her. They attempt to convince her to leave Thanos, but she refuses, and present Nebula is forced to kill her past self.

Thor, Rogers, and Stark confront Thanos head-on, but he defeats them in his physical prime. Thanos admits that their actions have proven to him that his plan to wipe out half the universe was flawed, as the survivors were too busy dwelling on what was lost and trying to reverse it to make the most of the 'opportunity' they were given. Instead, Thanos now intends to wipe out this universe and then rebuild it in his own image, with no one having any knowledge about what came before.

During the struggle, Thanos manages to pin Thor down and prepares to kill him with Stormbreaker when suddenly Mjølnir hits him, Rogers summons the hammer to his side and uses it against the Mad Titan. Despite a valiant effort, Thanos subdues Rogers and breaks his shield. Thanos taunts Rogers with the notion that he will take pleasure in destroying the Earth, and the Black Order descends from their ship with their armies of Chitauri, Outriders, and Sakaarans. With his shield broken and Mjølnir out of reach, a battle-weary Rogers prepares to make his last stand against the Thanos and his massive army. Just when all hope seems lost, Sling Ring portals open, transporting the previously fallen heroes, including Falcon, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Shuri, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Drax, Groot, Wasp, Star-Lord, Mantis and Winter Soldier. Pepper Potts joins the fight in her own armored suit along with Valkyrie, Okoye, Korg and Miek. Banner, Lang, Rhodey, and Rocket return from underground. These heroes lead the forces of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, Dora Milaje, the Wakandan Army, Ravagers, and the Asgardians in the Battle of Earth. Rogers, with a cry of "Avengers, Assemble!", starts the Battle of Earth and the Avengers try to keep the Nano Gauntlet away from Thanos and his forces with the objective of sending the Infinity Stones back to their proper timelines. Since the Quantum Tunnel had been destroyed along with the Avengers' facility, their only alternative is to use the one housed in Luis' van, which is deep behind the enemy lines. Over the course of the battle, the Avengers' forces managed to gain the upper hand, and Wanda Maximoff manages to single-handily overpower Thanos until he orders the Sanctuary II to fire upon the battlefield. This incapacitates Maximoff and destroys a dam, forcing Doctor Strange to hold back the water to keep it from flooding the battlefield. The Masters of the Mystic Arts generate shields to protect the forces of the Avengers. Peter Parker has the gauntlet and is taken to relative safety. Carol Danvers arrives from space and destroys the Sanctuary II, leaving only the forces on the ground.

She takes the gauntlet from Peter Parker and tries to fly it to the Quantum Tunnel. Just within reach of her goal, Thanos destroys the van and secures the gauntlet for himself. He puts it on, but Danvers engages Thanos before he can snap his fingers. A brief struggle ensues, with Thanos coming out on top after using the Power Stone to incapacitate Danvers. Strange looks at Tony and reminds him of their earlier discussion of the odds but holding up his finger. As Thanos tries again to activate the Infinity Stones and with all other Avengers being either busy or beaten, Stark leaps at Thanos and tussles with him before being thrown off. The Mad Titan revels in his supposed victory before snapping his fingers, but nothing happens. Thanos realizes the Infinity Stones are missing and he turns his attention turns to Stark, who is now in possession of the stones and uses his nanotech suit constructing a new gauntlet around them. After declaring "And I...Am...Iron Man", Tony snaps his fingers. In shock and horror, Thanos watches as his entire army turns to dust. He accepts defeat before he finally turns to dust as well. Stark collapses from his wounds. After sharing brief and silent goodbyes with Rhodes and Parker, Tony succumbs to his injuries in peace after being comforted by Potts, who assures him that she and Morgan will be all right.

With the universe restored, the heroes reunite with their families and friends. In Tony's cabin, a goodbye message he recorded the night before the Avengers traveled through time plays to Tony's family and close friends, finishing with the hologram of him looking right at to his daughter, Morgan, and saying that he "loves her 3000." They proceed outside, where Pepper casts a funeral wreath into the lake. The group is joined by other important individuals including Happy Hogan, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Thaddeus Ross, May Parker, the Pyms, the Guardians of the Galaxy, a delegation from Wakanda, remaining Avengers, and even Harley Keener, as they all recognize the sacrifice that Stark made to save them and the universe.

Barton and Maximoff comfort each other by the lake after the funeral, both suffering from their own losses. Barton expresses that he wishes Natasha could know that they won. Maximoff assures him that she knows they did, as does Vision.

Thor then leaves behind New Asgard after making Valkyrie the new queen and joins the Guardians of the Galaxy. On the Benatar, Quill looks at star maps, scanning for Gamora. Quill and Thor then have a quick argument about who is the leader of the group, as everyone else presumes Thor will be captain now, and Drax suggests they have a ritual knife fight to the death for the position of captain, an idea which gets everyone else's approval. Although Thor reassures them that Quill is still the captain, the sly look on his face indicates that he still believes otherwise.

Rogers volunteers to go back in time to return the Infinity Stones and Mjølnir to their proper places in time. He bids farewell to Barnes and Wilson with a slightly longer farewell than would be expected, because Banner then says he should be back in five seconds. Rogers disappears as planned, but he does not return on the expected count of five. Instead, Barnes notices an elderly man sitting alone on a bench by the river, silencing Wilson's concern. Wilson walks over and meets an aged version of his ally, Steve Rogers. Rogers tells him he had decided to stay in the past and experience life with Peggy Carter. Wilson is shocked but accepts Rogers' choice to hang up the shield, saddened that he will have to live in a world without Captain America. However, Rogers then passes his shield to Wilson.

Wilson is at first hesitant to take it, but Rogers tells him he should take it. As they shake hands, Wilson notices a ring on Rogers' left hand and asks if he'll tell him about her. Rogers simply responds, "No. No, I don't think I will."

Cast

 * Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America / Loki (illusion)
 * Patrick Gorman as Old Steve Rogers
 * Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
 * Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
 * Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
 * Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man
 * Bazlo and Loen LeClair as Baby Scott Lang
 * Jackson Dunn as 12-year-old Scott Lang
 * Lee Moore as 93-year-old Scott Lang
 * Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
 * Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther
 * Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
 * Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
 * Karen Gillan as Nebula
 * Zoe Saldana as Gamora
 * Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne/Wasp
 * Tessa Thompson as Brunnhilde/Valkyrie
 * Rene Russo as Queen Frigga
 * Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
 * Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
 * Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier
 * Tom Hiddleston as Loki
 * Danai Gurira as Okoye
 * Benedict Wong as Master Wong
 * Pom Klementieff as Mantis
 * Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer
 * Letitia Wright as Princess Shuri
 * John Slattery as Howard Stark
 * Tilda Swinton as Ancient One
 * Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
 * Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
 * Natalie Portman as Jane Foster
 * Marisa Tomei as May Parker
 * Taika Waititi as Korg
 * Angela Bassett as Queen Mother Ramonda
 * Michael Douglas as Doctor Hank Pym
 * John Michael Morris as Young Hank Pym
 * Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne
 * William Hurt as Secretary Thaddeus Ross
 * Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
 * Vin Diesel as Groot (voice)
 * Terry Notary as Cull Obsidian / Groot (motion-capture)
 * Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon (voice)
 * Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
 * Robert Redford as Undersecretary Alexander Pierce
 * Josh Brolin as Thanos
 * Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
 * Sean Gunn as Kraglin Obfonteri / Rocket Raccoon (motion-capture)
 * Winston Duke as M'Baku
 * Linda Cardellini as Laura Barton
 * Maximiliano Hernández as Agent Jasper Sitwell
 * Frank Grillo as Agent Brock Rumlow
 * Hiroyuki Sanada as Akihiko
 * Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
 * James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis
 * Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
 * Emma Fuhrmann as Cassie Lang
 * Ava Russo as Lila Barton
 * Ben Sakamoto as Cooper Barton
 * Cade Woodward as Nathaniel Barton
 * Kerry Condon as F.R.I.D.A.Y.
 * Ty Simpkins as Harley Keener
 * Lexi Rabe as Morgan Stark
 * Seth Green as Howard the Duck
 * Ross Marquand as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull
 * Michael Shaw as Corvus Glaive
 * Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight
 * Monique Ganderton as Proxima Midnight (motion-capture)
 * Callan Mulvey as Agent Jack Rollins
 * Gozie Agbo as Man at Counseling
 * Jim Starlin as Man at Counseling
 * Ken Jeong as Storage Facility Guard
 * Yvette Nicole Brown as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent
 * Stan Lee as '70s Car Man
 * Anthony Breed as '70s Car Man (motion-capture)
 * Unknown Actor as Miek (motion capture; uncredited)

Location

 * Earth
 * Missouri
 * Clint Barton's Homestead
 * New York
 * New Avengers Facility
 * New York City, New York
 * Statue of Liberty
 * New York Sanctum
 * Stark Tower
 * Midtown School of Science and Technology
 * Metro-General Hospital (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)
 * San Francisco, California
 * U-STORE-It Self Storage
 * Wall of the Vanished
 * Maggie Lang's House
 * Carter Residence
 * Washington, D.C.
 * Stark Residence
 * Tønsberg, Norway
 * Tokyo, Japan
 * Wheaton, New Jersey
 * Camp Lehigh
 * Kathmandu, Nepal
 * Kamar-Taj
 * Hong Kong, China
 * Hong Kong Sanctum
 * Golden City, Wakanda
 * Citadel
 * South Africa (mentioned)
 * Germany (mentioned)
 * Flughafen Leipzig-Halle (mentioned)
 * Budapest, Hungary (mentioned)
 * Mexico (mentioned)
 * Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mentioned)
 * Toronto, Canada (mentioned)
 * Titan II
 * Thanos' Farm
 * Asgard
 * Asgardian Dungeons
 * Asgardian Palace
 * Morag
 * Temple Vault
 * Vormir
 * Titan
 * Contraxia
 * Multiverse
 * Astral Dimension
 * Quantum Realm
 * Harokin (mentioned)
 * Harokin (mentioned)

Events

 * Infinity War
 * Snap
 * Battle of Titan (mentioned)
 * Battle of Wakanda (mentioned)
 * Sacrifice of Gamora (mentioned)
 * Rescue of Tony Stark
 * Ambush on Thanos
 * Massacre in Tokyo
 * Time Heist
 * Theft of the Mind Stone
 * Theft of the Space Stone
 * Theft of the Time Stone
 * Theft of the Reality Stone
 * Theft of the Power Stone
 * Kidnapping of Nebula
 * Sacrifice of Natasha Romanoff
 * Blip
 * Chitauri Invasion
 * Battle of New York
 * Quest for the Orb
 * Battle of Morag
 * Attack on the New Avengers Facility
 * Battle of Earth
 * Massacre in Mexico (mentioned)
 * Avengers Civil War (mentioned)
 * Clash of the Avengers (mentioned)
 * First Dark Elf Conflict (mentioned)
 * First Battle of Svartalfheim (mentioned)
 * Second Dark Elf Conflict (mentioned)
 * Sacking of Asgard (mentioned)
 * Ragnarok (mentioned)
 * Destruction of Asgard (mentioned)
 * Budapest Operation (mentioned)
 * Battle of Harokin (mentioned)

Items

 * Vibranium
 * Captain America's Shield
 * Panther Habit
 * Vibranium Spear
 * Vibranium Gauntlets
 * Sneakers
 * Sonic Spear
 * Uru
 * Stormbreaker
 * Infinity Gauntlet
 * Mjølnir
 * Infinity Stones
 * Scepter
 * Mind Stone
 * Tesseract
 * Space Stone
 * Eye of Agamotto
 * Time Stone
 * Orb
 * Power Stone
 * Aether
 * Reality Stone
 * Soul Stone
 * Captain America's Uniform
 * Captain America's Compass
 * Iron Man Armors
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark XLVII
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark XLIX
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark L
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark LXXXV
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark VII
 * War Machine Armors
 * War Machine Armor: Mark IV
 * War Machine Armor: Mark VI
 * War Machine Armor: Mark VII
 * Thor's Prosthetic Eye
 * Asgardian Armor
 * Arc Reactor
 * James Rhodes' Leg Braces
 * Thanos' Armor
 * Hawkeye's Bow and Quiver
 * Hawkeye's Sword
 * Wristbow
 * Tony Stark's Glasses
 * Black Widow's Bite
 * Taser Disk
 * Black Widow's Batons
 * Hulk's Stretchable Suit
 * Ant-Man Suit
 * Pym Particles
 * Pym Particles Disks
 * Advanced Tech Suits
 * Time Watches
 * Electroshock Batons
 * Electric Blaster
 * Nebula's Energy Dagger
 * Starforce Uniform
 * Valkyrie's Armor
 * Nano Gauntlet
 * Quantum Tunnel
 * Quantum Realm Exploration Suit
 * Wasp Suit
 * Iron Spider Armor
 * Web-Shooters
 * Synthetic Webbing
 * Cloak of Levitation
 * Sling Ring
 * Tao Mandalas
 * Star-Lord's Helmet
 * Quad Blasters
 * Jet Boot Attachments
 * Drax the Destroyer's Knives
 * Quantum Healing Particles
 * Asgardian Armor
 * Asgardian Collar
 * Sakaaran Laser Rifle
 * Double-Edged Sword
 * Proxima Midnight's Spear
 * Corvus Glaive's Glaive
 * Cull Obsidian's Chain Hammer
 * Chitauri Helmet
 * Chitauri Staff
 * Chitauri Armor
 * Aakonian Ale (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)
 * Aakonian Ale (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)

Vehicles

 * M-ships
 * Benatar
 * Milano
 * Quinjet
 * Luis' Van
 * Sanctuary II
 * Q-Ships
 * Outrider Dropships
 * Chitauri Chariots
 * Necrocraft
 * Royal Talon Flyers
 * Dragon Flyers
 * Sky-Cycles
 * Dark Aster (mentioned)
 * Dark Aster (mentioned)
 * Dark Aster (mentioned)

Sentient Species

 * Humans
 * Asgardians
 * Titans
 * Luphomoids
 * Halfworlders
 * Hurctarians
 * Kree
 * Kronans
 * Sakaarans
 * Celestials
 * Zehoberei
 * Flora colossus
 * Xandarians
 * Frost Giants
 * Chitauri
 * Sakaarans
 * Dark Elves (mentioned)
 * Aakons (mentioned)
 * Xorrians (mentioned)

Creatures

 * Ants
 * Valkyries Steeds
 * Aragorn
 * Leviathans
 * Outriders
 * Chitauri Gorillas
 * Dogs
 * Orloni
 * (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)

Organizations

 * Avengers
 * Guardians of the Galaxy
 * Stark Industries
 * Asgardian Royal Family
 * Black Order
 * Masters of the Mystic Arts
 * Golden Tribe
 * Dora Milaje
 * Jabari Tribe
 * HYDRA
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * STRIKE
 * Ravagers
 * Einherjar
 * Yakuza
 * United States Army
 * X-Con Security Consultants (logo)
 * Mexican Cartel (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)

Mentioned

 * Ultron Program
 * Erik Selvig (picture)
 * Sharon Carter (picture)
 * Odin
 * Bor
 * Ultron
 * Malekith (picture)
 * List
 * Arnim Zola
 * Ronan the Accuser
 * Dark Aster
 * Ivan Romanoff
 * Edith Barton
 * Kurse
 * Karen
 * Braddock
 * Maria Stark
 * Vision
 * Noobmaster69

Production
On October 28, 2014, the film was announced as Avengers: Infinity War – Part II, while the third Avengers film was titled Avengers: Infinity War – Part I. However, in June 2016, both films were renamed. The third film title was shortened to Avengers: Infinity War and the fourth film was simply the Untitled Avengers film. Anthony and Joe Russo explain this rename as "the movies are two very different movies", so "it is misleading."

Chris Evans revealed Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame were shot back to back. Filming started on January 23, 2017, and was expected to end in October/November 2017.

During Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 events in April 2017, Zoe Saldana revealed the title of the film as Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet. Following this, James Gunn denied that was the actual title.

On September 11, 2017, the production of the movie was shut down because of Hurricane Irma.

Kevin Feige confirmed in an interview that Avengers: Endgame was the "finale" to the current iteration of the MCU and "everything before Avengers: Endgame and everything after" would result in "two distinct periods." Feige also confirmed that there were plans for twenty movies after Avengers: Endgame gets released.

Music

 * Avengers: Endgame - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack