There's a lot to unpack, of course. That's why Nick Fury and Agent Coulson are able to appear in the film. But it's worth pointing out that even if we know these deaths aren't likely to stick, the characters we love do not. If she's the per Kevin Fiege , why has she stood idly by during this 10-year build-up to Thanos? We're also guessing that the cleanup for this mess will have something to do with Captain Marvel, whose of Infinity War. There's no real reason to assume Loki or Heimdall will be back; their stories seem to have run their course and Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba seem ready to move on. The deed is finally done.
Since he's successful in doing so, the final sequences of Infinity War show various Avengers dying, disintegrating into ash before the eyes of their friends and teammates. Often, they're utilized to set up future movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fury manages to pull something out of his bag from the car and he looks around to see other people disintegrating before he himself turns to ash. That's something for us, and our favorite Marvel characters, to carry with us for the next year-plus. This time around, he took a peek at the script for the next Avengers movie and realized that, somehow, it was important that Iron Man live β important enough that he gave up the Time Stone to make sure it happened. So, this is our obligatory spoilers warning.
As for Hawkeye, he's looking like a cert to return in Avengers 4 β only not in the way we know him, if and some. These two characters are constantly in conflict with each other over control. Bruce Banner and the Hulk are clearly having a domestic! It's not entirely clear, but there's a more than decent chance that he was inside the Soul Stone itself. When Does Her Marvel Movie Release? I'm talking specifically here about Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor. In the end, if you didn't know that Thanos might pull out the W by the end of this movie, you haven't been paying close attention. But how was Vision injured so easily in the first place? He stayed there for a while, too.
Instead, Avengers: Infinity War ends where The Infinity Gauntlet begins. What could make Thanos almost change his mind about his plan to bring balance to the universe by wiping half of it out? Or not most of them, anyway. Related: Of course, it's not just happening on Earth. You've made an appointment for therapy for tomorrow. While most of the Avengers end up in Wakanda battling the Black Order and their horde of alien troops as they try to defend Vision Paul Bettany and the Mind Stone, Iron Man Robert Downey Jr , Doctor Strange Benedict Cumberbatch , Spider-Man Tom Holland and three of the Guardians of the Galaxy go toe to toe with Thanos on the moon of Titan in a fight for the Time Stone.
Among all of those possible futures, he only saw one where the good guys came out on top. Did you recognise the guardian of the Soul Stone? ComicBook is breaking down the biggest questions the film leaves behind and pointing out some of the hidden details you may have missed. Captain Marvel's symbol appears at the end of 'Avengers: Infinity War. These two audiences will not perceive the ending the same way. More interestingly, , meaning that the superhero who shows up to help save the day in the fourth Avengers will have already been established for years. He sacrificed Gamora to obtain the Soul Stone, and so it makes sense that she and the Stone would be connected somehow after her death.
As with so many things, the answer lies in the comics. The Hulk has never met a foe he couldn't fight β until, of course, he met Thanos and got his butt beaten in the process. And with that in mind, it's entirely possible that all our dead heroes may have had their souls transported to the Stone as well. We won't go into the full list of everyone who dies in Avengers: Infinity War, but the way they disintegrate is the same way Maria and Fury do so in the end credits scene. Although Infinity War is only loosely based on the Jim Starlin-written 1991 Marvel Crossover event Infinity Gauntlet, there are lingering similarities and references from the comic that show up in the film.
Gamora and Vision are also on that list as the Guardian was killed when Thanos sacrificed her to collect the Soul Stone, and Vision was offed when the Mind Stone was ripped from him. Take all our speculation with a grain of salt. After all, Thanos did find himself in a strange world after he snapped the gauntlet, and the mysterious place was cast in an orange glow and seemed rather peaceful. After that, we saw Thanos resting, watching the sunrise, his life's mission finally at an end. Vision did not have a good time of it in Avengers: Infinity War. The villains in Infinity War are actually a cabal of villains called who appear in the 2013 Infinity comic book arc. Then, around the midpoint of the film, Strange used the Eye of Agamotto to explore over 14 million possible battles against Thanos, looking for the path to victory.
As mentioned, new chapters in the Spider- M an, Black Panther, and Guardians of the Galaxy series have already been announced, and though Marvel could always set those stories in the past or something, it seems unlikely that it will do so. So why would a scrub like Nebula be alive while so many fan favorite characters were turned to dust? And what does that mean for the Infinity Stones? The filming of right around when , meaning that Marvel had no idea just how popular Black Panther would become before its characters were written into Infinity War. All of those reaped reside within the stone and live peacefully, allowing them to exist as if frozen in time. Meanwhile, if she's been around since the '90s and a friend of Nick Fury's, there's a whole lot of mystery surrounding just where the heck Captain Marvel has been all these years. On the one hand, temporary deaths are a habit Marvel has returned to again and again and again, to the point that when Yondu didn't immediately spring back up in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. While the body count at the end of Avengers: Infinity War was pretty high, it's important to remember that plenty of characters wound up surviving the whole ordeal.
Is it possible Wasp and Ant-Man were just in the Quantum Realm while the main Thanos assault was happening? Advertisement So what happened at the end of Avengers: Infinity War? The space-pager we see in the post credits scene does look like it could be modified 1990s tech. The major characters we might expect to die and stay dead β the ones who've been around long enough that their actor contracts are starting to expire β are all left standing at the end. You'll notice that the characters who were turned to dust at the end are either relatively minor characters much as we like Scarlet Witch, it's really not that hard to imagine the Avengers without her or major lead characters we know are due back for sequels there is no way Black Panther stops at just one solo feature. Gamora and Vision seem like they could go either way. Hope you've got a strategy, Strange. Relationships are give and take Bruce! Thanks to technology, we're catching up with the dynamic duo fans fell in love with in The Avengers during their prime years for Captain Marvel.