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Endgame
Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
By Alexis Howell-Jones
GoIntoTheStory.com
Page Scene
(total 146)
1 – 2 EARTH AT POINT OF THE SNAP
- Clint Barton (Hawkeye)’s whole family disappears due to Thanos’ Snap.
Clint’s left lost and alone.
2 - 5 SPACE, 22 DAYS LATER
- A weak Tony Stark (Iron Man), out of food and low on oxygen, is
stranded with Nebula on spaceship “The Benetar”.
- Tony leaves a goodbye message for Pepper to find
- Later, sleeping Tony wakes to find Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel)
outside the ship – they’re saved.
5 - 10 AVENGERS COMPOUND – TONY’S BACK BUT BEATEN
- Carol brings the Benetar to Earth and the Avengers Compound - and
Steve Rogers (Captain America), Nat (Black Widow) and Bruce Banner
(note: Banner still can’t become Hulk at this point).
- They commiserate that they failed to stop Thanos.
- Tony’s not only weak, he’s broken inside - since “I lost the kid” (Peter
Parker - Spiderman).
- Rocket and Nebula sit and mourn their own losses.
- Now with Rhodey (War Machine) there too, they note:
• The many heroes/people they’ve lost (shown on screens)
• That the world is in disarray
• They don’t know where Thanos is.
- Thor’s depressed re his failure to stop Thanos and just sits there.
- Tony angry that couldn’t protect Earth. Has a go at the others for not
listening. Tells Steve he’s done – then collapses from exhaustion.
- Carol wants to go kill Thanos. Nat says they should take him on as a team.
And they need to find Thanos.
- Then Nebula says knows where Thanos is…
10 - 12 PLAN TO GET STONES BACK OFF THANOS AND UNDO SNAP
- Nebula talks of where Thanos said he would go- “The Garden”. Rocket
checks – and finds the Infinity Stones were used for a Snap on a garden
planet 2 days ago.
- They agree a mission:
FIND THANOS, GET STONES OFF HIM, PUT THINGS RIGHT.
- Steve – “lets go get that son of a bitch”
12 – 13 OFF ON A MISSION
- They strap into spaceship – travel – Carol says will recce the planet’s
surface.
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13 A MOMENT WITH CAPTAIN AMERICA
- A moment for Steve to admire a photo of Peggy Carter (the woman he
still loves but had to leave behind in the past 70 years ago).
13 – 15 THE TEAM FAILS
- The team attack Thanos and subdue him BUT
- They find that he’s destroyed the Stones! NB also says using the stones
nearly killed him. There’s no Stones – so no way to reverse the Snap.
- In impotent anger, Thor chops off Thanos’ head.
- THE MISSION HAS FAILED. THEY HAVE NO HOPE OF PUTTING THINGS
RIGHT.
15-17 FIVE YEARS LATER – THE WORLD, AND A COUNSELLING SESSION
- A half-empty world and a desolate New York.
- Steve leads a counselling session for survivors of the Snap – trying to be
positive about things. Peggy’s mentioned again – as Steve says had to
keep going after lost her 70 years ago.
- He says if they don’t do something with the world, they might as well all
be dead.
17-18 THE RETURN OF ANT-MAN
- A rat stumbles over controls in the van which is now in a lock-up – and
Scott Lang (Ant-Man) is shot from the machine back into reality.
- Scott stumbles through the post-Snap world and finds out what happens.
- Checks a memorial – worried his daughter was taken.
- Goes to his house – and finds his daughter, 5 years older.
Callback – following on from “Ant Man and The Wasp” end sequence:
Scott Lang had gone into the Quantum Realm in a Quantum Tunnel machine in the
back of a van.
The Snap then happened and Hank Pym, Hope Van Dyne and Janet Van Dyne were
dusted, leaving Scott trapped in the quantum realm and unaware that the Snap
had happened.
19-23 THE REMAINS OF THE AVENGERS/SOMEONE AT THE DOOR
- Nat monitors various minor happenings with holograms of others –
there’s nothing to do. Carol is still out covering the rest of the universe’s
problems.
- After the others go, Rhodey’s hologram remains – and tells Nat stories of
lots of bad guys being killed around the world – and that it’s definitely
Clint doing the killings. Given what he’s doing, “part of me doesn’t want
to find him”.
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- Steve tries to cheer Nat up – trying to look on the bright side as ever. The
consider both giving up “this job, this family”. They’re interrupted, as –
- Scott Lang rings on the front door – surprising them because everyone
thought he was dead.
23-24 QUANTUM REALM EXPOSITION – AND A POSSIBLE PLAN
- Scott tells them about the Quantum Realm – about how time works
differently there – whilst 5 years have passed, he was only there 5 hours.
- He thinks there’s a possible way to create time travel (and carry out what
keeps hereon getting called a “Time Heist” to get the stones).
- They now need to speak to someone about how to do it…
24-29 VISITING THE STARK FAMILY TO DISCUSS TIME TRAVEL
- Tony Stark plays with his 4-year-old daughter Morgan, who’s snuck into
his garage and taken a helmet for armour Tony’s working on (to give to
his wife Pepper as a present).
- Steve, Nat and Scott arrive to speak to him.
- Tony schools them on the time heist plan’s flaws – saying it’s impossible.
Scott notes Tony’s got a wife and daughter to lose – but the others lost
important people and have a chance to save them. Tony still won’t help.
- As they leave, the others talk about needing someone else with a really
big brain…
29 – 31 STILL GREEN, NO LONGER MEAN – “SMART HULK”
- In a diner they meet Smart Hulk (who tells oblivious Scott how in the 5
years he’s managed to become a balanced mix of The Hulk’s strength and
Bruce Banner’s intellect).
- They persuade him to help with the science of perfecting time travel.
31-35 TONY CAN’T RESIST THE CALL - INVENTS TIME TRAVEL
- Tony at home sees a picture of Peter Parker – the kid he lost to the
Snap…
- And so he can’t help himself. In his office he creates models – and renders
a model which shows that they can pull off time travel and says “Shit”,
just before daughter Morgan, who’s snuck into his office, repeats it.
- He takes her for juice pops and then to bed, where she tells him “I love
you 3000”.
- After Morgan’s asleep, he goes to see Pepper. He confesses he’s solved
time travel – which is amazing but terrifying. He has a dilemma. They
debate – Tony thinks he could just hide away all the evidence… but then
Pepper says “but could you rest”?
Plant for later payoff re line – “I love you 3000”
Plant for later payoff re line -- “But could you rest?”
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- He lands back on the time travel pad – with the mitt. Time travel works
and they can do this.
51 - 55 PLANNING A TIME HEIST – WHO GETS STONES (AND WHEN)
All of them in a room, discussing plan whilst pics of each infinity stone are on the
screens around them. They need to work out where they go in the past to get
each stone back.
Exposition to establish stone locations re Time Heist:
- Thor talks of the Aether (with the Reality Stone in) being on Asgard at
one point – but he’s drunk and all over the place. And down.
- Rocket says Peter Quill (Starlord) originally stole the Orb (with the
Power Stone in) from Morag
- Nebula says Thanos found the Soul Stone on Vormir – a dominion of
death where Thanos killed Gamora
- Tony, Nat and Smart Hulk talk of Time Stone – and that Steven Strange
(Doctor Strange) had nice place in New York – and Nat realises that at
the right point, there are three Infinity Stones (Time, Space and Mind) in
New York at the same time…
55 – 57 GETTING READY TO COMMIT – CAP’S TEAM TALK
GO INTO THE TIME VORTEX TO THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS
- THREE TEAMS - WITH ONLY ONE SHOT TO GET ALL SIX STONES. Steve
gives an inspirational speech to rally them – and they’re off, through the
quantum realm to their separate missions…
MISSIONS ARE NOT SPECIFICALLY STATED IN THE SCENE ABOVE – BUT SO
FOLLOW SEPARATE MISSIONS IN SCENE BY SCENE:
MISSION 1 - Tony, Scott, Steve, Smart Hulk
Tony, Scott, Steve and Smart Hulk must go to 2012 NEW YORK to:
a. GET SPACE STONE (in Tesseract)
b. GET MIND STONE (in Loki’s sceptre)
c. GET TIME STONE (in Eye of Agamotto)
MISSION 2 - Thor and Rocket
Thor and Rocket must go to 2013 ASGARD to:
- GET REALITY STONE (in Aether inside Jane Foster during events of Thor 2,
just before Thor’s mother is killed).
MISSION 3 - Rhodey, Nebula, Nat and Clint
Team must to go to 2014 MORAG after which split up so:
a. Still on MORAG, Rhodey and Nebula must
GET POWER STONE (in Orb)
b. After flying to VORMIR on the Benetar (currently miniaturised to go
through Quantum Realm), Clint and Nat must
GET SOUL STONE – though they don’t know where it is – or what’s required
to get it…
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57 - 59 MISSION 1 - BACK IN THE 2012 BATTLE OF NEW YORK (DURING THE FIRST
“AVENGERS” FILM, 5 YEARS BEFORE EVENTS OF “DOCTOR STRANGE”)
Note re character names:
Given that here, given the time travel, TWO versions of the SAME person are seen in
some scenes:
- I refer to characters originally there during those events as “A1 [character
name]”
e.g. “A1 Hulk uses A1 Loki as a play toy, smacking him around on the
ground, then calls him a puny god”.
- The same applies for any other characters who did not physically appear in
the first Avengers film but in this film are shown as being there at the time
(e.g. Agent Sitwell, Director Pierce, Brock Rumlow).
Right – back to the scenes…
- Team 1 discuss their plan – The Time Stone’s one way from their
location, the Space and Mind Stones in the other.
- TIME STONE MISSION
Smart Hulk sees A1 Hulk smash so, doing some half-hearted smashing to
blend in, he heads for Doctor Strange’s address (The Sanctum
Sanctorum).
- At the Sanctum Santorum he finds The Ancient One, not Strange.
- When he goes to take the Time Stone from her, she incapacitates his
physical form and knocks an ASTRAL BRUCE BANNER out of him – and
suggests they start again...
Callback re “Doctor Strange”:
The Ancient One is the prior owner of the Eye of Agamotto, who still has it in 2012
at the time of Avengers.
Steven Strange won’t take possession of the Eye until 2017 during the events of
“Doctor Strange”.
59 – 62 MISSION 2 - BACK IN 2013 ASGARD (DURING “THOR 2”)
REALITY STONE MISSION
- Rocket recaps the mission – he has a device that will extract the Reality
Stone from Jane.
- One problem, though: Thor doesn’t want to deal with this. He wants to
drink instead – and when he sees his mother FRIGGA – and recalls that
this is the day she’s going to die… now he really doesn’t want to do this.
- Rocket lectures him – they’ve all lost people – but tells him to pull
himself together to they can save the Snapped people they can still save.
- Thor indicates he’s back on board – but when Rocket goes, Thor flees.
Rocket’s alone.
62 – 63 MISSION 3A AND 3B - BACK IN 2014 MORAG (“GUARDIANS OF THE
GALAXY”)
- Rhodey, Nebula, Clint and Nat land on Morag.
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SOUL STONE MISSION
- Nat and Clint get on the Benetar and head off for Vormir. They share a
moment on the spacecraft ride, noting it’s a “Long way from Budapest” (a
mysterious past mission, referred to in various prior films).
POWER STONE MISSION
- Nebula and Rhodey wait for Quill to turn up so they can follow him to the
Reality Stone.
- Nebula suggests they hide since at this point in time, the past, 2014
versions of Thanos, Gamora and Nebula are nearby, also looking for the
stones.
- Rhodey asks Nebula where the 2014 version of Nebula is…
Note re fact we’re now also dealing with past, 2014 versions of Thanos, Nebula and
Gamora as well as the current ones:
From hereon in, I therefore call:
- 2014 Thanos “Past Thanos”
- 2014 Nebula “Bad Nebula”
- 2014 Gamora “Gamora” – since present one dead/not in film
63 – 66 PAST THANOS FINDS SOMETHING’S UP WITH BAD NEBULA
- Past Nebula is busy killing Thanos’ enemies – but still needs a hand from
Gamora, which she resents.
- Gamora says Past Thanos has found out that there’s an Infinity Stone on
Morag.
- Past Thanos kills enemies himself as Gamora and Bad Nebula worry what
would happens if Past Thanos gets all the stones.
- Past Thanos comes back to the ship and says he’s located the Power
Stone – just before Bad Nebula cries due to pain in her head – and
projects a Hologram of Rhodey’s conversation with Nebula about the
stones.
- Thanos is intrigued and wants Bad Nebula brought to his ship.
66 - 78 2012 NEW YORK, PART II
- Tony gets to the Avengers Tower penthouse and spies on the A1
Avengers who have just defeated A1 Loki and have retrieved the
Tesseract and Sceptre.
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MIND STONE MISSION:
- A1 Steve confirms SHIELD are coming to get the Sceptre.
- Tony sees A1 Nat with the Sceptre.
- A1 Nat gives Sceptre to A1 Agent Sitwell.
- A1 Agent Sitwell takes it into an Elevator with A1 Brock Rumlow
Notes of relevance re HYDRA – and their members Agent Sitwell, Brock Rumlow,
and Alexander Pierce:
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Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter
Solider. If for some reason you’re reading this and really don’t mind about
spoilers: Cap had a friend called Bucky who he thought died (CA:TFA)
Bucky wasn’t – taken and resurrected as a warrior called the Winter
Soldier (CA:TWS)
THE MIND STONE MISSION HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
TIME STONE MISSION:
- The Ancient One is concerned that by giving up the Time Stone she’ll risk
her own reality – and that if Bruce takes it, he’ll still have to survive in
order to bring it back. But when Bruce says that Strange deliberately
gave Thanos the Time Stone when it was his duty to protect it, The
Ancient One deduces he did it for good reason – so gives Bruce the Time
Stone.
THE TIME STONE MISSION HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
79-80 2014 - PAST THANOS REALISES FUTURE NEBULA’S IN HIS TIMELINE
- Past Thanos plugs Nebula into a diagnostic – and finds that a future
version of Nebula – Nebula – is sharing her conscious with Bad Nebula,
and that the future Nebula is on Morag.
- He’s told he can access what Nebula can see.
- Bad Nebula projects images of the Avengers from earlier discussing the
plan to collect the stones – and sees Nebula there with them.
- Knowing there’s two Nebulas, he says to set course for Morag…
81 - 85 BACK IN 2013 ASGARD PART II – GET THE REALITY STONE (AETHER)
REALITY STONE MISSION:
- Thor, hiding away, is found by his mother Frigga. She has powers which
allow her to realise this is Thor from the future, not the present.
- Rocket sneaks up on Jane with the device to extract the Reality Stone
- Frigga confronts Thor’s feelings of failure – tells him “Everyone fails at
“who they’re supposed to be… the measure of a person, of a hero, is how
well they succeed at being who they are”.
Note: This is a plant line to be paid off later.
Thor tells her he’s missed his mum.
- Rocket tears through the halls of Asgard – yelling to Thor that he’s got
the Aether.
- Thor wants to tell his mum about her impending death – but she stops
him. Tells him to go be the man he’s meant to be. And eat a salad.
- Thor tells him to wait a moment before they go, holds out his hand… and
his hammer MJOLNIR comes to him. Thor’s relieved – that he can still use
it means he’s still worthy.
- He says goodbye to his mum – then they’re off.
THE REALITY STONE MISSION HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
BACK IN 2014 MORAG PART II
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POWER STONE MISSION
- Peter Quill dances like he did at the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy
– just before Rhodey knocks him out. Nebula takes Quill’s electronic lock
pick.
- They break into the temple vault. Nebula retrieves the Orb with the
Power Stone in it.
- They set to jump back – Rhodey does with the Power Stone
THE POWER STONE MISSION IS SUCCESSFUL
But
- Nebula doubles up in pain before she can jump back - and projects an
image of Past Thanos…
87 - 89 2014 – PAST THANOS KNOWS PLAN IS TO UNDO WHAT HE DID IN THE
FUTURE – CAPTURES NEBULA
- Past Thanos sees Bad Nebula play a hologram of the moments before his
death – when he confirms he’d done what he set out to do and then
destroyed the stones.
- Past Thanos realises the Avengers are trying to undo something he’s
done in the future.
- Past Thanos’ Henchman Ebony Maw says Bad Nebula is a traitor and
goes to kill her.
- Bad Nebula begs for mercy saying she wouldn’t betray him
- Past Thanos stops his henchman and tells Bad Nebula she will have the
chance to prove she wouldn’t betray him.
- On Morag, Nebula realises Past Thanos knows what they’re up to – tries
to tell Nat and Clint using a communicator – but then Thanos’ ship’s
tractor beam pulls her and her escape pod up to it.
89 – 91 2012 NEW YORK, PART III
SPACE STONE MISSION – NEW PLAN B
- Steve, Tony and Scott discuss the failed plan.
- Scott says they:
- Don’t know where the Tesseract is;
- If they did, only have enough Pym particles for one journey in
time – and would need two to go there and back.
- Tony realises there’s a place – a military installation called Camp Lehigh -
which at one point in time in the 1970s had both the Tesseract and a
handy supply of Pym Particles…
- Tony and Steve travel in time – a new mission to get both the Space Stone
and Pym Particles in the 1970s
92 – 100 TONY AND STEVE GO GET THE TESSERACT AND PYM PARTICLES
- 1970s base – inn disguise, they find a secret location on the base site
- They ride down in a lift, avoiding the gaze of a Female Shield Agent
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- Once out, they split up. Steve’s after the Pym Particles, Tony’s after the
Tesseract.
SPACE STONE MISSION
- Tony uses his tech to find the Tesseract and put it in a case... then finds
himself face to face with his own father - Howard Stark.
PYM PARTICLES MISSION
- Steve distracts a younger Hank Pym (seen later in Ant Man films – and
inventor of Pym Particles) so he leaves his lab unattended - then sneaks
into the lab to take the Pym Particles.
SPACE STONE MISSION
- Tony and Howard talk about fatherhood – Howard’s wife is pregnant
with Tony at this point – and Tony, now he’s a father, is able to talk about
the subject.
- PYM PARTICLES MISSION
- Steve finds and takes the Pym Particles.
- On the way out, he sees the female Shield Agent with guards looking for
him and Tony, so he ducks into a side office… only to find it’s the office of
the girl he had to leave behind over 70 years ago – Peggy Carter.
- She’s still got a picture of Steve on her desk – she never forgot him.
- She comes into the room next door, and he watches her longingly.
SPACE STONE MISSION
- Howard and Tony discuss baby names. Howard asks Tony for parenting
advice – and they bond.
- Tony gets that one further moment of time with his dad he never thought
he’d get.
- Steve’s out and indicates he’s got Pym Particles. Tony indicates likewise.
SPACE STONE MISSION (PLAN B) SUCCESSFUL
100 – 102 FUTURE NEBULA PLEADS TO PAST GAMORA, PAST NEBULA HATCHES A
PLAN
- Bad Nebula beats up Nebula – and takes her “Space/Time GPS” which
allows her to find her way back to the current day Avengers Compound.
- Gamora enters – Nebula pleads with her, reminding her that in the future
Thanos finds where the Soul Stone is – and asks Nebula if she wants to
know how he did that (hinting at Gamora’s death in Infinity War- since in
Infinity War Nebula knew not only where the Soul Stone was – but what
the price was that someone had to pay to obtain it)
- Bad Nebula takes the orange headplate from Nebula…
- Bad Nebula presents herself to Past Thanos – disguised as Nebula – and
gives Past Thanos Nebula’s timejump device
102 – 106 BACK IN 2014 - VORMIR AND A SACRIFICE
SOUL STONE MISSION
- Nat and Clint get to the mountain
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- The Red Skull appears and tells them (as he did in Infinity War with
Thanos) that to get the Soul Stone, the person must leave behind that
which they love – a soul for a soul.
- Clint and Nat debate what to do – come to conclusion Red Skull’s not
lying. If they don’t sacrifice, billions stay dead… they both say they know
who’s going to sacrifice themselves - then realise both of them are
offering to do it.
- They have a fight, both of them trying to save the other and sacrifice
themselves instead.
- The fight ends with Nat saving Clint – and then telling him to let her go so
she can fall from the cliff.
- Nat pushes herself away and falls to her death.
- Clint wakes up holding the Soul Stone – distraught.
THE SOUL STONE MISSION IS SUCCESSFUL – AT THE COST OF NAT’S
LIFE
107 – 109 ALL BACK TO 2019 – BUT WITHOUT NAT
- The heroes return – with all six Infinity Stones. But when they see Clint
drop to his knees, they realise Nat’s dead.
- Later they debate using the stones to bring her back – but Clint says it’s
irreversible.
- Smart Hulk says they’re going to have to make her sacrifice worth it.
109 – 113 THE SECOND SNAP – AND AN UNWELCOME VISITOR
( 2 SNAP
nd - Tony creates a new Iron Man Gauntlet which holds all the six Infinity
2.01 INTO Stones in it. They debate who’s going to be the one to Snap – ending in
FILM) Hulk reasoning why it has to be him.
- In the meantime Bad Nebula – who’s come back with them - reactivates
the Quantum Tunnel machine at the present day Avengers Compound…
- Smart Hulk’s ready. Tony reminds him to bring back everyone taken by
the prior snap today, not 5 years ago.
- HULK PUTS ON THE GAUNTLET AND, DESPITE THE PAIN, SNAPS HIS
FINGERS TO BRING EVERYONE BACK.
- He collapses to the ground, his arm that had the Gauntlet on it burned
and useless, showing the effect Snapping has on the user again.
- The Gauntlet falls off.
- Bad Nebula takes off her glove – unlike Nebula (who burned her arm
retrieving the Power Stone on Morag) her arm is intact. She hits a
switch… and something approaches through the Quantum Tunnel…
- Clint hears his phone going – and his wife is calling. Ant-Man smiles and
says “I think we’ve done it” just before Hulk sees THANOS’ SHIP IN THE
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CLINT PURSUED
- The outriders chase Clint through the tunnels… he climbs out of an
access shaft after killing them, to find…
- Bad Nebula - who takes the Gauntlet and tells Past Thanos she has the
Stones. She’s goes to kill Clint – but Gamora and Nebula enter just in
time.
- Nebula tries to persuade Bad Nebula not to attack them, but Bad Nebula
won’t change – fires – and Nebula shoots her past self dead.
THANOS FIGHTS BACK
- Tony, Thor and Steve give Thanos their best shot BUT
- so does Thanos in return, knocking Tony out cold.
HULK, ROCKET AND RHODEY
- In the flooding chamber, they have seconds left to live!
- The water hits the ceiling...
- THANOS ON EDGE OF VICTORY
- Steve gets knocked aside.
- Thanos pummels Thor - and is about to push Stormbreaker into Thor’s
chest when…
- … someone picks up Thor’s Hammer. Who is it? “The only other man
worthy enough to wield it” – Steve. Thor – “I knew it!”
Callback to Avengers 2: Age of Ultron:
There’s a scene where each Avenger tried to see if anyone could move Thor’s
hammer. No one could – save that when Steve tried, the hammer shifted slightly.
It seems wasn’t trying then. He is now..
122-123 WHOMSOEVER HOLDS THIS HAMMER, IF HE BE WORTHY…
- Steve pummels Thanos with his shield and Mjolnir, and bringing down
lightning attacks on Past Thanos BUT
- Thanos counter attacks and beats Steve, disarming him of Mjolnir and
breaking his shield.
- Thanos, his forces behind him, tells Steve that he’s going to enjoy the
violence he’s about to do to Steve’s planet.
- Steve gets up and stands in defiance and starts walking towards Thanos,
up against impossible odds. “One man against thousands. All alone”… BUT
THEN
123-124 THE RETURN OF THE FALLEN
- Steve’s comm crackles – a voice – of Sam Wilson (The Falcon) – taken by
the Snap, now restored – appearing through a portal conjured by Doctor
Strange.
- Several more portals appear – out pour all the heroes thought lost from
the first snap, now ready to take on Thanos.
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- Scott – now turning to Giant size, bursts out of the ground with ROCKET,
HULK AND RHODEY (now in his Cosmic Iron Patriot Suit).
- Steve summons Mjolnir to him, and with an army restored by his side, he
starts the final battle, with the call, “AVENGERS… ASSEMBLE!”
124-126 THE BATTLE FOR THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE BEGINS
- The two armies race towards each other – for the final fight…
- Initial fights break out between heroes and enemy forces
- Peter Parker saves Tony from an enemy – Tony’s really happy to see he’s
alive again and hugs him.
- Quill has a moment when he sees Gamora – though since she’s the earlier
Gamora, she knees him in the balls rather than hugging him back.
126 – 127 A GAME PLAN RE THE GAUNTLET
- Clint asks what to do with the Gauntlet – Hulk reminds them that they
have to get them back in time. When Tony notes Past Thanos destroyed
their time portal, Scott reminds them it isn’t the only time machine – and
sounds the alarm on his van – IN THE MIDDLE OF ENEMY TERRITORY.
NEW MISSION PLAN – GET THE GAUNTLET TO THE VAN
- Scott get the van working (goes with Hope (Wasp))
- The others will get the Gauntlet to him
127 TONY AND DR. STRANGE
- Tony asks if his is the version of events in which they succeed.
Strange says if he tells Tony, it won’t happen.
Callback to Infinity War:
Dr. Strange looked into possible futures using the Time Stone - and said there was
only one possible future in 14 million where they succeed in defeating Thanos.
127 - 130 THE ENEMY TRIES TO GET THE GAUNTLET
GET GAUNTLET TO VAN MISSION
- Past Thanos’ henchman Ebony Maw sees Clint running with the Gauntlet
and alerts Past Thanos AND
- The troops besiege Clint BUT
- T’Challa (Black Panther) takes it off him and keeps going...
GET VAN WORKING MISSION
- Scott and Hope get to the van BUT The ignition’s broken so Scott’s going
to have to hotwire it
GET GAUNTLET TO VAN MISSION
- T’Challa races through the enemies with the Gauntlet BUT
Past Thanos knocks him to his feet and the Gauntlet tumbles away from
him
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- Wanda (Scarlet Widow) places herself between Past Thanos and the
Gauntlet and engages him in combat
- T’Challa goes for the Gauntlet BUT
Ebony Maw manipulates the ground to pull the Gauntlet toward him BUT
T’Challa grabs it, but is still pulled towards Ebony Maw BUT
- Peter Parker grabs the Gauntlet off him and gets closer to the van BUT
Enemies surround him and attack – he’s besieged!
- Wanda takes the fight to Thanos and is winning BUT
Past Thanos orders Ebony Maw to get Thanos’ ship to rain fire down on
the battlefield – even though his own troops are still on it!
- The Ship opens fire DEMOLISHING THE BATTLEFIELD.
130 ON THE DEFENSIVE, THEN ALL HOPE IS LOST
ALL HOPE
IS LOST - The barrage destroys many on the battlefield
- The barrage forces Wanda to defend herself rather than continuing to
attack Past Thanos
- The Barrage opens the riverbank and threatens to flood the battlefield,
Dr. Strange and the other sorcerers have to hold the floodwater back
- Peter Parker and the Gauntlet is about to be overwhelmed by enemy
forces BUT
Steve hurls Mjolinir – Peter catches a ride on it then with Valkyrie, BUT
the ship’s cannon fire knocks both Peter and Valkyrie to the ground
- The ship’s fire is going to KILL THEM ALL. THE FIRE IS CLOSING IN ON
THEM WITH NO ESCAPE. ALL IS LOST...
Note: P130 - They even write “ALL HOPE IS LOST” in the script. In underline.
130 - 132 A LATE GUEST TO THE PARTY – AND GAUNTLET PLAN B
- … but then the ship’s guns stop firing downwards! The heroes wonder
why.
- The guns then retrain and fire into the atmosphere at an approaching
object a fiery light…
- It’s Carol! – so powerful that she punches straight through the ship,
disabling it.
- It crashes into the waters below!
- Carol lands, tired from the effort, her light fading.
GET THE VAN WORKING MISSION
- Scott fixing the Quantum Tunnel - says he’s nearly ready and asks where
the Gauntlet is.
GET GAUNTLET TO VAN MISSION
- Carol gets the Gauntlet off Peter.
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The VO:
- Tony says everything is going to work out the way it’s supposed to.
- Seeming to look towards Morgan, Tony Stark’s final words: “I LOVE YOU
3000”
- then Tony’s image is gone.
Payoff line from earlier when Morgan told Tony “I love you 3000”.
136-138 PROOF THAT TONY STARK HAS A HEART
- Pepper and Morgan take an old Chest-Based Arc Reactor ringed with
flowers and rests the flowers on the water by their home.
- On the Arc Reactor is written “Proof That Tony Stark has a Heart”
- The many heroes gather to mourn him – including the revived Nick Fury
and Maria Hill.
Call back to first film and nice nod to Tony’s arc through the series:
Callback - This is the original Arc Reactor Tony built in the first ever MCU film
“Iron Man”. Pepper then had the inscription etched on it then gave
it to make a point to Tony - who at that point was far more selfish.
Tony’s arc Tony’s arc across the films takes him from completely self-obsessed
to being self-sacrificing for others… proof that he has a heart,
indeed.
138 REMEMBERING NAT – AND VISION
Clint and Wanda later look out over the lake.
Wanda reassures him “She knows. They both do” (not stated but probably
referring to Vision’s loss too)
138 HAPPY CONSOLES MORGAN
Happy looks after Morgan – who’s hungry and wants cheeseburgers. Happy
recalls her dad liked cheeseburgers too. Happy says he’ll get her all the
cheeseburgers she wants.
Callback:
In Iron Man, the first thing Tony wants after he escapes his captors is a
cheeseburger.
139-140 THOR’S NEW LIFE AND A SURPRISE FOR VALKYRIE
- Thor’s told Valkyrie he’s going travelling – she asks when he’s coming
back but reveals he isn’t – and anoints her the new ruler of Asgard.
- He says “It’s time to be who I am, rather than who I’m supposed to be.
And a leader is who you are”.
- She accepts the role – and plans a lot of changes.
- They shake hands.
- She asks what Thor will do – he hasn’t got a clue – but he has got a ride…
on the Benetar with the Guardians Of The Galaxy.
Payoff line here re earlier advice from mother Frigga on Asgard:
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“Everyone fails at “who they’re supposed to be”, Thor. The measure of a person, of a
hero, is how well they succeed at being who they are”.
140-141 THOR HITCHES A RIDE WITH THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
- Thor immediately acts in charge, rubbing on Quill’s insecurities
- It doesn’t help that the other Guardians suggest they should fight for the
leadership.
- They both laugh nervously and Thor says that’s not necessary –
“everyone knows who’s in charge”.
- They don’t. Even Quill has to check – “Me, right?”.
- They blast off into space.
Callback:
To similar scene of this type in Infinity War when they find Thor – when everyone
thinks Thor’s amazing and Quill’s insecure about it(e.g. Drax: “He’s not a dude.
You’re a dude. He’s a MAN”).
141-146 STEVE GETS A LIFE…
- Steve, Hulk, Bucky and Sam gather at a new Quantum Tunnel. Hulk’s at
the controls. He gives Steve the Infinity Stones in a case to take back in
time to put back at the time they took them.
- Hulk notes he did try to bring Nat back when he did his Snap – and
confesses he misses her. Steve does too.
- Steve says goodbyes to Bucky and Sam – then takes the Stones Case and
Mjolnir, gets on the pad…
- He disappears – due to appear 5 seconds later after he’s completed his
mission – but he doesn’t come back. Hulk and Sam are flustered, wanting
to get him back…
- But then Bucky calls to Sam. There’s an old man on a bench by the water
– it’s a 112 year old STEVE (“Old Steve”). Bucky tells Sam to go to him.
- Old Steve tells Sam he went back in time but then thought maybe he
“should try out some of that life Tony always told me to get” – and that it
was “beautiful”.
- Old Steve gives Sam a new Captain America shield which he got when “I
had a little time to travel”
- with Steve and Bucky’s encouragement, Sam tries it on. He feels like it’s
someone elses – but Old Steve tells him “it isn’t”.
- Sam tells Old Steve he will try his best…
146 … AND STEVE FINALLY DANCES
- … and that’s when Sam notices Old Steve’s old wedding ring.
- He asks if Old Steve will tell him about her. Old Steve smiles to himself,
and says he won’t…
- In 1949, in some suburban house, Steve (the one that had just gone back
in time, returned the stones and Mjolnir), his duty now done, with the
woman he married…it’s Peggy Carter!
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And we finally see Steve Rogers, his duty done, holding Peggy close, get
the dance with her that he’s waited over 70 years for.
END
Callbacks:
In Captain America: The First Avenger, in 1945 as he’s about to crash a Nazi
superplane that will trap him, Cap tells his crush Peggy Carter he promises he will
take her to a dance, knowing her won’t make it. Unconscious, he’s in ice until he’s
revived in 2011 – 70 years too late. Through the 10 year span of MCU, there’s
regular call-backs to her, including him seeing old Peggy and finding out she had
died… so this has been a dance a LONG time coming.
Note re series arc of Captain America:
He started out utterly selfless and dutiful – and was in opposition to Tony’s
selfishness – the two balanced each other out – so as Cap helped Tony become more
selfless, Tony’s helped him think about his own needs enough to act on them now
his duty is done.