Avengers: Endgame

***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*, *Avengers: Infinity War*, *Ant-Man and the Wasp*, and *Captain Marvel*. It is the twenty-second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the tenth installment 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/Ronin, 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.

## Connection to MCU Spider-Man

The film includes Spider-Man as one of the victims of the snap that was brought back to life by the Hulk through the Infinity Stones that was stolen from the branched realities. He also foughts side by side together with one of the heroes in order to fight against an alternate version of Thanos.

## Plot

In 2018, twenty-three days after Thanos killed half of all life in the universe, Carol Danvers rescues Tony Stark and Nebula from deep space and they reunite with the remaining Avengers—Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, and James Rhodes—and Rocket on Earth. Locating Thanos on an uninhabited planet, they plan to use the Infinity Stones to reverse his actions, but discover Thanos has already destroyed them to prevent further use. Enraged, Thor decapitates Thanos.

Five years later, in 2023, Scott Lang escapes from the Quantum Realm. Reaching the Avengers Compound, he explains that he experienced only five hours while trapped. Theorizing the Quantum Realm allows time travel, they ask Stark to help them retrieve the Stones from the past to reverse the actions of Thanos in the present. Stark, Rocket, and Banner, who has since merged his intelligence with the Hulk's strength, build a time machine. Banner notes that altering the past does not affect their present; any changes create alternate realities. Visiting the Asgardian refugees' settlement New Asgard, in Norway, Banner and Rocket recruit an overweight and despondent Thor. In Tokyo, Romanoff recruits Clint Barton, who has become a vigilante after the death of his family.

Banner, Lang, Rogers, and Stark travel to New York City during Loki's attack in 2012. At the Sanctum Sanctorum, Banner convinces the Ancient One to give him the Time Stone after promising to return the various Stones to their proper points in time. At Stark Tower, Rogers retrieves the Mind Stone from Hydra sleeper agents, but Stark and Lang's attempt to steal the Space Stone fails, allowing 2012-Loki to escape with it. Rogers and Stark travel to Camp Lehigh in 1970, where Stark obtains an earlier version of the Space Stone and encounters his father, Howard. Rogers steals Pym Particles from Hank Pym to return to the present and spies his lost love, Peggy Carter.

Meanwhile, Rocket and Thor travel to Asgard in 2013; Rocket extracts the Reality Stone from Jane Foster, while Thor gets encouragement from his mother, Frigga, and retrieves his old hammer, Mjolnir. Barton, Romanoff, Nebula, and Rhodes travel to 2014; Nebula and Rhodes go to Morag and steal the Power Stone before Peter Quill can, while Barton and Romanoff travel to Vormir. The Soul Stone's keeper, Red Skull, reveals it can only be acquired by sacrificing a loved one. Romanoff sacrifices herself, allowing Barton to get the Stone. Rhodes and Nebula attempt to return to their own time, but Nebula is incapacitated when her cybernetic implants link with her past self, allowing 2014-Thanos to learn of his future self's success and the Avengers' attempt to undo it. 2014-Thanos sends 2014-Nebula forward in time to prepare for his arrival.

Reuniting in the present, the Avengers place the Stones into a gauntlet that Stark, Banner, and Rocket had built. Banner, having the most resistance to their radiation, wields the gauntlet and reverses Thanos's disintegrations. Meanwhile, 2014-Nebula, impersonating her future self, uses the time machine to transport 2014-Thanos and his warship to the present, which he then uses to destroy the Avengers Compound. Present-day Nebula convinces 2014-Gamora to betray Thanos, but is unable to convince 2014-Nebula and kills her. Thanos overpowers Stark, Thor, and a Mjolnir-wielding Rogers and summons his army to retrieve the Stones, intent on using them to destroy the universe and create a new one. A restored Stephen Strange arrives with other sorcerers, the restored Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, the Ravagers, and the armies of Wakanda and Asgard to fight Thanos's army. Danvers also arrives and destroys Thanos's warship, but Thanos overpowers her and seizes the gauntlet. Stark obtains the Stones and uses them to disintegrate Thanos and his army, but the strain of using them kills him.

Following Stark's funeral, Thor appoints Valkyrie as the new ruler of New Asgard and joins the Guardians. Rogers returns the Stones and Mjolnir to their proper timelines and remains in the past to live with Carter. In the present, an elderly Rogers passes his shield to Sam Wilson.

## 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/Ronin
* 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 / Nebula (2014 Variant)
* 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 Director Peggy Carter / 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
* 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
* Vin Diesel as Groot (voice)
* Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon (voice)
* Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts/Rescue
* Robert Redford as Undersecretary Alexander Pierce
* Josh Brolin as Thanos / Thanos (2014 Variant)
* Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord / Peter Quill/Star-Lord
* Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
* Lexi Rabe as Morgan Stark
	+ Katherine Langford as Teenage Morgan Stark (deleted scene)
* Ross Marquand as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull
* Joe Russo as Bobby
* Emma Fuhrmann as Cassie Lang
* Michael Shaw as Corvus Glaive
* Terry Notary as Cull Obsidian / Groot (motion-capture)
* Kerry Condon as F.R.I.D.A.Y.
* Ben Sakamoto as Cooper Barton
* Ava Russo as Lila Barton
* Cade Woodward as Nathaniel Barton
* Stan Lee as '70s Car Man
	+ Anthony Breed as '70s Car Man (motion-capture)
* Yvette Nicole Brown as Agent Phyllis Jenkins
* Callan Mulvey as Agent Jack Rollins
* Ken Jeong as Storage Facility Guard
* Ty Simpkins as Harley Keener
* Monique Ganderton as Proxima Midnight (motion-capture)
* Jim Starlin as Jimmy
* Lia Russo as Lia
* Julian Russo as Julian
* Agostino Rosalina as Augie
* Taylor Patterson as Taylor
* Brian Schaeffer as Chesler
* Unknown Actor as Miek (motion capture; uncredited)
* Christopher Markus as 1970 S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent. (uncredited)