We’re In the Endgame Now

The end of a generation couldn’t have been better for the MCU. So if you want to find out my personal opinion keep reading but if you don’t want it to be spoiled for you I’d stop right we’re you’re at.

Spoiler warning read at own risk

Let’s take it back to 2008, the start of the MCU. Tony stark is stuck in a cave making a Iron Man suit out of scraps he has lying around. It’s nothing much for the first movie in the MCU but it was enough to get it started and continue another 11 years after the release. 22 movies later then we’re in the “Endgame”.

Already hitting top charts for fastest grossing movie and is on track to pass Avatar for the most grossing movie in the world. The best way to start this movie is to look back at what was left in Infinity war. Tony is gone and lost somewhere in space with Nebula, the guardians are gone except for Rocket. Cap, Thor, Natasha, Rody, and Bruce are all lost as Thanos has made his way to another planet living his life as he completed the challenge he set for himself.

The start of the movie really takes you for a spin as you see the start of the MCU, Tony Stark, lost in space with zero oxygen and little to no chance of survival. As Tony is videoing Pepper through the last of his nanobots he finds himself tired knowing that tomorrow would be the day that he wouldn’t wake up to. For him it means everything to get back to Pepper and in this moment you can see how lost he is. He’s lost a lot of weight being up in space for god knows how long. But as Tony starts to close his eyes a ball of light comes shooting right for him, Captain marvel just happened to be the one that would save the life of our very own Robert Downey Jr.

But as the movie continues forward a lot happens, that was just the first two minutes. It’s full of some of the best lines and awkward flashbacks within the past 11 years. Captain America's fight scene from Winter Soldier in the elevator was remade and instead of fighting all Cap says is “hail hydra” and walks away with Loki's spear from Avengers. To me these were the best parts in the movie. Especially the way that they brought them all together and actually made a really good movie with a bunch of old parts.

But my personal favorite part was watching a fat Thor argue with a kid why playing Fortnite. Noob Master69 at the time was the best of the best in the gaming industry, the definition of a god amongst men. If you can manage to make the God of thunder mad you’re one of a kind.

The entire movie was a fight for the end. If you’ve been watching the MCU for the past 11 years this is what you’ve been waiting for. But looking at the people that the movie is solely based on like Cap, Iron Man, and Thor, it’s a new look at what we’ve been watching for the past decade.

The bases of Endgame is Thanos’s snap and what the avengers, well what’s left of them, are going to do to make things right. But as the end nears the directors Anthony and Joe Russo made it clear that endgame was the last fight for some of our most iconic heroes. Cap gets old and brittle as he went back in time and spent the rest of his days with Peggy. Thor goes with the Guardians and commits himself to saving the multiverse. Sam gets to see cap one last time and is given the shield Caps used for the majority of his films. Black widow sacrifices herself to help get the soul stone with Clint aka Hawkeye.

As all of these characters changed in the end of the film only one person truly gave everything they had to be the best they can be. Starting in 2008 Iron Man made headlines but you have to finish how you started. Thanos got all six stones after fighting his way through our remarkable team. But at the last second Tony stood up to the mad titan stealthily took away all six. Once the realization set in Thanos looked at Tony as he was being consumed by the power at his fingers. Tony face goes white and his final words before wiping out the mad titan: I am…. Iron Man.

As we all watched the Thanos fade in the end of a spectacular film the only question I had left was, what’s next for the MCU? Personally I do care what they have instore for the next decade. But one thing is for sure, the MCU is just getting started.