10 Inescapable Plot Holes In Avengers: Endgame

It’s been seven weeks now since the release of Avengers: Endgame. A brilliant feat of blockbuster movie-making, sure; an incredibly entertaining three-hour culmination of ten years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

But it’s doing a hell of a lot of heavy-lifting.

Even at three hours, that huge, complex plot and the dozens of characters that sit within it are bursting at the seams. It was inevitable that, once the smoke cleared and the sheer emotion of the movie died down, plot holes would appear that just couldn’t be explained away.

For the pedants amongst you, a plot hole is defined as an inconsistency in a story that flies in the face of the story itself. Examples might include events that don’t follow on from what’s already been established, gaps in a story’s internal logic, or just gaps in basic, objective logic.

Of course, if you look hard enough you can find inconsistencies in any movie. However, a real plot hole is one which takes you out of the story and affects your suspension of disbelief, even just for a moment.

Now that we have our ground rules established, let's dissect what really doesn't work in Avengers: Endgame.

Let’s start with a silly little one as an appetiser.

In the climactic forty-minute battle scene, Captain America is the General at the heart of the makeshift Avengers army that Doctor Strange has called together. He’s directing traffic, telling disparate units and individuals who’ve never worked together where to go and what to do… but how?

That earpiece of his would presumably allow him to communicate with any of the heroes who survived Thanos’ initial snap at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, but not anyone who rematerialised after the Hulk’s snap.

Now, you can make a case that Pepper Potts and Spider-Man (both wearing Stark-created armour), could automatically tune in, and it’s only a small leap to assume that Captain Marvel was given the frequency before she left Earth.

You could stretch that logic to include Black Panther and the Guardians, with their own advanced tech, and still further to the Wasp, who might have had one of her own that she could tune into Ant-Man’s channel to join the party line… but none of them had any time to 'fiddle with the radio’, so it doesn’t really add up.

And what about Valkyrie, a non-Avenger shown responding to Rogers’ spoken commands from the other side of the noisiest battlefield in human history while atop a flying horse?