Avengers: Endgame - What Does The Ending Really Mean?
The end of Endgame - and the MCU as we know it - explained.
Here we are. After 11 years, 22 movies, almost 50 hours, TV shows, one-shots, and countless laughs, tears, shocks, and cheers of joy, the Infinity Saga that has defined the first three Phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is over.
The end could hardly have been more fitting. Avengers: Endgame is an affair that manages to be epic in scale and intimate in its character moments. It's a bit messy and silly, but it's also thrilling, hilarious, and emotional. It's everything about the MCU - both good and bad - distilled down into one three-hour (and 58 seconds) movie.
Following on from that stunning conclusion to last year's Infinity War, Endgame finds the Avengers struggling to move on from the Decimation, and instead formulating a plan to defeat Thanos and undo the snap that wiped out exactly half of the entire universe. The original team are back together, there's time travel, and there are things you absolutely won't see coming, all building to one hell of a climax that ties together over a decade's worth of storytelling - but what happens and what does it all mean?
It goes without saying, but MAJOR spoilers for Avengers: Endgame from this point onwards.