10 Inescapable Plot Holes In Avengers: Endgame
5. What Exactly Was The Plan With The Van?
During the climactic battle scene, Hawkeye appears in the middle of it all, yelling "HEY HEY I GOT THE GAUNTLET WITH ALL THOSE STONES ON IT YOU GUYS", which as sound strategies go, is right up there with keeping an Asgardian trickster captive on a flying aircraft carrier.
From that moment on, the game stops being ‘let’s use the awesome power at our disposal to defeat this alien invasion force’ and becomes ‘keep the glove away from Thanos’. They need to send the Stones back as promised, but the quantum tunnel was destroyed, along with Avengers HQ.
Then Lang has a brainwave: The prototype quantum tunnel in the back of his old van.
After a hectic game of pass-the-parcel, Captain Marvel hurtles toward the quantum tunnel in the back of the van… only for Thanos to chuck his giant straight razor at it, blowing the device to kingdom come.
So much for that plan.
Thing is… the quantum tunnel isn’t a wormhole. It shrinks someone using Pym particles down to subatomic size so that they can enter the quantum realm.
None of the crew have quantum suits, Pym particles or wrist GPS, least of all Danvers, and the prototype tunnel wasn’t built to go precision time-travelling anyway. The last time they tried it was wired up to loads of extra kit and still didn’t work.
What on earth did they think was going to happen if Carol got to the van?