6 Blockbusters From 2015 That Almost Had Completely Different Endings

5. Captain Marvel & Spider-Man Join The Team; Quicksilver Lives - Avengers: Age Of Ultron

It's hard to know whether Avengers: Age of Ultron was a success or not: on a financial level, it most certainly was, pulling in over a billion dollars at the box office. Everyone saw it. And yet there's something about the movie that isn't quite right. It's a strange, messy film that consistently switches between moments of awesomeness and total incomprehension. Even its ending is a curious affair: After a huge battle of Michael Bay proportions in which an entire Eastern European country is reduced to rubble by the villain, Ultron, the Avengers save the day, mutant hero Quicksilver dies, Iron Man and Hulk leave the team, and Captain America and Black Widow prepare to train a new incarnation of the Avengers. The end! There's something slightly unheroic and strange about it all - humourless, even. Still, it could have been even weirder had writer/director Joss Whedon opted to go down another route... one that would have seen both Captain Marvel and Spider-Man joining the Avengers at the end of the movie, almost out of nowhere - just like that. His idea was supposed to suggest that the other heroes were getting old ("dinosaurs") and in introducing two younger characters right off the bat, the MCU would expand in unexpected ways. Unfortunately, his idea never went through because Marvel didn't get around to casting Captain Marvel and Spider-Man in time. "I said it would be fun when we see a bunch of new people, if we see someone that we just don€™t explain," Whedon explained. " are like 'we€™ve got a Captain Marvel movie coming out, and we€™ve got Spider-Man,' but I€™m like €˜my film is locked - you have failed me!'' I just thought it would be an extra kick." And that's not all: Whedon also toyed with the idea of keeping Quicksilver alive. After his "death" scene, there were apparent plans for him to just reappear again as if nothing had happened. "We did actually shoot him in the last scene, in an outfit, with his sister," Whedon said, thus proving that there was once a version of the movie in which Quicksilver lived.