Avengers: Endgame - 10 Secrets We Just Learned From The Writers At Comic-Con

by Danny Meegan

1. Thanos Almost Chopped Off Cap's Head

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Endgame isn't sunshine and rainbows from start to end, but it's also not unbearably dark, either. However, if one of Markus and McFeely's early ideas had made the final cut, the scales would've tipped much more heavily towards the sinister end of the tonal spectrum.

As crazy as it sounds, the writers once considered including a scene where 2014 Thanos entered the final battle by throwing down the severed head of 2012 Captain America, showing the Avengers that he had utterly devastated that other reality and was capable of doing the same to theirs.

For obvious reasons, this idea was nipped in the bud early on, and the final version of Endgame only features a single decapitated head.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!