Avengers: Endgame's Most Confusing Plot Holes EXPLAINED

A definitive explanation for the MCU's most mind-breaking film.

Avengers Endgame
Marvel

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They did it.

After 11 years and 22 films, the first major arc of the MCU is complete. Minus Kevin Feige stating that Spider-Man: Far From Home will actually be the "true ending" to everything in July, comprising a decade's worth of superhero flicks, Endgame wraps the vast majority of plot points, arcs and character moments into one hell of a sendoff.

Existing as one sprawling, impressively detailed three hour epic, directors Anthony and Joe Russo essentially created a Lord of the Rings-sized heist movie. The sense of scale is unprecedented as The Avengers duck and weave through time itself, plucking older versions of the Infinity Stones out of specific past Marvel movies - the plan being to emerge with a complete Infinity Gauntlet's worth of life-saving power on the other side.

Now, as with almost every movie that deals with time travel, there are a BUNCH of head-scratching "... what?" moments when all's said and done, and from Captain America "replacing" his original self, to Thanos invalidating his own 2018 Snap my making it never happen, you'll likely be in need of an explainer.

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