How Avengers: Endgame Completely Changes The MCU
The Infinity Saga is officially over, and the future looks stranger than ever...
After years of being built up (along with Infinity War) as the culmination of 11 years' worth of storytelling, Endgame has more than lived up to its promise of acting as the definitive end point for the MCU's first epic saga.
Not content with completely shifting everything you thought you knew about the franchise by snapping away half the life in the entire universe at the end of Infinity War, the Russo Brothers have somehow managed to pull off the impossible. Not content with wrapping up stories from over a decade's worth of films, this cinematic spectacle also provides a launch pad for the next saga, one which will be set in a radically different version of the universe fans have adored since Iron Man's debut back in 2008.
There were - as expected - casualties in the quest to stop Thanos and reverse his apocalyptic destruction from the end of the last film, but Endgame's changes extend beyond just killing off staple characters, and includes everything from surprise transformations with universe-wide implications, to old heroes passing the torch down to the next generation...
Spoilers ahead.