How Avengers: Endgame Was Almost Completely Different

Being one of the largest parts of the movie and the biggest set piece of Endgame, it's not particularly astonishing revelation that the final battle went through some work to get it to its finalised state. Originally, this sequence was going to be far longer and more intricate, with its own three-act arc played out through the battle.

There was even a two-minute pause for the heroes to regroup and devise a plan mid-fight, though the screenwriters felt that it was too unnatural to have 18 different people popping off a line each when they're supposed to be clobbering the outrider army. Christopher Markus quipped about the moment: "It also required them to find enough shelter to have a conversation in the middle of the biggest battle. It wasn’t a polite World War I battle where you have a moment."

Whilst this fight felt well-paced and the right length in the end, the screenwriters also didn't want to appear as if they were pandering to their audience - and almost cut the fantastic scene of the female superheroes banding together for fear of sending the wrong message in the finished piece. Luckily, they kept it in as they 'liked it too much', and wanted to celebrate the team-up nature of the Avengers in a wholesome way.

They've got cosmic entities, a billion different Iron Man suits, and a whole load of wonderful men at their disposal. Why not celebrate the badass women in the same way, too?