MCU: 10 Fascinating Facts Behind Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015)
1. The Endgame Quote
Remember that awful time when we didn't know what Avengers: Endgame was going to be called and all was speculation and sadness? Well, we had a hint in Avengers: Age Of Ultron all along.
When Doctor Strange explained to Tony Stark that he had to give up the Time Stone, he did it by reflecting one of Tony's own lines back to him. "We are in the end game now." With those words, he set the title but that line mirrored what Stark had said in Age Of Ultron, when Stark was confronted by the other Avengers for creating Ultron and accidentally endangering the world:
"A hostile alien army came charging in through a hole in space… we're standing 300 feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the live-long day, but… that up there? That's the end game. How were you guys planning on beating that?"
The end game. Not only did Strange use his words against him for forgiveness, but he also echoed a line that reflects everything about Endgame's narrative. Whatever it takes. Just as Thanos would do whatever it takes, just as Tony created Ultron as a means of doing whatever it takes, just as the Avengers will now do whatever it takes.