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A week earlier than expected, Marvel fans everywhere were gifted with the long overdue phenomenon that is Avengers: Infinity War. Since the first Iron Man film was released in 2008, Marvel fans have been anticipating Infinity War. All the Avengers have fought for has led up to this very moment. Marvel has been building up to Infinity War in three different phases and now we are in phase three.
In all of the phases so far there has been one man pulling the strings, one man behind the mask sending in all the horror to collect all six infinity stones. A Titan by the name of Thanos who saw the horrors of overpopulation on his home planet and believed he could bring mercy to the universe by slaughtering half of it. On a mission to find the stones of time, soul, power, space, mind, and reality, Thanos will kill whoever gets in his way and do whatever it takes to get ahold of the stones to become the most powerful being in all the universe.
Along the way, the Avengers assemble in various groups around the Universe to protect the world from the chaos that Thanos will bring. Battles and new character crossovers took place in Wakanda, on the desecrated planet of Titan, the decimated planet Knowhere, various locations on Earth, and Vormir.
Fans all over the globe have been waiting years for this movie to drop and it did not disappoint. The Russo brothers did however fall into the Marvel movie classic of an underdeveloped villain especially in the shadow of Black Panther’s villain Killmonger but paired it with epic action scenes and witty comedy.
The next Avengers movie is planned to be released on May 3, 2019, but fans are still waiting for a title. For now it’s referred to as “Avengers 4” and will pick up only a few seconds after the cliffhanger that Infinity War has brought us. In the meantime Marvel lovers can look forward to “Ant-Man and Wasp” in July 2018 and “Captain Marvel” in March 2019, which will help us understand the connections and how they will tie into the next Avengers movie.
Infinity War left fans heartbroken killing off (really big spoiler time!) Loki, Heimdall, Gamora, and Vision. These characters were killed directly in Thanos’s hands and are speculated to be gone for sure although there are theories that Loki, Gamora, and Vision aren’t dead after all. But Heimdall is definitely gone...sorry. Once Thanos got his hands on all six infinity stones he becomes the most powerful being and with a snap of his fingers he can wipe out half of the universe. When Thanos does this he disintegrates Black Panther (T’Challa), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange), Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes), Falcon (Sam Wilson), Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), The Guardians of the Galaxy (Starlord, Groot, Drax, and Mantis), Nick Fury, and Maria Hill. Most fans are convinced that these characters are not actually dead considering the confirmation of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 set to release sometime in 2020 and another Spider-Man: Homecoming set to come out in July 2019 (after the next Avengers movie).
The only ones that remain are the original Avengers from the first movie in 2012 with the addition of Rocket, Nebula, Okoye, and M’Baku. The majority of fans believe that it will be up to them to defeat Thanos and bring the disintegrated characters back through the use of the stones, but sadly we won’t know for another long year of hopeful waiting.
