![]() ![]() Even though it is the snapping of his fingers that defeats Thanos, he pays the ultimate price to fix the universe. He helps find the solution to time travel and goes to the past to steal the Space Stone. Tony Stark/Iron Man: The first MCU hero to ever grace the screen makes his tenth, and ultimately final, appearance here. The original six Avengers were all noticeably still alive at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, with few additional survivors. Captain America has certainly earned it.The Avengers' ranks were depleted thanks to the Sokovia Accords, but the amount of people who have been true Avengers has never been that large. MAJOR SPOILER HERE - I applaud screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely for giving Rogers the chance to rewrite his story so he and Carter can share the life together they wanted. It's his abiding love for Carter that prompts Captain America to do a hero handoff to his friend Sam (the Falcon) and retire from the Avengers, after Thanos is vanquished, of course. ![]() My lip quivered just a bit over their goodbyes when I saw the movie eight years ago.Īnd it did again earlier this week as I watched a new ending to their story. As he takes one for the team, he stares at the photo of Carter he carries around in his pocket compass. ![]() He promised he'd take her dancing, right before he ditches his plane into the ocean to save New York from oblivion. I'm pretty sure it's the same photo Carter puts away in Rogers' file at the end of The First Avenger, as she's coming to terms with his loss. It's a snap of that skinny kid from Brooklyn, taken before he got the serum boost. But it's not a photo of our buff superhero in his cool costume. In a quietly touching scene - SPOILER - a time-traveling Rogers comes across his photo on the desk of Agent Peggy Carter, the woman he loved, lost and can't forget. And it's not the only moment in Endgame that makes the point that this is a man who's more than his star-spangled suit and cool Vibranium shield. It's another moment that shows us that Captain America's true superpower is his humanity. It could be a mushy, overly sentimental scene, but it's not. "Otherwise Thanos should have killed all of us." We gotta do something with it," he tells the group, with a touch of world-weary sadness. ![]()
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