Things You Should Know If You Want To Understand Endgame

Hi, friends!

Jared was talking to his mom yesterday and explaining various things about the Marvel Cinematic Universe to her. She's seen all of the movies, but there are a lot of them and it's understandable that people don't remember each movie completely. Since Endgame is the culmination of all twenty-one previous movies, it's good to have at least a general knowledge of who everyone is and such before seeing it. I decided that it might be helpful if I put together a concise(ish) summary of things that are important to be aware of if you aren't completely caught up.

I'm planning to do a more comprehensive summary of the entire MCU later, but I wanted to first compile the information that's most relevant to Endgame. This is still going to be ridiculously long.

This infographic I found online looks like a map of a complex subway system, but it's actually a visual representation of the MCU's timeline. My summaries here are in the order the movies came out for the purposes of keeping it as simple as I can. The more intense summary post will probably be in chronological order.

Phase One (Iron Man - The Avengers)

Iron Man

The one that started it all! There's a super rich guy named Tony Stark whose company makes military-grade weapons. He gets kidnapped by terrorists who want said weapons. During the kidnapping process, some shrapnel lodges in his chest, with some of it moving towards his heart. The shrapnel that can't be taken out via surgery (while in a cave as a hostage, anyway) is stopped through the use of an electromagnet stuck into his chest. That arc reactor (electromagnet) is used to power his Iron Man suits that let him fly around and shoot stuff. His experience with the terrorists makes Tony decide to stop selling weapons.

In this movie, we also meet James Rhodes, Pepper Potts, Phil Coulson, and Nick Fury. Rhodey is in the military and he gets more interesting/important later. Pepper is Tony's assistant who basically keeps his company running when he isn't doing a very good job of that. Coulson and Fury are an agent and the director of SHIELD, a secret government organization that gathers intelligence and generally tries to keep people safe.

The Incredible Hulk

There's not a whole lot to say here. It's pretty much just explaining how Bruce Banner turns into The Hulk and how that whole thing works. If he gets mad, he turns into a enormous, green rage monster. At the end of the movie, Tony Stark shows up and talks to a different character about the Avengers, presumably because Hulk was in hiding by that point.

Iron Man 2

Tony gets better at being Iron Man and Rhodey (portrayed by a new actor) gets his own suit and becomes War Machine. Pepper takes over Stark Industries and Tony unknowingly hires Natasha Romanoff (AKA Black Widow) as his new assistant. Nick Fury, who is the reason why Black Widow went undercover as Tony's assistant, informs Tony that they'd like to have Iron Man on the Avengers, but that Tony himself is not enough of a team player. Also, Tony and Pepper are dating now.

Thor

In the realm of Asgard, there's an arrogant guy named Thor who is the god of thunder and uses a big hammer as a weapon. He has an adopted brother, Loki, the god of mischief. Loki likes to cause problems and deceive people. Thor's father, Odin, decides that Thor is too much of a selfish punk to rule the people and sends him to Earth until he can learn to not try to solve everything by smashing people with his hammer, which has now been enchanted so that nobody can lift it without being worthy of its power. Thor gets his act together in time to stop Loki from causing more problems. Loki "dies."
Clint Barton (AKA Hawkeye) makes a brief appearance while SHIELD is trying to understand Mjolnir (the hammer) and its sudden appearance.

Captain America: The First Avenger

Back in the 1940s, scrawny Steve Rogers is desperate to join the army and do some good with his life. His childhood friend, Bucky Barnes, successfully enlists and goes off to war while Steve is denied repeatedly for being tiny and sickly. A scientist notices that Steve has tried to enlist several times and pulls him aside for a experiment, during which Steve is injected with a special serum and turned into a tall, muscular soldier with superhuman strength, AKA Captain America. The scientist gets killed by an agent of Hydra, a splinter group of Nazis originally hired by Hitler to create weapons using a glowy cube called the Tesseract.

The military keeps him around so they can try to reverse-engineer the serum and can use it on more people, but it isn't working. Steve learns that Bucky's unit was lost behind enemy lines and there are no plans to attempt a rescue. He goes rogue and frees Bucky and many other soldiers on his own, at which point he also meets Red Skull, the man behind Hydra and the freaky-looking result of an unfinished version of the scientist guy's serum.

Once the military realizes how useful Steve is, Tony Stark's father, Howard, designs a vibranium (shock-absorbing) shield for him and he's allowed to go on more missions to squish Hydra. One of those missions leads to Bucky falling to what we assume is his death. Steve learns that Red Skull is planning to drop huge bombs on various American cities and infiltrates his plane to stop him. Red Skull makes the mistake of touching the Tesseract directly and gets whooshed away by its power. Steve crashes the plane into the Arctic in order to prevent the bombs from killing anyone. Howard Stark retrieves the Tesseract from the ocean but can't find the plane, so everyone assumes that Steve died. Steve stays frozen until approximately 2012, when SHIELD finds him, defrosts him, and asks him for help with a big mission.

She isn't super relevant to the overall MCU plot, but there's a woman named Peggy Carter who was part of the team working on the super soldier plan. She and Steve grow to love each other as the movie progresses and she goes on to help Howard Stark found SHIELD.

The Avengers

Remember how Loki "died" before? He's back and not dead. He wants the Tesseract so that he can give it to some aliens and they'll give him an army so that he can take over Earth. The Tesseract starts acting up and then opens a wormhole in a SHIELD base, through which Loki enters. Loki uses a mysterious staff to control the minds of people he pokes with it, including Hawkeye (who doesn't technically have superpowers but he's the best marksman ever). Nick Fury decides that now is a good time to try out that whole Avengers thing. He sends Black Widow (who also has no superpowers, but is an awesome spy and former assassin) to find new-actor-but-same-character Hulk and recruit him, Coulson talks to Tony, and Fury gets Steve on board. The team manages to capture Loki but not retrieve the Tesseract. Thor shows up and wants to deal with the mess himself but agrees to let SHIELD be in charge while they try to find the Tesseract from their fancy helicarrier ship.
The people under Loki's control attack. Black Widow and possessed Hawkeye fight until Hawkeye hits his head hard enough to snap out of it. Loki kills Coulson, escapes, and opens a wormhole in New York City to let the alien army come to Earth and fight for him. The Avengers assemble, fight the aliens, and get Loki back under control. The government panics because of all the aliens attacking and decides that the best way to fix the problem is to fire a nuclear missile. Iron Man intercepts the missile and sends it up the wormhole right before they close it. Thor takes Loki and the Tesseract back to Asgard. The aliens who wanted Loki to bring them the Tesseract are not pleased. SHIELD takes Loki's scepter.

Phase Two (Iron Man 3 - Ant-Man)

Iron Man 3

Tony has PTSD from the alien attack and deals with it by making a whole bunch of Iron Man suits. He ends up in Tennessee for a while and befriends a kid named Harley. He does some cool stuff, saves the President of the United States, saves Pepper, and explodes all of his suits as a sign to Pepper that he loves her more than his work. He gets the shrapnel taken out of his chest and no longer needs an arc reactor embedded in his body. War Machine is still around and doing shooty stuff with Tony.

Thor: The Dark World

I'm not going to lie, this movie isn't great. Thor's mom dies because there are dark elves going after a mysterious red substance called the Aether. Thor gets Loki (who is sort of good now) to help him draw the dark elves away from Asgard. Thor tries to destroy the Aether but fails. Loki fakes his own death and Thor is sad. They defeat the dark elves, it's revealed to the audience that Loki is still alive, and Thor's friends take the Aether to a man called the Collector because the Aether and Tesseract are both Infinity Stones and they don't want to have two of the Stones together in Asgard.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Nick Fury is attacked by a group of bad guys lead by the Winter Soldier, a masked man with a metal left arm who has supposedly been assassinating people for decades. Fury realizes that SHIELD has been compromised and warns Steve. The bad guys that have infiltrated SHIELD declare that Steve is a bad guy and he has to go into hiding. He and Black Widow learn that Hydra has been secretly working within SHIELD ever since it was founded. They get Steve's friend Sam Wilson (AKA Falcon) to help them out. Our three heroes are ambushed by the Winter Soldier, who is revealed to be Bucky Barnes. It turns out that when Bucky fell in the first Captain America movie, he was captured by Hydra and experimented on until he became a super soldier like Steve, but also a brainwashed, programmable assassin. Natasha and Fury expose information that unmasks Hydra. Steve is attacked again by Bucky but won't fight back because he believes that his friend is still there on some level. Steve is knocked unconscious and Bucky prevents him from drowning, but then leaves and goes to a museum to learn about Steve and his past self.

Guardians of the Galaxy

And now for a complete change of pace, some space adventures! A guy named Peter Quill, AKA Star-Lord, befriends some aliens after stealing a mysterious orb. There's Gamora, a green-skinned lady who was adopted by a murderous titan named Thanos when she was a child. She now hates Thanos, as does Drax, a blue-skinned guy whose family was killed by Thanos. Their other friends are Rocket, a talking raccoon who likes to shoot things, and Groot, a tree-like creature who communicates by saying "I am Groot" and having Rocket translate what he means. They try to sell the orb to the Collector and learn that it contains the purple Infinity Stone, the Power Stone.
One of Thanos's former minions wants the Power Stone so that he can be a destructive jerk. He has Gamora's adopted sister, Nebula, helping him; Nebula is a blue cyborg and also hates Thanos because he was definitely not the kind of guy who should've been allowed to adopt kids. Nebula tries to kill Gamora because Thanos always favored her, but she is unsuccessful. Thanos's former minion gets the Stone and Quill's group of weirdos goes after him. Drax and Gamora fight with Nebula, who escapes. Groot sacrifices himself to shield his friends. The former minion of Thanos is defeated and Quill gives the Power Stone to the Nova Corps, who are kind of like space police. Rocket plants a sapling from Groot's remains, which grows into a tiny, potted Groot. Quill and Gamora are now in a relationshp.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

A Hydra agent has been experimenting on people in a country called Sokovia using Loki's scepter, which he got from other Hydra agents who had infiltrated SHIELD. His experiments turned Wanda Maximoff into the Scarlet Witch and her twin brother, Pietro, into Quicksilver. Wanda has telekinetic and telepathic powers and Pietro is really fast. Tony gets Loki's scepter back from the Hydra guy, but not before Wanda makes him see an awful vision of his dead friends and Thanos. Tony and Bruce notice that the gem in Loki's scepter has an artificial intelligence inside it and use it for their secret program that's intended to protect the planet. The vision that Wanda gave Tony is part of why he wants to do this. That turns out to be a mistake because their robot, Ultron, becomes sentient and decides that the best way to protect Earth is to get rid of its humans. He escapes with the scepter, kills the Hydra man, and gets Pietro and Wanda to join his cause. They hate Tony because it was his weaponry that got their parents killed.
Ultron goes to South Africa to get some vibranium to upgrade his body. The Avengers attack, but Wanda gives them terrifying visions, which makes Bruce Hulk out and he rampages until Tony manages to subdue him using special anti-Hulk version of his Iron Man suit. The world gets upset with the Avengers for letting Hulk be so destructive. While they plan their next move, they hide out at Clint's farm, where we meet his wife and kids. (Nobody other than Natasha even knew he had a family.)
Ultron travels to South Korea to create a new, better body for himself using vibranium and the gem from Loki's scepter. Before Ultron can put his consciousness into the body, Wanda reads his mind, realizes that he wants to murder all humans, and decides that helping him probably isn't the best idea. The Maximoffs and the Avengers stop Ultron from getting into the new body and Tony uploads his AI assistant JARVIS into the body. Thor helps "activate" the new body, having learned that the yellow gem on its forehead is one of the Infinity Stones. The new being is named Vision, and he accompanies the Avengers and the twins to Sokovia, where Ultron is attempting to put his kill-all-the-humans plan into action. Fury, War Machine, Falcon, and other SHIELD people show up to help the Sokovians evacuate as the others fight Ultron and his army of robots. Quicksilver dies protecting Hawkeye and a young Sokovian boy. Wanda, understandably upset, goes after Ultron's main body and destroys him. Hulk decides that he's too dangerous since he can't control himself very well and he flies off into space in a stolen Quinjet. Clint decides to retire and spend more time with his family. Steve and Natasha start training Rhodey, Vision, Sam, and Wanda as Avengers.
Oh, and there's a weird romance between Bruce and Natasha for some reason.

Ant-Man

Ant-Man is the hero that nobody expected to love, but he turned out to be pretty great. There isn't a whole lot in this movie that's relevant to Endgame, though. Scott Lang is a divorced ex-con who accidentally becomes a hero. He gets hired by Hank Pym to steal Hank's size-changing suit because Hank needs help with plot-related things. Hank's wife, Janet, had a suit similar to that one but "went subatomic" and disappeared into the quantum realm years ago. Hank needs Scott to steal something from the Avengers' headquarters, which leads to him meeting and briefly fighting Sam Wilson.
Scott has an adorable daughter named Cassie who lives with her mom. Hank has a daughter named Hope, who gets to become the Wasp and Ant-Man's girlfriend by the end of the movie. Ant-Man's suit lets him control ants, which is creepy, but useful.

Phase Three (Captain America: Civil War - Spider-Man: Far From Home)

Captain America: Civil War

One of the Hydra agents from the Second Captain America movie is causing problems in Nigeria. Wanda, Natasha, Steve, and Sam are there and stop him, but Wanda accidentally blows up part of a building in the process. The United Nations is getting tired of the Avengers destroying things while saving people and have put together the Sokovia Accords, which would prevent the Avengers from being heroic unless they were specifically told to do so. Tony thinks the Accords are a good idea because he feels guilty about all the people he's accidentally killed by creating Ultron and such. Steve doesn't want the government to prevent him from saving people and refuses to sign.

There's a man named Zemo who finds the man that was once Bucky's handler at Hydra. He learns the trigger words that will allow him to control Bucky. He sets off a bomb where the Sokovia Accords are being ratified while disguised as Bucky. The king of Wakanda is killed in the explosion and his son, T'Challa, is determined to kill Bucky in revenge. Steve learns that T'Challa (AKA Black Panther) and the authorities are all going after Bucky and tries to go find him, with Sam tagging along to help. Steve and Sam find Bucky and try to keep him safe, but they and T'Challa get arrested after a chase through the city.

Zemo pretends to be a psychiatrist so that he can say the trigger words to Bucky and ask him some questions. Once he has the information he wants, he makes Bucky go on a rampage to make a diversion while he escapes. Steve manages to get Bucky to safety and contain him until he snaps out of assassin mode. Bucky tells Steve that Zemo wanted to know where Hydra's base of other Winter Soldiers was. Since it would take too long to get proper permission and Zemo is headed to a stash of several cryogenic killing machines, Steve and Sam start preparing to go after Zemo as a rogue team. They get Wanda, Clint, and Scott Lang to help them. Tony is authorized to prepare his own team to stop them, which consists of Tony, Rhodey, Vision, Natasha, T'Challa, and Peter Parker. (Tony saw viral videos of Peter being Spider-Man, figured out who he was, and went to recruit him for this fight even though Peter is an inexperienced teenager.) During the fight, Natasha switches sides and allows Steve and Bucky to get away and go after Zemo. Vision accidentally shoots Rhodey and paralyzes his legs. The remaining rogue heroes are arrested after Steve and Bucky fly away.

Tony learns the truth about the bombing that was blamed on Bucky and gets Sam to tell him where Steve and Bucky are going. Tony follows them without telling the government first and offers to help them. T'Challa has also followed them, but has not revealed himself yet. Zemo has killed the other super soldiers and shows the heroes security footage of Bucky, while brainwashed, murdering Tony's parents for Hydra. Tony realizes that Steve already knew about that happening and is furious with both of them. As they fight, Tony destroy's Bucky's metal arm and Steve disables Tony's suit, then leaves his shield on the ground when Tony reminds him that it was his father who made the shield.

Zemo feels that he has successfully avenged his family, who died during the conflict in Sokovia because of the actions of the Avengers. T'Challa, finally seeing the full truth, helps arrest Zemo and no longer blames Bucky for the death of his father. He brings Bucky to Wakanda, where they will work on a way to get his trigger words to stop working. Tony creates leg braces to help Rhodey walk. Steve helps his allies escape from the prison where they were taken after the big fight.

Doctor Strange

Steven Strange is a neurosurgeon who gets into a car crash and wrecks his hands. He can't operate anymore, so he tries to find a way to make his hands work properly again, which leads him to The Ancient One. He hangs out with her and some other monk-ish sorcerer people for a while, eventually getting the Cloak of Levitation and the Eye of Agamotto. (He has a semi-sentient cape and a fancy necklace that lets him bend time.) He also learns how to open portals. It's kind of weird.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Quill and pals (including Baby Groot) have some more space adventures. Nebula and Gamora work together and become friends. The group meets Mantis, a weird-looking empath alien who can sense and manipulate the emotions of others with physical contact. Quill meets his father, learns that his father is a Celestial that killed his mother, and then kills his father. Nebula decides to leave the group and continue to try to kill Thanos. Groot grows up a little bit and becomes a teenager.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

This is only relevant to Endgame in that it sets up Peter as a character in this universe and explores his relationship with Tony Stark. It's absolutely worth watching anyway, but all you really need to know from this is that Tony is making suits for Peter and Peter is learning to be a good hero. At the end of the movie, Tony asks Peter if he wants to officially join the Avengers. Peter feels that he isn't quite ready yet and declines the offer. Tony proposes to Pepper.

Thor: Ragnarok

Thor and Loki are still mostly allies, but it's impossible to ever fully trust Loki. Odin dies, which causes some huge problems that make an interesting movie but aren't relevant to Endgame. Thor's hammer gets destroyed and he and Loki are flung into space. They end up on a weird planet run by the Grandmaster. Loki befriends him while Thor is captured by an Asgardian named Valkyrie and sold as a gladiator. Thor's first fight is against the Grandmaster's champion, Hulk! This is the planet where Hulk ended up after flying away at the end of Age of Ultron. The fight ends with both still alive. Thor befriends a rock guy named Korg and his weird insect buddy Miek.
Thor tries to get Hulk and Valkyrie to help him save Asgard, which is having some serious issues. Thor manages to get Hulk to chill out and return to being Bruce, who has no idea about what Hulk has been up to since the fight in Sokovia. Valkyrie decides to help Thor and kidnaps Loki for him.
Thor, Bruce, Valkyrie, Loki, Korg, Miek, and the other gladiators all head to Asgard. Bruce becomes Hulk again to help fight. Korg, Miek, and Loki get as many Asgardians onto their ships as they can. Thor realizes that the only way he can destroy his enemy is by destroying Asgard. Loki gets the Tesseract out of Asgard shortly before it no longer exists.
Thor is now the king of his people, since Odin is dead, and decides that their best bet is to find a place to live on Earth. Their ship is intercepted by a larger, ominous ship during a mid-credits scene.

Black Panther

T'Challa returns to Wakanda after the events of Civil War. Wakanda has a protective dome that conceals its true nature as a thriving, high-tech country. Since his father is dead, he's the king and the official Black Panther and protector of his country. His little sister Shuri is even smarter than Tony Stark and she designs a nifty suit for him that absorbs, stores, and then releases kinetic energy. Wakanda has a regiment of very deadly women along with a normal army. At the end of the movie, T'Challa decides to tell the United Nations and the rest of the world about how technologically advanced and generally awesome Wakanda is, since everyone believed it was just a humble, run-of-the mill place. Bucky is still living in Wakanda and is being helped by Shuri.

Avengers: Infinity War

If you only want to watch (or re-watch) one movie before seeing Endgame, please make it this one.

Thanos has taken the Power Stone from the Nova Corps and gets the Space Stone out of the Tesseract when his ship overtakes the ship containing the surviving Asgardians. Hulk tries to fight Thanos but loses. Hulk is beamed to Earth by a special Asgardian, who is then killed by Thanos. Thanos also kills Loki (for real this time) and explodes the ship, leaving Thor floating in space.

Hulk smashes into the place where Doctor Strange is and becomes Bruce again. He explains the situation to Strange, who gets Tony to help them figure out what to do next. Some aliens show up in New York to get the Time Stone out of Strange's necklace. Peter Parker notices the giant alien ship and comes to help. The aliens take Strange with them because they can't get the stone out of the necklace. Tony and Peter stow away on the ship while Bruce, unable to become the Hulk, contacts Steve, who has been hiding out in Wakanda ever since he became a war criminal.

Wanda and Vision, now in a relationship, are hiding in Scotland. They get ambushed by some aliens who want the Mind Stone from Vision's forehead. Steve, Natasha, and Sam rescue them and bring them to the Avengers headquarters where Rhodey and Bruce are waiting. Vision wants Wanda to destroy the stone so that Thanos can't have it, but Steve decides they should instead go to Wakanda and see if the stone can be removed from Vision without hurting him.

The Guardians notice the distress call that the Asgardian ship sent out, go to the wreckage, and find Thor. Thor, Rocket, and Groot go to one planet so that they can make a weapon for Thor; the new battleaxe, Stormbreaker, should be strong enough to kill Thanos. Meanwhile, Quill, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis head to the Collector's planet because Thanos is probably going after the Reality Stone there. Thanos kidnaps Gamora, having already retrieved the Reality Stone. Thanos tortures Nebula, who he captured, until Gamora reveals the location of the Soul Stone to him. He brings Gamora with him to the planet Vormir to get the Soul Stone. In order to get the Stone, he must sacrifice someone he loves, so he throws Gamora off a cliff.

Nebula escapes and tells the human-shaped Guardians (Quill, Drax, and Mantis) to go to Titan, the wrecked planet Thanos is originally from. Tony, Peter, and Strange kill the minions of Thanos that are on their ship and land on Titan, as well. Strange uses the Time Stone to figure out what they need to do in order to beat Thanos and realizes that there is only one possible future where that happens. They make a plan to get Thanos's Stone-holding gauntlet off of his hand and wait for him to arrive. Thanos shows up and explains that he's doing all of this so that he can use the six Stones to snap half of the life in the universe out of existence. He wants to create a more balanced universe where nobody struggles for resources. That logic doesn't sit well with our heroes, who follow their plan and start trying to get the gauntlet away from Thanos. Nebula arrives and realizes that Thanos must have killed Gamora, which makes Quill so angry that he attacks Thanos, snapping him out of his Mantis-induced sleep. Thanos nearly kills Tony but Tony is saved by Strange giving up the Time Stone.

Thanos's army is heading to Wakanda to get the Mind Stone. Shuri starts working on getting the Stone out of Vision while Steve, Bucky (with a vibranium left arm), Bruce (in a suit designed by Tony since he still can't Hulk out), and the rest of the Avengers who aren't currently in space prepare to fight alongside the Wakandan forces. During the fight, Thor, Rocket, and Groot make an epic entrance. Thanos comes to Wakanda before Shuri has gotten the Mind Stone out. Wanda destroys the Mind Stone, killing Vision, but Thanos undoes that using the Time Stone and rips out the Mind Stone, forcing Wanda to watch Vision die again. Thanos now has all six of the Stones, which is majorly bad. Thor whacks Thanos with his fancy axe, but doesn't kill him, so Thanos snaps his fingers and then teleports away. Half of all life starts disintegrating. We see Bucky, T'Challa, Groot, Wanda, Sam, Mantis, Drax, Quill, Doctor Strange, Peter, and Nick Fury (who is in New York) turn to dust. Before he disappears, Fury activates a beeper with Captain Marvel's logo on it. We're left with Tony and Nebula alone on Titan, a bunch of devastated Avengers in Wakanda, and Thanos starting to be a peaceful farmer on a different planet.

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Scott and Hope have more science-related adventures. Being the Wasp doesn't mean that Hope has control over wasps, thankfully. They and Hank Pym manage to rescue Hank's wife, Janet, from the quantum realm using a portal.

During the mid-credits scene, Scott goes into the quantum realm to do some stuff. Unfortunately for him, this is when Thanos is snapping his fingers. Hope, Hank, and Janet are all floating bits of dust before they can get Scott out of the quantum realm.

Captain Marvel

Carol Danvers is a human who gained superpowers while helping an alien work with the Tesseract in 1989. She and Nick Fury have some cool '90s adventures. Carol leaves Earth once she and Fury accomplish their goals, but gives him a modified pager in case he needs her again.

This brings us to Avengers: Endgame, which is the end of the "Infinity Saga" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The gathering of the Infinity Stones isn't going to be an overarching plot anymore in future stories. Spider-Man: Far From Home is coming out this July and will take place after the events of Endgame, possibly hinting at the next direction of these movies. (The whole Thanos-wants-the-Infinity-Stones plot is clearly over, but the MCU will probably still have interwoven connections of some kind.)

I really hope this is helpful for someone! It's definitely understandable that someone who hadn't been watching these movies as they came out would be too overwhelmed to bother getting caught up at this point. Watching Endgame as your first ever Marvel movie isn't the best plan and it won't be nearly as enjoyable that way, but with this blog post, you could potentially go do that now. And if enough tickets get sold, Endgame might be able to dethrone that silly Avatar movie that's held the box office record for far too long.

Happy Marveling!

Love,

Lizzie