Avengers: Infinity War
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Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 superhero film and a sequel to Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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Thanos has gone out of hiding to seek the Infinity Stones, including those at Earth. To this end, he seeks and find the asgardians refugees going in the direction of Earth and massacres half of them as part of his philosophy of population control. After he obtains the Tesseract and the Space Stone with it, Heimdall with his last breath transports Bruce Banner to Earth to the Sanctus Sanctorum, with one message to give: Thanos is coming to Earth, and if he obtains all of the Infinity Stones, he will kill half of the population of the Universe.
The film was critically and financially successful with over $2 billion at the box office and was followed by Avengers: Endgame.
Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo. Produced by Kevin Feige for Marvel Studios. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
- Anti-Villain: Thanos, who wants to protect the universe from starvation by killing half of it before they proliferate too much.
- Archnemesis Dad: Thanos is the arch enemy of his daughters Gamora and Nebula.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Thanos succeeded in getting his Infinity Gauntlet complete and wiped out a half of the population.
- Big Bad: Thanos's search for the Infinity Stones causes basically every big conflict.
- The Cameo: Stan Lee appears as a bus driver at New York.
- Darker and Edgier: The film as a whole is darker than the previous two Avengers films combined, with more death and misery than ever before happening to the heroes.
- Darkest Hour: The people of Earth face this after the Snap.
- Downer Ending: The Snap turned 50% of people into dust, all around the universe.
- Evil Counterpart: At least Thanos makes a comparison implying he thinks he is one to Iron Man, being both geniuses who dedicate themselves to their cause to a point they suffer a lot for it.
- Killed Off for Real: Loki is killed in the opening by Thanos and Gamora at the end of the second act so Thanos can obtain the Soul Stone through the sacrifice of a loved one..
- Immediate Sequel: The beginning takes place just after Thor Ragnarok.
- Precision F-Strike: Groot is implied to say one but it wasn't translated.
- Serkis Folk: Thanos and his allies are portrayed by motion capture.
- Shout-Out: Tony Stark calls Ebony Maw Squidward. Some foreign dubs go with Voldemort for lip-synchying sake.
- The Stinger: Nick Fury and Maria Hill use a beacon for Captain Marvel before they get dusted.
- Trauma Conga Line: It takes three solo movies and this movie for Thor, but by this point his younger brother Loki turns evil, he lost his mother, he broke up with his girlfriend off-screen, his father died though naturally, his older sister turns out to be as bad as Loki, loses his friends to said sister, the asgardians are massacred in Asgard, the remaining asgardians are massacred by Thanos, and Loki dies just after turning good. He doesn't even care if he dies making a weapon strong enough to kill Thanos because he is just that deep past the Despair Event Horizon.
- Undying Loyalty: Show to an unnerving degree with Thanos' troops, almost to the point of religious devotion. They throw themselves at the Wakanda's force field to disable it only so they can get the Mind Stone, amputating and killing themselves.