After 10 years of preparation through many films, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has reached a preliminary high point with the two-parter Avengers 3: Infinity War and Avengers 4: Endgame. The first part about the big fight against villain Thanos is running Sunday at 8:15 p.m. on ProSieben.
The villain’s fatal finger snap, which changed the MCU forever, is remembered from the Marvel cracker. If you haven’t seen the film yet, you are at this point subsequent spoilers warned!
Avengers 3 shocks with a drastic cliffhanger
In the film’s finale, Thanos has collected all the Infinity Stones and combined them with the Infinity Gauntlet into a powerful weapon. The scene in which he wipe out half of humanity with a snap of your fingers. MCU characters like Peter Parker, Doctor Strange, Drax, Mantis, Groot, Quill, T’Challa, Wanda, Sam and Bucky also vanish into thin air from one second to the next.
While this violent cliffhanger played a major role in the plot of the subsequent Avengers 4, Thanos’ action then appeared again and again in the MCU. Here are some examples of films and series that mention the so-called blip:
The blip is the great trauma in the MCU and should continue to influence the comic, film and series universe in the future.
Podcast MCU: 6 Marvel characters who finally need their own series
The MCU continues to grow and has long ceased to focus solely on blockbuster movies. Disney+ alone currently has over a dozen Marvel series you can stream. But what does the future of the series MCU look like? For which character do we want a series spinoff and what could that look like?
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In the new episode of our podcast Streamgegeför, editor-in-chief Lisa Ludwig invites colleagues from the Moviepilot and Filmstarts editorial team to discuss exactly that. And everything from the true star of the Iron Man series to a detective series in space and a Marvel version of Buffy is included.
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