Tony had always known that being Iron Man was going to
kill him one day. He’d come to terms with that. He’d accepted it. It was
a part of the job of being a superhero.
He just never thought it
was going to be from lack of food, water, and oxygen while floating
aimlessly on some dead guy’s spaceship through an unnamed galaxy with a
blue and purple robot alien. Spoilers, obvs. Hopeful ending. No character death.
Tony closed his eyes and pressed his forehead more firmly against the cool glass of the Benatar. Light flared behind his eyelids as the ship turned toward the sun that lit up the galaxy they were in. His stomach grumbled painfully and he wrapped his arm tighter around himself and brought his legs up closer to him, curling up in a ball against the window pane.
Six months. It’d be six months since the others had died. Four months since they had gotten the ship into the air. Two months since they had run out of fuel and started drifting aimlessly through space. They were running low on food and water, and he didn’t even want to think about how long they had until they ran out of oxygen. It was only by rationing their food and water that they had made it this long. Thankfully Nebula didn’t need as much to survive, but once again Tony’s very human body was working against him. Where Nebula could go a couple weeks without food and drink, Tony could only go a few days.
His stomach rumbled and cramped again. He had eaten yesterday. Tomorrow he’d be able to eat again.
At least he had that to look forward to.
He opened his eyes and looked out into the space around them. He had been dreaming and having nightmares about space for years, but being here… drifting aimlessly, hoping for a savior but waiting for death, he couldn’t help but think it was beautiful. The way the colors mixed together. The infinite, endless sea of stars. You could never see something like this on Earth.
He wasn’t afraid anymore. Not of the stars. The stars couldn’t hurt him now.
Not anymore than he already hurt.
He heard movement behind him as Nebula came back into the cockpit. He felt her stop behind him and could feel her eyes resting on him for a couple minutes before she finally spoke.
“How long can humans go without food and water before death?” She asked quietly.
one of my favorite quotes from the MCU is vision in response to ultron being like “they’re doomed” and vision was like “maybe, but a thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts” and that totally 100% reminds me of tony saying “don’t feel bad about this, part of the journey is the end”
I just love both of those quotes so much and it’s so fitting that it started in Ultron with Tony’s creation and ended with Tony in Endgame
Expecting a lot brings disappointment. However, showing a lot of scenes from Avengers Endgame would be too much of a good thing. Sometimes, showing less than more is better as it will keep us on our toes and guessing what may happen next in the movie.
I wasn’t disappointed the slightest. I’m more anxious for the Iron Man’s fate since he doesn’t too well in the beginning of the trailer. Also, Infinity War’s trailers are no different, the Russo brother technically edited some scenes and lines, especially Thanos’ to mislead fans. We thought Thanos is a typical villain who was evil for the sake of it, but in reality, he had a reason and is actually a pretty chill dude.
If the Russo brothers and Marvel showed a lot of the actual movie itself in the trailer, it will make the storyline weak and we’ll already know somewhat of what may end up happening. For now, all we must do is just speculate and theorize what may happen in this upcoming movie. I know that this movie might be more depressing than Infinity War.
I’m just going to sit in the corner and cry my eyes out because all I wanted was for them to be happy. But now, with half of the people in the universe gone, there is an inevitable end.
With the release of the new Avengers: Endgame trailer, there’s a lot of speculation about what’s going to happen or how this movie is even going to start. I’d like to approach this thought experiment from a different angle. Let’s think about how this movie could potentially start, knowing what we know from the trailer and also how movies are made and presented.
For starters, movies need to set up characters. Even with the Marvel movies, they assume coming in that you know nothing about these characters and they spend the first several minutes re-introducing them and their quirks. This is both fun for returning fans, and good for new fans because it sets the status quo and lets you know how everyone works together. Every single Avengers movie has done this, so there’s no reason why Avengers 4 wouldn’t too.
Second, we need to set up the problem for new people coming in. WE all know that Avengers: Infinity War ended with the snap that wiped out 50% of the universe’s living creatures… but new audience members might not, or they might not remember specific details. So we need a way to jump back into the middle of that scenario, refresh people’s memories, and set the stakes for the adventure to come.
I can see this happening in one of two ways…
Either we begin the movie with a montage showing the devastation of “the snap” happening, giving a better global perspective on what it’s like for the average person experiencing this weird event. And then we jump around from person to person to see how they’re coping or handling the situation…
Or we begin the movie from Scott Lang’s perspective. Since he was in the Quantum Realm when the snap happened (and we know from the trailers that he’s at Avengers HQ), he makes for a good point-of-view character. I could easily envision a scenario where he is rescued from the Quantum Realm (how I don’t know yet) and he’s unaware of what happened or how long he’s been gone. So he goes to the one place he knows he can get some answers (Avengers HQ) and this would allow Natasha and Steve Rogers to re-explain the events of Avengers: Infinity War to him and thus to us.
I’m more keen on the second scenario being more likely just because from a storytelling perspective it’s clean and efficient. It moves the story along, while also giving us the most information in the fastest way possible. It also lines up with the time jump, since we know going in that at least a year in-movie has passed.
Of course there’s no reason why a combination of the two might not work either. This is purely speculation at this point until we know more.
I don’t really wanna get into how they’re gonna “fix” everything, because there’s SO MUCH that we just don’t know. I just think that it’s entirely possible to use our knowledge of film language and screenwriting necessities to hypothesize a potential beginning to the movie.
How would you do it while also keeping in mind those two key guidelines?
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