WEBVTT - Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:07.300 Warning, today's episode contains spoilers for The Avengers Infinity War. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:12.379 You understand, boy? You're about to take the full force 0:00:12.420 --> 0:00:18.989 of a star. It'll kill you. Only if I die. Yes, 0:00:20.150 --> 0:00:37.180 that's what killing you means. Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion. 0:00:37.820 --> 0:00:38.680 And I'm Rosie Knight. 0:00:39.140 --> 0:00:41.159 And welcome back to X-Ray Vision, the podcast where we 0:00:41.180 --> 0:00:46.740 dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture. 0:00:47.150 --> 0:00:50.250 In today's episode, we are continuing our ever more impending 0:00:50.270 --> 0:00:53.330 doomsday series, Eat We are revisiting one of the 15 0:00:53.330 --> 0:00:57.610 properties Marvel has highlighted as essential viewing before Avengers Doomsday. 0:00:57.890 --> 0:01:00.350 We started with X-Men and X2. We've done the first 0:01:00.390 --> 0:01:02.550 Avengers film. So if you haven't heard those, you can 0:01:02.590 --> 0:01:05.160 find them in this feed or the impending Doomsday feed. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.860 We're going to start off with some banger facts. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:10.420 We're going to lay the land. 0:01:10.500 --> 0:01:13.620 How was it when Infinity War came out? Can you remember? 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:14.720 It was a different time. 0:01:14.780 --> 0:01:17.000 So we're going to tell you the production woes, the 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.520 lead in, the drama. Then we're going to recap the movie. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.050 And afterwards, we're going to answer the question. Why is 0:01:23.330 --> 0:01:24.310 this included? 0:01:24.490 --> 0:01:27.910 Why do we need to watch Infinity War before Doomsday? 0:01:28.370 --> 0:01:33.369 Let's start. It's a back issue. Quick facts about Avengers 0:01:33.670 --> 0:01:39.510 Infinity War. No Hugo Weaving is the Red Skull. This 0:01:39.610 --> 0:01:40.369 is one of those. 0:01:41.830 --> 0:01:45.780 Shouts to Ross Markand, who did a fantastic job. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.810 I did not know that when I saw the movie. 0:01:48.390 --> 0:01:54.290 Doing his Hugo Weaving German accent as the floating disembodied 0:01:54.310 --> 0:01:58.770 Red Skull on Vormir, Hugo Weaving turned the role down 0:01:59.610 --> 0:02:04.110 because they just were not ponying enough money. Weaving told 0:02:04.150 --> 0:02:07.870 Time Out in January 2020 that his original deal covered 0:02:07.910 --> 0:02:11.359 three pictures and that the offer for the two Avengers films, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.220 Infinity War and Endgame, was less than he was paid 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.239 for Captain America, the first Avenger alone. And that he 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.940 had been told the sequels were only a voice job. 0:02:21.060 --> 0:02:25.130 And to be fair, you're in this movie for two 0:02:25.270 --> 0:02:26.070 and a half minutes. 0:02:26.110 --> 0:02:27.430 Come on, Hugo Weaving. 0:02:32.930 --> 0:02:36.180 So he said on the negotiation, quote, I actually found 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.799 negotiating with them through my agent impossible. 0:02:39.180 --> 0:02:42.700 Hey, look, he's not the only one who's ever said it, okay? 0:02:42.780 --> 0:02:44.840 It's true. He's not out here saying this is a 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:45.660 shocking fact. 0:02:46.630 --> 0:02:49.470 Yeah. He said that he would have done it, you know, 0:02:49.490 --> 0:02:52.590 I guess if they met his price. Ross Markand, as noted, 0:02:52.650 --> 0:02:56.790 played the Vormir Stonekeeper instead. And Time Out notes that 0:02:56.830 --> 0:02:59.940 the Russos have publicly confirmed that weaving was approached, but 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.669 they didn't. Go into the details. 0:03:03.460 --> 0:03:04.579 Come on. Come on. 0:03:04.700 --> 0:03:05.079 Come on. 0:03:05.100 --> 0:03:06.139 Come on. Okay. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.309 Two lines of Spider-Man's death scene were scripted. And this 0:03:09.410 --> 0:03:11.690 is an incredible note because I love this scene so much. 0:03:11.790 --> 0:03:14.310 And the rest came from Tom Holland on the day. 0:03:14.730 --> 0:03:18.290 Joe Russo to offer up rocks during the release was 0:03:18.350 --> 0:03:20.360 said like on the page was, I don't feel so 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.899 good and I'm sorry. And everything in between is Tom. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.060 So when he's like, I don't want to go, Mr. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:25.480 Stark. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:26.739 And he's like crying. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.320 I think my first review for this movie after I 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.030 saw it, probably on the Disney lot was. 0:03:31.990 --> 0:03:33.470 Give Tom Holland an Oscar. 0:03:33.730 --> 0:03:35.150 The campaign starts now. 0:03:35.170 --> 0:03:37.290 He sold that shit to me. 0:03:37.690 --> 0:03:39.870 Russo said they pushed Holland towards the idea that he 0:03:39.890 --> 0:03:42.170 was a child who did not understand what was happening. 0:03:42.590 --> 0:03:45.510 Anthony Russo credited Robert Downey Jr. with feeling the performance 0:03:45.550 --> 0:03:48.190 in the moment, describing him as giving a performer who 0:03:48.230 --> 0:03:49.930 helped them find the take. 0:03:50.810 --> 0:03:52.900 That's right. I'm going to skip the next one because 0:03:52.910 --> 0:03:55.520 that's really just a version of the first one. The 0:03:55.580 --> 0:03:59.340 hero shot from the first trailer, which shows, you might 0:03:59.380 --> 0:04:03.440 recall this, The Avengers and the Wakandan army charging towards 0:04:03.500 --> 0:04:08.450 the camera. Hulk, not Banner and Hulkbuster, full Hulk among them, 0:04:09.770 --> 0:04:11.970 of course, does not exist in the film and was 0:04:12.050 --> 0:04:16.410 shot and created only for the trailer. Anthony Russo on 0:04:16.450 --> 0:04:19.630 the Happy Sad Confused podcast said it was literally created 0:04:19.750 --> 0:04:22.460 in that version for the trailer. Joe Russo said they 0:04:22.500 --> 0:04:26.060 used footage shot for other scenes. And, of course, created 0:04:26.100 --> 0:04:29.700 it in CG specifically for trailer purposes. Everybody does this now, 0:04:29.740 --> 0:04:30.200 by the way. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:31.670 It's so normal now. 0:04:32.140 --> 0:04:35.310 It's so normal to do that. Separately, Thanos' trailer line 0:04:35.350 --> 0:04:40.270 about balancing the universe was scripted and shot. Jor-El said 0:04:40.290 --> 0:04:43.710 it was spoken to Gamora on Nowhere and replaced in 0:04:43.770 --> 0:04:44.690 post with a different line. 0:04:44.710 --> 0:04:44.830 Mm-hmm. 0:04:45.890 --> 0:04:48.070 Every actor on the film was given a fake script, 0:04:48.390 --> 0:04:51.010 and as we know, Joe Russo named Tom Holland as 0:04:51.060 --> 0:04:54.419 the reason. Russo told GamesRadar the cast was working from 0:04:54.460 --> 0:04:57.640 scripts with invented scenes, twists, and endings, and that very 0:04:57.700 --> 0:05:01.110 few people had seen the finished film. On why we 0:05:01.150 --> 0:05:04.390 can't trust anybody. Least of all, Tom Holland with the truth. 0:05:04.490 --> 0:05:07.390 Okay, calm down. He's young, guys. It's a cute bit. Like, 0:05:07.430 --> 0:05:08.290 don't be so crazy. 0:05:08.610 --> 0:05:10.430 He added that it was easier on the actors to 0:05:10.470 --> 0:05:12.470 have read a fake ending than to know the real 0:05:12.610 --> 0:05:15.310 one and carry the pressure of hiding it. Two days later, 0:05:15.570 --> 0:05:19.390 on BBC Radio Scotland, Russo put Holland's status plainly. The 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.460 actor had a couple of slip-ups in the past, so 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.900 he's on the blacklist now. and they said they wrote 0:05:23.940 --> 0:05:27.340 a fake script specifically for him. Russo also said the 0:05:27.380 --> 0:05:30.260 cast could work without the real pages because the objectives 0:05:30.300 --> 0:05:32.770 of each scene were contained in the scene and that 0:05:32.830 --> 0:05:34.989 no one besides him and his brother needed to know 0:05:35.330 --> 0:05:39.270 the villain's overall goal. Paul Bettany described rehearsing material with 0:05:39.330 --> 0:05:42.240 fake scenes and fake storylines being told on set that 0:05:42.339 --> 0:05:44.520 none of it was what happened and then being handed 0:05:44.540 --> 0:05:45.060 the real deal. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:46.080 Sounds confusing. 0:05:46.500 --> 0:05:50.600 That's... We're going overboard now. Yeah. It is a little 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:51.240 too much, guys. 0:05:51.260 --> 0:05:53.310 We know what happens in the comics. Like, he clicks 0:05:53.370 --> 0:05:55.089 away 50% of the people. 0:05:55.490 --> 0:06:00.029 I love that they just, like, hung poor Tom Holland 0:06:00.050 --> 0:06:00.350 out to dry. 0:06:00.370 --> 0:06:02.090 They threw my man under the bus. 0:06:02.130 --> 0:06:02.550 And you know what? 0:06:02.589 --> 0:06:04.590 He's doing better than any of them right now. So 0:06:04.630 --> 0:06:05.210 it's okay. 0:06:06.110 --> 0:06:06.849 Jim Starlin. 0:06:07.050 --> 0:06:07.870 Woo! Legend. 0:06:08.790 --> 0:06:15.419 Absolute legendary artist, creator of Thanos, Gamora, and Drax. Did 0:06:15.460 --> 0:06:18.470 some great Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. work as well. 0:06:18.910 --> 0:06:21.710 Paid for his own ticket to see The Avengers. Speaking 0:06:21.730 --> 0:06:26.210 to the LA Times, Hero Complex, in May 2012, after 0:06:26.290 --> 0:06:28.830 Thanos appeared in the tag, Starlin said he was not 0:06:28.890 --> 0:06:30.650 officially told the character was in the film and learned 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.120 about it from friends who had seen internet rumors. Crazy. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.240 They're just like us, comics legends. On compensation, it was 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.680 the second film containing something he created for Marvel. The 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.310 Infinity Gauntlet and Thor being the first and both films 0:06:44.350 --> 0:06:45.690 I had to pay for my own ticket to see. 0:06:45.750 --> 0:06:48.070 So Jim Starlin, not loving it. 0:06:48.070 --> 0:06:51.250 I do want to say, that is very specifically at 0:06:51.370 --> 0:06:54.779 this time. He was good enough at doing these interviews 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.220 that now I think he is quite happy. And by 0:06:57.260 --> 0:06:59.100 the time we get to Endgame, there will be a 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.460 different story. The film opened, Jason, this is crazy. These 0:07:02.500 --> 0:07:03.120 were crazy times. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.230 To $ 257, 698, 183 domestic. A record at the time. And it finished. 0:07:05.230 --> 0:07:22.990 $ 2, 052, 415, 039 worldwide. Domestic total was almost $ 700 million. International was 0:07:23.130 --> 0:07:24.489 over a billion, like. 0:07:24.390 --> 0:07:26.070 A $ 33. 67 split. 0:07:26.550 --> 0:07:30.070 Its own sequel took the domestic opening record later, just 0:07:30.070 --> 0:07:35.440 13 months later, with $ 357. 1 million opening. 0:07:35.500 --> 0:07:37.640 Doomsday is not going to do that much. I'm sorry 0:07:37.660 --> 0:07:38.480 to the Russo brothers. 0:07:39.270 --> 0:07:43.270 Maybe with inflation, but it'll get somewhere in the area. 0:07:43.310 --> 0:07:44.980 But I mean, these were... But not to open. 0:07:45.010 --> 0:07:47.000 I mean, to open to almost 400 mil. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.660 Though Spider-Man did open to almost 300. 0:07:50.660 --> 0:07:52.500 So we could be back in the realm. Who knows? 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.430 I mean, these were, to your point, crazy times. Okay, 0:07:55.460 --> 0:07:57.570 let's take a quick break. We'll be back in three years. 0:08:15.550 --> 0:08:19.080 And we're back. We open in deep space. This is 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.560 a distress call. We hear a distress call going out 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:28.340 saying that the vessel, the statesman, the Asgardian refugee ship 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.120 carrying King Thor, Loki, and others after the events of 0:08:32.210 --> 0:08:34.050 Thor Ragnarok. 0:08:34.270 --> 0:08:34.850 Remember that? 0:08:35.390 --> 0:08:37.830 Remember Thor Ragnarok? And which at the end, just to 0:08:37.870 --> 0:08:46.030 quickly update, Asgard... as a realm was destroyed and a 0:08:46.090 --> 0:08:50.780 good number of its civilians were evacuated on the statesmen. 0:08:52.179 --> 0:08:56.000 Other than Thor and Heimdall, there's really just like civilians 0:08:56.059 --> 0:09:01.160 and families aboard this vessel. And they're mostly dead now. 0:09:01.620 --> 0:09:02.240 It's already. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:03.059 It's bad times. 0:09:03.820 --> 0:09:08.020 Bad times. It's already happened. Ebony Maw is walking around 0:09:08.500 --> 0:09:13.790 talking shit. Stepping over Asgardian bodies. Oh, God. Here he 0:09:13.809 --> 0:09:19.750 goes again. To talk about, oh, you have the honor 0:09:20.190 --> 0:09:27.880 of dying by Thanos. Your deaths bring balance. To the Uriah, 0:09:27.900 --> 0:09:29.920 he's giving the whole Thanosian ideology. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:30.640 Calm down, mate. 0:09:30.660 --> 0:09:34.859 Give me a break. Thanos is there, and we finally 0:09:34.929 --> 0:09:36.760 see him in his full bulk. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.980 There he is, the big boy, the Josh version. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.900 He's fully here. He's looking chunky. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.300 He's got the ball chin. He's huge. He's Thanos' daddy. 0:09:46.340 --> 0:09:48.520 People will draw many pictures of his butt as this 0:09:48.580 --> 0:09:49.340 movie comes out. 0:09:50.380 --> 0:09:54.150 He monologues a little bit while he's carrying Thor around 0:09:54.210 --> 0:09:56.630 like a bowling ball, which is very scary. Gives you 0:09:56.650 --> 0:09:58.040 an idea about how strong he is. 0:09:58.070 --> 0:09:58.590 So scary. 0:09:59.150 --> 0:10:03.650 All Loki can do... is watch while, you know, Thanos 0:10:03.730 --> 0:10:05.730 is flexing the glove. He's only got the one, he's 0:10:05.750 --> 0:10:08.689 only got the power gem, power stone in there right now. 0:10:09.490 --> 0:10:13.490 And he wants to Tesseract. And he's like, Loki, where 0:10:13.530 --> 0:10:18.089 is it? I know that you have it. But Thor 0:10:18.250 --> 0:10:21.720 is like, ha ha ha. It was destroyed. Well, you 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:27.059 may not know this, but Surtr, the great demon unleashed 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.340 by Hela, destroyed Asgard. And sadly, everything on Asgard, including 0:10:31.420 --> 0:10:35.380 the Tesseract, which was in the trophy room, was destroyed. 0:10:36.179 --> 0:10:38.570 And then Loki's like, no, actually, I kept it. And 0:10:38.590 --> 0:10:42.140 he pulls it out of his sleeve. What a Loki 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:42.570 thing to do. 0:10:42.620 --> 0:10:45.280 Also, I love that Thor has the time while this. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.140 Is all going on that he says, you really are 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.140 the worst brother. 0:10:48.500 --> 0:10:50.620 And I love that they still have that banter in 0:10:50.660 --> 0:10:52.590 this terrible, fatal moment. 0:10:53.970 --> 0:10:55.910 And then Loki is like, you know, about to hand 0:10:55.970 --> 0:10:58.170 it to Thanos, but he's like, we have a Hulk. 0:10:58.230 --> 0:11:01.189 And then the Hulk comes out and lands some good shots. 0:11:01.309 --> 0:11:05.290 But in a measure of just how strong Thanos is, 0:11:05.330 --> 0:11:08.380 he's already got one stone, which makes him insanely powerful. 0:11:08.780 --> 0:11:14.770 And he was strong before that. He just easily, frighteningly easily, 0:11:15.890 --> 0:11:17.729 pieces up the Hulk. 0:11:18.530 --> 0:11:19.890 Not even an issue. 0:11:20.550 --> 0:11:23.690 No. Throat chop, one, two, three, four, five, little jab, jab, jab, 0:11:23.710 --> 0:11:26.790 bitter patter. And then body slams him, and the Hulk is, like, 0:11:26.970 --> 0:11:33.540 knocked unconscious with ease. Heimdall is, like, you know... Odin, 0:11:33.740 --> 0:11:35.979 give me the strength for one last rainbow bridge. Calls 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.780 one last rainbow bridge and sends Banagher away to Earth. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:41.949 MVP moment, I think. 0:11:41.970 --> 0:11:42.590 Oh, my God. 0:11:42.610 --> 0:11:45.770 Like, if we really think about it, Heimdall doing this 0:11:46.390 --> 0:11:49.170 is what allows the rest of the Avengers to know. So, 0:11:49.290 --> 0:11:51.250 once again, Idris Elba coming through for us all. 0:11:52.150 --> 0:11:53.949 He's done so much, and it's just kind of an 0:11:54.130 --> 0:11:56.809 unsung hero in the Marvel Universe. 0:11:57.470 --> 0:11:58.670 He's the one who keeps it going. 0:11:59.530 --> 0:12:03.360 It's so true. Thanos immediately kills him. Thor is like, well, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:04.960 now you're going to die for that because that was 0:12:05.020 --> 0:12:08.359 my guy. That was my really, really good friend. Ebony 0:12:08.420 --> 0:12:14.850 Maw is just a noseless, obsequious worm. And he's like, oh, 0:12:14.929 --> 0:12:19.530 Lord Thanos, it is my great honor to give this 0:12:19.590 --> 0:12:22.350 to you. And he like kneels and hands the cube 0:12:22.390 --> 0:12:25.790 to Thanos and Thanos crushes it and refines the gem 0:12:25.830 --> 0:12:28.290 and puts the gem back. in the glove, and it's 0:12:28.309 --> 0:12:29.809 like a pure cocaine hit. 0:12:29.830 --> 0:12:31.550 Crazy. Thanos is high. 0:12:31.610 --> 0:12:33.530 He's high off the gem. 0:12:33.590 --> 0:12:36.830 He's just like, ah! 0:12:36.890 --> 0:12:40.309 Super Saiyan Thanos. Did we ever realize, Jason, do you 0:12:40.350 --> 0:12:42.960 know why they changed the order of the gems on 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:43.390 the glove? 0:12:43.510 --> 0:12:44.000 Do we know? 0:12:44.010 --> 0:12:47.460 I never understood. I can't remember if we ever got 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.020 an official opinion or if it was just it looks 0:12:50.179 --> 0:12:52.120 cool and the colors look good. 0:12:52.900 --> 0:12:56.380 It's a good question. We should figure that out because 0:12:56.450 --> 0:12:59.589 it's not, to your point, it's not in the order 0:12:59.630 --> 0:13:04.710 they were unveiled. Yes. And it's not in the order, 0:13:04.730 --> 0:13:05.790 the original order. 0:13:05.870 --> 0:13:07.030 Original order on the glove. 0:13:07.390 --> 0:13:08.250 On the glove. 0:13:08.410 --> 0:13:10.690 I guess it probably was just so it looks cool. 0:13:10.710 --> 0:13:12.670 I think it might be like the colors that go 0:13:12.700 --> 0:13:14.760 well together. But I think about it every time he's 0:13:14.780 --> 0:13:17.000 putting a gem in, the little comic book guy in 0:13:17.020 --> 0:13:18.380 the back of my head is like, he's putting it 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.860 in the wrong place. But, I mean, what a rad 0:13:21.980 --> 0:13:24.500 sequence this is. Where he crushes it? 0:13:25.700 --> 0:13:29.500 It must simply be that it's in order that he 0:13:29.580 --> 0:13:31.080 gets them, right? 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:32.960 Mm-hmm. 0:13:33.500 --> 0:13:36.330 And he just puts them along the knuckles as he goes. 0:13:36.350 --> 0:13:39.150 Yeah, as he goes. Like, he wouldn't go, oh, yeah, like, 0:13:39.190 --> 0:13:43.190 that goes in the third. The soul goes on the 0:13:43.270 --> 0:13:44.370 third one, yeah. 0:13:44.550 --> 0:13:47.490 Paint by colors, paint by numbers, which one you put 0:13:47.510 --> 0:13:47.849 it in. 0:13:49.130 --> 0:13:54.819 He then tells his Black Order minions... There's two gems 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.920 on Earth, Time Stone with Doctor Strange, Soul Stone and 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.020 Vision's forehead. Go get them! Loki is like, oh, Earth? 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.200 Guess what? You might need a tour guide. I am 0:14:06.220 --> 0:14:10.550 the perfect guy. I know New York really well. I 0:14:10.590 --> 0:14:14.110 invaded it, that whole thing. Thanos is like, oh, you 0:14:14.150 --> 0:14:18.309 mean your failed war where you got captured and that 0:14:18.370 --> 0:14:20.390 whole thing? Like, give me a fucking break. I. 0:14:20.610 --> 0:14:23.500 He was his boss. Thanos was his boss and he 0:14:23.580 --> 0:14:25.840 failed him. And he's like, want to hire me again? 0:14:25.860 --> 0:14:27.980 It's not going to work. Good pitch, Loki, but it's 0:14:28.020 --> 0:14:28.620 never going to work. 0:14:29.500 --> 0:14:34.970 Loki says, listen, you could use me. I promise you, 0:14:35.180 --> 0:14:38.490 I'm going to give you my like undying fidelity. He's 0:14:38.670 --> 0:14:42.050 obviously lying. He's building it up too much. He then 0:14:42.130 --> 0:14:45.050 pulls out a knife as Thanos gets close, but Thanos 0:14:45.090 --> 0:14:48.270 just freezes him with the power gem and laughs at 0:14:48.310 --> 0:14:50.770 the word choice, like undying, ha ha ha, like you 0:14:50.790 --> 0:14:52.970 should have picked something different, and then strangles Loki to 0:14:53.090 --> 0:14:58.770 death in front of his brother Thor. No resurrections this time, 0:14:58.870 --> 0:15:03.200 Josh Brolin says, and then he portals out, destroys the 0:15:03.250 --> 0:15:06.700 ship with the Power Stone, and he's gone. We go 0:15:06.740 --> 0:15:11.520 to Greenwich Village. Dr. Strange and Wong are having a very, 0:15:11.580 --> 0:15:16.100 very amusing conversation about a deli run, deli order. Wong- 0:15:16.580 --> 0:15:19.680 apparently never has any money, is always asking to borrow 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:25.830 money from Strange. And as they're discussing this, Bruce Banner 0:15:25.890 --> 0:15:29.710 falls through the roof of the Sanctum Sanctorum, through the stairs, 0:15:30.650 --> 0:15:34.670 and they look in the hole. He's transforming back into 0:15:34.690 --> 0:15:38.580 Bruce Banner. The green is ebbing away. He's going, Thanos 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:39.240 is coming! 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:40.300 Thanos is coming! 0:15:41.220 --> 0:15:45.820 Elsewhere, Tony and Pepper... In what appears to be the 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:51.990 East River walk, I think, are talking about work and 0:15:52.110 --> 0:15:55.430 their personal lives. And Tony is saying, you know, I 0:15:55.470 --> 0:15:58.890 had this dream that you and I had a kid. 0:15:58.910 --> 0:16:02.610 The child was named Morgan. And what if we did that? 0:16:02.710 --> 0:16:05.750 What if we found out they're getting married? What if 0:16:05.820 --> 0:16:08.520 we had a kid? And Pepper's like, well, if you're 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.780 really serious about settling down into married life, having a kid, 0:16:11.980 --> 0:16:16.030 you wouldn't be wearing... your experimental nanotech arc reactor, which 0:16:16.090 --> 0:16:20.190 means actually you're ready for battle, not a home life 0:16:20.270 --> 0:16:24.140 because we discover this movie is really good at giving 0:16:24.180 --> 0:16:28.920 you exposition in little lines of things that have happened 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:33.660 off screen. She complains about the arc reactor and he says, yeah, 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.000 I don't need it. I had the surgery. So now 0:16:36.070 --> 0:16:37.810 you know that Tony actually doesn't need it for his 0:16:37.930 --> 0:16:40.810 heart anymore. And this movie is really good at delivering 0:16:40.930 --> 0:16:43.670 moments like that. But it's clear that he just loves 0:16:43.710 --> 0:16:45.470 being Iron Man. He loves his suits. 0:16:45.890 --> 0:16:48.630 It's keeping the nanotech. That's the reason he gives her 0:16:48.670 --> 0:16:51.210 right now. And in her mind, she's like, just settle down, man. 0:16:51.310 --> 0:16:52.930 You don't need the suit if you're going to be 0:16:52.950 --> 0:16:53.470 the husband. 0:16:54.410 --> 0:16:56.890 He says, well, I just want to protect us. And 0:16:56.930 --> 0:16:59.910 then he promises no more surprises, which is going to 0:16:59.930 --> 0:17:03.480 be an important line to open Tony's entrance in Endgame. 0:17:03.910 --> 0:17:06.609 But then Dr. Strange portals in and says, hey, congrats 0:17:06.650 --> 0:17:09.950 on the wedding, but I need you. And look who's 0:17:09.990 --> 0:17:13.619 here with me. It's Bruce Banner back from space. And 0:17:13.650 --> 0:17:17.419 Bruce looks so shaken that Tony knows it's a big deal. 0:17:18.020 --> 0:17:21.639 Jason, that's one of those moments in the theater where 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.120 this movie really starts to amp up, right? Because you 0:17:24.140 --> 0:17:27.690 get your portal, Strange walks out, he says, Tony Stark 0:17:27.750 --> 0:17:29.129 and he's like, who the fuck are you? 0:17:29.190 --> 0:17:29.780 Like what's going on? 0:17:30.070 --> 0:17:32.840 And you get that moment of connection between these different 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.500 parts of the Avengers universe. And I think that as well, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.060 like you mentioned about that exposition. The way they reintroduce 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.919 characters here works so well. But everyone has a favorite moment. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.260 Mine is obviously the Scarlet Witch vision stuff, which we'll 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.609 get to. But this is such a fun way to 0:17:49.700 --> 0:17:53.470 establish the normality of these heroes being in this world 0:17:53.510 --> 0:17:55.810 at this point. Like, Doctor Strange can just portal into 0:17:55.850 --> 0:17:56.709 New York, no issue. 0:17:56.730 --> 0:17:59.609 I love it. Yeah, it's so great to see everybody 0:18:00.070 --> 0:18:04.030 finally come together. It's just wonderful. They go to the 0:18:04.070 --> 0:18:08.990 Sanctum Sanctorum. Wong does the PowerPoint on the Infinity Stones, 0:18:09.130 --> 0:18:13.570 kind of update Tony about what they are. Strange is like, 0:18:14.450 --> 0:18:18.030 and by the way, check this out. And he throws 0:18:18.090 --> 0:18:20.520 his neck piece on his chest and. 0:18:20.580 --> 0:18:21.100 Opens it up. 0:18:21.150 --> 0:18:23.680 And there's a time when Tony just has to show 0:18:23.740 --> 0:18:28.780 it off. And so Tony is like, okay, perfect. Why 0:18:28.820 --> 0:18:32.380 don't you just destroy that since that's what he wants. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:33.420 And then. 0:18:34.660 --> 0:18:36.020 You know, they kind of go back and forth. There's 0:18:36.060 --> 0:18:39.780 a great dick measuring war going on between the two. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.000 Banner is like, listen, you have to focus. It's about Thanos. 0:18:43.580 --> 0:18:46.200 Thanos is the one who sent Loki and the Chitauri 0:18:46.220 --> 0:18:48.840 to invade in New York. He's collecting the stones. He 0:18:48.900 --> 0:18:51.880 already has two, which makes him the most powerful being 0:18:51.900 --> 0:18:55.010 in the universe already. There's four more. If he gets 0:18:55.050 --> 0:18:58.090 all six, like we're fucking finished. There's also some fun 0:18:58.130 --> 0:19:00.649 banter here in which we discover that Ben and Jerry's 0:19:00.670 --> 0:19:02.480 has various Avengers flavors. Yes. 0:19:02.990 --> 0:19:06.929 Hulk is the favored flavor in the Sanctum Sanctorum because 0:19:06.970 --> 0:19:08.370 it's like more of a chocolate flavor. 0:19:08.390 --> 0:19:11.969 I believe it's Fudger Fudger Burning Hulk is what it's called. 0:19:12.430 --> 0:19:14.300 There's got to be like some sort of mint or 0:19:14.470 --> 0:19:15.880 pistachio involved, right? 0:19:15.940 --> 0:19:17.800 I feel like they should have, but it sounds like 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.600 they went for more of a hunk of burning love. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.480 Tony doesn't like his, the Iron Man one apparently is 0:19:22.500 --> 0:19:23.260 a little chalky. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.240 So Tony is like, yeah, just destroy the time stone 0:19:28.270 --> 0:19:31.780 and we're kind of like done, right? And Strange is like, 0:19:31.820 --> 0:19:33.920 I can't. It's my job. My job is to use 0:19:33.980 --> 0:19:37.939 this thing and protect it and protect all of reality, 0:19:38.010 --> 0:19:41.730 you fucking dick. Like, you don't even understand how complex 0:19:41.790 --> 0:19:44.970 and serious my job is. And so, okay, what about 0:19:45.010 --> 0:19:47.470 the Mind Stone? Well, that's in Vision's forehead. We need 0:19:47.490 --> 0:19:52.280 to secure Vision. And Tony's like, ugh. Well, here's the 0:19:52.300 --> 0:19:53.060 thing about Vision. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:53.760 Uh-oh. 0:19:53.940 --> 0:19:57.460 We've been letting him go off and have his little 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:01.100 fuck fests in Rwanda, like across the world. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.260 Eating fish and chips in Scotland. 0:20:04.180 --> 0:20:07.419 Yeah, and just like staying at what appear to be 0:20:07.500 --> 0:20:10.790 some of the nicest places apartments and or hotels like 0:20:10.990 --> 0:20:14.690 in the area. But it turns out that vision has 0:20:14.750 --> 0:20:18.820 turned off his like, find my vision app because he 0:20:18.859 --> 0:20:22.650 doesn't want to be found. And we don't know where 0:20:22.670 --> 0:20:25.880 he is. And Banner's like, you lost another super AI 0:20:25.940 --> 0:20:30.680 super bot who can find him. And on very, very 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:36.700 fortunately it is Steve Rogers. Now Banner has no idea 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.830 that there's been a whole civil war. that Tony found 0:20:39.869 --> 0:20:45.250 out that Steve's 100-year-old best friend actually murdered his parents. 0:20:46.109 --> 0:20:47.770 And there was a whole falling out over that. And 0:20:47.790 --> 0:20:51.680 there's the Sokovia Accords in which there was a registration 0:20:51.740 --> 0:20:56.119 push and that a bunch of heroes led by Cap 0:20:56.140 --> 0:20:59.600 have gone underground. So Tony has to update him on 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.120 this a little bit. But it must be serious because 0:21:03.180 --> 0:21:06.050 Tony realizes, fuck, I guess I got to call Steve. 0:21:06.070 --> 0:21:09.119 He pulls out his phone. But before he can Hit send. 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:14.379 There's like a strange hum and the Ebony, you know, 0:21:14.820 --> 0:21:18.740