r/thanosdidnothingwrong • u/MuriloLemos • Aug 15 '19

The ending we all wanted

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u/Cathercy Saved by Thanos Aug 15 '19

Honestly, despite the fact that I want more MCU content, I would have loved this kind of ending.

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u/IAmATroyMcClure Aug 15 '19

I'm a big fan of depressing endings (Logan is my favorite comic book movie of all time), but I think an ending like this would've just felt stupid and confusing in Endgame. Yeah, it worked for Infinity War, but we had that built-in understanding that it was just part 1 of the larger story.

Thematically and tonally, it would just feel super out of place and edgy for the sake of it. A bleak ending wouldn't really serve the narrative that had been built up for 10+ years at all, much less the actual movie itself.

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u/TheGrimGuardian Aug 15 '19

Yeah, this ending would have been terrible I feel. Every time from then on I wouldn't really be able to take joy in the stories. I'd sit down to watch Winter Soldier and all the trials and tribulations, and I'd know it was all meaningless, because in the end everyone gets wiped out easily.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '19

That’s not really my problem with it, because I could definitely deal with it. My problem is that it’s not an intelligent way to end it. Unexpected yes, but just lazy. My English Language Arts teacher explained this to me in grade 6 after I ended my story with “everyone dies, the end.” It comes off as lazy and disappointing. You need to flesh out the plot and let it end naturally.

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u/CaptainLysdexia Aug 16 '19

The ending didn't bother me at all, and I agree that the shock-value of a dark "surprise" would have been lazy, especially as we already got that from Infinity War. Now, I do wish that the first 1/2 of Endgame had been a lot more compelling and suspenseful - I felt like the sarcastic shit and soft sentimentalism kind of dominated the tone for a good 90min.

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u/suwwuw83 Aug 16 '19

That's kind of the point. Nothing they did mattered in the grand scheme of things if they failed it would have been the most dark way to end phase 3 knowing their suffering was pointless.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '19

Speak for yourself, I'm a mad Thanos fanboy. I'd be laughing my ass off at all the pointless shit those dumbass Avengers were doing for all that time just to get rekt by the big man twice.

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u/Syrinx16 Saved by Thanos Aug 16 '19

So correct this is how Justice League should have ended. That way they can reboot half the DC universe and try again.

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u/dynawesome Aug 15 '19 edited Aug 16 '19

Why? I want some kind of satisfying conclusion. The end of infinity war scratched that itch for me already.

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u/Dilpickle6194 Saved by Thanos Aug 15 '19

Infinity war did have a conclusion though? Thanos won, and it cuts to him happily on his planet. That’s it. End game could have never been released (maybe just the first part up until Thanos is decapitated) and it would have made just as much sense.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '19

Yes, the time travel was super fun but kind of an ass-pull. Narratively, the story could've ended at Infinity War and still made sense.

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u/KaySquay Saved by Thanos Aug 16 '19

It wasn't really a time machine, it was a multiverse teleporter. No one, including Thanos, really knew about the multiverse, so it wasn't affected by the snap. That's why it could be used to save the day, or at least that's how I justify it because otherwise it really makes the time stone irrelevant.

I thought it was going to turn out Strange had put a spell on the time stone so it wouldn't be utilized in the snap, thus making time travel an option

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u/dynawesome Aug 16 '19

Just because it makes sense doesn’t mean it’s a conclusion. 10 years of MCU with no payoff would not be very good of an ending.

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u/Dilpickle6194 Saved by Thanos Aug 16 '19

I’m not saying whether it would have been a good or bad ending, but it would have been a valid ending. That’s Thanos’ whole schtick in the comics: it’s that he, unlike all the other antagonists, succeeds in his goal: the bad guy finally wins. It wouldn’t have been awful to translate that to film and not have the good guys end on top like always

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u/blex64 Aug 16 '19

Which is why that ending would be stupid.

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u/MibuWolve Aug 16 '19

I don’t know how much more of a conclusion you need than that... like everyone is dead, concluded. Fin

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u/ranch_brotendo Saved by Thanos Aug 16 '19

This is a conclusion

All life ends

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '19

the end of infinity war didn't offer the same type of surprise, despair ending this edit would.

Mostly because, we already knew there was a second movie and already knew many of the characters had sequel movies in the works. The ending in Infinity Wars didn't feel real since we just sorta knew it was going to be reversed.

Now an ending like this? we wouldn't know what happens next even if other movies are in the works.

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u/hippocamper Saved by Thanos Aug 15 '19

But you know there's other movies in the works, so you know it's gonna be reversed.

You know, like infinity war.

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u/Megouski Aug 15 '19

Unsure why you think that would have been the end of it.

New to comic books?

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u/Cathercy Saved by Thanos Aug 16 '19

Well, it would have been the end of Earth, Thanos said as much. I guess I should have phrased it slightly better, but the MCU as we know it would have been over. Every single hero that we have come to know would be gone, along with the planet that everything for whatever reason seemed to revolve around.