Author: Nick Allen / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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[This story contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War]
Avengers: Infinity War was billed as the culmination of ten years of storytelling, but those who have seen the movie know the film doesn’t offer any closure.
The film ends in the biggest way possible, with Josh Brolin’s Thanos wiping out half of life in the universe, showing the deaths of beloved characters such as Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), as they vanish into thin air.
Whether or not the ending ultimately works for you, it’s undeniable that the last ten minutes of Infinity War are a testament to how Marvel Studios gets comic book fans and non-comic book fans alike to keep talking about their films in between installments. Marvel has been building to an ending like that in Infinity War ever since Iron Man introduced Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury in its surprise post-credits sequence, a move that had fans buzzing for years about an Avengers Initiative and a teamup movie to come.
As Marvel orchestrated its cinematic universe movie by movie, and introduced filmgoers to comic book characters they might not have otherwise known, it was the stingers in the post-credit scenes in particular that started to form the idea of the Avengers. It was that ping of excitement seeing Thor’s hammer at the very end of Iron Man 2, or the brief image of Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Quicksilver at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, that expanded the universe and started to assemble Marvel’s ultimate team.
Avengers: Infinity War, in turn, feels like the sudden unraveling of those thrilling gatherings, making a main event out of the type of shock that people used to sit through closing credits for. But like those moments, the end of Infinity War has created more discussion, and created a new opportunity for people to be emotionally involved.
Fans have spent a week commiserating about the ending and…
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