An incredible theory explains the events of ‘Infinity War’ and sets us up for ‘Avengers 4’

Author: Chris Smith / Source: BGR

Because Avengers: Infinity War ended the way it did, we’ve been speculating ever since on what it all means. As the days turned into weeks and months, we learned that the horrific deaths in Infinity War aren’t as final as the writers and directors would have us believe.

Plenty of the dead Avengers are going to return to life in the next movie somehow, especially the ones that are set to appear in films that follow Avengers 4 in Marvel’s chronology. The list includes Spider-Man: Far From Home and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

We also learned that time travel will play a significant role in the upcoming events. The Avengers are in the endgame right now, the only future that will end up with some sort of happy ending. Mind you, we already expect this happy end to be peppered with tragic outcomes for some of the heroes. That’s because everything is possible in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but at high personal cost, as Marvel teased before. This brings me to one of the best fan theories I’ve ever read, because it explains some of the things we witnessed in Infinity War and sets the stage for the sequel.

The more I thought and wrote about the events of Infinity War and the things to come in Avengers 4, the clearer it was to me that Doctor Strange is indispensable to the team. I said before that the best reason why I think he did not die at the snap is that he could see beyond his death, as he looked at over 14 million futures, of which only one offered the Avengers the real win.

Strange made sure that Ant-Man would be in the Quantum Realm when the snap occurred, that Iron Man would not be killed while fighting Thanos, and that Star-Lord would disrupt the team’s effort to steal Thanos’ powerful Infinity Gauntlet during the battle on Titan.