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Here's the first look at Marvel's official "Avengers: Endgame" trailer. USA TODAY
Black Panther. Spider-Man. Doctor Strange. Bucky Barnes. Scarlet Witch. Groot. Those casualties are just a portion of the death toll from “Avengers: Infinity War” that still has superhero fans reeling.
Fortunately for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, original Avengers Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) are still kicking. And in the hotly anticipated follow-up “Avengers: Endgame” (officially opening Friday, though theaters will show it Thursday night), the good guys are teaming with other surviving heroes to avenge the fallen and take the fight yet again to Thanos (Josh Brolin), the cosmic villain who used the all-powerful Infinity Stones to erase half of existence across the universe.
But the plot is really sketchy going into this culminating chapter of the 20-plus Marvel films so far since 2008’s “Iron Man.” You can bet, though, that there’ll be at least one, and probably multiple, end-credits scenes, perhaps setting up what Marvel’s future will look like.
USA TODAY talked with Anthony Russo, who directed “Infinity War” and “Endgame”alongside brother Joe, about what everyone needs to know about the newest Marvel blockbuster-to-be:
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The Russos have long found Tony Stark to be among the most complex characters in the MCU because of his “amazing” journey, going from a narcissistic arms dealer to dealing with PTSD after stopping an alien attack on Manhattan to throwing down in brutal fashion with his Avengers co-leader Cap. “He started from such a self-centered place that to see him (become a hero) in that narrative, and increasingly so as the stories have gone on, has been fascinating,” Anthony Russo says. “That is certainly something that we're moving forward in this story. That character arc is really central to not just the identity of Tony Stark but the nature of the Avengers.”
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Captain Marvel adds a new wrinkle to the story
The Russos directed two “Captain America” films, and they approached the super-soldier as “a very human character that, even though he had remarkable capacity, was still limited in terms of where that capacity could go,” Anthony Russo says. Now Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) joins the fray as someone on the opposite side of the spectrum whose powers are immense. “That always scared Joe and I, to be honest, because we love vulnerability in characters.” While initially intimidated by her, they’ve found ways to have Carol Danvers intersect with the continuing MCU narrative: “How does she be truly human? And how do we find a psychological realism in that character that we relate to and we empathize with?”
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Hawkeye and Ant-Man have seen some serious stuff
To some fans’ dismay, a couple of heroes were AWOL during “Infinity War.” Audiences caught up with Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” which ended with him getting stuck in the microscopic Quantum Realm. And “Endgame” finds ace archer Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) in a mysteriously dark place, with an edgier haircut and outfit, plus a sword. “There's a special opportunity with those characters in terms of exploring what (the ending of “Infinity War) meant to them and how that's moving them forward,” Russo says. “Part of the reason why we kept those characters out was for that specific reason, so we had more of a spectrum in this movie of different characters having different relationships to what happened.”
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