Given that people went to watch Avenger: Endgame only because of the way it got hot on social media, they absolutely got confused several times while watching. The reason is that the plots of every single episode in MCU all connect to others, and it requires a sense of logicality to understand. To make you, non-MCU fans, easier to acknowledge the movies’ plot, we have accumulated theories making sense for several abstract scenes in 27
Marvel movies so far.
If you do get confused by any scenes in the movie, this post could give you reasonable explanations. Browse below and take a look at the best fan theories about MCU villains!
14. Thanos Divided Himself Into Two
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Thanos split himself in half when he snapped his fingers and wished half of life in the universe away, one half trapped in the Soul realm.
13. Red Skull Was Transported To Earth After Gamora's Sacrifice
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After Thanos sacrificed Gamora in Infinity War, a portal was opened above him and Red Skull. This portal looked similar to the one that teleported Red Skull to Vormir at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger. I believe that the portal not only teleported Thanos to the Soul Stone, but it also returned Skull to Earth because he was free from the curse. So, Red Skull could very well be on Earth and may return.
12. Korg's Reference To Stormbreaker In 'Endgame'
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Korg is made of inorganic material (rocks), he considers Stormbreaker, which is also not organic, to be every bit a 'being' as Thor or Hulk or anyone/anything else. So if you count inorganic objects as 'who's, it's the most accurate to say Stormbreaker chopped off Thanos' head, even though it was being swung by Thor.
11. Hela Gets Strong As Odin's Death
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The scene Hela broke the Mjolnir brought to the audience a surprising moment, the only reason is the death of Odin. Basically, Odin’s enchantments are what makes Mjolnir nearly unbreakable. When Odin dies his enchantments are lifted, allowing Hela to easily crush the hammer.
10. Star-Lord Was Right To Punch Thanos
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Destroying the stones would be the only way to end the aforementioned cycle of villains fighting the Avengers over the stones since there aren’t any left. It was imperative that Thanos got the stones and destroyed them afterward. To ensure there would never be any fights or resulting casualties over the stones ever again. That reason why Dr. Strange let Quill punch Thanos after 14,000,605 foreseeing times.
9. Ultron Was In Love With Wanda
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Ultron says to Vision, "My vision... they really did take everything from me." He also says "you took away my world," and Vision refers to Ultron as being (emotionally) hurt. Other than a few destroyed robots, Wanda is the other big loss he experienced. This leads me to believe that he loved Wanda in a way, much in the way that Vision ends up falling in love. Moreover, towards the end, there is pretty solid evidence of the odd love. Ultron is nearly defeated, and Wanda approaches him. "Wanda... if you stay here, you'll die." Ultron sincerely wants her to live.
8. Why Red Skull Was Distorted
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A transformation from a skinny Steve to a buff Captain was protected by the injection of penicillin from Erskine. By contrast, Johan “Red Skull” Schmidt injected the serum by himself, it worked but it also enhanced the bacteria, growth in such a way that they destroyed the skin of his face (and maybe the entire body), and it would have killed him if he wasn’t enhanced as well, so his body is in a constant battle against super microbes and that messed up his face.
7. How Red Skull Was Weaponizing The Tesseract
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We see him use these weapons on German military personnel at the beginning of the movie. He basically weaponized a teleporter accident, as its uncontrolled teleportation it may well have disintegrated them by sending each atom a random distance and direction.
6. The Asgardians Thought The Collector Would Finish Collecting The Stones
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The Collector is obsessed with collecting. Once he had one Infinity Stone, he would be obsessively driven to complete his collection. They could watch him from afar and let him do the dirty work of scouring the galaxy, seeking out the stones that were still hidden. As the result, owing to it, Thor could easier to find other stones.
5. Thanos Defeated Hulk Wisely
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Hulk can get stronger when he gets angry and Thanos knew that. For that reason, Thanos has calculated how to control Hulk's mind while still beating him. If you notice re-watching the first fight scene, Thanos' first strike is to Hulk's neck. In fact, the next few strikes are to his neck and chin. These areas are vital and attacks to these areas disrupt the flow of oxygen by restricting the ability to breathe and disorienting the brain by concussive force. Thanos' next attacks are on Hulk's kidneys. Boxers and MMA fighters report the effects of kidney strikes as debilitating and even paralyzing.
4. The Only Way To Beat Thanos Was In A Timeline Where He Thought He Won
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The Only Way Thanos has lost even if he had the time stone is because he didn't look at 14,000,605 timelines like Dr Strange. He needs to work harder!!
3. Loki Used His Left Hand Twice
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There are two occasions he uses his left hand (that I've found). One, when he fakes his own death in Dark World. You can find him holding the dagger with his left hand during the entire scene. Two, when he stabs Thanos. So, Loki's illusion uses his left hand because he's a mirrored version? The Loki that was killed in the beginning of IW was an illusion and he's still out there, maybe disguised or just in hiding.
2. Hela Is Not Frigga's Daughter
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I like to think that Odin went away on a campaign and returned with Hela, who grew up somewhat resented by Frigga, and became a literal reminder of Odin's past sins. Odin was never perfect, and I think that this reading adds a nice nuance to Hela's story.
1. How Steve Was Capable Of Withstanding Thanos
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With the physical strength, There is no reason that Roger could resist Thanos in this scene. Our theory is that the glove works by responding to the will of the user, and in that moment, both of them were in physical contact with the glove. So Rogers was kind of "out-willing" Thanos, and while none of the infinity stones were actively being used, they were implicitly responding to both Thanos' and Rogers' wills respectively, with Rogers' influence being greater. And that's how he was able to resist Thanos.