Avengers: Infinity War
April 25, 2018 in theaters
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
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QUOTE
"I don't want to go."
-- Peter Parker
DID YOU KNOW?
The film features the largest ensemble cast in MCU history at the time -- over 30 heroes.
THE VERDICT
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The rare blockbuster that treats its villain as the protagonist and commits fully to that choice. The Russo brothers hold the ending without flinching — that kind of structural courage is unusual in franchise filmmaking at this scale. The film juggles an enormous cast across multiple storylines without losing narrative coherence, and the Wakanda sequence delivers the scale the franchise had been building toward. It functions as the first half of a two-film story, but it's the stronger half.
PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
Where this fits in the larger story
Avengers: Infinity War sits in the MCU's Phase 3, adding a specific character, team, or conflict to Marvel's connected timeline. It connects its central story with the larger consequences shaping the Avengers-era world and later saga developments. Its placement helps viewers follow how this entry supports the MCU's broader movement from individual origin stories toward expanding teams, cosmic stakes, and multiverse consequences.
THE NEXUS TRIGGER
Post-credit connections to the broader multiverse
Nick Fury pages Captain Marvel with his last action before being Snapped, formally introducing her symbol and establishing her as the Avengers' final and most powerful hope.
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Avengers: Infinity War Star Reveals How Marvel Hid the Movie's Mass Character Deaths From Its Actors
Marvel star Paul Bettany has said the cast of Avengers: Infinity War only discovered the movie's heart-breaking ending as it was shot, and their beloved MCU characters were turned to dust.