Avengers: Infinity War has finally arrived, bringing almost all of the Marvel Cinematic
Universe together in a mind-blowing, epic battle for the fate of the universe that almost
defies description, and understanding.
Thanos is finally here, and he definitely means business, setting up one whopper of
a cliffhanger for Avengers 4.
But as shell-shocked fans stumble from the theater and head directly into group therapy,
there are more than a few loose ends that need tying up.
Luckily, we're here to help you piece your life back together in this spoiler-filled
look at the biggest unanswered questions in Avengers: Infinity War.
What is Doctor Strange's plan?
If there's one thing we know from watching his face-off against Dormammu, it's that Doctor
Strange isn't an idiot.
So it seemed pretty, you know... strange... that he just handed over the Time Stone to
Thanos in exchange for Tony Stark's life after explicitly stating earlier in the film that
he would happily sacrifice both Spider-man and Iron Man to protect the Stone.
Obviously, Strange has some sort of secret plan.
He told the others he'd used the Time Stone to glimpse millions of possible outcomes of
their battle against Thanos, and only seen one future reality where they'd won.
He then told Stark after handing over the Time Stone that they had entered the "end
game."
And he also said that he gave Thanos the Stone because it was the "only way."
So, yeah, everyone dying is somehow going exactly according to Strange's plan.
Unfortunately, since he didn't bother telling anyone what the plan was, it's going to be
pretty hard for the rest of the heroes to follow through on it, and with just a 1 in
14 million chance of getting it right, here's hoping luck is on their side.
What role will Captain Marvel play?
Like every Avengers film before it, Infinity War included a post-credits scene.
But rather than getting things in motion for 2019's Avengers 4, it seemed to be a standard
tease for 2019's Captain Marvel.
Kind of underwhelming, right?
But was that tease actually setting up Avengers 4 after all?
At one point in Infinity War, Thanos tells Gamora he'd already turned away from his destiny
once before.
Given that Captain Marvel is set in the 90s and comes out less than two months before
Avengers 4, could it actually be telling Thanos' backstory?
That would make sense considering that, in the comics, the original Captain Marvel was
Thanos' arch-enemy.
And setting up Brie Larson's Carol Danvers as the MCU's cosmic protector of the universe
would explain head honcho Kevin Fiege's comment that Captain Marvel would be, quote, "by far
the strongest character" they had ever introduced.
Which just leaves one more question: if Nick Fury had Captain Marvel on speed dial all
this time, why didn't he summon her when Thanos's minions invaded back in the first Avengers
movie?
There's a question we may never know the answer to.
What's the deal with the Hulk?
As cool as it was to see Bruce Banner inside the Hulkbuster armor, even using his big science
brain to defeat one of Thanos' minions, we have to wonder just what is going on with
the Hulk.
Banner himself seems to have no idea — the Hulk just doesn't want to come out, and straight
up refused when Banner tried to trigger his transformation on more than one occasion.
Is he afraid of getting another beatdown at Thanos' hands?
Or is something else going on here?
Could this be the start of a subplot that sees Banner's two halves merging to create
a Hulk with Banner's incredible intellect?
The smart Hulk has appeared in the comics before, but whether or not we'll see that
in Avengers 4 is still anyone's guess.
Where is Hawkeye, really?
For months, fans have been wondering why Hawkeye was so conspicuously absent from the posters
and trailers, even starting a Change.org petition to include him.
All sorts of theories have been flying, the main one being that he would be changing identities
to the sword-wielding Ronin.
Well, that could still happen in Avengers 4, but it didn't happen in Infinity War.
Instead, fans were treated to a single throwaway line stating that he and Ant-Man both took
plea deals after the events of Captain America: Civil War in order to protect their families.
Still, it's weird neither of them bothered to show up to fight Thanos.
And they aren't alone.
After making her breakout debut in Thor: Ragnarok, Valkyrie was nowhere to be seen in Infinity
War.
That puts her in great company with Thor's other badass lady friend, Sif, who vanished
after Thor: Dark World and hasn't even been mentioned since.
If the end of the universe isn't enough to bring these four heroes out of hiding, we
have to wonder...what is?
What happened to the dead?
Of course, it's possible that all those missing heroes we just mentioned are now dead, having
vanished into a pile of dust — or whatever that was — when Thanos wiped out half the
universe at the end of Avengers: Infinity War.
But exactly what happened to all those people?
Are they really gone forever, or could they actually be trapped right in plain sight?
In the comics, the Soul Gem often collects the souls of the dead and houses them in a
weird pocket universe — and sometimes, those souls get back out and return to life.
In the film, when Thanos uses the Infinity Gauntlet, he seems to momentarily step into
the Soul Stone to converse with Gamora's soul.
So could the rest of the untold trillions of souls also be housed inside the Stone,
waiting to be released and returned to life?
We'll just have to wait for Avengers 4 to see.
Wait, the Red Skull?!
Speaking of the Soul Stone, if you were totally gobsmacked when the guardian of the Soul Stone
turned out to be the Red Skull, well, you weren't alone.
While it answered the question of what actually happened to the Red Skull at the end of Captain
America: The First Avenger way back in 2011, it also raised some new questions.
Such as: whaaaaaat?!
So… how and why did the Red Skull end up getting tasked with being the guide to the
Soul Stone?
How did he apparently gain some kind of immortality to survive so long on this alien world?
Is he actually still alive himself, or has he become some kind of ghost or spirit?
And once Thanos took the Stone, what happened to the Red Skull?
Is he still there, guarding...nothing?
Was he released from his eternal bondage?
Sent back to Earth?
Seriously, what the heck happened there?
Now what?
Finally, the biggest question is also the most obvious: now what?
We know that in the Infinity War comics Thanos eventually allowed himself to be defeated
because he unconsciously didn't believe himself worthy.
As a result, Nebula was able to steal the gauntlet from him — and in turn, the gauntlet
was captured by the cosmic hero Adam Warlock, who used it to restore everything back to
the way it was and bring everyone back to life.
Warlock has so far only been hinted at in the post-credits scene of Guardians of the
Galaxy Vol. 2, so it seems unlikely that he'll play the same role in the MCU.
It's possible that Captain Marvel will fill that role instead, though, and Nebula could
still play her part, as she's still alive and out for blood.
So will the remaining heroes manage to get the Gauntlet and restore all their slain friends
to life in Avengers 4?
We know one thing for sure about all these unanswered questions: Fans are going to have
a lot of fun over the next year trying to guess the answers.
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