@therealsilvermane

I think the current deal Disney was able to make with Sony after the failure of Amazing Spider-Man 2 was probably the best deal Disney could get. Sony will never give up Spidey unless it's some kind of "buy it all" deal like Fox.

That's why Marvel Studios' lynchpin hero will be Captain Marvel. That's if we're to believe Kevin Feige and common sense.

Captain America and Iron Man were the reason the Avengers broke up in the first place. Maybe without those two egos butting heads now we'll have an Avengers team that actually gets along and fights bad guys instead of each other. Hmmm... And the only way RDJ comes back as Stark is as an AI. And I wouldn't be surprised if destroying all those multiverses is the next big event coming down the pipeline, which I think was the purpose of Secret War.

Ha ha ha...whatever. Carol Danvers is going to be leading the Avengers in the next movie and doesn't need an invite from Tony Stark's ghost.

It's interesting they put the "next Iron Man" line in. This is the last film in the Sony Spider-man deal that's publicly announced; it can't be Peter Parker unless.... a new extension was signed but not announced yet. That's possible I suppose to protect the IW cliff hanger. Woah, let's slow down a minute. Obviously Peter Parker isn't going to be the next Iron Man, literally or metaphorically. And he's not going to be Iron Spider going froward either. Spider-Man is Spider-Man, you know, the friendly neighborhood wall crawling web slinger. He's probably trying to protect the Iron Man tech or something.

So then wouldn't Bruce have seen Natasha in the Soul Stone then, just as Thanos saw young Gamora in the Stone in Infinity War? That might've been a good scene, or at least, a good moment.

I don't even know why I'm arguing this. I guess because it's better than working

For Disney's marketing and legal purposes, Carol is Captain Marvel. However, in the story so far, Carol Danvers isn't officially Captain Marvel yet. That name still belongs to Mar Vell. I'm assuming Nick Fury will call her that in the sequel and make it official. And Carol is totally an Avenger.

Natasha is never referred to as Black Widow by anybody in these movies, either, but that doesn't mean she isn't. If Carol Danvers, Rhodes, and co. were on mission, and reporting to Natasha (the only remaining active original MCU Avenger recognized legally by the World Council), then they were Avengers. There were no other active duty heroes left on Earth. And btw, Valkyrie, by joining in the big fight at the end, became an Avenger, too. But don't worry. For the next movie, after they move Avengers HQ to outer space, they'll sort it all out and pare down the team to a manageable roster and make Carol the leader.

Then why the heck were they all reporting to and taking orders from Natasha!? Reason: they were Avengers.

Uh, wait... besides the MCU canonical fact that "Avenger" was Capt. Carol Danvers' call sign in the Air Force, Carol Danvers was totally an Avenger in Endgame. After the Five Years Later time jump... we see that Natasha has assumed leadership of the Avengers and at HQ, we see the ragtag Avengers reporting the status of the universe to her, including Rocket, Nebula, James Rhodes, Okoye, and yes, Carol Danvers. And yes, they were officially Avengers. It was obvious Steve Rogers wasn't officially an Avenger (hadn't been since Civil War when he gave up the Shield), Barton was AWOL, Thor was "ruling" New Asgard, Bruce Banner was trying to figure out Hulk, and everybody else was "disappeared." So yeah, after five years, your current Avengers roster was Natasha as team leader, Rhodes, Rocket, Nebula, Okoye, and Carol Danvers. Ragtag and scattered, but still Avengers. In the MCU, if you fight with the Avengers, you essentially become a de facto Avenger. That's why Captain America, with the army of heroes behind him at the big finale fight, says "Avengers Assemble."

Carol Danvers was not a forced feed into Endgame. At the end of Infinity War, Nick Fury calls up his ace in the pocket because he knows the current Avengers team lost as he sees human beings disintegrate in front of him. He knows the team needed extra cosmic power to face whatever it was that beat them. And she did her job. She rescued Tony and Nebula when probably nobody else could. She gave them added muscle on the first Thanos meeting. And in the grand finale battle, she takes out Sanctuary 2 and stops Thanos from snapping his fingers again when he first gets the Gauntlet. Comic book legacy wise, perhaps the Marvel hero most connected to Thanos besides Adam Warlock and Iron Man, is probably Captain Marvel. Yes, Carol Danvers is not Mar-Vell, but for the purposes of the MCU, she represents Captain Marvel, so it's especially fitting that Marvel Studios saved the Avengers intro of "Captain Marvel" for the final fight against Thanos. She was actually supposed to make her Avengers debut in Age of Ultron, but that was thankfully scrubbed. It's important that the most cosmic Avenger makes her team debut in the final part of the Infinity Saga.

Thanos is also a winner. Like the Patriots, if you’re not cheating you’re not trying.

No, Ned’s reaction upon seeing Peter was more of lingering bewilderment like “wtf just happened?”

Good sportsmanship is a universal concept even Thanos understands.

Huge huge Godzilla fan here. But the American versions keep stinking it up, including the 2014 version (though it did okay at the box office). Then Japan shows the world how it's done with Shin Godzilla. That's how you do Godzilla. And the world can't get a sequel to that awesome movie until after this American sequel. I'll see it, but expectations are lowered. Godzilla is a metaphor for Japan and should only be a Japanese production, imo.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Wonder Woman. I just liked Captain Marvel better and thought it was a more feminist film for people who look for such things.

It's easy actually. The MCU, AS A WHOLE, is really the only extended super-hero movie universe that matters in the public consciousness. Wonder Woman doesn't threaten the traditional hierarchy of the MCU which have Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor as fan favorites. Black Panther and Captain Marvel do threaten that universe for some people. As a movie, Wonder Woman is also easier for non-feminist type folks to digest. In Wonder Woman, Steve Trevor still gets to mansplain to her, she still gets to be a love interest for Steve Trevor (and what's the purpose of a woman if she can't be a love interest?), she plays the proper straight man not only to Trevor but the other males in the movie who get to be messy, and Diana, above all, is still a princess. Carol Danvers is nobody's straight man, nobody's love interest, and certainly no princess.

I just got back from my third time seeing Endgame, and it has gotten better for me with each viewing. The level of detail in this movie is incredible. I can also say after having seen Endgame twice in true IMAX 3D (including today) and once in standard screen 3D, the only way to see Endgame is in true IMAX.

Like 99% serious

I'm not talking about "scenes", I'm talking about moments. When the guns point upwards towards a light behind the clouds, that was an awesome visual and story moment where people in the theater clapped or whispered "It's Captain Marvel!" Then when Carol bursts upwards from the exploding Sanctuary 2, more clapping from the audience, as that was another great visual MOMENT. There were several great visual moments throughout the entire 3 hour movie, and Carol Danvers had some of the strongest moments.

XXXX [WRONG ANSWER BUZZER SOUND] Sorry ianh, you failed today's hater test. If you don't like Thor Dark World, that doesn't mean you have to hate white men. But if you don't like Black Panther or Captain Marvel, the only two MCU movies not starring a white man, it is very possible to not like them because you have an agenda against cultural diversity. And for you to already equate BP and CM in any way with Dark World already makes your own agenda suspect. Then you mention that BP and CM needed help from a media agenda to push them. And 95% of folks who think the media has an evil agenda against the world I can tell where their politics lie. And then you bring in some Amy Schumer story as an example of people who don't think like you crying "you hate women" because you don't like her special, or Captain Marvel to complete the metaphor. Well here's the deal, Captain Marvel had made 1.1 billion worldwide. Some of that is definitely due to Endgame hype, some of it's due to the MCU brand, and a lot of it is because a lot of people loved the movie. I haven't met a single person in real life (I admit I don't know everybody) who didn't think Captain Marvel wasn't at least a good movie. I'm glad you enjoyed Endgame and that you were able to stomach EVEN Black Panther and Captain Marvel because they're part of a greater story, but your agenda against the latter two movies because of what they represent stands out like a sore thumb.

Mmm, when Carol arrives at the Benatar to save Tony, the way the filmmakers portrayed that was pretty cool, and I'd say a big cinematic moment in the movie. Not only was Tony saved, but the visual impact was incredible, with Carol being a metaphor for an angel. Her arrival I was referring to was at the end when the Sanctuary 2 was raining fire on everyone, and then the guns point skyward towards a ball of fire hurtling towards the planet aka Carol. That was pretty awesome story wise, and another big visually cinematic moment of the movie. And let's face it, Endgame was in part very much about its cinematic moments.

Poor Captain Marvel only saved Tony Stark and Nebula (and thereby saved the universe), inspired the ragtag Avengers to go get Thanos, singlehandedly destroyed Thanos’ Sanctuary 2 stopping the rain of fire, and prevented Thanos from snapping his fingers again with a cosmic pea knuckle, thus saving the universe again. Carol Danvers also has three of the big cinematic moments of the movie when she arrives to save Tony and Nebula like a space angel, when she arrives on Earth like a comet from heaven at the heroes’ darkest hour, and when she blasts through the Sanctuary 2 like a missile from hell. Captain Marvel ( strongest Avenger) > everybody.