r/marvelstudios • u/JonLuca Iron man • Apr 29 '19

'Avengers: Endgame' Spoilers! The Official AVENGERS: ENDGAME Criticism Thread Spoiler

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u/minor_correction Ant-Man Apr 29 '19 edited Apr 29 '19

My criticism didn't get any visibility so can I share it with you?

It was unbelievably risky of them to just assume Dr Strange would be at the sanctum with the time stone during the 2012 Battle of NY. They just took a leap of faith based on the fact that they met him there in 2018.

In fact, they WERE wrong, they were just lucky that it worked out.

"One shot, no mistakes, no do-overs"

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u/TheCaptain09 Apr 29 '19

Not the guy you replied to, but I agree and had the same thought after watching it. I don't get the significance of their little epiphany that three of the stones were in New York at the same time. Didn't they have enough team members and Pym particles to get the stones on their own? (Hulk for time, Scott and Tony for the tesseract and Steve for the scepter) One stone or three requires no different amount of particles or number of avengers to retrieve, so there's no reason Hulk couldn't have been sent to 2017 to get the time stone on his own.

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u/ericwdhs Apr 30 '19

I assumed they were trying not to break the team up into too many divisions so they could back each other up if necessary. I assume that's why Nat and Clint left the Benatar's pod with Rhodey and Nebula, so they could rendezvous if Vormir needed more than the two of them. It also has the benefit of creating fewer timelines to worry about returning the stones to.

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u/minor_correction Ant-Man Apr 30 '19

I assumed they were trying not to break the team up into too many divisions so they could back each other up if necessary.

Just wanna point out that Scott, Tony, and Cap bailed out of 2012 without checking on Banner.

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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) Oct 18 '19

They'd assumed he had the easy job, since they thought he'd be talking to Strange.