100 Fun Facts About Avengers: Endgame

Who directed Avengers: Endgame?

Anthony and Joe Russo came from TV comedy, having directed Community, and they gave its stars Ken Jeong and Yvette Nicole Brown cameos in the film.

Which film began the Marvel story that Endgame closed?

Iron Man opened the story in 2008, and Endgame ends it with Tony Stark's sacrifice, which the writers called 'a good death' after 'a heroic, finished life'.

Under what title did Marvel first announce Avengers: Endgame in October 2014?

Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2 lost its name in 2016 because the directors wanted to stop people thinking it was one film split in half.

Which time-travel film does Scott Lang glumly decide got it all wrong in Avengers: Endgame?

Back to the Future has it backwards, the film insists: changing the past cannot change your present. The writers said physicists they consulted told them the same.

How were Infinity War and Endgame shot, a first for Hollywood features?

Entirely on IMAX digital cameras meant a taller picture throughout in IMAX theaters, but home viewers got a cropped version until Disney+ added the IMAX ratio in 2021.

Who brings Tony Stark and Nebula home from deep space early in Avengers: Endgame?

Captain Marvel was new to Brie Larson too: she shot these Endgame scenes before making her own solo film, with no finished script for either.

After killing Thanos early in Avengers: Endgame, what does Thor say he went for?

'The head' answers Thanos's taunt from the previous film, when Thor's axe wounded him but did not stop him: 'You should've gone for the head.'

How long after Thanos's death does Scott Lang escape the Quantum Realm in Avengers: Endgame?

Five years pass for the world, but Lang lived only five hours in the Quantum Realm, and that mismatch gives the Avengers the idea of time travel.

In which country do Banner and Rocket find the despondent Thor in New Asgard?

Norway is only the setting: the scenes were filmed in the Scottish fishing village of St Abbs, which later put up signs twinning itself with New Asgard.

In which city does Natasha Romanoff find Clint Barton working as a vigilante in Avengers: Endgame?

Tokyo is where she tracks him down in the rain, cutting through gangsters because, as he tells one, they survived the Snap when half the planet did not.

Which past battle do four Avengers revisit in pursuit of three Infinity Stones?

Loki's 2012 attack goes wrong the second time too: the captured Loki grabs the Tesseract and vanishes, the escape that launches the Loki series.

Who hands over the Time Stone in Avengers: Endgame after a promise that every Stone will be returned?

The Ancient One refuses until she hears that Strange gave the Stone to Thanos willingly, which convinces her that Strange must have had a reason.

In Avengers: Endgame, which expectant father does Tony reassure without revealing who he is?

Howard Stark, sauerkraut and flowers in hand for his pregnant wife, never learns that the stranger calming his nerves is his own grown son.

Who gives Thor a pep talk when he revisits Asgard in Avengers: Endgame?

His mother, Frigga, cuts him off when he tries to warn her of her coming death: he has come to repair his future, she says, not hers.

On which planet do Barton and Romanoff seek the Soul Stone?

Vormir's keeper, the Red Skull, demands a loved one's life, so Barton and Romanoff fight each other for the right to be the one who jumps.

Who steals the Power Stone on Morag before Peter Quill can?

Nebula and Rhodes get the Stone, but Nebula's implants link with her 2014 self on the way out, showing the younger Thanos everything the Avengers plan.

Who uses the new gauntlet to undo Thanos's disintegrations?

Bruce Banner volunteers because the Stones give off mostly gamma radiation, the very thing that made him the Hulk, and even so the snap leaves him badly hurt.

Which weapon does Steve Rogers summon and wield against Thanos in Avengers: Endgame?

Mjolnir had been destroyed in Thor: Ragnarok, so the one Rogers swings is borrowed from 2013 Asgard and has to be returned along with the Stones.

Whom does Thor appoint as the new ruler of New Asgard?

Valkyrie is told that a leader is who she already is; Thor hands her New Asgard and leaves Earth aboard the Guardians of the Galaxy's ship.

To whom does the elderly Steve Rogers pass his shield?

Sam Wilson was always the filmmakers' pick for the shield, and the writers say they never meant to kill Steve Rogers: his arc was earning the right to put it down.

Which actor did the directors say was the only one sure to have read the whole Avengers: Endgame script?

Robert Downey Jr. was trusted with all of it, while Tom Holland, notorious for letting spoilers slip, was often not even told who he was acting opposite.

What nickname did Chris Hemsworth give his out-of-shape Thor on the set of Avengers: Endgame?

Lebowski Thor meant three hours of hair and makeup and a heavy silicone suit, yet Hemsworth fought to keep the look when Thor was meant to slim down mid-film.

The Hulk's merged form in Avengers: Endgame is based on which comic-book identity?

Professor Hulk is brains and brawn combined: eighteen months in a gamma lab, he says, is what it took to put the two together.

Which masked alter ego does a grieving Clint Barton adopt in Avengers: Endgame?

Ronin, the word for a samurai with no lord left to serve, suits an archer who swaps his bow for a sword once his family has vanished.

How does Morgan Stark answer when her father says 'Love you tons' at bedtime in Avengers: Endgame?

'Love you three thousand' comes back at the end, when Tony signs off the farewell hologram played at his funeral with the same words.

Stan Lee's final film cameo in Endgame has him digitally de-aged as what?

A car driver in 1970 shouting 'Make love, not war' let effects artists make Stan Lee look half his age; the directors called it his last cameo that made it to film.

What two words does Steve Rogers whisper to bluff the scepter away from Rumlow and Sitwell in Avengers: Endgame?

Hail Hydra works because both men are secret Hydra agents; the writers leaned on viewers expecting a rerun of The Winter Soldier's elevator fight.

Which Agent Carter character appears in Avengers: Endgame, the first MCU TV character to reach the films?

Edwin Jarvis is the Stark family butler whose name Tony later gave his first A.I.; James D'Arcy came back to play him for one brief scene.

Which Marvel oddity makes a blink-and-miss, non-speaking cameo in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame?

Howard the Duck was added about three days before effects work ended, after one of the directors asked the VFX team whether they could slip him through a portal.

Which radio line tells Steve Rogers the vanished are back in Avengers: Endgame?

'On your left' throws back the taunt Steve used while lapping a new friend on a morning run in The Winter Soldier; that friend now leads the cavalry in.

Which English cathedral, also a Hogwarts filming location, stood in for Asgard in Avengers: Endgame?

Durham Cathedral closed to visitors for the shoot in May 2017, during the previous film's production, so its Asgard scenes waited two years to reach cinemas.

Who composed the score of Avengers: Endgame, including 'Portals' for the heroes' big return?

Alan Silvestri was told by the directors not to fear bold choices, and they credit his score with making the big return at the end land so well.

Which song from Guardians of the Galaxy does Peter Quill dance to again on Morag in Avengers: Endgame?

Come and Get Your Love replays Quill's dance from 2014, but now two time-travelling Avengers watch from behind a rock and agree he is an idiot.

What does Morgan Stark ask Happy Hogan for after her father's funeral in Avengers: Endgame?

Cheeseburgers were what Tony himself went for after his rescue from captivity in his first film, so a choked-up Happy promises her all she wants.

Which actress was left off the top billing of the Avengers: Endgame poster, prompting a fan outcry?

Danai Gurira was pictured on the poster but named only in the small print; after fans protested, Marvel put out a corrected version the same day.

Where did Avengers: Endgame hold its world premiere, on a 70-foot screen built for the night?

Los Angeles Convention Center had space for 2,000 guests, more than the largest cinemas in Hollywood can seat, so Disney spent a week building a theater inside it.

Which country supplied about $330 million of Avengers: Endgame's $1.2 billion worldwide opening weekend?

China had been missing from the old record: the previous Avengers film opened there two weeks after the rest of the world, so its first weekend counted no Chinese ticket sales.

Which animal accidentally frees Scott Lang from the Quantum Realm in Endgame?

A rat wanders onto the controls of the van in a storage unit and trips the switch; the filmmakers joke that the rat who saved the universe could return.

Which film retook the all-time box-office crown from Endgame in March 2021?

Avatar regained the record through a 2021 re-release, and the crown changed hands again in October 2026, when Endgame's own return to theaters put it back on top.

Who flies into the final battle of Avengers: Endgame wearing the 'Rescue' armor?

Pepper Potts gets the suit as an anniversary gift from Tony; early in the film their daughter is caught playing in the woods with its helmet.

Which action sequel ended Avengers: Endgame's three-week run at number one in North America?

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum took first place on its opening weekend, and the very next day Lionsgate texted fans to announce a fourth film.

Avengers: Endgame's June 2019 re-release added a sneak peek at the start of which upcoming Marvel film?

Spider-Man: Far From Home opened days later; its opening scene joined a Stan Lee tribute after the credits, and Endgame's weekend takings jumped 207 percent.

Before Endgame, which Marvel Studios film besides The Avengers had earned an A+ CinemaScore?

Black Panther earned it in 2018; the Avengers film released two months after it, which ends with the heroes losing, got only an A.

For which Academy Award was Endgame nominated?

Best Visual Effects was its one Oscar nomination, and it lost to the war film 1917, so the highest-grossing film of 2019 went home with nothing.

What distinction did the Wikipedia article on Avengers: Endgame earn in 2019?

Most-viewed article of the year, with about 44 million views: readers in 2019 kept looking up what they had just watched, from Ted Bundy to Chernobyl.

With whom does Steve Rogers finally share a dance in the last scene of Avengers: Endgame?

Peggy Carter gets the dance Steve promised her back in the 1940s; the writers say that ending was in their very first outline.

Under what subtitle did Avengers: Endgame return to theaters in September 2026?

Encore came with an exclusive preview of the next Avengers film, and within two weekends its takings had made Endgame the highest-grossing film ever again.

Which villain replaced Kang as the antagonist of the fifth Avengers film, as announced at Comic-Con in 2024?

Doctor Doom came with a twist announced at the same event: he is played by the actor who had been Tony Stark since 2008.

Which future Shōgun star plays the crime boss cut down in a rain-soaked sword duel in Avengers: Endgame?

Hiroyuki Sanada gets one scene as Akihiko, pleading in subtitled Japanese that his gang never wronged the masked swordsman, who kills him anyway.

Avengers: Endgame's writers, Markus and McFeely, had earlier written all three films in which Marvel series?

Captain America's three films were theirs; for Endgame they took a scene first written for the previous film, Barton's family vanishing, and made it the opening.

Which animal accidentally frees Scott Lang from the Quantum Realm in Avengers: Endgame?

A rat inadvertently switches on the quantum tunnel in a van left in a storage warehouse, so the plan that saves the universe begins with a rodent's lucky misstep.

To keep it secret, Tony Stark's funeral in Avengers: Endgame was labelled as what kind of event?

A wedding was the cover story: the scene was labelled The Wedding for production, and at least Tom Holland and Sebastian Stan were told that was what they were shooting.

What personal touch accompanies each of the original six actors in the Avengers: Endgame credits?

Their signature appears over footage of the character, an idea from producer Kevin Feige, and the credits break with custom by saving the top-billed stars for last.

Which Captain America villain reappears in Avengers: Endgame as the keeper of the Soul Stone?

Red Skull was voiced not by original actor Hugo Weaving but by Ross Marquand, an impressionist who shot his scenes for two Avengers films in a single day.

Which actor plays Thanos through both voice and motion capture in Avengers: Endgame?

Josh Brolin could not always be on set, so one of the directors stood in for the villain in some scenes, wearing a headpiece with Thanos's head on cardboard.

Adjusted for inflation, which classic outgrosses Avengers: Endgame as history's top-earning film?

Gone with the Wind, from 1939, remains the highest-grossing film ever once inflation is counted, so the superhero finale's record applied only to unadjusted takings.

Which hero arrives late to the final battle of Avengers: Endgame and destroys Thanos's warship?

Captain Marvel gets little screen time by design: the writers feared so powerful a newcomer would take over a film meant as a farewell to the original Avengers.

Later Marvel films give what name to the mass disappearance undone in Avengers: Endgame?

The Blip is the name later stories use for both snaps and the years between them, although Kevin Feige said it strictly meant only the snap that brought everyone back.

Which German carmaker, a promotional partner, placed its electric GT concept in Avengers: Endgame?

Audi was one of more than a dozen promotional partners in a marketing campaign that cost over $200 million, then the most for any Marvel Studios film.

Which country gave Avengers: Endgame its biggest opening outside North America, over $330 million?

China delivered a record first day of $107.5 million, helped by screenings at midnight, 3 am and 6 am, and within a week the film was its top-grossing foreign release.

Which time-travel film, scored by the composer of Avengers: Endgame, do its heroes mock?

Back to the Future is dismissed on screen because the heroes' rules say that changing the past cannot alter their present; it only creates an alternate reality.

What is the name of the axe Thor carries in Avengers: Endgame after losing his original hammer?

Stormbreaker replaced the hammer destroyed in Thor: Ragnarok, though a trip into Asgard's past lets the god of thunder reclaim that older weapon as well.

From which character does Rocket extract the Reality Stone on Asgard in Avengers: Endgame?

Jane Foster is carrying the stone in the form earlier films called the Aether, so the mission to Asgard is less a theft than an extraction from a person.

Which actress plays Natasha Romanoff, a role she first took in Iron Man 2, in Avengers: Endgame?

Scarlett Johansson's spy does not survive the film: the writers felt her journey was complete once she could give her life to bring the Avengers family back.

Which Hollywood star voices Rocket, the raccoon-like bounty hunter, in Avengers: Endgame?

Bradley Cooper supplies only the voice; on set the character is performed by Sean Gunn, whose acting and expressions give the animators their reference.

Which actor's face was captured in pore-level detail to create the Hulk of Avengers: Endgame?

Mark Ruffalo's Hulk was the first character in a cinema release captured with Anyma, an effects system that reads the skin itself rather than dots glued to the face.

The title of Avengers: Endgame echoes a line said to Tony Stark in Infinity War by which character?

Doctor Strange supplies the word, but Marvel kept the title secret until the first trailer in December 2018 for fear of giving away the plot.

Clint Barton's sword-wielding vigilante in Avengers: Endgame borrows which identity from the comics?

Ronin is the name he takes in his grief, violently dismantling organised crime around the world after his family vanishes.

Thanos, the warlord finally defeated in Avengers: Endgame, comes from which ruined homeworld?

Titan was designed to look as unlike Wakanda as possible, so that audiences would not confuse the two when the previous film cut between its battlefields.

Which actor, director of the first two Iron Man films, plays Happy Hogan in Avengers: Endgame?

Jon Favreau was also an executive producer here, as on the earlier Avengers films, so the director of the very first MCU film helped close its opening saga.

Which actress, self-declared done with Marvel, returns in Avengers: Endgame via unused old footage?

Natalie Portman's astrophysicist was pieced together from a deleted scene of Thor: The Dark World, plus a single line of dialogue she recorded specially.

In Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers takes the Mind Stone from sleeper agents of which organisation?

Hydra's ranks in the film include Brock Rumlow, whose actor Frank Grillo hung up on the directors before his son persuaded him to come back.

From which scientist does Steve Rogers steal particles for the trip home in Avengers: Endgame?

Hank Pym's technology solved the writers' biggest problem: they spent weeks stuck on how to beat Thanos before an Ant-Man sequel offered a route through time.

Which screen legend returns as Alexander Pierce in the New York scenes of Avengers: Endgame?

Robert Redford had planned to retire after The Old Man & the Gun, so the writers considered giving his part of the scene to Nick Fury and Maria Hill instead.

Which actress returns as Peggy Carter to share a long-promised dance in Avengers: Endgame?

Hayley Atwell's return was the idea of producer Nate Moore, who suggested the hero travel back to the 1940s instead of dying alongside Tony Stark.

Which Community star cameos as the storage facility guard in Avengers: Endgame?

Ken Jeong continued a running gag: the directors, who worked on Community, had already slipped Danny Pudi and Jim Rash into earlier Marvel films.

Which director of Thor: Ragnarok reprises his own role as Korg in Avengers: Endgame?

Taika Waititi shaped more than a cameo: he was brought in to advise the writers on the comic tone his film had given Thor, which forced big script rewrites.

What is the comic-book name of the armour Pepper Potts wears into battle in Avengers: Endgame?

Rescue was built by Tony Stark for his wife, and Gwyneth Paltrow said the film would be her final major appearance in the MCU.

Avengers: Endgame was shot mainly at a Pinewood studio complex outside which American city?

Atlanta also supplied the Avengers Compound, played partly by the Porsche Experience Center and an empty conference room in a semi-abandoned airport hotel.

The score of Avengers: Endgame was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at which studio?

Abbey Road sessions came so late that the editors first cut the film to the composer's earlier scores, laid in as temporary music.

Which 1970s television series was the reference for de-aging Michael Douglas in Avengers: Endgame?

The Streets of San Francisco showed the effects artists a young Michael Douglas, one of some 200 shots in the film that make actors look younger or older.

Which actress filmed a scene as an older Morgan Stark that was cut from Avengers: Endgame?

Katherine Langford was to appear in a vision Tony Stark has after his snap, but the directors felt the moment would be too confusing.

Which out-of-contract actress was coaxed back for Avengers: Endgame by a pitch for her own series?

Elizabeth Olsen had completed her three-film deal, so Kevin Feige won her over by describing WandaVision, the series then planned for Disney+.

Which Guardians of the Galaxy star let slip an internal title for Avengers: Endgame in 2017?

Zoe Saldaña called the film Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet, the name used inside the studio, more than a year before the real title was announced.

In which country is St Abbs, the village that doubles for New Asgard in Avengers: Endgame?

Scotland's St Abbs was filmed in natural light, unlike most of the film, to set the refugees' village apart from the otherworldly settings elsewhere.

Camp Lehigh, the army base revisited in Avengers: Endgame, lies in which US state?

New Jersey's fictional town of Wheaton holds the base, a wartime army camp later taken over by S.H.I.E.L.D., which is how the heroes find both a stone and a scientist there.

Which Styne and Cahn standard from an earlier Captain America film returns in Avengers: Endgame?

It's Been a Long, Long Time accompanies the dance Steve Rogers promised Peggy Carter back in The First Avenger, a debt the writers always meant him to pay.

Which country's government was alleged to have delayed Avengers: Endgame to promote local films?

Russia saw the film open on April 29, days after most of the world, and Radio Liberty alleged the postponement was meant to help home-grown releases.

Avengers: Endgame broke Fandango's first-day pre-sale record in six hours; which film had held it?

The Force Awakens also lost its overall pre-sale crown the day before release, by which point more than 8,000 showtimes had sold out.

A rejected plan to kill all six original heroes of Avengers: Endgame echoed which Pixar film?

Toy Story 3's incinerator scene was Kevin Feige's model, but the directors refused, arguing fans could not process that much loss in one film.

Tony Stark's farewell in Avengers: Endgame was modelled on the hero's send-off in which X-Men series film?

Logan was the blueprint because Kevin Feige admired how it retired Hugh Jackman's hero, and the writers had known since about October 2015 that Stark would die.

Which comic-book creator of Thanos appears in Avengers: Endgame as a grieving man?

Jim Starlin had complained publicly about his pay for the Guardians of the Galaxy films, then negotiated higher fees for his villain's two Avengers outings.

Which actor plays Tony Stark's father, met by his time-travelling son, in Avengers: Endgame?

John Slattery's scene mattered to the writers, who called a son making peace with his father the last piece of unfinished emotional business in the hero's life.

The screenwriters of Avengers: Endgame earlier adapted which series of fantasy novels for film?

The Chronicles of Narnia films set the writing duo up for Marvel, where they scripted the first three Captain America films before the two Avengers finales.

Which Guardians of the Galaxy ship carries the heroes to Thanos's refuge in Avengers: Endgame?

The Benatar is named after rock singer Pat Benatar, and became the Guardians' craft after their first ship, the Milano, was badly damaged.

Tony Stark and Scott Lang bungle the theft of which Space Stone relic in Avengers: Endgame?

The Tesseract ends up escaping with a captured villain, which forces a riskier second jump further into the past to find the cube at an army camp.

Which hero nearly kills Thanos alone in Avengers: Endgame until he calls down fire from his ship?

Scarlet Witch has a grudge the villain cannot grasp: this Thanos has come from 2014 and has not yet killed Vision, so he does not even know her.

War Machine's Mark VII suit in the final battle of Avengers: Endgame goes by which name?

Iron Patriot was one of several suits planned for the character; an underwater sequence in which another dissolved in acidic water was cut.

In Avengers: Endgame, the Hulk bargains for the Time Stone at which mystical stronghold?

Sanctum Sanctorum scenes grew in reshoots: once key time-travel rules had changed, a moment was added in which a visual timeline shows the cost of failure.

Okoye, seen in Avengers: Endgame, is the general of which elite group of Wakandan women warriors?

The Dora Milaje wear armour based mostly on the dress of the Maasai people, with touches borrowed from samurai, ninjas and the Ifugao of the Philippines.