100 Fun Facts About Avengers: Infinity War

Which Avenger never appears in Infinity War, having taken a house-arrest deal after Civil War?

Hawkeye. When Banner asks where Clint is, Natasha says he and Scott Lang took a deal after the Accords because life on the run was too hard on their families.

Which MCU film came next after Infinity War?

Ant-Man and the Wasp. In its mid-credits scene the Snap turns Hank, Janet and Hope to dust while Scott Lang is inside the Quantum Realm, stranding him with nobody to pull him out.

Which Infinity Stone does Thanos already hold when Infinity War opens?

The Power Stone. Thor says Thanos stole it a week earlier, when he decimated the planet Xandar, and the Space Stone follows within minutes of the film's opening.

Which character calls himself 'Odinson' just before Thanos kills him in Infinity War's opening sequence?

Loki. Tom Hiddleston was told about the death in May 2016, so he played all of Thor: Ragnarok knowing how the character's story would end.

Who uses his dying act to send the Hulk to Earth in Infinity War?

Heimdall. Too wounded to stand, he summons the Bifröst one last time to carry the Hulk to safety, and Thanos kills him for it.

Where does the Hulk crash-land on Earth at the start of Infinity War?

The Sanctum Sanctorum. He smashes into Doctor Strange's New York base, turns back into Bruce Banner and gasps a warning to Strange and Wong: 'Thanos is coming.'

Which of Thanos's Children captures Doctor Strange in New York and carries him off into space?

Ebony Maw. Stark and Parker stow away on his ship and kill him by blasting a hole in its side, a trick Parker borrows from the film Aliens.

Why can't Thanos's henchman take Doctor Strange's stone?

The sorcerer has placed an enchantment on it. Strange calls the spell simple but quite unbreakable, and warns that lifting it from a dead man would be troublesome.

Where does Thor go with two of the Guardians to forge a new weapon?

Nidavellir. Thor finds the dwarves' forge dark and frozen: Thanos made them build his gauntlet, then killed all of them but their king.

What is the name of the axe Thor forges in Infinity War?

Stormbreaker. When no handle can be found for the red-hot axe head, Groot wraps his own arm around it and cuts the arm off.

Who plays Eitri, king of the dwarves, in Infinity War?

Peter Dinklage. The Game of Thrones star was filmed separately against blue screens and scaled up, so the dwarf king is a giant who towers over Thor.

In Infinity War, who is the keeper of the Soul Stone on Vormir?

Red Skull. Flung into space at the end of the first Captain America film, he says the stone he once held banished him to Vormir to guide others to it.

Whom does Thanos sacrifice to gain the Soul Stone in Infinity War?

Gamora. She laughs that he has failed because he loves no one, then sees his tears and realises that the one he loves is her.

In which city do two of Thanos's Children ambush Wanda and Vision in Infinity War?

Edinburgh. The pair have slipped away to live there quietly, Vision disguised as a human, when the attack comes and old teammates arrive to pull them out.

In Infinity War, who works to remove the Mind Stone from Vision as the battle of Wakanda rages?

Shuri. She asks why Banner and Stark didn't simply reprogram the synapses to work collectively, then warns her brother the job needs time, which Thanos's army never gives her.

What name have the Wakandans given Bucky Barnes by the time of Infinity War?

White Wolf. T'Challa uses the name as his soldiers hand Barnes a new arm before the battle: 'the White Wolf has rested long enough.'

Where do Stark, Parker and Strange crash-land and meet Quill, Drax and Mantis?

Titan. It is Thanos's ruined homeworld: he says it starved after its people called him a madman for proposing to kill half of them at random.

Doctor Strange views 14,000,605 possible futures in Infinity War, but in how many do the Avengers win?

One. Strange lives through every outcome in a few seconds, and when Stark asks how many they won, he pauses before giving the number.

In Infinity War, whose outburst lets Thanos break free just as the heroes nearly pull off his gauntlet?

Peter Quill's. Mantis has Thanos in a trance and the gauntlet is almost off when Quill, hearing what happened on Vormir, pistol-whips him awake.

What does Doctor Strange trade to save Tony Stark's life in Infinity War?

The Time Stone. Strange had sworn he would let Stark die before giving it up, so the surrender baffles the man he saves: 'Why would you do that?'

Why does Banner fight in the Hulkbuster armour in Infinity War's final battle?

The Hulk refuses to come out. Joe Russo said he is not simply scared after losing to Thanos: he has had enough of being summoned only to win Banner's fights.

In Infinity War, who destroys Vision and the Mind Stone, only for Thanos to reverse it?

Wanda Maximoff. Vision talks her into it as Thanos closes in, and she shatters the stone while holding him back, only for him to undo her work and tear it out.

Which of these characters survives the Snap at the end of Infinity War?

Rocket. Groot crumbles to dust in front of him, and Quill, Drax and Mantis vanish too, leaving him without a single crewmate.

What does Nick Fury do in Infinity War's post-credits scene just before he disintegrates?

Sends a signal on a modified pager. As he turns to dust the screen shows a red-and-blue star, the insignia of Captain Marvel, whose own film followed a year later.

Where is Thanos in Infinity War's last scene before the credits?

Watching a sunrise on a remote planet. It is the reward he promised himself earlier in the film: to finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe.

Footage of which Philippine landmark is the backdrop for Thanos's final scene in Infinity War?

The Banaue Rice Terraces. No actor went there: Marvel acquired footage and added Thanos digitally, echoing the comic's ending, where he retires to live as a farmer.

Who plays Thanos in Infinity War?

Josh Brolin. He expected to be little more than a prop for the effects team, and ended up preferring the part to playing Cable in Deadpool 2 the same year.

Infinity War's Thanos actor compared the villain, born deformed and shunned, to which literary character?

Quasimodo. He called Thanos 'the Quasimodo of this time' and likened him to the murderer in the novel Perfume, saying that being the anomaly in his family 'lent to this apparent insanity'.

The directors said Infinity War, with Thanos chasing six prizes, borrows from which 1990s film genre?

Heist films. Joe Russo described Thanos as being on a smash-and-grab for the six stones, with everybody else trying to catch up for the whole movie.

What reason did the directors give for dropping 'Part 1' from Infinity War's title in 2016?

They were two different films. The brothers called the 'Part 1' and 'Part 2' labels misleading, so the sequel sat on Disney's schedule as an untitled Avengers film.

Infinity War received a single Oscar nomination, in which category?

Best Visual Effects. Even a motion-captured Thanos at the centre of the film was not enough to win it: the Oscar went to the Neil Armstrong drama First Man.

Infinity War was the first Hollywood feature shot entirely with which company's digital cameras?

IMAX. The taller picture stayed in IMAX cinemas, though: the home release carried only the cropped widescreen version, which the directors would describe only as complicated.

Which Matrix star's old MCU role is voiced by a mimic in Infinity War?

Hugo Weaving. He had said he had 'done my dash' with that sort of film, and Ross Marquand of The Walking Dead, a gifted mimic, voiced the villain in his place.

What is Stan Lee's cameo in Infinity War?

Peter Parker's school bus driver. He scolds the gawping students for acting as if they had never seen a spaceship before, in what Lee called his funniest cameo of all.

Which Arrested Development character, painted blue, appears as a specimen in the Collector's collection in Infinity War?

Tobias Fünke. The Russos, who made their names on the sitcom, asked David Cross to play him again, but a scheduling clash left an uncredited extra under the paint.

Which former Thor director has an uncredited voice cameo as the Asgardian distress caller in Infinity War?

Kenneth Branagh. His is the first voice heard: late in editing, the directors asked the man who made the first Thor film to record the distress call over the Marvel logo.

Who coached Tom Holland through Spider-Man's death scene in Infinity War, which the script had made much shorter?

Robert Downey Jr. The script gave Parker only a couple of short lines before he vanished, and Downey kept pushing Holland to play a child using all his strength to fight going.

Which Infinity War cast members improvised war chants on set before the final battle?

Chadwick Boseman and the Black Panther actors. Winston Duke began the chants and Boseman led the reply, startling directors who had not yet seen any of Black Panther.

Which hero did an early Infinity War draft hold back until the final battle, a plan colleagues called 'insane'?

Steve Rogers. His first scene would have been the tackle that saves Vision in Wakanda, but the writers admitted that keeping him underground that long was not satisfying.

Which actress, pregnant during the Infinity War shoot, mainly did facial capture for her Black Order villain?

Carrie Coon. What began as a voice audition for Proxima Midnight grew into facial capture in Atlanta, while stuntwoman Monique Ganderton played the body on set.

Who composed Infinity War's score, returning from the first Avengers film?

Alan Silvestri. He and the directors agreed that quoting every hero's own theme would be a distraction, so only Black Panther's music gets a nod, as the team reaches Wakanda.

Infinity War was the first superhero film to pass which box-office milestone?

$2 billion. Only three films of any kind had got there before, and Infinity War needed just 48 days, though its own sequel, Endgame, went on to outgross it.

Roughly how much did Infinity War take worldwide in its opening weekend?

$640 million. That beat The Fate of the Furious by about $100 million, and the record stood for a year, until its own sequel, Endgame, nearly doubled it.

Infinity War reached $1 billion worldwide in 11 days, beating which film's record by a day?

The Force Awakens. The Star Wars film had needed 12 days, and Infinity War's mark fell within a year, when Endgame took more than $1 billion in its opening weekend alone.

What animal does Thor keep calling Rocket in Infinity War?

Rabbit. Rocket's puzzled 'Rabbit?' goes unanswered, but he lets it pass once Thor declares him the smartest of the crew and assumes he must be its captain.

On which TV show did Infinity War's first teaser trailer debut in November 2017?

Good Morning America. The show airs on ABC, which like Marvel belongs to Disney, and within 24 hours the trailer had 230 million views, the most of any trailer up to then.

Which video game added a limited-time Infinity War mode letting players become Thanos, at the directors' own suggestion?

Fortnite Battle Royale. The Russos played it on breaks from editing the film, rang Epic's creative director out of the blue, and had the outline of the mode within an hour.

What did the moderators of the subreddit r/thanosdidnothingwrong do in July 2018?

Banned half of its 700,000 members at random. More than 300,000 accounts went, Anthony Russo's among them though his brother Joe survived, and the banned regrouped in r/InTheSoulStone.

Which country was Infinity War's largest market outside the U.S. and Canada?

China. The film opened there two weeks after the rest of the world, and when its allotted month in cinemas ran out it was granted a rare 30-day extension.

A fan set a 2018 Guinness record by watching Infinity War in cinemas how many times?

103. The streak won Tony 'Nem' Mitchell an invitation from the directors to the Endgame premiere, and a year later an Endgame fan matched his total within two months.

In Infinity War, which Guardian of the Galaxy gives up a limb to make the handle of Thor's new axe?

Groot finishes the weapon with a piece of his own wooden body, and the completed axe heals Thor, left barely alive by the strain of forging it.

Infinity War's Tony Stark and Doctor Strange actors have both played which detective, a joke the directors left out?

Sherlock Holmes was kept out of the pair's first meeting because the directors felt a meta joke only works for fans of other films. One actor played him in two films, the other on television.

Which 1980s sci-fi film does Peter Parker cite in Infinity War as the model for rescuing Doctor Strange?

Aliens ends with its monster queen expelled into space through an airlock, and Parker and Tony Stark copy the trick to get rid of the sorcerer's captor.

In Infinity War, Thanos uses the Reality Stone to make a Guardian's blaster fire what instead of energy bolts?

Bubbles drift out of the gun when its owner pulls the trigger; moments earlier the same stone had turned Drax to rocks and Mantis into ribbon strips.

During the fight on Thanos's ruined homeworld in Infinity War, what does the villain drag down and hurl at the heroes?

A moon is thrown at the group, after which Peter Parker rescues four unconscious allies, among them Drax and Mantis.

In Infinity War, which problem does Thanos say wrecked his homeworld and justifies wiping out half of all life?

Overpopulation is what he blames for the destruction of his own world, a fate he has vowed never to let the wider universe repeat.

Infinity War's post-credits scene ends on the emblem of which hero, who had yet to appear in the film series?

The Captain Marvel logo was the directors' one small "button" on a bleak ending; they had considered running no post-credits scene at all.

Which missing body part does Thor replace in Infinity War with a cybernetic spare from one of the Guardians?

An eye had been lost in battle with his sister one film earlier; the cybernetic replacement turns up during the trip to forge his new axe.

Where does Thor's axe strike Thanos in Infinity War, just before the villain says he 'should have gone for the head'?

The chest wound is severe but not fatal, which leaves Thanos able to snap his fingers and teleport away.

Which relic, stolen in the first Avengers film, holds the Space Stone that Thanos takes as Infinity War opens?

The Tesseract is handed over to save Thor's life, and Thanos takes the stone from inside it before destroying the refugees' ship.

Infinity War opens aboard a refugee ship, picking up from the mid-credits scene of which earlier film?

Thor: Ragnarok ends with a huge spacecraft looming over the Asgardians' ship; Infinity War reveals it as Thanos's vessel, come for the stone on board.

In Infinity War, Thanos tortures which captive until her sister reveals where the Soul Stone is hidden?

Nebula had been caught after trying to kill Thanos; once the stone's location is given up, she escapes and calls the Guardians to his ruined homeworld.

Which Avenger defies Thaddeus Ross's order to arrest Captain America's fugitive team in Infinity War?

James Rhodes, by then disillusioned with the Accords, ignores the order and flies to Wakanda with the fugitives instead.

In which country did Infinity War open on nearly 2,000 screens in four languages, then a Hollywood record there?

India gave it the biggest release any Hollywood film had received there, and it became the first Hollywood film to earn more than two billion rupees net in the country.

Which sequel took Infinity War's record for the biggest worldwide opening weekend a year later?

Avengers: Endgame opened to more than $1.2 billion; the two films were shot back-to-back, so most of the record-breaker had been filmed before its predecessor came out.

Which suit is sent to protect Peter Parker as he rides a departing spaceship into the sky in Infinity War?

The Iron Spider armour is launched by Tony Stark as he flies to the rescue; it had first been seen in the previous Spider-Man film.

Which sibling duo, fresh from two Captain America films, directed Infinity War?

The Russo brothers had directed The Winter Soldier and Civil War for Marvel, after working on the TV comedies Arrested Development and Community.

What colour is the Soul Stone, the last of the six Infinity Stones to reach the screen, in Infinity War?

Orange marks the Soul Stone on screen, but in the original comics the Soul gem was green; Marvel later recoloured its comics to match the films.

Which Marvel Studios president produced Infinity War and called Thanos almost its main character?

Kevin Feige said you could almost go so far as to call the villain the main character, and Thanos does lead the whole cast in screen time.

What does T'Challa present to Bucky Barnes in Infinity War shortly before the battle of Wakanda begins?

A new arm made of vibranium is delivered to the farm in Wakanda where Barnes has been living, in time for him to join the battle.

Where in New York is Tony Stark discussing children with Pepper Potts when Doctor Strange finds him in Infinity War?

Central Park is where the sorcerer congratulates Stark on his proposal to Potts, then asks him to come along and hear a warning about Thanos.

Which leader of the Dora Milaje fights beside T'Challa in Infinity War and is left standing after the Snap?

Okoye is still standing on the Wakandan battlefield when the dust settles, while her king turns to dust in front of her.

On which mining colony, built inside a giant severed head, does Thanos seize the Reality Stone in Infinity War?

Knowhere is already destroyed when the Guardians arrive; the calm scene they walk into is an illusion Thanos has made with the stone he came for.

Tony Stark's new armour in Infinity War forms by moving around his body; what is the suit made up of?

Nanobots make up the Mark 50 suit, an effect its animators spent about two years developing with Marvel.

In Infinity War, the forge where Thor's new axe is cast draws its heat from what?

A dying star sits at the heart of the dwarves' forge, because the metal uru is so strong that nothing cooler can melt it.

In which US state, whose capital doubled for part of New York, did Infinity War begin filming?

Georgia hosted the shoot at a studio in Fayette County from January 2017, and the sequel followed on the same stages that August.

Infinity War belongs to which numbered chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, opened by Captain America: Civil War?

Phase 3 ran from 2016 to 2019 and closed with Spider-Man: Far From Home, completing what Marvel calls the Infinity Saga.

Which director of the first two Avengers films declined to return for Infinity War, citing its enormous scale?

Joss Whedon was asked to write the film but turned it down; it had been his idea to slip Thanos into the series in the first place, back in 2012.

Which Guardians of the Galaxy actor sat in a sauna after each day of filming Infinity War to remove the day's makeup?

Dave Bautista plays Drax, and said he had not been given a script even on the day before his first scenes were shot.

The actor behind Thanos played which time-travelling soldier in another superhero film weeks after Infinity War?

Cable appears in Deadpool 2, but the actor said he preferred playing Thanos because of the amount of work that went into creating the character.

Which former deputy director of S.H.I.E.L.D. turns to dust beside Nick Fury in Infinity War's post-credits scene?

Maria Hill is an uncredited cameo for Cobie Smulders, and the effects team drew on digital models of both actors made for an earlier film.

At which London recording venue was Infinity War's score recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra?

Abbey Road Studios hosted the sessions from January to late March 2018, with the composer balancing what he called quick shifts in tone.

In the comic that inspired Infinity War, Thanos erases half of all life to win the affection of which cosmic being?

Mistress Death, mortality in living form, kept rejecting him in the comic; the film's writers dropped her and gave Thanos scenes with his daughter instead.

Infinity War's working title, Mary Lou, saluted a star of which sport because the makers hoped to 'stick the landing'?

Gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton was the reference, and the follow-up film was then shot under the title Mary Lou 2.

Which landmark was lit up every night for a week as a countdown to Infinity War's release?

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai carried the display, part of a campaign on which the studio spent an estimated $150 million.

Thaddeus Ross, first seen in The Incredible Hulk, holds which US cabinet post in Infinity War?

Secretary of State is the job William Hurt's character holds here, and one of the film's screenwriters makes a cameo as his aide.

Whose scene as Tony Stark's friend Happy Hogan was cut from Infinity War, though he stayed on as executive producer?

Jon Favreau's cut scene also featured one of the film's directors as a paparazzo; Favreau had launched the whole series by directing the first Iron Man.

What name is given to the foot soldiers that Thanos's lieutenants unleash on Wakanda in Infinity War?

Outriders are led into the battle by two of Thanos's lieutenants; an earlier army acting for him, the Chitauri, had invaded New York in 2012.

From which planet, home of the Nova Corps, did Thanos take his first Infinity Stone before Infinity War begins?

Xandar is the world the Guardians saved in their first film, where they left the stone in the Nova Corps' keeping.

Which song, chosen by James Gunn, plays as the Guardians of the Galaxy first appear in Infinity War?

The Rubberband Man, by the Spinners, is their opening song; the Guardians' own director also supplied at least one joke for the team's scenes.

Which comics writer created Thanos and wrote the 1991 series that Infinity War draws on?

Jim Starlin also created Drax, and negotiated higher pay for the villain's film appearances after complaining publicly about his earlier fees.

Which future Barbie actress plays Thanos's adopted daughter as a child in Infinity War's flashback?

Ariana Greenblatt appears twice: in the flashback, and again as the child Thanos meets in a vision straight after the Snap.

Infinity War's worldwide opening weekend broke a record set one year earlier by which action sequel?

The Fate of the Furious had opened to $541.9 million worldwide, and it kept the record for openings outside North America even after Infinity War.

Which crime film did one of Infinity War's directors reference to help Thanos's actor find the villain's emotions?

The Godfather came up at times during the shoot, which the actor said helped him "emotionalize the whole thing"; he also likened Thanos to the novel Perfume.

Captain America's bearded, shield-less look in Infinity War echoes which identity the hero adopts in the comics?

Nomad was the identity whose "spirit" the filmmakers wanted for the fugitive hero, who swaps his old shield for a pair of vibranium gauntlets.

Which film beat Infinity War to the only Oscar the Marvel blockbuster was nominated for?

First Man, a drama about Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission, underperformed at the box office, grossing $105.7 million worldwide.

What is the name of the Asgardian refugee ship that Thanos destroys in Infinity War's opening scene?

The Statesman once belonged to the Grandmaster of Sakaar; Thor is left floating in its wreckage until the Guardians answer a distress signal.

Which Marvel character nearly appeared in Infinity War voiced by Ken Jeong before the directors dropped the idea?

Howard the Duck would have swapped his usual voice actor, Seth Green, for a star of the directors' old sitcom Community; they decided he did not fit the film.

In Infinity War, which part of the dwarf king Eitri's body has Thanos ruined after forcing him to forge the gauntlet?

His hands were encased in solid metal once the gauntlet was finished, and every other dwarf of the forge was slaughtered.

Which country's government tried to delay Infinity War's release and reserved a national holiday for home-grown films?

Russia relented after an outcry and let it open on May 3, and it became the first film to sell more than a million tickets there in a single day.