50 Fun Facts About Avengers: Infinity War

Who directed Avengers: Infinity War?

They came aboard in April 2015 after Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War, and shot Endgame back-to-back with it.

Infinity War was which numbered film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Black Panther had been the 18th two months earlier; Ant-Man and the Wasp was the 20th.

Which of the six gems does Thanos already possess when the film opens?

He has taken it from Xandar off screen; the Space Stone comes from the Tesseract in the opening minutes.

Which character is killed by Thanos in the opening sequence, ending his journey by calling himself 'Odinson'?

Tom Hiddleston knew about the death before he shot Ragnarok, and it was the first scene the Russos conceived.

Who uses his dying act to send the Hulk to Earth?

The Bifröst drops the Hulk through the roof of Doctor Strange's New York headquarters.

Where does the Hulk crash-land on Earth?

He reverts to Banner and warns Doctor Strange and Wong, and it is Banner who suggests they call Tony Stark.

Which two of Thanos's Children come to New York for the stone in Doctor Strange's amulet?

Midnight and Glaive go after Vision in Scotland instead; the four are known in the comics as the Black Order.

Why can't Ebony Maw simply take the stone from the captured Doctor Strange?

So he tortures Strange aboard his ship instead, until Stark and Parker blow him out of an airlock.

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

The giant dwarf king's forge has gone cold since Thanos came calling.

What is the name of Thor's new axe?

Groot's arm becomes its handle; it also lets Thor summon the Bifröst.

Who plays Eitri, king of the dwarves?

In a joke on Norse proportions, the dwarf towers over Thor.

Who is the keeper of the Soul Stone on Vormir?

A Walking Dead actor voices him, replacing Hugo Weaving, who was reluctant to return.

Whom does Thanos sacrifice to gain the Soul Stone?

Ariana Greenblatt plays her as a child in the flashback to the day Thanos took her from her home.

In which city are Wanda and Vision ambushed by Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive?

Filming in Scotland took place in Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Highlands, with studio work at Wardpark in Cumbernauld.

Where does the Avengers' final stand against Thanos's army take place?

Rogers takes Vision there believing Shuri can remove the Mind Stone without killing him.

What name have the Wakandans given Bucky Barnes?

They removed his Hydra programming after Civil War, so the Winter Soldier name is retired.

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

Thanos tells them overpopulation destroyed it, which is why he wants to halve the universe.

How many possible futures does Doctor Strange view?

'How many did we win?' 'One.' The exact figure he gives on screen is 14,000,605.

Whose outburst lets Thanos break free just as they nearly get his glove off?

Nebula has just deduced that Thanos killed her sister, and Quill cannot hold back.

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

'We're in the endgame now,' he tells a baffled Stark, having seen the one path to victory.

Why does Banner fight in the Hulkbuster armour in the final battle?

Joe Russo said the Hulk was not just scared of Thanos; he was tired of only being called on to fight.

Who finally destroys Vision and the Mind Stone, only for Thanos to reverse it?

Thanos uses the green stone to rewind her work and rip the yellow one out anyway.

Which of these characters survives the Snap?

He is left on the battlefield with Banner, M'Baku, Okoye, Rhodes, Rogers, Romanoff and Thor.

What does Nick Fury do in the post-credits scene just before he disintegrates?

The pager displays Captain Marvel's insignia, setting up her 2019 film.

Where is Thanos in the film's final shot?

The nipa hut scene used footage of rice terraces in the Philippines.

Footage of which Philippine landmark provided the backdrop for Thanos's final scene?

The filmmakers worked with the Thailand-based studio Indochina Productions to acquire the plates.

Who plays Thanos?

He voiced and motion-captured the part and said he preferred it to playing Cable in Deadpool 2 the same year.

Brolin compared Thanos to which literary character?

Thanos was born deformed and treated as a freak on Titan; Joe Russo also referenced The Godfather for him.

Which two comic-book series were the film's main inspirations?

Jim Starlin's 1991 series and Jonathan Hickman's 2013 one; the directors also cited 1990s heist films.

What was the film's original announced title?

Marvel dropped the 'Part 1' in 2016 so people would not think one story had been split in two.

What was the film's working title?

Filming began under that name on January 23, 2017, at Pinewood Atlanta.

What technical milestone did Infinity War and Endgame achieve?

The home release nonetheless cropped the picture to 2.39:1, which the Russos said was 'complicated' to change.

Who replaced Hugo Weaving as the voice of Red Skull?

The Walking Dead actor voiced a CGI Red Skull performed by stand-ins on set.

What is Stan Lee's cameo?

'You'd think you'd never seen a spaceship before,' he tells the gawping students.

Which Arrested Development character appears as a specimen in the Collector's collection?

David Cross could not make the cameo, so an uncredited extra plays him in blue body paint.

Which director of the first Thor film has an uncredited voice cameo as the Asgardian distress caller?

Screenwriter Stephen McFeely also cameos as Secretary Ross's aide.

Who coached Tom Holland through Spider-Man's death scene, which was written to be much shorter?

'I don't feel so good' became one of the year's biggest memes.

Which cast members improvised their war chants before the final battle?

The Russos had not yet seen Black Panther footage and had no idea the chants were coming.

Which hero did an early draft hold back until the very end, an idea called 'insane'?

He would have arrived on the battlefield just in time to save Vision from Corvus Glaive.

Which actress was pregnant during filming and so mainly did facial capture for her villain?

Stuntwoman Monique Ganderton provided most of Proxima Midnight's body on set.

Who composed the score, returning from The Avengers?

Ludwig Göransson's Black Panther theme is quoted when the action reaches T'Challa's kingdom.

Roughly how much was Infinity War's worldwide gross?

It was the first superhero film to pass $2 billion, and the fourth film of any kind.

What was the film's record-setting worldwide opening weekend?

It beat The Fate of the Furious's record and was itself crushed a year later by Endgame's $1.2 billion.

In how many days did Infinity War pass the ten-figure mark worldwide, a record at the time?

That beat The Force Awakens by a day; Endgame later did it in five.

What was the film's opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada?

It broke The Force Awakens's domestic record, and its Saturday and Sunday were the biggest ever.

On which TV show did the first teaser trailer debut in November 2017?

It was viewed 230 million times in 24 hours, a record, and used Nick Fury's 'Avengers Initiative' speech.

Which video game got a limited-time mode letting players become Thanos, at the Russos' suggestion?

The brothers were fans and pitched Epic Games' Donald Mustard on the crossover.

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

Over 300,000 accounts went, including one of the directors', in the largest ban in Reddit's history; Brolin posted a video ending with a snap.

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

It opened there to $200 million and was granted a rare 30-day extension of its run.

How many times did YouTuber Tony 'Nem' Mitchell watch the film in cinemas, setting a world record?

IMAX sent him 50 free tickets partway through and the Russos invited him to the Endgame premiere.