When Avengers: Endgame was recently released on Digital and Blu-Ray many fans took it as an opportunity to take a closer look at the movie and pick up on things they hadn’t noticed the first time they watched it.
And considering how long the movie is, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that some mistakes made it through to the final cut. One eagle-eyed fan has spotted something curious in a scene featuring Doctor Strange.
Instagram user @ironman.tw uploaded a photo of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange wearing the Eye of Agamotto during the final battle in Avengers: Endgame, despite the fact Thanos destroyed it in Avengers: Infinity War.
Look, we get it, bringing together that many heroes for one scene and keeping everything consistent would be pretty tough.
It also seems as though the Eye of Agamotto is only seen right after Captain America yells the iconic words, “Avengers Assemble!”
Infinity War and Endgame were shot back-to-back, so it’s possible the scene was shot on the same day as the scene where Stephen Strange had yet to give up the Time Stone to Thanos in order to achieve the future he witnessed.
In the scene, Strange gives the stone away, despite having vowed to protect it, in order to save Tony Stark because, as we now know, it would be him that would make the ultimate sacrifice to save the world from Thanos five years later.
It could be possible that the version of Doctor Strange we see in that shot on Instagram is the version of the hero who went into the future to see the one scenario the Avengers could beat Thanos. However, that wouldn’t really work with the time travel rules the movie sets up, so we’ll just assume it was a mistake!
Cumberbatch will appear in Phase Four of the MCU in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which is set to the be the first horror film in the franchise.