Spoilers inbound.
You’ve been warned.
Let’s hope it does.
Avengers: Endgame is nothing short of action-packed. Like it’s an orgy of action but all amongst the final battle at Avengers HQ, one moment sticks out like a glorious sore thumb.
And we’ll simply call it the “she’s got help” scene.
Ugh, so good.
As Captain Marvel retrieves the second infinity gauntlet from Spider-Man, he says “I don’t know how you’re going to get it through all that” and as he utters the last syllable Valkyrie and Scarlet Witch descend from above and respond “don’t worry” with Black Panther’s Okoye adding “she’s got help”.
MVP right here.
And that’s the cue for every living female MCU hero (sorry Black Widow) to back her up as the music swells creating one of the most well composed one-shot’s in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“Flyin’ on the wings of a bird.”
This scene doesn’t make that much sense, the male heroes aren’t all incapacitated or indisposed but did thecinema cheer when it happened?
You better believe it did.
More cheers, less Ted Danson.
It’s inspirational and it’s Marvel taking a stance, using screen time in their most important/expensive movie to do so.
The scene transcends Avengers: Endgame as a film. It’s a commentary, a response from the studio to the naysayers. To those that criticised and review bombed Captain Marvel before it was released or detested the inclusion of female heroes on-par with their male counterparts.
This is Marvel’s way of saying: F*** you.
Actually, now Veronica Mars should join the MCU.