Now, before we even start: SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY, FOR GOD’S SAKE THERE ARE SPOILERS DON’T READ ON IF YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS SERIOUSLY DON’T MAKE ME FIGHT YOU ABOUT THE SPOILERS.
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So: as you’re possibly aware there’s a little film out at the moment called Avengers: Infinity War and it’s proved pretty popular, in a box office record breaking sort of a way.
And since you definitely wouldn’t be reading this if you haven’t seen it BECAUSE SPOILERS ARE COMING, it ends on something of a downer. And that’s because there’s a sequel on its way.
“It turns out the REAL Infinity Gauntlet… was friendship.”
Back when Marvel were announcing their upcoming slate of films Infinity War was split into two films, cleverly called Part 1 and Part 2. Part 2 is due in May 2019 and has currently got the catchy new title of Untitled Avengers Film, but it was filmed back to back with Infinity War, and principal photography for it wrapped in January.
And to celebrate, they had a cake. And directors Anthony and Joe Russo even tweeted pictures of it. Which have now been deleted. WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE, HMMM?
Fortunately people that aren’t the Russo brothers also took photos.
The Avenger's wrap cake is insane! pic.twitter.com/PEEEGqH9eX
— UNILAD Film (@UNILADFilm) January 13, 2018
And looking at the four hands holding onto the slab supporting Thanos, that looks like the limbs of Hulk, Black Widow, Vision and Black Panther – who, perhaps, end up as the team that brings Thanos down? (There are also photos here with other angles.)
And this is obviously important since a bunch of beloved characters were wiped out at the end of the film in a sequence that was so shocking that many of us were too transfixed by the dissolves happening on screen that we didn’t immediately go “hey, isn’t there a new Spider-Man/Doctor Strange/Black Panther/Guardians of the Galaxy movie already in pre-production?”
So there’s been a lot of speculation that maybe, just maybe, those deaths are not as permanent as one might typically expect from turning into ash and flaking off on the wind. Which is an argument which this cake supports – um, along with Thanos, obviously.
And there’s also the uncomfortable fact that several Avengers have indicated they’re out of contract and hanging up their Avenging tights after the untitled Avengers The Fourth, including Chris Evans (Captain America) and Chris Hemsworth (Thor), while Robert Downey Jr has already extended his expired contract once to play Iron Man in the post Captain America: Civil War films. And none of those characters seem to have cake-limbs, we can’t help noticing. So… do they not make it? Is that the Secret of the Cake?
Or perhaps the twist is that those four Avengers are revealed to be made of delicious sponge. That’s also possible.