The script for Avengers: Endgame has revealed even more victims of Thanos’ (Josh Brolin) snap that wiped out half of all life in Avengers: Infinity War.
The Endgame script was uploaded online by Walt Disney Pictures for awards consideration.
When Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) returns to earth she discovers Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) was one of the casualties of the snap.
When she meets the remaining Avengers, the faces of the Vanished are displayed on screens including Bucky (Sebastian Stan), Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård), Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp), Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), Peter Parker (Tom Holland), Shuri (Letitia Wright), T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and the believed-dead Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), who we know actually disappeared within the Quantum Realm.
The script now confirms three more victims of the Snap whose photos didn’t appear in the finished film – Wong (Benedict Wong), Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and Secretary Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt).
The script reads:
A HOLO-DISPLAY ROTATING THROUGH FACES OF PEOPLE WE’VE LOST: WANDA. VISION. BUCKY. T’CHALLA. MARIA HILL.
RHODEY: It’s been twenty-three days since Thanos came to Earth.
TONY, weak, sits in a hi-tech wheelchair, IV dripping into his arm. He stares, taking in the loss: SAM WILSON. SECRETARY ROSS. SHARON CARTER. SCOTT LANG. HOPE VAN DYNE. HANK PYM. NICK FURY.
At Fury, Carol bites back emotion.
NATASHA: World governments are in pieces, as you can imagine. But the parts that still work are trying to take a census. It looks like he did what he said he was going to do.
JANE FOSTER. ERIK SELVIG. WONG. DR. STRANGE. THE BARTON FAMILY. QUILL. DRAX. MANTIS. GROOT. PETER PARKER.
Finally, Tony looks away. RHODEY turns it off.
Speaking with ComicBook.com co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo said a lot of thought went into who would survive Thanos’ snap.
“How do we pay off each individual character story most profoundly? The first person to go is Bucky Barnes and it’s shot from Captain America’s (Chris Evans) perspective,” Anthony said.
“We’re watching Cap go through the experience of watching him go away. We’re watching Okoye (Danai Gurira), whose number one mission it is in life is to protect the king. She watches the king go, in front of her. To see those characters react in those situations is very powerful and resonant.”
Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely told The New York Times they wanted the aftermath to be focused on Captain America and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr).
Markus said, “We knew we wanted to see Cap and Tony dealing with the aftermath so that you could really see them suffer, quite frankly.”
“And that’s why Cap and Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) are relatively minimal in the first movie, because all they’d be doing is punching. We knew that they had a lot of story in the second movie, and there were other people who would have much more story in the first movie, like the Guardians.”
The three previously unnamed victims will appear in future MCU projects with Ross returning in Black Widow, Wong in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Jane Foster returns in Thor: Love and Thunder where she’ll appear as Mighty Thor.