What is something you noticed in Avengers: Endgame that you believe others have missed?

I noticed that Dr. Strange could have singlehandedly saved everyone’s ass, and the whole third act wouldn’t happen. Also, Dr. Strange led Tony to his death. What a douche.

Here’s how this would have worked.

The portals open. Steve starts smiling. Everyone is readying their stances. This is the difference between the two armies. As you can see, there’s a massive amount of space.

Captain America says, “Avengers!” Mjolnir yanks toward him. He grabs it. He is about to say….

“Mirror Dimension!” Dr. Strange yells as he does magic at Thanos army. (if Dr. Strange can’t do it by himself, he has the other magicians to back himself up)

Captain America looks up in surprise when he sees Dr. Strange do this weird thing. Dr. Strange pushes the thing. Thanos charges but…suddenly he sees a reflection.

Thanos is officially in the Mirror Dimension, and his army is stuck for all eternity.

Steve looks at Stephen Strange again.

“what. Are you crazy? I am not going to let a couple of innocents going to die just for a cool battle. Besides Tony Stark would have died if Thanos attacked.” Dr. Strange said.

“Wait. What?” Tony asked.

“What are we going to do about that?” thor points at the Sanctuary.

“well. I mean since there are ALOT of magicians, we can sling portal cut that thing in half right?” Dr. Strange uses a sling portal cut with help from his allies, and the Sanctuary falls.

“Okay. Now that’s done, who wants to eat some shwarma?” Tony Stark.

In conclusion, Tony Stark never dies, he fully retires with Pepper and Morgan, Peter Parker is not depressed and meets up with Harley, and in Far from Home Peter Parker still has Tony at his side.

But then we wouldn’t have a cool epic battle, and Cap would never say Avengers Assemble.

Also, Nebula and Gamora weren’t on Thanos side. At the start of the battle, they were in the Avengers headquarter rubble so that they wouldn’t get trapped with Thanos.

Finally, even if Dr. Strange couldn’t take all the Army at once, He would have gotten rid of Thanos, Ebony Maw, and Cull Obsidian. He would have taken out the leading heavy hitters. He would have wiped out at least 40%.

Another thing:

So in the movie, they found out that the Quantum Realm could transport them anyplace and anytime, right?

I don’t understand why the Avengers decide to go time-hopping and cause too much stress. Here’s how it should happen:

“Alright, guys. So, we are going to go through the time jumping thing throughout the past to get the Infinity stones and create our own Infinity Gauntlet. Is that clear? Alright, let’s-” Tony is saying.

“Wait a minute. Why are we going to be time jumping through the past? Seems a lot of work. Remember five years ago when Thanos used the Infinity stones to destroy itself?” Steve pointed out.

“okay….” Tony said.

“Why can’t all of us travel to that time, and ambush Thanos 5 to 10 minutes before he’s going to do that thing. Rocket Racoon can find out the time it happens, and we jump on Thanos. Besides, the world isn’t ending tomorrow or anytime soon. We got to get Thor back in shape again. Also, we can wait for Captain Marvel to come back. She’s the strongest and the fastest out of all of us.” Steve explained.

“Mother of God.” Tony Stark said after a period of silence.

“And besides. You and I can go back to get some more Pym Particles to give some to Carol.” Steve pointed out.

So after a few weeks, Captain Marvel arrives. Thor has gotten his mentality back, and has Stormbreaker with him after training for a while and is back at his prime again. This time more pumped after a little trip to Asgard to talk to his mom and got Mjolnir.

Hulk lets time flow through Thor, so Thor is no longer fat

and is in his prime once more.

With Thor being back in shape and sparring with Carol for a while, Thor regained his fighting skills. They then go to the past, where Thanos is about to snap to destroy the Infinity Gauntlet when

WHACK! Thor aimed for the head this time! Thanos either falls dead or is so wounded that he’s caught off guard. Ant-Man turns huge and steps on Thanos infinity gauntlet so he can’t use it. (He may also step on Thanos’ body to push Stormbreaker further into Thanos body, killing him) If even Thanos is still alive Captain Marvel, Iron Man and all the other heroes jump on Thanos and start hitting him. Thor rushes in and yanks out Stormbreaker, and decapitates Thanos’ head. Thor also cuts off Thanos infinity gauntlet hand.

(Besides, if Thor even aims for the body again, it would hurt even more because back in Infinity War the ax was slowed down by the beam of the Infinity Stones, and Thanos was shown to be grievously hurt and couldn’t snap yet.)

“Yay! I aimed for the head this time!” Thor said in happiness, and after a couple of minutes of hugging the team around him, they then teleported back to the year 2023.

“Good thing that we went your way, Steve. Someone could have died.” Black Widow said.

Rocket and Tony get the Infinity stones back to the Iron Gauntlet, Hulk snaps everyone back to existence. To celebrate, thor takes the Avengers and the returning heroes to New Asgard to celebrate. Tony Stark would also try to one-up Thor by having a party at his Stark Tower.

Tony Stark and Black Widow are alive, thor is still king of Asgard and regains his muscular body, and we all have a happy ending where nothing terrible happens.

But then, the critics would bash on it, and the movie would be 30 minutes to an hour-long. But hey, if this were would happen in real life that’s how I would do it.

Final Notes:

The music used at the beginning of the movie when Tony Stark is saying his goodbye to Pepper is the same as the ending when the heroes say goodbye to Tony Stark.

Peter Parker is surrounded by his superhero models. He’s with Thor, Steve, Hulk, and Nick Fury. But he doesn’t care because Tony died.

The reason why Tony Stark said “Love you 3000” because it took 3000 minutes (22 films) to finish Endgame. It took 3000 minutes to complete the Infinity Saga.

There’s also a theory that if Loki is still alive, he might be *gasp* NOOBMASTER69. Hope all the Loki fans can think of a story for that.

Also, in the First Avengers, Bucky says to Steve

Steve replies with

Now in Endgame, it’s the same but the exchange of dialogues.

Bucky may also be the only person to know the truth between Steve and Peggy.

There’s a scene that parallels in Avengers. Remember in the Avengers where Tony takes a nuke to the Chitauri, and you see his eyes?

Well, it almost parallels when Rocket Racoon goes light speed, and you see Steve Rogers eyes reflect the stars.

I think the difference is that they’re doing the same mission (trying to take out the enemy), but Tony was alone in that scene because that is his playstyle. He mostly is a loner, while Steve Rogers relies on his allies to help him win.

Finally, Dr. Strange LIED. There wasn’t only one way out of 14 million, and I just listed two more outcomes. Dr. Strange killed Tony because Tony annoyed him. He also foreshadowed Tony’s death. “if it comes to saving you or the kid or the Time Stone, I will not hesitate to let either of you die.”

Anyway, that’s what I noticed. This answer was a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy it.