AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR SPOILERS - Here's What Came Next After That Huge Thanos Moment In The Final Act

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR SPOILERS - Here's What Came Next After That Huge Thanos Moment In The Final Act

Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo reveal what happened in the aftermath of that massive Thanos scene in the movie's final act and drop some hints about what comes next in Avengers 4.

By JoshWilding - May 07, 2018 12:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Infinity War
Source: Happy Sad Confused (via Collider)
In Avengers: Infinity War's final few minutes, Thanos snapped his fingers while wielding the completed Infinity Gauntlet and wiped out trillions of lives. In the scene which followed, we saw the Mad Titan in a dreamlike world where he confessed to a younger version of Gamora - who he murdered to get the Soul Stone - that he had enacted his horrible plan but was that a dream or something else entirely?

Well, Joe Russo has confirmed that it was the Soul Stone they were having that conversation in, something which may confirm Gamora's soul has been trapped in there and can still be recovered.

 
"It is [in the soul stone], it’s an orange world that they’re in. Because he’s in the Hero’s Journey in the movie, we did point that out that there’s a correlating journey in the film between Thor and Thanos. Certain characters make very human choices in the movie that are very tragic that shift the direction of the storytelling. Quill makes that choice on Titan when he punches Thanos in the face. Thor makes that choice when he plunges the axe into Thanos’ chest because he wants to tell him that he got him, that this is payback. If he had not made that decision, had he gone for the kill, they wouldn’t be in this situation. For Thanos at the end of the movie, this is part of his Hero’s Journey, we once again put him face to face with the only thing that he cared about, where he has to own up to the emotional cost of what he’s done in the movie."

The filmmaker went on to say that the child Thanos spoke to at the end of the movie was indeed Gamora's spirit (as opposed to a hallucination or something similar) but quickly changed the subject to point out that the snap actually did a considerable amount of damage to the Mad Titan himself.
 
"I think it’s a reflection of [Gamora’s] spirit, and the power required to use all of the stones at once is so significant that it sends Thanos into this dream state. You’ll notice his arm is damaged post the snap, the gauntlet is damaged post the snap, it’s the incredible energy required from it and only because of his strength is he able to survive actually using the gauntlet in that capacity. But it does create this cathartic moment for him."

The villain has already been stabbed through the chest by Thor and with a "damaged" arm and seemingly destroyed Infinity Gauntlet, it seems as if Earth's Mightiest Heroes may not struggle to take him down in Avengers 4. Having him feel the impact of his decision was definitely a smart move on Joe and Anthony's part, though, and it's now going to be interesting seeing how it ultimately pays off.
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XelCorp
XelCorp - 5/7/2018, 12:58 PM
*The Rabbit is crorrect*
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 5/7/2018, 12:58 PM
Wow.
JonC
JonC - 5/7/2018, 1:10 PM
@EbonyMaw - "only because of his strength is he able to survive actually using the gauntlet in that capacity"
... so no one but Thanos can undo the snap? Or simply someone as powerful that can take it. Who can take it? Thor, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Iron Man?
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 5/7/2018, 1:34 PM
@JonC - Ah you come to me with questions of my lord. Only thanos can wield the gauntlet, no one else can.
AC1
AC1 - 5/7/2018, 1:37 PM
@JonC - maybe that's the point. Maybe to undo what Thanos did, someone is going to have to make the ultimate sacrifice and give their own life to restore the billions that were wiped out in that moment. After all, they kept repeating the phrase "we don't trade lives" or something to that effect - if that isn't foreshadowing, I don't know what is.
TRexx21
TRexx21 - 5/7/2018, 2:33 PM
@AC1 - BINGO!
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 5/7/2018, 12:59 PM
Most suspenseful part of the movie. The moment he snaps, especially in Dolby vision, shakes the theatre and left everyone in silence and disbelief. Insane moment.
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 5/7/2018, 1:02 PM
@SpideyPuffsMJ - Loved the sound effects every time he used the guantlet.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/7/2018, 1:07 PM
@SpideyPuffsMJ - I didn't pay attention to the gauntlet sound effects. Thank you, sir for giving me another reason to watch it.
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 5/7/2018, 1:20 PM
@MyCoolYoung - May sound weird but they stuck with me both viewings.
Pantherpool
Pantherpool - 5/7/2018, 1:01 PM
- Did you do it?
- Yes.
- What did it cost?
- Everything.

Super12
Super12 - 5/7/2018, 2:47 PM
@Pantherpool - That shot of RDJ, all I could think about was his vision in Age of Ultron of all the Avengers dead and it being his fault. I love how they've been building up his fear of this moment for 6 years and that shot..that shot is him fully realizing it.
ATrueHero1987
ATrueHero1987 - 5/7/2018, 4:56 PM
@Super12 - "I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right. Yet to fail all the same".
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/7/2018, 1:01 PM
I'm not as over the moon about this movie as a lot of people, but I have to admit they're doing some kinda artsy-fartsy stuff under the surface.

On second viewing, I realized Thanos pulled Gamora from the calculus of her home planet. Half died, half lived, but he and Gamora were in the center. Out-of-balance.



Thanos "cheated" Gamora out of the system, but only by killing her is he able to get his way and fulfill his plan. It's actually kinda... a well-told story.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/7/2018, 1:08 PM
@Spock0Clock - what didn't you like about it?
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/7/2018, 1:08 PM
@Spock0Clock - or whats your review of it rather
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/7/2018, 1:09 PM
@Spock0Clock -



Thanos sacrificed more to succeed than the other AVENGERS INFINITY WAR characters. Thanos was willing to do whatever it took to win whereas the Avengers were not prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. "We don't trade lives."
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/7/2018, 1:13 PM
@MyCoolYoung - Oh, I liked it a lot, but there just wasn't as much meat as I was hoping for the non-Iron Man Avengers characters. I'm sure it's going to be a highlight of any MCU marathon in the future, but I guess I'm just feeling anxious about these characters potentially moving on and I want as much quality time as I can get with them.

My one-sentence review is "it's the best Star Wars movie since Empire", and I definitely mean that. Feige has found that perfect original trilogy serial groove with these movies, and the Russos, Markus, and McFeely clearly know how to handle serialized storytelling.
YoloSwaggins812
YoloSwaggins812 - 5/7/2018, 1:24 PM
@Spock0Clock - I actually never really looked at that scene like that, and I just watched this movie for the second time last night lol. This is one of the reasons I love this site, reading comments about other perspectives can actually open up a lot of doors for interpretation. I was actually surprised at how close I was to being right as to why they didn't have the Hulk reappear during the movie.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/7/2018, 1:41 PM
@Spock0Clock - I definitely understand that. I have that same anxious feeling and I think that emotion kind of had Me uncharacteristically jumpy in the theaters.

Out loud I would say I'm not ready for these guys to move on but that theater made me realize just how much I wasn't ready for that.
ICStoopedPeople
ICStoopedPeople - 5/7/2018, 1:42 PM
@Spock0Clock - Oh, really? I thought he pulled her out of the survivors group, but I like this more. You saying "arts-fartsy." Color me shocked.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/7/2018, 1:03 PM
"the gauntlet is damaged post the snap,"

Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/7/2018, 1:04 PM
@BlackBeltJones - Space stone still works, though.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/7/2018, 1:05 PM
@Spock0Clock - I think all the stones themselves work still...well Idk I think the gauntlet was on its last leg and Thanos had enough juice to teleport out of there.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/7/2018, 1:09 PM
@BlackBeltJones - I think it'll kind of set up what happened in the comics where all the stones still individually work but together they aren't as strong anymore
JonC
JonC - 5/7/2018, 1:11 PM
@BlackBeltJones - but the giant dwarf has the mold to make another one.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/7/2018, 1:18 PM
@JonC - true.
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