When Endgame was released, there was not only an 11 year hype of build-up into the MCU but also a 1 year hype from Infinity War, where the audience was left with nothing but the fact that half of the heroes we loved were gone and that the Avengers, for the first time, lost. Everyone went into the theater wanting to know exactly how they were gona defeat Thanos and bring everyone back.
So, to start the movie with the heroes going after the villain, learning that he destroyed the only thing that could fix the situation, then killing him and timejumping to 5 years into the future to show us, for 40 minutes, how everyone was coping with defeat and carrying on was... really bold. They lost, and there was nothing that they could do but just pick themselves up and keep living.
No one was expecting that, everyone wanted to see epic fights, battles and powers, but what we got was maybe one of the best character moments in the whole MCU, if not the best. Even when the time-travel plot is moving along, there's still character development: Thor and Iron Man scenes
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