Avengers: Endgame packs a lot into its three-hour runtime, and there's no question that plenty of people will be seeing it multiple times in theaters. Once they know exactly where the film is going, they'll be able to catch all kinds of foreshadowing and call-backs that pop up in the dialogue. The writers slipped a lot of meaning into seemingly simple lines, and there is a lot that fans of the comics will enjoy as well. From the humorous callback to Age of Ultron to the line you might be surprised hasn't been said before, let's take a look at some lines in Avengers: Endgame that are more important than you realized.
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00:00With allusions to previous MCU movies and references to comics that haven't made their
00:04way to the big screen, Avengers Endgame reminds Marvel fans that the people behind the camera
00:09are just as enthusiastic as the ones filling the seats.
00:12Here are some lines in Avengers Endgame that were more important than you may have realized.
00:16If you saw Avengers Endgame in a packed theater, then the moment Thor's hammer Mjolnir flies
00:20into Captain America's hand probably inspired one of the loudest and most enthusiastic responses
00:25from the audience.
00:26If not, then it's at least met with enthusiasm from Thor himself, who yells,
00:33I knew it!
00:34as he spots Cap threatening Thanos with the legendary weapon.
00:37So what did Thor mean by, I knew it?
00:39In an early scene in 2015's Avengers Age of Ultron, Thor gives the rest of the team permission
00:44to try to lift Mjolnir.
00:45Thor sits back, confident none of his mere mortal teammates would prove worthy to wield
00:50the hammer, until Steve Rogers gives it a shot.
00:57That brief nudge, and past comic book stories in which Cap has proven worthy of Mjolnir,
01:02left some fans theorizing that Cap could have lifted the hammer but chose not to in order
01:06to spare his teammate any humiliation.
01:08Apparently, the Odinson was one of those fans.
01:11When Thor yells, I knew it!, he betrays that he thought Cap was faking way back in 2015
01:15as well.
01:16And how couldn't he?
01:17Cap's as worthy as they come.
01:18Speaking of Thor and what he may or may not be worthy to wield, the Thunder God initially
01:22thinks he's the only one capable of using the new Infinity Gauntlet to bring back everyone
01:26Thanos purged in Avengers Infinity War.
01:29The team argues about it, and eventually it's the Hulk who convinces everyone he's the only
01:33guy for the job.
01:34As he does, it's made clear he's thinking about a conversation he had seven years before
01:38with Tony Stark.
01:39In Avengers, as Stark and Bruce Banner look for a way to track the Tesseract, Downey brings
01:43up Banner's other guy, and compares it to the Arc Reactor, which, at the time, was still
01:48the only thing stopping shrapnel in Stark's chest from killing him.
01:51Thor understands Stark's suggestion that the Hulk saved Banner's life in the Gamma
01:54Ray Explosion, but isn't totally on board with the idea.
01:57It's a nice sentiment.
01:58Saved it for…
01:59What?
02:00I guess we'll find out.
02:05In Avengers Endgame, he finally finds out what he was saved for, explaining that he's
02:09the only one who can wield the stones and that their radiation is mostly gamma, the
02:13same as the radiation that turned him into the Hulk.
02:15Banner says, quote,
02:16"...it's like I was made for this."
02:18When Hulk goes back in time to 2012's Battle of New York, his assignment is to retrieve
02:22the Eye of Agamotto, a.k.a. the Time Stone.
02:25Instead of Doctor Strange, the Hulk finds the Ancient One waiting for him at the Sanctum
02:29Sanctorum.
02:30Banner and the Ancient One argue over whether or not it makes sense for her to risk her
02:33own timeline by handing over the stone.
02:35It's when the Ancient One learns that Strange gave the Time Stone to Thanos that she changes
02:39her mind.
02:40She tells Banner, quote,
02:41"...Strange is meant to be the best of us," as she gives him the Time Stone, meaning that
02:45she realizes her future student wouldn't surrender the stone unless there was a good
02:49reason.
02:50Considering what happens in 2016's Doctor Strange, the Ancient One's reaction is interesting.
02:54Four years from when she calls him the best of us, she'll have Strange physically thrown
02:58out of Carmatage.
02:59"...Teach me."
03:00"...No."
03:01You could call this a contradiction, but it could also suggest a lot more complexity to
03:10the early Sorcerer Supreme and her decisions.
03:13Did she expect Strange to eventually show up and wrestle with the decision or whether
03:16or not to let him in?
03:17Or perhaps, sensing Mordo's potential for turning on his allies, did she kick Strange
03:21out just to see what Mordo's reaction would be?
03:23Shortly after Tony Stark figures out time travel, he settles down on a couch with Pepper
03:28and talks about what he should do next.
03:29He tells her that part of him wants to scrap all his work, box it up, and drop it to the
03:33bottom of the lake.
03:34This is the same Pepper who almost left Tony's employ in 2008's Iron Man over his armored
03:39adventures and who was ready to break up with him over his constant tinkering in 2013's
03:44Iron Man 3.
03:45"...This is a new level of lame."
03:47She clearly developed a sense of resigned acceptance since we last saw her, because
03:51her words seem to be what convinced Tony to take his new innovation to the Avengers.
03:55After listening to her husband, Pepper tells him that trying to stop him has been one of
03:59the few great failures in her life.
04:01It's accurate, as anyone who has seen all the Iron Man entries can testify, but there's
04:04a bittersweet irony you don't see until the end of the movie's climactic battle.
04:08After Tony uses the Infinity Stones to wipe out Thanos and his forces, he collapses and
04:12struggles to hold on to what little life he has left.
04:15Pepper wills herself to smile at her dying husband and tells him, quote,
04:18"...you can rest now."
04:19And so he does.
04:20Finally, and tragically, Pepper gets Tony to stop.
04:23When Captain America proves himself worthy of Mjolnir, it isn't the only time in the
04:27final battle that the old soldier has fans clapping and cheering.
04:30After the heroes Thanos purged in Avengers Infinity War finally appear, along with the
04:34forces of Wakanda, Karmataj, and New Asgard, Cap takes his place as the head of this army
04:39of resurrected friends.
04:40He leads the charge against Thanos' dark forces with the line comic book fans have read so
04:44often,
04:45"...Avengers, assemble."
04:46You may not even realize it until that moment, but we've been waiting for over ten years
04:50to hear Cap say it.
04:51He may have led the team in 2012's Avengers, but he never said the line.
04:55He even teased us with it at the close of Avengers Age of Ultron.
04:58"...Avengers?"
05:00When Cap finally says the line in Endgame, if you hadn't realized it before, it suddenly
05:06occurs to you that the MCU architects waited a long time for that line.
05:10And man, was it worth the wait.
05:12It's Emma Fuhrman playing Scott Lang's daughter Cassie in Avengers Endgame, not the younger
05:16Abby Rider Fortson, who plays her in Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp.
05:19But that doesn't stop Scott from recognizing her when he returns from the Quantum Realm.
05:23At the end of their reunion scene, Scott says,
05:25"...you're so big."
05:26It seems fairly obvious, and it's something adults say to kids all the time if they haven't
05:30seen them for a bit.
05:31"...you're so big and so well-grown."
05:33But it has a double meaning understood by fans of the comics.
05:36In 2004, the comic book version of Scott Lang was seemingly one of the fatal victims of
05:40Marvel's Avengers Disassembled event.
05:43In the wake of his death, his daughter becomes the hero Statya as part of Young Avengers.
05:47Like her father, she has powers that can make her smaller or bigger.
05:50In a tragic twist, Statya dies just after her father is brought back to life in 2010's
05:55Avengers The Children's Crusade.
05:57Thankfully, Cassie rejoins the Land of the Living and is reunited with her father in
06:012015's Avengers World issue 16.
06:03Because, you know, she's a Marvel Comics character, so it's pretty much mandatory.
06:07After Thanos unleashes his assault on the Avengers compound, Hawkeye is the first to
06:11get his hands on the new Infinity Gauntlet.
06:13He holds onto the thing for a while, fighting off a swarm of Outriders and surviving an
06:17attempt to steal it by the 2014 version of Nebula.
06:21But once the purged heroes return and things get real, Hawkeye calls for help.
06:25The first hero to respond is Black Panther, who calls out,
06:27"'Clint, give it to me.'"
06:28It's not a particularly memorable line until you remember how these characters met and
06:32the fact that they only exchanged two lines of dialogue before Endgame.
06:36In particular, their entire conversation was about Hawkeye's real name and how little it
06:39mattered.
06:40So it's kind of funny that's the name Black Panther uses in Endgame.
06:43In 2016's Captain America Civil War, during the airport battle and shortly after Ant-Man
06:48shocks the other heroes by turning Giant instead of Tiny, T'Challa advances on Hawkeye.
06:53The conversation that follows is short and to the point.
06:56"'We haven't met yet.
06:59I'm Clint."
07:01"'I don't care.'"
07:02Apparently, he started caring just a little bit more by the time Endgame rolled around.
07:06One of the best action sequences in 2014's Captain America The Winter Soldier is a tense
07:11and eventually violent elevator scene, as S.H.I.E.L.D.
07:13operatives who are actually HYDRA agents slowly fill an elevator Steve Rogers is taking, and
07:18the old soldier soon realizes he's walked into a deathtrap.
07:22Avengers Endgame gives fans a scene acting as both sequel and prequel as it takes place
07:26moments after Loki's capture in 2012's Avengers.
07:29S.H.I.E.L.D.
07:30agents are transporting Loki's scepter when the Captain America from the future intercepts
07:33them in the elevator.
07:35He's able to convince them to hand over the scepter when he whispers,
07:38"'Hey, you're HYDRA.'"
07:39The line references the Marvel Comics storyline that introduced a version of Captain America
07:43who was secretly serving HYDRA.
07:45This was extremely controversial, and Captain America, Steve Rogers' writer Nick Spencer,
07:50received death threats over it.
07:51HYDRA Cap is eventually defeated at the end of the 2017 line-wide event Secret Empire.
07:57Endgame also echoes that series when, shortly after getting the scepter, Captain America
08:012019 is forced to fight as Double from 2012, just as the real Steve Rogers defeated his
08:05HYDRA counterpart in Secret Empire.
08:08There are a lot of sad moments in Avengers Endgame's resolution, but one of the funniest
08:12involves Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
08:14Boarding the Benatar with a heavy sack, Thor treats the space-faring crew as old friends.
08:19He slaps Star-Lord on the back and says,
08:21"'Asgardians of the Galaxy!
08:22Back together again!'
08:23Thor's reference to Asgardians of the Galaxy is more than silly wordplay.
08:27In 2018, Marvel premiered the comic Asgardians of the Galaxy, featuring Asgardian characters
08:32on a space quest.
08:33The most recognizable characters to MCU fans would be Scourge the Executioner, played by
08:38Karl Urban in Thor Ragnarok, and a younger version of Loki, who begins the series hidden
08:42in the Destroyer's armor.
08:44There's also Valkyrie, Throg the Frog of Thunder, and the Thor-like Earth hero Thunderstrike.
08:48Considering that Asgardians of the Galaxy premiered in the second half of 2018, Thor's
08:52line actually brings up a chicken-and-egg question of exactly who is referencing whom.
08:57Depending on exactly when the scene was filmed, is Thor referencing the comic in that scene,
09:01or was the Asgardians of the Galaxy comic inspired by that line from the script?
09:06Shortly after we see Cap leading his support group, he visits Black Widow at the Avengers
09:10compound.
09:11He talks with his old friend about moving on from the Purge, telling her,
09:14I keep telling everybody they shouldn't move on.
09:19Some do.
09:21But not us."
09:22Cap's talking about accepting the losses he and Nat have suffered, rather than trying
09:25to find a way to reverse them, but there's a bittersweet foreshadowing to the line as
09:29the movie continues.
09:30By the time the credits roll, Captain America and Black Widow are two characters who have
09:34definitely moved on.
09:35Black Widow sacrifices herself to get the Soul Stone from Vormir, while Steve Rogers
09:40uses his quest to return the Infinity Stones to recapture the life he lost when he plunged
09:44into the ice in Captain America The First Avenger.
09:47If you weren't already crying, that reveal most likely triggered a few happy tears.
09:51Taste the happy, Michael.
09:54Taste it.
09:55Tastes kinda like sad.