Anthony and Joe Russo’s 2018 superhero blockbuster “Avengers: Infinity War” was the 19th film in the long-running Marvel Cinematic Universe, and had an ending so beautifully bleak that it could have served as the proper ending to the entire series. Since the start of the MCU in 2008, Earth had become suddenly and suspiciously lousy with superheroes; the android Vision (Paul Bettany) made note of this astonishing new change to Earth in 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War.” What happened to the universe that hundreds of superheroes suddenly came into being? And, as we all know, wherever there are superheroes, there are planet-wide cataclysms.
It’s almost as if superheroes are largely responsible for creating the mayhem they so often fight. What a fitting end to a superhero story, then, that they should attract a destructive threat larger than they could handle.
Thanos (Josh Brolin) was concerned with overpopulation and, approaching the problem with a warlord’s mindset,…
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