The Way It Could Have Gone
May, 2015: The second Avengers movie, The Avengers: Under Siege, sets the Avengers against a HYDRA-created team of enhanced beings designed specifically to counter them, The Liberators. This team consists of Scarlet Witch, a girl who can use chaos magic to create force fields and energy blasts, and also to influence your mind; her brother Quicksilver, who can move faster than the eye can see; The Crimson Dynamo, an armored behemoth using stolen Stark tech; The Machine Man, a sentient android created using the energies of the Mind Stone contained within Loki's staff, whose powers include a devastating energy beam, and the ability to change his density at will, giving him super-strength and the power of flight; The Raptor, a high-flying HYDRA assassin using mechanical wings and razor claws; Yellowjacket, another HYDRA assassin using stolen Pym size-changing tech and a Darren Cross-created battlesuit; Taskmaster, a Red Room agent who can instantly master any fighting style she sees; and The Abomination, a Gamma-powered monster who is the equal of the Hulk. And leading the team: Bucky Barnes, formerly the Winter Soldier, recaptured by HYDRA and now renamed Captain HYDRA. The outnumbered Avengers are defeated and captured, and as HYDRA plans to televise the Avengers' executions as a prelude to their conquest of the United States, only Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver changing sides as they see how vicious their Liberator teammates are manages to save the day. Most of the Liberators are captured or killed, but Bucky Barnes, beginning to remember who he really is, escapes HYDRA's influence once and for all and goes on the run, and Wanda and Pietro join the Avengers.
May, 2016: Captain America: Civil War is released. After the events of Avengers 2 and a terrible accident in Lagos, the governments of the world want super-humans regulated, and Bucky Barnes, in hiding in Europe, is framed for the murder of the King of Wakanda. But the Avengers find Bucky first, and Wanda manages to remove Bucky's programming, entering his mind and destroying the monster HYDRA put there. In the end the Avengers break up as Zemo, a vengeful Sokovian soldier who lost his family in the aftermath of an Avengers mission, reveals Bucky's murder of the Starks to Iron Man, and some of the Avengers are imprisoned in The Raft, an ocean facility designed to hold enhanced beings.
July, 2016: Black Widow, the first Marvel movie starring a female superhero, releases to solid reviews and solid box office, as fans are eager to know where the character went after Civil War, and what the next chapter of the MCU saga entails. Natasha's sister, Yelena Belova, is introduced and she is a fan favorite. The post credit scene for the film shows Natasha and Steve Rogers breaking their friends out of The Raft...
April, 2018: Secret Avengers, a movie focused on a splintered Avengers team on the run from the law, releases to huge acclaim and huge box office. Captain America, Falcon, Black Widow, Bucky Barnes, and Scarlet Witch have been outlaws for almost two years because of the Sokovia Accords, fighting in secret to keep the world safe. In a tiny Eastern European country, they encounter something unimaginable. The dead are rising, led by a monster who should have died centuries ago. With the help of Doctor Strange and a vampire hunter named Blade, the threat is battled back--for now. And in desperate circumstances, romance has blossomed: Wanda and Bucky have become a couple.
July, 2018: Avengers: Infinity War is released to staggering box office. The Avengers, still broken up into separate teams, try desperately to stop Thanos from gathering the Infinity Stones, with the help of Doctor Strange and the Guardians of the Galaxy. In the end they fail, and half the universe dies. There is no post-credit scene, and the utter defeat of the Avengers leaves audiences bewildered, yet ravenous for the conclusion of the story. How will the remaining Avengers get out of this? Is it even possible?
March, 2019: Ant-Man and the Wasp is released, and at the end, Scott is trapped in the Quantum Realm, as Hope, Hank, and Janet turn to dust.
April, 2019: Avengers: Endgame is released. Five years after their devastating defeat, the heroes left alive after Thanos used the Infinity Stones--Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hulk, Hawkeye, Bucky Barnes, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Ant-Man, Rocket, and Nebula--have become somewhat used to living in this strange, sad new world. Steve and Natasha are a couple now, living together at the Avengers compound and taking solace in each other, their happiness clouded by the fact that Natasha's sister Yelena didn't survive the Snap, and, somewhere, Clint Barton is on a murderous rampage against any criminal he can find. Wanda and Bucky, after he was officially pardoned for his crimes committed as a brainwashed assassin, are married, living together in a pleasant suburb in New Jersey, and thinking about having children. And Tony has settled down with Pepper, and has a daughter. Between looking for any leads they can find on Clint Barton's whereabouts and attending to whatever new troubles might arise in their lonely new world, the Avengers try to find what happiness they can...and then Ant-Man returns from the Quantum Realm, and gives them a desperate new hope.
The Avengers plan to use the Quantum Realm to travel through time, acquire the Infinity Stones in the past, and bring everyone back to the present. But someone has to sacrifice themselves for the Soul Stone...and when Natasha and Clint are sent to Vormir, Clint willingly gives his life to save Natasha's...and wipe the red from his ledger.
Bruce uses the stones to bring everyone back--but when the monstrous zealot, Thanos, returns from the past and threatens everything, Iron Man has to sacrifice himself to wield the stones, and send Thanos and all of his minions into oblivion.
There is a post-credit scene. A girl named Kate Bishop, wearing a home-made purple outfit and wielding a bow and arrow, is fighting petty crime, and she has named herself after the hero who inspired her -- Hawkeye.
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