#idk how tk tag spoilers i hope that works

[twstem]

the girls are fighting and I couldn't be more proud

[agentem]

Endgame question: Part 1 of a million, the Snap, Cassie’s age, Peter’s school, the general situation

As stated before, I have a million thoughts and questions about Avengers: Endgame. I am going to have to break them up into MANY posts, hopefully broken down by character but sometimes my brain is not that organized.

I will spoiler cut. But also tag with "Endgame spoilers” and “Endgame spoiler thoughts”. I hope no one is accidentally spoiled. But man, I gotta talk about this.

Gonna try to stay broad strokes here. So half the world went away--including animals which didn’t seem entirely clear until Scott saw the birds when “he think it worked” and I would’ve liked more explanation on that.

For the million years the movie takes to “really get moving”, they explain VERY little about the mechanics of it.

I get that a lot of stuff is abandoned, like Scott’s old van. But why the boats around the Statue of Liberty? I get Citi Field (haha, no one likes the Mets. Haha). Like maybe New York can now only support one baseball team or none. But I would like to think, that even if half of us went away that we would keep our National Monuments clean and still visit them.

I guess it is the not visiting that struck me. Because if the boats are left there as like a memorial to the dead, then there were more people in NYC taking pictures of the sticky notes after the election than there are of the Statue of Goddmaned Liberty.

And the bringing of them back five years later seems SUPER problematic to me. I mean, thank god Far from Home is coming to maybe explain some of the emotional toll. But, like Cassie Lang is way more than five years older now. She was like seven before. I think she is supposed to be 14-15? Idk, that girl is not 12. (More on ageism and women in Hollywood TK, probably in the Frigga post! Or maybe Nat? Not sure.)

Did Cassie’s mom who I think is Judy Greer get snapped? Did her step father? That did not look like the house that Scott visited in Ant-Man (I don’t remember the house that clearly). But if she stayed, then I would assume one or more of her other parents survived. IF it is a different home, did someone take her in? What happened! Why didn’t she SPEAK? I mean, yes glad she is hale and hearty but I have questions.

It’s also going to be SUPER WEIRD for Peter. Because that means HALF of his class has, like, graduated by now. If Liz Allen survived the Snap (and we don’t know she did), then she’d be in the work force by now, having already graduated college because she was a senior before, right?

Does that mean EVERYONE who is on the trip with Peter in Far from Home was Snapped? Is he going to be in class with students who WERE in middle school just MOMENTS ago by his perspective? (Since he says he think he passed out and he woke up with Dr. Strange talking to him?)

What was it LIKE for people who WEREN’T in Doctor Strange’s magic glowly circles? Do they remember anything? Did they just come back wherever they had been? What if they had been in a moving car? Are they now roadkill? Or does everyone appear in groups like the Snapped Avengers did.

Are there some people who have “moved on” as Cap termed it, who are now like, “Oh no, I have two spouses?”

Because, obviously, Clint is happy to see his family return and I would like to think everyone would be. But what if you gave birth to a baby and then got Snapped. Now that baby is five years old, does he or she give a shit about you anymore? Does he or she simply have a new family? How do you get custody back?

Again, I have a million questions and I think the answers are going to be mostly meta and not addressed in the canon and that bums me out a bit.