Avengers Endgame is a fantastic ending to the grand Marvel Cinematic Universe plot that was erected around the Perpetuity Monuments. The Russo Sisters have delivered well. A movie like Perpetuity Wars was a tough act to follow. While Windup isn't as pacy as its prequel, it wraps the story up enough well without plot holes. Without further ado, then’s Avengers Endgame’s timeline, plot, and ending explained. Spoilers ahead.
Perpetuity Monuments and Important Events
Still, do go through the Path of the Perpetuity Monuments for a quick recap, If you haven’t formerly. Also, check out the full recap of All the Marvel Pictures in a single composition. With these papers, you’ll be all caught up for Avengers Endgame.
We need to know many dates and details from the once pictures
1970 – When Howard Stark was conducting trials with the Tesseract (Space Stone) as part of Project Pegasus.
2012 – When Loki attacked New York with the help of the Mind Gravestone (Sceptre) and the Space Stone (Tesseract).
2012 – When the Time Stone (Eye of Agamotto) was with the Ancient One. At this point, Dr. Strange is still a neurosurgeon, not a conjurer.
2013 – When the Perpetuity Gravestone (Aether) had entered Jane, she was taken to Asgard.
2014 – When Red Skull was guarding the Soul Stone in Volmer.
2014 – When the Power Stone was in Morag, and Peter Quill was going to steal it.
Tony and Nebula
After losing everybody differently on Titan, Tony and Nebula are on a spaceship which they could regain to move around for 48 hours. But they lose power and are soon going to lose Oxygen. Captain Marvel, who gets to Earth because of the runner from Nick Fury learns about what has happed. She finds and brings back Tony and Nebula. Tony is distrait because of their loss and feels if they had been one platoon rather than falling out (like they did in the Civil War) they might have been suitable to cover the Perpetuity Monuments better.
Taking Out Thanos
Captain Marvel, Rhodes, Thor, Natasha, Bruce, Captain America, and Rocket detect Thanos with the help of Nebula. We see a retired Thanos who has formerly destroyed all the Perpetuity Monuments. Thor is furious and beheads Thanos. With all hope lost they return to Earth. 5 times pass. Let’s presume that the time is 2023.
Ant-Man and the Quantum Realm
Ant-Man who’s been trapped in the amount realm ( shown at the end of Ant-Man and the Wasp) gets thrown out of his van when a rat triggers the medium. While for him the ceased time was about 5 hours, the rest of the world periods by 5 times. He heads to meet Cap and Natasha to explain that they could use the Quantum Realm to travel back in time before Thanos and stop him.
Tony and Pepper
Tony and Pepper have a sprat now and are living in a quiet corner. Cap and the platoon approach Tony for help, but he refuses. Tony’s dilemma is the worst – while he’s misplaced enough people he loved, he was lucky enough to have Pepper with him and now a child.
Gawk-Banner goes looking for Pork-Thor
Bruce has planted a way to combine his intellect and the Gawk’s form to attend. We now have a large yet peaceful Gawk. Thor was really close to stopping Thanos, but he didn’t go for the head, and as a result, Thanos was suitable to snap his fritters. Thor is now a pot-bellied tippler living in Norway. Valkyrie (Scrapper 142 from the movie Ragnarok) stays there too. Gawk and Rocket show up to move Thor to join them and he does.
Hawkeye
Hawkeye has turned into a tone-placarded homicide killing all the “ bad” people who didn’t die because of Thanos’ snap. He feels he needs to retaliate against all the good dead folk, especially his family. Natasha meets him and gets him to join the platoon.
Avengers Endgame Time Travel Plan (The Time Heist)
Gawk is having a tough time trying the time machine on Ant-Man. Tony works out how to get the time trip thing going and risks it all to join the platoon. The plan is simply this, just get back all the lives claimed by the “ snap” in Perpetuity War straight into 2023. This means that every turned-to-ash person from 2018 will reappear in 2023. There's no intention to change the events of the Perpetuity War or any other once event. The platoon will travel back in time, steal the monuments, bring them to the present, and restore everyone who was turned to dust. Formerly done, they will return the Monuments to the position in time where they were stolen so that their history will remain unaltered and their timeline will be saved.
Avengers Endgame Team Distribution
2012 – New York Space Stone. Mind Gravestone. Time Stone
Captain America, Gawk, Ant-Man, and Tony head to 2012 in the middle of Loki’s attack (from the movie Avengers).
Captain America goes after the Sceptre which is being taken by Hydra who has sneakedS.H.I.E.L.D. At that time the Avengers are ignorant of this design. Captain America avoids any battle by simply saying “ Hail Hydra” and the Hydra gang proudly hands over the Sceptre to him. But soon he runs into Captain America from 2012 and the two fight. The 2023 Cap overpowers his history tone using the Sceptre.
Gawk goes over to talk to The Ancient One (from Dr. Strange). Originally, she’s not induced, but when Bruce tells her that Dr. Strange willingly gave away the time gravestone to Thanos, she realizes that he did that with a specific purpose. Grounded on that action she hands over the Time Stone to the Gawk. Remember, Dr. Strange checked out over 14 million realities, and only in one of those Thanos doesn’t win.
The 2012 Avengers are in discussion with Earth’s authority about who'll be arresting Loki. Thor plans to take him back to Asgard and Earth wants to first discipline Loki for his crimes. In that confusion, Tony and Ant-Man are nearly successful in getting the Tesseract but an angry Gawk from 2012, who’s been made to take the stairs, inaptly knocks down Tony. Loki takes the Tesseract and escapes. What happens to Loki isn't bared after this. Loki escaping would beget a new timeline but that isn't in the environment of this film.
Ant-Man returns to 2023 with the Mind Gravestone (Sceptre).
Gawk returns to 2023 with the Time Stone.
1970 –S.H.I.E.L.D Headquarters Space Stone
Tony and Cap head to 1970 because they need to get the Tesseract. They pick 1970 because Hank Pym happens to work in the same office where Howard Stark (Tony’s father) has set up a platoon to study the Tesseract (Project Pegasus). Tony sneaks into the installation and steals the Tesseract and converses with his pater. Cap steals some Pym flyspeck capsules because that's what he and Tony need to get back to 2023.
Tony and Cap return to 2023 with the Space Stone (Tesseract).
2013 – Asgard Reality Stone
Thor and Rocket get to Asgard where Jane is kept because she has the Aether in her. Thor runs into his mama and realizes that it’s the same day she'll die because of Malekith (what we see in Thor's The Dark World). Rocket retrieves the Aether as Thor is with his mama. He tries to advise her about her death, but she doesn’t want to know about her future. Thor takes the hammer from that time and leaves with Rocket.
Thor and Rocket return to 2023 with the Reality Gravestone (Aether).
2014 – Vormir Soul Stone
Hawkeye and Natasha are saluted by Red Skull at Vormir where he explains that the Soul Stone needs immolation. Both Hawkeye and Natasha contend to immolate themselves. Natasha wins and falls to her death. Yes, folks, that’s the sad end of the Black Widow.
With a heavy heart, Hawkeye returns to 2023 with the Soul Stone.
2014 – Morag Power Stone
Rhodes and Nebula reach Morag. Now, this is the time just before the events of the movie Guardians of the Galaxy. Before Quill can steal the Orb (Power Stone), the brace knocks him out, and Nebula steals the Orb rather. Unfortunately, 2014-Thanos is also looking for the Power Stone with the help of 2014-Gamora and 2014-Nebula at that very time. The two Nebula’s neural networks interlock and 2014-Thanos is suitable to see the recollections of the 2023-Nebula. 2014-Thanos becomes completely apprehensive of the events of the future and how he'll ultimately die but not before negotiating his deed of wiping out half the living effects on the earth. Rhodes leaves with the Orb, but 2023-Nebula is captured. The plan is to have the 2014-Nebula insinuate the Punishers in 2023 to get all the monuments.
Rhodes returns to 2023 with the Power Stone (Orb).
2014-Thanos, 2014-Gamora, 2014-Nebula, 2023-Nebula, and the entire line of the Chitauri army use the Pym Capsule to travel to 2023.
How does Nebula bring Thanos to the future? And, how did Thanos bring his army to the future?
Thanos is from a race of advanced beings on Titan. He has Ebony Gullet, who has genius-position intellect, working for him. The two of them together can reverse mastermind and mass-yield Pym Patches to bring the entire line forward in time. Once they've their analysis complete on 2023-Nebula’s Pym Capsule, they shoot 2014-Nebula to 2023. For the rest of the army, they will produce further Pym patches. Now, remember, this is a time trip. 2014-Nebula took only days to return back to 2023, and indeed if 2014-Thanos took 3 months to produce the capsules, they will travel forward to that exact point in time in 2023. So from the perspective of observers in 2023, 2014-Nebula and 2014-Thanos returned within twinkles of each other. But in 2014, Thanos and Gullet could take all the time they demanded to prepare the Pym Capsules for the entire army.
Avengers Windup Gawk’s Snap
Now that the Punishers have all the Monuments, they decide to go ahead with their plan. Tony has made a Gauntlet to host the monuments and Gawk offers to wear it. Gawk Snaps his fritters, and everyone is restored. Now, remember, people like Loki and Vision failed before Thanos’ snap, they won't be restored. Gamora and Natasha were both offered in exchange for the Soul Stone, which can’t be undone so they will remain dead.
Thanos Awaits
Thanos blows up the Stark Building and waits outdoors for the final battle. He wants to use the Gauntlet to annihilate the entire macrocosm and rebuild it from scrape. Iron-Man, Captain America, and Thor line over and fight him. They try really hard, Captain America is indeed good enough to apply Thor’s hammer, but Thanos is too important. He beats them to the ground.
How does Captain America lift Thor’s hammer?
Well, looks like he was always in a good outfit. However, in The Age of Ultron, Cap nearly lifts it, If you remember. It now appears that he abstain from lifting it because of the expression that Thor gives. The nice joe that Cap is, he wouldn’t want to make Thor look bad. But it looks like after that moment, Thor has had his own dubieties and that's why he screams “ I knew it” when Cap eventually wields the hammer in Punishers Endgame.
Nebula and Gamora
2023 Nebula convinces 2014 Gamora to go against Thanos. 2014 Nebula refuses and 2023 Nebula shoots and kills 2014 Nebula. Now, this appears to be a forefather incongruity right then but it’s not. You can scroll below for the Paradox Explanation.