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I think it's not just that, but rather that there also wasn't a clean and organic passing of the torch and I've said that from the moment the shitshow that was Infinity War dropped with blatant attempts to fuck with the audience and get fake emotional weight, and I stand by that and that it's in having to clean up after Infinity War that causes most of Endgame's problems.
Infinity War happened when we KNEW most of the characters who died had just had their actors contracts renewed, while the ones who lived largely were about to lapse and we fucking knew that too because it was part of the marketing push that these might be *the last* movies for most of these characters.
And they killed off most of their new characters who were *desperate* to have a chance to establish themselves, and kept their older, already established ones alive through the snap like a bunch of retards, meaning that said new characters didn't get their hand off and were absent for 99% of their last and biggest movie where most of their major pillar characters were tapping out, IE it became a hard end to the saga rather than just an end of an era and a beginning of a new one from a narrative standpoint.
Endgame should have been Spider-Man, Black Panther, Antman, and a few others trying to undo the snap and then given Ironman and Cap their big send off, not the latter doing it and then the former just come back for a happily ever after essentially during the final battle. Infinity War ended up being just pointless attempts at manipulating the audience's emotions for zero benefit with zero tension, and it CRIPPLED their one chance to give a lot of these struggling characters a stable platform and one last genuine boost from the old ones moving forward, and it's just been a fucking barrage of flops with all of two successful films since because of that.
