Normally we’d chalk this one down to coincidence, but a recent interview with Marvel president Kevin Feige has lent this throwback Avengers fan theory some credence.
Twitter user Vahn has found an old interview with Robert Downey Jr, conducting during Avengers: Age of Ultron the press tour from 2015, in which the actor references the “endgame” for the superheroes.
This is, of course, the title of the upcoming movie, which was also referenced in last year’s Avengers: Infinity War by Dr. Strange.
Marvel president Feige told MTV at last night’s Golden Globes that the title “was in place before we started developing the movie”, meaning that Downey Jr’s interview could actually lend some clues to the upcoming film.
In the clip he refers to the plot of Age of Ultron, in which Tony Stark and Bruce Banner’s secret plan for a global defence program goes pretty badly, all things considered.
As the Avengers lay into the pair for endangering the fate of humanity, Stark name-checks the upcoming film, saying:
“Anybody remember when I carried a nuke through a wormhole, saved New York, recall that? A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space, we're standing 300 feet below it.
“We're the Avengers, we can bust arms dealers all the live long day, but that up there, that's the endgame. How are you guys planning on beating that?”
So what shall we make of that? Pure coincidence, or a genuine clue to what we can expect from Avengers: Endgame? We’ll have to wait and see.
