Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20171206004220/@comment-29908830-20180110063020

Well everyone, I clearly need a life. Here’s a full plot synopsis, based on what we’ve been given and my own personal desires, of what I believe will happen in Avengers: Infinity War. It’ll probably need to be changed once a new trailer pops up, but for now, here you go. Also, in case some of this does come true, a quick SPOILER ALERT:

“The film begins on a desolate planet, where Thor’s Asgardian ship has been decimated, leaving the majority of its occupants dead. Among the dead bodies, Loki and Thanos stand in front of each other. Thanos tells Loki that the latter knows why the former killed everyone, and Loki holds up the Tesseract, hoping that by giving it to Thanos his life will be spared. Thanos takes the Tesseract and it transforms into the Space Stone, placing it alongside the Power Stone. However, Thanos is shown to still hold a grudge against Loki, as he lost the Mind Stone (which Thanos had been promised would come back to him). As a result, Thanos kills Loki, but not before Loki reveals he used his power to save some of the passengers, and that they will come for Thanos.

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Xandar has been almost completely wiped out by Thanos and the Black Order. While the surviving Nova Corps begin rebuilding, they hire the Guardians of the Galaxy to hunt down Thanos. The Guardians arrive at some of the ruins of the ship, but they can only find Thor, floating unconscious in space. After Mantis revives him, Thor quickly allies with the Guardians and tells them Thanos had attacked them before sending some of his Black Order members to find an interdimensional gate that Thanos intends to use with the Infinity Gauntlet to enact his will on the entire world; he also gives the Guardians the locations of the other Infinity Stones, having learned of them in his cave vision. He, Rocket, and Groot set out to find the gate, while the rest of the Guardians decide to find the other Infinity Stones, beginning with going to the Collector to claim the Aether.

On Earth, Hulk crashes into the New York Sanctum, and due to the shear force is restored to his Banner self. Dr. Strange and Wong soon find him and learn the same information. Iron Man, who has been studying these patterns since Thor told him about them before he left, also senses it and pays them a visit. As he does, a giant portal opens in Manhattan; Spider-Man senses this happen. Immediately a massive army of Kree bursts through the portal in search of the Time Stone, decimating the city and killing many of Spidey’s classmates. Before the heroes can even unite, the Black Order claims the Time Stone and temporarily freezes the city before leaving. Spidey meets up with Iron Man (who was somehow not affected) and the rest of the heroes, and they make a plan to defeat Thanos, resulting in Spidey joining the Avengers and acquiring his new suit. Wong has to stay behind to protect the Sanctums, so the group decides to recruit Vision and War Machine. However, they discover Vision has been kidnapped, so Banner and War Machine go looking for him. As a result, Iron Man, Spidey, and Strange use one of the Sanctum portals to go into space and find Thanos alone, stealing a spaceship while they’re at it.

The kidnapper is revealed to be Scarlet Witch, who took Vision under orders from Captain America (who is now a grizzled antihero) to keep the Mind Stone safe without inevitably being captured by Iron Man. She takes Vision to Berlin for the time being, ultimately planning to take him to Wakanda. While they are there, however, they are attacked by Black Order members Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight. Scarlet Witch briefly fights a losing battle, with Vision nearly having the Mind Stone removed, but is saved by the arrival of Cap, Falcon, and Black Widow, who kill Corvus and Proxima. The five heroes go to Wakanda, where Wanda and Vision (who is disguising himself as a human) consummate.

Meanwhile, the Guardians (Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis) arrive at the Collector’s place. They discover Thanos is already there, having learned of the Reality Stone’s location from interrogating the Asgardians. Thanos asks the Collector where the Aether is, but the Collector repeatedly lies it is elsewhere. Seeing Thanos, Drax jumps at him, forcing the Guardians to fight Thanos; in surprise of being ambushed, Thanos accidentally kills the Collector. Despite their struggle, Thanos is able to easily not only obtain the Aether among the Collector’s goods, but also capture Gamora, hoping to have her return to his side. Unbeknownst to Thanos, Gamora has placed a homing device on Thanos so the Guardians can locate him, eventually tracking Thanos to his homeworld, Titan. Iron Man’s group also picks up the signal, as does Nebula.

Thor, Rocket, and Groot, meanwhile, reach the gate, but are confronted by Cull Obsidian. They end up fighting, during which time Cull reveals that Thanos not only wants to use the gate to take over Earth-199999, but the entire Multiverse. The trio eventually kill him and prepare to shut down the gate.

Hulk and War Machine find the group in Wakanda, where they learn that Cap has taken all of the anti-accords heroes to Wakanda, and he, Nick Fury, and Black Panther, due to already having the Soul Stone prior, intend to collect all of the Infinity Stones and use them against Thanos. War Machine attempts to arrest their group regardless, while Hulk feels it will only invite challenge from Thanos. Both are forced to give it up, however, when they see that Hulk’s worries come true: Ebony Maw is leading an army of Outriders to storm the Wakandan capital and claim the Stones. Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant-Man stay behind to guard Vision, while Cap, Panther, Widow, War Machine, Hulk, Falcon, and a revived, vibranium-armed (literally) Winter Soldier lead the entire Wakandan army against the Outriders. An epic battle isn’t enough to turn the tide, however, as the Outriders use brute strength and claim the Soul Stone, ravaging the Wakandan army. Ebony Maw, meanwhile, locates Vision and ends up fighting the trio of heroes against him. They end up defeated, and Ebony Maw claims the Mind Stone and crushes Vision’s body, killing him. However, Cap comes back to the spot and fights Ebony Maw in a grueling duel. Both of them sustain heavy injuries, but Cap’s prove fatal, and he dies slowly, painfully, and alone.

Simultaneously on Titan, the Guardians and Nebula meet with Iron Man, Spidey, and Strange, where they find Thanos waiting for them. Though they are horrified to discover he has four of the Infinity Stones, they nonetheless take him on. A long battle ensues, but none of the heroes are able to even scratch him, culminating with Thanos fatally wounding Spidey, who acted recklessly in an attempt to avenge his deceased friends, by slamming him into the ground and punching a hole through his chest. Spidey dies in Iron Man’s arms, leaving him dazed and dysfunctional. At that time, Ebony Maw returns via a personal transporter and gives Thanos the final two Stones, rendering Thanos practically omnipotent. Ebony Maw believes he will gain favor with Thanos, but instead, Thanos declares he no longer has need for his subordinates. In a fit of ego, he proceeds to “grab” the moon Iapetus and throw it directly at them. Strange uses his sling ring to take the heroes back to Earth, but Nebula stays behind and stabs Thanos in the side. Thanos quickly teleports away, leaving Ebony Maw and Nebula to be annihilated in the resulting incursion. Thanos arrives at the gate, where he reveals he can always find another one to Thor’s group, then leaves them stranded in space, their final fate unknown.

Months pass and Thanos has taken over all of Earth-199999 without resorting to a gate. In spite of that, he’s a genuinely good ruler, his only questionable actions being exhuming the bodies of other metahumans and giving the death penalty to all (genuine) crimes. The remaining heroes have gone underground and have begun looking for Thor’s group, while Ant-Man, having learned of the Multiverse through Ebony Maw, has left to find the Pyms and gain their help. In Wakanda, Iron Man, Strange, and Star-Lord visit Cap’s grave, having managed to keep his body. Iron Man, musing how he wanted Spidey to be his successor, asks the other two how, despite other villains having had Thanos’ exact ambitions, they only lost to him. While Strange believes it is because the heroes refused to put their differences aside for the common good, Star-Lord (having learned the lesson from his fight with Ego) goes further and says that they refused their differences aside among themselves, leaving the team unable to communicate the way the Black Order could. Iron Man decides that they may never truly know why, but Strange says they will once they defeat Thanos, and the remaining Avengers begin their plot.

In the mid-credits scene, Thanos takes Spidey’s corpse and places it among many others, while still wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.”