AVENGERS: ENDGAME - Kevin Feige's Initial Pitch Involved Killing ALL Six Original Team Members

I usually give Feige the benefit of the doubt, but nah... Don't like his jdea hear. Killing off Iron Man, Black Widow and essentially Cap was enough.

Hulk, Thor, and Hawkeye sticking around is cool

I’m not a great fan of Feige, yes he has pushed the MCU and without him it might not be where it is now but he does have some really wacko ideas…

The directors (or writers) joked about no action until the third act

I think I have seen this movie only 3 times it was very disappointing (to me)

I imagine the conversation went something like this during the first pitch:

Feige: what if we killed off all the original Avengers

The Russos: nah, we can't give them all the spotlight

Feige: ok, then kill off Stark. I have plans for him in What If...

I think the only way that works is if they all have to do it at once. Like if there’s a Guardians of the Galaxy scenario where they have to be together to do the third snap. If it was one by one I don’t think it would have worked because after a couple it would have felt forced

Everyone? No, that's a hard no on my part. I get why he would come to that conclusion and given contract expirations of various castmembers I get where he's coming from BUT there is no way the general audience could stomach losing every single one of their original heroes in one sitting.
I'm fully expecting Thor to either die or turn human in Love & Thunder and Hawkeye to go full deaf in his solo show rendering him practically retired though.
As for Hulk, I suppose the World War Hulk film will be his swan-song.
I was at least hoping for Thor to stay present until the day Chris dies but given that he has become one of the most bankable movie stars in the world it'll be hard to keep him as well.

On a marketing note I can't encourage enough to find ways to reincorporate the original Avengers in the MCU until the very end. Franchises tend to die with it's original leads, so here are some proposals from my side:

- get RDJ on the Volume for three days and have him pre-shoot literally the entire Phase 4 slate as T.O.N.Y., an AI for Ironhearts armour to lead and educate her. Turn him into Paul Bettany and give fans the incentive to return to the franchise and accept the "new" characters.

- similar scenario goes for Chris Evans, put him into Old Man Steve get up, pre-shoot a bunch of scenes with him as the leader of S.W.O.R.D. and sprinkle these scenes across Phase 4/5 until he properly dies of old age.

- Thor turning human and re-taking his place as the leader of New Asgaard gives ample opportunity to bring Thor back as a character to seek out for guidance and help Hemsworth with his physique. If he can't work out for whatever reason he simply got skinnier because he's now human and aged. Sprinkle him across the movies as a mentor figure.

- the same can be done with a deaf Hawkeye, who might not be able to fight anymore but bestow relevant guidance on the younger and more inexperienced characters.


I know, it's nostalgia baiting but nostalgia is a HEAVY factor in todays film industry. Marvel shouldn't pass the chance up to find excuses to bring back beloved characters and gain some more viewers by maintaining a sense of cast-consistency.