History AvengersEndgame / TropesDToG

* FlawExploitation: After his fight against Crossbones in Nigeria during ''Civil War'', Captain America lamented that just hearing Bucky's name when he wasn't expecting it was enough to make him freeze up for a moment too long for Rumlow to activate the bomb he strapped on himself [[TakingYouWithMe as a last resource to kill Steve]]. Come the Time Heist, Steve used the same trick to knock out his 2012 self when the latter, thinking he was a [[MasterOfDisguise disguised Loki]], tried to stop him from taking the Scepter.

* GeniusBruiser: Two heroines empowered by Infinity Stones, Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel, clearly overpowered Thanos ''individually'', but Thanos still manages to dispatch them through quick thinking: he orders his ship to fire on the former to throw her off, and uses the Power Stone to enhance his strength to blindside the latter.

* GeniusBruiser: Two heroines empowered by Infinity Stones, Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel, clearly overpowered Thanos ''individually'', but Thanos still manages to dispatch them through quick thinking: he orders his ship to fire on the former to throw her off, and uses the Power Stone to enhance his strength to blindside the latter.
* GenocideSurvivor:
** Most of the film follows the survivors of the Decimation as they try to cope with the horror of Thanos's actions and eventually come up with a plan to reverse the Decimation.
** After Thanos killed half of Asgard, Thor and Valkyrie set up a settlement on Earth called New Asgard. But due to Thor's depression over the events of the previous film, Valkyrie becomes the ''de facto'' leader.

* FusionDance: Bruce Banner and Hulk apparently went through one off-screen during the five year time skip. The result is Hulks body and strength with Bruce's personality. Everyone seemed a bit put off by it as it didn't seem natural.

** New York City is implied to be barely populated years after Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet. The ballpark stadium is overgrown and crumbling, thousands of abandoned ships lie at its docks, most of the buildings are completely dark and empty, and scattered vehicles still dot its streets.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While still a idealistic film, the whole film has an extremely dark and depressing tone with overtones of hopelessness and profoundly misanthropic undertones. The whole world here is shown to be dark and in despair (looking kinda like something out of ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' and ''Film/{{Logan}}''), the film opens with a truly ungodly DownerBeginning sequence, our main heroes are now [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veterans]], there is plenty of drama on almost every scene, and two of the original six Avengers, Black Widow and Iron Man, are both KilledOffForReal, not to mention a BittersweetEnding that is a borderline DownerEnding. This is without a doubt the darkest MCU film by a long mile, and it will hit you after the end credits.

** Starts off with one, even. Let's see... Most of our heroes are dead, along with half of all life in the universe, and the most obvious means to fix everything -- the Infinity Gauntlet -- is still with Thanos. To say that our heroes have their work cut out for them is a massive understatement.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Despite all the effort the Avengers put into trying to save Vision's life in ''Infinity War'', they don't appear to have made any effort to resurrect him in the subsequent five years by using Shuri's research and experiments, or consider how to revive him when trying to undo Thanos's snap; not even Tony and Bruce, who created him. The only mention he gets is from Wanda, and then not even by name. [[spoiler:This is explained by the reveal in ''Series/{{Wandavision}}'' that his body has been in S.W.O.R.D.'s hands since shortly after the Battle of Wakanda.]]

* ForWantOfANail:
** The entire plot of the movie occurs because a rat randomly crawls across the quantum realm machine's control panel. The rat's heroism has now become a MemeticMutation.[[invoked]]
** Post-snap Nebula being inadvertently connected to her 2014 self and sharing memories with her, which has the effect of bringing 2014 Thanos and his armies in the post-snap present day.

** Tony accepts the fact that drifting through space for weeks means he's barely hanging on by a thread and that he will die soon, but his final thoughts are still of Pepper.

** Upon seeing his entire forces disintegrating, Thanos just quietly sits down, tired and defeated, while waiting for his inevitable disintegration.

** Thanos does this twice.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: This attitude is what reveals Thanos to be a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist. When past Thanos realizes that the people of the universe are not grateful for his future self culling half of life to save the other half, he decides to [[spoiler:destroy the entire universe and create a new one where people give him the respect he feels he deserves.]]

* GroupPowerWalk: The Avengers plus Nebula and Rocket perform this as they solemnly approach the Quantum Tunnel in the hangar, all clad in white and red quantum suits and ready to travel to the past.

** ZigZagged with Steve's shield. It's too weak to defend against Thanos's sword and too damaged to have the reliable aerodynamics needed for BattleBoomerang attacks, but Steve also wields Mjölnir for the final battle and can [[DiscardAndDraw use it in tandem with his shield]] for [[MakeMeWannaShout disorienting sonic attacks]].

* DramaticIrony: In the past, Black Widow and Hawkeye go off cheerfully to acquire the Soul Stone, expecting it to be a simple trip there and back. The audience already knows that one of them will have to die to obtain it, as the previous movie establishes that one must sacrifice someone very close to them to obtain the stone, as Thanos sacrificed Gamora in ''Infinity War''.

* ForWantOfANail:
** The entire plot of the movie occurs because a rat randomly crawls across the quantum realm machine's control panel. The rat's heroism has now become a MemeticMutation.[[invoked]]
** Post-snap Nebula being inadvertently connected to her 2014 self and sharing memories with her, which has the effect of bringing 2014 Thanos and his armies in the post-snap present day.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: This attitude is what reveals Thanos to be a [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist not so well intentioned extremist]]. When the people of the universe are not grateful to him for culling half all life to save the other half, he decides to [[spoiler:destroy the entire universe and create a new one where people give him the respect he feels he deserves.]]

** When the Avengers confront Thanos on his retirement planet, they discover that Thanos destroyed the Stones and that doing so nearly killed him. Five years later, Tony snaps his gauntlet to destroy Thanos and his army, but since Tony is not as strong as Thanos, he is killed by the power of the Stones. Tony's knowledge of this reinforces his HeroicSacrifice since he was aware of the cost but did it anyways. As an added foreshadowing, Tony's mug shot is directly next to Thanos in the movie poster, not ''just'' to hint that it's personal between the two.