History Fridge / AvengersInfinityWar

** Scott survived the culling but Hope, Hank, and Janet were not so lucky; Scott is now trapped in the Quantum Realm for god knows how long.
*** The most recent trailer for ''Avengers: Endgame'' confirms Hawkeye's alive... and running around on his own as Ronin. Given his haggard, haunted expression, it's really not looking good for his family.

** Confirmed by Kevin Feige that animals were also affected by Thanos's fingersnap. We know that the giant ant at Lang's house is okay, but this could essentially negatively affect the ecosystem if the food chain gets affected somehow.

* Of the seven heroes who battle Thanos on Titan, five are dusted after he snaps his fingers, leaving Stark and Nebula completely alone on the planet. Is it simple rotten luck that this group, already reeling from Thanos having escaped them, lose well over half their members in his culling? Perhaps not: perhaps these seven people are the only living things in the ''entire universe'' whose fate was decided by Thanos rather than left to random chance. Thanos came very close to losing when Mantis put him to sleep and was furious after awakening; though he calmed down through winning his one-on-one duels with Strange and Stark, the frustration of that fight is probably still fresh in his mind, far more so than the CurbStompBattle he'd just delivered to the many heroes waiting for him in Wakanda. And so, still angry at the opponents he faced on Titan, he eliminates ''all'' of them -- all but Stark, whom he promised Strange he would spare, and Nebula, whose reasons for being spared we learn near the beginning of ''Endgame'': for one thing, despite how cruelly he treats her throughout this film, he is fond of her in his own twisted way, as he admits in his dying breath. For another, as Nebula explains before setting off with the Avengers to find Thanos in his garden, he used to tell her at length about his hopes for his "grateful universe"; Thanos probably wants her, the person who knows more about his hopes and dreams than anyone else, to see what happens.

** Finally, Hawkeye is a foil to Proxima Midnight. Both are the "normal guy" of their team, and both have a family that they try to take care for. Both also end up watching their family die in their arms - however, Hawkeye is forced to live with this experience for five years, while Proxima dies soon after.

* When Ebony Maw hands Thanos the Tesseract, his closing statement on how Thanos now has two Infinity Stones is that "the universe in his (Thanos) grasp". Thanos '''crushes''' the Tesseract to obtain the Space Stone inside. This foreshadows not just the reality of Snap's consequences (the indirect deaths afterwards while leaving the universe in tatters), but also his plan to destroy and rebuild the universe in ''Endgame''.

* With the Infinity Gauntlet (and the Nano-Gauntlet in ''Endgame''), the middle finger and thumb are the fingers which are physically used to make a fingersnap which activates the Infinity Stones' combined power, and those two fingers are where the Space and Time Stones are respectively positioned. When the user snaps their fingers, they literally have control over space and time, as the classic sci-fi line about {{Galactic Conqueror}}s goes.

* With the final episodes of the fifth season of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' occurring at the same time as ''Infinity War'', with the event where Talbot destroys Earth happening before Thanos arrives to Wakanda, it could be possible this event could be one of the many losses Strange saw in the 14,000,605 different timelines.

* It seems rather convenient that not only the heroes fail to stop Thanos, but the snap spared the original Avengers. However, recall what Kevin Feige said about the Time Stone itself in ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''. He said that the Time Stone can not only manipulate time, but also ''probabilities''. Of course things played out the way it was. Of course Quill would accidentally hit Mantis' hand, undoing her mind control. Of course the heroes came short of pulling the gauntlet off completely. Of course the original Avengers and Ant-Man were spared. And of course the Pyms got dusted before they could pull Scott Lang out of the Quantum Realm. Doctor Strange manipulated all the chances of that happening with the Time Stone before he gave it to Thanos.

*** Leads to some FridgeHorror if you're of the opinion that Dr. Strange didn't tamper with who gets dusted. How many timelines happened where everything up to and including the snap went the exact same way as this version, but the wrong people got dusted? If Strange didn't tamper with the snap, there's definitely some timelines where Scott got dusted in the Quantum Realm and wouldn't realize the time travel possibilities. Universes where either Hank, Hope, or Janet were spared and brought Scott back so that they never realized it was a time machine. Universes where Tony got snapped so he can't solve the time travel issues. Hell, we could fill a whole FridgeLogic page on ways the plan could have failed based on the people who ended up dusted.

*** [[spoiler: More specifically, the delay may have been necessary to ensure that ''Scott Lang would be in the Quantum Realm'' at the exact moment of Thanos's snap. Had he not been trapped there for five years that felt like five hours, he wouldn't have alerted the Avengers to its potential as a time-travel method and the events of ''Endgame'' couldn't have unfolded as they did.]]

*** In fact ''Endgame'' shows that Strange giving up the Time Stone willingly was crucial to the plan. The Ancient One refuses to give Banner the Time Stone until she learns that Strange willingly gave the stone to Thanos.

*** [[spoiler: And ''Endgame'' resolves the contradiction: it's only by Stark's HeroicSacrifice that Thanos's victory is ultimately averted. So Strange ''actually was'' sacrificing Tony's life as he'd promised to, just '''''not yet'''''.]]

** The above point is meant to highlight as the Russos said that Thanos removing his armor was meant to show suicidal overconfidence since the armor would have helped him resist some of the heroes' blows such as Stormbreaker. Turn ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Thanos is a lot more dangerous in close combat because he has both his protective equipment and a weapon and is presumably more well protected because Thor has to keep going for the head.

*** Additionally, from the stinger of Film/AntManAndTheWasp, Ant-Man himself survived Thanos, while Spider-Man himself got erased. Both are bug-themed superheroes who are rather comedic compared to the rest of the team, and were both SixthRanger members during the events of ''Civil War''.

** Rocket/Groot: Partners. One is an UpliftedAnimal, the other is a sentient plant.

** Why does T'Challa have twin mini shields made for Steve rather than a shield more similar to his previous shield? Because he's accounting for Steve having to fight without the vibranium shield for two years and being more used to fighting with both his hands at the current moment as such. Case in point, when Steve fights with both shields, he fairs quite well. T'Challa also had those types of shields made too because those shields would be better for offense, which would be better for an all out fight.

* In some light-hearted Fridge Humor, the EleventhHourRanger that Nick Fury summons to deal with Thanos is none other than Captain '''''[[JustForPun Marvel]]'''''.

** King T'challa failed to stop the enemy in his kingdom at the climax like how Thor, another king who'd just lost a father, failed likewise at the films start.
** If Iron Man's Bleeding Edge armor is indeed Wakanda and therefore, Vibranium based, Thanos tearing it apart foreshadowed that Wakanda's greatest recourse was powerless against him.

* Thor reasons that he isn't dead and that he will kill Thanos because fate has willed it but Rocket brings up the possibility of Thor being wrong isn't just a heart to heart, but foreshadows that Thor will not be able to kill Thanos. Because Thanos has the Infinity Gauntlet, he effectively controls fate, meaning fate won't go as intended, making Thor killing Thanos much less likely.