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* UpToEleven: Everything that has accumulated throughout the MCU up to this film is brought to bear against Thanos in the ultimate battle to protect the universe from his tyranny. All creative and filmic aspects are this as well. The story is the biggest one yet, the most serious of any Marvel movie to date, and the cast (of ''62 characters'') is the biggest of any superhero film ever.

** Hulk gets beaten handily during the opening sequence just to drive home how unstoppable Thanos is. Ebony Maw even prevents the Children of Thanos from fighting Hulk just so Thanos "can have his fun," and Thanos takes him on without the aid of the Gauntlet's power and purely his own strength.

--->'''Peter:''' Name's Peter, by the way.
--->'''Strange:''' Doctor Strange.
--->'''Peter:''' Oh, we're using our made up names. I'm Spider-Man then.

--->'''Peter Quill:''' Where is Gamora?
--->'''Tony:''' I'll do you one better. ''Who'' is Gamora?
--->'''Drax:''' No, I'll do you one better! ''Why'' is Gamora?

* SeriousWorkComedicScene: This film easily has the highest stakes at that point of the Film/MarvelCinematicUniverse with the heroes trying to prevent Thanos the Mad Titan from erasing half of the population of the universe. However, there are some humorous moments:

* SeinfeldianConversation: Tony Stark makes his first appearance talking with Pepper about how he had a dream that they had a kid, comparing it to how when one has a dream about needing to pee, then waking up needing to do just that.

* SeinfeldianConversation: Tony Stark makes his first appearance talking with Pepper about how he had a dream that they had a kid, comparing it to how when one has a dream about needing to pee, they waking up needing to do just that.

-->'''Kevin Feige:''' Thanos in ''Infinity War'' is, you know, in a movie that has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of characters]], you could almost go so far as to say he is the main character, and that's a bit of a departure from what we've done before, but that was appropriate for a movie called ''Infinity War''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Wong mentions that he's going back to protect the Sanctum after Strange is kidnapped as Tony and Peter go after him. His fate is not known as of the end of the film and the fingersnap.
** Hawkeye and Ant-Man never appear in the movie. It's revealed that after ''Civil War'', they both turned themselves in and worked out plea deals so they could go back to their families; their fates (and that of their families) after Thanos wiped out half of the universe's population are not revealed, either.
** Valkyrie, Korg and Miek are nowhere to be seen as Thanos storms the Asgardian ship and lays waste to apparently everyone on board. Director Joe Russo confirmed that Valkyrie at least survived after the film's release. In the film itself, it is mentioned repeatedly that Thanos kills half of the people and lets the remaining half live; thus, it can be inferred that half of the Asgardian/Sakaarian refugees aboard survived.
** Kraglin is absent from the ranks of the Guardians of the Galaxy, and there's no mention of him or the Ravagers. Though[[invoked]] WordOfGod [[https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status/991146069911392256?s=20 is]] that Kraglin is still alive and will reappear in the future.

** After his grandstanding monologue, Thanos holds up the Infinity Gauntlet...and we see he ''already has'' the Power Stone.
** Near the start of the film, it looks like The Hulk is going to {{curb stomp|battle}} another foe as he launches a surprise attack on Thanos and begins to pummel the Mad Titan. Then Thanos uses pure muscle to pry Hulk's hands off of his throat and proceeds to ''kick his ass.'' Two wham shots take place in this scene: first when Thanos overpowers the much-larger Hulk (even Hulk himself has a confused look on his face when this happens), and then when he military-press slams Hulk to the ground and stands over his barely-conscious body.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Avengers and Wakandans have never had any problem killing their enemies, so their slaughter of the Outriders and Black Order members isn't surprising. Spider-Man by contraast ''hasn't'' killed anyone yet, and yet has no problem creating the plan that sends Ebony Maw into space. Though it could also be the [[GodzillaThreshold insane ramping up of stakes to a cosmic scale]].

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: For heroes that usually go for ThouShaltNotKill, facing HumanAliens erase any qualms about that, such as Spider-Man creating the plan that sends Ebony Maw into space. Though it could also be the [[GodzillaThreshold insane ramping up of stakes to a cosmic scale]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome/MarvelCinematicUniverse Enough to be moved to a separate page.]]

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* ZergRush: The Outriders have massive numbers on their side and charge against the Avengers and the Wakandans. Several of them manage to [[DogPileOfDoom take down the Hulkbuster armor, dragging it to the ground]].
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Lot of characters die to give the surviving characters more angst and grief. Loki's death is this for Thor, Peter's death for Tony, Bucky's death for Steve, T'Challa's death for Okoye, Teen Groot's death for Rocket, and Gamora's death for Quill.

** After grabbing the Tesseract, Thanos crushes it to reveal the blue Mind Stone.

--->'''Hulk:''' ''[[BigNo NOOOO!!!]]''

** Unleashing the Hulk worked wonders against [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Loki and the Chitauri]] or [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Ultron and his drones]]. Against Thanos? Not so much. [[CurbStompCushion Hulk lands some solid blows on him at first]], but in the end it's [[UnskilledButStrong a powerful yet unwieldy bruiser who fights by flailing his arms around until the enemy all stop moving]] vs. [[StrongAndSkilled a disciplined brawler who is equally strong but uses proper fighting technique and martial arts]]. [[RealityEnsues And it's not even a close fight.]]

*** And of course there's the whole [[BadassFingersnap finger of doom]] issue. Not so much surprising in that it happened, as surprising in who it wound up claiming.

** And of course there's the whole [[BadassFingersnap finger of doom]] issue. Not so much surprising in that it happened, as surprising in who it wounds up claiming.

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Thanos's "death" at the hands of Gamora is done in two cuts and an EtTuBrute moment from Thanos. It's lampshaded by Quill with a "That was quick." Of course, it's followed up by the revelation that Thanos already took the Reality Stone and was just luring the Guardians there so he could find Gamora.
** And of course there's whole [[BadassFingersnap finger of doom]] issue. Not so much surprising in that it happened as surprising in who it wound up claiming.

* SeenItAll: After a decade of dealing with the unusual, the MCU as a whole has reached [[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Phil Coulson]] levels of "take crazy things in stride", partially due to the GodzillaThreshold that Thanos’s arrival creates - the heroes don’t really have the time to question the nature of the things they’re seeing, after all.

** Peter Parker's only reaction to Tony summing up the situation as, "He's from space, he came here to steal a necklace from a wizard" is "Mr. Stark is okay with me helping out with this."