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Committee: MARVEL
AGENDA: The Continuation of Avengers Initiative after the demise
of Iron Man

After Thanos activates the completed Infinity Gauntlet, Clint Barton's family disintegrates, along with
half of all life across the universe. Nebula and Tony Stark are stranded in space following their defeat
by Thanos on Titan, but are returned to Earth by Carol Danvers and reunited with Natasha
Romanoff, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Rocket, Thor, and James Rhodes. The team formulates a plan
to steal the Infinity Stones back from Thanos and use them to reverse his actions, but learn upon
finding him that he had used the stones a second time to destroy them, preventing their further use.
In anger, Thor cuts off Thanos's head.

Five years later, Scott Lang escapes from the quantum realm to discover that his daughter Cassie is
now a teenager and that Hope van Dyne, along with half of the population, has disappeared in the
snap. Rogers has been leading grief counselling sessions for survivors still struggling with the effects
of the snap, while Romanoff is tirelessly keeping watch over both Earth and the rest of the universe
with the help of Rhodes, Danvers, Okoye, Rocket, and Nebula. Lang goes to Romanoff and Rogers,
and explains that while five years had passed for them, only five hours had passed for him in the
quantum realm. The three go to Stark, who is now raising a child with Pepper Potts, and explain their
theory that the quantum realm can be used to go back in time and steal the Infinity Stones before
Thanos is able to collect them. Stark initially rejects their proposal with concern about risking his
family and the peace he has found, but after reflecting upon the loss of Peter Parker decides to test
theoretical models that would work with Lang's quantum tunnel, eventually finding one that works.

With Stark now on board with the plan, the remaining Avengers set out to reassemble their team.
Bruce Banner has now embraced the Hulk as a part of him, and has melded his own consciousness
and the Hulk's together into one. Romanoff, after hearing reports from Rhodes of an assassin that
operates with similar methods to Barton, goes the Japan to track him down. Barton, consumed with
grief after the loss of his family, has been operating under the mantle "Ronin" while brutally
massacring cartels and gangs in order to try and improve the world that's still left. After some
convincing from Natasha, he agrees to re-join the team in order to try and bring his family back.
Banner and Rocket go to the small town of New Asgard, where Valkyrie and the last survivors of
Asgard have settled. They there find Thor, who has become overwhelmed by guilt over not killing
Thanos the first time, in Wakanda. Thor has become majorly overweight, his hair and beard are
overgrown, and he spends his free time eating junk food, getting drunk, and playing Fortnite with his
friends Korg and Miek. Thor begrudgingly agrees to return to the Avengers after some convincing
from Rocket and Banner.

After testing the quantum time machine on Barton, who confirms that it works, The Avengers are
reunited with a plan - Banner, Rogers, Lang, and Stark embark to retrieve the Time, Mind, and Space
stones during the battle of New York in 2012. Banner goes to the Sanctum Sanctorum, where he is
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informed by the Ancient One that taking the Time Stone from her time line would prevent
Stephen Strange's future efforts to stop Kaecilius from destroying the laws of nature. She eventually
concedes the Time Stone to Banner after he informs her that Strange had given Thanos the stone in
his time line, implying Strange had intended for a specific sequence of events to occur for Thanos to
be defeated. Banner also promises the stones' return to their proper time lines in order to prevent
any ill effects. Lang and Stark attempt to steal the Space Stone after the Avengers confiscate it from
Loki. Lang gives Stark's past self a cardiac arrest by pulling a circuit in his artificial heart, while Stark
steals the briefcase housing the Tesseract when nobody is looking. Their plan is thwarted when Stark
drops the briefcase after he is accidentally hit by the Hulk. Loki then steals the Space Stone and uses
it to escape custody. Rogers succeeds in stealing the Mind Stone from undercover Hydra agents, but
stumbles across his past self, who mistakes him for a disguised Loki. After defeating past-Steve,
Rogers meets back up with Stark and Lang, who now must figure out another way to get the Space
Stone without running out of the limited supply of Pym Particles that allow them to travel through
the quantum realm. Lang returns to the present with the Mind Stone while Rogers and Stark devise a
plan to steal the Space Stone from a U.S. Army installation in the 1970s, while stealing further vials
of Pym Particles in order to make the journey back home. While there, Rogers sights Peggy Carter
and Stark has a meaningful conversation with his father Howard.

Rocket and Thor travel to Asgard to retrieve the Reality Stone before Malekith uses it against the
nine realms. While in Asgard, Thor is reminded that his mother, Frigga, would die soon and has a
chance encounter with her while Rocket steals the Reality Stone from Jane Foster. The two return to
Earth after Frigga counsels Thor and he retrieves his hammer Mjolnir, elated to discover that he is
still worthy of it. Nebula and Rhodes travel to Morag to steal the Power Stone before Peter Quill
does. As Rhodes returns to the present with the Power Stone, Nebula malfunctions and remains on
Morag. With two consciousnesses operating on Nebula's systems, Thanos and Ebony Maw discover
the presence of future Nebula and go to kidnap her. Nebula realizes what has happened and tries to
warn the others, but is too late. Thanos scans her memories and discovers the Avengers' plan, and
sends the more loyal past Nebula back to the present as a spy. Barton and Romanoff travel to Vormir
to retrieve the Soul Stone, though are conflicted when Red Skull, keeper of the Soul Stone, informs
them that the stone can only be retrieved by sacrificing someone they love. The two fight over which
will make the sacrifice, with Romanoff ultimately taking the fall, while a distraught Barton returns to
Earth with the Soul Stone.

After everyone has returned to Earth, Stark, Rocket, and Banner set out to craft a gauntlet to wield
the stones. Banner volunteers himself to wield the gauntlet and bring back everyone that
disappeared in Thanos's snap, reasoning that he can withstand both the radiation poisoning and the
immense pain brought on by using the stones. He succeeds, though they are almost immediately
attacked by Thanos, who has been brought to Earth by the impostor Nebula, destroying the
quantum portal in the process. Thanos reduces the Avengers headquarters to rubble, splitting the
team up and causing the gauntlet to fall into Barton's protection. The past Nebula is killed by her
future self as she attempts to take the Infinity Stones from Barton, while Rogers, Thor, and Stark
confront Thanos, who decides he will instead use the Infinity Stones to destroy the universe and
create one in his vision. The three fight Thanos one on one, with Rogers confirming Thor's theory
that he is worthy of wielding Mjolnir, but are each bested by Thanos. Soon after Thanos' army lands
on Earth T'Challa appears before Rogers, along with all of the Avengers and other allies revived by
Banner, before launching an assault on Thanos and his army. After a lengthy battle during which
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Stark is reunited with Parker and Quill is reunited with past Gamora, Thanos wrestles with
numerous Avengers for the Infinity Stones. Captain Marvel reappears, taking out Thanos's ship while
fighting for control of the gauntlet. Stark manoeuvres the Infinity Stones from Thanos' hand to his
own and placed himself between a threat to the whole universe and managed to stop it — though
no amount of armour could save him. “I am inevitable,” Thanos said, after grappling with the hero
and tossing him aside. But when the Titan snapped his fingers, he found his Infinity Gauntlet empty
of gems.” And I… am… Iron Man,” said Stark, revealing that he’d used his attack to snatch the Infinity
Stones away. He placed himself between a threat to the whole universe and managed to stop it —
though no amount of armour could save him. “I am inevitable,” Thanos said, after grappling with the
hero and tossing him aside. But when the Titan snapped his fingers, he found his Infinity Gauntlet
empty of gems.” And I… am… Iron Man,” said Stark, revealing that he’d used his attack to snatch the
Infinity Stones away. There was always a daredevil aspect to Tony Stark, a defiance of danger, a
determination — almost a self-destructive impulse — to put himself in harm’s way. Eventually, it
was going to end in something he couldn’t walk away from. Peter Parker and Potts console Stark as
he dies from overexposure to the Stones.

Following the battle, The Avengers hold a funeral for Stark, whose original arc reactor is floated out
on the lake next to his house. Barton and Wanda Maximoff take solace in the fact that Romanoff and
Vision, who did not return in the snap, would be proud of their victory over Thanos. Thor makes
Valkyrie the Queen of Asgard and joins the Guardians of the Galaxy in order to find his true purpose,
free of the burden of royalty and leadership for the first time in his life. Barton returns home to his
family and Parker returns to school, where he is reunited with his best friend Ned. Meanwhile,
Rogers is tasked to go into the past to return the stones and Thor's hammer to their original time
lines, but decides not to return to the present and to instead live the rest of his life in the past with
Carter. He appears before Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes as an old man, and passes his shield and the
mantle of Captain America on to Wilson. A brief flashback shows Rogers and Carter finally sharing
the dance they never got to have in their living room, truly happy at last.

This is why Thanos knows who this puny human is in Infinity War. Stark had already made a lot of
trouble for him.

Endgame wraps up the franchise’s main storylines while promoting other secondary and tertiary
characters to centre stage in future films and TV shows.

Possible character developments which take place:

Doctor Strange: Possessing tremendous knowledge of parallel universes, Doctor Strange in his new
adventure discovers the possibilities that multiverses hold which could potentially lead to many
more superheroes being introduced the MCU.

Thor: Returning to Asgard and reassuming his position as the God of Thunder, we see Jane Foster
wielding Mjolnir and Valkyrie assumes the role of the ruler of Asgard which was assigned to her
during Endgame.
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Spiderman: having faced his newest foe Magneto, Peter Parker faces the challenge of keeping
himself safe as his identity has been revealed to the world as the “friendly neighbourhood,
Spiderman”

Shang-Chi: Shang-Chi will fight the Mandarin, a character who appeared in Iron Man 3

Possible Subtopics for discussion:

1. Redefining the Role of the Avengers Initiative