Avengers: Infinity War stunned the world with Thanos’ snap which led to many of our favourite MCU heroes and characters become victims of disintegration. It wiped out so many names just like that! You may think that the Russos were making room for other characters to shine in Avengers 4, but they actually chose the victims to maximise the impact on the survivors.
“The movie sort of keeps twisting at the end there in ways that you can’t believe it’s going one step beyond and that the fate of our characters and the fate of our universe are still at play. In terms of our choices of who Thanos would end up eradicating with his snap, it was very story focused. How do we pay off each individual character story most profoundly? The first person to go is Bucky Barnes and it’s shot from Captain America’s perspective. We’re watching Cap go through the experience of watching him go away. We’re watching Okoye, whose number one mission it is in life is to protect the king. She watches the king go, in front of her. To see those characters react in those situations is very powerful and resonant.”
One thing which has been confirmed is the fact that all the snap victims will surely make their return in Avengers 4. Kevin Feige confirmed the fact that none of the snap victims and other dead characters will be part of any of the marketing material of the upcoming movie but we all know it for a fact that all of them have to return.
“There was one scene, I think, we had where everybody was there. I can’t really talk about that scene, but I knew it took them three months in planning this scene to have everyone there. You look around and you just saw everyone from Samuel L. Jackson to Michael Douglas to Michelle Pfeiffer. Everybody was there.”
Since these characters are considered permanently dead, the only two ways by which these characters could be brought back would be through Time Travel as the Avengers would try to go and prevent the Snap from ever happening. But then these characters won’t know a time when they were dead, which means that we will be losing some of their character development in the future films.
Their bit will mostly have to do certain things in the third act when the final battle against Thanos (and probably other villains) will take place. Avengers 4 will come out on May 3 and Here’s the official Synopsis of Avengers 4:
“A culmination of 22 interconnected films the fourth installment of the Avengers saga will draw audiences to witness the turning point of this epic journey. Our beloved heroes will truly understand how fragile this reality is and the sacrifices that must be made to uphold it.”