Every hero can either live or die that means there are 2^24 combinations, or 16,777,216. The survivors' numbers will also be bolstered in Avengers: Endgameby Hawkeye, Captain Marvel, and Ant-Man. That would also explain why Strange intervened when Thanos was on the verge of killing Tony Stark he knew that Stark was one of the heroes who needed to be left alive if Thanos was to ultimately be defeated.Īssuming this really is all about which heroes who survive, there are 21 characters in play by this point in the film: Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow, Doctor Strange, War Machine, Falcon, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, Winter Soldier, Drax, Groot, Nebula, Star-Lord, Rocket, Shuri, Okoye, Gamora, and the Vision. As he points out, during Avengers: Infinity War one group of heroes did come within a hair's breadth of beating him, so it's not too much of a stretch to suggest another combination could pull it off. They suggest that Doctor Strange's plan hinges on a specific combination of heroes surviving both their battle with Thanos and the subsequent snap. Reddit user ArenLuxon has suggested a possible reason. Related: What Is Doctor Strange's Plan in Avengers: Infinity War? But why did Strange view exactly that number of futures? He had deliberately guided history down this one in 14,000,605 shot, albeit at a terrible cost.
This is clearly intended to signpost just how remote the odds really are of saving the universe, and at the end of the film - even as he crumbled to dust - Strange told Tony Stark there was no other way. It meant that fans have a ready-made response for anyone who suggests a different way Thanos could have been stopped none of those ideas would have worked out fully, otherwise Doctor Strange would have seen them. In narrative terms, this was a smart trick on the part of the scriptwriters. He emerged from the experience shaken, revealing that he had witnessed 14,000,605 different ways things could play out. So now we know when the trailer for Avengers 4 drops, maybe don’t take the whole thing at face value.Why did Doctor Strange view exactly 14,000,605 different futures in Avengers: Infinity War? In one of the film's most important scenes, Stephen Strange used the Time Stone to peer into millions of alternate futures and work out a way for the heroes to beat Thanos. Ultimately, the misdirects were a welcome reprieve from the onslaught of marketing that usually reveals 2/3 of a movie before you even see it-especially with Disney, who is well known for going full-court press in the month leading up to release. And I think we changed it to something that was a little more specific to the storytelling.” I think he used to say that on Nowhere to Gamora when he emerged from the Reality Cloak as the aether exposed him. “That was a scripted line for the movie that we replaced with another line that we thought was a little more specific to the storytelling with Gamora. It was literally created in that version for the trailer.”įans have also pointed out that the Thanos line, “Fun isn’t something one considers when balancing the universe, but this does put a smile on my face,” also doesn’t appear in the film, but Joe Russo says that wasn’t a misdirect-that line was in the movie, but was changed during post-production: It was never even created for the movie in that version. “That shot that you’re referencing was never in the movie in the version that you saw. So at our disposal are lots of different shots that aren’t in the movie that we can manipulate through CG to tell a story that we want to tell specifically for the purpose of the trailer and not for the film.”Īnthony Russo confirmed this hero shot was never in the film to begin with: We look at the trailer as a very different experience than the movie, and I think audiences are so predictive now that you have to be very smart about how you craft a trailer because an audience can watch a trailer and basically tell you what’s gonna happen in the film. “We use all the material that we have at our disposal to create a trailer.
Joe Russo explained that they used footage captured for entirely different scenes to stitch together that hero shot in particular: The duo confirmed on a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that when putting together the film’s trailers, they wanted to keep the surprises intact for audiences.
As it turns out, this was an intentional misdirect crafted by the film’s directors, Joe and Anthony Russo.
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