“Is ‘Avengers: Endgame’ the Blueprint for the Future of Superhero Storytelling?”
Well, with Endgame, arguably, the stakes could not be any higher.
That is because Thanos threatens the whole universe—not just Earth, or even the Solar System it is part of, but the whole darn universe. And yet what is really clever, if not downright cunning, about “The Thanos Plan” is that it is a subtle variation on the idea of obliterating the whole universe. Rather than destroying everything and everyone, Thanos only plans to wipe out half of the universe’s population, supposedly to preserve the other half.
