‘Avengers: Endgame’ Deleted Scenes Revealed

“Avengers: Endgame” is a three-hour movie as is, but it could’ve been even longer. The Marvel movie’s directors, writers and cast have revealed alternate or deleted scenes.

Tony’s Future Daughter — This deleted scene featured Katherine Langford as an older version of Tony Stark/Iron Man’s (Robert Downey Jr.) daughter, Morgan. Director Joe Russo explained on MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that the scene was cut because it was confusing for test audiences.

“There was an idea that we had that Tony was going to go into the metaphysical way station that Thanos goes in when he snapped his fingers, and there was going to be a future version of his daughter in that way station,” Joe explained.

However, audiences had not met the older version of Morgan Stark, so the scene did not make an emotional impact in addition to the way station being confusing for fans.

“The intention was that his future daughter, because these films are dealing with magic, his future daughter forgave him and sort of gave him peace to go. And the idea felt resonant,” Joe added. “But it was just too many ideas in an overly complicated movie.”

Thor Hitting On Valkyrie — Director Anthony Russo told Entertainment Weekly Radio that Thor (Chris Hemsworth) tried to kiss Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) in the scene where he gives her the throne.

“He had this beat with Valkryie where… she puts her arm on his shoulder, and he sort of starts to lean in for a kiss. And she goes, ‘What are you doing?’” Anthony laughed. “[Thor says,] ‘Oh, I thought that touch…’ and she was like, ‘Yeah, it’s like, a goodbye tap I was giving you, a tap.’ It was a really funny beat, but we cut it.”

“It was cute,” Joe added. “And it was mostly improvised by the two of them. It was very funny.”

Extended Battle — Writers Markus and McFeely revealed that the battle at one point had a portion where the group strategized and figured out how to tackle Thanos and his army.

“It didn’t play well, but we had a scene in a trench where, for reasons, the battle got paused for about three minutes and now there’s 18 people all going, ‘What are we going to do?’ ‘I’m going to do this.’ ‘I’m going to do this.’ Just bouncing around this completely fake, fraudulent scene,” McFeely told the New York Times. “When you have that many people, it invariably is, one line, one line, one line. And that’s not a natural conversation.”

“It also required them to find enough shelter to have a conversation in the middle of the biggest battle,” Markus pointed out. “It wasn’t a polite World War I battle where you have a moment.”

Tony’s Original Snap — Iron Man gets the Infinity Stones, and that’s when he delivers his final line: “I am Iron Man.” However, it wasn’t until they were editing the movie that the directors were given the idea.

“We made it about the reveal that he got the stones from Thanos, and that he smiled and clicked his fingers. It just didn’t work,” Joe told EW Radio.

Anthony explained that editor Jeff Ford was the one who suggested the line. They had to call Robert Downey Jr. in for another reshoot after he’d already wrapped filming.

A Longer Spider-Man Reunion — It doesn’t look like this scene was deleted, but an alternate version was used. Downey posted a clip to Instagram on Sunday and showed him and Tom Holland filming Iron Man and Spider-Man’s extended reunion. There’s a joke about Tony’s gray hair, and he gives Peter a kiss on the cheek.

“Avengers: Endgame” fans might get to see these clips or others when the film is released on digital and Blu-ray later this year.