Unfortunately, establishing this kind of power will come at the expense of some of our favorite heroes – meaning, imminent deaths and upping the stakes in Avengers: Infinity War.
Much of the narrative of Infinity War is about the powerful Infinity Gems, which individually have served as MacGuffins in previous MCU films.
Structurally, with this first film, Avengers 3, we’ve been using the smash-n-grab ’90s heist films, so there’s a real urgency to the film.
Thanos is now trying to collect all of the Infinity Stones, in order to wreak havoc across the whole universe.