Film guide · 2018
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
A distress call goes out from the ship carrying Asgard's surviving people. Thanos and his lieutenants have attacked, and many are dead.
Thanos demands the Tesseract from Loki. The Hulk fights him and is beaten. Heimdall uses the last of his strength to open the Bifrost and send the Hulk to Earth. Loki hands over the Tesseract, tries to stab Thanos, and is strangled to death.
Thanos crushes the Tesseract, takes the Space Stone, and sets it in his gauntlet beside the Power Stone he already has. The ship explodes, leaving Thor adrift in space.
The Hulk crashes through the roof of Strange's Sanctum in New York. Back to human form, Bruce warns that Thanos is coming.
Strange and Wong summon Tony, who was in Central Park talking about the future with Pepper. They explain the six stones, including the Time Stone in Strange's amulet.
Thanos's lieutenant Ebony Maw and a hulking warrior arrive in a ring-shaped ship. Tony, Strange and Wong fight back, joined by Peter, who spotted the ship from his school bus. Bruce can't turn into the Hulk.
Maw captures Strange and the ship takes off. Tony and Peter cling on. Tony tells Peter to go home, but Peter ends up aboard.
Answering the distress call, the Guardians find Thor floating in space. He tells them about Thanos, who already has the Power Stone.
Thor takes Rocket and Groot to the world of a legendary weaponsmith to forge something that can kill Thanos. Peter, Gamora, Drax and Mantis head to the Collector's home to protect the Reality Stone.
Before they go, Gamora makes Peter promise that if Thanos captures her, he'll kill her. She knows a secret Thanos wants.
At the Collector's, Thanos is already there. Gamora stabs him, but it's an illusion made with the Reality Stone. Thanos takes Gamora. Peter keeps his promise and fires, but his gun shoots only bubbles.
Aboard Thanos's ship, the captured Nebula is being tortured. To save her sister, Gamora reveals where the Soul Stone is.
They go to the misty planet Vormir. The stone's keeper explains that the Soul Stone demands the life of the one you love most. Weeping, Thanos throws Gamora off the cliff.
Nebula escapes Thanos's ship and tells the Guardians to meet her on Thanos's home world, Titan.
Wanda and Vision, living in secret in Scotland, are attacked by Thanos's lieutenants. Steve, Natasha and Sam arrive to save them.
At the Avengers compound, Rhodey and Bruce join them. They look for a way to remove the Mind Stone from Vision's forehead without killing him.
Steve believes Shuri in Wakanda can remove the stone. They fly to Wakanda, where T'Challa and Bucky welcome them.
Aboard Maw's ship, Tony and Peter blow a hole in the hull, send Maw flying into space, and rescue Strange. Tony decides not to go home but to take the fight to Thanos.
Thor reaches the forge of the weaponsmith Eitri. Taking the full blast of a star, he forges the axe Stormbreaker. Groot grows its handle from his own arm.
On Titan, Tony's group meets the Guardians. Strange uses the Time Stone to look ahead and finds that out of over 14 million futures, they win in just one.
Thanos arrives on Titan. The heroes work together, Mantis puts him under, and they're about to pull off the gauntlet. But Peter learns Gamora is dead, punches Thanos in rage, and Thanos breaks free.
Thanos stabs Tony. Strange gives up the Time Stone to spare Tony's life, telling him it was the only way.
Thanos's army swarms Wakanda. Steve, Natasha, T'Challa, Bucky and Wakanda's warriors hold the line while Shuri races to remove Vision's stone.
Just as they're about to fall, Thor arrives on the Bifrost with Stormbreaker, Rocket and Groot at his side.
Thanos arrives and knocks the heroes aside one by one. At Vision's urging, Wanda tearfully destroys the stone in his forehead.
But Thanos uses the Time Stone to turn back time, and rips the restored stone from Vision. He has all six.
Thor drives Stormbreaker into Thanos's chest. Thanos tells him he should have gone for the head, and snaps his fingers.
In Wakanda, Bucky, T'Challa, Groot, Wanda and Sam turn to dust. On Titan, Mantis, Drax, Peter Quill, Strange and finally Peter Parker, saying he doesn't want to go, fade away in Tony's arms.
On a quiet world, Thanos sits outside a hut and smiles at the rising sun.
In a city on Earth, people vanish all around. Just before he fades, Fury sends a signal on a pager. The screen shows a red, blue and gold emblem.