Mark Ruffalo Trolls MCU Fans With Bleeped Avengers 4 Title

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Mark Ruffalo Fake Spoils Avengers 4 Title; Directors Fake Fire Him [Update]

Mark Ruffalo expertly trolls Marvel Cinematic Universe fans by having The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon bleep out his leak of the Avengers 4 title.

Update: Mark Ruffalo's bleeped Avengers 4 title is The Last Avenger

It looks like Mark Ruffalo has trolled Marvel fans with by having his Avengers 4 title spoiler bleeped out of his appearance on The Tonight Show. Ever since it was announced that the 2019 Avengers movie would no longer be titled Avengers: Infinity War - Part 2 and, instead, be an entirely separate story that exists apart from 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, fans have continuously speculated what the title could be. Since Marvel plans on straying away from titles used in the comics, that leaves the door wide open for whatever the title may ultimately be.

Shortly before Infinity War released, it was reported that the reason Marvel hadn't revealed what the Avengers 4 title was yet was that they didn't want to spoil what happens in Infinity War. However, that notion was walked back by Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige. Furthermore, directors Anthony and Joe Russo put to rest several title rumors by saying the title wasn't spoken at all in their 2018 Avengers movie, which shut down fan hopes that Avengers 4 would be called Endgame, thus referring to Doctor Strange's final words before disintegrating.

It finally looked like Marvel Studios was going to reveal the title today during The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. To start with, Mark Ruffalo tweeted at Fallon this morning, asking him to remove the Avengers 4 spoiler that he "accidentally" leaked. Then, the Russo Brothers chimed in on Twitter, telling Ruffalo, "Mark, you're fired." Things came to a head when Ruffalo was actually going to reveal the title... but he didn't. Instead, it got bleeped out. As it turns out, it was expert-level trolling by Ruffalo (and Marvel).

Update: Ruffalo responds to the Russos firing him, asking for a second chance.

Sure, it's possible that people could try to make out what Ruffalo is saying, but it's clear that this was all planned from the get-go. Marvel Studios has their marketing plan laid out, and they are merely getting people excited for that to kick off. A teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated movie is expected to debut sometime in late November (or possibly early December), but the title should release sometime before then.

Given Ruffalo's appearance and the apparent trolling on behalf of Ruffalo/Marvel, it seems like the studio acknowledges the importance of the title itself and is willing to potentially reveal it separately. Until the Avengers 4 title is revealed, though, MCU and comic book fans will have plenty to discuss and plenty of possibilities to sift through.