The final battle in Avengers: Endgame became one of the most powerful moments in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe even though its spatial logic made no sense. The decisive encounter between the Avengers and Thanos (Josh Brolin) at the end of Endgame was as anticipated as it was inevitable, with more than ten years worth of build-up across a variety of successful films. With so much momentum preceding it, the climactic downfall of Thanos's genocidal quest needed to be a groundbreaking spectacle on the big screen, and the Russo brothers accomplished it by gathering almost all of the MCU's beloved heroes in a coordinated attack against Thanos and his massive army.

The "blocking" of a movie is the arrangement of the actors on the set to create visually appealing sequences and avoid instances of characters changing positions within the fictitious setting. The MCU has various examples of skillful blocking, from the hilarious banter between Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the Guardians of the Galaxy in Avengers: Infinity War to the intricate final fight at the docks in Iron Man 3. The correct use of blocking makes any setting feel authentic because it seems to abide by the same rules of real life, even when it's a fully CGI setting. Sometimes, however, the number of elements in a scene makes it hard for the filmmakers to arrange it in a logical way while also retaining the dramatic effects of the story. This results in an entertaining sequence, but one that suffers from geographical inconsistencies. Such is the case of Endgame's final battle.

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The first noticeable inconsistency is how Thanos knocks Captain America (Chris Evans) several feet back after breaking his shield, but with each subsequent shot, the distance between them keeps increasing until the point where the heroes coming out of the portals behind Cap need to run for quite a long time before they clash with Thanos's army (besides, the battleground becomes much emptier). After that, several characters cover longer distances than what would seem logical in minimal spans of time, like Cull Obsidian, who gets stabbed by Drax (Dave Bautista) in a different place from where he falls after receiving a strike from Captain America's Mjölnir mere seconds before. The most evident continuity error is how Giant-Man (Paul Rudd) is throwing a Leviathan into a portal at the exact same time he's supposed to be hotwiring his van. Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) is guilty of the same mistake, as she joins Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) and her all-female team of superheroes at the same moment she should be in the van with Ant-Man.

Ant-Man and Giant-Man in Endgame's final battle

Ant-Man's giant duplicate is clearly the result of an oversight during editing. However, instances like the expanding distance between Captain America and Thanos seem to be deliberate. If the space between them were consistent, the arrival of the Avengers and Falcon's (Anthony Mackie) crowd-pleasing "on your left" line would feel funny rather than dramatic since Thanos and his army would need to awkwardly take a step back in order to let the heroes have their dash into battle. Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is also too far away when dealing with the incoming flood from Thanos's attack for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to distinguish his signal to steal the Infinity Stones, but this can also be chalked up to a purposeful decision by the directors to prioritize its significance over the geography of the battlefield.

Avengers: Endgame had to deal with so many different elements that the small number of noticeable goofs throughout the movie is actually quite admirable. While the continuity of the final battle is technically flawed, the spectacle and the emotional weight of every action render those errors negligible. If achieving perfect spatial logic had been more important than seeing the Avengers fighting for the fate of the Earth, Endgame's final battle wouldn't have made audiences across the world roar with excitement every time a fan-favorite hero appeared on the screen.

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