The fat Thor gag didn’t bother me for a second. Endgame’s biggest let down was time travel. Time Travel plot devices are a battered over used trope in fiction. Endgame went on to deliver one of the most cliche use of time travel in a film and believe me, I have seen everything time travel, right down to the ridiculousness of Hot Tube Time Machine, chick flicks romance like The Time Traveller’s Wife, science fiction movies that range from Star Trek:The Voyage home to De Ja Vu, The Days of future Past and Dragon Ball Z:The history of Trunks anime comic movies to straight on wizard fantasy like Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

Endgame's has one of the cheapest time travel stories ever. The movie broke the rules of how to tell a good time travel story. Time travel plot devices are supposed to be constant in a movie about time. It’s the other main character that doesn’t speak dialogue but remains the most important character. Writers don’t introduce time travel in one act, make it work completely and get rid of it in the same act. Endgame is Disney’s juvenile science fiction writing at the very worst. Time travel plot devices are meant to be more effective in the final moments of the movie’s story, raising the stakes in time travel films. We the audience or reader must believe that the protagonists in the story are aware that time can slip from their hands even in the final moments. Time travel movies are not meant to have a fixed ending either due to ripple effects. Writers tend to create doubts in the readers mind, making them wonder if the protagonists did change the past or create an alternate reality.

Away from the dismal time travel plot and fat Thor, the final moments of Endgame should have gotten scrapped to avoid any call backs to Loki from Avengers 1. It’s the cliche of all cliches tropes. Don’t writers have another trope they can use for Avengers movies than a Villain who brings armies from another dimension for the Avengers to fight.The movie should have had the final act focus more on the time travel element than treating it as a one off arc in the second act of the movie. What would have been more predictable than using time travel to bring everyone back to fight Thanos? We called it after Infinity War and marvel did that exactly.

The other biggest let down of Endgame was trying to set up what looks like a dystopian movie without it not wanting to be a dystopian movie five years after Infinity War. It felt as if Marvel was holding back on fully embracing the link between time travel stories and dystopian stories. Marvel did not want the audience to believe our Avengers are now in a bleak world of shambles, I am convinced Marvel came up with the fat thor gag to ease the idea of dystopianility in Endgame, Bruce Banner as a happy professor,Tony Stark living a normal family life. Great time travel stories comes from the need of the protagonists realization of a world that has no choice but to be free from bleakness, not a world the protagonists become too comfortable in their present situation. The only person who is utterly affected with the events of Infinity war was Hawkeye. Endgame may have been a fan service love letter ending to the series but Endgame was too juvenile for what it was trying to take on or failed to embrace, gut wrenching dystopian time travel movies.