Avengers: Endgame
Captain America ’s best instant inAvengers : Endgamehas strong parallels to a big mo inStar war : The Force Awakens . Captain America has one of the strongest arc in the conclusion to the 22 - movie Infinity Saga , frombattling with the 2012 version of himselfto his poignant ending . The one that really thrilled audiences , though , do duringAvengers : Endgame ’s final struggle .
As Thanos and his force assail the Avengers Compound , all hope seems bemused . The Mad Titan blazes a trail of destruction , and is on the verge of wipe out Thor with his own weapon , Stormbreaker , when another of theGod of Thunder ’s weapons comes into play : Mjolnir . Except on this occasion , it ’s not into Thor ’s hand it flee , but rather Captain America ’s . It ’s a scenery that led to actual cheers in cinemas , and while it ’s a Brobdingnagian hero sandwich moment for Cap , we have seen something like it before .
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InThe Force Awakens ’ climactic battle , again , all hope seems lost . Kylo Ren is on the attack , and while Finn fights bravely in lightsaber combat , he ’s no match for a trainedForce - user like Kylo Ren . The Skywalker saber land in the C , and that ’s when it happens . The music swells up , the lightsaber begin to move , and then it flies into … Rey ’s hired man . In that movie , it serves asherhero moment , once again eliciting whoops and applause from its hyped - up audience . But the similarities start to stack up the more the view is broken down .
In both of these scenes , the here and now is telegraphed in a similar direction : the feel of hopelessness , the reminder of the weapon system , and then subverting the expectations of who ’ll get it ( Thor / Finn ) with the purest poor boy of each movie wielding it instead . There are large musical oodles lifting both scenes , labored use of goods and services of the colouring material blue ( from lightning and the lightsaber , respectively ) , and it lead to a turnaround in luck . Cap come up Mjolnir and move to take the fight to Thanos ; Rey hold in the lightsaber and goes on to kill Kylo Ren .
There ’s a deep symbolic import at play as well . For Rey , it ’s sign that sheisthe submarine sandwich , the new Jedi for this generation of films . Captain America was well - base as a heroby this point , of path , but it confirms something similar : that he is worthy . That ’s long been a moment of argument among buff and even the Avengers themselves , go out back to the aspect inAvengers : Age of Ultron , where Cap is capable to make Thor ’s hammer move just a fraction , much to the blow of Odinson .
The Russos have recently revealed thatCaptain America was always suitable , but that in their minds he did n’t pick it up inAge of Ultronso as to not tump over Thor . Even if that was n’t the grammatical case at the time of making that moving-picture show , it is at least now confirmed that Captain America is worthy of handle Mjolnir , thus ending years of public debate . Prior toThe Force Awakens , there was a similar debate as to who the new Jedi was . The trailers had shown Finn handle the lightsaber , and he ’s the one who accept it from Maz Kanata . Rey being able-bodied to cite it then confirms thatit ’s really her lightsaber , which has echoes in the Captain America scene . She , too , is worthy to wield an iconic weapon .
The departure is that , for Rey , it ’s the beginning of her Cuban sandwich ’s journeying . For Captain America , it ’s the destruction of his . Her first scrap and his last one . WhetherEndgame ’s similarity toThe Force Awakenshere is knowing or not is unreadable , but the similarity are doubtless there , and both occasions deliver unbelievable , spine - tingle , cheer - worthy moments with immense quantity of issue for buff .
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