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"I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. It's frightening, turns the legs to jelly. I ask you... To what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it's here. Or should I say, I am."

- Darkseid

Avengers: Infinite Crisis is a 2018 superhero film, based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name. It is a sequel to The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron and a crossover between/sequel to Wonder Woman: Civil War, Doctor Fate, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Aquaman: Ragnarok and Black Panther. The film is the nineteenth main installment in the Worlds of DC as well as the seventh in Phase Three. The movie was released on July 6, 2018.

It is directed by Peyton Reed and stars Mike Mulligan as Lex Luthor/Steel, Jason Momoa as Orin/Aquaman, Mark Ruffalo as Alec Holland/Swamp Thing, Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Fate/Doctor Strange, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine, Caleb McLaughlin as Miles Morales/Spider-Man, Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther, Paul Bettany as Vision, Elizabeth Olsen as Raven Maximoff, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon, Chris Pine as Steve Trevor/White Wolf, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Letitia Wright as Shuri, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, with James Earl Jones as Darkseid, and Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord.

The sequel, Avengers 4, is set for release on July 5, 2019.

Synopsis
An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entirety of the Worlds of DC, DC Films' Avengers: Infinite Crisis brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time.

Plot
Having destroyed Oa which was a sanctuary for the Power Stone under the guard of the Green Lantern Corps and deciding to claim the rest of the Infinity Stones, the New God Darkseid attacks the Atlantian refugee vessel the Statesman with his children. Half of the Atlantians are slaughtered while Orin, Loki and Heimdall are defeated. Other Atlantians on the Statesman fled the onslaught; such as Valkyrie in escape ships and were among the half spared by Darkseid. Darkseid, already wielding the Power Stone upon his Infinity Gauntlet, forces Loki into manifesting the Tesseract by threatening to kill Orin. Despite Swamp Thing's attempt to defeat Darkseid, the Green Monster is quickly overpowered and defeated. Heimdall uses his last shred of Dark Magic to send Swamp Thing to Earth.

In response to his actions, Darkseid kills Heimdall. One of Darkseid's children, Gorilla Grodd, gives the New God the Tesseract, which contained the Space Stone. Darkseid destroys the cube in order to unveil the Stone within and then inserts it into his Infinity Gauntlet. He orders his children, also known as the Four Horsemen of Apokolips, to invade Earth in order to find both the Mind Stone and the Time Stone. Pretending to pledge loyalty to Darkseid, Loki slowly approaches and unsuccessfully attempts to assassinate him using a blade. Darkseid murders Loki by snapping his neck, dropping his corpse in front of an incapacitated Orin. Darkseid uses the Power Stone to destroy the Statesman while he and the Horsemen depart through the power of the Space Stone, leaving Orin to mourn over his brother's dead body as the ship explodes around him.

Meanwhile, on Earth, Swamp Thing (travelling through the Bifrost) crashes into the New York Sanctum and turns back into Alec Holland, informing Doctor Fate and Wong about Darkseid. Fate and Holland find Lex Luthor, who was having a date with Pepper Potts, and bring him to the Sanctum as well. Fate, Wong, Holland and Luthor eventually surmise that Darkseid is looking for both the Time Stone, held in the Eye of Agamotto, and the Mind Stone, kept by Vision. Holland tells Luthor to call Diana Prince so she can help them to locate Vision, but Luthor reveals that he and Prince fell out and chose different paths due to the Avengers Civil War.

Before Luthor can begrudgingly make the call, he notices a change in air flow. A massive, skull-shaped ship hovers above New York City, causing panic and fear in the streets among civilians similar to the Battle of New York. Fate manages to shut the ships engine off as Gorilla Grodd and Doomsday approach them. While Fate, Luthor, Wong and Holland (who is no longer able to turn into Swamp Thing) confront the invaders, the Skull Ship is witnessed from afar by Miles Morales who rushes in to investigate. A turbulent battle erupts in the streets, and while the brutish Doomsday is stranded in the Arctic via Sling Ring, Gorilla Grodd, a fierce telepath, successfully abducts Fate, with Time Stone in tow. Unbeknownst to Grodd, however, both Steel and Spider-Man - who is granted his Steel Spider Armor - manage to get into Grodd's Skull Ship.

Meanwhile, Enchantress and Zod ambush Vision, who attempts to live a normal life with Raven Maximoff in Wales. Vision is deeply weakened in the attack while Raven barely manages to hold her own against both Darkseid's children. However, reinforcements arrive in the form of Wonder Woman, Falcon and Black Widow, who have been contacted and filled in by Holland. Together, they force Enchantress and a heavily wounded Zod to retreat. This faction of the Avengers return to the New Avengers Facility.

Having survived the vacuum of space after the Statesman's blast, Orin is rescued by the Guardians of the Galaxy, who received the Atlantians' distress call. They take him aboard their spaceship, and Orin explains what happened to his people. They figure that Darkseid will be headed to Knowhere in order to take the Reality Stone from the Collector. Orin decides to leave for Nidavellir, as he intends to ask the Giant Eitri to craft him a new weapon. Orin leaves with Rocket Raccoon and Groot while Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer and Mantis depart for Knowhere.

Remembering how Darkseid destroyed half of her people and adopted her in the process, Gamora makes Quill promise that he will kill her if she gets captured by Darkseid. As they arrive on a deserted Knowhere, the Guardians of the Galaxy witness Darkseid violently interrogating the Collector over the location of the Reality Stone. Unfortunately, Darkseid realizes of the group's presence after Mantis incapacitated Drax, who tried to approach and kill the New God because of the death of his wife and daughter. Gamora goes on the offense, attacking and promptly defeating Darkseid, who falls to the ground, seemingly killed.

However, the group discover that Darkseid has already acquired the Reality Stone and has been using it to cast a massive illusion. He drops the illusion, revealing a burning Knowhere and himself, alive and well. Darkseid had expected Gamora to come and fight him, and is aware that she is the only person who knows the location of the elusive Soul Stone. Darkseid easily subdues Gamora and incapacitates Drax and Mantis. Despite Star-Lord's attempt to kill Gamora, Darkseid uses the Reality Stone to stop him, teleporting away with Gamora back into the Sanctuary II.

Back on Earth, Wonder Woman, Falcon, Black Widow, Vision, and Raven are reunited with James Rhodes and Holland at the New Avengers Facility. Holland suggests calling in Green Arrow for help but Prince explains that he as well as Ray Palmer are unavailable as they surrendered themselves and made deals with the US government so they could return to their families. Together, they decide that the Mind Stone must be destroyed so that Darkswid cannot obtain it. However, in order to do so without killing Vision, Prince suggests traveling to the technologically-advanced nation of Wakanda.

In Wakanda, T'Challa and Okoye deliver a new, vibranium arm to Steve Trevor, who has recovered from his mental programming.

On Darkseid's ship, Gamora calls her adoptive father insane for planning to exterminate half of all life in the multiverse to balance it, although Darkseid insists on the righteousness of his project, referring to how Gamora's home planet Zen-Whoberi has been thriving since he eradicated half of its population. As Darkseid needs the Soul Stone to fulfill his goal, he reveals that Gamora's sister Nebula is his prisoner. Darkseid tortures Nebula in front of Gamora. Unable to bear it, Gamora reveals that the Soul Stone is hidden on Vormir.

Darkseid and Gamora teleport to Vormir, where they meet the former Doctor Poison, now acting as a Stonekeeper for the Soul Stone. The Stonekeeper tells Darkseid that he has to sacrifice what he loves the most to obtain the Soul Stone. This amuses Gamora, as she believes that Darkseid does not love anyone or anything, thus making him unable to complete his plans. However, as Darkseid weeps at her, Gamora understands that Darkseid actually loves her. Despite Gamora's plea, Darkseid chooses to sacrifice his adopted daughter and is rewarded with the Soul Stone.

In the meantime, Orin, Rocket Raccoon and Groot land in Nidavellir, where the forges have gone extinct and they encounter Eitri, now the only remaining Giant. They understand that Darkseid ordered Eitri to craft the Infinity Gauntlet and crippled the Giant so he could not forge anything else after that. However, Orin convinces Eitri that they can work together to defeat Darkseid. In order to do so, they plan on crafting a new weapon for Orin: Stormbreaker.

Orin successfully revives the star core of Nidavellir, but due to the mechanisms of the forge being damaged, he is forced to risk his life to keep it active. Orin exposes himself to the powerful outburst of Nidavellir's star, which enables to melt the metal to craft Stormbreaker. As the axe's handle cannot be found, Groot sacrifices his left arm so that Orin is able to wield Stormbreaker.

In Gorilla Grodd's Skull Ship, Steel and Spider-Man successfully rescue Doctor Fate by blowing a hole in the hull to send Gorilla Grodd in outer space. While Fate advocates returning to Earth, Steel suggests keeping the course set on Apokolips to keep an element of surprise over Darkseid, who is not expecting them. Fate agrees, but warns Steel that he will have to protect the Time Stone even if it means sacrificing Luthor or Morales.

They barely land the spaceship on Apokolips, where they are ambushed by the Guardians of the Galaxy, who have been directed there by Nebula and who mistook them for Darkseid's minions. Nevertheless, the disagreement is quickly lifted and they all agree to work together. While the rest of them try to devise a plan, Fate uses the Time Stone to look into alternate futures. He then reports to his allies: out of the millions of futures he foresaw, they are victorious in none but one.

Darkseid arrives on Apokolips and is greeted by Fate. He gives a brief and impassioned speech on how Apokolips was his home and that overpopulation led it to ruin, as well as how he believes himself to be merciful as he could simply snap his fingers after acquiring all six Infinity Stones. This would cause half the multiverse's population to cease to exist without causing much pain, after which Darkseid plans on simply resting. Nevertheless, the heroes engage Darkseid in an intense battle but Darkseid single-handedly repels the assaults of the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Fate until Nebula arrives and distracts him. Eventually, they are able to render Darkseid half-unconscious and attempt to remove his Infinity Gauntlet. However, when Nebula deduces that Darkseid has killed Gamora, Star-Lord becomes enraged and attacks the New God, causing him to regain consciousness just as the Gauntlet was about to be taken off.

The fight turns decisively in Darkseid's favor as he unleashes the full might of the Infinity Stones upon his attackers, swiftly knocking them out. Darkseid then confronts and overpowers Fate but realizes that Fate never used the Time Stone in the fight because Fate hid it. Before he can try to locate it, Steel attacks him, but is quickly outmatched and seriously wounded when Darkseid stabs him in the stomach. As Darkseid prepares to execute Luthor, Fate agrees to hand over the Time Stone to Darkseid in exchange for Luthor being spared. Darkseid agrees and inserts the Stone into the Gauntlet and departs to retrieve the last Stone.

Meanwhile, the other Avengers take Vision to Wakanda, where they are greeted by T'Challa and Steve Trevor. They task Shuri to safely extract the Mind Stone from Vision so that Raven can destroy it. As massive army of Parademons led by Enchantress and Doomsday arrive in Wakanda as well, T'Challa gathers his own troops, accompanied with Wonder Woman, the Winter Soldier, Falcon, War Machine, Black Widow and Alec Holland using a Swampbuster armor.

At first, the Parademons throw themselves against the protective dome surrounding Wakanda, with only a few of them actually making it through. As they attempt to go around the Wakandan armies, which would endanger Vision, the Avengers decide to partly open the barrier to keep the enemies in front of them. The strategy works, but at the cost of massive hordes of Parademons suddenly invading Wakanda, which leads to a fierce battle.

Although they are able to take down many enemies, the Avengers and the Wakandan armies are outnumbered and overrun. However, Orin arrives with Rocket Raccoon and Groot and turns the battle in favor of the defenders of Earth thanks to his incredibly mighty powers. The two Horsemen resort to use Threshers, massive siege weapons which lay waste on the battlefield, prompting Raven to join and save Black Widow and Okoye.

However, this leaves Vision and Shuri much more exposed to Zod, who infiltrated in order to take the Mind Stone from Vision. Vision attempts to fight back, but Zod and Doomsday overpower him. Holland arrives and manages to kill Doomsday despite still being unable to turn into Swamp Thing while Wonder Woman fights against Zod. Meanwhile, despite holding her own against the combined forces of Raven, Black Widow and Okoye, Enchantress is killed as well. Prince is defeated, but Vision stabs Zod with his own weapon from behind, killing him. With the Horsemen defeated and the Parademons routed by Orin, the Avengers seem victorious.

However, Darkseid teleports to Wakanda as well to obtain the only missing Infinity Stone: Vision's Mind Stone. All the Avengers, Okoye, Black Panther, and Groot gather to defend Vision, but Darkseid effortlessly defeats them one by one, including Wonder Woman, who he strangles. Figuring out that they have no other choice, Vision asks Raven to destroy the Mind Stone herself, which will likely kill Vision.

Raven reluctantly agrees and successfully shatters the Mind Stone moments before Darkseid can get it. However, Darkseid uses the power of the Time Stone he took from Doctor Fate to revert time and restores both Vision and the Mind Stone, which he rips off Vision's skull, killing him for good. Having finally gathered all six Infinity Stones, Darkseid prepares to execute his plan, but Orin arrives and catches Darkseid off guard, unleashing his full power and the full might of Stormbreaker upon the New God in a last-minute attempt to stop him, severely wounding Darkseid as Stormbreaker is thrown into his chest.

However, Darkseid survives the attack. He mocks Orin for not having hit him in the head and snaps his fingers in the Infinity Gauntlet, completing his plan. Darkseid is momentarily transported into the Soulworld, where he sees a younger Gamora, who asks what the cost of achieving his goal was. Sadly, Darkseid admits that it has cost him "everything". Darkseid then returns to the real world and Orin furiously questions Darkseid about what he did. Darkseid simply smirks at him and teleports away as the effects of the snap manifest: half of all life in the multiverse is erased from existence, including Steve Trevor, T'Challa, Groot, Raven and Sam Wilson, leaving the survivors to look in horror and unable to do anything but accept defeat.

On Apokolips, Mantis, Drax the Destroyer and Star-Lord vanish, along with Doctor Fate, who tells Lex Luthor that there was "no other way". Miles Morales is the last to vanish and pleads with Lex Luthor not to let him go. While a traumatized Luthor laments his failure, Nebula solemnly remarks that Darkseid has achieved his goal. Darkseid retires himself on a restored part of Apokolips and rests while satisfactorily gazing out to the sunrise, considering his job done.

In a post-credit scene, Nick Fury and Maria Hill also witness the effects of the Infinity Stones. Hill and Fury also disappear, but Fury manages to send a distress signal using his pager before vanishing. As Fury vanishes, his pager falls on the ground and displays the symbol of Superman.

Cast

 * Mike Mulligan as Lex Luthor/Steel
 * Jason Momoa as Arthur/Aquaman
 * Mark Ruffalo as Alec Holland/Swamp Thing
 * Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
 * Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
 * Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
 * Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Fate/Doctor Fate
 * Caleb McLaughlin as Miles Morales/Spider-Man
 * Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther
 * Zoe Saldana as Gamora
 * Ariana Greenblatt as Young Gamora
 * Karen Gillan as Nebula
 * Tom Hiddleston as Loki
 * Paul Bettany as Vision
 * Elizabeth Olsen as Raven Maximoff
 * Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
 * Chris Pine as Steve Trevor/Winter Soldier/White Wolf
 * Idris Elba as Heimdall
 * Danai Gurira as Okoye
 * Peter Dinklage as Eitri
 * Benedict Wong as Wong
 * Pom Klementieff as Mantis
 * Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer
 * Vin Diesel as Groot (voice)
 * Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon (voice)
 * Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
 * Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan/Collector (illusion)
 * James Earl Jones as Darkseid
 * Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord
 * Sean Gunn as Rocket Raccoon (motion capture)
 * William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross
 * Letitia Wright as Shuri
 * Terry Notary as Doomsday / Groot (motion capture)
 * Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Gorilla Grodd
 * Cara Delevingne as Enchantress
 * Michael Shannon as Zod
 * Stan Lee as Bus Driver
 * Winston Duke as M'Baku
 * Florence Kasumba as Ayo
 * Kerry Condon as F.R.I.D.A.Y.
 * Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
 * Tiffany Espensen as Cindy Moon
 * Isabella Amara as Sally Avril
 * Ethan Dizon as Tiny McKeever
 * Ameenah Kaplan as Gamora's Mother
 * Elena Anaya as Marina Maru/Doctor Poison/Stonekeeper
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury (post-credit scene)
 * Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill (post-credit scene)
 * Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan (deleted scene)
 * Jim Starlin as a cameo

Locations

 * Earth
 * New York City, New York
 * New York Sanctum
 * Central Park
 * Coney Island (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)
 * New Avengers Facility, New York
 * Cardiff, Wales
 * Golden City, Wakanda
 * Citadel
 * Wakanda Medical Center
 * Atlanta, Georgia (post-credit scene)
 * Swansea, Wales (mentioned)
 * Missouri (mentioned)
 * Moon
 * Knowhere
 * Exitar
 * Collector's Museum
 * Nidavellir
 * Vormir
 * Apokolips
 * Multiverse
 * Mirror Dimension
 * Soulworld
 * Zen-Whoberi (flashback)
 * Atlantis (mentioned)
 * Jotunheim (mentioned)
 * Contraxia (mentioned)
 * Hel (mentioned)
 * Oa (mentioned)

Events

 * Infinite Crisis
 * Massacre of the Xandarians (mentioned)
 * Attack on the Statesman
 * Attack on Greenwich Village
 * Attack on Vision
 * Ambush in Knowhere
 * Doctor Fate
 * Sacrifice of Gamora
 * Apokolips
 * Battle of Wakanda
 * Massacre of the Zehoberei (flashback)
 * Chitauri Invasion
 * Battle of New York (mentioned)
 * Duel at Coney Island (mentioned)
 * Duel of Johannesburg (mentioned)
 * Quest for the Orb
 * Battle of Oa (mentioned)
 * Battle on Ego's Planet (mentioned)
 * Second Battle of Svartalfheim (mentioned)
 * Battle in the Valkyrie (mentioned)
 * Destruction of Atlantis (mentioned)
 * Massacre of the Giants (mentioned)

Items

 * Infinity Stones
 * Power Stone
 * Tesseract
 * Space Stone
 * Eye of Agamotto
 * Time Stone
 * Reality Stone
 * Mind Stone
 * Soul Stone
 * Infinity Gauntlet
 * Zod's Glaive
 * Hofund
 * Cloak of Levitation
 * Sling Ring
 * Cauldron of the Cosmos
 * Spider-Man Suit
 * Web-Shooters
 * Steel Armor: Mark XLIX
 * Steel Spider Armor
 * Translator Implant
 * Wonder Woman's Sword
 * EXO-7 Falcon
 * Redwing
 * Black Widow's Batons
 * Gamora's Switchblade
 * Drax the Destroyer's Knives
 * Godslayer
 * Quad Blasters
 * Vibranium
 * Vibranium Spear
 * Winter Soldier's Prosthetic Arm
 * Kimoyo Beads
 * Panther Habit
 * Sneakers
 * Wakandan Shields
 * Vibranium Gauntlets
 * Arthur's Prosthetic Eye
 * Star-Lord's Helmet
 * Gravity Mine
 * War Machine Armor: Mark IV
 * Steel Armor: Mark L
 * Uru
 * Stormbreaker
 * Mjølnir (mentioned)
 * Laser Cannon
 * Transmitter Pager
 * Sokovia Accords (mentioned)
 * (deleted scene)

Vehicles

 * Statesman
 * Commodore
 * Sanctuary II
 * Skull Ships
 * Mining Pods
 * Quinjet
 * Necrocrafts
 * Royal Talon Flyer
 * Dragon Flyers
 * Parademon Dropships
 * Benatar
 * Benatar's Space Pod

Sentient Species

 * Humans
 * Atlantians
 * Sakaarans
 * New Gods
 * Frost Giants
 * Androids
 * Celestials
 * Zehoberei
 * Flora colossus
 * Halfworlders
 * Luphomoids
 * Chitauri
 * Giants
 * Dark Elves  (mentioned)

Creatures

 * Parademons
 * Leviathans (flashback)
 * Cotati (mentioned)
 * (mentioned)

Organizations

 * Avengers
 * Guardians of the Galaxy
 * Four Horsemen of Apokolips
 * Atlantian Royal Family
 * Sakaaran Rebellion
 * Masters of the Mystic Arts
 * LexCorp
 * New York City Police Department
 * Tivan Group
 * Dora Milaje
 * Wakandan Royal Guard
 * Wakandan Design Group
 * Wakandan Tribes
 * Golden Tribe
 * Border Tribe
 * Jabari Tribe

Mentioned

 * Morgan
 * Ray Palmer
 * Oliver Queen
 * Atlan
 * Hela
 * Atlanna
 * Malekith
 * Algrim
 * Ego
 * Meredith Quill
 * Collector
 * Grandmaster
 * Hovat
 * Kamaria
 * J.A.R.V.I.S.
 * Ultron
 * Alars
 * Cameron Klein
 * Superman (logo)
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Music

 * Avengers: Infinite Crisis - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack