Hello everyone. I'm a newcomer on this forum, but I've been an MCU fan since it started in 2008.
I've been watching a lot of YouTube speculation videos, reading comments etc. and I wanted to share my speculations and thoughts about currently established speculations for Avengers Endgame. Feel free to snowball this post, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
1. Endgame will be better than Infinity War
I'm sorry, but I disagree. People these days are shallow and they don't even know it. I'll explain. People today (and especially younger people) don't want cheesy/cliche/predictable movies or movie outcomes, yet they prove otherwise with their own statements CONSTANTLY, in MCU movies more than anywhere else.
The sole reason why Endgame can't be better than IW is because IW had the luxury of being unpredictable and had (finally) the villain win for a change. Endgame, we know (unfortunately because of Far From Home trailer etc.) will be the same old cliche MCU movie like any other MCU movie so far EXCEPT Infinity War because we know the good guys will win again and completely demolish the fantastic ending that Infinity War had. Good guys winning is the definition of cliche. The only way Endgame can be better than Infinity War is if the good guys don't win in the end and it is revealed that all the snapped people ended up in an alternative universe which doesn't contain any of the characters who weren't snapped in this universe. But, Hollywood writers don't have the balls to do that unfortunately.
2. Cap and Tony surviving Endgame and retiring
In my opinion, it's very sad that people keep wanting this and actually would be ok with this happening.
Cap and Tony HAVE TO die in Endgame because Endgame is the grand finale of the whole 11 year build-up of the MCU so far. To have them survive this and retire would be very underwhelming, cliche and predictable, amateurish even. It will already be cliche, predictable and amateurish when the heroes win in the end (because we all know they will). Plot armor has to be thrown out the window in a grand finale like this. Not only that Cap and Tony need to die, but also several more key characters for many different reasons.
Black Widow absolutely needs to die. It would serve as a great way for Hulk to evolve. Her dying in front of Banner and having Hulk evolve, become stronger and have a rematch against Thanos would be the way to go, but unfortunately, they won't do it.
Ronin and Rhodes need to die because they are expendable and one of the weakest characters in the whole MCU. Since they are going with the sub-romance thing between Black Widow and Ronin, Ronin's death would definitely serve the purpose of Black Widow trying to avenge him and dying in the process.
Nebula has to die in an attempt to avenge Gamora and because pretty much after our heroes win, her story arc will become a full circle.
I speculate/wish that everyone who said ''Whatever it takes'' in the newest trailer will die in Endgame and I hope it's true because that would be Cap, Tony, Black Widow and Ronin. I'm 99,9% sure the Russos won't have the balls to do it.
3. Speculation/leak that the plot is about the Avengers copying the stones and making their own gauntlet to wield the copied stones
This one is absolute horse**** unfortunately. If this ends up being true (because at this point, it seems it is), it will be the most ridiculous way to end the current MCU arc. I hope the Russos are smarter than going with the amateur stone copying plot. The Infinity Stones are 6 singularities and considered to be the most powerful objects in the universe with unmatched power. And they are just going to... copy them? Really? You can't copy singularities - period. And you especially can't have those copies be as powerful as the original stones (because the leak also says that they bring everyone back with those copied stones). If that comes to be true, not only will Endgame be much worse than Infinity War, it will be among the worst MCU movies of all time because of how amateur the said plot is. I really hope this one isn't true.
These are my two cents for now.