The devastating implications of Fortnite in Avengers: Endgame

The weirdest cameo Avengers: End of Game is not Stan Lee or his co-director Joe Russo. The cameo Fortnite, The popular online Royal Battle game is one that has the biggest ramifications for the Marvel film universe. And that's because it raises a delicate question: is it FortniteThanos mode also exists in the universe of Avengers? And if so, what does this mode look like in a post-Snap world?

The time-limited Thanos game mode has upset the traditional game Fortnite formula, forcing players to team up to fight against Mad Titan, super-carrier Infinity Gauntlet. Yes, FortniteThanos mode, and the next mode Avengers: End of the game who have been successful this year, are marketing tools for the Avengers movies of our universe, which probably do not exist in the Marvel world, unless we find very, very dedicated documentarists.

But we know from War of Infinity Avengers brand tie in products exist: in Avengers: war in the infinite, Doctor Strange and Wong refer to Stark Raving Hazeluts and Hunka-Hulk, a Burning Fudge flavor of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, which implies that this type of licensed link is quite common in the Marvel world. And Spider Man: Back home has shown that these heroes are essentially celebrities, so the possibility of a connection between an Avengers video game is at least the realm of possibilities.

Nevertheless, we must approach the logistics of the Fortnite exists in a post-Snap world, not to mention its popularity five years after the Snap (so that in 2023, six years after its launch in our world), Thor and Korg can easily compete with their opponents despite the that they are very rural. News Asgard / Tønsberg, Norway.

After the crisis, we were told that the world was plunged into chaos for a while: governments, armed forces, doctors, first responders, etc., were all halved. But that may explain FortniteThe current popularity: even after the world has found its balance, the number of developers, producers, directors, marketing teams, etc. video games would also have been cut in half. Global chaos and corporate chaos would have slowed down the new versions considerably. Halving the number of players also means a reduction in potential sales, which would also have a negative impact on gaming companies – giving them every reason to build on existing popular products instead of focusing on them. on the new ones.

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So, update and maintain the servers for a free game like Fortnite would be a viable long-term plan to keep the lights on in a gaming studio. The entire video game world has probably experienced a condensed post-Snap, but this reduced player base would also explain why Korg apparently continues to run up against the same annoying enemy, "Noobmaster69", which is unlikely in the current version of the game , seen the player's biggest pool and the random match system.

But does the average person even know that Thanos exists? For those who were not on the Wakanda battlefield with the Avengers, it would have been hard to know immediately what caused the breakup, and the "tyrant of the purple genocidal space" was probably not on the list people. Always in End of Game, Captain America and Ronin both refer to Thanos as non-Avengers – Cap in his support group and Ronin in the gangster hunt in Japan – so it seems that the heroes have shared the news of him with the local population. general.

But still, would there be a Thanos mode in the MCU version of Fortnite? It's hard to see Epic Games developing one, knowing that Thanos is the worst murderer of all time in the Avengers' world, and placing it in a video game as a playable character whose only goal is to eliminate all the others on the map probably be the size cultural insensitivity. (Plus, they should have developed it after Snap.)

Again, video game studios are not always known to make the best decisions, and it is possible that a Thanos mode still exists in the MCUs. Fortnite – but probably in a very different style. While the Thanos game mode of our universe is almost comical in an MCU context, it is possible that a more cathartic mode – for example, where players can work together to get some kind of fantastic revenge on the biggest villain of the universe – can exist at a given moment. In the same way, our modern games – like the Call of Duty The series, which took advantage of human tragedies such as World War II, relies on atrocities committed in the real world for intrigue of video games.

Yet, if there is was Thanos mode in the MCU, Korg probably would not have read it in End of Game. At least not when Thor is around, given the way Sensitive Thor wants to hear the name of Mad Titan. Again, that's what helmets are for.