She had a vision of the red keep ruined and the iron throne with ash falling around it in Season 2.
She flambe’d two unarmed POWs as recent as last season just because they wouldn’t bend the knee. Dany using power to command fear is very in character.

Never heard of a facade? Mask slipping? A realisation setting in?

Dany has a vision in season 2 of her walking through the Red Keep, which is ruined, while ash is falling from the sky.
So, talking about character arcs, seems pretty faithful to what they set up years ago...

I don’t understand this idea that the title somehow ruins a show. Because It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is so succinct and on point, I guess?
Cougar Town, anyone?

No better way to spend it

Matrix Schmatrix, where’s my Dark City 2?

Oh cool, what if Anonymous and the KKK had a baby

They got snapped.

Ha, I was about to say this

And here we are with some hindsight now, where they actually did do that after all, like I suspected. They were never going to off Tony or Steve in part 1 of 2. I hope you found Endgame to have the stakes you felt Infinity War was missing, though.

More like Detective Bleakachu

just kidding, this still looks kind of fun

If a “this ain’t it chief” meme ever deserved to be posted on the AV Club...

Really loving what they’ve added to the game, it’s been great fun

Absolutely. First, we literally saw him in Infinity War searching through potential futures, so none of it is unfounded. That’s the set up. Second, I find it fun that one leg of the chain of events is so anomalous - because that’s how the world works. It’s not structured like a Swiss watch, at least not by ways we can…

But for the rat, all of the Avengers’ actions you reference above would not have been possible, or would not have mattered.

You’re trying your hardest, but it’s as simple as that Strange directs the flow of events to take advantage of the rat. Out of millions of outcomes, *he* is the one that identifies it and starts the chain reaction to specifically lead through it. Again, without him setting any of the events in motion by giving up the…

Credit where credit is due. ;*

True, Nebula to my knowledge has never displayed or mentioned the specific ability before this film. It is however in part set up moments earlier when she gets the power stone from beyond the forcefield, where it’s shown her arm is robotic and her and Rhodey have a discussion about how she’s been ‘upgraded’ by Thanos…

Strange saying there is only 1 way out of this thing says nothing whatsoever about a lucky rat.

There absolutely is a suggestion by Strange in Infinity War, where he explicitly says there’s only one in 14,000,605 potential realities where the correct chain of events will lead to their success. He says directly “we’re in the endgame now”, meaning he’s enacted a strategic play: