Nebula in Avengers Endgame

Infinity War was the first Superhero movie to actually feel like an Event Comic as a movie.  It wasn't the first named after an Event Comic, but the Civil War movie is much smaller in scale then the Comic was, it felt like less then a normal Avengers movie not more.

Avengers Endgame however managed to feel even more like an Event Comic.  In truth both movies together are the Event, and the post credit scenes of Antman & The Wasp and Captain Marvel are the cinematic equivalent of the tie in Comics.

Endgame is something that does not work as a stand alone film, even Infinity War could kind of work on it's own.  But in Endgame things like most of the cast not being there till the final act yet being treated as of equal importance once they show up could never work as a stand alone film.  But in this case that isn't a bad thing, because the meaning it has is worth it.

Again, my experience with Comics are almost all DC ones, so I'm a weirdo loving these Marvel movies for recreating the experience I get from some of my favorite DC Comics.

No Event Comic actually succeeds in making every one of it's hundreds of characters equally important, you have to accept that sometimes your favorite character might get just a couple cool moments.  What can be interesting is how some Events are quite surprising in who gets to be important.

In the main DC Events the big three are always important, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, for the MCU those are Iron Man, Captain America and Thor, and the Endgame Video Essays on YouTube I've seen so far have mainly been about how their meta arcs came to satisfying conclusions.

But after that things can seem random, like the group of heroes and villains the Monitor originally assembled for Crisis On Infinite Earths, or Power Girl and Superboy's importance to Infinite Crisis.  And in Endgame one example of that is Ant-Man's key role in how the resolution became possible.  But what's most fascinating to me is Nebula.

In the first two Guardians of The Galaxy films Nebula is an important supporting character, but still there mostly as an accessory to Gamora's character development and what their relationship infers to the audience about Thanos, and it's the same in Infinity War but with even less Screen-time.

But in Endgame she is now part of the core avengers team, we open with her having amusing interactions with Tony.  And now 2014-Gamora is basically just here to compliment Nebula's story.

I think that's a pretty interesting pay off if you're a fan of the character or of Karen Gillian.