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There are possible spoilers of Avengers 4 ahead. You’ve been warned.
Mark Ruffalo, King of Spoilers, has done it again... and he may have gotten ‘fired’ over it.
Well, not really.
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It all started with a tweet, as they say. The actor, most commonly known as Bruce Banner/Hulk in the Marvel films, tweeted Jimmy Fallon to "cut my spoiler clip on the show" hours before his interview was to air.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Mark apparently said the title of the next Avengers movie. As we all know, Marvel prides itself on their secrets and, clearly, that's one secret that got away. Mark took to Twitter to beg Jimmy to censor the reveal.
Jimmy replied and told Mark that it was too late.
Would Mark really get in trouble? Directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, sure think so. They promptly tweeted:
Rather sheepishly, Mark replied:
At least they know how to have fun! Jimmy did censor whatever title it was that Mark revealed, and even went as far as covering his mouth with a black bar to stop fans from reading his lips.
Spoilers start here!
But leave it to the Avengers fans to put their detective skills to good use. Using an audio editing software, fans were able to remove the bleep from the segment to reveal what was said by Mark—The Last Avenger.
For fans who have been in the dark about the official title since the announcement of Avengers 4, this is big news. But is it? Even if the audio editing was accurate, this doesn’t confirm that The Last Avenger is the title of the next movie.
Comicbook said, "If this was all done as a bit, then it is possible Ruffalo just made up a title for the segment. The Last Avenger makes sense as a pun on Avengers 4 being the last Avengers movie for most of the cast from the first Avengers movie. On the other hand, if it is the real title, it is plainly referencing the first Captain America movie, Captain America: The First Avenger."
If it is referencing Captain America, that makes Chris Evan's heartbreaking goodbye even worse.
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Could The Last Avenger be another ruse? Or was it really an accidental slip? What do you think?
Info via BBC and Comicbook