Star Wars: Endgame

Editor's Note: This entry contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; read at your own caution.

About

Star Wars: Endgame refers both to a series of mashups of footage and iconography from the films Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Avengers: Endgame, as well as criticisms that both have similar finales.

Origin

On December 11th, 2018, YouTuber MaxeBaumannFilms2013 posted a parody trailer combining footage from Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars. The post received more than 44,000 views in a little over two years (shown below).

Spread

Throughout the year, more parody videos continued to spread online. On April 25th, 2019, YouTuber Star Wars Expanded shared a version, and on October 22nd, YouTuber Small Beans did as well (video below, left and right, respectively).

Following the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, some criticized the film for having imagery, dialogue and plot points that resembled Avengers: Endgame. On December 20th, Redditor, ^[1] YupDatesRyte wrote:

anyone else notice how the final space battle played out like the final battle of Avengers: Endgame? with all the ships (returning characters) popping in on screen all together?

and then there is the semi final REY moment where i literally ruined a line cuz i knew it was coming… she looks at Palpatine and says "I…AM.." i literally said outloud "iron man!" (i mean more like under my breathe but a couple heard me and one laughed the other got irritated)

i just thought the movie was fun, but rushed and compressed to hurry up and close whatever plots from 7 and 8… i just couldnt get over the Avengers: Endgame comparisons lol

Others online pointed out similarities. Over the next few days, people on Twitter compared the two films, accusing Rise of Skywalker of taking plot points from Endgame (examples below).

Several media outlets covered the criticism, including ComicBook.com,^[2] LADBible,^[3] We Got This Covered,^[4] CinemaBlend^[5] and more.

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