Before you even think about reading ahead, I need you to go ahead and re-read the title of this list. Did you notice that it said Avengers: Infinity War? If you haven't seen the movie yet, you should know that this list will include massive spoilers. And by "massive," I mean epic, huge, and potentially the size of the universe. Infinity War is best seen if you go into it not knowing what to expect. So I strongly encourage you to think twic🃏e before c𒅌ontinuing on with this list. Are you ready?

Okay, let's go.

Avengers: Infinity War was the culmination of years of Marvel superhero movies. Since 2008 and the first Iron Man movie, we have been treated to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We were gently taken by the hand and introduced to the shining world where people with extraordinary powers can make a difference for the better. There were smiles, there were laughs, and we knew that the MCU was a trustworthy franchise to get behind. Infinity War takes that comfort you felt and rips it in half, giving your heart the worst bruising it has received since Han Solo died (Oh, uh, spoilers for The Force Awakens are here too. Sorry about that).

Infinity War took my emotions for a roller coaster ride, and then did the unexpected. It derailed my cart and plummeted my feelings into nothingness. At the end of the movie, you feel there is no way that things can end the way they did. And you know what? I loved every minute of it. It was risky and bold and unlike any movie, Marvel or otherwise, that we've ever seen be🔯fore. Read on if you want to go over🅠 some of the things that made no sense about it. I promise you that they don't make the movie any less enjoyable.

25 Loki, Go🐼d Of Bad Ideas 💖

Thanos might be the ultimate big bad these days, but we all know who was the original Marvel villain. Even with Thanos in the villain line-up, I'd still say that Loki made for a better villain. There was depth to his character, you understood his motivations, and he was charming as heck. He was also one of the smarter villains. He had five tricks up his sleeve to get himself out of sticky situations. I mean, he's the God of Mischief for crying out loud. If he wasn't cunning, he'd have to change that title. However, in Avengers: Infinity War, Loki's smarts take a short ⭕break and it costs ✱him his life. The movie opens with Thanos and his "Children" attacking the ship that Thor and Loki and the rest of the Asgardians were on. Everyone was clearly overpowered by Thanos and his forces, even though we didn't get to see the action. Thor and Loki were one of the few left conscious.

Thor, as per usual, tries to punch his way out the problem, but punching is no way to solve a problem like Thanos. Loki chooses a different route. He tries to be suave and convince Thanos that he wants to work for him. Loki had failed Thanos once before, and I don't think Thanos is the kind of guy who believes in second chances. But Loki takes it a step further and, after promising his subservience, he tries attacking Thanos with a con꧅cealed knife. Did he honestly think that would work? If Loki was going for the humble-servant route, he should have stuck ꧙with it a little longer.

24 Calling In Back-Up 🧜

When Infinity War ended, everyone in the crowded theater either gasped or said, "That's it?" We were all left in our seats in utter dismay that we would have to wait a whole year to find out what wo♑uld happen to our favorite heroes. Thanos couldn't have won. Losing half of the people in the universe (including half of our heroes) with the snap of Thanos' fingers couldn't be the way the MCU would leave things. I mean, we had just gotten a new Spider-Man! He couldn't just be gone! So it was with tense anxiety that we waited for an end credits scene. We all sat in our seats, biting our nails, murmuring worriedly to each other. A hush came over all of us when the last credit rolled ♏by.

Then, Nick Fury and Maria Hill, former agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., appeared on the screen, driving in a car (We all let out a breath; if anyone could help the Avengers, it's Nick freaking Fury). Unfortunately, Thanos' eradication of half of the beings in the universe took place at that exact moment. Both Hill and Fury crumbled into nothingness, but not before Fury made a call to a mystery person. Actually, it's not a mystery, the symbol 🐼that appeared on his beeper before the screen cut to black was that of Captain Marvel. I guess Fury kept her number in reserve for situat🐽ions like this. The question is, why hadn't he called her before? Captain Marvel's movie is set to appear in the 90s, so Fury has (supposedly) known of her since then. Was the Chitauri invasion not dangerous enough? Was Ultron a minor annoyance?

23 Six Stones To Rule Them Al𒁏l

Technically, we were introduced to Infinity Stones in the first Avengers movie, but I would say we were not truly introduced to them until two years later when Guardians of the Galaxy was released. The Guardians were a blast to hang out with and their adventures led them to the Power Stone. Not only did they encounter it, but average moviegoers finally got an explanation for what the Infinity Stones were ("Infinity Stones," while it makes for a cool name, does not offer a lot of explanation in and of itself). The Stones were these small vessels of immense power that no single being could wield safely. The raw power contained within each stone would tear the average being apart. We also learned from Gamora that her "adoptive father," Thanos, was searching for them. And, as implied by the title, in Avengers: Infinity War, Thanoꦓs finally gets his gloved hand on the Stones.

What is never answered is how Thanos is able to wield the Stones...

It's implied that he's this major tough guy, but never explained. He's physically larger than our Avengers, he has a deep, imposing, gravelly voice, and everyone is afraid of him. Apparently, their fear is there for a good reason. Thanos manages to hold all of the Infinity Stones without being torn to pieces. We assume the Gauntlet allows it, but how exactly does that work? It took all of the Guardians to manage the power of one Ston🦂e, but Thanos just plops each of them into his Gauntlet like it ain't no thing.

22 Space Oddity 💎

Thanos and his friends are an alien threat not just to Earth, but to the entire universe as well. As such, it makes sense that some of our Avengers (specifically Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man) would have to leave the confines of our atmosphere in order to fight them. It was actually Tony's idea to do this, and I still can't decide whether it was an extremely intelligen💙t or an extremely dumb decision. He did it in order to not wreak destruction on Earth while they battled Thanos, which is noble, but that meant taking the fight into outer space. Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, and Iron Man left Earth rather abruptly and unintentionally. They didn't have the time to prepare themselves for extended time in space. And yet, it doe🦄sn't prove too much of a problem.

Changes in gravity end up being a non-issue and what's even more blatantly confusing is that oxygen does not appear to be an issue either. At one point, a hole is blown on the ship they're traveling on and, despite the air getting sucked out of the shi🔯p (and Doctor Strange nearly along with it), no one really asphyxiates. And when they land on Titan, even though it's a different planet, there are no problems with them breathing and walking as if they were on Earth.

21 🐬 Ha𒀰il Hydra

Red Skull is Captain America's most notorious villain. He's the Green Goblin to Captain America's Spider-Man. We thought we had seen the last of Red Skull at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger. Red Skull had been using the Tesseract to construct weapons for his evil organizat🥂ion known as Hydra. At the very end of the movie, he touches it with hi🧜s bare hands and gets disintegrated for his trouble (Those pesky Infinity Stones have a habit of doing that). Or so we thought! Remember that saying that Hydra members keep repeating? "Cut off one head, and two will grow back." Well, Red Skull is back, baby (But he does not have two heads, just in case you were thinking that).

It turns out, Red Skull was not burned away into tiny bits.

He was teleported to another planet. I can roll with that. What I find hard to roll along with is that he somehow became the keeper of the Soul Stone, a hidden Infinity Stone. Thanos and Gamora pay him a visit when they go in search for the Soul Stone (That's a whole other story). Red Skull is drไessed in a tattered robe and he eerily tells them how they might get the Stone. While I was watching, I felt like holding up my hand, coughing politely, and then saying, "Excuse me?" What happened to Red Skull?! How did he end up guarding the Soul Stone? We're going to need a 🦋separate movie just for him now, to tell us what happened.

20 💙 Wakey, Wakey 💞

I find Bucky Barnes, out of all the Marvel heroes, to be the most tragic. Against his will, he was turned into a super human weapon and did unspeakable things while under this mind control. Bucky's moniker, the Winter Soldier, was a name to be feared. When Captain America found out what had been done to his childhood friend, he stuck by his side, even though it caused a bit of a civil war within the Avengers (Hence, Captain America: Civil War). Thanks to the generosity and good-heartedness of Black Panther, Cap had a place to hide Bucky, a place where Bucky could retire in peace. At the end of Civil War, it's revealed in an end credits scene that Bucky chose (not like he had much choice) to hide in Wakanda, frozen in a kind of cryo sleep so that he wouldn't have to trouble the world again. But if an Infinity War is going to be fought, all hands need to be on deck, including the Winter Soldier. The odd thing is that Bucky was out of cryo sleep already. For some reason, when we next encounter Barnes, he's on a farm in the countryside of Wakanda, just chilling and relaxing. What happened to get him out of cryo sleep? Cryo sleep seems like a long-term option for me, not just a simple dip-in-and-dip-out experience. Could the Wakandans not keep him in cryo sleep for long? Did I miss an explanation in either Black Panther or Infinity War? 

19 Missing The Fight 👍 ⭕

As I said earlier, Infinity War starts with Thor and his ship of fugitive Asgardians. The destruction of their spaceship is complete by the time we see Thor on screen. Thor is beaten, Loki is cowering, and our favorite gatekeeper, Heimdall, is prone on ꧂the floor๊.

It looks as if Infinity War picked up right after the events of Thor: Ragnarok, but, if that's the case, a big question that goes unanswered is what happened Valkyrie, Korg, and Miek.

We met the three of them in Ragnarok and they quickly became some of the more engaging side characters we've ever seen in a Marvel movie. Valkyrie was an awesome warrior woman, who seemed more adept at fighting than Thor ever was. Korg and Miek served as comic relief, but they were super adorable. I'm sure I wasn't the only one worrying about their fates when we saw Thanos wiping the floor with Thor, The Hulk, and Loki. But we never hear from them. We don't even get a glimpse of their bodies, so for all we know, the three of them might have abandoned ship. Knowing Valkyrie, she wouldn't have left Thor behind to face such a grave threat on his own; it makes no sense. Plus, there's definitely a part of her that relishes a good fight. But she's just...gone, absent. (Kind of like how most of the MCU heroes are at the end of Infinity War.) 

18 Sokovian Tal🅠k ဣ

We first met Wanda and Pietro Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The two siblings were born in the fictional Eastern European nation of Sokovia and they were experimented on when they were young, granting both of them strange powers (Honestly, I still don't know the exact extent of Wanda's powers as Scarlet Witch. She can clearly move things with her mind, but at times, it seems like there's more to it than that). In the second Avengers movie, Wanda and Pietro kind of fight for the side of evil, until Ultron shows them how truly evil he is by revealing his grand plan to them. They fꩲorm a reluctant alliance with the Avengers after that and, during the ensuing fight, Pietro passes away saving Hawkeye's life and Wanda cements her status as a new member of the Aven𒆙gers.

She appears in subsequent films, and we now know of her as the second of only two female members of the Avengers (the first being Black Widow). Her brother, however, was not the only thing lost during Age of Ultron. Wanda's accent during that movie was thick, denoting her background in an Eastern European nation. However, by Infinity War, her accent is mostly gone. The disappearance of Wanda's accent is by no means the 🌃most pivotal of nonsensical items on this list, but I think it warrants, at the very least, a nod in its direction.

17 💖 🐟 Higher Priorities

Who here likes Secretary of State Ross? Show of hands. I better see no hands in the air. Since The Incredible Hulk, Thaddeus Ross has made a string of bad choices, and what makes these choices all the more irritating is that there's always a bit of commiserating reasoning behind them. The Hulk is clearly a dangerous being, but Ross hired exactly the wrong person (he was a bit of an Abomination) to bring him in. Scarlet Witch made a mistake while handling a tough situation, but Ross made the wrong call in backing the Sokovia Accords, which would have put reins on the Avengers. And yet again, Ross follows the same pattern, except this time in Infinity War, it does not look like he has any good intentions. Earth is clearly under attack again, it needs its Mightiest Heroes more than ever, but Ross can't get his head out from under his bum. When Captain America and the other fugitive heroes who did not sign the Accords make their way into Avengers' headquarters, Ross, via holographic phone call, blows a gasket. He does the whole, "Who do you think you are?" routine. Man, who do you think they are? They're the people who are going to try and save the world for🅷 you. Again. You would think that Ross would understand that the stakes are pretty high this time around.

16 ༺ One Call Away

I get that it's hard to say you're sorry or to say that you were wrong. It wounds your pride to do that. But when the entire worl🔯d, nay, the entire universe, is at stake, you would think it would make saying those simple words a little easier. Tony Stark is one of the first heroes to find out that Thanos is coming. Doctor Strange gets in touch with him and lets him know how much peril th🐟e universe is in. With that in mind, Tony pulls out a small phone that Steve Rogers gave him right before he went off the grid.

All Tony had to do to was dial the only number within the phone and then he and Captain America could have planned a solid defense. But he hesitated.

Clearly, Tony was recalling the events of Captain America: Civil War and all the things that had led to the break between him and his star-spangled friend. Seriously though, the time for hesitation was over. Tony should have dialed that number immediately and just said the w🐻ords, "I need your help." Instead, he took a pause before he did, and then some of the Children of Thanos attacked New York,♛ and it was only Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange who got sent into space to plan a trap for Thanos. Maybe one phone call would not have made the biggest difference, but it sure would have given Cap more time, which is something he desperately needed.