'Avengers: Endgame' Writers Clear Up Lingering Questions

LOADING ERROR LOADING We’re in the. Thankfully, “Endgame” writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely were available to hop on the phone with HuffPost a couple weeks after the movie’s release to put some of the mysteries to rest. “She was not on Vormir when Thanos killed Gamora,” said Markus, explaining that she knew Gamora was dead but didn’t know why or how Thanos had done the deed. “Only people who had been to Vormir and talked to the Red Skull would know that answer.” On why Black Widow was ultimately the character the Avengers sacrificed for the stone, Markus said, “We had to take two people up there who love each other and we know that Clint and Natasha have had a very long relationship that they would qualify, and then once we brought them up there it became a question of who is at the end of their story, because we wanted — when we were ‘killing people’ or ending their run — we wanted to make sure that they had closure that there was an appropriateness to the death when it happened so that it would feel heroic and not tragic.” Q. Though director Joe Russo’s cameo as a gay man in the movie is technically the first openly gay character in the MCU, comments from Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige that future LGBTQ characters would be “both ones you’ve seen and ones you haven’t seen,” and similar comments from the Russos, have some speculating that one of the current Avengers is part of the LGBTQ community.