After the upsettingly catastrophic cliffhanger that closed both “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” Marvel Studios really made us sweat out a nine-month gap before we were granted another entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But “Captain Marvel” is here, finally, to give us respite ahead of “Avengers: Endgame.”
It was quite a weird wait to get to this point, because of how dramatically “Avengers: Infinity War” upended the entire MCU when Thanos snapped his fingers and wiped out half of all life in the universe. We’ve been chomping at the bit for any kind of info about what’s coming next in “Avengers: Endgame” in April — and while “Captain Marvel” doesn’t directly tie into the fight against Thanos in “Infinity War” and “Endgame,” it does set up Carol Danvers as a character.