Movie Matchups: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2 vs. Avengers: Endgame
Every story has an end. The 2019 science fiction superhero film Avengers: Endgame provided closure for the Infinity Saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time in the process, but the story is basically the same as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2, the grand finale of the Harry Potter film series and the highest-grossing film of Warner Bros. and its parent company WarnerMedia. Let me tell you why.
After suffering heavy casualties in a previous film (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1/Avengers: Infinity War), the series' original leads (Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger/Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America/ Bruce Banner/Hulk, Thor, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, and Clint Barton/Hawkeye), a newly rescued researcher with vast knowledge on advanced technology and otherworldly phenomena (Mr. Ollivander/Scott Lang/Ant-Man), a blonde-haired foreign woman (Fleur Delacour/Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel), a female survivor (Luna Lovegood/Nebula) of the villain's (Lord Voldemort/Thanos) cruelty (Luna was kidnapped by the Death Eaters and imprisoned in Malfoy Manor/Nebula was raised as an assassin by Thanos, who cut off various parts of her body and replaced them with machinery every time she failed to meet his expectations), and a diminutive creature with pointy ears (Griphook/Rocket) regroup at a country house (Shell Cottage/Thanos' Farm). There, they dispose of (the body of the newly deceased Dobby is buried on a nearby beach after being stabbed to death by Bellatrix Lestrange/after finding out that Thanos destroyed the Infinity Stones to prevent their further use, Thor beheads him to avenge the Asgardians) a non-human creature (Dobby/Thanos) before planning to steal their nemesis' powerful and deadly trinkets (Horcruxes/Infinity Stones) and reverse the damage he caused (Harry, Ron, and Hermione set out to destroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in order to destroy the Dark Lord once and for all/the surviving Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy travel back in time to collect the Infinity Stones and use them to bring back everyone who disintegrated in the Snap). During the quest, one of the heroes (Griphook/Romanoff) dies in a cave (Griphook is killed by Voldemort in a fit of rage/Romanoff sacrifices herself for the Soul Stone) in the process of recovering a trinket (Helga Hufflepuff's Cup/Soul Stone) that can only be acquired through death (Horcruxes are created through murder, ripping the soul apart/the Soul Stone can only be acquired by sacrificing a loved one) from a dark place (Gringotts/Vormir) guarded by a shifty creature with a strange-looking face (Bogrod/Johann Schmidt/Red Skull), a primary character with glasses (Harry/Banner) goes to a magical tower (Ravenclaw Tower/Sanctum Sanctorum) and convinces a female ruler (Helena Ravenclaw/2016 Ancient One) to give him a jewel-like trinket (Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem/Time Stone) important to her identity (the diadem previously belonged to Helena's mother, Hogwarts founder Rowena Ravenclaw, before Voldemort turned it into a Horcrux/the Ancient One uses the Time Stone to travel through time), a conniving creature (Griphook/2012 Loki) steals (Griphook betrays the Trio to Gringotts security and escapes with the Sword of Gryffindor/Rogers steals the Mind Stone, but Stark and Lang fail to steal the Space Stone, allowing 2012 Loki to escape with the Tesseract) a relic critical to defeating the villain (Godric Gryffindor's Sword/Space Stone), and some of the main characters (Harry/Stark and Thor) momentarily reunite with and have emotional conversations (before facing his destiny, Harry uses the Resurrection Stone to summon the spirits of his parents, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin for consolation/Stark obtains an earlier version of the Space Stone from S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters in 1970, where he encounters and reconciles with his father, Howard, whom he gives parenting advice from his own experience as a husband and father, while an overweight and depressed Thor travels to Asgard in 2013 to recover the Reality Stone, where he encounters his mother, Frigga, who has a heartfelt conversation with him and tells him that she can create a better future for him, but not herself) with their deceased parental figures (James and Lily Potter, Sirius, and Lupin/1970 Howard Stark and 2013 Frigga). However, the connection (Harry and Voldemort can see into each other's minds as a result of the latter's attempt to kill the former in his infancy/Nebula's cybernetic implants link with those of her 2014 self) between one of the main characters (Harry/Nebula) and the villain causes the latter to learn of the heroes' search for his power (Voldemort finds out that the Trio are hunting his Horcruxes and kills everyone in the room in a rage/2014 Thanos learns of his future victory and the Avengers' attempts to undo it, captures Nebula, and sends 2014 Nebula to 2023 in her place) and pursue them (Voldemort and his army lay siege on Hogwarts/2014 Thanos tasks 2014 Nebula with bringing his army to the present) to their headquarters (Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry/New Avengers Facility) with his gothic and genocidal cult (Death Eaters/Black Order) and an army of monsters (Acromantula, Dementors, and Giants/Outriders). After the villain declares that his intention to kill every living thing in the setting (Voldemort threatens to kill everyone at Hogwarts unless they surrender Harry to him/2014 Thanos states his intention to wipe out all life in the universe and recreate it in his own image), armies of heroes storm the facility (the entire Wizarding World prepares to defend Hogwarts against Voldemort and his army/Banner uses the Nano Gauntlet created by Stark to bring back the half of the universe wiped out by Thanos), leading to a massive battle between the villain's army and every remaining hero that has been introduced over the past decade (Battle of Hogwarts/Battle of Earth). During the battle, older female characters (Minerva McGonagall and Molly Weasley/Pepper Potts) finally get to fight for those they love after being omitted from the action until that point (McGonagall ousts Severus Snape from Hogwarts after a duel and later animates the statues to defend the castle, while Molly duels and kills Bellatrix in defence of her daughter, Ginny/Pepper dons an Iron Man suit and joins the female Avengers in taking on 2014 Thanos), antiheroic henchmen (Snape and the Malfoys/2014 Gamora) associated with the colour green (Snape and the Malfoys are members of Slytherin, a house whose colour palette is green/Gamora has green skin) inch towards redemption (before bleeding to death, Snape gives Harry his memories, revealing his love for the late Lily Potter and that Harry is himself a Horcrux and therefore must die in order to defeat Voldemort, while Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Harry's villainous rival Draco Malfoy, falsely tells the Dark Lord that Harry is dead and deserts with her husband, Lucius, and son both for fear of their lives and out of discomfort with their master's mistreatment of them/Nebula convinces 2014 Gamora to defect from Thanos, though 2014 Gamora is not the same as the Gamora that Thanos sacrificed for the Soul Stone in 2018), and a physically and psychologically broken (Nagini was originally a cursed human and later became Voldemort's pet snake and final Horcrux/Nebula was adopted by Thanos after he decimated her race and abducted her) henchwoman (Nagini/2014 Nebula) is killed (Neville Longbottom uses the Sword of Gryffindor to behead Nagini/Nebula fails to convince her 2014 self to abandon Thanos and is forced to shoot her in the chest) by an under-appreciated but crucial (despite previously doubting his placement in Gryffindor, Neville stands up to Voldemort when the latter announces Harry's death and pulls the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat/Thanos favoured Gamora over Nebula, who later joined the Guardians of the Galaxy and reconciled with her adoptive sister in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) supporting protagonist (Neville/Nebula). The battle reaches a turning point when the villain overpowers the heroes (believing Snape to be the master of the Elder Wand, Voldemort has Nagini exsanguinate him/2014 Thanos gains the upper hand) and seizes a component (Elder Wand/Infinity Stones) to a powerful weapon (Deathly Hallows/Infinity Gauntlet) that makes its wielder powerful beyond measure (together, the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility make one Master of Death/together, the Infinity Stones make one a god), only for the hero (Harry/Stark) whose miraculous survival (Lily's love for Harry allowed him to survive Voldemort's attack as a baby/in 2008, Stark was held captive in a cave in Afghanistan for three months before building the first Iron Man suit to escape) set the series in motion (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/Iron Man) to turn the villain to dust (Harry and Voldemort engage in an intense final duel, ending with Voldemort being obliterated by his own Killing Curse, the Elder Wand refusing to kill its true master, Harry/Stark takes the Infinity Stones from 2014 Thanos and uses them to disintegrate the Mad Titan and his army) with the powerful objects he sought (Elder Wand/Infinity Stones) at the cost of his own life (Harry surrenders to Voldemort, who kills him in the Forbidden Forest, only for Harry to come back to life to finish the job, the fragment of the Dark Lord's soul inside his body destroyed/Stark dies from the shock of the Gauntlet after destroying Thanos forever). In the end, the aging heroes get married, find other pursuits (19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Draco have gotten married and had children of their own/Stark is survived by his wife, Pepper, and daughter, Morgan, while Rogers remains in the 1940s and marries the love of his life, Peggy Carter, and Thor joins the Guardians of the Galaxy), scatter the components to the villain's ultimate weapon (Harry deliberately drops the Resurrection Stone after his deceased elders console him, and later breaks the Elder Wand and drops it over the edge of the Viaduct, rejecting its power/Rogers returns the Infinity Stones to their timelines), and pass the torch over to lesser-known characters (the former Hogwarts students see their children off as they depart for Hogwarts/having recovered his lost time, an elderly Rogers passes his shield and mantle on to Sam Wilson, while Thor appoints Valkyrie as the new ruler of the Asgardian refugees), bringing the first chapter (Harry Potter/Infinity Saga) of a beloved and successful film franchise (Wizarding World/Marvel Cinematic Universe) to a satisfying conclusion.
It's the same story!
After suffering heavy casualties in a previous film (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1/Avengers: Infinity War), the series' original leads (Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger/Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America/ Bruce Banner/Hulk, Thor, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, and Clint Barton/Hawkeye), a newly rescued researcher with vast knowledge on advanced technology and otherworldly phenomena (Mr. Ollivander/Scott Lang/Ant-Man), a blonde-haired foreign woman (Fleur Delacour/Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel), a female survivor (Luna Lovegood/Nebula) of the villain's (Lord Voldemort/Thanos) cruelty (Luna was kidnapped by the Death Eaters and imprisoned in Malfoy Manor/Nebula was raised as an assassin by Thanos, who cut off various parts of her body and replaced them with machinery every time she failed to meet his expectations), and a diminutive creature with pointy ears (Griphook/Rocket) regroup at a country house (Shell Cottage/Thanos' Farm). There, they dispose of (the body of the newly deceased Dobby is buried on a nearby beach after being stabbed to death by Bellatrix Lestrange/after finding out that Thanos destroyed the Infinity Stones to prevent their further use, Thor beheads him to avenge the Asgardians) a non-human creature (Dobby/Thanos) before planning to steal their nemesis' powerful and deadly trinkets (Horcruxes/Infinity Stones) and reverse the damage he caused (Harry, Ron, and Hermione set out to destroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in order to destroy the Dark Lord once and for all/the surviving Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy travel back in time to collect the Infinity Stones and use them to bring back everyone who disintegrated in the Snap). During the quest, one of the heroes (Griphook/Romanoff) dies in a cave (Griphook is killed by Voldemort in a fit of rage/Romanoff sacrifices herself for the Soul Stone) in the process of recovering a trinket (Helga Hufflepuff's Cup/Soul Stone) that can only be acquired through death (Horcruxes are created through murder, ripping the soul apart/the Soul Stone can only be acquired by sacrificing a loved one) from a dark place (Gringotts/Vormir) guarded by a shifty creature with a strange-looking face (Bogrod/Johann Schmidt/Red Skull), a primary character with glasses (Harry/Banner) goes to a magical tower (Ravenclaw Tower/Sanctum Sanctorum) and convinces a female ruler (Helena Ravenclaw/2016 Ancient One) to give him a jewel-like trinket (Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem/Time Stone) important to her identity (the diadem previously belonged to Helena's mother, Hogwarts founder Rowena Ravenclaw, before Voldemort turned it into a Horcrux/the Ancient One uses the Time Stone to travel through time), a conniving creature (Griphook/2012 Loki) steals (Griphook betrays the Trio to Gringotts security and escapes with the Sword of Gryffindor/Rogers steals the Mind Stone, but Stark and Lang fail to steal the Space Stone, allowing 2012 Loki to escape with the Tesseract) a relic critical to defeating the villain (Godric Gryffindor's Sword/Space Stone), and some of the main characters (Harry/Stark and Thor) momentarily reunite with and have emotional conversations (before facing his destiny, Harry uses the Resurrection Stone to summon the spirits of his parents, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin for consolation/Stark obtains an earlier version of the Space Stone from S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters in 1970, where he encounters and reconciles with his father, Howard, whom he gives parenting advice from his own experience as a husband and father, while an overweight and depressed Thor travels to Asgard in 2013 to recover the Reality Stone, where he encounters his mother, Frigga, who has a heartfelt conversation with him and tells him that she can create a better future for him, but not herself) with their deceased parental figures (James and Lily Potter, Sirius, and Lupin/1970 Howard Stark and 2013 Frigga). However, the connection (Harry and Voldemort can see into each other's minds as a result of the latter's attempt to kill the former in his infancy/Nebula's cybernetic implants link with those of her 2014 self) between one of the main characters (Harry/Nebula) and the villain causes the latter to learn of the heroes' search for his power (Voldemort finds out that the Trio are hunting his Horcruxes and kills everyone in the room in a rage/2014 Thanos learns of his future victory and the Avengers' attempts to undo it, captures Nebula, and sends 2014 Nebula to 2023 in her place) and pursue them (Voldemort and his army lay siege on Hogwarts/2014 Thanos tasks 2014 Nebula with bringing his army to the present) to their headquarters (Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry/New Avengers Facility) with his gothic and genocidal cult (Death Eaters/Black Order) and an army of monsters (Acromantula, Dementors, and Giants/Outriders). After the villain declares that his intention to kill every living thing in the setting (Voldemort threatens to kill everyone at Hogwarts unless they surrender Harry to him/2014 Thanos states his intention to wipe out all life in the universe and recreate it in his own image), armies of heroes storm the facility (the entire Wizarding World prepares to defend Hogwarts against Voldemort and his army/Banner uses the Nano Gauntlet created by Stark to bring back the half of the universe wiped out by Thanos), leading to a massive battle between the villain's army and every remaining hero that has been introduced over the past decade (Battle of Hogwarts/Battle of Earth). During the battle, older female characters (Minerva McGonagall and Molly Weasley/Pepper Potts) finally get to fight for those they love after being omitted from the action until that point (McGonagall ousts Severus Snape from Hogwarts after a duel and later animates the statues to defend the castle, while Molly duels and kills Bellatrix in defence of her daughter, Ginny/Pepper dons an Iron Man suit and joins the female Avengers in taking on 2014 Thanos), antiheroic henchmen (Snape and the Malfoys/2014 Gamora) associated with the colour green (Snape and the Malfoys are members of Slytherin, a house whose colour palette is green/Gamora has green skin) inch towards redemption (before bleeding to death, Snape gives Harry his memories, revealing his love for the late Lily Potter and that Harry is himself a Horcrux and therefore must die in order to defeat Voldemort, while Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Harry's villainous rival Draco Malfoy, falsely tells the Dark Lord that Harry is dead and deserts with her husband, Lucius, and son both for fear of their lives and out of discomfort with their master's mistreatment of them/Nebula convinces 2014 Gamora to defect from Thanos, though 2014 Gamora is not the same as the Gamora that Thanos sacrificed for the Soul Stone in 2018), and a physically and psychologically broken (Nagini was originally a cursed human and later became Voldemort's pet snake and final Horcrux/Nebula was adopted by Thanos after he decimated her race and abducted her) henchwoman (Nagini/2014 Nebula) is killed (Neville Longbottom uses the Sword of Gryffindor to behead Nagini/Nebula fails to convince her 2014 self to abandon Thanos and is forced to shoot her in the chest) by an under-appreciated but crucial (despite previously doubting his placement in Gryffindor, Neville stands up to Voldemort when the latter announces Harry's death and pulls the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat/Thanos favoured Gamora over Nebula, who later joined the Guardians of the Galaxy and reconciled with her adoptive sister in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) supporting protagonist (Neville/Nebula). The battle reaches a turning point when the villain overpowers the heroes (believing Snape to be the master of the Elder Wand, Voldemort has Nagini exsanguinate him/2014 Thanos gains the upper hand) and seizes a component (Elder Wand/Infinity Stones) to a powerful weapon (Deathly Hallows/Infinity Gauntlet) that makes its wielder powerful beyond measure (together, the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility make one Master of Death/together, the Infinity Stones make one a god), only for the hero (Harry/Stark) whose miraculous survival (Lily's love for Harry allowed him to survive Voldemort's attack as a baby/in 2008, Stark was held captive in a cave in Afghanistan for three months before building the first Iron Man suit to escape) set the series in motion (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/Iron Man) to turn the villain to dust (Harry and Voldemort engage in an intense final duel, ending with Voldemort being obliterated by his own Killing Curse, the Elder Wand refusing to kill its true master, Harry/Stark takes the Infinity Stones from 2014 Thanos and uses them to disintegrate the Mad Titan and his army) with the powerful objects he sought (Elder Wand/Infinity Stones) at the cost of his own life (Harry surrenders to Voldemort, who kills him in the Forbidden Forest, only for Harry to come back to life to finish the job, the fragment of the Dark Lord's soul inside his body destroyed/Stark dies from the shock of the Gauntlet after destroying Thanos forever). In the end, the aging heroes get married, find other pursuits (19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Draco have gotten married and had children of their own/Stark is survived by his wife, Pepper, and daughter, Morgan, while Rogers remains in the 1940s and marries the love of his life, Peggy Carter, and Thor joins the Guardians of the Galaxy), scatter the components to the villain's ultimate weapon (Harry deliberately drops the Resurrection Stone after his deceased elders console him, and later breaks the Elder Wand and drops it over the edge of the Viaduct, rejecting its power/Rogers returns the Infinity Stones to their timelines), and pass the torch over to lesser-known characters (the former Hogwarts students see their children off as they depart for Hogwarts/having recovered his lost time, an elderly Rogers passes his shield and mantle on to Sam Wilson, while Thor appoints Valkyrie as the new ruler of the Asgardian refugees), bringing the first chapter (Harry Potter/Infinity Saga) of a beloved and successful film franchise (Wizarding World/Marvel Cinematic Universe) to a satisfying conclusion.
It's the same story!
I so agree with this!
ReplyDeleteThis is why I love all 4 of these movies!!!!!