In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos obtains the six Infinity Stones and places them within a Gauntlet built by Eitri, so that he can snap his fingers and eliminate half of all life in the universe, which he believes will bring a balance that will prevent greater catastrophes from fighting over resources. See also: Infinity Saga Doctor Strange dusting after Thanos acquired all six Infinity Stones and snapped his fingers. The Eternals also survived the Blip because they were artificial, not biological, beings. However, Lang was believed to have been a victim, due to his absence over those five years. Scott Lang was in the Quantum Realm at the time of the Blip, and although only 5 hours passed there from his perspective when he escaped from the Quantum Realm, because time passes slower there, five years had passed everywhere else. Memorials to the "vanished" victims were erected in communities across the universe. The Blip wiped out 50% of all living creatures. Secret Invasion (2023) uses both "the Blip" and "the Snap". Despite Feige's comments, both events were collectively referred to as "the Blip" in MCU projects such as WandaVision (2021) and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), and the term also appears to reference the five-year gap between the two snaps during which half of Earth's population was wiped from existence. The event was referred to as "the Blip" in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), but Kevin Feige later clarified that "the Snap" referred to Thanos' finger snap in Avengers: Infinity War while "the Blip" referred to Bruce Banner's finger snap in Avengers: Endgame. Snider, the event was referred to as "the Decimation", but this naming was not used in any other related media. In the tie-in novel Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest Volume Two: Aftermath by Brandon T. Since the Blip in Infinity War, many scientific articles have been published analyzing various aspects of the event, including whether it would even be possible for Thanos to snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.įollowing the release of Avengers: Infinity War, the event was dubbed by fans as "the Snap", "the Snappening", or "the Snapture". The Blip, as an event within the MCU, has been compared to the COVID-19 pandemic, as something that has a sustained effect on people all over the world. The ban of over 300,000 accounts, which included Infinity War co-director Anthony Russo, was the largest in Reddit's history. The Blip inspired the creation of a real-world event on the website Reddit, in which a randomly-selected half of the members of a highly popular subreddit would be banned, simulating the effects of the Blip.
Others were portrayed for dramatic effect, such as blipped characters returning to general chaos and confusion, finding that loved ones had died in their absence, their homes and life savings were repossessed, and their jobs had been filled by others. Some were portrayed for comic effects, such as "blipped" school band members reappearing in the middle of a basketball game and "blipped" characters now being years younger than their own "unblipped" previously younger siblings.
The consequences of the Blip were substantial and far-reaching.
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In addition, a variety of other MCU films and television series have referenced or depicted aspects of the Blip. It manifested in the form of the mass disintegration of individual beings into dust, while the reversal had the same dust reforming into the previously deceased individuals, who reappeared in the same location with no direct awareness of what occurred.Īspects of the Blip have been featured in Phase Three, Four, and Five of the MCU, most notably in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), which is when the first snap occurred, and Avengers: Endgame (2019), where the second snap by Banner took place. The Blip appears to refer to the entire event, including the elimination and restoration of the victims. The Blip (also known as the Decimation and the Snap) is a major fictional event depicted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise in which half of all living things in the universe, chosen at random, were exterminated by Thanos snapping his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet and wielding the Infinity Stones in 2018, and then restored in late 2023 by Bruce Banner using Infinity Stones recovered from different time periods. Thanos initiating the Blip, as depicted in Avengers: Infinity War For other uses, see Snap (disambiguation), Decimation (disambiguation), and Blip (disambiguation). "The Snap" and "The Decimation" redirect here.
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