If only Mark Ruffalo had a time machine. The actor who plays Bruce Banner and his alter ego The Hulk is a notorious spoiler-spiller. So, obviously, spoilers ahead!
In June 2017, Ruffalo inadvertently gave away the ending of Avengers: Infinity War during a Good Morning America interview:
And in November 2017, he accidentally live-streamed part of Thor: Ragnarok during the film’s world premiere.
And then, during his October 2018 appearance on The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon, Ruffalo revealed the title of Avengers: Endgame before it was officially announced:
It’s worth noting that Ruffalo actually said “The Last Avenger,” but that didn’t stop Endgame co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo from posting a tweet that read:
“Mark, you’re fired.”
Well, at least he kept his mouth shut while promoting Avengers: Endgame, right? Wrong!
It turns out Ruffalo actually did spoil Avengers: Endgame several weeks ago, when he blurted out a major plot point from the end of the film.
In an interview with E! News alongside Captain America actor Chris Evans and Nebula actress Karen Gillan, Ruffalo revealed that the Russo brothers had him shoot five different endings for the film. He also revealed that the directing duo never gave him a complete script. The actor said he didn’t know the true conclusion of Endgame during filming… and he claimed that he’d have to wait until the movie opened in theaters to find out which ending was ultimately chosen.
The story checks out. The Russos have a history of withholding full scripts from the actors, having done so with Avengers: Infinity War to keep story secrets close to the chest. Anyway, at one point in the interview, Ruffalo pointed to Evans and joked:
“He gets married in this!”
Ha… that’s hilarious, right? Captain America tying the knot in Avengers: Endgame? Like that would ever happen.
Except it does happen. Though Ruffalo was offering an example of one of the dummy scenes, he actually revealed the real ending to the superhero ensemble.
Avengers: Endgame reveals that Steve Rogers retires from being Captain America after returning each Infinity Stone to their proper places in time. He chooses to remain in the past, reuniting with his love Peggy Carter and growing old with her. Steve later resurfaces five years after the events of Infinity War, explaining to Sam Wilson that he chose to go back in time to live the life’d always wanted. When Steve shakes Sam’s hand, we see a wedding band. Steve stays mum on who the wife is, but a dance sequence between he and Peggy at the end of the film proves that she’s the lady in question.
So, yeah — Mark Ruffalo totally spoiled Endgame, but he probably didn’t know he was spoiling the film. It sounds like Ruffalo’s script was chock full of fake scenes and he had no way of knowing which ones were real.
Other actors in the MCU have been similarly confused in the past. Let’s go back in time to Tom Holland’s April 2018 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live while the cast was promoting Avengers: Infinity War. Holland revealed that he didn’t believe Spiderman would ever wind up in an sci-fi tizzy with Thanos: Keep watching to see the rest of how Mark Ruffalo actually did spoil the ending of Endgame after all!
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