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, and facing an uncertain future. 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. Īs of 2022, aspects of the Blip have been featured in Phase Three and Four of the MCU across various media, including Avengers: Infinity War (the first depiction) (2018), Ant-Man and the Wasp (post-credits) (2018), Captain Marvel (post-credits) (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), WandaVision (2021), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), and Hawkeye (2021). The Blip 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 mostly reappeared in the same location with no direct awareness of what occurred. '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 (MCU) franchise in which half of all living things in the universe, chosen at random, were exterminated by Thanos snapping his fingers while wielding the Infinity Stones in 2018, and then restored in 2023 by Bruce Banner using Infinity Stones recovered from different time periods. Thanos initiating the Blip, as depicted in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

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