Avengers: Endgame (2019)

 The not-so-hidden environmental politics of Marvel's apocalyptic blockbuster Tickets to the opening night of Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Endgame" are not the only scarce commodity involving the film. As the Avengers (at least some of them) return to deal with the aftermath of genocide-survivor turned super-villain Thanos having wiped out 50 percent of the universe, the message of the blockbuster movie is one for our times: Resource scarcity and overpopulation are not in the distant future. These are issues of critical importance to the future of the world — today. Concerns about adequate supplies of freshwater, population booms across the developing world that will require much greater food production, and the broader debate over human-caused climate change in the industrial era that created unprecedented levels of economic growth — but also the potential for human extinction — are all reflected symbolically in the Avengers' concluding story