Robert Downey Jr. spoiled Endgame two weeks before its release

While Downey is going viral on Weibo, Chinese fans discovered other stars also offered spoilers

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Robert Downey Jr. spoiled Endgame two weeks before its release

Published: 9:50pm, 1 May 2019Updated: 9:03am, 20 Sep 2019

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

As fans around the world try to go into Avengers: Endgame spoiler-free, the biggest spoiler culprit might have been right in front of them all along.

It turns out that the film's biggest spoiler came from none other than Robert Downey Jr. himself two weeks before the release of Endgame. This discovery by Marvel fans is driving the now-viral hashtag #TheFirstAvengerWithSpoiler on Weibo, generating more than 42,000 posts in less than a day.

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(We're going to lay out exactly what that spoiler is ahead, so don’t go past the picture if you don’t want to know what happens in Endgame!)

The major spoiler came during a fan event in Seoul two weeks ago when Robert Downey Jr. was asked what he knew about the movie. In response, he did this:

Look at that woman’s smirk. Did she know!? (Picture: Weibo)

That’s right. The person who was reportedly paid more than US$75 million for the movie spoiled the dramatic end of his own character after Iron Man wiped out Thanos by snapping with the Infinity Stones. Fortunately, nobody knew what that meant, and it didn’t snowball into a major fan theory in the lead-up to the movie’s release.