Which came first – the Avengers or the mess they help clean up?
Or, rather controversally, did they create the mess in the first place?
It’s a classic chicken or the egg conundrum, and as Avengers: Endgame continues to rake in cash around the world – at last count, it had raked in $2 billion and was closing fast on Avatar as the most successful film ever – it’s worth considering who started the whole thing in the first place.
Rather helpfully, Jimmy Fallon has given these musings a rather musical and important help-along with a segment on his show featuring the actors from the box office juggernaut, singing along to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, all adamant they didn’t light the flame …
You will, however, be delighted, and perhaps even a little melancholic, when you see who is picked as the architect of arguably the biggest cinematic fire in history.