If you’ve seen Avengers: Endgame, then you know that it marks the end of Iron Man’s Marvel adventures. What you didn’t see was how that journey was originally going to end, which involved a special appearance from someone very important to Tony Stark.

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo’s next stop on their “The Making of Endgame” press tour took them to the Happy Sad Confused podcast, where they explained why they cut a scene that would have brought 13 Reasons Why and Love, Simon actor Katherine Langford into the MCU. Langford was cast as the teenage version of Morgan, Tony’s daughter, played by Lexi Rabe in Endgame. The older Morgan would have appeared to Tony after he snaps his fingers and dusted Thanos.

“There was an idea that we had that Tony was going to go into the metaphysical way station that Thanos goes in when he snapped his fingers [in Infinity War],” Joe Russo said. “And that there was going to be a future version of his daughter in that way station.”

So why was the scene cut?

“What we realized about it was we didn’t feel an emotional association with the adult version of [Tony’s] daughter,” Anthony Russo said. “So, it wasn’t ringing to us and resonating with us on an emotional level.”

Joe Russo elaborated further: “The intention was that [Tony’s] future daughter, because these films are dealing with magic, his future daughter forgave him and sort of gave him peace to go. And the idea felt resonant. But it was just too many ideas in an overly complicated movie.”

An older version of Tony’s daughter helping a dying Tony shed this mortal coil would have undercut the emotional impact of that great “I love you 3000” scene Tony’s final holographic message to a young Morgan has. While we are glad this bit was cut, we’re hoping it makes an appearance on the Blu-ray’s collection of deleted scenes.

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