‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Almost Featured Bloody Potatoes

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When writing any script, there’s always a lot of ideas left on the editing floor before being filmed. Some scenes just won’t work with the flow of the film, but some could. One such scene from Avengers: Infinity War involves a Patriot and bloody mashed potatoes.

In a recent interview with IGNEndgame and Infinity War writers Stephen McFeely and Christopher Marcus talk about a particular scene that almost made it into Avengers: IW. The writers both agreed, maybe they went a bit too far: 

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“There was one scene, it was in Infinity War, We wrote it, we didn’t shoot it. It was part and parcel of a whole thing where we realized we were picking up the characters too early in their arc before Thanos had gotten to them.

It was a scene of basically Widow and Falcon and Cap in hiding post-Civil War and they’d just been through a big fight with criminals, and Cap was eating mashed potatoes, and Falcon says, ‘You’re bleeding into your mashed potatoes.”

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“He looks at him like…yeah he is bleeding into his mashed potatoes. I remember Kevin [Feige] going, ‘He’s bleeding into his mashed potatoes?! I don’t want to see that!’ Yeah, maybe we went a little too…something.”

It really would’ve been an interesting scene, but with Infinity War being so full of action, I can see how they decided to pull the scene. I don’t think that it really went too far, but it definitely would’ve been one of the darker jokes in the MCU. 

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