SPOILERS AHEAD for Avengers: Endgame.

At the end of Avengers: Endgame, when Thor decides to leave Earth behind to join the Guardians of the Galaxy, he shares a special moment with Valkyrie when he names her the new ruler of New Asgard. That moment, however, was almost a bit more awkward.

Via Screen Rant, co-director of Avengers: Endgame Anthony Russo was speaking to SiriusXM when he explained that that scene almost took a bit of a romantic turn.

"There's a funny beat," Russo describes. "If you remember at the end of the film where Thor is saying goodbye to Valkyrie, and he's basically turning Asgard over to her. In the endings we felt like we wanted to keep it a little tight, so we were looking for some stuff to squeeze there. He had this beat with Valkryie where after he sort of turns over the kingdom to her, she puts her arm on his shoulder and he sort of starts to lean in for a kiss. And she goes, 'What are you doing?' And he goes, 'Oh I thought the touch..' She's like, 'Yeah, it's a goodbye touch. A tap I'm giving you.' It was a really funny beat but we cut it."

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters was screened to members of the press ahead of the film's release on May 31, 2019, and now all those lucky enough to see the latest take on Godzilla are able to share their first impressions with the world.

The response has been very positive, with many claiming that this is the Godzilla film they have always wanted. A perfect summer movie of epic proportions.

Here's our roundup of the first reactions to Godzilla: King of the Monsters:

IGN's Terri Schwartz enjoyed the film and stated that the "movie promises a showdown between Godzilla and King Ghidorah, and it absolutely delivers, over and over again."

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This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame.

In the big screen territory staked out by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thanos’ fateful snap changed everything, literally. But over on the small screen, particularly on ABC's Agents of SHIELD, not so much.

After closing Season 5 with an expectation that they had likely delivered a series finale as well, the creative team was pleasantly surprised that Agents of SHIELD received shortened orders for both a sixth and seventh season, prompting them to start planning for an unexpected future when they’d found an otherwise satisfying conclusion (including the definitive death of MCU stalwart Phil Coulson, played by Clark Gregg).

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Update: It's #FoundersAndLegends day! Today we celebrate the auspicious history of tabletop gaming, and how it's success paved the way for our favorite games of the modern era. The D&D community is celebrating over on Twitch, and donating money to ExtraLife to raise money for children's hospitals across the country - consider giving if you can.

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Warning: This article contains spoilers for all of HBO's Game of Thrones, up through Season 8, episode 5, "The Bells."

With Game of Thrones about to close up shop for good, it's time to look back at the massive mountain of dead bodies it's left in its wake (some of which come courtesy of The Mountain).

The most recent episode, "The Bells," left fans traumatized, as usual, due to the shocking deaths it contained (and also because of Daenerys' controversial - but not completely unexpected - villainous turn). We expect an even higher body count in the series finale, which is an hour and 20 minutes long.

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Like an Orb of the Prophets, Deep Space Nine has become the focus of intense meditation in many sectors of fandom, having not only finally gotten the recognition it deserves in the pantheon of Star Trek shows, but also landing a crowd-funded documentary called What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

That doc will be released by Fathom Events in more than 800 movie theaters in the U.S. on Monday, May 13. The What We Left Behind filmmakers, including Ira Steven Behr (DS9's executive producer and showrunner) and David Zappone (producer of Trek-themed docs The Captains and For the Love of Spock), went to Indiegogo to raise funds in order to license clips and finish work on the documentary, bringing in $647,000 in a month thanks to 9,500 backers.

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Warning: full SPOILERS for Pokemon Detective Pikachu!

Tim and Detective Pikachu may have cracked the case at the core of the movie, but we were still left with some big questions that don’t have obvious answers. The kind that give you a Psyduck-sized headache if you think about too much.

How Can Mewtwo Manipulate SOULS?

While Mewtwo is a Psychic-type Legendary with a scary amount of power, its abilities have always been depicted as telekinesis and telepathy in the form of moves like Confusion, Psychic and Barrier. That’s why watching Detective Pikachu's Mewtwo merge people’s souls into Pokemon left us utterly flabbergasted. That takes Mewtwo to a godly level of power we’ve never seen before and are still having trouble comprehending.

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Sony released Raising Kratos this morning, a feature-length documentary following Santa Monica Studio's development of God of War for PlayStation 4. This nearly 2-hour long documentary covers the entire production cycle of the game, from inception to demo crunches to the game going gold.

Below are 37 things we learned from God of War - Raising Kratos, which can be watched in its entirety through the PlayStation YouTube channel.

Spoiler Warning: Spoilers for God of War ahead.

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SPOILERS AHEAD for Avengers: Endgame.

Tony Stark's funeral at the end of Avengers: Endgame was one of the saddest and most emotional moments in the entire MCU, and it was also so secretive that Spider-Man actor Tom Holland was told that it was going to be a wedding.

Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live for Spider-Man: Far From Home, Holland, who is notoriously bad at keeping secrets, explained that he was preparing for a much happier event and was confused when one person in particular was not present.

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