Avengers: Endgame clocked in at just over three hours at the cinema, but there was still more of the film that was left on the cutting room floor.

The spoiler ban on the film has now officially lifted, so directors Joe and Anthony Russo and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have been speaking about what did and didn’t make it in.

It won’t surprise anyone to learn that the final epic battle scene, in which the Avengers and their allies fight against Thanos’ army, was even longer than it currently is.

There were also some characters who would have swapped storylines: Markus and McFeely told the New York Times that the plan was for Thor (Chris Hemsworth) to originally go on a revenge killing spree, a plot line that was given to Hawkeye/Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) in the final film. Hawkeye was also the subject of another change: in an early draft, he was going to be the one to sacrifice himself to get the Soul Stone, but in the final version Black Widow/Natasha (Scarlett Johanssen) dies (Hawkeye should have died, but that’s just this writer’s opinion).

This surprising scene was cut from Avengers: Endgame