Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have revealed that there was one deleted scene in Avengers: Infinity War that went too far... and it involved bloody mashed potatoes.

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IGN's David Griffin asked Markus and McFeely if there were any moments in writing Infinity War or Endgame that, when they presented it to the producers and Kevin Feige, were deemed "going too far?"“There was one scene, it was in Infinity War," Markus began. "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.' 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.” This story was just one of the many scenes and stories cut from both Infinity War and Endgame, a list which includes "Doctor Strange's Magical Mystery Tour" and the Living Tribunal, The Birth of Smart Hulk, Captain America and Red Skull teaming up, and Thanos killing the past Avengers.What did make it into Avengers: Infinity War, however, earned it our number 5 spot in our ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Infinity Saga. For more on Captain America minus mashed potatoes and Infinity War and Endgame, be sure to check out our look at if what Captain America did at the end of Endgame was the right thing to do, discover 27 awesome callbacks to older MCU films in Endgame, and read our breakdown of all the deleted scenes that did make it into Avengers: Infinity War.

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