Passes the Bechdel test
Avengers: Endgame
2019. Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and Stan Lee.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
32 women characters. 22 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 173. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos's actions and undo the chaos to the universe, no matter what consequences may be in store, and no matter who they face...
- Released
- 26 Apr 2019
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 8.4 / 10
- Metascore
- 78 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 71 wins & 132 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Tony 165 lines, man
- Steve 121 lines, man
- Smart Hulk 87 lines, man
- Scott Lang 80 lines, man
- Thor 76 lines, man
- Natasha 75 lines, woman
- Rocket 59 lines, man
- Clint Barton 54 lines, man
- Thanos 50 lines, man
- Rhodey 49 lines
Full cast, 103 people
- Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
- Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America
- Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk
- Chris Hemsworth as Thor
- Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
- Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye
- Josh Brolin as Thanos
- Don Cheadle as James Rhodes / War Machine
- Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange
- Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther
- Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel
- Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
- Karen Gillan as Nebula
- Zoe Saldaña as Gamora
- Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne / Wasp
- Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie
- Rene Russo as Frigga
- Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch
- Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Falcon
- Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki
- Danai Gurira as Okoye
- Benedict Wong as Wong
- Pom Klementieff as Mantis
- Dave Bautista as Drax
- Letitia Wright as Shuri
- John Slattery as Howard Stark
- Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One
- Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
- Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
- Natalie Portman as Jane Foster
- Marisa Tomei as Aunt May
- Taika Waititi as Korg (voice)
- Angela Bassett as Ramonda
- Michael Douglas as Hank Pym
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne
- William Hurt as Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross
- Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
- Sean Gunn as On-Set Rocket / Kraglin
- Winston Duke as M'Baku
- Linda Cardellini as Laura Barton
- Maximiliano Hernández as Agent Sitwell
- Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Akihiko
- Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw
- James D'Arcy as Jarvis
- Jacob Batalon as Ned
- Vin Diesel as Groot (voice)
- Bradley Cooper as Rocket (voice)
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
- Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce
- Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
- Lexi Rabe as Morgan Stark
- Ross Marquand as Red Skull (Stonekeeper)
- Joe Russo as Grieving Man
- Emma Fuhrmann as Cassie Lang
- Michael James Shaw as Corvus Glaive
- Terry Notary as On-Set Groot / Cull Obsidian
- Kerry Condon as Friday (voice)
- Ben Sakamoto as Cooper Barton
- Ava Russo as Lila Barton
- Cade Woodward as Nathaniel Barton
- Stan Lee as Driver
- Yvette Nicole Brown as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent
- Callan Mulvey as Jack Rollins
- Lia Mariella Russo as Lia
- Julian Russo as Julian
- Taylor Patterson as Taylor
- Agostino Rosalina as Augie
- Ken Jeong as Security Guard
- Ty Simpkins as Harley Keener
- Jackson A. Dunn as Scott Lang (12 Y.O.)
- Lee Moore as Scott Lang (93 Y.O.)
- Bazlo LeClair as Scott Lang (Baby)
- Loen LeClair as Scott Lang (Baby)
- Matthew Berry as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent
- Joy McAvoy as Asgardian Maiden
- John Michael Morris as Young Hank Pym
- Michael A. Cook as Male S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent
- Brent McGee as Camp Lehigh Guard
- Brian Schaeffer as Military Police
- Jamie Wedel as Drill Sergeant
- Anthony G Breed as Young Stan Lee Double
- Erica Ribley as Car Girl
- Monique Ganderton as On-Set Proxima Midnight
- Jim Starlin as Support Group Man #1
- Jimmy Ray Pickens as Support Group Man #2
- Hye Jin Jang as Japanese Girl
- Russell Bobbitt as Diner Owner
- James Lin as Diner Cook
- Jack Champion as Kid on Bike
- Sam Hargrave as New Asgard Truck Driver
- Patrick Gorman as Old Steve Rogers Double
- Aaron Lazar as Doctor Strange Double
- Robert Pralgo as Thanos Reader
- Tom Wisdom as Loki Reader
- John Posey as Alexander Pierce Reader
- Ameenah Kaplan as Gamora Reader
- Olaniyan Thurmon as Teenage Groot Reader
- Jennifer Elmore as On Set Reader #1
- Mike Lutz as On Set Reader #2
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 173
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 5 | 12 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 4 |
| 13 to 16 | 7 | 23 |
| 17 to 20 | 15 | 15 |
| 21 to 24 | 7 | 12 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 8 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 to 36 | 2 | 6 |
| 37 to 40 | 32 | 31 |
| 41 to 44 | 7 | 50 |
| 45 to 48 | 20 | 22 |
| 49 to 52 | 6 | 45 |
| 53 to 56 | 11 | 61 |
| 57 to 60 | 2 | 24 |
| 61 to 64 | 3 | 20 |
| 65 to 68 | 5 | 10 |
| 69 to 72 | 9 | 21 |
| 73 to 76 | 12 | 19 |
| 77 to 80 | 20 | 5 |
| 81 to 84 | 2 | 21 |
| 85 to 88 | 0 | 16 |
| 89 to 92 | 0 | 25 |
| 93 to 96 | 19 | 41 |
| 97 to 100 | 13 | 14 |
| 101 to 104 | 15 | 26 |
| 105 to 108 | 2 | 24 |
| 109 to 112 | 0 | 24 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 20 |
| 117 to 120 | 5 | 31 |
| 121 to 124 | 8 | 1 |
| 125 to 128 | 17 | 24 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 33 |
| 133 to 136 | 0 | 15 |
| 137 to 140 | 3 | 8 |
| 141 to 144 | 6 | 26 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 4 |
| 149 to 152 | 18 | 34 |
| 153 to 156 | 14 | 26 |
| 157 to 160 | 0 | 4 |
| 161 to 164 | 0 | 5 |
| 165 to 168 | 11 | 24 |
| 169 to 172 | 0 | 42 |
| 173 to 173 | 0 | 0 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
NATASHA: And? NEBULA: It was an infectious garbage scow.
NATASHA: You get a reading on those tremors? OKOYE: Minor subduction in the African plate. NATASHA: Do we have a visual? How are you handling it? OKOYE: Nat. It was a mild earthquake. In the ocean. We handle it by not handling it.
NATASHA: Thanks. Carol, you're still coming our way next month? CAROL DANVERS: Not likely.
CAROL DANVERS: Listen, fur-face, I'm covering a lot of territory out here. The things that have been happening on Earth have been happening everywhere else… NATASHA: All right. Everybody keep keeping their eyes open. This channel's always active. Anything goes sideways, anyone makes trouble where they sho… NATASHA: What's up? Where are you?
BAD NEBULA: Where? GAMORA: On a planet called "Morag."
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 25 are women's.
296 lines from women, 880 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
32 women and 68 men in the cast. 22 women and 45 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 4 of 1,241.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 72 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 21% of the words (2,199), men 79% (8,092). Women have 25% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
20
Two men
99
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 17 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 26% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Anthony Russo (man), Joe Russo (man)
- Written by
- Stephen McFeely (man), Christopher Markus (man)
- Produced by
- Kevin Feige (man)
- Shot by
- Trent Opaloch (man)
- Edited by
- Jeffrey Ford (man), Matthew Schmidt (man)
- Music by
- Alan Silvestri (man)
- Production design by
- Charles Wood (man)
- Costumes by
- Judianna Makovsky (woman), Joseph Richard Collins (gender not listed), Myra N. Foy (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Sarah Halley Finn (woman), Nicholas A. Mudd (gender not listed), Chase Paris (man), Molly Doyle (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Visual Effects
19 women, 43 men, 134 not listed
-
Other crew
28 women, 48 men, 51 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 19 men, 41 not listed
-
Art
3 women, 19 men, 21 not listed
-
Lighting
1 women, 9 men, 33 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
11 women, 9 men, 20 not listed
-
Production
7 women, 19 men, 13 not listed
-
Sound
4 women, 19 men, 8 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 34 on average. Men: 47 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Scarlett Johansson 34
Men
Chris Hemsworth 35, Chris Evans 37, Benedict Cumberbatch 42, Jeremy Renner 48, Paul Rudd 50, Mark Ruffalo 51, Josh Brolin 51, Robert Downey Jr. 54, Don Cheadle 54
Exhibit H: the money
It made 8.3 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $356 million
- Box office
- $2.9 billion
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 173 scenes and 1,241 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
