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By Josh Ye
How emotional is Avengers: Endgame? It sent one person to hospital.(Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this story!)
The final install- ment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it is here, and some fans are having a hard time deal- ing with it. One Chinese woman ended up howl- ing uncontrol- lably at the cine- ma to the point that she was immediately hauled off to the emergency room after hyperventi- lating, according to Chinese media.
At the movie’s midnight pre- miere on Wednesday, the 21-year-old col- lege student cried so much that she started to feel chest pain and strug- gled to breathe. Before she was
carried onto an ambulance, she was hit by mus- cle spasms in her arms and legs, with her fingers stuck in a clutching posi- tion.
Doctors later said they had to put an oxygen mask on her in order to help calm her emo- tions and reduce her hyperventila- tion. The woman has been released from the hospital now.
Avengers: Endgame hit China’s cinemas
at midnight Wednesday morning, two days ahead of its US release. Earth's Mightiest Heroes have already shat- tered all previ- ous records for box office debuts in China, topping out at around US$107 million.
The movie was extremely hot before it was even
released. Advan ced ticket sales for the film in China surpassed $74.5 million, another record
the movie now holds.
People’s affec- tion for the Avengers can be seen on social media. On the day of its release, almost half of the most- searched topics on Weibo were related to Avengers: Endgame.
But all those fans posting online have nothing on the woman from Ningbo who was hospitalized over her reaction to the movie. She
is clearly on another level.
“She’s absolute- ly a die-hard fan,” one Weibo user wrote.
Many netizens are shocked by the woman’s strong reac- tion. A popular comment said, “Sister, you have clearly projected yourself too much into this movie.”
Other online comments showed more sympathy for the woman and praised the
movie as a well- executed tear- jerker.
Trying to restrain from spoiling the story, a Weibo user wrote in a widely upvoted comment, “She must be reacting that way after she watched the so-and-so scene. Because after that so- and-so scene, I also wanted to bawl . I really wish that so- and-so can con- tinue so-and-so.”
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