![]() The guy who ultimately volunteers to return the Stones to their timelines is our ol' pal Captain America, who, as revealed by that incredible ending scene, returns the Stones, but then stays in the past to be with Peggy Carter. That would put a neat little bow on this time-travel tale, except. The Hulk promises to return the Stones to the points in time where the Avengers first got them, so all of the timelines can once again be in alignment. That's why 2012 Tilda is so defensive of the Time Stone in the first place - without it, Doctor Strange can't beat Dormammu and Kaecilius in 2016 and that timeline is doomed regardless of the Snap. As the Ancient One explains to the Hulk, those alternate timelines rely on the presence of the Infinity Stones to save themselves from certain peril. They bring the Stones back to the present, do a quick snap to get everyone back, and break early for some shawarma - the Nebula complication not withstanding.Įxcept there are the egregious moral implications of jacking up the lives of everyone in all those other timelines and just peacing out.Įnter Tilda Swinton and her handy-dandy magic diagram. If we're just focused on "our" Avengers from 2023, then stealing the Infinity Stones and rectifying the main storyline is all gravy. So, for instance, going back and killing infant Thanos would create a timeline without him and his crimes, but the Avengers we know and love would not be in that specific timeline. When those same characters return to what they would consider the present, they arrive at their own timelines, and not the ones they've just created by removing the Stones. Put more simply: When characters travel to the past in Endgame and remove Infinity Stones from various timelines, those timelines then create branching alternate timelines rather than changing the "original" future. At one point, he explains, "If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future and your former present becomes the past which can’t now be changed by your new future." These complications don't exist in the MCU, however - at least not according to the Hulk. Addressing these often undesired outcomes is the meat of most time-travel movies. Of course, that "solution" comes with an infinite number of complications à la the butterfly effect. If Thanos is never born, then The Snap can never happen.Īwwww, they look almost as confused as we are! Credit: Marvel In a standard time-travel setup, this would totally work in terms of preventing the many horrible things that come with Thanos' rise to power. Take War Machine's "Kill baby Thanos" suggestion. In most time travel movies, including many of the films jokingly identified by name in Endgame, events changed in the past dramatically alter the future. The question with Endgame (and pretty much all time travel movies) isn't so much how it's possible characters can time travel, but what it means for the state of reality when they do. Want to try and wrap your mind around it anyway? Great! We'll try and muddle our way through it together. There is no easy explanation as to how time travel works in Endgame - and the people who created it have to have known as much. Put down the paper and pen, bail out of your calculator app, and save yourself the multi-day headache of sorting through this mess. If you've just gotten out of your Endgame showing and are scratching your head trying to put together the pieces of what you saw, I've got great news: There is no answer! ![]() 'Avengers: Endgame': Status of every character after 'Infinity War' ![]()
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