Wouldn’t Steve now have the advantage of knowing how Dr. Strange handled a similar dilemma? Strange knew that he had to give Thanos the stone in Infinity Wars in order for the ending of End Game to come to fruition. So Steve would be armed with that same rationale - just a little longer game.
I still maintain, there is nothing in the movie that indicates that Captain America did not erase his life with Peggy Past before returning back. He could have lived a long life, go back to where the timeline diverges, prune it, and then return. There is no need to imagine him staying out of anything.
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But you can’t erase things. That timeline with Peggy will still exist even if he goes back to 1942 and throws himself in a pit and covers it up. You just make a third timeline where that happened. The fact that Old Cap remembers his life with Peggy is all the evidence we need to know that that timeline still exists or else he wouldn’t be able to remember it.
The “pruning” requires the restoration of things to return the alternate timelines back to the main. Even after Tilda Swinton gets her rock back, the thirty seconds or five minutes or day she spent without it before Cap returns it and that timeline returns to ‘normal’ will always exist independently.
I’d guess that, in the Peggy timeline, he just does what he can to influence things for the better without going full Captain America. And it’s not ridiculous – even if he never let anyone know that he was Captain America, his wife is a significant person and it’s not the same as you or me going back in time and calling the Secret Service to say Kennedy will be shot. She can actually start action about things.
As I recall, we only saw Peter (who we already knew had been snapped) and Ned. The other people we’re seeing are the other students who got snapped and are now returning to class five years later along with the students who were in elementary school five years ago and are now the same age as the snapped students. Peter and Ned’s peers who didn’t get snapped have all graduated and moved on.
This does point out that there’s going to be a huge divide between the billions of people who were snapped and returned and the billions of people who lived through those five years. With Scott Lang being somewhere in the middle.
Rest assured, True Believers, that Howard the Duck was in the end battle. Here he is in a group shot, no doubt ready to unleash some Quack-Fu.
Didn’t Peter Parker say that all he remembered was being in Wakanda, and then he woke up on Titan five years later? So did everyone reappear on Titan?
I could easily see 1or 2 years of no school as clean-up and new logistics are worked out. Pretty sure the day after the snap, school (or anything else) didn’t start right back up at 50% capacity. Same could be said for the day after the reverse snap. While the school reunion is nice on camera, it probably occurs months later (and Pete and Ned would likely have seen each other in that span). I’ll suspend my disbelief for the cool scene.
No, Parker was never in Wakanda. He woke up on Titan where both he and Dr Strange were dusted (among others). Strange says “Hey, we gotta roll” and portals them back to Earth while also alerting the rest of the Magic Users Guild about what’s going on and putting out an all points bulletin for everyone to get to Avengers HQ.
No he remembered getting all “dusty” then passing out and waking up five years later and Strange telling him to get ready.
I was surprised they didn’t have Nick Fury appear in the battle scene.
I also think it would have been cool if they had some supervillains appear to fight alongside the superheroes. It would have shown how serious a threat Thanos and his army was if even past opponents were willing to work together against him.
I think that only works if you don’t kill off all of your villains which the MCU has fond of doing.
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The Russos clarified the timeline situation:
Anyone else feel Black Widow got pretty shafted? she’s been in every single Avengers movie and didn’t even get to take part in the last big battle. I know it was either her or Hawkeye (who’s gotten screwed a lot more in previous films), but they both deserved to be there. Sadly I can’t really think of anyone who would be disposable enough to trade for the soulstone, or that had a strong enough connection to make a valid sacrifice.
Has anyone explained the Quantum realm anomalies? Hope’s mom was lost in the Quantum realm and it seemed like time passed normally for her, She was gone 20+ years, and came back 20+ years aged. But Scott was gone for 5 years, and said that, for him, it was only 5 hours. Did I miss something?
She’s making up for it by getting her own TV series.
I think they explained it upfront, that the Quantum realm is unpredictable. Different things can happen depending on where you are.
Is she? i thought she was getting an origin movie, that’s it.
The was her Big Damn Hero moment. Having someone “disposable” do it would have ruined it.
She gets to be front and centre of the big sacrifice scene instead of just another face in the crowd during a battle. I don’t know about superhero’s, but I heard actors/actresses would much rather have it that way.
kinda got to wonder how the soul stone would have handled it had the rope broke and they both fell…