Did Avengers Endgame break its own time travel rules?
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At the beginning of Avengers: Endgame, there was exposition dialog explaining the rules of time travel this movie was working under.
Banner explained that modifying the past will not alter the present. This movie does NOT work like "Back to the Future", and they even mentioned that specific film.
They said that going back into the past and removing the Infinity stones would not change the effects they had on the present.
Taking an object from the past wouldn't remove it from the present, so you would expect the opposite to be true: going back in time and leaving an object behind would not be adding it to the present.
Then, right at the end:
Steve Rogers went back in time, and chose not to come back. The other characters then encountered a very old Steve Rogers.
Doesn't this break the rules?
Something was left behind in the past (Steve Rogers himself), but he should not have appeared in their timeline.
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At the beginning of Avengers: Endgame, there was exposition dialog explaining the rules of time travel this movie was working under.
Banner explained that modifying the past will not alter the present. This movie does NOT work like "Back to the Future", and they even mentioned that specific film.
They said that going back into the past and removing the Infinity stones would not change the effects they had on the present.
Taking an object from the past wouldn't remove it from the present, so you would expect the opposite to be true: going back in time and leaving an object behind would not be adding it to the present.
Then, right at the end:
Steve Rogers went back in time, and chose not to come back. The other characters then encountered a very old Steve Rogers.
Doesn't this break the rules?
Something was left behind in the past (Steve Rogers himself), but he should not have appeared in their timeline.
marvel-cinematic-universe time-travel avengers-endgame
asked 5 mins ago
Andrew ShepherdAndrew Shepherd
292127
add a comment |
At the beginning of Avengers: Endgame, there was exposition dialog explaining the rules of time travel this movie was working under.
Banner explained that modifying the past will not alter the present. This movie does NOT work like "Back to the Future", and they even mentioned that specific film.
They said that going back into the past and removing the Infinity stones would not change the effects they had on the present.
Taking an object from the past wouldn't remove it from the present, so you would expect the opposite to be true: going back in time and leaving an object behind would not be adding it to the present.
Then, right at the end:
Steve Rogers went back in time, and chose not to come back. The other characters then encountered a very old Steve Rogers.
Doesn't this break the rules?
Something was left behind in the past (Steve Rogers himself), but he should not have appeared in their timeline.
marvel-cinematic-universe time-travel avengers-endgame
asked 5 mins ago
Andrew ShepherdAndrew Shepherd
292127
At the beginning of Avengers: Endgame, there was exposition dialog explaining the rules of time travel this movie was working under.
Banner explained that modifying the past will not alter the present. This movie does NOT work like "Back to the Future", and they even mentioned that specific film.
They said that going back into the past and removing the Infinity stones would not change the effects they had on the present.
Taking an object from the past wouldn't remove it from the present, so you would expect the opposite to be true: going back in time and leaving an object behind would not be adding it to the present.
Then, right at the end:
Steve Rogers went back in time, and chose not to come back. The other characters then encountered a very old Steve Rogers.
Doesn't this break the rules?
Something was left behind in the past (Steve Rogers himself), but he should not have appeared in their timeline.
marvel-cinematic-universe time-travel avengers-endgame
marvel-cinematic-universe time-travel avengers-endgame
asked 5 mins ago
Andrew ShepherdAndrew Shepherd
292127
asked 5 mins ago
Andrew ShepherdAndrew Shepherd
292127
asked 5 mins ago
Andrew ShepherdAndrew Shepherd
292127
asked 5 mins ago
Andrew ShepherdAndrew Shepherd
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asked 5 mins ago
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