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Thread: Avengers: Endgame Discussion Thread

  1. 2019-05-07, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #500
    Lethologica
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    Default Re: Avengers: Endgame Discussion Thread

    Quote Originally Posted by Palanan View Post
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    That was actually my fifth point of confusion. If Thanos jumped from 2014 into the Endgame year, thus bypassing the Snap, then…how did the Snap ever happen, if Thanos didn’t have the stones to Snap with?


    Gah. This is why I hate timeloop stories. I had enough of that with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
    I think the fundamental point to make here is that Endgame is not a time loop story. It's a time tree story, with travel to the past creating new branches, and travel back to the present branch enabled by the Pym particles and Ant-Man's quantum realm machine.

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    Which answers your fifth point: Thanos from the 2014 branch traveled to the Endgame branch. He's not the same Thanos who Snapped in the Endgame branch. Nothing he does changes what happened in the Endgame branch. In his own branch, however, the Snap will never happen, because he and his are gone from that timeline now.
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