I still don’t understand how people can think that it’s easy and logical for Steve to just go back and have a shot with Peggy. There are so many things wrong with this paradox! Yes it’s a fictional sci-fi movie, but all the ending does is suspend common sense to force an ending that a blind new born platypus could tell was the studio’s way of saying “f*ck you, all you Stucky shippers, we’re gonna no-homo the shit out of this story so that you can NEVER EVER rationalise a romantic connection between Steve and Bucky.”
Shipping part aside, as @peterssquill said, sending Steve back in time was taking the easy way out. We’ve watching him grow as a character for the last 8 years and in that time, he has, contrary to popular belief, actually adjusted to the present. He is no longer a man out of time. He has his convictions and will stick to them, yes, but that has nothing to do with the era he was born and more with his strong moral compass. By sending Steve back to the past, he is being portrayed as selfish (yes selfish, and I’ll elaborate in a bit) and still stuck in the past even thought, he isnt’! In addition to the friend abandonment, these are the main reasons why the Steve in the last five minutes of Endgame IS out of character, and seriously, that Steve: #notmySteveRogers.
Let’s now address the paradoxes and inconsistencies of Steve’s stay in the past - and yes, I realise it is a fictional, sci-fi movie, but I just can’t turn a blind a to the obvious plotholes here.
Firstly, let’s make it clear: Steve is going back to the past, his past, not an alternative timeline where he didn’t exist and he and Peggy start a relationship as a brand new couple. I’ll say it again, just to be clear:
Steve is going back to his past where he already exists
This is very important, because we need to keep in mind that no matter what year he jumps to in order to start his relationship with Peggy, he has to deal with the not so little problem of what the f*ck do I do with my past self?
Here’s a couple of ways Steve can handle this dilemma:
1. he can go back to just after he went into the ice and randomly pop up like tada! (insert jazzhands) hey guys, isn’t the serum great? I’m alive!
Two things could happen here:
A. Then he and Peggy start that family he wanted and then the whole problem of Daniel goes away because Peggy wouldn’t even need to start a relationship with Daniel if she was already with Steve. (And yes Peggy will also, despite being super intelligent, will ignore the fact that Steve looks/acts waaaay older now than when he went in the ice… hmmmm, but hey, second chances, amiright?) And yes, Steve and Peggy would go look for Bucky because Steve is gonna save this past!Bucky the same way he couldn’t save future!Bucky.
What to do with himself in the ice? Well, in order to keep up the charade, Steve will have to let past!Steve stay in the ice and try his damnedest to make sure that no-one goes adventuring in that part of the world. He gets to live his happy life with no-one the wiser and then buys himself time to figure out a way to deal with his still iced past self.
Conclusion: Steve is a selfish, lying, douche who is willing to let someone - his own self - stay in the ice and suffer possible de-thawing and trauma in the distant distant future unless he actually finds a way permanently make past!Steve go away. This is not Erskine’s Good Man ™ and not character development and #notmySteveRogers.
B. Steve can come clean to everyone, find past!Steve, save past!Bucky and fight past!Steve for Peggy’s affections like a Good Man ™ would. But the question here is: why would Peggy choose future!Steve over past!Steve? All she knows is past!Steve and past!Steve is the one who she has come to care for. Future!Steve is a different person with new experiences and not someone familiar to her like the way past!Steve is.
2. he can go back in time where she’s already married to Daniel and force himself into that relationship.
Conclusion: Not a Good Man ™ and not character development and #notmySteveRogers. Assuming that Peggy even decides to leave her husband for Steve. And if she does, then I question Peggy’s morals and character in this too.
And then of course there’s the other dilemma of how to deal with frozen past!Steve again… hmmm..
I’ve read other theories that Steve apparently was already Peggy’s husband and just closing the loop, and okay, as nonsensical as that is (bearing in mind he is going back to his past where he went into the ice, not some alternate universe) we can work with that.
Steve is already Peggy’s husband, meaning: Peggy’s husband already exists and is most definitely NOT future!Steve. So what’s he gonna do about that? He has two options:
3. Get rid of past!Steve and take his place through murder and lies, in that case, Not a Good Man ™ and not character development and #notmySteveRogers.
4. Show up, tell the truth and fight to insert himself into that relationship. Again, Not a Good Man ™ and not not character development and #notmySteveRogers.
In conclusion: Steve going back to the past to be with Peggy goes against the Good Man ™ that we know Steve Rogers is. He is self-sacrificing and realistic and logical and intelligent and loyal, and there is just no way the ending of Endgame portrays this.
Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk
[Last thing I want to address is why the hell was Steve so OLD when he came back?? From what we know of the serum, even if Steve did live 105 natural years, he should physically only be a middle-aged man at the most. Why did he look like he was actually 105? It doesn’t make sense! This seems like the studios other way of hammering the point that Steve and Bucky were never meant to be together. (Jokes on you, Marvel, they would have loved each other regardless of how they looked).
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