So are we seriously not going to talk about how Steve and Peggy can only stay together post-endgame so long as he never tells her that he’s essentially a body-snatching future version of himself from a parallel dimension who’s intentionally placed himself into her timeline in order to take over the life of her original Steve, optimistic and unjaded, who is still frozen under the arctic circle, never to be found because nobody knows to look for him? Are we really not going to talk about that
We gonna talk about how Steve assumed the identity of a war hero and married the woman who loved him, then left the guy trapped in an ice block for all eternity, dooming him to his own most traumatic fate. Are we
I’m just saying, you sacrifice your life to save millions of lives, then wake up four hundred years later to San Francisco under water and shit and go ‘holy shit what happened to my friends’ and someone’s like ‘well actually this guy who looked just like you showed up out of nowhere with no explanation, married your lady friend and lived happily ever after with grandkids and shit. Said something on his deathbed about digging him up soon but we figured that was the dimentia. Good thing you floated down here when the arctic melted huh. Hey do you remember when polar bears were real and oxygen was free’. I would Shit
Endgame-Steve’s happy ending is literally every other person’s waking nightmare
… I completely missed that WOW
Also to keep the timeline from changing further, Steve would have to just… ignore the return of Hydra. “Peggy hired Arnim Zola as part of Operation Paperclip. That sounds like a problem for past me. By which I mean iceberg me’s future.” -Steve, probably.
… this gets worse EVERY TIME someone starts thinking about it
There are good ways to do time travel.
There are bad ways to do time travel.
And then there’s Endgame ways to do time travel, by which I mean my wife, for whom time travel is literally one of her favorite tropes ever, who will forgive literally every plot hole and paradox because that shit is her jam, looked at me and said “that was really fucking stupid”.
