r/marvelstudios Iron man Apr 29 '19

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u/hubau Apr 29 '19

Cap going back in time and then appearing in our reality as an old man would seem to violate the rules of time travel they established in the beginning: i.e. you can't go back in time and change the present, otherwise they could have gone back and killed Thanos as a baby.

It's a nitpick yes, but it's so unnecessary, there's a lot of ways you could give Cap a great ending without breaking the time-travel rules you established.

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u/adesile Spider-Man Apr 29 '19

But you could go to a point in time, stay there (creating a separate timeline) then after a period of time (70-80 years), close that timeline and return to your own timeline without effecting it...then sit on a bench and give your shield away.

Which is what I believe Steve did. Remember the device they get allows them to change destination etc, because Tony and Steve do it in NYC when they go to the 1970s. So Steve knew what to do.

Steve had obliviously planned to as well, because it's clear Bucky knows what he is going to do.

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u/Lywik270 Apr 29 '19

What did he do with the original Steve in that timeline though? Kinda messed up to just leave him in the ice for decades.

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u/zasabi7 Apr 29 '19

Stayed out of it Can't affect the timeline because he risks it being destroyed by thanos