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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7601035" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>I feel like they did a very poor job of explaining that in the movie. They talk about how movies like the Back To The Future trilogy - which <em>does</em> involve time travel creating alternate timelines - always get it wrong, and they make it very clear that the Infinity Stones <em>must</em> be returned back to their original point in time in order to prevent a disruption to the timeline. The whole reason why they bring back the Snapped people five years later instead of just reversing the entire Snap via time travel is to prevent a paradox. And when they first go back to New York, they seem to be doing their utmost not to disrupt existing events so as to avoid rewriting their own past.</p><p></p><p>Even when Hulk debates with The Ancient One about how taking the stone will create another, darker timeline, he wins her over partially by demonstrating that its return will prevent that timeline from ever existing.</p><p></p><p>So, are those alternate timelines still out there? Did they get nipped off when Captain America went back in time to return the stones? Since the things that happened in those timelines are now part of these characters' pasts, how can they be unmade without causing a paradox? If they'd simply gone back in time and prevented the Snap, wouldn't that have created a timeline in which everybody lived, without so much hassle?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7601035, member: 40176"] I feel like they did a very poor job of explaining that in the movie. They talk about how movies like the Back To The Future trilogy - which [i]does[/i] involve time travel creating alternate timelines - always get it wrong, and they make it very clear that the Infinity Stones [i]must[/i] be returned back to their original point in time in order to prevent a disruption to the timeline. The whole reason why they bring back the Snapped people five years later instead of just reversing the entire Snap via time travel is to prevent a paradox. And when they first go back to New York, they seem to be doing their utmost not to disrupt existing events so as to avoid rewriting their own past. Even when Hulk debates with The Ancient One about how taking the stone will create another, darker timeline, he wins her over partially by demonstrating that its return will prevent that timeline from ever existing. So, are those alternate timelines still out there? Did they get nipped off when Captain America went back in time to return the stones? Since the things that happened in those timelines are now part of these characters' pasts, how can they be unmade without causing a paradox? If they'd simply gone back in time and prevented the Snap, wouldn't that have created a timeline in which everybody lived, without so much hassle? [/QUOTE]
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