What If...?

[Umbran]

Fair. The other example is, of course, the time heist. By stealing the infinity stones first, the Avengers should have prevented Thanos from getting his hands on them in this timeline and therefore from enacting the Snap that motivated the Avengers to attempt time travel. Instead, each heist splits off a new timeline.

Yes.

Each time they take a stone, they take it from another branch of the timeline tree, and bring it back into the original "trunk". They then return the stones, allowing the branches to return to the trunk. They very specifically (and explicitly - it was part of the discussion in the film) don't undo anything. They don't make the Snap never happen - they just resurrect everyone. There is no net meanignful change to the past.

Strange is trying to change his own trunk, make the death never have happened, without spawning a new branch, in a way that produces a paradox.

I suppose it's possible that Strange was deliberately trying to prevent the splitting-off of a new timeline, wanting to save his Christine rather than to merely create a variant of her that survived.

Exactly.

 

[Blue]

Yeah, it's a bit strange that he could survive wielding the infinity gauntlet to bring back half the life in the universe, but a fancy grenade does the trick.

Seems like the kind of thing someone who's spent their career and millions/billions of US tax dollars on bringing down a monster would have thought of already.

The others all more or less made sense. That one I just had to go "sure..why not.."

It's an attack only possible with Pym Particles. Regardless if someone's thought of it, they had no way to implement it.

 

[Blue]

I thought all these were connected somehow. I think I like it better that they are not.

Interesting. I've taken them as different universes, but with your comment I see there isn't anything supporting my take. Or contradicting it.

I think there's be a promo showing Captain Carter with someone, so your idea may hold more water.

 

[Blue]

Fair. The other example is, of course, the time heist. By stealing the infinity stones first, the Avengers should have prevented Thanos from getting his hands on them in this timeline and therefore from enacting the Snap that motivated the Avengers to attempt time travel. Instead, each heist splits off a new timeline.

Except that they also returned all of the Stones to the exact point they left, so they are there for Thanos at a later point.

(...with the exception of the one Loki got away with.)

 

[Rabulias]

Except that they also returned all of the Stones to the exact point they left, so they are there for Thanos at a later point.

(...with the exception of the one Loki got away with.)

No, that timeline got pruned by the TVA in Loki. At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Cap returned the Space Stone to the SHIELD facility in New Jersey, where it continued its original path to the start of the first Avengers film..

 

[Older Beholder]

One thing about that last episode,
It really showed the issues with XP leveling compared to story based /milestone leveling.

 

[Janx]

Given that a hemispherectomy is where they remove an entire hemisphere of the brain, I'd say any successful one is pretty radical. Possibly even totally tubular. Definitely awesome at the very least.

I think that the award he was receiving was the "Huzzah! There's Not Going To Be A Medical Malpractice Lawsuit!" Award from the Medical Insurance Underwriters' Alliance.

That's totally rad, man!

 

[Stalker0]

Yes.

Each time they take a stone, they take it from another branch of the timeline tree, and bring it back into the original "trunk". They then return the stones, allowing the branches to return to the trunk. They very specifically (and explicitly - it was part of the discussion in the film) don't undo anything. They don't make the Snap never happen - they just resurrect everyone. There is no net meanignful change to the past.

Strange is trying to change his own trunk, make the death never have happened, without spawning a new branch, in a way that produces a paradox.



Exactly.

Let’s also remember. Strange isn’t just time traveling, he is using the elemental crystallization of time itself to rewind it. The rules don’t have to be the same as “meer time travel”

 

[RangerWickett]

I've seen too many of @Morrus;'s stories of time travel to abide how uncreative Strange was here.

Oh, you saw your lover die, and that is what motivated you to learn magic, and now you can't change the past because then you wouldn't learn the magic to let you time travel? Sheesh, you're a wizard. All that matters is that past you thinks his lover died.

Go back in time, freeze time when the car is about to get hit, pull her out of the car, and replace her with a magically-created fake body. Then bring her to the present day. Boom, paradox averted, girlfriend saved.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Go back in time, freeze time when the car is about to get hit, pull her out of the car, and replace her with a magically-created fake body. Then bring her to the present day. Boom, paradox averted, girlfriend saved.

Go and watch the episode again. He tried to change things up, even did not show up for their date. She still died, just in ways other than the car crash. She was destined to die in that timeline and nothing could change that. And when he tried, he destroyed that universe.