Captain America: A mess in time

Marvel is known as the bigger enterprise with lack of good sequences for their movies and bad endings, and since their acquisition by Disney, the plot seems to be even worse and less accurate with the original idea. But, none of them was so confusing and weird as the Avengers: Endgame time traveling explanation. It was the biggest superhero battle of cinema, with a script so confusing and lost on its own idea, were the storytelling doesn’t even exist.

One of the key points to this problem is with one character: Captain America. He is one of the most important superheroes of the entire MCU, being in every core event of almost every movie that Marvel releases. Steve Rogers, with Chris Evans giving life through the movie screen, gives to us such charisma, unbending innocence and justice, always prepared to do his best and walk on the right path until the end. We walked together with him, watching every development, his transformation of a good-for-nothing to one of the biggest superhero of the entire MCU, fighting against evil, defeating all types of enemies, stopping a helicopter with the strength of his own arms and trying not to kill anyone, but killing either way through his path. He is a man with conviction and a true resolve in his objectives.

Then why is he the center of this problem? It’s simple, he takes all the idea of time traveling that was given by the film and put aside, doing that he became the blessed time traveler, without any consequences in his acts. With the fight in Infinity War, the punch that Star Lord gave to Thanos wasn’t a rage act, but a billionaire punch inside Marvel’s pockets and a big recycle of plot, retiring both of the most expensive characters of all the MCU: Tony Stark and Steve Rogers.

In Endgame, it was given the idea of the Quantum Realm and time traveling less used: the idea that if you go to the past, the same becomes now your present. But, when they introduce this, we have the idea that “if you go to the past, everything that you make, won’t change nothing from your past present, that becomes now your past”, this was said by Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) in the movie. Moments later, when Banner is talking to the past wielder of the Time Stone and former master of Dr. Strange, she explains the idea that we all know about time traveling: a single change can create different futures or different realities, and then he says that they will bring all the stones back to the same moment that was taken, so with that, nothing would have changed. But, going back to the same moment that you left, wasn’t there a big controversy with the core topic of “we can’t change the past, because it becomes our present”?

And what about Thanos, knowing that the Avengers came back, he could follow the course of the time and in Infinity War, change to kill all the Avengers, right? It will not exist chronologically 2 Thanos, one dead in the future and another one from the past, but only one, that changes his actions through his timeline. The past can’t be changed by someone from the future, but does this apply also for someone following his own time?

Captain America was the worst character to retrieve the stones, since he is in the center of all core events of the MCU, he going back to the past, living a normal life, knowing everything that will happen, and then appearing on the future, old, without interfering anything in the timeline (the screenwriters said that is the same timeline and not a different reality), it’s so confusing that create so many questions about it, with the more plausible idea is that all of this was just a empty idea to bring a lot of heroes and retire 2 characters because their salary increases so much to a point that Marvel don’t want to pay.