Why Time Travel Doesn’t Make Sense Captain America?

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At the end of Avengers: Endgame,

Steve Rogers travels back in time to return each of the Infinity Stones to the exact moment they were taken by the Avengers earlier in the film

. Steve does this to prevent multiple alternate realities from existing — ones in which the stones were missing or absent from certain events.

Did Captain America mess up the timeline?

Throughout the three-plus hours of Endgame, the filmmakers behind the flick brought in the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) to help explain the rules of the timeline. Then, at the end of it all,

Captain America (Chris Evans) still went back in time and messed everything up.

Why didn’t the time keepers stop Captain America?

According to Screen Rant, the reason why the Avengers were not arrested was that

their time travel was not unforeseen by the Timekeepers

.

How did Captain America stay alive for so long?

According to the memo, Captain America’s “

increased metabolism and his increased immune system put him into a cryogenic hibernation

” that allowed his body to safely withstand being encased in ice for so long.

Why did Captain America age and Bucky did not?

In Infinity War,

Bucky Barnes turned to dusts due to the decimation caused by Thanos

. According to Spider-man, nothing has happened to them in 2018–2023, so they haven’t aged. So mathematically, that would make Bucky in the MCU about 101 years old.

Why Captain America can lift Thor hammer?

Now, in Thor #15 – from Donny Cates and Michelle Bandini – the God of Thunder explains a key aspect of being worthy of Mjolnir which makes sense of Captain America wielding it in the MCU. Thor explains that

Mjolnir is resisting his control because it is intended for a warrior and he has become the King of Asgard

.

Why did Captain America grow old in endgame?

His character was an old man now,

as a consequence of having that promised dance and living his life with his ladylove, Hayley Atwell’s Peggy Carter

, by going back in time.

Why does Captain America take 4 Pym particles?

In Avengers: Endgame, Captain America takes four pym particles.

Two for him to return to the present with Stark and two for him to go live out his life with Peggy in the past, eventually returning to the present

.

Is Captain America immortal?


Captain America isn’t immortal

. Presumably, he does age normally, despite the Super Soldier serum, which keeps him in peak physical condition.

Why didn’t the time keepers stop Thanos?

The TVA chose not to interfere in the Avengers’ actions because

they knew these new branches would be erased by the Avengers themselves

. Loki’s escape in 2012 created a branched timeline the Avengers could not deal with, however.

Why Infinity Stones are useless in TVA?

The Infinity Stones Don’t Work At The TVA But Do Elsewhere

While Infinity Stones could move along the timeline via time travel,

they lost their power once they left their reality of origin

.

Could the TVA have stopped Thanos?

Fans are starting to get pissed. So basically, Earth had the Eternals and the TVA watching over them and could’ve done something to stop Thanos, but

they just didn’t

.

Why did Steve Rogers sleep 70 years?

The official, scientific explanation offered by Marvel is that what happened to Steve is similar to how wood frogs hibernate. Apparently,

the high amounts of glucose generated by his liver created a “cryoprotectant” that thickened his blood, but didn’t freeze it.

How was Captain America sleep for 70 years?

Marvel has officially explained how he actually survived 70 years

entombed in ice

. It’s something to do with frogs, apparently. It was the ultimate ice-scapade. Steve Rogers heroically crashed his World War 2 plane into the Arctic ice to save the rest of humanity from the weapon on board.

Who is the strongest Avenger?


Thor

is by far the strongest member of the original team considering he is the literal God. He gained a major boost in power following the events of Thor: Ragnarok after losing Mjolnir and learning that his hammer wasn’t the source of his strength.

Why is Bucky so weak now?

Luckily for Bucky,

he was injected with a prototype version of the Super Soldier Serum (designed by HYDRA), which gave him the strength to live on

. Unfortunately, he ended up losing his arm and HYDRA replaced it with a new cybernetic one.

What is Black Widow’s age?

But from her debut in Iron Man 2 to her death in Avengers: Endgame, Black Widow fought “to do some good in the world” for about 13 years, or roughly one-third of her life. In Black Widow, Natasha is

32 years old

.

What did Ayo say to Bucky when she took his arm off?

What Ayo actually says is “

Bast damn you, James

,” in English. According to Wakanda’s origin story, Bast is the panther goddess who led the very first Black Panther to the Heart-Shaped Herb that granted him his superhuman powers.

Who was missing from Tony Stark’s funeral?

It’s

Harley Keener

who, as a boy in Iron Man 3, found Tony with a busted suit in his garage. We haven’t seen the character, played by Ty Simpkins, since he was a little kid, but might his return at this pivotal moment speak to a future role in the MCU?

Is Spider-Man worthy of Mjolnir?

If Marvel fans have ever wondered if Spider-Man was worthy of lifting Thor’s hammer, the answer is

yes

.

Why is Red Skull guarding the soul stone?

The Red Skull explains that

his quest to control an Infinity Stone led it to reject him

, sending him to Vormir. He’s tied to the Soul Stone as its representative, it seems, and he can never possess it himself.

Why did Captain America give shield to Falcon?

That’s probably why Steve chose to give the Captain America shield and title to Sam instead of Bucky. It wasn’t because Steve believed Bucky’s reputation and past made him unfit to hold the shield, but

because he wanted to save his friend from the pressure of having to deal with being Captain America

.

Is Captain Marvel ageless?

Carol responded to Nick Fury’s pager and met the Avengers in 2018. With 23 years passing, this would make Carol 51 years old during the beginning of Avengers: Endgame. Thanks to the film’s five-year time jump, Captain Marvel would then be

56 years old in the rest of the movie

.

How old is Starlord?

Star-Lord:

38 years old

Peter Quill was born in 1980, making him 34-ish in both Guardians of the Galaxy movies since they both take place in 2014. So, when he makes it back to Earth for Infinity War, he’ll be 38.

Why can’t Hank Pym wear the suit?

When debating whether or not he’s the man for the job, Scott asks Dr. Pym why Pym doesn’t wear the suit himself. Pym replies that

the suit had changed him

, and he could no longer wear it. the Pym particles being able to affect the user’s mind, but wore the helmet to protect himself.

Why didn’t the Avengers go back and get more Pym particles?

But Scott would surely know where to grab loads of Pym Particles, given how much he’s used them in the past. One potential reason for the Avengers not going back in the past to hoard Pym Particles, of course, is that unlike the Infinity Stones,

they couldn’t go back and replace them once they were done with them

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Did Thanos have Pym particles?

Thanos himself was a brilliant genius as well.

Those two easily reverse engineered and mass produced Pym Particles

.” This explanation seems to check out.

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