So Nebula is still alive But Captain went and is currently old ?
So my theory is that Endgame says there are various timelines when they travel through Quantum realm. Somehow killing past Nebula didn’t kill her in future pr changed the outcomes of current time but Captain went back in time and is existing in current time, so he changed future by interfering past but it didn’t work for Nebula ?
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Steve never left the Sacred Timeline and was Peggy's unseen husband all along; he simply showed up on that bench at the appropriate time to pass the Shield on to Sam before going back to living his life as an old man.
The Russo Brothers' opinion on the matter (which matches what you said) is simply that: their opinion.
2. I tend to take the Russos' word over Mcfeely's and Markus's, as their model matches what is shown in Loki about the multiverse.
3. If you dismiss the Russos' as "their opinion", why can't the same be said about Markus and McFeely?
2. Writers' intent trumps that of a Director or Directors, especially when said intent is carried across multiple films helmed by different Directors but penned by the same writers
3. Because Markus and McFeeley wrote Steve's entire story from The First Avenger to Endgame, they are the ultimate arbiters of what his fate was at the end of said story, not the Russo Brothers
Additionally, Ms. Marvel Canonically validates the "Steve was Peggy's husband all along" narrative as provided by Markus and McFeeley by clearly and unequivocally depicting Closed Loop Time Travel, thus proving what Endgame's ending was supposed to: that Bruce's assertions about how time travel works were merely supposition and not accurate.
2. The Russos also worked on all but one of the cap movies and it's known that the time heist their idea so I'd argue they're the most legitimate on how it went down
3. The time travel in ms marvel doesn't use the same tech as quantum time travel. It would be strange if the whole time heist followed quantum rules but somehow cap's specific time travel doesn't.
2. "it's known that the time heist was their idea"
An idea that Markus and McFeeley implemented and integrated into their vision for Steve Rogers' story differently than the Russos think that they did
3. Markus and McFeeley's stated intent for the end of Steve's story was supposed to prove that the 'rules' of time travel espoused elsewhere in the film weren't accurate by virtue of him having been Peggy's husband all along, and Ms. Marvel subsequently providing clear proof that it is in fact possible to create a Closed Time Loop - despite Bruce's assertions in Endgame to the contrary - retroactively validates that intent
2. It's still a very different idea than the one the writers originally had and the directors are also important in the implementation of an idea.
3. Do you have evidence of this being the writers' intent? Did they ever explicitly say that?
2. I used the number 6 based on the number of Infinity Stones.
2. So that was just you thinking there were only six timelines in the TVA's collection then? Despite nothing indicating that?
2. It was a misinterpretation of the TVA's function and how/why it did what it did pre-He Who Remains' death
Because he was.
You can choose to align your thoughts on the matter with the Russo Brothers' opinion, but said opinion is unsupported and contradicted by the entirety of Steve's story as presented and the stated intent of Endgame's writers.
In point of fact, the established Canon actually validates Markus and McFeeley's, stated intent re: Steve by virtue of Ms. Marvel providing a clear and unequivocal example of Closed Loop Time Travel in its fifth episode.
Killing 2014-Nebula thus wouldn't have killed MCU-Nebula, because the time travel didn't work that way. All it's ended up doing is creating a branched 2014 timeline where Thanos, his Daughters, and the Black Order simply *disappeared* one day, and I kinda wish they'd been interested enough to give us at least one cosmic story in that universe on who fills that power vacuum.
The reason Steve aged is because after he finished returning the stones, he went to another timeline with Peggy and lived out a life with her, experiencing that branch as his new present. After she died, assumedly, he returned to the MCU's present minutes after he would've originally left to give Sam the shield.
I'd personally like to imagine he went down to SHIELD HQ like *the next day*, got Zola to cop to all the HYDRA moles, and cleaned house immediately. Create a world where Peggy's life's work isn't undermined from its outset, a world where Howard and Maria can raise Tony and live into old age, and a world where Bucky isn't tortured and mindwiped continuously over the next fifty years.
Changing the past branches the timeline, it won't change the future. It's explicitly addressed in the film when Rhodey suggests killing Thanos as a baby lmao.
It's Loki that creates a new set of rules but that's because the Time Travel method used is different(With the TVA tech and his time travel abilities).
As to why; Nebula cannot be alive if her timeline pastself was killed. This wasn't an alt-dimension or an alt-timeline, it was her *own* timeline, and yet she survives because they said so. So just because they said her past cannot change her future, doesn't mean it makes sense. Then we have Cap/Rogers. He goes back in time to his past timeline self and lives with Peggy until he's old, but where is that timeline Rogers, the one still frozen? Does he not wake up? If he does, how can they co-exist as the same person, let alone for long periods of time, on the same timeline? Why didn't the future people--such as Bucky and Sam--not know about two Rogers in the present? Even if one hid and the other woke up, they would have adjusted to the knowledge, but they didn't. Why didn't this irrevocably alter the future (their present) when so much in their past had changed?
All of this mind you on the set rules they themselves established that all changes must be undone in the past to maintain the future (such as returning the Infinity Stones), and we very literally see that they made serious changes to the past. If one cannot change the past which changes the future, why return the stones in the first place?
And, of course, if making a change through the timeline via the quantum realm creates a divergent timeline, how in the world was he able to return the stones in the first place? Doing so would once again change what happened, creating yet another altnerative timeline, meaning it is absolutely impossible for one to make a change in a specific timeline and be able to revert it in any capacity...
Not even the writers and directors of Endgame can agree on the explaination, mind you.
Why would he not be able to? The plan was for Steve to travel into the branched timelines, return the stones, and go back to the main universe. Him taking a decades detour in the middle of that doesn't change anything.
> How come they had to put the Stones back, if doing so wasn't necessary?
Because taking vital parts of the universe out from alternate timelines and not returning them is considered a dick move.
> how in the world was he able to return the stones in the first place?
When he travels back to those timelines, he is no longer travelling into the past version of the timeline, he's travelling into a different timeline that has already split off. If I, sitting at my desk right now, decide to travel back in time to twenty minutes ago knowing that I did not see myself appear out of thin air twenty minutes previously, then I have created a branched timeline, creating one universe where I *did* see that happen and one where I didn't. Since I am from the 'didn't' universe, anything that happens to the new 'did' version of me is not in my own history anymore.
When Steve went back to return the stones, he was no longer jumping into *his own* past, he was returning to the alternate timelines they'd already created. So he could stay with Peggy in that alternate timeline then jump back into the regular MCU.
The movies themselves are the evidence.