How could Steve Rogers return to his timeline?

I recently decided to watch all the MCU movies and I finally finish Endgame, but I can't stop think about; how he return to his timeline?, I looked up the answer on the internet and read that maybe the old Steve was always there but he was hidden, but I remember that in a previous movie they mentioned that Peggy got married (and they even show us a picture of her and her husband, and that wasn't Steve) So that theory wouldn't make sense to me, also how did he get his shield intact again? If he simply traveled through quantum space he should have appeared in the machine and with the suit but he didn't do that, so HOW? please someone give me a theory or help me to understand it (if the directors ever explained this)

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dbkenny4262025-10-14 19:03

We never see Peggy's husband. She only says that Steve rescued him in WWII.

DigificWriter2025-10-14 19:08

Which was her cover story for the fact that she was actually married to Future!Steve

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:13

I just looked up the scene and the photo next to old Peggy's bed in the winter soldier isn't it her husband and daughter? Her husband's statement and the photo shouldn't negate the theory that old Steve always was there?

dbkenny4262025-10-14 19:17

There are two pictures, and neither of them has an adult man. One is Peggy with a boy and girl, and the other is her with a girl.

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:20

I always thought the man seen there was her husband and not her son since she only had a birth photo with the girl. In any case, wouldn't Peggy say something to young Steve?, or at least Peggy's niece seeing that he looks so much like her uncle

dbkenny4262025-10-14 19:22

It's not a man, though. [It's clearly a kid in the picture](https://youtu.be/ZqDD2kEKHhY?si=wAksWhHRDK2HPXso&t=114).

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:24

Yes, I saw the same scene, and to me it looks like a man/her husband, plus he has his daughter on top of him, like a classic family photo.

dbkenny4262025-10-14 19:26

I'm sorry, but just no. That's maybe a ten year old boy. I legitimately can't understand how you're seeing anything else.

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:27

Maybe it's because of the quality, but the first time I saw the movie with my family we assumed it was the husband.

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:28

Anyway, if her husband was Steve, then wouldn't Peggy's niece (now Steve's niece) should stop to dating and kissing him?

dbkenny4262025-10-14 19:30

I assume that Steve probably stayed out of the spotlight for the most part, which explains why there are no photos of him. Also, even if he was around her, he would have been dramatically older. She may not have recognized him, or at least, never would have imagined this guy who looks like her uncle when he was younger would actually turn out to be her uncle.

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:32

Maybe he never associated them and Peggy maintained the story that they were two different people and also didn't show them any photos together when they were young, but this still doesn't explain the undamaged shield, how did he get it?

DigificWriter2025-10-14 19:33

There's absolutely no possible way that Sharon Carter would have been able to know that her Great-Uncle BY MARRIAGE was,an older Steve Rogers.

Ranos1312025-10-14 19:41

You can literally see it’s a boy if you pause right when the pictures appear.

DigificWriter2025-10-14 19:06

"How could Steve Rogers return to his timeline?"

He didnt. There were always two Steve Rogerses existing on the 616 Timeline post-WWII; one of them was stuck in ice for 70 years, while the other was living a quiet life in anonymity married to Peggy.

As for how he got the Shield, it wouldn't have been that hard to get his hands on copy of it since Howard already had such copy that got eventually passed down to Tony.

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:15

Yes, I read that same theory, but in the winter soldier They show us a photo of what I believe to be her husband and daughter, next to Peggy's hospital bed. Wouldn't that destroy the theory?

DigificWriter2025-10-14 19:18

"I read that same theory"

It's not a theory.

"in the winter soldier They show us a photo of what I believe to be her husband and daughter, next to Peggy's hospital bed."

The man in that photo is Future!Steve.

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:22

So if it's not a theory, where's the proof? Did someone of Marvel say anything?, Also, someone else told me that the one in the photo is her son, not her husband. Besides being her husband, Steve would recognize himself.

DigificWriter2025-10-14 19:30

"So if it's not a theory, where's the proof?"

These quotes:

**"The husband that you very purposefully did not see at Peggy’s bedside in Winter Soldier is Chris’ Steve."**

**"The movies you have been watching follow a line where he always goes back."**

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:37

So is just partially canon, "To be fair, not everyone agrees with us. I don’t even know if Marvel agrees with us."
Anyway, where did he get an intact shield? Also, the fact that it's always been Steve indicates that all the MCU that we always see is an AU, because he alters his future, not his past, as explained Bruce in Endgame

DigificWriter2025-10-14 19:45

Closed Loop Time Travel doesn't create alternate timelines, and Steve going back in time and marrying Peggy is a Closed Loop.

As was,Kamala's Nani making it onto the train in 1947 by following a trail of stars. She didn't follow stars; she followed broken hard-light crystals generated bya future version of Kamala.

TuliSun2025-10-14 19:56

To be honest, I don't even know who Kamala is yet, as I said, I just finished Endgame but I had that doubt, anyway I just saw that in the group's FAQ that Joe Russo say that "he had to make another jump back to the main universe", which one is the canon and why do they contradict each other so much?

Ranos1312025-10-14 19:39

No, it isn’t. You’re taking what OP said in the previous comment and trying to use it to back up your theory. There are two pictures in that scene. One is Peggy and what looks like a little girl. The other is Peggy and a girl and boy. There is no picture of a husband.

Ranos1312025-10-14 19:34

Except the way they explain time travel in Endgame makes it clear that Steve going back and living in the same timeline is impossible. It would also require Steve Rogers, the man who always does what’s right to help save people, to sit and do nothing for 80 years while Hydra infiltrates Shield, Tony’s parents die and countless other bad things happen that he could prevent.

The way the Russos ended it contradicts everything that was said in the movie and the character of Captain America. The only thing that makes sense is that he created a new branched timeline where he lived with Peggy and then returned to his original timeline to give the shield to Sam.

dbkenny4262025-10-14 19:37

Sorry, but no. What creates branched timelines is going back in time *and making changes*. Ms. Marvel shows us that closed-loop time travel is possible in the MCU, and it's not a stretch to assume that, for example, the future Avengers were always present at the Battle Of New York in the background.

Ranos1312025-10-14 19:47

So you believe that Steve Rogers went back to the past knowing that Hydra would infiltrate Shield and cause the deaths of countless people and just sit and do nothing about it? He knew Tony’s parents were going to die and did nothing to stop it? He knew Bucky was alive and let him be a slave and assassin for Hydra for 70 years?

dbkenny4262025-10-14 19:51

Yes, I do. So do the writers. I know the Russos disagree, but to me, it makes the most sense. Sure, you make good points as well, but Steve would know that warning people about these things would have potential side effects that may cause worse events to happen. He knew they would win in the end, and didn't want to risk causing something worse by trying to stop these events.

Also, it's easy to imagine that he was working in the background to make sure that people were prepared for them without getting too detailed in what he was up to.

marvelstudios-ModTeam2025-10-14 19:34

...[your question has already been answered on the FAQ page.](https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/wiki/faq)

laxrulz7772025-10-14 19:46

The directors explain part of it (he lived in an alternate time line with Peggy then returned here... Probably after she died).

What's never been explained is why he didn't return to the platform. IMO, he came back earlier to do 'something'. My personal head canon is that he came back early and was in the Wakandan lab to get a copy of vision after Shuri's frantic actions in IW. But that's just head canon. Regardless, the fact that he came back somewhere other than the platform implies we're watching an alternate timeline now. In the true blue prime MCU, he never returned.

TuliSun2025-10-14 20:03

I really like your theory, but why would I get a copy of Vision? I literally finished Endgame last night so I still don't understand why this is necessary, But this would be another theory, right? One in which he does return to the platform but moments before, and the second in which he returned but to an alternative line and not the original line of MCU

laxrulz7772025-10-14 20:47

I only suggested vision because it's the one thing that I think Steve would have viewed as "unfinished". Remember, Steve doesn't necessarily fully understand time travel. He's just going to do what he's guided to by his own moral compass.

I'm not sure it's 'another theory' (the Vision thing is... But the returning earlier thing isn't... It's literally what we saw).

My thought is that the Russo's could just as easily written it so he returns on the pedestal. His visor flips up and he's old. The scene would play out emotionally and narratively in EXACTLY the same way...

So the question that is then worth asking is, "Why did the Russo's put him on that bench?" and the only logical answer (IMO) is that he came back early for 'reasons'. I think that part isn't a theory really. It's mostly what we saw (unless someone can give a logical alternative explanation for why he's on the bench). The Vision part is obviously my personal theory / head canon.

TuliSun2025-10-14 20:57

By Vision we talk about rescuing the mind gem from him?, I think it would be another theory because if he used the pedestal to return, he would return to the original line, but if he only teleported then he would be in an alternate universe, that's why I imagine that they are 2 different theories