So what happens when Hydra guys casually talk to past Captain America about their evil plans...

But their intention is "we just need these for a bit, we'll put them back and you'll be able to continue on your merry way".

That ain't happening in that timeline, period.

They check with Pierce, he says "No way is he Hydra" they check with Cap, hopefully without attacking him straight off, he says he didn't even meet with them in the elevator but that's where "Loki" was coming from and they assume Loki somehow found out (which isn't hard if he got control of a hidden Hydra agent and got him to tell him that) and he was the one that tricked them.

Stuff goes on like normal.

We don't know what actually happened between the end of Avengers 1 and the beginning of Thor 2. If Loki and the Tesseract somehow end up in Asgard, technically the timeline has not changed.

so is this main timeline experiencing Freaky Friday on a global scale? Like Peter is going back to highschool and his fat buddy is back, but statistically, half of Peter's friends should be 5 years older and not in his class.

Technically, but other than Scott's kid growing into her teens, for the most part anyone with a follow up movie or series got almost their entire support cast dusted so not much will change. All the Pym's, and apparantly all 3 of Scott's buddies got dusted (otherwise I assume X-Con's van wouldn't be in storage) and Scott himself spent the whole timeskip in the Quantum realm and only spent a few days without them.

Like based on Far from Home's trailer, not only was Peter and Ned dusted but also Michelle Flash and basically everyone in his class that was important.

Same with the Wakandan's. Shuri's sudden off screen dusting was likely so she would remain the younger sister and wouldn't grow for 5 years without him.

The only major relationship change seems to be that Wong spent 5 years without Strange and picked up a ton of students instead.

>Cap erased all those timelines by returning the stones.

NO HE FUCKING DIDN'T

>Until further notice, there are no ongoing alternate realities anybody has to worry about in the MCU

Imagine being this fucking stupid. Did you miss Thanos and his entire army being erased from one of the timelines?

The timeline split only happens if the stone is removed from its time. since that didn't happen, it doesnt matter what happens.

Watch the fucking movie, dumbass

>The timeline split only happens if the stone is removed from its time.

I thought the movie was very clear and explained everything in a way a toddler could understand, clearly I was wrong.

The timeline split always happens. It has absolutely nothing to do with the stones. They returned the stones as a courtesy, to avoid bad shit from happening. Returning the stones did not erase anything.

They erased the alternate timeline of the alternate timeline where Doctor Strange faces Kaecilius and Dormammu without the Time Stone but that didn't eliminate the original alternate timeline

peter and his main cast of friends getting stasis'd is the one that doesnt sit well with me but then again its movie comic book shit, no sense nitpicking that

What get me is how are they taking a vacation?
How did the world's economy improve after losing half the people and then getting then back 5 years later enough to allow tourism?
That world just seems too normal

The directors literally said Old Cap came from an alternate timeline. And one of the writers said every change made an alternate timeline.

Avengers 1 literally shows him getting beamed back to Asgard.

I can't wait for the Loki show on Disney+ to be entirely about alternate timeline Loki's adventures and all the "The timeline gets erased!" morons to eat shit.

cut the branches

How does that happen if the branch timelines were all erased by Cap returning the stones?

Not the same timeline

>Shuri's sudden off screen dusting was likely so she would remain the younger sister and wouldn't grow for 5 years without him.
Shit, the role reversal could have been fun.

Somethings can't be explained, they are too sad... But Captain America is considered gay because he wrote a fanfic about him being sad in a matrimony with... err... his new wife and being only genuinely happy when he marries to a man named The Flamingo (with all the problems related to that) in that future his role as superhero is despised and his mission was destined to be a fail and he would spend much time trying to save his mission not knowing it was impossible. There are more but I think we live in a better timeline, at least for him.

The main MCU timeline pulled off the ridiculously unlikely task of getting rid of Thanos twice. Any other timeline is most likely going to fuck that up in the end, except the one where Thanos left the timeline to get killed in the MCU.

We don't know that Wong got more students. Strange undid the destruction of the three monasteries in his solo movie so it's possible that Wong just mobilized them all

That wouldn't matter if returning the stones deletes the timeline he came from anyway

The one of the writers also said old Cap came from the main timeline. The entire thing is a clusterfuck. Time travel is always a mistake.

That wasn't erased. The only thing he could return to that timeline was the Mind Stone. The Tesseract/Space Stone is now with that timeline's Loki, there's no coming back from that.

Also they changed the past anyway, returning the Stones is just their way of bringing things as close as they can to the past that they forked by doing so in the first place. However certain pasts (such as Thanos being eliminated from Guardians of the Galaxy onwards in the timeline where they got the Power/Soul Stones) is irreversible. This is one of those.

>Cap erased all those timelines by returning the stones.

No, if you go by that theory those events count and change the present since Steve obviously didn't get erased when he stayed in the past.

>Sorcerer Supreme is fucking dead
>half of all life dead
>decent amount of wizards that mordo hasn't killed got snapped
surely Wong would use his five years to shore up those magical defenses before Earth gets attacked by something awful

Unless the implication is that's how it always played out in the first place

How would Loki escaping with the Space Stone fork the timeline? He's not time traveling with it. Everything that was taken from that timeline was returned.

Ok, so here we have to definitions of a former time line e getting confused. One definition for former time line means stones taken out of destroyed, that introduced a black timeline strand visualized in the Tilda Swindon conversation. The other definition of a former time line means any changes to the timeline from a previous history.

>brainlets still can’t understand time travel even when it’s explained multiple times in the film
Wew

I think that one writer realized how stupid he sounded after he read the interview.

It looks like it's open to everyone's interpretation as it CURRENTLY stands.

Cap kicked the shit out of himself and Tony almost died of a heart attack. They wouldn't use such drastic methods if it was going to fork the timeline anyway. Banner specifically said they can't change the future by fucking with the past.

They're the Avengers, they'll pull through.