So keep all that in mind as we sort out the events of the Avengers: Endgame ending. In other words, parallel universes would branch out from Steve, Tony, and Scott’s jump to Battle of New York in 2012 Steve and Tony’s jump to New Jersey in 1970 and from Rhodes, Clint, Nebula, Scott, and Nat’s jump to 2014. The fact that the Infinity Stones are stolen from the Avengers at various points in the timeline, even if they are returned, implies there are multiple timelines that were created from those changed moments. Which logic does the time travel in Endgame fall into? Kind of both, but mostly the second. In this logic, you can never change the present and future of your own timeline, only the present and future of other timelines. If you travel into the past, every change you make will create a new branch of the timeline that exists in parallel to the “original” branch. The second option is the branched parallel timelines logic. Everything that’s happened in the past has already happened, even if you didn’t know it until your current present. The first logic is that time travel is a closed loop and that anything you change through traveling back in time will have always been changed. Most time travel narratives featuring characters traveling into their own pasts follow one of two time travel logics. But you can’t really deal with the Avengers: Endgame ending without at least trying to figure out the headachey rules of time travel (which we’ll go into in much more thorough detail in another article).
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