In Avengers: Endgame,       if Thanos from 2014 was dusted in 2023 by Iron Man's snap, then how did the Thanos other 'snap' in 2018?   Does this imply that      there is a branch reality where they never bring back everyone with Professor Hulk's snap.
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Spoilers ahead! Plot points are revealed here, I'll put the deeper plot points in spoiler boxes.  Time travel features heavily in the plot of Endgame. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the MCU seems to subscribe to a multiverse of sorts. This makes any alterations to the past fine, and the "present" people making those changes return to the future they left from unaffected.  So, the plan is:      pop into the past to gather the Infinity Stones, wield them to perform a reverse snap, then pop them right back where you found them as if they'd never left at all.   This plan succeeds. However, as a result,      the pre-snap Thanos journeys into the future to protect the job he has yet to do, and is defeated in the process. This means that, although the Stones are placed back in their respective times (the Cap's last job before retiring), there's now a universe short of Thanos.   So, my question: is there now a universe out there in which the snap never occurred as well as several of the Avenger's adventures (anything after 2014, I think that's where Thanos travelled from), while at the same time there is a universe (the one we see in the films) in which all of the events of the MCU films transpired?  A further point, we're told that traveling back to kill a baby Thanos wouldn't work because they'd still be in the timeline they left from upon return (the snap one), while the other timeline would exist to no benefit of their own. This is why the mission was never about killing a pre-snap Thanos - your own past is unchangeable, the snap is locked in. Therefore, the Thanos that travelled to 2023 is forever locked in to travelling to that point and being defeated, meaning the time he came from must no longer have him.  This could also explain how the universe that we watch through the movies has a Gamora now. Because she came from a timeline in which Thanos never sacrifices her, she can be alive (remember, we're told that there's no way to reverse the sacrifice made to retrieve the Soul Stone - the only way she can be alive is if she's from a universe where she was never sacrificed (i.e. no Thanos after 2014)).
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The main plan of Avengers: Endgame for solving what Thanos did in Avengers: Infinity War involves the      Time Heist.   As part of the plan Tony misplaces      the Tesseract   and so he and Cap have to go looking for it elsewhere. They decide to go back to      a SHIELD base in 1970 where both the Tesseract is stored and Hank Pym is based working on the Pym Particle. Whilst there Tony also bumps into his father, Howard Stark, working on the base.   Tony and Cap have a conversation in hushed tones about choosing it and it seems to be that they both know about it. Is there anything special about this place and time and how did they both know about it?
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The first scene of the movie is presumably set in the immediate aftermath of The Avengers. The movie then fast-forwards to '8 years later'.  But Spider-Man already appeared in Civil War as a high school student, which he still is in this movie. So what's the timeline here? If Avengers was set in 2012 and Civil War in 2016, how can Homecoming be in 2020?  Or am I wrong in assuming the canonical timelines of the other movies?
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Way back in Thor, there was an Easter Egg Infinity Gauntlet in Odin's vault.  They even  that year to show it off.  Presently in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they're clearly building to an Infinity Gauntlet story, and they've shown several Infinity Stones out in the universe.  The Infinity Stones are clearly not all sitting in Odin's vault, on a gauntlet.  Has Marvel commented on this issue at all in interviews?  Has the gauntlet been retconned into being some other gauntlet, or some other piece of the Infinity Gauntlet puzzle?
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In issue 5 of the recent Incredible Hulk ongoing (vol. 3), it is revealed that      Dr. Doom   separated the Incredible Hulk and Bruce Banner. He does this using an adamantium chainsaw.   Image blurred to protect the innocent spoiler.  I was under the impression that adamantium was pretty much impossible to find and use outside of Ultron and the Weapon Blah program. Is it common enough that it's no big deal for the blurry fellow above to have gotten an adamantium chainsaw?
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At the end of Thor, we see Thor holding onto Odin and Loki holding onto Thor. Loki lets go and falls into the wormhole.  We know he survived because he's the main villain in the Avengers.  How did he survive falling into wormhole? If he was just teleported and not killed, would he not have ended up in Jotunheim which was being destroyed?
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In Avengers: Endgame, how was Nebula from past able to bring Thanos and the army into the future?   The Avengers who build the machine could not do this and required Pym particles which they were short of and had only limited attempts to travel time.
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Part of the success of the MCU has been the hand of Kevin Feige overseeing the various projects ensuring continuity.   Do Games Workshop/Black Library have a similar role? It certainly feels in recent years that the books have become more in sync, in particular with characters and events in the Horus Hersey books feeding into the more recent (timeline wise) stories, with characters and events being referenced back and forth.
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In the very first few minutes Ebony Maw presents Thanos with the space stone and says to him that no one has ever had the power and honor to wield 2 infinity stones at the same time.  Is this a mistake? In the first Avengers movie, Loki DID. He received the scepter that contained the mind stone (which we only discovered during "Age of Ultron") from Thanos himself, in the hopes that Loki would bring back the space stone from earth. Loki wielded both stones for the entire movie.  The question is, am I missing something? Is Ebony Maw wrong? Hard to imagine that being the case, since Thanos was deeply involved in Loki's actions in the first Avengers movie. Is this an oversight by the writers? Has there been any explanation for this?
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Why can't the Avengers in Endgame go back in time to 2016 and bring Black Widow from 2016?  They can explain her about Infinity War and Endgame. I'm sure she can understand, considering the fact she knows everyone has superpowers and the explanation sounds reasonable.  This is similar to how Star-Lord is trying to find Gamora.
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In Avengers: Endgame,       After the Avengers HQ gets leveled   War Machine exits his suit and leaves it behind. Later that same scene, he shows up in what seems like a bigger suit with different coloring.   Where'd it come from and when? I don't recall any other scenes that might've explained it.       Except possibly Tony's opening scene but that suit is clearly being worn by Pepper at the same time as War Machine has his new armor.
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In Thor, there is a scene where you can see what looks like the Infinity Gauntlet in Odin's vault. Later (in Avengers: Age of Ultron, IIRC) you learn that Thanos actually has the Infinity Gauntlet, raising some questions about the one in Odin's vault, which are answered in Thor: Ragnarok when Hela sees it in the vault, knocks it over, and proclaims it to be a fake.  After all this, Kevin Feige  how the Gauntlet in Odin's vault was originally mostly just an easter egg, but also gave an in-universe explanation for Odin having a fake Infinity Gauntlet; essentially that Odin was pretending to have it so people on Asgard wouldn't worry about it being used against them.  However, in Infinity War, Eitri tells Thor how Thanos came to Nidavellir and forced him to make the Infinity Gauntlet, then killed everyone and chopped off Eitri's hands, putting an end to everything there. It seems that no one was aware that Nidavellir was shut down or that any of this had happened, and seeing as how the Gauntlet was made for -- and went directly to -- Thanos, how did Odin come to know that it even existed and get details of what it looked like in order to create a fake for his vault?
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In the "End Credit" scene of , we saw Maria Hill and Nick Fury driving in the street and then there was a message on the radio. Nick then asked Maria, "what is it?" Maria answers, "Multiple bogeys over Wakanda, more powerful than New York". After that, they turn into dust by the snap. So that means when they were talking, at the same time Thanos was trying to snatch the Mind Stone, or already did, and was ready to snap.   Now the main point; all those "space-crafts" carrying Thanos' armies landed over Wakanda much earlier. Then what were those "multiple bogeys" Maria referred to? What was going on over there at that moment?
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Does the Hulk actually need to consume food, or is Bruce Banner's normal dietary intake enough? I'm asking because it seems transforming from the Hulk back to Bruce Banner with a half a cow in his stomach could be rough on the poor Doctor.
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The title is extremely vague, because this question contains HEAVY spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War, specifically the very last scenes of the movie. I can't reasonably put the entire question in spoiler tags, so consider this your warning.  At the end of the movie, Thanos pretty much wins. He gets all the Infinity Stones, Gamora and Vision have been brutally murdered, and the rest of the cast completely beaten. Nobody could stop him. So he executes his plan.  As far as I know (unless I missed something), his plan is to eradicate exactly half of all mortals in the universe, and from his own words, in a fair lottery (random chance), without taking into account a person's wealth, social status, or anything else. Pure chance decides whether you are sacrified for the greater good or live through this greater good (according to him).  During the movie, Thanos and one of his underling (Ebony Maw) say themselves that being sacrified is an honor and should be appreciated. As you would expect, most people do not appreciate being sacrified.  At the end of the movie, Thanos uses all 6 stones to do a finger snap, deleting half the universe.  The question is: Did he exclude himself from the targets? Was there a 50% chance that Thanos himself would disappear right there?  As far as I know, this is not explicitly answered in the movie itself. I am looking for similar situations in the comics (or in the movie if I happened to miss something) where you could know, or have an educated guess, as to Thanos being the kind of person who follows through to the end, even if it means dying, or the kind of person who gets scared of death when it comes down to it, and comes off as an hypocrite.  Some people also mentioned his "deal" with Strange would make him spare Tony from the snap too. I'm also wondering about that, if there is a link between the two, but it's not the focus of the question.  The reason I'm wondering is that Thanos seems to me like a very extreme utilitarist. Even though he might be wrong about the value of his plan (Do the remaining half really become happy?), in-universe it seemed successful at least once (Gamora's home planet), so his reasoning is not bad, even if the premise might be horribly flawed. Excluding himself from the snap would make it into a straight villain, while considering himself equal to the rest would make him into a wannabe hero with very very evil methods. This makes a huge difference in the interpretation of the movie and his character.
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How many named characters have died       and/or disintegrated      by the end of Avengers: Infinity War. It is difficult to speculate who died on         Xandar and the Asgardian ship.       So restrict it to on-screen deaths only.
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In Avengers: Infinity War, up until Thanos      gets all six Stones   in order to use the Gauntlet he needs to close his fist, as we see in the fight scene on Titan.     Doctor Strange: "Don't let him close his fist!"   So why later does snapping work?