On Mar 31, 2024, ed rhodes wrote:
OK, went through the thread AGAIN to see if THIS had been mentioned... and it hadn't;







SPOILERS - If YOU haven't seen the movie, "Avengers - Endgame," don't read this.








I've just seen "Avengers - Endgame." A big deal is made of the fact that they can't go back and stop Thanos from doing the snap, because that will only create an alternate universe. So they have to get the Infinity Stones from periods in the past, (Thanos destroys the current stones) rebuild the gauntlet and "snap" everone back. (Presumably taking into account the position of the Earth five years ago, AND people who'd been on trasports like planes or ships, or even cars. (You wouldn't want to "blink" back on a busy super highway, now would you.) A plot point is that, in the past, Thanos finds out about their scheme and travels to the future to RE-snap the universe. Huge battle, Thanos ends up fighting people whose lives he ruined (hi, Wanda) who he has no idea who they are. At the end, (this spoiler should be well known by now) the snap is interrupted by Tony, who manages to steal the stones off of Thanos' gaunlet and put them on one HE'S constructed for himself. He snaps, and Thanos and his entire army are reduced to dust.

Wait!

Thanos hadn't done the first snap yet! So, are we saying the first snap never happened? I'm confused.

Also, a paradox. One of the characters runs into her early self and kills her. But SHE herself doesn't cease to exist!