Why not go with the theory that requires absolutely no additions to the story? i.e. Assume the script writers presented everything we need. That Steve lived out his whole life in the same timeline as his frozen and revived self.
Instead of pointing to some deliberately vague exposition on Banner's part (which was worded to sound deliberately convoluted by using "your past, your present" for comedic gobbledygook effect, as well as setting up a joke for Scott) and instead point to the demonstration of branching we actually saw in the discussion with the actual expert on time. Which clearly suggests to some of us that time branching can't actually happen unless we take a stone away. That our perception of time is entirely governed by the stones and that they probably regulate the flow of time to avoid changes cascading through time. Voila, no extra info required!
If there was a principle of Occam's Razor of script writing (if only) then this would be the logical choice.
P.S. My wife came out of the movie and said "so really it was Back to the Future", and while I think it is based on a different concept of time to that movie, in a way that's what the movie is kind of saying. That Banner was wrong to dismiss movie time travel, and by doing do is unable to anticipate what actually happened. He thinks it is purely scientific and in actuality it is partly mystical.
Last edited by JKtheMac; 04-29-2019 at 02:20 AM.
Clearly Old Man Rogers got Captain Marvel to fastball special him through time and space back to the bench. It's pretty obvious if you read between the lines.
Bucky blatantly knew what Cap was going to do. That's why Bucky says that he'll miss him (everyone thinks Rogers will only be gone for seconds) and also why he says that Cap's taking all the stupid with him (when Rogers says to not do anything stupid til he gets back).
So yeah, Barnes was in on it. As his best and oldest friend (literally and figuratively), this shouldn't surprise anyone.
I don't think the five year gap messes things up. I think it opens up a lot of story possibilities for other movies to address and it's ripe for supplementary material.
I don't know why this annoys me, but none of the clickbait "news" sites at all seem to have noticed the Zola cameo in the corridor. I had to watch it again to be sure, and it's definitely him.
I mean, that would actually come under "cameos you didn't notice in Endgame", it was so blink-and-you'll-miss-it.
The only reason why you assume that your theory "requires absolutely no additions to the story" is because you assume that it does not require any additions to the story. Given that a second Captain America existing during the events of Winter Solider and Civil War are not things that currently exist in these stories (at least on the versions that I've watched) then I can't really agree with you.
Carol was about the same level as Stormbreaker Thor you know the guy who jump into a star and nearly killed Thanos with one hit. The Thor in endgame was out shape and implied weaker than before which was one of the reason he wasn't obvious choice to put on gauntlet. People are slight exaggerating how powerful Captain marvel is you are not going to need Thanos level threats to stop her. But you will need upper echelon strength characters to face against her so Hulk,Thor, Thanos,Juggernaut, Gladiator,Hyperion,etc