Thanos’ Role In Avengers: Endgame Creates A Huge Plot Hole

Adding time travel into the equation always complicates things, and that’s definitely true of Avengers: Endgame. In the Marvel blockbuster’s case, it’s especially tricky, as the film outlines its own take on time travel rules that differ from those that sci-fi fans have got used to from classic movies in the genre. In many ways, this helps the sequel avoid plot holes, but there are still a few times throughout that the rules get tangled.

Endgame establishes that every change to the past results in the creation of a different branch of the timeline and does not simply alter the present. To navigate through these various pathways, then, the Avengers need Stark’s Quantum GPS plus Pym Particles to enter the Quantum Realm in the first place. This is why it doesn’t make much sense when the 2014 era Thanos travels to New York in 2023 to battle the heroes as he has neither of these key items.

The obvious rebuttal to this is that 2014 Nebula has already infiltrated this timeline by stealing the prime Nebula’s GPS and particles and guides the Mad Titan to this time with Hulk’s machine. However, Thanos would still need the same sort of tech that the Avengers needed in order to traverse the timelines in the first place.

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The only explanation is if Thanos has created his own alternate takes on the GPS and the Pym Particles. Though Endgame seems to depict his assault on the Avengers HQ as happening immediately, perhaps the villain actually spent a long while working on his own time travel inventions based on Stark and Pym’s methods. A certain amount of time has definitely passed, as Thanos has managed to gather an enormous army of Chitauri and Outriders and taken them with him.

Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have cleared up a similar dangling plot thread involving Captain America, so hopefully they’ll soon explain this puzzling aspect of the narrative. In the meantime, though, tell us, does this Avengers: Endgame plot hole bother you? And do you have another explanation for it? Let us know in the comments section down below.

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Are Avengers: Endgame Directors Teasing Another Captain America Movie?

The final scene of Avengers: Endgame is a big talking point for those who’ve seen the film for many reasons. First, it’s a hugely emotional ending to Captain America’s story, as it’s revealed that he travelled back in time to live out his life as he should have done the first time around, with Peggy Carter. Aside from that, though, it sort of breaks the rules about time travel that the movie previously establishes.

For one, how can Old Man Steve be sitting by a lake in this timeline when he just went back and changed history, thereby creating a new branch of reality? Is this a plot hole, or do the filmmakers have an explanation for it? Well, the answer turns out to be the latter, as screenwriters Markus and McFeely have confirmed that Old Cap travels over to the prime timeline to appear in Endgame‘s final scene.

The Russo brothers have now reiterated this point as well while speaking to Entertainment Weekly. Although, Joe also suggested that there’s a greater mystery here that could be explored in a future installment in the MCU.

“If Cap were to go back into the past and live there, he would create a branched reality. The question then becomes, how is he back in this reality to give the shield away?”

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Russo went on to tease that there are many “layers” to the narrative of Endgame, as it’s been in the works for so long, that could potentially lead somewhere else down the road. In fact, he even teases that “maybe there’s a story there,” which may be a hint that we could see another Captain America movie which explores it.

“Interesting question, right? Maybe there’s a story there. There’s a lot of layers built into this movie and we spent three years thinking through it, so it’s fun to talk about it and hopefully fill in holes for people so they understand what we’re thinking.”

Another mystery about this scene is that Bucky isn’t anywhere near as shocked by the sudden appearance of an elderly Steve as Sam is, implying that he might have an inkling about what his friend had planned when he went into the Quantum Realm. The Russos heavily hinted this was the case, too, pointing to his final words to Cap as evidence.

“Especially when he says goodbye. He says, ‘I’ll miss you.’ Clearly he knows something.”

Fans seem split on whether Cap’s goodbye was the perfect ending for the character or ruined the movie, but it’s nice to hear that the Russos seem open to the idea of possibly exploring more of the hero’s story post-Avengers: Endgame. Whether that’ll happen or not, we can’t say for sure, but without a doubt fans would be all for seeing what Steve got up to while living in the branched reality. As Russo says, “there’s a story there.”

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