Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26838855-20190803131136/@comment-3095612-20190818053058

BEJT wrote: I don't think Deke and Flint necessarily want to go back to their time, and it could get problematic as you could end up with two Dekes in 2091, the one from the original timeline and the one yet to be born (though to be fair, even if Fitz and Simmons still conceive the same daughter, it's unlikely that she will meet Owen Shaw in this timeline). But also, you're giving the films a problem as, theoretically, they would always be destined for that 2091 until any further timeline changes. Wasn't that a clone the creation monolith made and the real Flint is still there in the future? And couldn't Deke just go back to a point after 2091 like 2092 and that wouldn't affect anything because he disappears in 2091.

BEJT wrote: It could be, but why would they put a random date that audiences might surmise is when he found the Mind Stone when they could instead put a meaningful date? They could've put 11 2013 or something. They chose 11 2009, and I just feel that's likely an intentional reference to something, and if it were meant as the Mind Stone then that's not really a reference because we're not going to recognise that. I think they wanted an Iron Man nod (calling back to the first film as you reach the end of this saga, and Feige considers "I am Iron Man" the pivotal moment in the MCU timeline), and I think for them to have put November 2009, there's definitely at least a chance that they did a quick check on the wiki for when Iron Man takes place. Well, I'd say it has a dual purpose because the date has to be related to a stone and it's an IM1 reference. Come to think of it, we know next to nothing about the Mind Stone's history or how it was acquired, compared to the other stones. Just basically, Thanos got it before May 2012 at the latest then gave it to Loki as the Sceptre.