Thread:MJLogan95/@comment-32020497-20190512013121/@comment-2106279-20190512021609

Lalfman wrote: However, myself and some others have to respectfully diagree with your statement about the Russo brothers being competely cannon Oh, not my own statement. I was well aware of both the directors and the screenwriters having contradictory statements. There was even a whole discussion on it on a timeline thread here. I didn't pick the Russos' version to be canon; others did; they chose to pick the Russos' statement as canon and the wiki ran with it. I was just upholding that.

There are many who think the screenwriters' statement should be canon, since they wrote the movie. Again, there was a discussion on it. I don't remember the specifics but I do remember someone did mention that, in the interviews, the screenwriters were a bit vague, unsure & apprehensive on what they were saying whereas the Russos were direct & steadfast, and that for the time being, since the Russo's version made more sense overall, we would run with that.

I think the thing that won over was Captain America's Shield. The screenwriters had no explanation for why Cap's shield was whole again at the end of the movie, because Thanos had shattered it. The Russos' did: Cap took it from the alternate timeline and brought it with him to the prime timeline. Hence, that statement is the one we're treating as canon.

It may change in the future. Who knows.