Thread:Elledy92/@comment-26838855-20190425183005/@comment-26838855-20190728142601

CirUmeUela wrote: You might have thought of this so forgive me if you already answered this BEJT, but would Steve have to return all the stones in the states they were in as well? Would he need the scepter, another tessaract, another orb, etc? I guess not because going by the M & M explanation, the timeline would reset so that wouldn't matter. But if it did, that would complicate things. I thought of this after watching HISHE's recent video. MJLogan95 wrote: He's already answered this; check the replies above. Or I guess I'll just quote it here for you:

BEJT wrote: all you need to do is replace the stone to its time to fix things, and the exact logistics of literally returning the stone to its exact place don't matter. Just plopping it back in the right time is what cuts off that branch. [...] When you replace the Infinity Stone in its timeline, it doesn't fix that timeline by putting everything back to how it was. It allows the Infinity Stones to be in harmony again and correct the flow of time, as the Ancient One explains, thus as Bruce says, erasing that dark splinter from the timeline. ^ BEJT's thoughts on the matter I'm not super attached to that explanation. It's not like some of the other stuff where I feel it is what the film actually says. That was more just my way of justifying the fact that, as HISHE joked about, it doesn't seem to make sense to have to physically put them back. But both the writers and directors seem to think Steve saw Red Skull again so who knows.

Elledy92 wrote: My apologies, didn't want to imply that erasing a timeline wasn't physically possible within the MCU (the Infinity Stones clearly have the capability to do that), but i was refering to the fact that some of the time-travel theory seems to stand to the fact that time can only be changed by moving the Stones, which is ridicolous, and that simply every other action don't "fix". The follow-up of the discussion was that "erasing" branches was kinda a paradox. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. does also show that time can be changed without the Infinity Stones, so I'll agree with you there.

Elledy92 wrote: This is definitevely a trickier matter. You could say that traveling to a timeline in the past before the events that lead to the present happens prevent those event from happening, but as we said before there is no "past" and "future" in a time-travel situation. There are definitevely infinite timeline where the Stones where never returned and fell into chaos, or maybe this was the only possible resolution since its the only future where Strange gave up the Stone willingly, inducing the Ancient One of the past in giving up hers. The only far-fetched solution is that "main timeline" and "altered timeline" works in different way in terms of time-travel, but i don't buy it either. Man, this stuff's a nightmare😂.

Elledy92 wrote: Therefore it doesn't exist in the main timeline, but in a parallel one. As simple as that. Agreed. But you've read the wrong emphasis of my message there. The point is that Bruce's comment is predicated on someone changing time. He's saying that when you change time, you are not changing your timeline. He doesn't say when you go back in time you change time in any way.