He dies in all universes when Quill kills him on Ronan's ship. I don't think he was dusted by Stark because he wasn't one of Thanos' lackeys at the battle. He's Ronan's lackey and would've been with Ronan on the Dark Aster.

True. But we can never be sure Korath is dead on the second universe. The timeline is different and the Guardians (without Gamora) would never form and Korath would never be killed by them.

So basically, the Avengers were so worried about not messing with the timeline and they ended up changing two important events in two different timelines:

The One Where Loki runs with the Tesseract (2012)

The One With The Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Congrats Avengers👌👏, you really know how to be careful! 

@Miguel

Yep, true. He may even have gotten to the orb first since Quill was knocked out for all we know. Regardless, without the Guardians Xandar would be destroyed.

@Xanoverse

I had the same thought. That's why time travel is ultimately dangerous and kind of selfish. They basically put other timelines at risk to save their own, and then Cap used time travel to get what he wanted (a life with Peggy) and then hid it from the world (confirmed by FFH director that people thought Cap died fighting Thanos) because if people knew then *everyone* would want to use it for their own ends which would doubtless have bad consequences. Then they pretended they could just fix everything by returning the stones without addressing how exactly they put the stones back in their broken containers because that would mess up the quick-fix ending.

(Also, why didn't they go back to the Collector's vault for the reality stone AND the power stone since both were there for a short time? Or why not go back to the Nova vault for the power stone so they wouldn't destroy the Guardians coming together? Or why not go back to right before the snap in Wakanda when all 6 stones were there in the gauntlet so Thor could go for the head then, killing Thanos and stopping the snap in that timeline, and eliminating Nat's soul stone sacrifice and the screwup that lead to Nebula letting 2014 Thanos in and ultimately Tony's death?) The whole 2nd act was not well thought-out, and done only for fan service so we could go on a nostalgia trip to previous movies one last time before they ended that era of the MCU).

I totally agree with you @Flerken but the answer for all those "whys" is if not, there wouldn't be so many movies and Endgame wouldn't have last 3 hours and, then Mavel Studios wouldn't win so much money. 

Yep I know, LOL

FlerkinGherkin, the Orb wasn’t destroyed. The Tesseract was destroyed but the Orb was not.

Unless the Avengers had a device lying around the compound that could unlock the orb, then they probably opened it by force. We don't know because that's never shown. Even if they were able to unlock it, there's still the tesseract and the scepter that were broken

About one year ago, people were saying something like: Tony can't build the Infinity Gauntlet, it's not science, you need Dwarves and magic, blablabla. Then it turned out Tony could do it. How difficult could it be to make other stuffs, with enough people make sure what their originals look like?

In reality, the only thing you need, to avoid the dark splinter realities, is to bring the stones back to their timelines. In reality, it doesn't matter how, because you just want the stones to do their job so that the universe doesn't fall apart. So you don't really need to place the space stone in the Tesseract, the mind stone in the scepter, the reality stone in Jane Foster and the power stone in the orb. You could, theoretically, put them in the ground. The timelines have already been changed. When you time-travel to the past it creates an alternate timeline. But if you take one stone from that universe, it will fall apart, so you need to place it back to the same time it was removed. Obviously this comes with a small problem, the power stone, because when it was removed from that universe, we see War Machine leaving with it, and Nebula is left behind struggling with the network it shares with the other Nebula. At this point in time, Cap would be with the power stone. So while Nebula is captured and Thanos is taking care of all of his time-travelling plans, Cap is somewhere around Morag placing the power stone on this universe. Meaning, that Cap didn't needed to spawn in the exact same place where War Machine left that universe, indicating it doesn't need to place the stone back to the orb or back to the same place. The events will go on in different ways. That is evident, as he returned to Peggy Carter without removing any stones, and the timeline went in a different direction nevertheless. The original universe, in which Thanos destroys the stones, isn't transformed into a dark reality, because the energy of these stones didn't disappear, instead dissipated itself across the universe, meaning that the stones still exist and protect the universe from other realities, but not in the form of solid stones. After all the stones were, early in the history of the universe, manufactured by ancient beings, meaning this is not their original state.