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Could Endgame be done without time travel?

posted 4 years ago by Nate Adams SA23 (902)
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Time travel was inevitable for this movie. Infinity War already setup the stakes so high that there was no other way to go other than time travel.

But I am interested to know how you could have done this movie without the time travel angle. Mainly because time travel always opens up more questions inevitably.

One way I can think of is some sort of quest to find a dragon ball type maguffin and wish it all back. I’m not sure if such a device exists in the Marvel cannon though.

[–] plusplus (467) 4 years ago

There are at least 2 types of effective time travel in the movie.

1) Nebula's uplink latency. There would be no boss-fight in the end if Nebula couldn't send information faster than light. Tony uses the same type of time travel for a few times in the MCU, his relative speed towards carrier networks (for example on a launching space ship) wouldn't allow the calls he makes.

2) The writer's ego type of time travel. When you've written your story into a corner, but your ego lets you assume that you and your work are just too good to start over again. It's a kind of hybris and a common thing among artists, not their fault. It's the publisher/studio's fault to accept it.

Could it be done without? Sure. Marvel isn't bound to cause and effect, they get away with worse ex machina moments.

[–] elcamino (15540) 4 years ago

It was one of the stones so it was chosen as a use for the story.There was other stone ways of using but I think this stone gave the best use in using.

[–] Kowalski (79132) 4 years ago

ONLY IF THANOS DOESNT DESTROY THE STONES BETWEEN INFINITY WAR AND ENDGAME.