Originally Posted by
IrishDevil
As for Cap in the past, what Mr. Shadow lays out is possible, but yeesh. One of my wife's first responses to the movie was, "I would love to see a movie of Cap's last trip through time there at the end!" I disagreed. After the initial excitement of returning the stones, the visual (cars) and audio (music) cues on his return to Peggy place him in the post-war 40s. Steve Rogers is a national celebrity, serial star, and international war hero who just recently died in tragic and heroic fashion. He is instantly recognizable. And if his presence in the past still leads to the End Game 2023 timeline, he cannot make himself known. He has to sit out Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, and the Gulf Wars, not to mention the events of every other MCU movie. He has to allow Hydra to infiltrate SSR/Shield - where his beloved wife works - and foment chaos in the world. He has to let Bucky endure torment and do horrible things as the Winter Soldier, including killing Howard and Maria Stark. He has to hide under the basement stairs anytime Peggy has a houseguest. In your theory he has kids, but even if the kids were "already part of the past," they and Peggy have to pretend as if Steve is still dead. So, Cap has a few hours of excitement returning the stones, followed by 80ish years of hiding and pretending like awful things aren't happening in the world? Seems like a pretty tough thing for Mr. "We Don't Trade Lives," but the universe is at stake, so maybe. Or maybe he does not pretend, but works behind the scenes, and that work is also "already part of the past"?