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Explained: Captain America's two-world theory by Avengers: End Game Director!

PUBLISHED DATE : 01/May/2019

Explained: Captain America's two-world theory by Avengers: End Game Director!

 

If you haven't watched Avengers: End Game, please be advised that SPOILERS FOLLOW. One of the heated topics that has been in discussion among those who've watched Marvel's latest film is the ending it gave to Steve Rogers' aka Captain America's story arc.

TL;DR 5 years after Thanos dusted half of earth's population by snapping his fingers in the climax of Avengers: Infinity War, the superheroes who are left alive travel back in time and restore everyone to 9 years later.

At one point in the movie, the 2023 i.e the present Captain America is tasked with returning the Infinity Stones to the different timelines they came from and in the process it is revealed that instead of returning, he decided to stay back and live a normal life (presumably with Peggy Carter) without the super soldier serum.
 

So the movie ends with a 102 year old Steve returning to the point where Hulk, Falcon and Bucky Barnes are awaiting the 2023 Steve, but instead the 102 year old Steve hands over his vibranium shield to Falcon aka Sam Wilson.

This part of the movie had the audience wondering if Marvel had taken an unusual approach to time travel for usually movies suggest that changing the past could also change the future. It also had some debating over the idea of two alternate universes existing at the same time; meaning two worlds where one Steve Rogers was Captain America and in the other Steve Rogers was a normal man.
 

The makers of Avengers: End Game have confirmed this almost theory, for Joe Russo one of the directors of this movie has been quoted in a recent interview as saying, ",,The time travel in this movie created an alternate reality. Captain America (CA) lived a completely different life in that world. We don’t know how exactly his life turned out, but I’d like to believe he still helped many others when they were needed in that world..Yes, there were two CA in that reality,"

Adding how it did not affect the happenings of the last 22 films, Russo said, "You can’t change the future by simply going back to past. But it’s possible to create a different alternate future..The characters in this movie created new timeline when they went back to the past, but it had no effect to the prime universe. What happened in the past 22 movies was still canon."


This concludes that Cap's choice of staying back and living his life in the past did not in any way change reality and Russo's confirmation of two CAs proves that the old Steve was in existence throughout the 22 films. Its just that his world never collided with the CA with superpower. This also clarifies that Peggy Carter was infact married to Steve Rogers all along, except no one knew it was actually Steve Rogers.

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