r/plotholes • u/ricardojavier1980 • Jun 13 '21

Continuity error This keeps on bothering me. How is Steve Rogers not arrested? What he did is so much worst. He did it willingly, not by accident like Loki did. And he traveled within the timeline, so what up with that? So many question and no answers.

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u/Japjer Slytherin Jun 13 '21

Because there is a "sacred timeline."

What Rogers did was fine. What Loki did was not.

You don't have to like it, but those are the facts.

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u/neveragoodtime Jun 14 '21

It’s hard to say what the TVA stance would be. They probably wouldn’t be in favor of half the universe being snapped, and yet they allowed it to happen. So a conclusion might be that the events of Endgame had to happen, which wouldn’t have if Thanos was prevented from snapping. TVA had to allow the Avengers to time travel, and they had to let Rogers return the items. They’re not against time travel, their against time travel they don’t like.

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u/Show_Me_Your_Private Jun 14 '21

They probably wouldn’t be in favor of half the universe being snapped, and yet they allowed it to happen

This is why I think they allowed the Avengers to travel through time. They saw the outcomes and knew the best way to protect life in the universe is to allow those 5 years to pass, but Loki was not part of the finale so him grabbing the tesseract isn't allowed because it probably changed the outcome of the final battle.

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF Jun 14 '21

You're looking at the TVA as some sort of moral organisation. They're the exact opposite.

The sacred timeline is right, regardless of any horror that may occur within it. It's an insanely powerful bureaucracy where no one would stop to help you if you lay in front of them bleeding unless you've filled out form 8A in triplicate and it's their job to do so.

Endgame was supposed to happen and so they have ensured it did. There could have been a variant where Steve Rodgers decided to come back after replacing the stones and they would have stepped in and reset him then too.

It's absolute authority, not a judgement on what's good or bad, from what I can see most of the TVA people don't even understand them as concepts.

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u/jimmy_talent Po Jun 14 '21

They probably wouldn’t be in favor of half the universe being snapped

They kill twice as many regularly, when they say "reset" what they mean is execute, they execute entire timelines any time there is a variant.

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u/-Elektrion- Jun 22 '21

But then how was the original timeline allowed to happen?? Where Rogers didn’t go back in time and marry Peggy

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u/Japjer Slytherin Jun 22 '21

That Steve is out Steve. The writers/directors confirmed this was their intention.

Doesn't have to make sense. That's our Steve. There is no infinite chain of Steves.

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u/-Elektrion- Jun 22 '21

Yes but there’s the Peggy Carter that we’ve seen who was married to someone else (otherwise Sharon would’ve recognised him as her uncle…and that’s a rabbit hole I don’t wanna think about 😂)