Was Old Steve Rogers Always Present in the MCU? Endgame Director Gives His Definitive Answer

Whereas Avengers: Endgame tried to resolve each plot thread that had been created over a decade of movies, followers had been nonetheless left scratching their heads over some points. One of many largest questions was since Captain America traveled again in time to dwell out his life with Peggy Carter earlier than exhibiting up once more within the current as previous Steve Rogers to present his protect to Sam Wilson, does that imply that there had all the time been two variations of the character within the MCU, the superhero, and the retired superhero who was married to Peggy? Joe Russo, who co-directed Endgame alongside his brother Anthony, had this to say about the entire conundrum.

"Cap would've had to have traveled back to the main timeline. That's something that yes, he would've been in a branch reality and would've traveled back to the main timeline to give that shield to Sam. In our internal logic that we defined in the room, that was the choice that we made based on everything that happened. He would've been in a branch reality and then had to have shifted over to this. So jumped one to the other, right? Then handed the shield off."

Confused sufficient but? There's extra. Whereas Russo seems assured that previous Steve Rogers existed in a separate timeline, and solely jumped again into ours when it was time to move on the protect to Sam Wilson, the writers of the film, Christopher McFeely and Stephen Markus, have a distinct tackle the problem. In a earlier interview, Markus declared there are certainly two Steve Rogers current by way of your complete timeline of the MCU.

"That is our theory. We are not experts on time travel, but the Ancient One specifically states that when you take an Infinity Stone out of a timeline it creates a new timeline. So Steve going back and just being there would not create a new timeline. So I reject the 'Steve is in an alternate reality' theory. I do believe that there is simply a period in world history from about '48 to now where there are two Steve Rogers. And anyway, for a large chunk of that one of them is frozen in ice. So it's not like they'd be running into each other."