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What Do We Think Captain America Did About Frozen Captain America?

posted 5 years ago by FilmBuff (6692)
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After defeating Thanos, Captain America is tasked with returning the Infinity Stones to their original points on the timeline. Once he's done so, he travels to 1945 and lives out his life as it was meant to be, in his own time, but in an alternate timeline he has created by arriving, with Sharon.

I think it is very, very safe to assume the following:

1. Upon returning to 1945, he immediately went to the Soviet Union and rescued Bucky before he could be turned into the Winter Soldier.

2. He spent the rest of his life being Captain America, and used what he'd learned in the future to prevent whatever tragedies he could.

3. After Peggy died, he returned to his original timeline, and made his way to the park bench where he reunites with his modern-day friends.

When he gets to 1945, he knows that he has created a split in the timeline, so there are now two of everyone and everything, including himself and his shield. He obviously went and found the shield. What did he do about the frozen Steve Rogers? Did he decide that he'd rather remain frozen? It's him, after all, so he should be the one to decide. He could have revived him in 1945 and let that version of himself live happily ever after with that version of Peggy, but we know he didn't. He could have revived him and sent him to his original timeline so the Avengers as we know them would have a young Captain America, but he didn't.

I believe it a near certainty that Cap did everything enumerated above, but what do we think he did about his frozen double?

[–] millsey72 (9579) 5 years ago

Well since a film was never made to show us anything, and since the movie is pure fiction, your question is very silly

[–] FilmBuff (6692) 5 years ago

Spoken like a true dullard.

[–] Moonglum9 (10713) 4 years ago

He drilled into the ice and stole frozen Cap's mojo.

[–] Orcsquisher (11) 4 years ago

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[–] FilmBuff (6692) 4 years ago

Interesting theory, but a couple things jump out at me...

1. There's no way, at least according to the rules laid out by the film, to collapse the alternate timelines. As soon as anyone goes back and does anything, no matter how small, that alters anything, a new timeline splits off. When Cap goes back to return the Infinity Stones, he minimizes the changes and potential damage to the new timelines, but they still exist.

2. I don't know how possible it is to imagine him going back to 1945 and changing absolutely nothing, especially in view of the events we've seen in the Agent Carter series. More than that, it seems utterly impossible to imagine Cap being okay doing that. He was willing to risk everything, repeatedly, to help Bucky, and we're to believe that he's going to sit home for 70 years knowing Bucky is being tortured and transformed into a Soviet killing machine? He'll sit idly while Stark's parents, and countless others, are killed even though he could easily save them? I can't see that happening.