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Avengers: Endgame Writers Tell Us if The Timeline of Thor: The Dark World Was Affected

Marvel has to be given the biggest credit for Avengers: Endgame as this movie was everything they had promised it to be. People would still say that a couple more things could have been added to make things better, but that’s just human nature. We are never 100% satisfied with what we’ve got! Still, Avengers: Endgame left us about 98% satisfied, which is much higher than anything else could have done. If you compare this with Game of Thrones, the latest episode left many fans disappointed!

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Avengers: Endgame Writers Thor: The Dark World

Coming back to Avengers: Endgame, the film did tell us a convoluted but compelling story which everyone loved. We were left with many questions post the film, but that doesn’t mean that the film wasn’t fulfilling as the grand finale of The Infinity Saga. Endgame enrolled Time Travel into the story in a big way. By the end of the film, Captain America did possibly restore the timeline as much as he could, although he himself created a big branch in the MCU’s timeline, which has now become permanent.

Avengers: Endgame Writers Thor: The Dark World

But being worthy of the Mjolnir, did Cap return it to where it was taken from? He could have grown to like it as much as Thor did, but having kept the hammer, he would have surely screwed Thor and his timeline since 2013. So, we can only imagine that he returned Mjolnir to where it was taken from, i.e. Thor: The Dark World, and that would have prevented a newly branched MCU timeline post that film.

Avengers: Endgame Writers Thor: The Dark World

To get a confirmation for this, we’ve got the latest interview of Endgame writers, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. They spoke to the New York Times, and said that Thor: The Dark World won’t be affect by the moves made in Avengers: Endgame:

Avengers: Endgame Writers Thor: The Dark World

“McFeely – Does that screw that other Thor?

Markus – Is he killed by Dark Elves?

Avengers: Endgame Writers Thor: The Dark World

McFeely – I think we’re leaning on, when you just take a baseball mitt, you didn’t ruin that kid’s life. When you took Mjolnir, we accept that that movie happened. Because time is irrefutable.

Markus – You can make any number of what ifs. The Dark Elves would have arrived, intending to get the Aether. It’s what they came for and it was no longer there.”

Avengers: Endgame Writers Thor: The Dark World

Here, the two writers are addressing what may have happened after Thor & Rocket took the Aether and Mjolnir out of Thor: The Dark World. But since Cap went back and put those things to where they belong, whatever branch that would have been created for a short while would have been erased since everything is back to normal.

Timeline of Thor The Dark World Affected
Timeline of Thor The Dark World Affected

Directed by Joe & Anthony Russo, Avengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba, Danai Gurira, Peter Dinklage, Benedict Wong, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Brolin, Pom Klementieff, Karen Gillan, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Paul Rudd, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Tessa Thompson, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Tilda Swinton, Ty Simpkins, Ava Russo and Brie Larson.

Avengers: Endgame Writers Thor: The Dark World

Here’s the new synopsis of Avengers: Endgame:

“Thanos snapped his fingers in Avengers: Infinity War, and half the life in the universe instantly dissolved. Now a ragged group of surviving warriors, including Captain America, Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor, and the Hulk works to counteract the Mad Titan’s genocidal action.

Timeline of Thor The Dark World Affected
Timeline of Thor The Dark World Affected

Since our heroes couldn’t stop Thanos the first time, what makes them think they can win in a rematch? The answer may be in overwhelming power, thanks to Captain Marvel, or in the tiniest spaces between atoms accessible to Ant-Man. Avengers: Endgame will rewrite the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it. When it’s all over, nothing will be the same.”

Vansh Mehra

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