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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Even in your explanation you're referring to them as timelines and not as divergent universes.

Yes, to clarify to YOU. Because you were already using that terminology. But again, "Because of how Marvel classifies things, different timelines ARE different universes."

In this context, it literally means the same thing. For another example, the future of "Days of Future Past" is almost always referred to as an alternate timeline in the comics themselves when characters refer to it, but it's explicitly a separate universe (more specifically, Earth-811). The moment the timeline diverged into two possible outcomes, two universes existed. The same holds true for pretty much every alternate timeline created by any means. This is canonically how timelines work in Marvel (and the Marvel movies are explicitly part of that cosmology, because they've been defined as taking place in the existing multiverse).

The multiverse is literally a collection of universes that exist on multiple parallel timelines. Whether you refer to a parallel universe or an alternate timeline, you're referring to exactly the same thing.



AllstarSniper32 posted...

Yes, cause directors of Marvel movies have never lied about any plot related things in the past.

Things said after the fact, to clarify an aspect of the movie? No, they literally never have.

Before a movie comes out, to preserve suspense or hide spoilers? Sure. But that doesn't actually apply in this case.



AllstarSniper32 posted...

What would make anyone think that something the directors say in real life is canon for the mcu?

Probably the fact that most people don't accept "Death of the Author" as a valid criticism technique, and by definition the author of a work is the only person capable of elaborating on context that isn't explicitly spelled out in a movie.

For another Avengers/Russo example, it isn't really explained in any meaningful way in the films why Hulk doesn't want to come out in Infinity War. Plenty of people speculated that it's because Hulk was afraid of Thanos (and that's probably the much better way to interpret it), but like it or not, after the fact, the writer and directors explicitly explained that it was because Hulk was tired of being used, and didn't want to just be a weapon that Banner relied on when needed that would get stuffed back in the box the moment he didn't. Like it or not, that is the canonical answer in-universe.

Arguably, that could be contradicted if Kevin Feige came out and said "No, that's not really what it was" (as he's really the only one with official authority to outrank them), and it could potentially be retconned later (which is something that happens all the time in comics anyway), but at the moment, it IS the canonical answer, period.



AllstarSniper32 posted...

One thing you do know though, is that when he lived out his life, it wasn't in the timeline that was in Endgame.

We don't actually know that at all, because it's never explicitly said in the movie itself. And because it wasn't explained, viewers were confused, and asked about it, which is why the Russos explained how the whole mess worked in the first place.

Regardless of whatever headcanon you might prefer, Cap literally lived with Peggy through the main timeline of the MCU as seen on screen. Him being with her in the same timeline is canon. Which was straight up mentioned because people pointed out it was kind of weird that he would essentially be cucking an alternate version of himself otherwise.
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