Avengers: Endgame
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The Ancient One make a surprise show inAvengers : Endgame , but while her words of wisdom are usually deserving heeding , the fiber was misinformed on this particular occasion . Avengers : Endgamepicks up from the devastating cliffhanger of 2018’sAvengers : Infinity War , which concluded with Thanos fulfilling his goal of pass over out one-half of all life in the universe . WithCaptain Marvel ’s timely arrival , the remaining Avengers team succeed in finding and executing Thanos , but that ca n’t heal the overbear fog of miserableness pulled over the world , nor bring back the billions that were pop by a snap of the Mad Titan ’s finger’s breadth and thumb .
Thanks to a well - placed rat however , Paul Rudd ’s Ant - Man is able to return from the Quantum Realm , wreak fresh possibilities oftime travelwith him . With the tending of the science bros , Bruce Banner and Tony Stark , the Avengers hatch a architectural plan to spread out throughout time , spirit up out the Infinity Stones , fall to their own time and finally , use the steal rock to unwrap Thanos ' snap . Realizing that , in 2012 , three Infinity Stones were turn up in New York City ( because why would n’t three artifacts once scattered throughout the universe all finish up in the Big Apple ) , the team of Captain America , Iron Man , Hulk , and Ant - Man head back into the climactic battle of the originalAvengersmovie to remember the Stone .
Hulk is tasked with pick up the Time Stone from Sanctum Sanctorum , at that time in the possession of Tilda Swinton ’s Ancient One fromDoctor Strange , who ab initio refuses to give the stone away . She tells Hulk that he ca n’t have her Time Stone because it is required to act as as a deterrent against inter - dimensional threats , and if the Avengers altered time , they ’d create split in the multiverse that would cause untold problems in other timeline and there ’d be no Time Stone to help puzzle out them . Hulk tries to negociate by promising to come back the I. F. Stone to her at the same sentence as if it never left , but it ’s actually the mention ofDoctor Strangethat lastly convinces the Ancient One to hand over the Time Stone to Hulk .
This scene is extremely curious , as it opens up a huge can of worms regardingtime travel and multiple attribute in the MCUthat are enough to give even the most ardent MCU fan a concern . It ’s also strange that a figure as wise and all - knowing as the Ancient One ca n’t instantly see the large motion picture at play . The Ancient One has the ability to view past the barriers of time , so why ca n’t she see that if the big greenish man in front of her does n’t get the small green stone around her neck opening , the universe will witness the greatest devastation it has ever known , something that far outweigh many of the threats the Ancient One is occupy by .
The result to this can be found back in the character’s2016Doctor Strangedebut , in the Ancient One ’s death scene . Despite the best efforts of foreign and his medical ex-wife - colleagues , the Ancient One is killed after a fight with the movie ’s main villain , Kaecilius , but before she departs the mortal plane , share a devout interchange with her replacement , Dr. Stephen Strange . Here , the Ancient One reveals that , despite her omniscience , she is unable to see past a sure point - the moment of her death . Since this minute comes before the arrival and invasion of Thanos , she would n’t have been able to predict the gauzy destruction the scoundrel would cause . The notorious snap is beyond her oscilloscope of reckoning .
The Ancient One may have known aboutThanos ' existence and perhaps even been cognizant that he was seeking the Infinity Stones , like many other existence no doubt , but she would n’t have had any prospicience of his ultimate victory or how rapidly he fill up the spaces in his gauntlet , and this part accounts for why she trusts Strange ’s discernment over her own inAvengers : Endgame .
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