The final scene of the Avengers: the final phase is not a plot

Avengers: End of the game puts an end to Captain America's story in a surprising and logical way. The Sentinel of Liberty has gone through many movies – from The first avenger at Winter Soldier at Civil war and every Avenger is teamed – so it makes sense that his story is complete.

In doing so, he also closes the book on a long and persistent mystery for his corner of the Marvel film universe.

[[[[Ed. Note: this post contains major spoilers for Avengers: End of the game]

At the end of the film, Steve volunteers to bring back the Infinity Stones to the respective films from which they come. But he decides to go home and when he returns to the present time after the end of his mission, he will be an old man. As he declares his friend Sam "The Falcon" Wilson, the new Captain America, the film ends with the revelation that Steve took advantage of the time shift to live the happy life that his friend Tony mentioned. He returned to the past, probably the moment he crashed: a Hydra plane landed in Arctic waters. Why? To live his days with the love of his life, Peggy Carter.

The mystery of the husband of Agent Carter

The romance between Steve and Peggy was tragically interrupted at the end of The first avenger, and their eventual meeting was still more tragic when Steve later found her as an old woman with dementia. Steve still carried a torch for her, even after her death in 2016, always remembering the promised dance that they had never had. "Do not advise to be late," Peggy told him as the plane plunged into the ice. Having lost Steve because of the tragedy, the spy eventually moved on.

In The Winter Soldier, Steve takes a break from saving the world to visit the Smithsonian Institution and watch the various memorials of his wartime efforts. A documentary showing Carter reveals that she was later married with an anonymous man who had been rescued by Steve from the blockade of HYDRA in 1945. After the end of World War II, she and her husband got married and had two children together. (A son and a daughter, of course, because of the tradition of the nuclear family!) She will then leave the strategic scientific reserve to found SHIELD.

In the film and television episodes of the Marvel Film Universe, Peggy's husband has never been identified, which has led to many speculations and theories on the part of fans. For a while, many thought Peggy's solo show Agent Carter, written by Avengers: End of the game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, had given the necessary help to make Daniel Sousza, soldier turned spy, the tacit but obvious answer.

It never quite added up; Sousza lost his leg at the siege of Bastogne in 1944, several weeks before Cap rescued the platoon of soldiers in which Peggy's husband would have served in 1945. According to producer Michele Fazekas, Agent Carter, which was canceled before a third season, would finally have given "options" to the man in question, unless the identity was totally revealed. Even Haley Atwell, the star of the series, has never been able to give a definitive answer to the mystery of her husband. This should change after End of Game.

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Steve had his dance with Peggy, we damn ourselves

Avengers: End of the game drop the crumbs for Cape's eventual decision to stay in the past several times during the team's allotted time. He keeps his compbad with his picture on him at all times, even during his excursion to the Battle of New York (causing the fall of Cape's jaw in 2012, since "Loki" would not have that on him), and looks at her with envy. when he hides in his office. The time spent with her is what he always wanted and it is natural that he jumps on the opportunity to get it at the end of the film.

As can be imagined from Old Man Steve's ring finger, he and Peggy have knotted the knot in the past. He's reluctant to say his name – in clbadic Hollywood fashion and Marvel fashion – their on-screen romance will always be a little mysterious – but it's a happy ending. We know.

Time travel makes their relationship and Marvel's ultimate "Saga of Infinity" a touching, touching and a little confusing result. As Hulk said very early, the present and the future can not be changed, and when we go back in time, it simply becomes the past and the linear flow of time. So Cape and Peggy got married and started a family. He kept his head down over the decades and let everything unfold while he had his family, and then grew up in the present moment. Meanwhile, another Cape led the fighting we saw before.

If Hulk's theory remains true, Cape is not the father of those children he has seen in previous movies. It does not negate their relationship. It's an enigma in time – and it happened off-screen, for maximum confusion. Are there several Peggys coexisting in the timeline? Did Cape Town get back in time before or after rescuing the father of his children? (And at what point in this zigzagging and crisscrossed long jump did Cape recover or rebuild his shield after Thanos had split it into two, another imperfection of the timeline that it is impossible to undo?) Directors Joe and Anthony Russo Do not move this through the filming. After the jump from Cape Town, the camera slips to find Old Cape, who, if Hulk and Tony Stark are right, has been living under cover for a long time, a married and happy man. We simply do not see the linear time logic that made it all possible.

For as many questions as the sequence raises, the emotional conclusion seems final. Cape and Peggy are going to dance. They have their life. Kitty Kallen's interpretation of "It's a long time" plays them, and the film is off. Nothing is undone, but something is fixed, which in the Marvel universe, gives the impression of being a definitive answer.

Justin is an independent writer in Kansas City, Missouri, and is often on Twitter. @GigawattConduit. He is also a big fan of McDonald's M & M McFlurries and admits he has an addiction.