It's not the End of the Line or the Game Yet

Warning! Endgame Spoilers Ahead! You have been warned!

Welcome, agents, as we post top-secret classified stuff to assure you that Agent Romanov is alive and well. How can we convince you of such a wonderful truth, you ask? Well, like this...

• Captain America did not marry Agent Carter in the timeline of the MCU host world (that is, in the non-parallel world creations that might be attached to it)

From the television series, Agent Carter, we know that Peggy eventually moved on from Cap (season 1) and fell in love with chief Daniel Sousa. Of course, it could be argued that they didn't get married, except-

In Winter Soldier, when Cap was visiting the Smithsonian, there was a clip playing with an interview of Peggy Carter. In it, she said Captain America actually rescued her husband at the same time he led the prison break to rescue Bucky in Captain America, First Avenger.

Looking back at Captain America, First Avenger, if one pauses the scene where Cap is triumphantly leading the escaped prisoners back to base- one will be able to make out the actor who played Daniel Sousa in those lines.

• Captain America did not create a parallel world by sabotaging the MCU timeline to make it so he married Peggy instead of Sousa. 

Cap did not travel back through the quantam machine like one would have to in order to escape a parallel world (as Scott did when they messed up in their 2012 visit). He was merely sitting on the bench. 

Now, one could argue that since Loki is running around with the Tesseract, it might be possible Loki left his own world, visited Cap's, and then transported Cap to the mainstream world. But this is still unlikely because Cap is still too sacrificial to risk creating a parallel world that might damage his own hard-fought time stream (he himself had no part in the 2012 parallel). It is also very likely Peggy would have been married to Sousa by then anyway, and I don't think he would have broken up their marriage- or that Peggy, who had moved on, would allow it.

Also, Cap did not tell Falcon who the woman he married was. There may have been a specific reason to that mystery other than just teasing, because why would Cap keep the fact that he finally won over his old flame a secret from one of his best friends?

The argument then is that the dance at the end was merely Cap and Peggy getting closure and fulfilling their previous commitment- before going their separate ways again, this time with Cap moved on from Peggy like she had of him.

• Captain America did not simply say hello to his old foe and throw the soul stone back into the pit.

So Cap goes to drop off the soul stone- and stumbles upon his sworn enemy, Red Skull! Yet we don't even get a quick mid-credit scene of such a legendary encounter. Because the directors wanted their artsy ending? Or because they were hiding something?

Knowing Steve Rogers, he would not take lightly finding his old foe in the same place he lost his coworker (and inseparable companion of the seven most trying years of his life), he would not be able to just leave it like that.

But opposite of Ronin's reaction to simply kill everyone who should have died instead of the ones who did, perhaps he decides to try and bring Natasha back with the soul stone. After all, it's a soul for a soul (this would especially fit with the Soul Stone Reality Theory that is floating around the internet).

Of course, Red Skull told Clint that it was irreversible. And it was. For him. He'd made his soul-for-a-soul choice (or, it was made for him, more like). Cap had not, and he had a soul to trade- the sacred law of the soul stone.

• Captain Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanov got married and lived together in the past.

With the soul stone transaction complete, Cap and Natasha are reunited, but now comes the decision of what to do. They are both still nervous of creating a parallel world, and they don't know what might come of their hard work if they re-inserted Natasha into their original timeline.

Maybe they don't want to go somewhere they might be tempted to save the world again and possibly mess it up. So they go back in time where they know others- and even themselves- already have it taken care of.

And maybe, just maybe, they don't want to live in a time where Tony know longer lives. So they go back where they know all their friends are still alive even if they can't make contact.

And that is why Cap doesn't tell Falcon about the woman he married.

That is how the Black Widow cheated death.

And that is how both Peggy and Sousa, and Cap and Natasha, lived happily ever after.

With Red Skull still floating around out there somewhere.

Works Cited:

Agent Carter, Seasons 1-2.

Avengers: Endgame

Captain America, The First Avenger

Captain America, Winter Soldier

Pinterest (note that I own none of these memes or photos; all rights to their various artists).

Well, agents, what do you think? Any flaws in the official release of the retirement of Agent Romanov? Any theories of your own concerning Endgame?

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