Is Tony Stark Time Traveling to Talk to Steve Rogers?

We’re finally seeing footage of Steve Rogers being reunited with Tony Stark, but is it in the same timeline as Avengers: Infinity War? It has been a long-running theory that there will be time travel in Avengers: Endgame, and this moment we got between Tony Stark and Steve Rogers in the most recent trailer feels like the start of that.

If you look at the picture from the most recent trailer, Steve Rogers has a very similar look to his hair in The Avengers, and while his suit is different, we’re well aware of the fact that Marvel has already edited out characters to keep secrets hidden, so why couldn’t they edit Captain America’s suit to keep the time travel out of the trailers?

Here’s my theory: Both Tony and Steve know, in the future, that if they both go back in time together, their past selves won’t believe it’s them, but if they go back separately, Tony Stark going to talk to Steve and vice versa, they stand a chance of warning themselves of what is to come. Maybe this shot isn’t the moment when they went back in time but, from the looks of Steve’s hair, it could be the two talking about their plan before putting it into action.

Has my insanity in the build-up for Avengers: Endgame led to me analyzing hair in trailers? Yes, but it’s more rooted in the fact that if they do have to go back in time, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers are going to have to trust each other again in a way that they didn’t before.

It comes down to Captain America: Civil War, a movie that tore these two friends apart. They were stubborn and refused to talk to each other and, in doing so, forced a divide among the Avengers at a time when they needed to be united. So now, when their friends and families have vanished and they have to find a way to bring them back, they have to rely on each other. It’s interesting because, for the first time, they both lost something they want back. For Steve, it’s his friends, and for Tony, it’s Peter.

They have to finally trust each other, and I think the way that trust has to be built is with going back in time. If they don’t connect to their past selves and make them see what needs to be done, they might not succeed.

(image: Marvel Entertainment)

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