20 More So-Called Happy Movie Endings That Absolutely Aren't

As it acted as the final chapter for over a decade of storytelling involving dozens of characters, there were plenty of endings throughout Avengers: Endgame. Most of these were done incredibly well; however, there were some more questionable decisions made.

Plenty can be said for Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) living a lie in the past, and all the issues coming from 3.5 billion people reappearing after five years which were addressed by the likes of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye, and both Spider-Man: Far From Home, and No Way Home, but arguably the time travel aspect itself caused more issues.

Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) made it very clear that, no matter what, the Avengers could not change the past. It was impossible. Instead, they could essentially create a new branch of reality away from their own, and though his idea of returning the Infinity Stones to where they were taken was his get-out clause, this in itself would have been changing the past, which, as established, was impossible.

The time travel rules laid out in Endgame were confusing and messy, but where the Avengers ultimately arrived at is a new branch of reality where they defeated Thanos (Josh Brolin), leaving behind their old reality to suffer and crumble without the stability of the stones.