Avengers Endgame: 10 Unexpected Consequences To Reversing The Snap
8. Those That Were Brought Back
Things become even more complicated when you consider how the world would need to deal with the return of the snapped… because they may not have lives to return to.
First, they’re legally dead. Their governments would have had to bring in emergency powers to fast track processing so many dead citizens. Those who’d made a will would have been prioritised, and their property already passed on; it may not even be in the family anymore.
Those without a will may actually be better off: even with fast track processes, probate courts will have been bottlenecked for years, so their property, in limbo, could still be restored to them.
But even after all those family reunions, so much will have changed. Younger siblings may now be older siblings. Many spouses will have moved on, leaving their homes and moving in with family elsewhere, even remarrying. Many of the returned, especially children, may not be able to trace their families. And what about those returned whose loved ones have died in the intervening five years?
The fact is, communities large and small, united in grief, will have reknit. Look at apocalyptic narratives like The Walking Dead, and how those radical changes affect families, whole societies in only a few years.
What’s it going to be like for those who come back to find this smaller, sadder world, who now find themselves crammed into a life that’s, by and large, left them behind?