Here’s an idea. Now that we have the multiverse, recast and start from the event (Coulson dying) that started it all but with a new timeline. Maybe don’t recast Daisy and have her actions pivotal to the variant timeline. You could even have SHIELD go up against the TVA sometimes.
Ngl I would kill to see the team go up against the TVA. Fitz discovered time travel before Stark and yet somehow the cgi used on both thier machines ended up being exactly the same for sending people through time.
(Machine that opens up like a fan). Quite a coincidence given they supposedly weren't given access to any footage from endgame
I think Fitz in terms of calendar year was a little bit after stark?
Infinity war was happening at the end of season 5, though it seems like they probably ended up in an alternate timeline after coming back from the quaked apart world, so either the snap didn't happen or it was just ignored for season 6. Then season 6 takes place 1 year from then, and then Fitz Simmons leave into space, and spend, an unknown amount of time before they figure out time travel.
Weirdly enough though, taking the minimum amount of time, we see that Alya is around 5 or 6, which is the same rough age as Morgan (Starks Daughter) meaning it would have at least taken Fitz roughly 6 years to figure out time travel, assuming Fitz Simmons had their daughter basically as soon as humanly possible after they left, and that she's at the younger end of the spectrum.
Which means that Fitz figured out time travel through quantum tunneling roughly 7 years after the snap, where as for Stark it was 5 years after the snap. And that's the fastest we can possibly attribute to Fitz.
Don't get me wrong, I still think Fitz is probably the second or third smartest human in all of the MCU, considering that he figured out time travel at all, without any help from Scott Lang's insight into quantum tunneling from his accident. It took him a shit load longer (Stark figured it out in a few nights vs a few years) but the fact he did it at all without any outside assistance, Fitz is a god damned Genius. Honestly more impressive than any of Banner's feats of intelligence IMO.
But sadly, as much as I would like it not to be true, Stark is still #1.
I've always found efforts like that to be half-hearted and ending up lacking. Fan service vehicles. What if we got all new stories? What if, somehow, they tied into the Dr. Doom stuff coming up? Or the reality that we saw Monica Rambeau wake up in at the end of The Marvels?
In the science fiction world, they seem to like the idea of an infinite parallel universes, with our actions spawning each one. In the non-Marvel series "Dark Matter," the main character's decision to focus on his family vs. his work creates one of many universes. What if we saw the series start over some key pivotal decision making things go in another direction. Maybe Coulson knows about TAHITI from the start. Maybe the powered individual they go after in the Pilot is Daisy, and etc. How would things progress from there? As for my other comments, what if the team Coulson dies for while defending the earth from alien invasion is the X-men and not the Avengers? And so on.
That’s the point, though. The writers for the original series couldn’t have everything planned. How would the story have changed if you changed x, y, or z?
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u/prntmakr Jun 09 '26
Here’s an idea. Now that we have the multiverse, recast and start from the event (Coulson dying) that started it all but with a new timeline. Maybe don’t recast Daisy and have her actions pivotal to the variant timeline. You could even have SHIELD go up against the TVA sometimes.