Spoiler alert! This article contains spoilers for Eyes of Wakanda episode 4.
TheMarvel Cinematic Universe just took a major swing at one of the most important rules set up inAvengers: Endgame, breaking a law of time travel that was once deemed completely unbreakable.Eyes of Wakandais a dynamic animated series exploring tales from the nation’s long history. Among its diverse tales is a time travel narrative that completely underminesAvengers: Endgame.
InAvengers: Endgame, Bruce Banner clearly explained how time travel works inthe MCU timeline. Banner dismissed theBack to the Future-style idea. He explained that if you travel to the past, that past becomes your future – and the original timeline remains unaffected. Yet, in the years since, numerous projects have overruled this, with the latest beingEyes of Wakanda.
Eyes Of Wakanda Breaks Avengers: Endgame’s Unbreakable Time Travel Rule
Eyes of Wakandaepisode 4completely shatters the MCU’s six-year-old time travel rule. The episode centers around a future Panther, hundreds of years ahead, who travels back in time to the 1800s to change a key moment. The future Panther is hoping to prevent Earth from being overrun by a parasitic alien horde 500 years in the future.
Unlike inEndgame, where the past was considered immutable in terms of affecting the present, this Panther’s missiondoesimpact the future. In fact, the entire goal of the episode is to alter a critical event, so the disaster never happens. This contradicts the fundamental logic laid out by Bruce Banner, who specifically said"Changing the past doesn’t change the future."
Marvel Has Retconned Endgame’s Time Travel Rules Many Times Before
This isn’t the first time Marvel has bent or outright retconned its own time travel logic.Lokiseasons 1 and 2 essentially abandonedEndgame’sversion of linear time travel entirely. In Loki’s story, timelines are pruned, rewritten, and even rewritten again, with the TVA controlling the “sacred timeline” in a way that directly conflicts with Banner’s rules.
Deadpool & Wolverinelikewise played fast and loose with time too, as Deadpool jumps between realities and tries to fix a doomed timeline. EvenEndgameitself broke its own logic when Steve Rogers went back in time and somehow re-entered the main timeline as an old man – despite earlier explanations that this shouldn’t be possible.
Now,Eyes of Wakandacontinues the trend, making time travel in the MCU more malleable than ever. The multiverse, once governed by strict logic, is slowly turning into narrative chaos. It seems that time travel rules once established as sacrosanct have become a moveable feast within the MCU.
