Those pitiless Marvel writers are not afraid to rip out fans’ hearts and stomp all over them. Infinity War delivered some of the biggest shocks in blockbuster history and it is clearly not over yet.
Many are convinced that the Soul Stone is the key to everything and to somehow restoring those lost in the Snap, and that Tony Stark will be the man to do it.
Unfortunately it requires the greatest sacrifice and all the smart money has been on him sacrificing the love of his life, Pepper, or the man who represents all the things he loves dearly and feels he can’t live up to, Captain America.
But what if Avengers 4 has something even more brutally heartbreaking up its sleeve?
An incredible new theory suggests Tony will actually have to kill the TWO most important people in his entire life. Fans have already seen them both die, but what if it was Tony, himself, who caused their deaths?
Redditor sfmarch07 pulls in the recurring theory that the remaining Avengers will travel through time to key points in order to grab the Infinity Stones for themselves.
However, one of these journeys will require Tony to make a horrifying decision that he will have to live with for the rest of his life.
The theory says: “In order to retrieve the soul stone though, Tony is going to have to sacrifice something, the same way Thanos had to sacrifice Gamora.”
“But instead of sacrificing Pepper Potts, what if Tony instead has to go back in time to 1991 and infiltrate Hydra or seek out the Winter Soldier, and order the hit on his parents himself?
“Sacrificing the thing he loves most, to enable him to get the Soul stone to fight against Thanos, knowing all the while what it will cause in the future and all the anguish it will personally cause him along with the events of Civil War, breaking up the Avengers, and everything that happens after that.
“Or maybe Nick Fury back in 1991 tells Tony that he has to do this. It would be the hardest decision that any character has had to make in the entire MCU, and a decision that only Tony Stark himself could make, a burden that only he could bear, truly exemplifying him as “Iron” Man.”
“I don’t think its a coincidence, either, that Captain Marvel takes place in 1990 and Tony’s parents are killed in 1991. In fact, the actor who portrays Howard Stark in Civil War has already been reported to be returning to play Howard Stark in Avengers 4.”
The strength of this theory is that while creates a form of time loop, it does not alter events of the past, it simply means Tony will now always have the knowledge of what he did.
It seems that however dark the Marvel writers are prepared to go, some fans are ready to go a little step further.
AVENGERS 4 IS OUT ON APRIL 27, 2019
