New AVENGERS 4 Set Photos May Debunk Those Time Travel And Alternate Reality Theories

Over the past few months, a number of Avengers 4 set photos have popped up online indicating that we're getting time travel in the MCU. Well, it now looks like there's a far more simple explanation...

By JoshWilding - Jan 12, 2018 03:01 AM EST

Filed Under: Avengers: Endgame

We have no idea what to expect from Avengers 4 but set photos over the past few months have shown what appear to be flashbacks to the events of The Avengers. Among the moments we've seen covered are Loki's imprisonment and the battle against the Chitauri in New York City but while recent images pointed to time travel being involved, it's possible that there's actually a (sorta) simpler explanation.

As you may recall, Captain America: Civil War kicked off with a flashback to Tony Stark's past which we later learned was "Binary Augmented Retro Framing," a process which he explained could be used to revisit your past to get over old traumas (in Tony's case, that was the last time he saw his parents).

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Now, a new Avengers 4 set photo shows that that will be making a return in the sequel and many people now believe that these apparent flashbacks are actually Tony (and maybe a few other members of the team like Ant-Man) using that tech to revisit key moments in the past to find a way to defeat Thanos in the present. Then again, it's feasible that he's mixing science with magic - an Infinity Stone in this instance - to head back in time but the presence of BARF here is definitely very interesting.

Don't forget that Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are reteaming with the Russos for the third and fourth time, so a plot point like this being carried over makes perfect sense. Do you have any Avengers 4 theories? As always, be sure to let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

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L0RDbuckethead - 1/12/2018, 3:53 AM

First, on a Wilding article? Nice.

Gimme more B.A.R.F.

CaptainElrond - 1/12/2018, 3:58 AM

Biggest question is whether taskmaster appears.

Bokis - 1/12/2018, 4:00 AM

I really hate when movies introduce time travel because it just convoluted things so I would love if we could return to fan favorite moments with BARF instead!

Scarilian - 1/12/2018, 4:08 AM

The B.A.R.F image is nothing new.

This entire thing seems intentionally done to distract people, why have B.A.R.F written on a prop case - Marvel are aware people are monitoring them. This is either an intentional leak via them or simply a distraction used to make people believe that it's all leading on from the Civil War aspect.

B.A.R.F in Civil War was entirely to erase the painful memory of the Pepper Potts break-up, he could never bring himself to use it on himself to fix his memories of his parents.

bkmeijer2 - 1/12/2018, 4:18 AM

@Scarilian - Exactly my thoughts. Its so badly written on the case, it cant be real

Goldboink - 1/12/2018, 8:07 AM

@Scarilian - Conspiracy theories are nice but aside from working titles and such I don't think they have a department designed to provide misinformation just in case photo's leak of props. It is highly likely that Stark and Lang are in a BARF simulation trying to figure some stuff out. That doesn't mean there won't be time travel but maybe they are doing a dry run on time travel.

Doomsday8888 - 1/12/2018, 4:18 AM

Maaan that work on Young RDJ, shit, Hank too!

That CG was... on point!

CaptainElrond - 1/12/2018, 4:19 AM

So many peope saying barf.

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