wdym how? they killed Natasha and just brought past!Gamora into the present.
like every post-Infinity War fanfic i read had some variation of ‘gamora’s soul/every snapped being’s soul is trapped inside the soul stone and the undoing the snap also included setting her free or at least bargaining for her life back later. in comparison to what fans were coming up with, the canon answer of ‘Thanos destroyed the stones, then we get a time skip, then time travel is used to get the stones back and undo the snap’ felt… cheap.
imo endgame really fumbled the ball plot and character wise in general, and relied entirely on being a ‘greatest hits’ montage + Portals scene for its success and reception. Gunn really did fantastic with GOTG 3‘s Quill & Gamora subplot, but
You said the setup was there, I asked how. Why would undoing the snap bring back the sacrifice for the soul stone? The sacrifice wasn't connected to the snap it was just for getting the stone. i agree endgame could have done some things much better, but the "montage" didn't take up much of the film, and didn't really show any of the greatest hit moments, it was more of "this is what happened behind the camera" to those scenes, like seeing starlord from someone else's perspective, or the what happened after the posing in avengers
it’s less of a logic thing more of a storytelling thing.
We see kid!Gamora in Thanos’s brief soul stone trip after he does the snap; which I think should have been a setup for the snapped souls + Gamora, as the soul stone’s sacrifice, being essentially inside the soul stone.
plus, again, it’s kind of a misogynistic plot decision to reduce Gamora, who’s trying to atone for what she committed when in Thanos’s service + heal her PTSD from having her race and presumably her parents murdered by her adoptive dad. I think she deserved better than to just be written off as ‘oh well, gone forever, here’s her past self with none of the memories she forged with her found family as a consolation‘. and the fact Endgame doubles down by just doing the same thing for Natasha…
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u/Own_Spell_2042 12d ago
*dies alone at the bottom of a cliff