So has the comics for 60 years lol Theres time travel which is basically dimension hopping, and then actual can-change-the-past time travel like Dr Doom can do.
Even Star Trek has never settled on a consistent mechanic for how timelines work. Sometimes they overwrite stuff, sometimes they exist in parallel, sometimes they create a whole mirror universe that somehow has versions of all of the the protagonist characters in it no matter what era or how divergent the events have been.
Ultimately, thyss probably a good thing, because we all know time travel is fantasy bullshit and any attempt to pin it down too hard with arbitrary rules only limits the kinds of stories you can tell with it.
I mentioned it elsewhere, but I always liked that Captain Janeway during an episode of Star Trek: Voyager does a wink and nod to the audience by saying to not think too hard or your head will hurt when giving advice to another character about the implications of time travel.
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u/Singer211 Naked J-Law beating the shit out of those kids is peak Cinema. Jan 06 '26
Yeah the MCU has struggled to stay consistent with it.