[CaptainCrunch]

It would have been odd if they had taken Gordon out of the time line after he had his family.


The guy vanishes leaving behind a wife and kids, plus he ran a business, paid taxes and was part of society.


For all of their musings about damaging the time line, pulling Gordon out of it there would have probably meant that Gordon's son grows up hearing tales about his dad coming back in time, and then being abducted by Ed Mercer and the others, and might have gone out of his way to completely screw up the future. Stomp on every butterfly he could, punch out politically important figures and by the time Ed and Gordon got back instead of what they had, it would have been the mirror universe version with humanity being made up of insect killing grandma punching technologically regressed humans.