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Old 05-14-2019, 03:15 PM   #331
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Also, given how many big brains are in the group, someone should have clued into "oh hey, we can save Natasha the same way" at that point.
Doesn't work if you care about the people in alternate timelines.

As already explained, Gamorra isn't "saved". Thanos brought in a new Gamorra from a different timeline, essentially.

Could the Avengers do the same for Natasha? Yes, theoretically.

However, they'd have to get a pre-sacrifice Natasha from some other timeline, which would mean that
1) The Avengers in that alternate timeline would lose their Natasha, so it would just be transferring their sadness to themselves in another timeline.
2) In that alternate no-Natasha timeline someone else would have to sacrifice themself to get the Soul Stone, so the Avengers in that timeline would lose someone else on top of losing their Natasha. (...further, Natasha is pretty much the only one who has living close friends among the supers post-snap. Ant-Man lost Wasp, Rocket lost Groot, Starlord and Nebula lost Gamorra, Cap lost Bucky, Wanda lost Vision... )
3) According to Dr. Strange, what happened in Endgame was the only string of events that stops Thanos. So if they take away a Natasha from another timeline, they take away that timelines possibility to do the un-snapping.

Bonus: Natasha-from-other-timeline most likely would not approve being kidnapped from her own timeline, especially after someone explains to her that without her someone else and possibly the whole universe will die in that timeline.

(Even further, while it's not explained why Hulk couldn't bring Natasha back when he did his anti-snap, there's a chance the Soul Stone won't allow anything that would undo the soul sacrifice it has been given. (Which I think is perfectly fair.) Even if nobody knows exactly whether this is the case (because nobody knows anything about the Soul Stone really), it's not a risk you want to take.)

By the way, I just realized that the Avengers of "our" timeline actually prevented the snap from ever happening in the timeline where new-Gamorra is from. After all, the Thanos from that timeline left before it happened and died in "ours". He even took his whole fleet with him.

Retroactive success!

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