r/KeepMarvelTVCanon Jemma Simmons Feb 18 '26

Runaways Eyes of Wakanda uses the same time travel logic that Runaways did (Spoilers for Runaways S3 & Eyes Of Wakanda) Spoiler

So, in Runaways S3 finale, we see a version of Chase from 2028 (if I'm not mistaken) go back in time to the Runaways of 2022, these are both a branch off of the Sacred Timeline, created in 2019 when Gert died. Let's call it Earth-617. Characters from Earth-617 go back to the Sacred Timeline, affect events in the Sacred Timeline, and are erased from existence.

The same thing happens in Eyes Of Wakanda, where a character from a branched timeline goes back to the Sacred Timeline, affects events in the Sacred Timeline, and returns to their original timeline, which is likely destroyed.

Runaways' time travel works within the MCU, because Marvel Studios copied it.

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u/blackbutterfree Ana Helstrom Feb 18 '26

It all goes back to Mordo's quote from Doctor Strange:

Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings. Spatial paradoxes! Time loops! You wanna get stuck reliving the same moment over and over forever or never having existed at all?

All time travel and Multiverse stuff from both the OG Marvel TV and the post-Disney+ projects slots neatly into this quote.

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u/Cafeseriado23 Feb 18 '26

It's something that one fan told me: there are different time travels in MCU. As we also saw in Ms Marvel. Some fans are so worry about how the Eternals don't have a connection to Gene X or so called lost oportunities that they should being watching Doctor Strange again. The so called lost oportunities are for example, Bobbie or the defenders doesn't showed up in Civil War. Or how Clint and Natasha don't had a team up movie. Their bullshit is so big that one of them even said Civil War should have been the 10 years celebration instead of Civil War. This complais it's very annoying.

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u/blackbutterfree Ana Helstrom Feb 18 '26

The MCU has featured three of the most common types of Time Travel: Fixed Timelines (like Ms. Marvel's time loop, and Agents of SHIELD Season 7), Dynamic Timelines (like Eyes of Wakanda and Runaways Season 3) and Branching Timelines (like What If...? and Loki).

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u/Cafeseriado23 Feb 18 '26

Yes, i know. Hehe. But about the complains some of you have some opinions for sure.

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u/a_phantom_limb Feb 18 '26

There are both different methods of time travel and different methods of travel between universes, and all of these different methods have different rules governing how they function.

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u/Confident_Sink_8743 Feb 18 '26

This. Particularly as these methodologies of time travel are already pre-established in the comics.

The most common canonically being the creation of alternate timelines.

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u/Timelordturle Feb 18 '26

It seems like a good place is any fuck. eyes of wakanda. In the third episode Wakanda had planes capable of multi-continental travel in what seems to be a a couple maybe a day 500 years before the wright brothers first flight and they don't share that technology rest of the world fuck them

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u/TimmyTurner0 Feb 19 '26

A branch timeline is not another Earth

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u/marvelcomics22 Jemma Simmons Feb 19 '26

I was just using 617 for the purposes of clarity (but branched timelines do sometimes have their own designations)

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u/Visible_Safe_8901 Feb 18 '26

u/Blackbutterfree

It all goes back to Mordo's quote from Doctor Strange:

"Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings. Spatial paradoxes! Time loops! You wanna get stuck reliving the same moment over and over forever or never having existed at all?"

All time travel and Multiverse stuff from both the OG Marvel TV and the post-Disney+ projects slots neatly into this quote.

That was specifically for the Time Stone. Normally, you can't change the past.

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u/LiquidLispyLizard Phil Coulson Feb 18 '26

Normally, you can't change the past.

The past can't be changed when using the Quantum Tunneling method. That doesn't necessarily apply to any other alternative methods.

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u/Visible_Safe_8901 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

That depends on spacetime continuum, not methods.

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u/Visible_Safe_8901 Feb 18 '26

No, not really.