Because of WandaVision I have questions and thoughts about the Blip.

 

Years after Avengers: Endgame brought a finale to the story arc of the Infinity Stones and Thanos, I have questions. I maybe should have thought of them back then, but I didn't. What brought them to mind was WandaVision and seeing Monica Rambeau (who had appeared in WandaVision's sitcom reality as "Geraldine") reformed out of ashes.

So my first question is: If you got blipped while you were on a plane, would you get blipped back into the middle of the sky and then fall to your death? So, thinking on that horror show...I must conclude that this is not the case. Rather, the Hulk's "snap" put everyone back safely. So Monica showing back up in a chair makes sense even if the chair she originally fell asleep in 5 years ago had been moved.

So these are complicated questions, obviously. And I shall never get a satisfactory answer to them. I mean...what if you were blipped in the middle of complex surgery? That would have to suck to suddenly be back without being sewn back up or if they were in the middle of removing something. Yikes.

I did find one reference online that said that Bruce Banner wished everyone back safely. However, my brain at this point, still wonders about collateral damage of people disappearing and then reappearing five years later. The consequences have to be huge, and I wonder how many stories you could tell dealing with those consequences before they got old.

The directors and writers have said that the Avengers had a lot of time to work out what it is they wanted: all of the people who got dusted by Thanos to return safely. This may be the equivalent of a fifteen page plan (or something similar) that includes enough food for those people to eat, and that they don't unblip in the same space as a thing occupying a space. There are those speculating too that maybe Banner's snap was to "implement the plan" that had been worked on and the Infinity Stones took it from there. They are unquestionably more than just magic objects. They define reality itself, so perhaps they have a kind of sentience to them.

Looking back on the whole Infinity Stones story arc, I will give the MCU credit for sticking with their whole "everyone is gone for five years" catastrophe. I thought they were going to cheese out an ending with a complete time reset and everyone would be hunky dory. But, they decided not to go that route, and to embrace all the consequences of "The Blip," and I guess we are just getting started on how these things will play out.