This would have saved Natasha in the short term, but would ultimately lead to the TVA arriving shortly after.
While Black Widow ended up taking the fall in the final film, one alternate reality could have easily seen Hawkeye give his soul for a Soul (Stone). Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff went through an extensive tug-of-war in their individual attempts to sacrifice themselves. The other possibility is that the Soul Stone exchanges from Infinity War and Endgame went down slightly differently than fans saw in the films. Perhaps one timeline saw Johann Schmidt find a way to get to the Soul Stone, only for his dream to be nixed by the TVA's interference. The Red Skull revealed that he attempted to get his hands on the orange crystal, but would never be able to possess the treasure he sought.
The Soul Stone is the only mineral not locked up in a protective case but instead is trapped on Vormir. Stephen Strange saw 14,000,612 alternate futures in Avengers: Infinity War and while the mainline version of Strange opted to continue along the Sacred Timeline, at least five others may have thought that they could beat those odds. Those five would have certainly made the wrong choice though, leading to the one item that they were trying to protect ending up in the bottom of a TVA employee's desk drawer. He does have a simple, yet quite unbreakable, spell cast onto the necklace, but an experienced sorcerer like Kaecilius or Ebony Maw may have found a way to swipe the Stone from the Doctor in another reality.Īlternatively, perhaps Doctor Strange himself forced to pay a visit to the TVA. Though Strange's amulet is often kept shut tight, he does open it up on occasion to show off his prized possession. Wanda may have been able to use her magic to snag her husband’s heirloom back from Thanos in an alternate reality, stopping the Mad Titan from seeing destiny fulfilled but ending up with an appointment at the TVA. Vision carries the Mind Stone around with him for several MCU films, but it is only ever taken out of his cranium in Infinity War.
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T'Challa seems to have gone after the Orb in the brief amount of footage shown for What If.?, so perhaps his version of Star-Lord broke the Stone free before his branching path was reset by the TVA. Maybe another space-faring traveler happened upon the Power Stone before Star-Lord did, preventing Peter from ever reaching the Power Stone and forming the Guardians. One could also look all the way back to the opening of the film, where Peter Quill obtains the Orb in the first place. This may have left one or two of the group's members on their lonesome with the gem, resulting in the TVA confiscating their Stone and resetting their timeline. An alternate timeline might have seen several of the Guardians succumb to the Power Stone's power. The ragtag bunch of A-holes are the other party to have wielded the might of the Power Stone, with the power of friendship sparing them from a cruel fate.