Homelander: New Legacy

[62] : Journey to Kamar-Taj

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"It wasn't entirely a wasted trip," Strange remarked, pointing at the Time Stone Vision was carrying.

The green Time Stone floated from Vision's body to Strange's hand, and the Eye of Agamotto appeared, perfectly encasing the stone.

Roger felt a surge of frustration, had he and Vision, along with Wanda, just been couriers for the Time Stone all along?

After staring at Strange for a moment, Roger asked, "You're the one who's been safeguarding the Time Stone, right? Then why did you give it to Thanos?"

"No, technically I didn't give it to him. Thanos found it himself."

"But you didn't die. You should have stopped him."

Roger had always been puzzled by this point in the original story: how did Thanos manage to obtain the Time Stone? Whether Thanos sought out the zombified Strange to retrieve the stone or found it under tight security at Kamar-Taj, he would have realized Earth had been overrun by zombies.

If Thanos truly cared about the survival of the universe, once he detected the zombie outbreak on Earth, his most logical move would have been to destroy the planet from orbit and search for the stones in its debris. Yet, he hadn't done that. Instead, he chose to land directly in Wakanda, leading to his demise.

Of course, in the zombie universe, many illogical things happened. The writers of the What If...? series likely didn't overthink these details. Whether Thanos' actions made sense, or if the other characters behaved rationally, wasn't their concern, they just needed to tell their story.

But that was when What If...? was merely an animated series. Now that Roger had entered the What If...? universe, fiction had turned into reality, and Roger needed to understand the reasons behind all the apparent absurdities.

In the real world, no matter how illogical things seemed, there had to be a reason. If you traced the source, you'd find the motivations behind people's actions.

Roger was perplexed about why Strange handed the Time Stone to Thanos. After pondering for a moment, Strange replied, "At the time, the Time Stone wasn't in my possession as a soul."

Roger frowned. "What do you mean?"

"Well, it's complicated, but to put it simply, a soul cannot interfere with the physical world. You get what I mean?"

"So, you saw it happen but couldn't stop it...?"

"More or less."

Strange's answer was ambiguous. Roger pressed further, "I have another question. As the Sorcerer Supreme with the Time Stone, you should have foreseen this future, right? Why didn't you, "

"I can only see a limited future without using the Time Stone, and according to the original timeline, the world wouldn't have ended up like this. You're a traveler from a distant time and space; you know what I'm talking about."

"So, Earth being overrun by zombies wasn't part of the world's original trajectory?"

"It was merely one of countless tiny possibilities, something we never considered."

Strange's response was clear. Earth being overrun by zombies was indeed just one of countless tiny possibilities, something that wasn't supposed to happen. If it weren't for the Marvel writers' wild imagination, these worlds would never have existed.