'Avengers: Infinity War’ Theory Tracker: A Running List of MCU Possibilities part-1

It has been almost two weeks since Avengers: Infinity War hit theaters, Hulk-smashed box office records, re-shuffled the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)—while still keeping everything the same—and generally delighted audiences. With enough time to digest the ambitious epicness of it all, we can now begin to look forward to what’s next.
Before we get to the still untitled Avengers 4 next year, Marvel fans have Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel to come, both of which may play an important role in shaping the MCU moving forward. After Avengers 4, all bets are off.
So with so much fumbling around in the dark going on among fans and critics, we thought we’d compile all of the major Avengers: Infinity War and beyond theories in one convenient place.
You can thank us later.
So without further ado, here are the Thanos-sized theories floating around the MCU in order from least likely to most likely.

The Iron Man-Sorcerer Supreme Theory

Credit to ScreenRant for this one, that completely shoves Wong to the side in favor of Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark/Iron Man temporarily becoming the next Sorcerer Supreme.
Stark has the vast intellect it takes to master the mystic arts and has now been introduced to the idea of sorcery and alternate realities after meeting Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange and witnessing him view more than 14 million possible simulations of their conflict with Thanos. We still don’t know exactly where Strange’s cape of levitation is, so it’s possible that Stark finds it and begins to dive into the world of magic.
He is, after all, an ego-maniacal futurist who attempts to solve problems with grand and elaborate solutions without considering the repercussions.

The Vision Resurrection Theory

According to Nerdist, it’s possible that Paul Bettany’s Vision could be resurrected thanks to Letitia Wright’s Shuri. As we saw in the movie, poor Vision was killed not once but twice (it took at least two deaths to kill off the bad taste of his languid romance with Scarlet Witch).
However, it’s possible that Shuri was able to make a copy of the Mind Stone before all hell broke loose. Or, at the very least, downloaded enough of Vision so that she could reboot him without the Stone later on. Resurrecting Vision could serve as one of many undoings of Thanos’ universal balancing act, bringing him back into the fold for Avengers 4.

The Quantum Realm Theory

SlashFilm goes deep into this theory, which suggests that Ant-Man and the Wasp will return us to the Quantum Realm, briefly seen in the original Ant-Man, where time and space do not operate by conventional laws. The two characters will go in search of Michelle Pfeiffer’s Janet van Dyne (Hope’s mother), who became trapped there years ago.

The theory goes that these heroes will emerge from the Quantum Realm at the conclusion of Infinity War and find themselves in an altered reality in which the vanished heroes have been forgotten, or never existed in the first place. As the only ones with memories of the “prime” timeline, they’ll have to mess around with the wonky aspects of the Quantim Realm to re-set reality.

The discovery of doorways to alternatie universes within the realm—which could conceivably be housing Captain Marvel—would play a role in this.

Ant-Man and his team would provide the Avengers with the Quantum Realm technology so that they could enter alternate universes/timelines where certain events from the MCU have not yet taken place (more on this in a bit). This is one way they could intercept the Infinity Stones before Thanos gets his purple hands on them or create their own Infinity Gauntlet to battle him (more on this in a bit too). Avengers 4 has been rumored to be titled “Infinity Gauntlet.”

Trippy, we know.