If the opposite people had been snapped, how do you envision things would have gone?

As the title says. We already know the story as it went in Infinity War/Endgame with the characters we know who have been snapped/blipped and those who stayed, and (apologies if it's already been posted before) I've always tried to imagine how things would have gone if the roles had reversed.

Whether Thanos disappears or not depends on whether you believe he was a hypocrite excluding himself from the "half the universe" statement to stick around after snapping, or was fully willing to also vanish on his own afterwards. We're obviously never going to get a film exploring that (though if What If? ever does, it will be very interesting), so we can let theories run wild.

So, Loki dead, Gamora dead, Vision dead, that's the constants, but the original 6, Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, Rocket, Nebula are gone, and (non-exhaustive list) Fury, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, most of the Guardians, Spidey, much of Ant-Man's group, etc. sticking around.

My personal theory is that since it would mean a lot of big hitters are still around, Thanos (being a hypocrite keeping himself alive as a guarantee) would be in even more of a hurry to destroy the Stones, and would again manage to do so. In fact, I kinda like to imagine things going roughly the same way, except with Hank Pym figuring out shrinking-based time travel a little faster, maybe even with help from Peter Parker. Barring the Guardians, a lot of remaining folks have very little links between each other which would make it difficult to form a "team".

For some reason I want to imagine the Time Heist happening as well with roles swapped (Strange meeting the Ancient One to get the Time Stone and her going, "what are you doing here? You're years too early!", a few non-Asgardians going to Asgard, or maybe have Quill tasked with hunting himself down for the Power Stone since this time we'd be missing that "Cap VS Cap" moment from Endgame). As for the rest... Who knows, that's why I'm throwing the idea here. These theories could also explore avenues deeper than just the characters' interactions up to IW/Endgame, like greater implications about the universe. Really looking forward to what you can come up with.

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