Thread by @eavoss

Some more Sunday night TFATWS sleuthin'! Sharon Carter may be shady as hell, but she did NOT spend *several years* hidden in Madripoor building a criminal reputation. Endgame clearly showed her among the Blip victims. She was gone for 5 years, and since then, back for six months.

BUT... Sharon might not have *really* been gone, like Scott Lang, right? Nuh-uh. Scott was trapped *in another dimension*. If Sharon was hiding on Earth, the Avengers would have found her, like they found Hawkeye, or how poor Mr. Harrington eventually found his runaway wife.

But the CIA could have faked it, right? Nuh-uh. As shown by Tony and Rhodey blowing off Thaddeus Ross, and by Cap hiding Bucky in Wakanda, the Avengers' intelligence is wayyy more airtight than that of the US government.

But Sharon's "missing" photo doesn't have text underneath it on that screen, so she might not have really Blipped, right? Nuh-uh. In that angle of the screen, neither do Nick Fury or Maria Hill. Also, the angled corner of the projection didn't fill in that VFX detail.

But still, we didn't *see* Sharon Carter dust away, so can we really believe she did? YES. These screens also suggest to us that Erik Selvig, Jane Foster, and others Blipped. Are we to believe ALL of these were lies?

This is visual exposition. Not evidence of the opposite.

But Sharon said the Avengers abandoned her! I agree. Very weird. Cap totally would have contacted her while they were all on the run between Civil War and the Snap. Maybe Sam and Bucky were too busy over the past six months to contact her? I don't know. The line was odd.

But then how has Sharon amassed this wealth in six months? How is she so connected in Madripoor's criminal underworld, but had to pull a ton of strings to find Nagel, whom homeless Flag-Smashers were able to rip off? There must be a conspiracy!

...or, writing is hard.

But what if Sharon is working for Nick Fury... WHAT IF SHE'S A SKRULL?? Maybe! But her arc in TFATWS doesn't seem to be going in that direction. Would an alien shapeshifter bother dealing $$$ in stolen art, killing assassins in a shipyard... or just blend in, lay low, and report?

I still think Sharon Carter is super suspicious and there's more to her backstory. More involved with the Power Broker than she's letting on? Let's just not pretend other stuff in past movies didn't happen to fill what might just be re-edits or shifting narrative priorities.