History Headscratchers / AvengersInfinityWar

** It's still a regular public school (just with more Advanced Placement type classes) for (mostly) regular kids, not Film/SkyHigh2005. Hence, regular school buses. Or another way to look at it: it's ''a'' school for gifted youngsters, not ''the'' [[Franchise/XMen School For Gifted Youngsters.]]

** You don't need two surgeon to cut at the same time. Plus even if Bruce knows how he made Vision doesn't mean he knows how to use Wakanda tech for it.

** It's more that Corvus have really inconsistent strength, like one second he is locking blade with Wakandian soldiers and two second later he can take a full on speed tackle of Vision. Even wounded Vision should have been able to hold him down with super strength alone but suddenly Corvus can wrestle with him like he was Captain's level of strength.

** At that point Thanos had the other five stones, it may well have not been possible to take over his mind (when he had four stones Mantis could do little more than somewhat incapacitate him). Plus Loki's mind control with the stone wasn't that strong, given all you had to do was knock the victim unconscious to break it. Further, in Civil War Vision relates to Wanda how little he understands the Mind Stone. He may well have actively avoided testing out if he could use any of its powers beyond utilizing excess energy to make an energy beam, fearful of just what might happen. Lastly, he spends most of the movie (including when Thanos appears before him) injured and pretty weak, he may not have been able to use the stone to effect someone's mind even if he wanted to.

** I interpret it more as Hulk being sick of fighting Banner's battles for him. As Banner admits in [[Film/AvengersEndgame Endgame]], he'd been treating Hulk like a "disease", usually trying to keep him from emerging, always being afraid of what happens if he does emerge. The animosity between Hulk and Banner really gets explored in Thor Ragnarok. After Thanos curb-stomped Hulk, Hulk reached his limit. For years he'd been coming at Banner's beck and call while being feared and despised at the same time, but at least he'd always gotten the satisfaction of being strongest. But to come at Banner's beck and call, being feared and despised, and then get curb-stomped by this Thanos guy - that was the last straw for Hulk. He wasn't going to come out again until he gets treated with more respect.

** Their position was already desperate. At no point did the defenders harbour the illusion that they could hold out indefinitely, it was always portrayed as them trying to buy as much time as they could and if the enemies breached the shield on the other side then they could not stop them from getting to vision.

** The outriders' numbers seemed to be infinite so things would have broken down into a melee battle anyway. Cull didn't infiltrate anything. He marched right in beside Proxima.

** The ''Age of Ultron'' Hulkbuster was part of the Veronica module, so Banner couldn't have worked on Veronica without working on that version of the Hulkbuster. He had to provide some personal insight on making it more effective. It would only make sense that if Banner had to borrow a suit of armor it'd be one that most directly mimics the Hulk's movements. Banner even comments on this. There was once a time where Rhodey would have been the only person Tony Stark would have trusted with his armor, but Banner's obviously someone Stark trusts now (he trusts him enough to go behind the rest of the team's back TWICE to create Ultron and later Vision), but he'd definitely trust his fellow science bro with his technology-- it's just Banner never needed it to be effective in a fight before Thanos scared Hulk into not wanting to come out.

** Also, Tony might've given Rhodes access.
** This. Tony and Rhodes were pro-registration, and so was (by implication) General Ross. Since Hulkbuster was public knowledge after Age of Ultron, and Bruce by his own admission wrecked Harlem, it's not unlikely that Ross petitioned to have Hulkbuster be recommissioned and on standby for emergencies.

** I can't remember Thors exact phrasing but the way he said it made it seem like he really DID hear about it from some kind of Galactic News Network or something similar, as he says that Thanos got the Power Stone after attacking Xandar a week prior.

** It's a Hattori Hanzo glaive.
** Thanos might have commissioned other weapons from Eitri. Overwhelming one infinity stone seems like something Thanos' Children are trained for.

** In Spidey’s case, he may not have access to Karen right now. ‘’Homecoming’’ was a bit of a lesson to him about hacking his suit before he had learned how to use all of its abilities properly. Maybe Tony downgraded the suit before returning it to Peter, and that included removing Karen.

** Tony is a business man and announcing a "new member" to the Avengers would be a good propaganda story to convince the people that the Avengers are still effective and viable after half the team quit. In his mind, though, he would realize that even with Spiderman, the current set of Avengers wouldn't be enough if another New York like disaster occurred. Plus, Tony "Knights" Peter as a member in this film. People probably don't realize that Spiderman is 16 years old. It's actually kind of FridgeBrilliance because of this, because while the people considers Spiderman a new Avenger, Tony doesn't because he doesn't want to put a kid in danger again after the Civil War.

** The Age of Ultron stinger could have chronologically taken place much later than the events of AoU itself.

** MCU Thanos doesn't kill unless it's really necessary. He likely wanted everyone given a fair chance with the snap. IMO the more appropriate situation to ask this would be when Ronan did that against the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Guardians]] in his ship.

** In ''https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'', Nebula states that the Guardians bought Knowhere from the Collector, so presumably he's alive and well somewhere, probably living at one of his many repositories strewn throughout the galaxy.

* So, when Vision uses the Time Stone to reassemble the Mind Stone and bring Vision back, Wanda moves to attack him, only to be swatted aside. Why doesn't she use her powers? She just destroyed the Mind Stone with one hand and hold off Thanos with the other. Why not immediately use her powers again to attack Thanos to keep him from killing Vision in a far more brutal way?

** You can probably control whether you want to focus the time manipulation on a single person/object or an entire area. When Strange used the Time Stone for the first time on the apple, he also didn't affect anything else.
** The other stones probably helped too. Thanos would want to make sure that he doesn't put Scarlet Witch in a position to get the upper hand again. The space or reality stone could probably stop everything else from being rewound.
** You can see Thanos "drop an anchor" on the spot that Vision died so that the use of the stone only affected him.

** And presumably the Guardians still had the Milano stashed somewhere nearby. Unless they walked from [[IncrediblyLamePun the middle of Knowhere]].

* Question is not about motivation but about method. Why the hell didn't he use projections to maneuver behind Thanos if he really wanted to get the upper hand? Or better yet, instead of even bothering to fight Thanos (the guy Loki worked for, saw beat the shit our of Thor and Hulk and thus must of known would kill him) why didn't Loki actually pledge his allegiance to Thanos, go to Earth with the Children of Thanos, and be a ReverseMole. There are likely dozens of ways he could have been useful on Earth. Heck at the very least he could have snuck additional intel to someone, having worked for Thanos, if absolutely nothing else. A very obvious lie followed by a thrust of what must be the weakest weapon in the movie seem like a complete waste of the god of trickery's talents.
** Loki probably knew that even if he decided to play ReverseMole, by the time Thanos acquired the Mind Stone or the Soul Stone, their powers could've revealed his treachery, and at that point Thanos would be too powerful for Loki to escape his retribution. So it's quite possible that Loki realised the only time he could pull a trick on Thanos was ''now'', when he only possessed one Stone, and he decided to fake his death there and then. But Loki must've also figured out that if he did a straightforward attack against and let Thanos "kill" him, Thanos would figure out it wasn't something that a trickster like Loki would do, and he'd realise Loki was playing possum. So pulling a seemingly Loki-like scheme (pretending to be on Thanos's side, then attacking) made it possible to fool Thanos into thinking he had really killed Loki.

** I interpret it more as Hulk being sick of fighting Banner's battles for him. As Banner admits in Endgame, he'd been treating Hulk like a "disease", usually trying to keep him from emerging, always being afraid of what happens if he does emerge. The animosity between Hulk and Banner really gets explored in Thor Ragnarok. After Thanos curb-stomped Hulk, Hulk reached his limit. For years he'd been coming at Banner's beck and call while being feared and despised at the same time, but at least he'd always gotten the satisfaction of being strongest. But to come at Banner's beck and call, being feared and despised, and then get curb-stomped by this Thanos guy - that was the last straw for Hulk. He wasn't going to come out again until he gets treated with more respect.