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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It only makes Thanos an idiot if he didn't want to cave in Loki's face to retrieve it.
Now he'll just have to cave in robot face instead but he can swing by and punch Loki on his way to getting the Tesseract.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThat the Mind Gem was encapsulated in an AI capable of continuing to do Thanos's work even if Loki fell and potentially overwhelming Loki in the event of betrayal mitigates Thanos's foolishness in giving it away.
But there's still the issue of why he wouldn't come himself. He doesn't seem like an especially busy guy.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Why not? Who would Thanos be so threatened by that he wants to mask his involvement? Nobody on Earth even knows he exists.
Had the invasion on Earth gone off without a hitch, there wouldn't be a "right away" because there wouldn't be sequels. It would be
- Thanos reveals himself.
- Thanos wins.
- That's the end of the story. Hooray, Thanos!
Of course, the consequences for failing would be more dire for Thanos, but neither he nor Loki had any impression that Earth would be anything more than an effortless streamroll.
- THE OTHER: Against the meager might of Earth?
- LOKI: Glorious, not lengthy.
edited 28th Feb '16 9:46:06 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The Ronan stuff makes me believe he has multiple things going on at a time and delegation is important.
We've only seen two of those things but he had to get the gauntlet at some point and groom allies not to mention pine at that mysterious cloaked woman.
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Nobody on Earth knows who Thanos is, but as of the first Thor, there's more places interested in Earth's well-being than just Earth itself.
Presumably Thanos wanted Loki as a figurehead/scapegoat in case the invasion plan failed. No reason to have Asgard all up in your business if you can throw someone from there under the bus to make it look like its their problem.
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edited 28th Feb '16 10:47:49 AM by LordofLore
Guardians makes it clear that everybody who's anybody knows who Thanos is already, and already knows he's bad news. Presumably he's tried something like this already..
The only reason I can think of him not just doing it himself is that maybe he doesn't want it to turn it a confrontation yet. An exiled Asgardian trying to turn galactic warlord, a Kree fanatic out to wipe out his people's enemies, and a human invention going haywire and leading to the species' extinction (presumably his plan was to show up, crush Ultron and take the Gem once Ultron had finished softening up and/or killing humanity) are all unfortunate events, but they're also all isolated incidents that aren't traceable back to him just yet.
Presumably not wanting to tip his hand before he's got the Gauntlet. Thanos probably has a bad enough reputation that if there was credible news he was up to something, pretty much every power in the galaxy would call ceasefire on each other until he's dealt with. And between them, probably at high cost, could actually stop him.
Thanos with Gauntlet? Let them come. He'll win anyway.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."I like the interpretation that Thanos is also something of a Retired Badass, and is just too old to deal with this shit directly, so prefers to relegate tasks to his enforcers until something catches his attention. When something does, however, well, then it's time to put some energy into these ol' bones and show them how mad this titan can be.
Granted I'm fairly sure this started as a joke but now I'm legitimately amused by the interpretation of Thanos as a grizzled veteran.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."In the comics he pretty much is. He only really became a big time Avengers villain after his own archenemies had all died(Mar-Vell) or disappeared(Warlock). The original Infinity Gauntlet story was pretty much his big shot at getting Mistress Death's favor that he ruined by being an idiot with the Gauntlet and due to Warlock coming back with a team. He even spends part of it going "I miss Mar-Vell. He would've at least put up a good fight." and trash talking the first Quasar for thinking he could take Mar-Vell's place as protector of the galaxy.
edited 28th Feb '16 11:53:15 AM by LordofLore
How powerful is Thanos? Does he just poke somebody in the eye and they fall down or can any one of the Avengers go toe-to-toe with him for an extended amount of time?
As far as I know Thanos, he's generally portrayed as outclassing more or less everyone in the group with a few exceptions: Hulk can probably give him a run for his money, and Thor at his finest might beat him.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."As far as I can tell, Thanos beats up everyone who isn't some force of nature Cosmic Entity with just his own power. Even heroes like Hulk and Thor and the Silver Surfer will get their ass beat by him, although they usually don't immediately get stomped on, for all the good that does.
Like, anything above him is basically major Eldritch Abomination stuff, so he's basically the final boss of Marvel for human-like bad guys.
edited 28th Feb '16 1:29:52 PM by Ekuran

The Russos from Wizard World
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"We have to tell a story and that story has to be built around the characters' emotional arcs," Joe Russo said. "And we can only have so many of those [in Infinity War]."