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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
No reason he wouldn't. Thanos was only there for the Gem.
There's a certain rule about characters whose deaths cannot be confirmed. When nobody even so much as suggests that the character is dead in the first place, it's pretty much a guarantee. No one ever dies offscreen without leaving a visible corpse.
That's not necessarily true. Thor's Stormbreaker overpowers the Infinity Gauntlet at the end of Infinity War. Thor throws the axe, Thanos blasts it with a beam from the Gauntlet, and the axe cleaves its way through the beam and hits him in the chest.
Thanos was still able to pull together a win out of Thor's egotism, but the precedent is set. Thor "made God bleed", so to speak.
...it just occurred to me that "All of that for a drop of blood" might be a really clever reference to that speech from Iron Man 2.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Edited by alliterator on Sep 28th 2018 at 3:31:23 AM
He just killed them. If he changed realities, no one who remained would remember them.
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Reality too. Malekith fires off smoky red energy beams at Thor several times after absorbing the Aether.
I was under the impression all six Stones were being used for that Infinity Kamehameha (At the very least, the close-up shot of him firing it shows the Reality and Soul Stones contributing, the others are all off-camera), which makes it all the more impressive that Stormbreaker just plowed through it without even slowing down.
Either way, Thanos with the full gauntlet is not nearly as overpowered as the comics version. Not only the Stormbreaker scene, but also the fact that he explicitly needs to clench his fist to make use of the Stones, a weakness that they exploit several times in the fight on Titan; if something is physically impeding him from closing his hand, he's effectively down to zero Infinity Stones all over again until he removes said impediment.
I don't think stopping Thanos will be as simple as just steamrolling him with combined hero might like they did Ultron, but I do suspect that we'll get a fairer fight than anticipated.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Sep 28th 2018 at 6:50:58 AM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Hulk want hug kittens
But they so easy to squish
Hulk live in cruel world...
Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 28th 2018 at 6:54:17 AM
"I hope everyone but Steve and Tony dies just spite people!
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THAT IS THE SPIRIT!(stone)
But something that I want is tony finally retiring for reals, why? because I will love the idea of a hero retiring, not dying, not this "eternally questing" just....he got to be happy, that it.
so far only batman did it in rise, is time for marvel to do it too.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I figure Tony will die if Downey Jr's contract really is through. The issue with keeping around a retired Tony is that he's still within his physical prime, still has plenty of suit-making ability, and every future crisis in the MCU would have people wondering why Tony isn't getting off his couch or simply sending a remote controlled armor to help out.
The knowledge that, even though it was fixed, it still happened? I mean, yes, obviously, everything is going to go back to normal, but that doesn't mean what happened didn't happen, only that they were able to (probably barely) reverse it.
If everyone's memories of the Snap were erased, I could understand him ignoring it. But if he remembers the Snap and everything that happened, it should have an enormous effect on his psyche. His PTSD should come back with a vengeance.
Edited by alliterator on Sep 28th 2018 at 9:16:29 AM
If anything, that tragedy validated his entire reason for being an Avenger. He’s always justified his obsessions with “someday, something horrible is going to happen! You’ll all see!”
And then something horrible did happen, and it turns out the world didn’t do enough. If and when his gets resolved, by all means he’d be twice as spurred to build bigger and better shields around everything, because he was proven absolutely right in his paranoia.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 28th 2018 at 9:17:10 AM
I kind of want to see a scene of Tony showing up drunk to Aunt May's apartment and telling her he tried everything and he's so sorry and when Pepper comes to apologize, May tells her that's it's no problem, he does this every week.
You know, I kind of just want to explore a world where half the population just died and the other half has to learn to live with it. I kind of wish AOS was doing that instead of having their next season be set after A4.
Edited by alliterator on Sep 28th 2018 at 9:20:33 AM
He might lose an arm... or a leg... or both.
Nah then he'd just go Fullmetal on us.
Edited by LordVatek on Sep 28th 2018 at 12:34:08 PM
This song needs more love.I reiterate: kill every single classic line-up Avenger except Thor, who lingers around as the Odin of new Asgard, and maybe War Machine who lingers as the next generation's Nick Fury figure.
I want Steve, Stark, Bruce, Clint, Natasha, Nick all dead.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Tony Stark's "powerset" makes it so that injury or age aren't really valid excuses for him to stay out of the fight; the Iron Man armor is easy enough to pilot that Rhodes can still fly one despite being a late-middle-aged paraplegic and he's not nearly as paranoid or obsessive as Stark.
I don't think anything short of death will stop him from suiting up. Even if he's a limbless, comatose vegetable in a hospital bed for the rest of his life he'd probably find some way to have a brain chip implanted so he can remotely pilot a suit and send it after whatever bad guy of the day has irked him.
On that note, Thanos's 1-on-1 with Stark at the climax of the battle on Titan is kinda funny in retrospect. The final, most prominent obstacle Thanos faces to get the Time Stone in a cosmic battle for the fate of the universe, whom even Thanos has to show some respect and admiration for, isn't some appointed master of the mystic arts, a god of thunder, a synthetic paragon being fueled by an Infinity Stone, or a band of warriors devoted to protecting the cosmos from threats like him.
It's just some random corporate CEO dude with anxiety issues.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Sep 28th 2018 at 1:17:57 PM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

I think Thor's going to get the Soul Stone and try to resurrect the dead Asgardians — hence their souls being reincarnated, so we can finally get Kid Loki. (Look, I just really want Kid Loki, okay?) Reincarnation also means that they don't need to get the same actors for the characters.
Edited by alliterator on Sep 28th 2018 at 3:21:28 AM