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Obviously. The Avengers battle is meant to seem hopeless until the heroes pull out a last second win. The Infinity War battle is meant to seem hopeful until the villain pulls out a last second win. Because it's no fun to watch if the winning team is ahead by five touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
Well, Civil War doesn't do that. It really depends on the scope of the film. For world-shattering conflicts, you expect big battles. For personal conflicts, you expect smaller fights.
Edited by Fighteer on Jan 3rd 2019 at 9:21:54 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Infinity War, to be fair, started Marvel really understanding (and having the budget to adequately portray, to be fairer) that a key way to make an extended fight against a single (or few) opponent interesting is to make their abilities very unorthodox and different.
Everyone vs Thanos was awesome in large part for how many strange and epic avenues Thanos took when using the power at his disposal. Ebony Maw vs Strange, Tony and Peter is my favorite fight in the series because it shows how fun and action packed a fight against a power as versatile as telekinesis can be.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jan 3rd 2019 at 6:23:54 AM
Also, Thanos threw a moon at them.
It's empty spectacle, but what a spectacle!
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 3rd 2019 at 8:44:59 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I prefer even battles between two groups of elite fighters over mass battles with hordes of mooks. Battles are more interesting when the two sides are evenly matched and there's some give and take on both sides. The airport battle is one of, if not the best, battles in the MCU, and I'd love to see more variations on the concept.
The Avengers vs a team of supervillains would be amazing to see.
He broke the moon up into a meteor shower before throwing it, he didn't throw the whole thing at once.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jan 3rd 2019 at 8:45:35 AM
I should note, musing on it, that it's not entirely empty spectacle. It does serve a valuable function: finally strutting the Power Gem's stuff. We've been told over and over that the Power Gem has the power to annihilate worlds, but outside of that one flashback with the Celestial, we've never seen it.
For obvious reasons.
A moon isn't a planet, but it's still nice to finally get that demonstration of just how devastating the Power Gem can be, rather than simply being informed that it is.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 3rd 2019 at 8:46:00 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.So I was overthinking the Snap and I realized that it's actually a nigh perfect combination of the Infinity Stones' powers:
1) Reality Stone — the lynchpin of it all. It's what turns people into dust.
2) Power Stone — Amplifies the Reality Stone's output so it can affect trillions no matter how powerful they are.
3) Space Stone — Sends out the Reality Stone's effect so that it hits anyone anywhere in the entire universe.
4) Mind Stone — Acts as a sort of AI programmed to remove only half of all sentient life.
5) Soul Stone — Detects every living thing with a soul and marks them as a potential victim to the Mind Stone.
6) Time Stone — Ensures that the normally temporary effect of the Reality Stone is permanent. Also warps time so that the effect of the Snap hits all of its targets at more or less the same time.
Edited by M84 on Jan 4th 2019 at 12:03:16 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedHeh. Just watched Tony do his first bit of Superheroing in Gulmira.
Just over ten years later, and it's still pretty iconic. I'm still wondering how he made the armour tough enough to tank...tank shells though. It's a miracle he took that hit and the fall.
One Strip! One Strip!Re: Tony repeating the process of making an AI. Bare in mind that Tony had created sentient A.I.s before and after Ultron that did not try to commit genocide. It's not unreasonable to think he could make Vision without any bad side effects.
1) Reality Stone — the lynchpin of it all. It's what turns people into dust.
2) Power Stone — Amplifies the Reality Stone's output so it can affect trillions no matter how powerful they are.
3) Space Stone — Sends out the Reality Stone's effect so that it hits anyone anywhere in the entire universe.
4) Mind Stone — Acts as a sort of AI programmed to remove only half of all sentient life.
5) Soul Stone — Detects every living thing with a soul and marks them as a potential victim to the Mind Stone.
6) Time Stone — Ensures that the normally temporary effect of the Reality Stone is permanent. Also warps time so that the effect of the Snap hits all of its targets at more or less the same time.
That's a really good analysis.
With or without the complete Gauntlet?
Without the Gauntlet he'd probably hold his own against Ego and Hela for a while (assuming Hela isn't juiced up on Asgard) but lose in the end. He did have a reputation as the most powerful being in the universe even before he had an Infinity Stone, true, but most of the universe didn't know Ego or Hela existed. Baseline MCU Thanos is probably "just" at Hulk's level (though he has an advantage since he's a better brawler).
With the full Gauntlet? Not even a challenge. I doubt either Ego or Hela are on the same level as, say, Thor wielding Stormbreaker (considering Stormbreaker unlike Mjolnir was forged to amplify Thor's power rather than restrain it).
Edited by M84 on Jan 4th 2019 at 5:59:20 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI wonder how Thanos would fare against the other biggest MCU villains: Ego and Hel
> Hel would probably end up submitting while Ego being a celestial would probably put up more of a fight,of course Ego being a living planet means they're not really on the same level
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I'd really like an Avengers movie not to come down to "heroes vs army" at some point.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jan 3rd 2019 at 6:23:30 AM