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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Also, goddamn, Captain Marvel trailer looking awesome.
I don't think it's automatically a bad decision for Thor to try and go kick Thanos's ass. The Infinity Gauntlet is toast and Stormbreaker >>> Infinity Gauntlet.
My various fanfics.Word of God is that the official trailers will not show any footage past the first act, or the first twenty minutes, I forget which. So if Thor is indeed going after Thanos in that scene, it's early and he obviously doesn't win at that point.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I recall the writers saying at a Q & A that Stormbreaker isn't necessarily stronger than the Infinity Gauntlet; it's more Thanos had only seconds to react and thus his attack was unfocused.
I thought they said that the Infinity Gauntlet was specifically designed to have a weakness in Stormbreaker, much like how the portal machine in Avengers was weak to the Spear as a failsafe.
That is not weird, that is your standar alien invasion but with hero stoping, that is pretty much the end of indepence day(which is why I found emerich dislike of marvel hilarious, the avenger pretty much end with the same thing as is movie).
super duper weird entities like marvel have? waaaaaay diferent ballpark.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I don’t think Thanos is going be the primary and/or sole antagonist of this one. Something’s going to shake things up, such that beating Thanos is still the primary objective but there’s something different than last time carrying the plot.
Kind of like how The Emperor is the Big Bad of the first two Star Wars trilogies, and has major or minor roles in all but one of them, but only has primary villain status in like two of them.
Funnily enough, some have strategize there'll be a bad guy even bigger than Thanos. We got:
- Dormammu: Recently brought up, but makes a lot of sense considering he's big and powerful enough to kill Thanos like the space cockroach he is, not to mention Dormammu has his own dimension ergo he was spared from the Snap of Judgment:
- Annihilus: Epic, but vastly unlikely since that Disney/Fox deal isn't getting finalized until June.
- The Annihilation Wave: Associated with Annihilus, but they could always snip out that association.
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A long time ago, I theorized that Strange gave Thanos the Soul Stone and ensured the latter's victory because Strange figured there might be something or someone worse than Thanos who would have dealt more damage had he, Stark, Peter, and the Guardians kept fighting Thanos, and that it would have involved the Infinity Stones.
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Annihilus and/or the Wave are both almost certainly not happening, because of the deal, but I've heard that theory and there might be some merit to it.
Maybe not the Annihilation Wave itself, but some horrible threat is destroying what's left of the universe, unstopped because the Snap has left everyone too weak to fight it. So they have to undo what happened before everything is lost.
Then, after they undo it, they await the threat again: and BAM! - we have the plot to the next Avengers movie after Endgame.
But if not that, I also think they might adapt the "Nebula gets the Gauntlet, but that turns out not to be a good thing" bit from the comics. My take is that they would composite it with House Of M, with Nebula as Scarlet Witch, and thus make her a lot more sympathetic than she was in the original Infinity Gauntlet story.
It's looking more likely, too, because the characters being frayed and traumatized by Infinity War seems to be an actual plot point in Endgame - Nebula getting the Gauntlet and wanting desperately to fix everything, but being compromised by her terrible past and the fact that she's Not So Stoic about what happened against Thanos, and thus altering reality in ways that only make things worse, would definitely work as a plot.
Honestly, after that trailer I'm expecting the heroes to split and someone to have a breakdown like that, going antagonist for a while. It seems that the first trailer portraying Scott as the only bright thing about the current reality was right on the money.
Considering they mentioned Iron Man and the Guardians fighting against Thanos with Doctor Strange, that's unlikely.
Edit: On a second watch, trailer 2 does have them fighting together, but still, giving Thanos an Infinity stone and letting him win is unlikely without actually seeing the movie.
Edit 2: Also not mentioning the Time stone unless they somehow assume that Thanos have already taken it and then Dr Strange decides to give the Soul stone as well.
Edited by Ikedatakeshi on Feb 5th 2019 at 4:13:31 AM

Well, in the Endgame TV spot, we saw a bit with Thor on Thanos' farm. Don't know how that's going to go. Maybe Thor goes rogue to confront Thanos on his own?