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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I wonder when we’ll get someone mad at the avengers for letting Tony die instead of being mad at Tony specifically
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI know he cares about Tony like his second dad but that's a bit much. Nevertheless the premise sounds like it has a lot of potential as an excuse to Fan Wank why Carol couldn't have wielded the gauntlet herself, or to explore individual characters' emotional fallout over Tony's death.
Also, they weren't planning to use the Gauntlet. It was a last-ditch effort by Tony because Thanos was like a heartbeat away from getting it himself.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I've thought a lot about what would happen if anyone innately powered by an Infinite Stone - Vision, Wanda, Carol, anyone I've forgotten - tried to use the Gauntlet or the Stone that powered them.
Mostly because it a funny image, I decided that they would just explode immediately.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jan 31st 2020 at 10:14:34 AM
Here's an idea: one person uses the Infinity Gauntlet to grant another person super-duper-ultra durability, enough to let them use the Gauntlet with barely any damage. Then, before the person who just used the Gauntlet dies, the person they gave that stat boost picks up the Gauntlet and uses it to heal up that first Gauntlet user and give them a similar super-duper-ultra durability boost.
Boom, the horrible side-effects of the Gauntlet are negated.
But... the whole plot of Endgame is bringing people back who were killed by the Gauntlet. Unless you want to argue that they weren't really killed but disappeared.
I always assumed the idea was that Bruce couldn't bring Natasha back because she became part of the Soul Stone, or there was a greater cosmic ruling that made the soul-for-a-soul exchange permanent.
Apparently dusting people moved them to the recycle bin but did not then right click and select empty recycle bin.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe necessity of sacrificing a soul to gain the soul stone suggests that in some way dying in exchange for someone getting the stone equates to mega-ultra-super-dead. Thanos never seems to have even bothered trying to bring Gamora back and for the sacrifice to have worked he had to have had some sort of love for her... Though then again, that's not exactly out of character for him either.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."It makes sense to me. The Infinity Stones are mystical artifacts, and there's a long tradition of mystical stuff not letting you go back on a deal. If you traded the life of someone you loved to get the Soul Stone, then of course the Soul Stone's not going to let you renege.
Edited by RavenWilder on Feb 1st 2020 at 11:29:12 AM
Though if you return what you got in that trade (so the Soul Stone) you'd think you'd get back what you lost, but it seems there's a no refunds policy with the Soul Stone. Once you've got it, you can't get rid of it and can't undo what you did to get it.
One Strip! One Strip!Kang the Conqueror will be Morgan Stark
I got one better for you. Kang the Conqueror will be Tony Stark.
He's from the future where the Avengers didn't travel back in time. When Tony invented time travel, he created a new branch of the timeline where the Avengers traveled into the past to get the Infinity Gems, which is the timeline we know of now. But Kang is the Tony that Tony would have been if Tony didn't invent time travel and ultimately die.
Kang-Tony invented time travel to go back in time to stop Tony-Tony from inventing time travel and going back in time to save half of the world. He's mad at the Avengers for getting him killed and depriving him of growing up with his wife and daughter.
However, by inventing time travel, Kang created a new branch of the timeline. In the original timeline where Kang didn't invent time travel, Tony eventually got over it and realized that the heroic sacrifice he made for the Earth was the right thing to do.
To prevent his sacrifice for the world from being undone, Tony invented time travel to go back and combat Kang-Tony. Tony teams up with Tony to protect Tony's sacrifice from Tony.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 1st 2020 at 7:41:30 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The film will be the first MCU product to feature Robert Downey Jr. playing all of the important roles. The major characters are
- Tony Stark, played by RDJ
- Kang the Conqueror, played by RDJ
- Old Tony, played by RDJ
- Iron Lad, a young Tony who traveled forward in time, played by RDJ with CGI de-aging
- Pepper Potts, played by RDJ in a wig.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 1st 2020 at 8:10:26 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm sure Downey will sign on once he gets tired of pulling bagpipes out of dragon's anuses.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Feb 1st 2020 at 7:15:19 AM

The only person that gets credit for killing Tony Stark is Tony Stark, and the realization of that will be the driving motivation for villains for years to come.