And so is not destroying them. Kind of a Catch-22 isn't it?
Edited by Fighteer on Jun 29th 2018 at 8:08:45 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"There's a bit of Omniscient Morality License going on here. Strange couldn't do what you suggest because it would have led to a bad outcome. It just looks like he's doing something wrong (or not doing something he could do).
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"If he just handed over the Time Gem, Thanos might suspect a trap.
Others have noted that Thanos never uses the Reality Gem and it feels like he could have avoided the entire fight that way. Which, I think, is the same logic. Strange points out that his spell can't be removed by anyone but him; if Thanos just turned everyone to sand, that might still be true and then where would he be?
My interpretation is that both Strange and Thanos were playing the long game. Thanos was drawing out the fight to try and bait Strange into giving in and using the Time Gem. The moment the Eye of Agamotto opens, suddenly Strange would be teleported into a black hole or turned to salt or some shit and Thanos would claim the Gem.
Strange, meanwhile, was drawing out the fight to wait for an opportune moment to do it that wouldn't result in Thanos killing him or one of the others to get it. Strange had no desire to be teleported into a black hole or turned into a pillar of salt. He also didn't want Thanos going, "This was too easy. What's your game?"
So Thanos was trying to push them just hard enough that Strange thinks he can win and tries to activate the Time Gem but not so hard that Strange gives up and decides it's better if they all die here and Thanos just never breaks his spell. And Strange was looking for an opportune moment to surrender the Time Gem to Thanos while making it look like an act of desperation rather than subterfuge so that Thanos wouldn't question it. Neither of them was actually trying to win the fight.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 1st 2018 at 4:44:54 AM
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I can actually buy all of that.
I mean, we more or less know the Strange part is true, but the Thanos part is interesting and makes sense. As the one actively collecting the stones, he'd likely have some knowledge of their abilities (and maybe even how to counter them), so him playing it safe and trying to get Strange to give it to him could work.
One Strip! One Strip!Was there something special about the area that Heimdalll sent Thanos and Company to, cause it looked like a random section of space to me, but the way they put emphasis on what Heimdall did makes me think it was somewhere important.
One Strip! One Strip!I don't know... any random part of space will be so far away from anything that you might as well have vanished from existence.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I think Heimdall's remark was meant to satirize the whole "hide the thing where it will never be found" thing. In space, pretty much anywhere qualifies as that. There is nowhere in the universe more remote than any single point in space.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 27th 2018 at 7:50:59 AM
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about the probability of "flying through a star" or "getting too close to a supernova" if you took off at lightspeed (or any speed, really) in a random direction. The answer is that you could cross the visible universe and still have something like a one in ten billion billion chance of impacting a star-sized astronomical body.
Edited by Fighteer on Jul 27th 2018 at 4:19:49 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"This, incidentally, also applies to GALAXIES colliding. There is so much space between the stars, that the two galaxies will simply ghost through each other, with barely any major collisions happening. What actually disrupts them in that situation is gravitational pull.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesThe fan-written bits were kind of vanilla, but the actual ending wherein he saves the Villain Pub is just priceless.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"They missed an opportunity to point out that Deadpool wasn't the first superhero to travel back in time to save his love interest.

Destroying objects of power is usually a bad idea