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The most oft-cited case of ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy In the Original Trilogy is the Death Star from \'\'Film/ANewHope\'\'. In the film has not one but two scenes that explains that the real reason was the villains let the heroes escape. However Pablo Hidago instead explains that Stormtroopers don\'t have the same level of training across the board so the Stormtroopers on the Death Star weren\'t as well trained as say the 501st Legion (Vader\'s personal unit that boards the Tantive IV at the beginning of the film.) The reason I consider this a VoodooShark is that not only did we already have the explanation they were allowed to escape, but like a VoodooShark it raises more questions. Not only does it raise the question \'\'why\'\' is stormtrooper training inconsistent to begin with, (while most writers tend to forget it they are supposed to the EliteMooks in the Galactic Empire) and why such poorly trained troops were given such a sensitive posting but there is also the fact the Stormtroopers on [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Cloud City]] were part of the 501st and they missed as often as the Stormtroopers on the Death Star.

There are too many 'what-ifs' for the theory that Strange knows what he's doing to be confirmed. Why is that, in all of the 14 million-ish possible futures, only one of them has the heroes winning? And if that future could only be possible by letting Thanos wins first and wipes out half the universe first, aren't there any other similar futures with heroes winning as well? Or even futures where even after the wipe-out, Thanos still comes out on top again later no matter what the remaining heroes do? Why can there be only one scenario where the good guys win? We don't even know how far Strange sees into the future. Does he saw future beyond his own disappearance? If he does, why couldn't he use the Time Stone to trap Thanos in a loop in such a way as how he defeated Dormammu?