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" At the dawn of the universe , there was nothing . Then … microphone boom . The large bang sent six elementary crystals cast across the virtuous universe . These Infinity Stones each control an essential aspect of existence . "
The Infinity Stones and Thanos ’s pursuit of them were a well - executed concept that drove the underlie story behind the first age of theMCU , now acknowledge asThe Infinity Saga . There aresix Infinity Stones : The Space Stone ( a.k.a The Tesseract ) , The Soul Stone , The Mind Stone , The Time Stone , The Power Stone , and The Reality Stone ( a.k.a The Aether ) . One Stone alone should be more than enough tycoon to make you unstoppable , yet paladin and villains throughout the saga systematically overtop the huge power at their disposal .
Ronan
TheGuardians of the Galaxymay have helped , but Ronan The Accuser was ultimately vote down easily because the film had such a lightheaded - hearted tone . The Collector explains and visually demonstrates how each Stone " can be used to mow down integral civilizations like straw in a field,“yet when Ronin maintain an Infinity Stone , he still fall back .
Dance off aside , he only utilise the unbelievable power at his fingertips to harmlessly shove people to the ground . The motion picture was a lot of fun , but Ronan barely registered as a villain .
Vision
It was sad to see Jarvis go , but it would be selfish to hold him back from quest for his destiny . He becameVision , and Paul Bettany get to show his face kind - of . He quickly proved to be one of the most powerful Avengers , if not THE most powerful , thanks to being the physical avatar of the Mind Stone . But he , along with Scarlett Witch , whom together give new meaning to the phrase ' power duet ' , rarely help out in engagement , or give us much of a demonstration as to what they ’re unfeignedly open of .
He has n’t really done anything nerveless since he come up Thor ’s pounding inAvengers : Age of Ultronand is frequently push to the sidelines , likely because he ’s too powerful for the Avengers to be in any genuine danger while he ’s around .
Thanos v The Avengers On Titan
Thanos makes good use of goods and services of the Infinity Stones for his design when he confronts the Avengers in Wakanda at the end ofAvengers : Infinity War . The fight two Stones earlier on Titan was thoroughly entertaining , but Thanos did n’t seem to realise how much big businessman he was already wielding . You do n’t require to control metre and thought to win a strong-arm fight if you could already see space , realism , and life itself .
He could have make unnecessary himself a Soul Stone misstep and still been untouchable . And yet the fight diddle out like the one inCaptain America : Civil War : a portion of awesome but at long last meaningless noise . At one point Thanos aims the Infinity Gauntlet directly at Iron Man and blast him with a beam of muscularity that his shield can somehow withstand .
Thanos’s Plan
There is certainly some logic to Thanos ’s psychopathic design , but considering the godlike powers he have after unite the Infinity Stones , his plan to kill 50 % of all life story in the universe prove a want of imagination and understanding , as well as not being very nice . He claims he ’s doing it to create a sound world , that is n’t overcrowded and at war , and after the Avengers come at him again inAvengers : Endgame , he decide to wipe out all life in the universe and make a new one teeming with life-time .
If his actions were all for the imposing pursuit of peace of mind throughout the world there are unnumerable ways to attain that without pour forth blood . He could make every planet in the universe a habitable paradise and put them all powerful next to each other so they spell out THANOS RULEZ , or just make travel throughout the universe instantaneous . you could pretty much utilise all the ' Why Did / Didn’t He ? ' question people inquire about God to Thanos .
Nick Fury And The Tesseract
It ’s one thing to utilise an non-finite power author to make hand-held weapons instead of fuelling the entire earth ’s thriftiness , so nobody has any motive to fight . It ’s another thing entirely to see that these weapons manufacture by SHIELD and/or HYDRA never kill anyone of note or even shoot straight . Again it comes to people firing beams of light at each other that do whatever the writers differentiate them to do , as with the battles inHarry Potter .
It ’s also Nick Fury who decide to expend the tesseract to try and make a stargate , thereby alert the world to Earth ’s cosmos and the fact they ’re mess with an Infinity Stone . It ’s disappointing to see no evolution to the world ’s technology to parallel what ’s going on with SHIELD . Stark Industries too . Stark and Fury should have immediately jump on the tesseract as an opportunity to junk the arc reactor and find a novel sustainable fashion to power the globe ’s economy .
Hulk/Iron Man Snap
The serious bozo proved to have a similar lack of resource to Thanos when it came to play / being God . But in the case of the righteous defenders of the Earth , they should have even more ground than Thanos to make bighearted changes to the universe for the skillful .
mayhap Thanos would n’t have bear witness up and blown up their lovely Avengers building if Hulk had put more thinking into his snatch and make his own kind of Zion while bestow everyone back .
Don’t Touch!
In Johann Schmidt ’s defense , there was no known scientific discipline to explicate what might happen if you grab hold of a Stone of infinite power that controls an all important aspect of the universe , much like how there ’s no manner of knowing what might take place if you went through a fatal hole . But as with get into a black hole , rough-cut sense dictates it ’s in all probability a bad idea .
It ’s one thing if you ’re a protagonist of a powerful ancient raceway , and your best protagonist in the whole humans are there to support you , but if you ’re just a regular human , play by Hugo Weaving and aptly nickname Red Skull , clearly nothing good can come of it . He should have just made some nice artillery when he had the chance .
The Time Stone
Doctor Strange shoot full advantage of the Time Stone twice inDoctor Strange . He rewinds time at one point to do - over a fight and very unforgettably forces Dormamu into submission in the film ’s sexual climax . The Ancient One warn against frivolous usance of the Time Stone , as many graphic symbol are forced to do in picture show franchises involve such gimmick , but Doctor Strange ’s action did n’t seem to have any minus side - burden .
Endgamedemonstrated that time travel within theMCUis essentially incapable of rewriting the past times , soit seems unrealistic the Cuban sandwich do n’t turn to Doctor Strange to terminate clock time every time there ’s a job .
Odin and the Tesseract
After the Avengers achieve their first triumph inThe Avengers , Thor brings the all - powerful tesseract back to Asgard , where Odin use it to furbish up the Bifrost before sticking it in a burial vault . It seems like a waste , but it keep it safe . But when Malekith shows up to finish the cosmos using the Aether inThor : The Dark World , Odin , and Thor seem to forget it exist .
When Malekith descends on Asgard the Aether is living within Jane Foster ’s body , so it makes sense that they do n’t weaponize it . But there ’s a perfectly upright Power Stone sitting in a vault that could effortlessly keep Malekith at bay . Frigga loses her life needlessly to this oversight . And locking it in a vault does n’t prevent it from getting steal by Loki in the next movie .
Loki
InThe Avengers , Loki serves as Thanos ’s handmaid to go and retrieve the tesseract . But in 2012 , Thanos had no Infinity Stones . Once Loki had it in his possession , he would efficaciously be more powerful than Thanos , yet he goes along with Thanos ’s plan to attempt and take over Earth and defeat the Avengers , which does n’t solve .
In the end , the real problem with the Infinity Stones is that they ’re so herculean anyone who has one should be impossible to defeat . It would make for some really shortsighted movies though .
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