THE ONE OUTCOME THAT INVOLVES THEM SURVIVING IS LETTING PETER QUILL SMACK THE SHIT OUT OF THANOS WHERE HE IN TURN MANAGES TO REGAIN HIS GAUNTLET? The heck? I mean if they got the gauntlet off him he would've been pretty much in that coma-like state for some time when they pinned him down.
shareThat wouldn't have bothered me as much if it wasn't for two things:
1. It was Peter's own plan in the first place.
2. The death of Gamora shouldn't be a huge shock to him anyway since he agreed to kill her himself, and even pulled the trigger.
Plus we lost a chance to see Thanos fighting on his own power to get the gauntlet back!
Obviously not since Strange didn't persue that outcome
shareEveryone is overthinking this plot point. You have to consider chaos theory.
What if Peter had never hit Thanos, yet Thanos was able to suddenly pull himself out of Mantis's trance?
What if they had gotten the gauntlet off, only to have Thanos take it back from them by physical force? The gauntlet was designed to fit his hand, not a human hand so I seriously doubt anyone else could have put their fingers into it.
You're also forgetting how powerful Thanos is. He's not a Celestial like Ego, however he is an Eternal, a race the Celestials created. He's not some pushover, so he might have still retaken the gauntlet and killed a few of them in the process. Except for Doctor Strange, I believe Thanos could have easily bested everyone else attacking him in that moment.
Woulda-coulda-shoulda.... it's all irrelevant because Doc saw that no matter what they did, they only had one scenario where they win.
They were able to hold their own against Thanos even when he had his gauntlet else they wouldn't have gotten the drop on him and managed to pin him in that state. Could be just bad writing to be honest.
Also, Strange had the friggin Time Stone and never used it to his advantage like how he did with Dormammu who is even stronger than Thanos. Could've kept him in some infinite time loop of sort.
I see your point and I wondered about that too. Thanos did have four stones (power, space, reality, soul) to Doctor Strange's one stone (time stone) and Thanos used the stones he had in conjunction with the infinity gauntlet. Surely the power stone, soul stone or reality stone could be used against the time stone. I'm just thinking out of the box on this one.
shareAlso possible that in any of the scenarios in which Quill didn't punch Thanos he made some other, worse, blunder, like maybe trying to put on the Gauntlet? At this point we're all just second-guessing and making things up. It's a movie, and a comic book movie at that. Enjoy it for what it is and don't worry if it doesn't hold up to deep analytical scrutiny like you're reading Heidegger.
shareUnfortunately the loop would not have affected thanos the same way it affected dormammu... marvel are smart.. dormammu is said to be beyond time so he is not affected by time. That is why he knew he was in a time loop. Thanos on the other hand is affected by time so resetting time will also reset him meaning he will not remember that he had already performed a certain action before and to him that will be the 1st time he's doing it so he will continue to do whatever he set out to even if doc strange resets time a billion times and those billion times, thanos would win over and over until that one scenario when the avengers win so yes doc strange used the time stone against thanos
shareBump...for relevance
shareHow do you know Quill didn't smack Thanos in all 14 million outcomes?
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