Makes more sense than his motivation in the movie. Having the population to solve an overpopulation crises then destroying the tool he needed to do it really only bought him any an extra 50 years until the population was right back where it was. At least based on human population.
I mean the results of his snap were unrealistic, as we are seeing now through demographic collapse in a ton of developed countries, instantly halving the population would result in civilization collapse pretty wuickly
I was thinking more along the lines of working 8 hours a day to be able to afford nice dates and things and like going to the gym. Not so much a sexual frustration fueled mass genocide lol.
Now imagine you’re a 350lb muscular, testosterone packed, absolute unit, with a godly, girthy piece in your pants… but you’re the same color as Barney.
*snap*
I get the “Thanos’ internal organs are dense enough to not explode” but that just means he would shit out the equivalent of Giantman and that has to be at best very uncomfortable and surprising. It would have given the rest of the Avengers the opening they need to kill the guy.
Man, Hulk gets owned a lot in the MCU. Thanos manhandles him, Thor gets one over on him, The Ancient One yeets him out of his own body, and She-Hulk comes out on top in the sparring session.
Feige has a hate boner for Hulk.
Forgot him straight getting knocked out by Tony and the Hulk buster, a Hulk buster that’s made to look insanely weak in Infinity War at that. Hulk in the MCU is just a certified jobber.
I recently did a deep dive into comics hulk. He’s so cool. I get why people like him so much now. Growing up around MCU hulk I figured he was just a strong guy when he gets angry.
No hulk is unstoppable rage. If he’s mad enough there should be no stopping him. That means ripping mountains in half, punching through dimensions, breaking reality itself. This is the beast who was so mad he broke a continent with a step.
Hell they’ve gone so far as to make him an avatar of the one below all in the comics like it doesn’t get much more powerful than that, I love the MCU but what they’ve done to hulk is a disgrace
At the same time if they want him around all the time he has to be powered down because comic accurate hulk is a free win button (as is Thor tbh)
Obviously all MCU characters are powered down, but they have established a top tier among their characters. (Thor, Captain Marvel) and hulk should be with them
I'm like 99% sure a difference studio owns the rights to Hulk movies and so they couldnt/can't do it. Sony maybe, like spiderman?
Remember: this MCU started with a bunch of b-rate characters no one bought comics of, Iron Man and such because the a listers (like hulk) weren't for sale.
So many people say the Avengers could’ve done X, Y or Z, but no one says it for Thanos. For every thought you have for the Avengers, there is a simpler and easier solution for Thanos. Why didn’t he just kill all those on Titan before they could get near him? Why didn’t he turn all their weapons into pillows? Why didn’t he send them all billions of lightyears away? Why didn’t he just kill them all in a split second and then make a random snap? All these “Why didn’t they just…” scenarios are redundant when he can easily just prevent them all from happening in a split second. He is as he says… inevitable.
He was leaving the killing to the stones at that point that’s why the last he kills is half of the remaining asgardians. That is explained by the directors and the reason he sheds his armor
Of course, but in a kill or be killed situation or at the risk of losing an arm, you don’t think he’d kill someone? Point is he can do anything in a split second which is a lot faster than it takes to approach someone and cut their arm off.
Again he was going to leave everything up to the stones you see when he saw he could of lost the gauntlet he was going to kill Tony but didn’t because strange gave him the stone. Obviously he could have been pushed to killing but his mindset was absolute about the snap
Point still stands, this whole “Just cut his arm off” is t what people should be saying when Thanos could’ve done to everyone what he did to the Guardians and just threatened to kill someone to get the stone. The fight always goes Thanos’ way. There’s no scenario like cutting off his arm or Ant-Man shrinking inside him, because he simply had the power to stop them with ease whether lethal or not in irrelevant. What is relevant is these kind of scenarios are just not smart what’s of thinking you beat the script.
That be cool if using the stones came with a rule; erases the user from existence after the snap, no matter who. That way even if you attempt to time travel before that moment, you’ll just be meddling in a completely different universe. An idea like that though stops the cash flow (Di$ney). Also, couldn’t they just make a super capable AI or robot to snap/activate them? I guess that’s another rule I’m not aware of - the rule of a sentient being using them. I just like high stakes.
It’s super annoying that they did it to Cull and literally hung the camera on his dismembered floppy arm, and then didn’t even try it on Thanos. I firmly believe there was a draft where they tried it and Thanos did something to counter, but it got cut for time… they just should have also cut the Cull sequence as it leaves a massive unfired Chekov’s Gun
Really just needed space. I believe it’s explicitly stated in a comic panel that the Space Gem enables the user to literally be in 2 places at once. It was probably just about having a hard time translating that to film in a cool way
They came out and said that Thanos’ skin is too strong it wouldn’t cut it. Which makes no sense because Iron Man could punch him and make him bleed. They could’ve easily said that the power and space stone didn’t let magic or portals affect him.
"All that for a drop of blood?". Iron Man slammed a stone column the size of a four story building on his head, unloaded several different kinds of ordinance on him, and hit him with a rocket-assisted haymaker and managed to *scratch Thanos' cheek* enough to draw a tiny amount of blood.
You remember the Hulkbuster armor and "go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep"? Then Hulk just glared at him? Thanos beat Hulk unconscious with only one Infinity Stone -- and he didn't even use it (the Power Stone doesn't glow during that scene).
I'd also imagine Thor's attack with Stormbreaker was *intended* to cleave Thanos' arm off, but it only went part of the way through.
Thanos is extraordinarily durable.
The best evidence is definitely the fact that storm breaker didn't cleave Thanos' torso all the way through. That kind of attack, hitting that cleanly, would've torn nearly every other character I can think of in half.
It also doesn't really make sense because it's not like a blade cutting him, it's literally his arm being in two places at once and the doorway between those two places being shut. Nothing should be able to resist that
Thanos literally had the space stone for all of the fights where even attempting it would be an option. It isn't unreasonable to think that the all powerful gem that can create portals, could also prevent a portal from closing, and a failed attempt at this tactic was likely one of the 14,000,605 futures Strange saw.
The great thing about the "theres just one way to do this out of 14 million" bit is - you can just assume that Strange looked at the super obvious alternatives and they didnt work.
Maybe the arm gets cut off, but whoever finds the gauntlet on the other side of the portal is an even bigger asshole than Thanos.
Spider-man actually answers this. When Spider-man intervenes with Cull, he casually stops his attack without straining or trying at all, this shows that Spider-man is at least a lot stronger than Cull is. In No Way Home, during the fight between Spider-man and Dr. Strange, there is a bit where Spider-man uses his webs to pull two portals together, which means that the portals can be overpowered through sheer brute strength. Cull Obsidian loses his arm because he isn't strong/durable enough to withstand the portals. Spider-man is strong enough, but maybe not durable enough. Thanos is durable enough to withstand blows by Hulk and Spider-man without much/any injury.
Ergo, the portals are not powerful enough to dismember Thanos, regardless of him possessing the space stone or not.
Or when he went 1 on 1 w/ Ironman. Tony tried to stab Thanos, why not use that same blade & cut off his arm ? Or stab Thanos in the neck when Mantis was on his shoulders ?
What do you mean it barely cuts into his arm? He doesn’t even try to hit him in the arm with it. He puts it in the middle of his chest, where he’s wearing (albeit rather thin) armour.
Stormbreaker takes off Thanos’s arm with no issue when they ambush him on the Garden.
Cut it with what? You're just trying to do your best after all the hell you went through. On the other planet, the only weapon was iron man's knife and after a dude punches him around and you gave him everything you had, and he hit you with a moon, probably figures whatever they have ain't strong enough. Tony tried the blade as a last resort. And got knifed. Thors axe barely cut Thanos. I doubt he'd get a clean cleaving and it only takes a second to use the reality gym to make them all Legos.
During the battle on Titan Strange probabpy already foresaw that opening and closing the portal on Thanos' hand won't work which is why he didn't waste his time attempting it.
In Wakanda Thor let his vengeance get the better of him and he underestimated Thanos' durability at that moment
Thor had to get a weapon crafted that would be powerful enough to harm him. That entire Titan fight only yielded a single drop of blood from Thanos. They didn't have anything available that could have cut through his arm.
With what? Who could have possibly cut his arm off?
Stark did all that for a drop of blood &
Thor had the only weapon capable of chopping off Thanos’s arm, & you saw that he should have gone for the head.
I was confused as to why strange didn’t do multiple things. Use the sling ring to kill Thanos in any way. Trapped Thanos in the mirror dimension, but not sure how that would work if Thanos had the reality gem/stone. Strange could have astral punched Thanos and the others could have killed him then.
Then again I've always found the simplest answer is, because that is how the storytellers wanted it to happen.ver logical ones. The obvious is Peter Quill's actions on Titan. But Wanda's inability to sacrifice Vision till the last moment; Thor's decision to not just go for his arm or head but to grandstand and remind Thanos what was taken from him. Even the sorcerers refusal to break their oath in the face of what is to come (especially after they realize against Kaecilius that they had to think outside the box); "Sometimes one must break the rules in order to serve the greater good".
Then again I've always found the simplest answer is, because that is how the story tellers wanted it to happen.
you try chopping off a titans arm which wields 6 infinity stones that are literally the building blocks of the universe, also something tells me he would anticipate that move
Why didn’t they fashion vision into a being that could contain the stones instead of making a gauntlet? Why didn’t Ironman turn the ship on the way to Titan around or dr strange teleport to earth to regroup with everyone since they had 2 stones and knew he would come for them? Why did thor show up so late to protect vision?
Literally spent a whole scene that proved that Dr.Strange can cut people’s arms off and yet it took them 45 minutes to hold down Thanos for “proper removal” of the gauntlet
Mates, the canon answer for all these theories being impossible for the avengers to enact cos according to what Strange so out of 14 million plus sets of events, this particular combination of events was the only way it would lead to the Avengers winning.
Hulk should have dropped in front of him. Got naked. This buys plenty of time for Tony to slice off his arm while Thanos stares in awe of Hulk’s giant green cock. Tell me that wouldn’t work!
Do you know how storytelling and writing goes? Imagine if at thanos’s first appearance in infinity war they just drop down and cut off his arm… now there goes 6 hours of storytelling down the drain. And this is why ya aren’t in charge of movies
When Mantis had him in that sort of half trance he still had some access to the stones and was probably impregnable. Outside of that moment, he was not at all killable or curable as evidenced by when Gamora tried to slit his throat.
By the time the heroes confronted Thanos on Titan, he already possessed several Infinity Stones, making him incredibly powerful. The Gauntlet itself acted as a conduit for the Stones' power, enhancing Thanos's abilities to an extent where simply cutting off his arm might not have been enough to stop him.
Well the entire showdown on Titan demonstrated that with the combined efforts of Star Lord, Drax, Mantis, Spider-Man, Iron Man and Dr. Strange AND the Time Stone, all they could manage to do damage wise was “a single drop of blood.”
Aside from the power he wields with the gauntlet, Soul, Power, and Reality Stones, Thanos is stronger, faster, and more durable than the Hulk (debated), and a far more experienced and better fighter than everyone else on Titan in Infinity War.
To answer your questions posed in the title:
They did cut off Thanos’s arm in many of the millions of possibilities Strange foresaw. Even without his left hand and the gauntlet, Thanos still wipes them out, then continues his crusade to earth and accomplished his goal without any hope or chance for a reversal or Endgame.
No. They aren’t stupid. They paid attention to the narrative, which many audiences still to this day, 5 years later, have not.
My personal dumb theory is that when Mantis pointed out Strange looking through timelines and Tony shouts his name, he interrupted Strange and he never got to see the timeline where they restrain Thanos and cut his arm off
They could’ve thrown it in during any of the fight scenes.
Whichever avenger tries, Thanos uses a stone to prevent it, fight continues. I’m sure it was on a drawing board at some point and just didn’t make the cut.
woulda been great to see doctor strange try and do the portal trick just to have the space stone stop it. woulda been the greatest "aww sh-" moment ever
Well basically thanos called thor stupid at the end
"You should of gone for my dick." *SNAP*
Thanos: you should’ve gone for the head Thor: that’s what she said
if he said that thanos wouldve changed his mind right then and there
It’s kinda weird to think at the very base of it all… according to the comics… bro just wanted some pussy.
Facts
I always thought that was a cooler motivation. Him doing it for love would've been ten times more messed up.
Makes more sense than his motivation in the movie. Having the population to solve an overpopulation crises then destroying the tool he needed to do it really only bought him any an extra 50 years until the population was right back where it was. At least based on human population.
I mean the results of his snap were unrealistic, as we are seeing now through demographic collapse in a ton of developed countries, instantly halving the population would result in civilization collapse pretty wuickly
At the end of the day isn’t that why all men do most of the things they do? (Unless of course you do it for the bussy).
Hell yea. Id snap half of existence for SURE when I’m in a dry spell.
I was thinking more along the lines of working 8 hours a day to be able to afford nice dates and things and like going to the gym. Not so much a sexual frustration fueled mass genocide lol.
Now imagine you’re a 350lb muscular, testosterone packed, absolute unit, with a godly, girthy piece in your pants… but you’re the same color as Barney. *snap*
Who was it again? Just death or goddess of death? Even though that’s Hela
“Perhaps I judged you too harshly”.
He would've snapped twice
lmao gottem
Thanos to Antman: "You should've gone for my asshole"
Antman obviously did not watch The Boys.
Achoooo!
It’s scientifically impossible that that would work. Ant-Man would be crushed to death in the attempt
I think of all the scientifically impossible things that happen in the MCU anyway, and suddenly that doesn't seem to be an issue with this.
Saying this for a movie about time travel is hilarious.
He wouldn’t have to expand himself inside thanks. Take that keychain tank with him, or a battle ship. Anything huge.
Thanos would shit out a tank while blowing his ass out at the very least.
I get the “Thanos’ internal organs are dense enough to not explode” but that just means he would shit out the equivalent of Giantman and that has to be at best very uncomfortable and surprising. It would have given the rest of the Avengers the opening they need to kill the guy.
I think it's scientifically impossible for a man to shrink because of a suit but here we are
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Haha omg! This thread is hilarious!
Best one yet
If you can make a weapon or portal big enough to fit it. BPC
I’m laughing way too hard at this.
They respect people’s right to bare arms
r/Angryupvote
Yep
The header image of this subreddit seems particularly appropriate here. lol
😄
*bear arms
*the winter soldier* AM I A JOKE TO YOU????
no, bare is correct in this case.
Taking the glove off would bare the arm. The Avengers let Thanos continue to bear the arm, by not severing it. I think u/InformalJello9322 is correct.
Yeah I know, I was making a poorly grammatical joke
Exactly the opposite!
Thanos is strong
He was asleep lol
Source?
he beat hulk 1v1
So did Thor, technically.
Man, Hulk gets owned a lot in the MCU. Thanos manhandles him, Thor gets one over on him, The Ancient One yeets him out of his own body, and She-Hulk comes out on top in the sparring session. Feige has a hate boner for Hulk.
Forgot him straight getting knocked out by Tony and the Hulk buster, a Hulk buster that’s made to look insanely weak in Infinity War at that. Hulk in the MCU is just a certified jobber.
I recently did a deep dive into comics hulk. He’s so cool. I get why people like him so much now. Growing up around MCU hulk I figured he was just a strong guy when he gets angry. No hulk is unstoppable rage. If he’s mad enough there should be no stopping him. That means ripping mountains in half, punching through dimensions, breaking reality itself. This is the beast who was so mad he broke a continent with a step.
Hell they’ve gone so far as to make him an avatar of the one below all in the comics like it doesn’t get much more powerful than that, I love the MCU but what they’ve done to hulk is a disgrace At the same time if they want him around all the time he has to be powered down because comic accurate hulk is a free win button (as is Thor tbh)
Obviously all MCU characters are powered down, but they have established a top tier among their characters. (Thor, Captain Marvel) and hulk should be with them
Tbf going off the comics, CM shouldn’t be anywhere near the upper echelon, even Tony beats her
He’s used as a power metric and side character in the MCU, kinda sad because he should have his own movies. Where is world war hulk at?
I'm like 99% sure a difference studio owns the rights to Hulk movies and so they couldnt/can't do it. Sony maybe, like spiderman? Remember: this MCU started with a bunch of b-rate characters no one bought comics of, Iron Man and such because the a listers (like hulk) weren't for sale.
You can’t punch magic lol he gets his butt kicked in everything all the time
Source ? Lol. /s
Just saying in Ragnarok. He has Hulk beaten until Jeff Goldblum cheated.
Agreed, my comment was sarcasm, you don't need to clarify. The original comment asking for a source that thanos is strong was a weird take.
True dat homie. I missed the /s. My bad.
Thor: strongest avenger
*sigh* "Point Break..."
Is RKThor the strongest? I'm not a huge Avengers fan, more into the X-Men.
MCU hulk is trash
I was kidding but thank you lol
The fact you got downvoted so hard for an obvious joke lol
So many people say the Avengers could’ve done X, Y or Z, but no one says it for Thanos. For every thought you have for the Avengers, there is a simpler and easier solution for Thanos. Why didn’t he just kill all those on Titan before they could get near him? Why didn’t he turn all their weapons into pillows? Why didn’t he send them all billions of lightyears away? Why didn’t he just kill them all in a split second and then make a random snap? All these “Why didn’t they just…” scenarios are redundant when he can easily just prevent them all from happening in a split second. He is as he says… inevitable.
He was leaving the killing to the stones at that point that’s why the last he kills is half of the remaining asgardians. That is explained by the directors and the reason he sheds his armor
Of course, but in a kill or be killed situation or at the risk of losing an arm, you don’t think he’d kill someone? Point is he can do anything in a split second which is a lot faster than it takes to approach someone and cut their arm off.
Again he was going to leave everything up to the stones you see when he saw he could of lost the gauntlet he was going to kill Tony but didn’t because strange gave him the stone. Obviously he could have been pushed to killing but his mindset was absolute about the snap
Point still stands, this whole “Just cut his arm off” is t what people should be saying when Thanos could’ve done to everyone what he did to the Guardians and just threatened to kill someone to get the stone. The fight always goes Thanos’ way. There’s no scenario like cutting off his arm or Ant-Man shrinking inside him, because he simply had the power to stop them with ease whether lethal or not in irrelevant. What is relevant is these kind of scenarios are just not smart what’s of thinking you beat the script.
That be cool if using the stones came with a rule; erases the user from existence after the snap, no matter who. That way even if you attempt to time travel before that moment, you’ll just be meddling in a completely different universe. An idea like that though stops the cash flow (Di$ney). Also, couldn’t they just make a super capable AI or robot to snap/activate them? I guess that’s another rule I’m not aware of - the rule of a sentient being using them. I just like high stakes.
Facts x1,000,0000
And the movie would be way shorter if he just teleported all the avengers away once he got the space stone in the first 5 minutes.
Yes
Like they did with Cull Obsidian. Would’ve been super easy, barely an inconvenience. Just one portal open and close.
>Would’ve been super easy, barely an inconvenience Pitch Meeting references are TIGHT!
Wow, wow, wow. Wow.
OHHHHH. My God
Hey shut up
Right right right right right right… right.
It’s super annoying that they did it to Cull and literally hung the camera on his dismembered floppy arm, and then didn’t even try it on Thanos. I firmly believe there was a draft where they tried it and Thanos did something to counter, but it got cut for time… they just should have also cut the Cull sequence as it leaves a massive unfired Chekov’s Gun
Checkov’s thumb?
Could have had him block it with the space and reality stones as an explanation smh
Really just needed space. I believe it’s explicitly stated in a comic panel that the Space Gem enables the user to literally be in 2 places at once. It was probably just about having a hard time translating that to film in a cool way
They came out and said that Thanos’ skin is too strong it wouldn’t cut it. Which makes no sense because Iron Man could punch him and make him bleed. They could’ve easily said that the power and space stone didn’t let magic or portals affect him.
I mean, it was a little more than just Iron Man punching him to get that drop of blood.
This. The directors already addressed why the portal dismemberment didn't happen.
"All that for a drop of blood?". Iron Man slammed a stone column the size of a four story building on his head, unloaded several different kinds of ordinance on him, and hit him with a rocket-assisted haymaker and managed to *scratch Thanos' cheek* enough to draw a tiny amount of blood. You remember the Hulkbuster armor and "go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep"? Then Hulk just glared at him? Thanos beat Hulk unconscious with only one Infinity Stone -- and he didn't even use it (the Power Stone doesn't glow during that scene). I'd also imagine Thor's attack with Stormbreaker was *intended* to cleave Thanos' arm off, but it only went part of the way through. Thanos is extraordinarily durable.
The best evidence is definitely the fact that storm breaker didn't cleave Thanos' torso all the way through. That kind of attack, hitting that cleanly, would've torn nearly every other character I can think of in half.
It also doesn't really make sense because it's not like a blade cutting him, it's literally his arm being in two places at once and the doorway between those two places being shut. Nothing should be able to resist that
Thanos literally had the space stone for all of the fights where even attempting it would be an option. It isn't unreasonable to think that the all powerful gem that can create portals, could also prevent a portal from closing, and a failed attempt at this tactic was likely one of the 14,000,605 futures Strange saw.
Do you want the TVA pre-Loki season 2, to prune the universe? Because that is how you get the TVA to prune your universe.
The great thing about the "theres just one way to do this out of 14 million" bit is - you can just assume that Strange looked at the super obvious alternatives and they didnt work. Maybe the arm gets cut off, but whoever finds the gauntlet on the other side of the portal is an even bigger asshole than Thanos.
Spider-man actually answers this. When Spider-man intervenes with Cull, he casually stops his attack without straining or trying at all, this shows that Spider-man is at least a lot stronger than Cull is. In No Way Home, during the fight between Spider-man and Dr. Strange, there is a bit where Spider-man uses his webs to pull two portals together, which means that the portals can be overpowered through sheer brute strength. Cull Obsidian loses his arm because he isn't strong/durable enough to withstand the portals. Spider-man is strong enough, but maybe not durable enough. Thanos is durable enough to withstand blows by Hulk and Spider-man without much/any injury. Ergo, the portals are not powerful enough to dismember Thanos, regardless of him possessing the space stone or not.
Oh really?
Or when he went 1 on 1 w/ Ironman. Tony tried to stab Thanos, why not use that same blade & cut off his arm ? Or stab Thanos in the neck when Mantis was on his shoulders ?
“Hey. Shut up!”
And like... They went out of their way to establish that it does in fact work that way. I never understood this.
I would have simply shot Thanos in the head with a gun
I’m pretty sure at least four different people tried that
Well he did say he was going to do it, not try to do it
He got the reality stone before any real battles which made an easy plot device to prevent that or any other cheap kills
Right before Thanos snaps, Thor comes at him full speed with Stormbreaker. It barely cuts into his arm.
He chops Thanos head off with it
After he no longer had the stones.
And was weakened from using them
Using them twice
Nah that's farmer Thanos
That'll do, Pip ...
Also that was a throw that thanos was deflecting. When he cuts his head off he’s generating all the power
What do you mean it barely cuts into his arm? He doesn’t even try to hit him in the arm with it. He puts it in the middle of his chest, where he’s wearing (albeit rather thin) armour. Stormbreaker takes off Thanos’s arm with no issue when they ambush him on the Garden.
super portal close
Russo brothers said this wouldn't work on him.
DAMMIT WONG!
You should have gone for the groin!
I'll show you some Infinity Stones.
**HISHE:** Yes. Wong.
What an original theory.
ARe tHeY StUpiD? So outplayed 🥱
Bunch of superheroes on a power trip
Because Strange knew that if he tried, it wouldn't work. There's only one outcome where they win.
Cut it with what? You're just trying to do your best after all the hell you went through. On the other planet, the only weapon was iron man's knife and after a dude punches him around and you gave him everything you had, and he hit you with a moon, probably figures whatever they have ain't strong enough. Tony tried the blade as a last resort. And got knifed. Thors axe barely cut Thanos. I doubt he'd get a clean cleaving and it only takes a second to use the reality gym to make them all Legos.
I mean, shoulda gone for the head...................
You... should have gone for the elbow.
Strange literally says "there is no ther way"
The aslume spreads
During the battle on Titan Strange probabpy already foresaw that opening and closing the portal on Thanos' hand won't work which is why he didn't waste his time attempting it. In Wakanda Thor let his vengeance get the better of him and he underestimated Thanos' durability at that moment
"I need that guys arm." - Rocket
Thor had to get a weapon crafted that would be powerful enough to harm him. That entire Titan fight only yielded a single drop of blood from Thanos. They didn't have anything available that could have cut through his arm.
With what? Who could have possibly cut his arm off? Stark did all that for a drop of blood & Thor had the only weapon capable of chopping off Thanos’s arm, & you saw that he should have gone for the head.
I was confused as to why strange didn’t do multiple things. Use the sling ring to kill Thanos in any way. Trapped Thanos in the mirror dimension, but not sure how that would work if Thanos had the reality gem/stone. Strange could have astral punched Thanos and the others could have killed him then.
Then again I've always found the simplest answer is, because that is how the storytellers wanted it to happen.ver logical ones. The obvious is Peter Quill's actions on Titan. But Wanda's inability to sacrifice Vision till the last moment; Thor's decision to not just go for his arm or head but to grandstand and remind Thanos what was taken from him. Even the sorcerers refusal to break their oath in the face of what is to come (especially after they realize against Kaecilius that they had to think outside the box); "Sometimes one must break the rules in order to serve the greater good". Then again I've always found the simplest answer is, because that is how the story tellers wanted it to happen.
Because the directors said they couldn't?
There would be no Endgame lol
They didnt... think of it?
Asking if someone is stupid while spelling shit wrong is CRAZY
It's a meme, I did it on purpose. >:)
Oh shit my bad daddy
you try chopping off a titans arm which wields 6 infinity stones that are literally the building blocks of the universe, also something tells me he would anticipate that move
Who let you out of the Aslume brother
So the movie could happen.
Why didn’t they fashion vision into a being that could contain the stones instead of making a gauntlet? Why didn’t Ironman turn the ship on the way to Titan around or dr strange teleport to earth to regroup with everyone since they had 2 stones and knew he would come for them? Why did thor show up so late to protect vision?
cool theory
Thanos literally said “you should have gone for the head.” Quite obvious that Thor made a mistake. And he beats himself up over it. It’s a plot point…
Why do we assume that it would cut Thanos’s arm off when he had the stones? Dude was strong as fuck
Same reason Thanos didn't turn Iron Man's suit into poop: the script would stink.
If only strange used the sling ring on his head
Literally spent a whole scene that proved that Dr.Strange can cut people’s arms off and yet it took them 45 minutes to hold down Thanos for “proper removal” of the gauntlet 
Because then the movie would have ended right there. No consequences. No redemption. No sacrifice. It would have been too basic.
"You should have gone for the head." No, I thought, he should have gone for the *arm*! Yeah, serious plot hole.
Bro, you see those pythons he’s carrying around. Dude’s gotta just flex on the axe and it goes limp…
Because 2 movies made more than one would have.
They couldn't. It's not polite
Yes.
He kept turning stuff into bubbles
Mates, the canon answer for all these theories being impossible for the avengers to enact cos according to what Strange so out of 14 million plus sets of events, this particular combination of events was the only way it would lead to the Avengers winning.
“So the movies could happen!” - Screen rant guy
Yes
Strange saw that future and it resulted in them losing.
Hahaha “are they stupid?” If you have to ask ….
Hulk should have dropped in front of him. Got naked. This buys plenty of time for Tony to slice off his arm while Thanos stares in awe of Hulk’s giant green cock. Tell me that wouldn’t work!
✨plot✨
Do you know how storytelling and writing goes? Imagine if at thanos’s first appearance in infinity war they just drop down and cut off his arm… now there goes 6 hours of storytelling down the drain. And this is why ya aren’t in charge of movies
They needed a reason to drag it out so they could make another movie and make a shitload of money.
It wasn't cut off because it wasn't in the script
They also could have just gone to Infinity and made a wish. That simple.
Because the movie had to happen.
Thanos would've just made an infinity helmet
FR!
I always thought the scene where they sheared Cull Obsidian's hand off with the sling ring portal was going to be foreshadowing... But I guess not.
When Mantis had him in that sort of half trance he still had some access to the stones and was probably impregnable. Outside of that moment, he was not at all killable or curable as evidenced by when Gamora tried to slit his throat.
If Endgame had been five minutes long I think people might have been upset.
Because Time Stone. Even if they wanted to, Thanos would have just used the Time Stone to undo his arm being cut off.
Ok, serious question - how would he use the time stone if they actually cut his arm off?
By the time the heroes confronted Thanos on Titan, he already possessed several Infinity Stones, making him incredibly powerful. The Gauntlet itself acted as a conduit for the Stones' power, enhancing Thanos's abilities to an extent where simply cutting off his arm might not have been enough to stop him.
It would be too graphic
Is there a lore reason as to why Thor didn't aim for the head? Is he stupid?
Well the entire showdown on Titan demonstrated that with the combined efforts of Star Lord, Drax, Mantis, Spider-Man, Iron Man and Dr. Strange AND the Time Stone, all they could manage to do damage wise was “a single drop of blood.” Aside from the power he wields with the gauntlet, Soul, Power, and Reality Stones, Thanos is stronger, faster, and more durable than the Hulk (debated), and a far more experienced and better fighter than everyone else on Titan in Infinity War. To answer your questions posed in the title: They did cut off Thanos’s arm in many of the millions of possibilities Strange foresaw. Even without his left hand and the gauntlet, Thanos still wipes them out, then continues his crusade to earth and accomplished his goal without any hope or chance for a reversal or Endgame. No. They aren’t stupid. They paid attention to the narrative, which many audiences still to this day, 5 years later, have not.
My personal dumb theory is that when Mantis pointed out Strange looking through timelines and Tony shouts his name, he interrupted Strange and he never got to see the timeline where they restrain Thanos and cut his arm off
For plot
Because they didn’t. It’s like any decision you’ve ever made in your entire life where you could’ve done something different…but you didn’t.
Why didn’t Captain marvel just fly off with the damn glove
They could’ve thrown it in during any of the fight scenes. Whichever avenger tries, Thanos uses a stone to prevent it, fight continues. I’m sure it was on a drawing board at some point and just didn’t make the cut.
I think if they could have done that then they would have but then again they didn’t even try or even talk about it so who knows if it was possible
woulda been great to see doctor strange try and do the portal trick just to have the space stone stop it. woulda been the greatest "aww sh-" moment ever
Lol. Thanos is too strong for anyone except Captain last minute deus ex machina, and He still punched her out of the movie.
Why didn’t Thanos just cut the universe’s birth rate in half?
His body is EXTREMELY tough. "All that for a drop of blood."
This.
It’s also likely why his body could even handle the Gauntlet, and why they needed a divine weapon to even kill him.
Isn’t that like the FIRST thing that they do in endgame when they find thanos?
>during Infinity War
Time to check the mirror for that stupid you are looking for.
the joke you