The MCU thread

You ruined it.

I don't think it's ever made clear just how old he really is, but the comic version is a really weird dude, who is kinda immortal and is the manifestation of sound waves. 

Although, it would make more sense if Howard Stark acquired it from Fritz Klaue, Ulysses' father.

Ah Rocket, one of my faves.

My favorite bit was Rabbit and Buckey.

A mini-theory of mine: Thanos openly started gunning for the stones in part because Asgard is no more. Think about it: it was pitifully easy for him to wipe the floor with everyone he came across. So why waste all that time with Loki, the Chitauri, Ronan, etc all the while potentially having his plans ruined or at the very least interfered with by the likes of the Dark Elves or Ego? Because Asgard at full strength and on to him would not be a thing he'd want to face. I'm not sure how Odin stacks up to Thanos in the comics but I think in the MCU nothing short of a cosmic entity would want to fuck with him. I think Odin's slipping in every one of the movies which pretty much allows their plots to proceed (Loki's shenanigans are conveniently aided by Odinsleep, he GTFOs at an unspecified point in Dark World, again allowing Loki to impersonate him for years, and in Ragnarok apparently loses the will to live.) But the universe at large I bet remembers the Odin that the mural behind the mural depicts. The one with Hela at his side that gave zero fucks and carved a huge bloody path. I think even Thanos would prefer to go around rather than through such a being. At the end of Ultron he says "fine I'll do it myself" but the movies (except Guardians) take place in the years they came out in. So it still takes him three years to get around to doing it himself. However, once Asgard falls, he starts doing it mighty quick.

Also Thor wielding Stormbreaker, a "king's weapon" came this close to actually stopping him even with 6/6 stones in the gauntlet. Had he gone for the head, he would've succeeded. So yeah, an active Odin, with all of Asgard behind him would not be something Thanos would talk shit in front of.

Honestly I am half expecting The Living Tribunal to show up at the last second in Avengers 4 and go "lolno". It'd be a lame deus ex machina and Marvel I think knows better than to make it that cheap, but you never know. Great franchises have tripped and faceplanted in the last hundred meters.

Also I wonder:



Yeah I can see the parallels. Except again, the mark of a competent studio and not "art" is that Thanos is called out on it several times, the narrative makes no moves to try and convince us, the audience that no, this is legit logic, and the heroes fight him to their last. He wins, but they never stop fighting.

"Art" would be if Cap grabs the gauntlet, Thanos spouts off his nonsense (One half of the universe will always kill the other/I stop that from happening) and Cap goes, "oh I guess you're right" and then Thanos lets him choose which stone to activate first. Oh and also all choices destroy vibranium everywhere.

Honestly even with the change to how his powers work, I liked the Silver Surfer in that movie. I also didn't hate the FF movies of that time and still think Chris Evans makes a better Human Torch than Captain America, not to detract from the fine job he does in the latter.

I'd heard a theory that the reason why Thanos hadn't gone and "done it himself" was because if he had moved openly, Odin, Ego, and the Ancient One would have been there to counter him. And now they're all dead...

Maybe.

The "will to live" thing was a joke though.

Would Ego have cared though? Unless he was included in the 50% draw, it'd just make his plan easier. It's interesting how most villains whose plans would intersect with Thanos would oddly be in line with him. The only real point of contention would be them targeting Thanos himself. Or Gamora.

Ego spreads via his cosmic flower things. The question is, whether he uses "resources" or not afterwards. Thanos isn't trying to stop entropy itself so if Ego subsisted on cosmic energy only, he would not be in conflict with Thanos, apart from maybe trying to assimilate him.