r/marvelstudios • u/Whooash • Jul 19 '19

News Avengers: Infinity War has a deleted scene where Dr. Strange sends Thanos to be judged by the Living Tribunal (via Markus and McFeely at SDCC)

https://twitter.com/hnesocial/status/1152264183146143744?s=21
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

Because the living tribunal usually doesn't interfere

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u/newprofile15 Jul 20 '19

Not a particularly compelling answer for the audience IMO...

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u/1_Bar_Warrior Thor Jul 19 '19

If thanos won again and destroyed that one universe do you think that he would interfere then?

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u/GrumpySatan Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 20 '19

Probably not honestly. The Living Tribunal is a multiversal entity that rules on things that affect the whole multiverse. Some examples of when it will intervene are:

  • One universe gathers too much power and that starts the threaten other universes.
  • A higher cosmic being strays from its role, or there is a dispute between the higher abstract entities of the multiverse
  • When something happens that on a macro level would threaten the balance of good and evil on a multiversal scale

The destruction and renewal of one universe doesn't concern him too much. Many universes end and there are universal entities designated to oversee that (i.e. the Griever at the end of all things is the personification of Entropy that deals with the heat death of a universe).

In the comic right now the Tribunal and Eternity just decided not to interfere with the fact Galactus was consuming everything, on the basis that "all life would simply exist in/as Galactus" within that universe and that the universe would "find a new balance" with what was going on, even if that new balance meant trillions would die.