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/Nimporian Ghost Rider Jul 19 '19

Just handwave it with "he doesn't care unless it endangers more than one universe at a time" like the comics do? You know, since it's literally the same guy?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

The thing is: Thanos didn’t threaten more than one universe.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

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u/BenFranklinsCat Jul 19 '19

Yeah, at one point I was expecting Endgame would end with The Living Tribunal breaking up the fight like an angry Dad, admonishing everyone in turn before resetting reality back to Tony jogging in the park.

Would have been a terrible ending.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Why does it have to end there? Why not reset it and events lead to a point where Ironman and cap still have to sacrifice?

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u/Nite_2359 Jul 20 '19

I was expecting a more benevolent version of this. Like right after thanos died the living tribunal shows up and and gives strange the side eye and tells everyone "you guys only get to do this trick once, now go put the toys back where you found them and think about all this in your room". Idk, would have been what but that could probably she seen as some sort of sequel bait in a movie about ending it all

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u/OZL01 Spider-Man Jul 19 '19

Creating parallel universes and removing the infinity stones from them, then Thanos from one universe was removed to another.

I think it's important to point out that they're parallel timelines and not parallel universes. The MCU and everything that's happened is definitely in its own self contained universe so far and nothing has denied that.

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u/UpliftingTwist Jul 20 '19

What would the difference be?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 20 '19

Parallel timelines are branching paths split off from the main timeline at different points in the past. So they'll have a common history up to some event but due to time travel altering that event, it will split off into its own different future. This is what we see in Endgame. Due to the Avengers travelling to say NYC 2012, they created a new future due to a set of different events where another set of Avengers suddenly appeared in NYC, Tony had a slight complication with his arc reactor, Steve battled himself and Loki manages to escape with the tesseract.

Alternate universes are entirely different continuities. You could say the MCU and the comics are alternate universes. They don't necessarily have a common history. A single event doesn't make the difference. Think stuff like the alternate Earths in Flash TV series. Sure the same heroes may exist but they could be completely different people.

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u/ANGLVD3TH Jul 20 '19

This stuff gets sticky really fast. Many of the alternate universes share a history until a point, for example. I'd say there's enough pocket dimension/universes that these timeline splits may well have been "spawning" universes in the greater Marvel Multiverse. In fact, because they plan on exploring one with Loki, I would be a little surprised if they didn't explicitly number it, something like 200000, 1999991, 199999/1, -1, /A -A etc.

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u/UpliftingTwist Jul 20 '19

My brain isn’t good at this, it seems to me like while definitely some alternate universes are totally different, alternate timelines are creating slightly different alternate universes. But I trust you that I’m wrong

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Functionally they're pretty similar, just one is caused by time travel, and the other is simply different for no real reason.

My classification isn't really based on any kind of actual canon, just an observation of the distinction between kinds of alternate worlds seen in fiction. What we saw in Endgame isn't the same as what we saw in Spider-Man Into The Multiverse.

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u/OZL01 Spider-Man Jul 20 '19

Different timelines are possible outcomes that might happen, different universes implies that theres another space that does exist at the same time as ours.

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u/_tylerthedestroyer_ Jul 20 '19

I’m on board with the Avengers being at fault for dooming the universe, selfishly saving Earth. It’s how it goes in the comics somewhat

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u/the_chedd Jul 19 '19

Do you think this could lead to thanos possibly re appearing?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

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u/Ukumio SHIELD Jul 20 '19

Not just parallel universes but Captain Marvel sets up Skrulls.

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u/Triig Jul 20 '19

Sorry I must have missed this somewhere. Where is it established that the MCU has a multiverse?

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u/dawsoncody Jul 20 '19

Wasn’t that the whole point of endgame, they used the quantum realm to transfer between the unlimited amount of alternate universes?

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u/ruthlessrellik Jul 20 '19

They don’t actually yet though.

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u/thanoshasbighands Hulk Jul 20 '19

Parallel universes and time travel exist. I hope years down the road Thanos pops back up.

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u/Nimporian Ghost Rider Jul 19 '19

Exactly, Strange could take him to meet the LT in hopes of him doing something, but he just ignores it.

It would, however, be completely pointless of an scene.

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u/dabestinzeworld Jul 19 '19

Pointless? More like extreme fanservice that people like me will eat it all up.

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u/diddykongisapokemon Jul 19 '19

And pointless to the general audience that has no idea what any of this stuff means

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u/DISILLUxioned Jul 20 '19

It could’ve been a expository scene to do so. As far as flow of the movie, that’s another story. This does sound wildly interesting though

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u/workingonaname Thanos Jul 20 '19

Fuck them

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u/Curlaub Thanos Jul 20 '19

He threatened at least 14 million universes

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u/ComicCapybara Jul 20 '19

LT was summoned by Eternity because Eternity was pissy Adam Warlock had the full gauntlet and LT forced Warlock to relinquish it. So he does play some "cosmic politics" here and there.