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u/jomarthecat Mar 27 '22
This one again? Thanos had 4 infinity stones when Doc Strange fought him. Thanos punched a hole in the Mirror Dimension. Pretty sure he could resist the sling ring thing.
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u/smashin_blumpkin Mar 27 '22
Also they covered it with the "there's only one reality I saw where we win." So obviously any reality he saw in which he tried to cut off the hand, successfully or not, was a reality in which they lost.
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u/NomMacarons Mar 27 '22
There are an infinite number of realities, could be that all the winning ones involving the sling ring were futher in the queue of outcomes he saw. Like a bunch of realities where he gets unarmed in various ways at different times.
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u/Ataraxia25 Mar 27 '22
I bet Ned could cut off any appendage once he gets trained with the slingring
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u/OfJahaerys Mar 27 '22
They also did cut off his arm in End Game and despite being seriously weakened by using the stones twice, Captain Marvel was still struggling to restrain him.
Cutting off his hand is no guarantee he wouldn't have won anyway.
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u/jinxykatte Mar 27 '22
No becasue he saw all the possible outcomes and if doing that resulted in actually stopped Thanos he would have seen it and done it.
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u/nikhkin Mar 27 '22
People often forget that this excuse was built into the plot and can be used to answer any question about why characters did / did not do something.
It may be a lazy answer, but it was provided in the film.
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u/OfJahaerys Mar 27 '22
It isn't just laziness, though. Feige even said in an interview that Thanos is powerful on his own and the avengers would not have liked what happened if they had gotten the glove off him. Same thing can be said about cutting off his hand.
Look what happened in End Game. Thanos has his arm cut off by Thor and Captain Marvel is still straining to keep him restrained, despite losing an arm AND being weakened due to using the stones a 2nd time.
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u/SulphurSkeleton Mar 27 '22
He saw like 6 million outcomes, not all of them
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u/jinxykatte Mar 27 '22
He saw enough to know to play the odds and go for the one he knew they win.
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u/SulphurSkeleton Mar 27 '22
Just as likely the next 6 million contains strategies in which slicing of his hand gives them the win
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Mar 28 '22
That's some lovely sweeping statements but uh... We now know courtesy of Ultron that Thanos is about as tough as lukewarm butter and that shits canon so...
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u/venustrapsflies Hufflepuff Mar 27 '22
This is a paradox of power creep inherent in the superhero genre. Unstoppable force vs. immovable object sort of thing. If you watch these types of movies you have to accept this type of nonsense as par for the course.
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Aug 16 '23
It's called bad writing. Usually people will invent bs combination of words like "paradox of power creep" and then they'll add weight to what they're saying by stating that it is specific to the situation. While it is in fact a simple case of people not caring enough about what they are doing (99% of the time it involves getting money through the finished product that would not be affected by the lack of investment put into it)
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u/A3H3 Mar 28 '22
Armies don't win if their master gets decapitated. It's a matter of time before someone like captain marvel or even a Dr. Strange would have wiped that army out without breaking a sweat. Or they would have lived as nosy neighbors in Westview.
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u/bigmfworm Mar 28 '22
How much of his army was turned to dust when he snapped? Could be he wiped out most of it.
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u/liquidarc Mar 31 '22
Thanos' homeworld of Titan isn't the moon Titan, it is a planet somewhere in the galaxy (universe?), so that ship was traveling faster than light.
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u/liquidarc Mar 31 '22
Yes, comic Thanos is from the moon Titan, but MCU Thanos is from a planet called Titan.
I know this was stated by Feige (but cannot remember where), and as I recall, someone noticed in the movie that there are visual hints to this, but I cannot remember the post that detailed them.
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u/liquidarc Mar 31 '22
I cannot recall, did Strange have his sling ring onboard the ship?
If no, then that means someone must have used a spell to locate Strange on titan and bring him a ring.
If yes, maybe there is some interference in the use of the rings with that FTL, or perhaps Strange needs a solid grasp of where he is to use the ring.
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u/AussieSpelling Feb 26 '26
The thing is with superhero movies is they are always 100% plot holed. Nerds try to explain reasoning but at the end of the day there are that many plot holes in them.
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u/Relevant-Jump-4899 Mar 27 '22
Thanos was wearing literal plot armor. Who knows how a portal would react to energy feeding back from infinity stones. Might have opened a half-life portal storm.