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Having never worn the infinity gauntlet personally (yet) I can only speculate, but Reality. I'm not clear on that stone since it resulted in Drax getting turned into puzzle pieces that eventually reassembled--are the effects of Reality permanent or temporary?

Interesting comment, never thought of it that way before...he could have created more inhabitabal planets and transferred people to those worlds or made worlds larger with more resources to accommodate populations. Which stone lets him create habitable planets?

Got what he wanted, wasn't what he expected.

I assume that whatever reset button gets hit un-does all the deaths, Loki and Heimdall's included.

There's a separate thread for posting without spoiler tags:

Just assume it's "Infinity War: Part II" until they surprise you with something more dramatic.

I was like "YES!!! HELLO, FRING!!" And then "OH, NO, GOODBYE FRING!!"

SUCH a good show. I don't know where all this quality is coming from, but someone needs to distill it and pour it all over the DC cinematic universe.

Extremely slow episode compared to the first one. I didn't notice any big reveals, just development of plotlines begun last episode.

I don't get to hear deep thoughts from Ricky Bobby like that nearly often enough.

I assumed he could just see Stark only had technological powers far beyond that of his species and saw a kindred spirit in that regard.

I don't think we know. All we know is he was teleported by the Tesseract to an unknown location, and now he's here for some reason.

The trailer makes me laugh out loud just as hard as I did during the first film. Ryan Reynolds comedic timing has become truly impressive for someone who isn't a stand-up comedian.

I still can't rule that out. It's going to be the angle I go into a re-watch with, to see if he betrays anything making it obvious that he hasn't thought that through.

To get all of that I think you have to watch EVERY Marvel film. But you don't necessarily need to watch them. I guess one thing that's missing from film as compared to the comics are the little asterisks along with title and issue footnotes at the bottoms of panels telling you where to go to see the back story on something key.

What makes you say that? You get more background information on elements such as where Thor's eye and hammer went or why Groot is a teenager, but everything you need to know about who Thanos is and what he's after is right here in this film. I made an effort to see GotG 2 last week because I hadn't yet (I saw Ragnarok in the theater), but it ended up not making much of a difference.

I thought that guy WAS Death until after the film when I saw posts online pointing out it was Red Skull. So I wasn't exactly bothered, but I found it confusing knowing how closely the comic Thanos was associated with Death. I still don't get how Cap could possibly have absorbed that punch and held Thanos back. Isn't Thanos supposed to be many orders of magnitude stronger and tougher?

I'm thinking somewhere in the top 15 of all superhero films, but I haven't decided where yet. I'll be updating my list once I figure it out.

Just in case the comic didn't explain the answer to my question and nobody else has ideas, I thought of an answer to my own question: I still need to mull over his motivations more, but I may not be able to rule out Thanos as the actual hero of this film and the entire Marvel universe of "heroes" as the villains. Humans do what Thanos is attempting to do in this film all the time with life on planet Earth. Are we absolutely sure that what he's doing isn't for the greater good of the universe? I'm REALLY not used to superhero films making me think about questions this deep. Bravo to the screenwriters of this film and Black Panther for tying the central theme of the films in to actual issues of universal social and/or existential significance.

A question about the soul stone and the guy guarding it:

I'm not suggesting it's a plot hole; I suspect he may have a very good reason for what he's doing. Or that one was given in the comic that they just didn't explore in the film. I mostly asked for that reason since I didn't read Infinity Gauntlet...the idea of those gems seemed dumb to me when it came out in 1991 so I never read it. But...

Great film. Loved the entire Thanos story, but I had one question about what his ultimate goal was: