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Avengers:Infinity War ***Spoilers***

2.Thanos assaulting Xandar to get the Power Stone was in a previous draft of the script

Markus and McFeely discuss how they went through multiple iterations of the “Infinity War” script, because they were developing it even before other MCU movies — notably “Black Panther” and “Thor: Ragnarok” — were completed, or even written. That meant there were multiple versions of the script. In the finished version of “Infinity War,” Thanos gets the Power Stone, which was left in the care of the Nova Corps of the planet Xandar in “Guardians of the Galaxy,” off-screen — he has it when he attacks Thor and the Asgardians.

One version of the script included a huge battle where Thanos attacked Xandar, but it was cut because it was pretty much a foregone conclusion, McFeely and Markus said. They figured the audience wouldn’t need yet another battle in which Thanos emerged victorious with an Infinity Stone, especially because that battle wouldn’t add much to the characters or plot.

The most interesting part of this nugget, though, was that in that version of the story, Thanos and Gamora ran into each other during the battle on Xandar Meaning in that version the crucial “find Gamora and get her to take Thanos to the Soul Stone” part of the plan wouldn’t just have been the result of an odd coincidence.
 
3.The filmmakers confirm Doctor Strange has a secret plan

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One scene that’s key to understanding the later events in “Infinity War” is when Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) uses the Time Stone to look at “alternate futures,” the possible outcomes of the battle with Thanos. In that scene, Strange says he sees only one outcome out of 14 million in which the heroes defeat Thanos. Not much more is said after that, but the implication is that his actions from that point, including surrendering the Time Stone to Thanos to save the life of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), are all part of the sequence of events that need to happen to create that victorious future.

During the commentary, the filmmakers talk about Doctor Strange’s character and what he knows at several points, and more than once the Russos and the screenwriters confirm that Doctor Strange knows a lot more than he’s letting on — the term “ominous prophecy” comes up during that scene. While they’re cryptic about it, they’re still strongly implying that everything that happened on Titan, at least, was part of Strange’s plan based on his vision.
 
4.Hulk isn’t scared of Thanos, he’s tired of bailing out Banner

The “Infinity War” arc for Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) and his alter-ego, the Incredible Hulk, is that Banner can’t summon the Hulk to help fight Thanos’ lieutenants, the Black Order, when they attack Earth. Hulk starts the movie by getting absolutely thrashed by Thanos, and after that, every time Banner tries to get the Hulk to come out and fight, he refuses.

The Russos put to bed the idea that Hulk refused to come out to fight the Black Order because he was afraid of Thanos after his definitive defeat. Instead, the issue is more of a culmination of Hulk and Banner’s ongoing issues — the two sides of the same person hate each other and are constantly battling for control of their shared body. Hulk resents the fact that Banner only wants him around when he needs to smash things. In the movie, Banner is forced to deal with his own problems, rather than continually rely on Hulk.
 
5.They blew on Tom Holland’s ear to make his hair stand up (not really)

When Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is introduced during the Black Order’s attack on New York, his hair stands up — visual representation of his “spider-sense” that helps Peter detect and avoid danger. In the commentary, the Russos joke that to get Tom’s hair to stand up, they just “blew gently on his ear.” They reference the fact that they made same joke during an “Anatomy of the Scene” video for the New York Times, but don’t reveal how the effect is really achieved in “Infinity War.” Turns out, it’s just CGI.
 
6.Even the filmmakers don’t really know how much time passes over the course of the movie

During the scene when Peter Parker sneaks aboard the Q ship, the Russos and the screenwriters took some guesses at just how much time passes between Thanos’ arrival and the snap at the end of the movie. They didn’t have a firm answer, putting it probably about two days, at the outside. They’re just like us!
 
7. Thanos’ plan isn’t a plot hole, it’s a character thing

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The filmmakers spent a lot of time talking about the inner and emotional life of Thanos, especially in terms of his relationship with his adopted daughter, Gamora (Zoe Saldana). During the scene on Knowhere, in which Thanos uses the Reality Stone to trick Gamora into thinking she killed him, they talk about how messed up Thanos is — because even though he’s manipulative and abusive, he thinks he’s been good to Gamora.

That led to a discussion of Thanos’ overall plan, and a “plot hole” a lot of people have brought up since the movie was released: If Thanos can use the near-limitless power of the Infinity Stones, instead of killing half of all life in the universe (which he says is to stop the suffering and death created by too many people competing for not enough resources), why not just double all the resources in the galaxy?


Well, apparently that wasn’t a permanent enough solution for ole Thanos, an egotistical maniac with a messiah complex who is on a quest to save the universe his way and no one is going to be able to convince him his plan sucks.



heres more on the mad titan plan

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Directors Explain Why Thanos Didn’t Double the Universe’s Resources
Phil HornshawLast Updated: August 3, 2018 @ 4:23 PM
Some say Thanos’ plan to kill half of everyone instead of just making more food with the Infinity Stones is a plot hole, but the filmmakers don’t agree

| August 1, 2018 @ 2:03 PM
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(Note: Spoilers for “Avengers: Infinity War” herein. Read on at your own risk!)

Since the release of “Avengers: Infinity War,” some viewers have been calling the logic of purple supervillain Thanos a big hole in the movie’s plot.

“Infinity War” finds Thanos (Josh Brolin) searching through the galaxy for the six Infinity Stones. Thanos’ goal is to eliminate half the life in the universe using the stones’ incredible power, but he doesn’t do that for no reason. Thanos believes that the only way to save the universe is to thin out the life in it, to eliminate conflict for resources that would otherwise lead to death and suffering.

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It’s kind of a ridiculous plan because Thanos is, in fact, a ridiculously bad guy. Even before he had the Infinity Stones, Thanos had been waging a military campaign against the universe one planet at a time, ravaging populations under the guise of “saving” people. It’s what gives both Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Drax (Dave Bautista) of “Guardians of the Galaxy” their tragic backstories: both are from places where Thanos killed huge numbers of people.

Some viewers have called Thanos’ plan a big plot hole in the story of “Infinity War,” because with all the power of the Infinity Stones in his possession, his goal seems like a really bad solution to the problem. After all, if you have a glove that grants wishes, why not wish for something that’s not murder — like doubling the resources in the universe to make sure there are enough for everyone, rather than eliminating half the need for them?

The home video release of “Infinity War” features commentary by Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of the movie, and screenwriters Chris Markus and Steve McFeely, and they addressed the viewers who have called Thanos’ plan a plot hole during the movie. In their discussion, the filmmakers noted that it’s Thanos’ character, and not airtight logic, that drives his decision to use death to save life.



Thanos actually lays down some of his rationale within the confines of the movie. When the characters of “Infinity War” show up on Thanos’ home planet, Titan, they find it in utter ruins. Soon after, we learn that before it was destroyed, Thanos went to the leaders of Titan with his idea: Kill half the people on the planet, but choose them randomly and dispassionately (rather than by ethnic or class lines, for example), to save everyone else. Titan refused, and though we never quite learn what happened to it, we do know that he destruction of the planet was enough to put Thanos on his path.

While talking about the “Infinity War” scene on Knowhere, the filmmakers went through some of the underlying drives and emotions in Thanos, specifically as relates to Gamora, his adopted daughter. They noted that Thanos is a “sociopath with a messiah complex,” and also said the events on Titan are part of Thanos’ reasoning, but his character flaws are what really drive him.

“People have asked us why Thanos didn’t just use the stones to double the resources in the universe, and clearly he is not interested,” Anthony Russo said during the commentary.



“No, it’s about free will,” McFeely added. “That doesn’t solve the problem. We’re just going to get there millions of years from now. This is an opportunity for people to get it right. He trusts them, you know?”

“Well, he was told ‘no’ to an idea that he had that he felt was the only solution, and then was proved right to himself when that solution was not acted upon,” Joe Russo said. “So his messianic complex — he is now committed to following through on the idea he had many many years ago. He is not a stable — although he appears stable at times, he is not a stable individual.”

The filmmakers also point out how abusive and manipulative Thanos is to Gamora, and his ruthlessness is on display throughout the movie — he’s not a nice guy. As McFeely explains it, though, Thanos is almost “rebooting” various populations, galvanizing them to take care of one another through their suffering, and heading off the destruction they would face like Titan did. The Russos added that Thanos also is coming from the flawed starting point of a guy who thinks he’s a messiah, and is also fully okay with mass murder, so long as it’s random (because otherwise it would be genocide, and genocide is wrong, under Thanos’ logic).



So there you have it: Thanos’ plan isn’t a plot hole, it’s a function of his essential character. He didn’t double the resources in the universe because that’s not what he’s trying to accomplish, and also because he’s an unhinged, sociopathic supervillain who is basically on a holy crusade. Thanos’ plan only has to make sense to him, and in terms of fitting his character, it’s perfect.
 
8.And why not just use the Reality Stone if it can, like, alter reality?

While discussing Thanos’ use of the Reality Stone to trick Gamora, the Russos also brought up a time when a fan questioned why Thanos couldn’t just use the Reality Stone to enact his plan, since it seems to alter the physical makeup of reality. We see it turn real objects to bubbles and people into ribbons or rocks; why bother gathering all six Infinity Stones if this one is so cool? The answer is that, really, the Reality Stone just doesn’t have enough power. The filmmakers also mentioned that while the Reality Stone seems to have an incredible amount of power, it’s mostly illusory. When it turns Drax (Dave Bautista) and Mantis (Pom Klementieff) into rocks and ribbons, respectively, the effect doesn’t last because it’s more of a short-term trick.
 
9.The movie’s inciting incident is Thanos finding out about the Soul Stone

One question that lingers in “Infinity War” is why Thanos hasn’t gotten around to grabbing up all the Infinity Stones before now. In the past, we’ve seen him try to gather them using intermediaries — he sent Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to conquer Earth and steal the Tesseract for him in “The Avengers,” which contained the Space Stone, and he dispatched Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) to get the Power Stone in “Guardians of the Galaxy.” But why did it take Thanos so long to go on his all-out campaign to get the stones? According to Markus and McFeely, the game-changer was when Thanos found out that Gamora knew the location of the Soul Stone.


The Soul Stone was the only Infinity Stone that was never teased in the MCU before “Infinity War,” and in the movie, Thanos reveals that he tortured Nebula (Karen Gillan) and found out that Gamora knew of the stone’s location. The screenwriters say that it was that knowledge that turned the tide for Thanos; he previously used agents to go after the stones because he didn’t want to tip off the universe to his genocidal plan and have everyone array against him. When he found out that Gamora could lead him to the Soul Stone, he kicked off his campaign to get the other stones in earnest, creating the events of the movie.

‘Avengers: Infinity War': Here’s Why Thanos Waited to Go After the Infinity Stones Himself
Phil Hornshaw and Phil Owen
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(Note: This post contains spoilers for “Avengers: Infinity War.”)

It took 10 years and 19 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Thanos to make his play to wreck the universe in “Avengers: Infinity War,” and one big lingering question is, why’d he wait so long?

After all, Thanos (Josh Brolin) is ludicrously powerful. In “Infinity War,” we see him barely break a sweat kicking the Hulk’s ass, fight off the combined might of dozens of heroes more than once, and oh yeah, hold infinity stones in his hands without being vaporized. He’s so powerful that he manages to get his hands on all six Infinity Stones pretty much in a day or so.


But if he could stomp his way through everything Earth’s mightiest heroes could throw at him, why is he just now doing it? Why, prior to “Infinity War,” in “The Avengers” and “Guardians of the Galaxy,” did Thanos rely on other villains to get the stones for him?

According to “Infinity War” directors Joe and Anthony Russo and screenwriters Chris Markus and Steve McFeely in the “Infinity War” commentary track, the answer to those questions begins with Thanos’ two adopted daughters, Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan).

As explained in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” Nebula hated Gamora growing up because Thanos would force the two to fight each other. The loser of a fight was punished by having a body part replaced with cybernetics to make her stronger, and Nebula always lost to Gamora. Thanos also routinely humiliated Nebula by comparing her constantly to Gamora in front of everyone else.


This abuse led them to both escape from and oppose Thanos during the events of “Guardians of the Galaxy,” and in “Guardians 2,” they finally put aside their differences and become allies. Nebula then vows to try and kill Thanos, and free his other “adopted” children.

During “Infinity War,” we learn she made good on that vow, only to be captured. Thanos then searched around in her robot brain, and as we see during the scene with Thanos, Gamora and Nebula, discovered a memory recording of Gamora telling Nebula that she destroyed the map to the Soul Stone to keep it out of Thanos’ hands.

That, according to McFeely in the commentary, was “the catalyst for the whole movie.” Having “figured out where the Soul Stone was because he captured Nebula on his ship and rooted around in her brain and found out that Gamora knew where the Soul Stone was,” Thanos is inspired to finally make his play for universal domination.



But why? In the commentary, Joe Russo explained further: “The reason why [Thanos] has not gone after the stones before is because the minute he does, the forces of the universe are gonna line up against him. If he doesn’t know where the Soul Stone is, then what is the point.”

In other words, if the people of the universe were tipped off to the fact that the big scary guy with a huge army was seeking godlike power, they could have mobilized to beat him. So, when he acted openly, he needed accomplish his aims as quickly as possible. Thanos might be incredibly powerful after all, but he’s not invincible, and neither are the armies and lieutenants who serve him – the longer it takes him to find all six stones, the more time there is for his enemies to stop him. Which is why he preferred to use proxies before now.

And until he knew the location of the Soul Stone, that necessary quickness wasn’t an option.



It’s ironic that Gamora’s unwillingness to see Nebula tortured inadvertently doomed the universe. But that’s in keeping with the Mad Titan’s M.O. — he always forces his enemies to choose between killing someone they love, or letting him get what he wants, and every time it pays off.

Then again, refusing to accept Thanos’ sadistic choice might end up being the only way the heroes can defeat him in the long term, if Doctor Strange is any guide.
 
10.Markus and McFeely had ‘a fetish’ about bringing back Red Skull

The idea to make Red Skull (Ross Marquand) the guide to the Soul Stone on Vormir served a purpose for the script, but it also fulfilled a longtime wish for the movie’s writers. The pair have written all three of the “Captain America” movies, and really wanted to bring the Red Skull, who was the villain in “Captain America: The First Avenger,” back to the MCU. Vormir gave them that opportunity, since they said they needed a reliable guide to the Soul Stone whose information audiences would believe immediately.

As an added bonus, go back and rewatch “The First Avenger” to see for yourself how well Red Skull’s appearance in “Infinity War” is supported by his fate in the earlier film.
 
11.The Wakandans’ chants on the battlefield were ad-libs

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Portions of “Infinity War” and “Black Panther” were being made simultaneously, which meant that Joe and Anthony Russo didn’t know a lot of the ins and outs of Wakanda. The decision to set the third act of “Infinity War” in the country was made before “Black Panther” was released to critical and audience acclaim. When the “Black Panther” actors showed up for their big battle scene, though, they already knew their characters — so the powerful Wakandan chants led by M’Baku (Winston Duke) and T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) were ad-libs by the actors.
 
12.The Russos say Shuri is the smartest person in the MCU

It’s not too big of a tease for the future that the “Infinity War” directors consider Shuri (Letitia Wright) the MCU’s smartest super-genius, especially since it’s the reason the heroes bring Vision (Paul Bettany) to Wakanda to get the Mind Stone removed from his head. But with some fans speculating that Shuri could be the successor to Tony Stark and Iron Man in the future of the MCU, it could be loaded comment.
 
13.Rocket’s quip about ‘space dogs’ came from a focus group

The Black Order uses an army of multi-limbed alien lizards to attack Wakanda’s energy shield, and the heroes have to fight a horde of the beasts. After the Russos showed the movie to an early test group, one person described those aliens as “space dogs.” The directors said they thought the description was funny enough to turn it into a line for Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper), which he uses while firing away at the creatures alongside Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), shouting, “Come and get some, space dogs!”
 
14.Star-Lord’s joke about his plan for catching Thanos was an ad-lib

On Titan, when the Guardians of the Galaxy, Tony Stark, Peter Parker and Doctor Strange manage to tie up Thanos, they very nearly get the Infinity Gauntlet off his hand. Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) rockets over a few seconds later, as everyone struggles to keep Thanos tied up, and says, “I thought you’d be hard to catch — for the record, this is my plan.” The joke about the plan was an ad-lib by Pratt.

Speaking of the Guardians, read more about the deleted “Infinity War” scene that definitely should have been in the movie.


The ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Deleted Scene That Should Have Been in the Movie
Phil HornshawLast Updated: August 3, 2018 @ 4:25 PM
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(Note: This post contains spoilers for “Avengers: Infinity War.” Read on at your own risk.)

The Guardians of the Galaxy bring some much-needed levity to “Avengers: Infinity War,” which is famously packed with total gut-punch moments. But one of the movie’s funniest “Guardians” scenes isn’t actually in the movie — it’s a deleted scene included in the “Infinity War” home video release.

The deleted scene features Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Drax (Dave Bautista) and Mantis (Pom Klementieff), and takes place shortly after the scene on Knowhere, when Thanos (Josh Brolin) captured Gamora (Zoe Saldana). That was the moment Peter was prevented from killing Gamora like she asked him to, because Thanos used the Reality Infinity Stone to turn his laser into bubbles.

If you’ve seen the film, then you know that Thanos takes Gamora to his fleet where it’s revealed that he has captured and is torturing her sister, Nebula (Karen Gillan), in order to force Gamora to reveal the location of the Soul Infinity Stone. And after Thanos and Gamora leave, Nebula escapes from captivity and sends a message to the Guardians that they need to head to Thanos’ homeworld, Titan.

Now, in the final cut, the scene jumps directly from Nebula sending the message, to Tony Stark, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man as they crash-land on Titan, where they soon encounter the Guardians. But in the deleted scene, we actually see what the Guardians were up to when Nebula sent that message to them.

First, we find Quill, Drax and Mantis aboard their ship, the Benatar, where Quill is listening to Kiss’s “New York Groove” and feeling sorry for himself. Drax storms in and turns off the song, trying to shake Quill out of his funk, prompting Peter to insist he’s trying to get his groove back, “specifically a New York groove.” Drax tells Quill the song’s singer, Ace Frehley, is a degenerate — and then points out that the ship still hasn’t even left Knowhere yet. Cut to a very funny exterior shot of the Benatar sitting on a landing pad, surrounded by the still-smoldering devastation caused when Thanos destroyed Knowhere.


As Quill and Drax fight over who should have killed whom to stop Thanos, Mantis pipes in, saying that she’d kill both of them if it would make the strange yellow light that’s mesmerizing her go away. Quill stalks over and finds that the yellow light is the indicator for when the ship has received a super secret important coded message. Quill blames Drax, whose job it is to keep an eye on the coded message light.

“You said if it’s yellow, let it mellow — if it’s brown, flush it down,” Drax insists. “Those were your orders!”

Quill quickly starts looking through the 23 messages, realizing they’re from Nebula and that she’s told them to head for Titan — something he wishes he’d known five hours ago, while he was sitting listening to Kiss.


As Quill starts to track down the coordinates, he asks Mantis to confirm that Nebula was the person who sent the messages.

“Tell Quill not lose my sister a second time or I’ll sew his face to his genitals,” Mantis replies, reading one message.

“That’s her,” Quill confirms. “She’s always wanted to sew my face to my genitals.”

The scene isn’t strictly necessary of course. The final cut of “Infinity War” is an extremely well-oiled and well-plotted machine. And we’ll concede that just seeing Nebula send her message is enough to show the audience that the Guardians have a reason to head to Titan. Plus, Drax’s excellent “Why is Gamora” line is laughs aplenty.

But Drax and Quill’s argument is not only a great moment in its own right, it also further establishes the Guardians’ investment in what happens later. Yes, nerds, Peter did in fact act extremely in-character and in a way justified by the events of the film when his later freak out inadvertently helps Thanos win. But the scene further establishes just why he was so off his game.

Beyond that though, it’s just hilarious, and it’d be worth releasing an extended version of “Infinity War” just to put the scene back in — if only to give us an additional big laugh before Thanos snaps his fingers.
 
15.There was a draft of the script in which Captain America didn’t show up until Wakanda

Markus and McFeely wanted the arrival of Captain America (Chris Evans) to carry a huge amount of weight, coming after the character’s two years of exile following the events of “Captain America: Civil War.” They achieved that with Cap’s entrance in the Edinburgh scene, alongside Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), but in some of the other drafts of the script, the screenwriters wanted to push the entrance even farther. One draft, they said, had Cap’s first appearance being in Wakanda, when he rockets out of the trees to save Vision’s life as he grapples with bad guy Corvus Glaive (James Michael Shaw). The screenwriters say they were told holding Cap back for that long would be a huge mistake — and then, after thinking about it, decided those people were absolutely right.
 
16.Captain America’s big character arc is in ‘Avengers 4’

Grappling with so many characters in one movie was tough, which left Captain America without much character development in “Infinity War.” The screenwriters said that, since they knew “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers 4” would be two parts of the same story all along, they were able to leave the bulk of Cap’s personal story to the second part. During the commentary, the filmmakers mentioned that Cap has “a big story” in “Avengers 4.”
 
17.That orange place Thanos goes at the snap is, in fact, the Soul World

Speculation has run rampant about the nature of the Soul Stone, which, in the comics, contains a whole world where the souls of people killed by the stone are trapped and reside. Fans have figured that the orange place where Thanos winds up briefly after he achieves the snap, where he meets a young Gamora, was the Soul World. In the commentary, the Russos said, “Of course it’s the Soul World,” which likely means the place will have a big part to play in “Avengers 4.”
 
18.There’s an actual story reason why Spider-Man took longer to die than everyone else

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Most of the characters who fell victim to Thanos’ cosmic finger snap turned to dust in a second or two, but Peter Parker managed to hold out for nearly 30 seconds after uttering his much-memed “Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good” line. Apparently, according to Joe Russo, they decided when they filmed the scene that they wanted to draw it out a bit to increase the emotional impact of the whole thing, and they justified it by telling Tom Holland that “you’re using your strength as Spider-Man to fight this.” Which is a fascinating, and believable, bit of lore that they apparently came up with on the fly.
 
19.Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet were permanently damaged by the snap

When Thanos snaps his fingers at the end of “Infinity War” and gets his wish, a huge amount of energy is expelled, and the Gauntlet and Thanos’ arm are singed by it. In fact, the snap looks like it hurts Thanos pretty badly. The Russos confirmed in the commentary what they’ve said before: using the Gauntlet took a toll on Thanos. What’s interesting is that the filmmakers used the word “permanently” to describe the damage done to both the Mad Titan and his weapon. Sounds like that could have implications for Thanos and the Gauntlet in the future, and maybe, how they can be beaten.

Also, imagine if Thanos is dead at the beginning of “Avengers 4,” having succumbed to that gaping chest wound. Hoo boy.


Here’s What Happened to Thanos When He Snapped His Fingers in ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
Umberto GonzalezLast Updated: May 7, 2018 @ 11:26 AM
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(Warning: Major “Avengers: Infinity War” spoilers ensue.)

So what happened when Thanos obtained all the Infinity Stones and snapped his fingers in “Avengers: Infinity War?”

At the end of the film, Thanos is seen with a young Gamora in an orange dreamlike world after he snaps his fingers, “killing” half of the universe’s living beings. Director Joe Russo said on the podcast Happy Sad Confused that the much debated scene does indeed take place in the soul world within the soul stone.

“It is [in the soul stone], it’s an orange world that they’re in,” said Russo of the scene with Thanos and young Gamora. “Because he’s in the Hero’s Journey in the movie, we did point that out that there’s a correlating journey in the film between Thor and Thanos. Certain characters make very human choices in the movie that are very tragic that shift the direction of the storytelling,” added Russo.

The”Hero’s Journey” is a theory of comparative religion articulated by philosopher Joseph Campbell, which describes a series of challenges, setbacks, and successes said to be experienced by protagonists in myths and legends across varying human cultures. The concept became known in popular culture after it was explicitly used to develop Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” trilogy.



“For Thanos at the end of the movie, this is part of his Hero’s Journey, we once again put him face to face with the only thing that he cared about, where he has to own up to the emotional cost of what he’s done in the movie,” added Russo of the supervillain’s relationship to Gamora.

One of the popular fan theories floating around online is that there is a soul world within the soul stone and souls are trapped within it. Could it be that in “Avengers 4,” the survivors trade “a soul for soul” to bring back the many heroes who disintegrated at the end of the hit movie?

We have a year to think about it. “Avengers 4,” which still doesn’t have a title, opens in theaters May 3, 2019.
 
20.The final shot of Thanos contains a comic Easter Egg

Eagle-eyed fans will notice that when Thanos comes out of his hut on the unnamed planet at the end of “Infinity War” after achieving his goal, there’s a figure in the bottom-right corner of the frame. It’s a scarecrow, one made out of Thanos’ armor from the beginning of the movie. That’s a nod to the Marvel comics, in which, after the “Infinity Gauntlet” storyline, Thanos leaves the life of villainy to become a farmer, and uses his armor to make a scarecrow in his field.
 
gamersfuel said:
Hulk definitely wasn't afraid because of his fight with Thanos. he's too stupid to be afraid... he rushed surtur in Ragnarok... Thor Ragnarok shows why he wouldn't come out
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I need to see the fight without Thanos havin the Stone

But I wonder if he didn’t invoke its power.
 
Mask said:
Most of the characters who fell victim to Thanos’ cosmic finger snap turned to dust in a second or two, but Peter Parker managed to hold out for nearly 30 seconds after uttering his much-memed “Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good” line. Apparently, according to Joe Russo, they decided when they filmed the scene that they wanted to draw it out a bit to increase the emotional impact of the whole thing, and they justified it by telling Tom Holland that “you’re using your strength as Spider-Man to fight this.” Which is a fascinating, and believable, bit of lore that they apparently came up with on the fly.
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i watched the movie again yesterday and i figured the same thing. Spiderman has always been one of the most powerful heroes (one of). Him taking longer than the others to die, proved that. Even Black Panther with the herb didnt take long to die.

That opening scene where Thanos kills loki, and right before he does, he stares at Thor. Then after he does it, he stares at him again. Then drops him right in front of him. Even the music playing after slammed Hulk, that music let you know shit was gonna get real.
 
I felt that Thanos waited because he would have had more people to fight if he didn't wait (Odin, Ego, The Ancient One). Or maybe it just happened to be a coincidence that they all died.
 
"THE MAN" said:
I felt that Thanos waited because he would have had more people to fight if he didn't wait (Odin, Ego, The Ancient One). Or maybe it just happened to be a coincidence that they all died.
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he also had people attempting to obtain them, because he didn't feel he had to step in. He figured they could handle it. After Ronan, he knew he had to get involved.
 
SamSneed said:
Fuck else a nigga like him think he needed for?

Nigga wanna help Shri in the lab

Ol mad at the world ass nigga

Everybody fights, he just wanna be brolic and smell the roses
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Honesty we don't need Bruce banner lol
There's Tony
Black panther who is smarter than Tony
And shuri who is smarter than black panther lol

What does Bruce actually do?

We don't have a hulk that's what we need
 
TimRock said:
i watched the movie again yesterday and i figured the same thing. Spiderman has always been one of the most powerful heroes (one of). Him taking longer than the others to die, proved that. Even Black Panther with the herb didnt take long to die.

That opening scene where Thanos kills loki, and right before he does, he stares at Thor. Then after he does it, he stares at him again. Then drops him right in front of him. Even the music playing after slammed Hulk, that music let you know shit was gonna get real.
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They drew out Spider-Mans death to make Tony feel guilty about exposing him to all this
 

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