Questions tagged [avengers-infinity-war]
Released in 2018, Avengers: Infinity War is an American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. It is a sequel to The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron. It is nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This tag should be used for questions related to this movie.
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Why didn't Thanos kill all the Dwarves on Nidavellir?
Thanos killed 300 dwarves on Nidavellir, thus stopping it from producing new weapons, but he did leave one single dwarf alive there, their king Eitri.
He should have known that a single dwarf can ...
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Is there any reason why MCU changed the Snap to Blip
In Avengers: Infinity War, when Thanos snaps his fingers with the Infinity Stones, half the population vanishes.
In Avengers: Endgame, Banner snaps his fingers with the Infinity Stones & the ...
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What did Thanos mean when saying “This day extracts a heavy toll”? [closed]
What does Thanos mean when he says "This day extracts a heavy toll" upon meeting Doctor Strange on Titan in Avengers: Infinity War? I used Google Translate and it didn't really mean anything in my ...
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Would Thanos still get the Stone?
In the movie Avengers: Endgame, we learn that to get the Soul Stone, one doesn't have to make the sacrifice but simply lose the one they love. A soul for a soul.
Natasha kills herself, yet Clint ...
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Why did Nebula say Thanos isn't a liar?
In Avengers: Endgame, Nebula says this:
My father is many things. A liar is not one of them.
I want to know if he never lied to Nebula, or was she just saying that to make sure he doesn't doubt ...
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Can't the Time Stone be touched with bare hands?
So throughout Infinity War and in the current Endgame, the Time Stone was never touched with bare hands, it seemed to be surrounded by a certain aura and gets transferred from person to person ...
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Why didn't Thanos use the Time Stone to stop the Avengers' plan?
I am quite confused about Avengers: Endgame. If Doctor Strange was able to watch all possible future combinations of winning, why didn't Thanos use that trick in 2018 after killing 50% of the ...
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Does the snap in Avengers work the same for everyone?
In Avengers: Infinity War, we see that after Thanos snaps his fingers, he appears in a scene where he is in an orange space (the soul stone?) with a child version of Gamora.
However, in Avengers: ...
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If all Infinity Stones have a power, what is the Soul Stone's power and aren't the Mind and Soul Stone the same thing? [duplicate]
What does the Soul stone do? Why is it so important? Are the Mind and Soul Stone the same thing?
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos has to sacrifice his own daughter to get the Soul Stone when the ...
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Is the data/AI stored inside or JARVIS and then Vision completely erased?
When Thanos cracks the Stone out of Vision in Avengers: Infinity War, Vision loses his color and consciousness. I’m not sure if he was snapped out of existence. But what is for sure is that he is ...
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Avengers: Infinity War and End Game question [duplicate]
At the end of Avengers: Infinity War Thanos snapped his fingers and that erased half of the life in the universe etc. But to my understanding there is no rule book with the gauntlet. He snapped his ...
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Aren't Corvus Glaive and Ebony Maw more powerful than Thanos? [closed]
While Corvus Glaive from the Marvel Cinematic Universe has the most powerful blade in the universe and Ebony Maw can do whatever he wants with his mind, Thanos doesn't have any special power. Doesn't ...
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Is this character still alive after the events of “Avengers: Endgame”?
During Avengers: Infinity War Thanos killed Vision to take the Mind Stone from his head.
During Avengers: Endgame Tony Stark (Iron Man) tells Professor Hulk to bring everyone back as they were 5 ...
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Why didn't Doctor Strange use the Time Stone on Thanos?
There's another question called Why didn't Doctor Strange use the Time Stone to prevent Thanos from claiming other Infinity Stones?.
This question is totally unrelated and was thought up before I ...
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Do these terms mean the same thing in the MCU?
In both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame we come across the usage of these phrases:
alternate futures
multiple timelines
different realities
While we know that the word "dimension" and "...
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What is the significance of the scene of Soul Stone Pocket Dimension with young Gamora?
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos snaps his fingers and causes the Snapocalypse.
Next scene is Thanos and a young Gamora within an odd place, devoid of many features beyond an Asian style gazebo or ...
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Name of the event at the end of Avengers: Infinity War
In Avengers: Infinity War when the Avengers lost and 50% started disintegrating, was there a name given to the event? The Event, The Disintegration, The Loss?
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Does “Captain Marvel” contain spoilers for “Avengers: Infinity War”?
I am forced to watch these Marvel Movies in the following order (I have seen every other movie already, only those remain):
Captain Marvel
Avengers: Infinity War
Ant-Man & the Wasp
Avengers: ...
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Why this change in the Infinity Stone gauntlet?
Thanos's infinity stone gauntlet is left-handed. The one that the Avengers make in Endgame is right-handed. Is there a significant or symbolic reason for this?
I'm interested in in-universe or out-...
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Why do the Avengers struggle so much against Thanos in “Endgame”, when they managed to resist him in “Infinity War” in a supposedly worse situation? [duplicate]
When Thanos fights the Avengers in Infinity War, he always has the Power Stone because that's the first he collected. So he has been fighting with increased power, yet some of the Avengers were able ...
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Were there others guarding/guiding to the Soul Stone?
In Infinity War, we see The Red Skull at Vormir guiding those who came to collect the Soul Stone.
But since these infinity stones existed long before the events of Captain America, do we know if ...
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What did Doctor Strange mean by the last thing he said in Infinity War?
In Infinity War, Dr. Strange's last statement to Tony is "Tony, there was no other way."
What did he actually mean in Endgame?
Was he referring to whether only Tony can invent the time travel ...
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Why didn't Doctor Strange summon the whole army in Infinity War? [closed]
In Infinity War, why did Doctor Strange even let Thanos snap in the first place by letting half of them die and even giving away the Time Stone in the process only to later be reverse snapped back ...
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Spiderman comment question
So I was watching Avengers: Infinity War after I saw Endgame and when 2 of the Black Order members (Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf) were fighting against Iron Man, Spider-man came for help.
Tony Stark ...
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What exactly does the Infinity Gauntlet do?
When Thanos snapped his fingers in Avengers: Infinity War, half the population of the universe died. So his plan was to come to the future to snap everything dead and re-create a new universe.
When ...
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Why does Tony call his daughter Maguna?
Tony calls his daughter Maguna a couple of times in the movie. (Or at least uses that word around her. I don't know if that's just a nickname or has a deeper context. Any search on Google yields no ...
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Do vanished people know what happened after the snap?
In Avengers: Infinity war Thanos's finger snapping caused wiping out half of the universe. And in Avengers: Endgame, when the Avengers got all the Infinity Stones from the past, Hulk put the Gauntlet ...
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How did Hawkeye qualify to receive this item?
In Avengers: Infinity War, in order to obtain the Soul Stone, Thanos has to sacrifice someone he loves. To thwart Thanos, Gamora tries to stab herself, but he turns the knife into bubbles.
Thanos ...
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Exactly what is Thanos? [duplicate]
In Avengers: Endgame Thanos single-handedly takes on
Also, he did most of this BEFORE getting any of the Infinity Stones.
So, what gives? What makes this character so powerful?
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Why was Peter Parker so excited to be an Avenger?
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter refused being an Avenger at the end of the movie, yet in Avengers: Infinity War, he acted excited when Iron Man told him he was now officially an Avenger.
Why would ...
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Was the pager message from Nick Fury to Captain Marvel unnecessary?
This question has been bugging me for a while. Maybe it is a bit overthought.
Does Nick Fury really need to send a pager message to Captain Marvel after Thanos' snap? I mean, there is only a 50% ...
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How did Thanos rewind Vision?
How did Thanos rewind the Infinity Stone in Vision at the end of Avengers: Infinity War? The stone is 1/6 of a Goddess and Doctor Strange can't even rewind a semi magic Book with 'Consequences'. It ...
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Did Thanos think of the aftermath of snapping the Infinity Gauntlet?
According to the MCU Wiki:
Thanos is the genocidal warlord from Titan, whose own main objective
was to bring stability to the universe, as he believed its massive
population would inevitably ...
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What happened to the outriders during “Avengers: Infinity War”?
Last time we saw of them, they were fighting against the Wakandans and the Avengers in Wakanda, and there was still a number of them.
Now, just after Thanos' snap, we see the Wakandans being dusted ...
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What happened on Titan before the arrival of Tony and Star-Lord?
In Avengers: Infinity War Star-Lord speculates what might have happened to Titan as he said its "axis are 8 degrees off and gravitational pull is all over the place". After that, when Thanos arrived, ...
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Why did Fury and Hill dissapear so quickly? [duplicate]
I am sure that there is a duplicate of this that I have just not been able to find, but this relates to the post - credit tag of Avengers: Infinity War.
It appears that Fury and Hill have only just ...
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How is Iron Man communicating with the others on Titan?
In Avengers: Infinity War Star Lord is implanted with a translator. But how are Iron Man and Spiderman able to communicate with others on Titan...
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Where was Karl Mordo in Infinity War?
Karl Mordo was a huge role in Doctor Strange and there's no explanation for where he was in Avengers: Infinity War. If Wong was there Karl should have been too.
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Why does Thanos say to Iron Man that he is “cursed with knowledge”? [duplicate]
When Thanos was fighting against Iron Man in Avengers: Infinity War, he said > You're not the only one who cursed with knowledge.
What does he mean with that?
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Can Doctor Strange look into the future beyond his death? [duplicate]
In Avengers: Infinity War, Doctor Strange looked into the alternating futures to see the outcome of the battle against Thanos. And out of millions of possible outcomes he said that only in one outcome ...
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Who Collected all the stones before thanos did? [duplicate]
In Thor: Ragnarok an infinity gauntlet was visible, does this mean Odin had it in the first place? Was he the one who put the stones in different realms?
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Does the Soul Stone always need a sacrifice?
The Soul Stone in Vormir became concealed in a shrine, accessible only to those who were willing to sacrifice someone that they loved.
Red Skull: Soul holds a special place among the Infinity ...
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Is Thanos the only survivor of his planet?
When Thanos described his planet, he mentioned that they were on the brink of collapse as a civilization. But I haven't seen anyone from his species in the movies.
Is he the only survivor? I guess ...
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Why is it different when Ebony Maw handles the tesseract and when Red Skull handles the tesseract?
Various people handle the tesseract throughout the MCU. I'm interested in the distinction between Ebony Maw in Avengers: Infinity War:
(Loki and Thanos also handle the tesseract in this scene.)
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How did Thanos know about the power of “The Snap”?
In the scene on Titan with Doctor Strange in Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos said,
With all six Infinity Stones, I will simply snap my fingers and it would all cease to exist.
Then again, in the ...
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Does Gamora's species have males?
Watching Avengers: Infinity War (2018), we see Gamora and her mother. There's also a bunch of people during a flashback on her home planet, who all look female--maybe there's a quick glimpse of some ...
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What happened to Heimdall's sword?
Heimdall's sword Hofund is reported as "made by the Dwarf smiths of Nidavellir". It seems like it is also the "Thanos-killing kind". I was wondering why Thor didn't use it against Thanos (instead of ...
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How did Nick Fury know that it's time to call Captain Marvel?
Nick Fury didn't know that Thanos was on Earth, have all the infinity stones and snapped. Just by looking at Maria Hill getting "dusted", how can he know that it's time to call Captain Marvel? He ...
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How did Thanos defeat Thor in the beginning of Infinity War?
How was Thanos able to defeat Thor in the beginning of Avengers: Infinity War? Did he use the Power Stone?
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What was happening in Wakanda in the “end credit” scene of Avengers: Infinity War?
In the "End Credit" scene of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), we saw Maria Hill and Nick Fury driving in the street and then there was a message on the radio. Nick then asked Maria, "what is it?" Maria ...
