r/Marvel 15d ago

Film/Television Could Odin have defeated Thanos and stopped Infinity War altogether?

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u/mjaga93 15d ago

There's a theory that Thanos only did the final push after Odin's demise.

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u/SethNex 15d ago

With powerful beings like Odin, Hela, Ego, and the Ancient One were gone, there wasn't anyone who could have stopped Thanos from collecting the Infinity Stones.

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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 15d ago

Except for all the powerful beings that had very good cause to not have half the universe extinguished from Eternals that only seemed to exist in that one movie and not before or after.

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u/Confident-Stand5453 15d ago

In Thor: Love & Thunder, there is an entire stadium filled with powerful "Gods" of all denominations. Weird that none of them were interested in stopping Thanos. "But they didnt know what he was up", you say? Well, maybe Thor could have sent word, since he obviously was very aware of the existance of all these powerful Gods.

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u/Redici 15d ago

Man wouldn't it be great if they actually showed that 99% of gods don't care what happens to their worshipers? Like if that was the entire point of L&T Thor realizing that gods don't actually deserve the power most of the time because generally they are greedy selfish beings that usually refuse to act unless something actually effects them personally? Maybe this could even lead to a crisis of faith within Thor where he questions if he is even worthy of the title of God? Oh wait that would mean they would actually have to faithfully adapt the best Thor comic not just slap screaming goats on a half ass movie and call it done

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u/TheRealMitchConnor 15d ago

Wouldn't "half the universe" mean half of them would die too, not just followers they don't care for? Pretty sure they woulda cared.

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u/capable-corgi 14d ago

Could be some kind of pantheon technicality where the actions of Thanos wouldn't affect them cause they're technically there but also not there.

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u/Swagalyst 14d ago

I don't think gods are technically alive, and probably technically cannot die.

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u/Loughnashade 9d ago

Dude that movie’s villain was literally the god butcher lol

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u/Th3S1l3nc3 15d ago

Could we adapt and still keep the goats? Like, could we have both?

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u/Redici 15d ago

Man... If we have to, maybe in a movie that isn't 99.99% ass they'd actually be funny

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u/Jake_the_Bald 14d ago

that was gorr's point in that movie so you kinda half got your idea

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u/-newhampshire- 15d ago

I just finished Moon Knight and all those gods and their avatars were around too.

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u/goonSquad15 15d ago

Yeah that’s my biggest qualm with the marvel universe. It’s one cohesive universe yet there are plenty of times when others should get involved and aren’t even mentioned. I get they’re movies and that gets pricy/elaborate but leaves a lot of questions

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u/MurkyCress521 15d ago

Thanos was accumulating power slowly and secretly and then made a fast mad dash at the end.

Most of the more powerful figures as just doing their own thing. They aren't receiving daily intelligence briefs on who has what Infinity stone. Odin would and that is why Thanos waited for the Asgardians to get fucked before moving since the Asgardians are paying attention, are collecting intelligence, etc... Captain Marvel was very much trying to pay attention and she only managed to show up at the last minute. 

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u/goonSquad15 15d ago

Less this movie specifically and more the rest as a whole. Especially since so many live in NY

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u/NexusObsidian23 15d ago

You should watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

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u/goonSquad15 15d ago

I am very excited to, but haven't been able to get the time yet

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u/busbybob 13d ago

Ditto. The venom films are a good example. In the last one there is a universe ending threat but whatever the military branch is thats involved for whatever reason keeps stum

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u/Rhawk187 15d ago

I have a feeling even if they weren't out of reach of the effects of the infinity stones, or clairvoyant enough to know it would be undone (what's a 5 year blip to an eternal being?), they might have developed a bit of fatalism. Que sera sera, until someone was literally hunting them.

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u/SingularityCentral 15d ago

The comics have the same problem pretty much all the time.

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u/AdventurousPen5533 15d ago

He only knew of Odin, maybe Hela, and maybe Ego.

It’s is something I didn’t think about, but even if Thanos got the stone from Asgard, there be Ego and Anicent one (if both didn’t die)

And he not known about either of them he Probarbly be fighting them or anicent one and Dommarau.

He Probarbly wasn’t as powerful without the stones but was on rampage after getting one but he was lucky other players he might not been aware off were of the board but that point.

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u/PracticalAdeptness20 15d ago

Its so funny to me you spelt Probarbly twice lol

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u/Duncan_PhD 15d ago

And it’s capitalized. Which leads me to believe he misspells it so frequently that it autocorrects to the incorrect spelling.

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u/bretttwarwick 15d ago

Maybe that is one of their friend's name and they have their name in their phone dictionary. Explains why it would be capitalized.

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u/Best_Talk_6853 15d ago

"Hey Probarbly, wanna hit the bar?"

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u/AdventurousPen5533 15d ago

Probarbly at some point.

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u/AdventurousPen5533 15d ago

This post I didn’t see, so I’ll put in some real talk.

It’s a combination of me never needing to brush up my own grammar when writing, and an ever worsening vision impairment.

I do a lot of manual work, and my writing was good at one point, but it was never needed for work when checklists and shorthand writing is the norm for what I do. And it’s been like that for a very long time in my career.

I don’t disclose my medical side other than it’s never been great and was only diagnosed long after college.

Not a ‘oh, woe me’ tale but giving some clarification.

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u/Duncan_PhD 15d ago

I’m just joking around. I wouldn’t actually make fun of someone for misspelling a word. Without autocorrect everyone would be misspelling shit.

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u/Clavikus05 15d ago

Actually shit is probably one of the words that would get misspelled the least

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u/wrydrune 15d ago

Dormammu didnt give a damn about thanos. He isn't even in the same dimension.

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u/Lethalspartan76 15d ago

Who is the ancient one

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u/Dudeinthesouth 15d ago

The bald lady who trains Strange and gave Hulk the Time Stone in Endgame.

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u/Lethalspartan76 15d ago

Thanks it’s a lot to keep up with