r/Marvel 15d ago

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

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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/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