We all know Thanos specifically chose to snap to use all the Infinity Stones to wipe out half the universe. Even everyone else who gets an Infinity Gauntlet seems to have to snap in order to use all the Stones.  Did it have to be a snap in order to use all the Infinity Stones? Why wasn't it a clap? Or something else? I get Thanos chose to do a snap but if he had chosen to do a clap or something else, would it have worked?    The reason I'm not entirely sure is because Tony builds a gauntlet as well and he's not working off Thanos' gauntlet but he comes to the same conclusion-snap to use all Infinity Stones, granted this may have been easiest, but I'm still curious if it needed to be a snap or all gauntlets were just designed that way.    I'm specifically asking for lore on using all 6 stones. I know there's duplicates out there about how specifically the gauntlet is activated, but I'm asking if, in order to use all 6 infinity stones, a snap, by any party, whether it be Thanos, Hulk, Tony, other celestials, etc, is required on any gauntlet (or any device using all 6 stones), or if that was simply a choice by all parties that have used all 6 stones thus far.
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In Avengers: Infinity War, up until Thanos      gets all six Stones   in order to use the Gauntlet he needs to close his fist, as we see in the fight scene on Titan.     Doctor Strange: "Don't let him close his fist!"   So why later does snapping work?
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Prior to Avengers: Infinity War, we are introduced to and acquainted with five of the six Infinity Stones, and their powers are demonstrated in action and observed by the audience.   However, the soul stone was hidden, and was introduced in this movie, but I don't remember it being used in the movie.  So, what does the Soul Stone actually do?
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In Avengers: Endgame, is the snap simply dramatic, or does the wielder of the Gauntlet needs to follow this ritual to actually activate it?
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In Thor, there is a scene where you can see what looks like the Infinity Gauntlet in Odin's vault. Later (in Avengers: Age of Ultron, IIRC) you learn that Thanos actually has the Infinity Gauntlet, raising some questions about the one in Odin's vault, which are answered in Thor: Ragnarok when Hela sees it in the vault, knocks it over, and proclaims it to be a fake.  After all this, Kevin Feige  how the Gauntlet in Odin's vault was originally mostly just an easter egg, but also gave an in-universe explanation for Odin having a fake Infinity Gauntlet; essentially that Odin was pretending to have it so people on Asgard wouldn't worry about it being used against them.  However, in Infinity War, Eitri tells Thor how Thanos came to Nidavellir and forced him to make the Infinity Gauntlet, then killed everyone and chopped off Eitri's hands, putting an end to everything there. It seems that no one was aware that Nidavellir was shut down or that any of this had happened, and seeing as how the Gauntlet was made for -- and went directly to -- Thanos, how did Odin come to know that it even existed and get details of what it looked like in order to create a fake for his vault?
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In Avengers: Endgame,      Present-Nebula kills Past-Nebula.   I'm confused. Wouldn't it cause a grandfather paradox?  Then how did she survive?
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If I had a gauntlet with essentially unlimited power, and my goal was to help make sure life in the universe was able to prosper, then my first thought toward this goal probably would not be      to extinguish half of all life.   This doesn't directly help anyone, and it is, at best, a temporary solution, since      populations will eventually grow back.   Assuming that I am not, in fact, secretly in love with an avatar of death itself, why would I choose to      commit universal genocide   instead of directly solving the limited resource problem?  So, to be specific, my question is: In-universe, what is Thanos's motivation for attempting to do this instead of more reasonable alternatives?
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In the recent Thor installment, 'Thor: The Dark World', upon receiving the news of Frigga's death, Loki in his cell, out of anger and frustration uses some form of telekinesis to throw all the furniture in his cell, without physically touching it, by clenching his fists.   This is the first time in the MCU that Loki has been seen using this ability and has yet to be formally addressed and elaborated on.    If Loki indeed has telekinetic abilities, why did he not use this useful ability during 'The Avengers' or even in the first 'Thor' film.    An ability like that might have proven useful for him in 'The Avengers' movie.
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In the Age of Ultron mid-credit scene, Thanos puts on some sort of a glove and says &quot;Fine, I'll do it myself.&quot; Which seems to imply his plan to get it done by others has failed. Did Thanos mastermind the events in the movie in any manner?
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At the end of Captain America - The First Avenger, when Red Skull and Captain America are fighting on a plane, Red Skull holds the Tesseract in his hands. And soon a portal opens to another space dimension and the Red Skull disintegrates due to the power of the Tesseract.     Did the Red Skull actually die or was he sucked to another space dimension? Because the Tesseract is later revealed to be a Space Infinity Stone
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The ARC reactor and electromagnet chest piece are originally there to prevent pieces of shrapnel from piercing his heart. That happens because he was fixed by a Chinese/Afghan doctor who doesn't have anything else to do it properly.  However, when he got back to the US during Iron Man and Iron Man 2, why didn't he have the shrapnel removed? Why not just immediately get rid of the electromagnet and live normally?  He later decides to have the electromagnet removed (at the end of Iron Man 3), so why didn't he do it before, especially when it was killing him in Iron Man 2? What changed during Iron Man 3 that suddenly made it possible? Or what prevented him from having it removed before?
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When Hulk snaps the Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers: Endgame, what exactly does happen?  Do the missing people just return or does the snap set time back to five years prior?  I was confused because if it just returns the missing people, why does no one seem to age? When Peter Parker returns to school, everyone is still the same age as he was but theoretically, they should be 5 years older.  My conclusion is that the new Spider-Man movie has to be set before Avengers: Infinity War, but maybe I'm missing something.
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I am wondering if there is anything in Marvel comic book canon or in the MCU that says that the Infinity Gauntlet has the power to make someone fall in love with the person wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, or that the wearer of the Infinity Gauntlet can use the Infinity Gauntlet to make two strangers fall in love with each other? Perhaps the combined power of the Mind Stone and the Soul Stone would make two people fall in love.
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Sorry for the cryptic title, but I realise the film has only just been released in the UK and Europe and is yet to be released in the US.  I'll hide all substantial parts of my question, just in case. I don't want to spoil anything.     At the end of Age of Ultron, Thor states that 4 infinity stones have now shown up in the last few years.   So,     By my count we have the Tesseract, from several of the first few films. The Aether, from Thor 2. The Chitauri Scepter, again from several films. And finally, we have The Orb, from Guardians.    Now, to my knowledge     Thor, and indeed none of the Avengers, should know about The Orb. I don't remember Thor visiting the Collector between GoTG and the AoU. So, how did Thor know that The Orb had appeared? Or is he referencing a different infinity stone?   I'm looking for an in universe answer, ideally.
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In issue 5 of the recent Incredible Hulk ongoing (vol. 3), it is revealed that      Dr. Doom   separated the Incredible Hulk and Bruce Banner. He does this using an adamantium chainsaw.   Image blurred to protect the innocent spoiler.  I was under the impression that adamantium was pretty much impossible to find and use outside of Ultron and the Weapon Blah program. Is it common enough that it's no big deal for the blurry fellow above to have gotten an adamantium chainsaw?
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So we know from Infinity War that Thanos was collecting all the Infinity Stones to basically solve the problems brought about by overpopulation on many planets.  But does it make any sense? He could've just easily increased the resources or changed the area or taken appropriate measure to handle that situation. As far as I know, collecting all the Infinity Stones gives the user limitless power and control over the universe in the MCU.  Is Thanos just a mass murderer or is there something I'm missing?
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Sorry, not quite sure how to format spoilers so I tried to keep the title vague.  Here's for the new Thor movie (just watched it last night):      How did Loki fake dying (and managed to fool Thor, the reinforcements who found his body and possibly Odin since he would have wanted to see the body after it was brought back)?   And follow-up:      Also, in the end, he's shown to have pretended to be Odin on the throne while talking to Thor about Thor's decision to stay on Earth. Where is Odin and how did Loki manage to do this? Did he do something to Odin?
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In the "End Credit" scene of , 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 answers, "Multiple bogeys over Wakanda, more powerful than New York". After that, they turn into dust by the snap. So that means when they were talking, at the same time Thanos was trying to snatch the Mind Stone, or already did, and was ready to snap.   Now the main point; all those "space-crafts" carrying Thanos' armies landed over Wakanda much earlier. Then what were those "multiple bogeys" Maria referred to? What was going on over there at that moment?