Avengers: Infinity War
The reply to why Thanos waited untilAvengers : Infinity Warto steal the six Infinity Stones has finally been reveal by the filmmakers in the commentary accompanying the moving-picture show ’s home video release . Thanos ' quest for the Infinity Stones was shown nearly in its integrality in the thirdAvengersfilm , and he was finally successful in his program to wipe out half of all life in the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Only his decimation of the satellite Xandar bump off - screen ; otherwise , fans witnessed the Great Titan take the other five Harlan Fiske Stone from their protector , including Loki , the Collector , the Red Skull , Doctor Strange , and Vision .
However , the loiter question buff have nurse for years was : Why did Thanos await as long as he did to tack together the Infinity Gauntlet ? After all , the purple vanquisher was first glimpse in the end - credits panorama ofThe Avengersin 2012 - after he yield Loki a sceptre with the Mind Stone attached . InGuardians of the Galaxytwo age later , he charged Ronan with secure the Power Stone for him , to no service . Finally , the ending - citation conniption ofAvengers : Age of Ultronshowed Thanos get into the Stones - less Infinity Gauntlet , promising that"I’ll do it myself . “Yet he did n’t make any crusade to do so untilInfinity War . Some fans speculated that the Titan waited until various knock-down divinity in the world died , like Ego inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2and Odin inThor : Ragnarok . This would empty the field of resistance to his diabolic program .
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It turns out some of that speculation was indeed head in the right direction . In their lively and informative commentary , manager Joe and Anthony Russo , along with film writer Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus hash out Thanos ' motivations and eventually answer the interrogation of why Thanos look untilInfinity War to finally pull the trigger and capture the six ancient ingots of power :
Stephen McFeely : " The catalyst for the whole movie was when Thanos … fascinate Nebula on his ship and rooted around in her mentality and found out Gamora roll in the hay where the Soul Stone was . "
Joe Russo : " It ’s the reason why he has not … "
McFeely : " Why he has n’t gone after it before . "
Russo : " … Because the mo he does , the forces of the existence are gon na draw up against him . If he does n’t know where the Soul Stone is , then what is the point ? "
From the filmmakers ' rationale of Thanos ' method , everything hinge on his power to captureall six Infinity Stones , with the concealed Soul Stone basically being the dealbreaker . Thanos demand the terminated Infinity Gauntlet in ordering to carry through on his genocidal plan , and even bear most of the Stones would n’t allow him to wipe out half of the universe with a snatch of his fingers . Therefore , Thanos bided his time specially when it do to finding the missing Soul Stone - a task he intrust to Gamora , who later lied to him that she never plant out where it was . But the mistake Gamora made was trusting Nebula with the truth that she did know theSoul Stone ’s secret localisation . When Nebula slump joining the Guardians inVol . 2to seek retaliation on their adopted father , she fell properly into Thanos ' hands - and ultimately , so did the Soul Stone .
Furthermore , Thanos , a being"cursed with knowledge , " had studied Earth ’s heroes ( includingTony Stark ) and fuck they would tack together to assay to end him . The Mad Titan already watched Loki break down to lead the Chitauri forces to conquer Earth , and he also saw Ronan destroy by the riffraff group called the Guardians of the Galaxy , which counted his favorite daughter Gamora among their ranks . Thanos cognise exactly who he was up against and what they could do . Even hisBlack rescript is too weakto get the better of those heroes without all of the Infinity Stones . In the end , Thanos won because he played the MCU like a master chess player . The question go intoAvengers 4is whether apermanently damaged Infinity Gauntletand an injured Thanos will be brawny enough to beat the Avengers a second time .
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Avengers : Infinity Waris now available on digital HD , and it releases on Blu - ray on August 14 .
