![]() ![]() The punches come thick and fast – even the recommended beginner’s easy mode presents a fair challenge during your first few runs. Rolls upon rolls upon card draws mean this isn’t a place for those incensed by a lack of control, but the game has an enjoyable curve of expanding options once more heroes are recruited and combine with their allies to grow dice pools, trigger special abilities and rack up bonus tokens, which can be spent to bolster roll results and undo some of Thanos’ punishing blows. Thanos also gets to throw down, lobbing a couple of cubes to work towards getting the Infinity Stones in his grasp, weaken heroes (ten dispatched goodies and he claims victory instead) and activate his minions intermingled around the central ring of cards. ![]() ![]() What can we say – it’s still a board game. Roll results are cashed in to either recruit some of the heroes from the central board or attack villains, with ten minor baddies needing to be dispatched to apparently convince Thanos to give up his grand vision and trot off back home. Your odds are a little better in Thanos Rising, the board game based on the movie based on the Marvel comic (phew), though the (giant, purple) hand of fate can still quickly close its grip and leave you feeling like you did when the cinema lights came up.ĭice-chucking is the order of the day here, as players start out with a ragtag band of some of the Avengers and, yes, attempt to assemble the superhero gang back together before Thanos can decorate the Infinity Gauntlet with all six Infinity Stones and leave half of the players vacuuming what remains of their companions from the Avengers Tower carpet. He did it because the world would be better off without him, callous as it is to say.In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos’ masterplan to sort galaxy-wide overpopulation with a (literal) snap of his giant, purple fingers is to instantly wipe out half of all life in the universe before you can say “Where was Hawkeye, anyway?” Survival comes down to a gigantic game of chance. He didn’t let Tony die because he thought the Avengers would be better off without him. He’s a doctor, he knows how to make hard decisions about which treatment would be worth the side effects to ensure survival. ![]() One of the best parts of Doctor Strange’s character is how practical he is. You get the sense he didn’t let Tony die just to get the upper hand. In a deleted scene from the movie, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Strange’s reaction to Tony’s loss in utterly heartbreaking fashion. But it’s certainly possible something terrible could happen with him in the future.įaced with the biggest trolley problem possible, Doctor Strange decided the best outcome for the fate of the Earth was to get rid of both Thanos and Tony Stark in one fight, allowing the Avengers to continue to exist in an intact (if damaged) form.ĭoctor Strange said in Infinity War that he wouldn’t hesitate to let Tony die, but that may have changed in Endgame. The Stark Truth - It’s hard to come to terms with a theory like this purely because Tony Stark was the glowing arc reactor heart of the Avengers. Unfortunately, it meant the defeat of Tony Stark too.ĭoctor Strange letting Tony know this is the one winning outcome. Strange wasn’t just the defeat of Thanos. Instead, Tony Stark served as the lynchpin for huge issues after Thanos was defeated, meaning the end of the Avengers as we know it. The theory suggests that in some of these outcomes, the Avengers’ demise didn’t come at the hands of Thanos. The Theory - Redditor u/OmegaRed12 posits that when Doctor Strange saw into the future, the other 14,000,604 timelines where they lost didn’t always mean Thanos won there were timelines where other, non-Thanos events were considered losses as well.Īfter all, it’s the MCU 14 million outcomes would surely involve some intense curveballs. Perhaps - but this theory suggests Doctor Strange let Tony fall for a haunting reason. But while the moment worked as a denouement for a chapter of Marvel Cinematic Universe history, was there a way it could have been avoided? Two deaths in particular hit Marvel fans like a one-two punch with a wrecking ball: the loss of Natasha, followed shortly by the death of Tony Stark.įollowing the revival of the 3.5 billion blipped population, Tony’s demise completed a holy trinity of emotional gut punches in Endgame. The Avengers beat Thanos, but at what cost? In Avengers: Endgame, the Blip was reversed, but not without enormous sacrifice. ![]()
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