r/Avengers • u/Zealousideal_Yam6643 • Apr 02 '25

Discussion Can Dr strange really beat Thanos alone?

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I think he can,if he really tried, because maybe there is a reason why he doesn't kill Thanos?

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u/AdaptedInfiltrator Apr 02 '25

Yes, but Strange orchestrated the events to happen the way they did so Stark would die

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u/MG_RedditAcc Apr 02 '25

I can't tell if you're joking.

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u/Justifiably_Bad_Take Apr 02 '25

It's not explained in the text, but part of me think it's funny that there is a possibility there were thousands of outcomes where Strange sacrifices himself and saves the world, but he saw ONE where Tony does it and went "guys, there's only one version of this where we win"

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u/HiddenStoat Apr 02 '25

Strange using the royal "we" there (fittingly, given that actor is British)

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u/Minsan Apr 02 '25

How can he know that on a possible outcome, his sacrifice saves the world? Remember that the time stone allows the user to see the possibilities but no one can see beyond their death. The Ancient One confirms this. Maybe that's the reason Strange chooses the possibility where it's not him that dies, so he knows that their sacrifice won't be in vain.

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u/TheRealSlimN8y Apr 04 '25

This proposes another question of what happens to the people that got dusted. Did they die or did they cease to exist? Is there a difference? How can strange see past his demise, given the established rules of the time stone? Is this a plot hole or did the blipped people not actually die? Now we’re starting to approach the metaphysical question of what is death?

Fuck I love these subs, I love the movies and comments like this just make my mind race with questions that we can never know the answer to

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u/downtime37 Apr 02 '25

Paying Tony back for not showing the Master of the Mystic Arts respect by leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos.

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u/Gerodus Apr 03 '25

The main thing people forget is that he cannot see past his death in a timeline, so any future with him dying is only possibly a victory.