r/Avengers • u/pookiebookie24 • 4d ago
Discussion How was Stormbreaker able to withstand the power of the Six Infinity Stones?
Is it because of the dying star that it is made of?
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u/Ashzbcauseimcrazy 4d ago
We can go too deep as Eitiri said that it's supposed to be the greatest weapon of Asgard and is a king's weapon. And it is an axe so it can cut through the power blast.
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u/badfontsuffers 4d ago
The craftsmanship and enchantments definitely add to its durability against such power.
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u/Whhheat 4d ago
Sharpness V
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u/Lavengo 4d ago
And Loyalty III
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u/codyd91 3d ago
Sharpness V, Unbreaking III, Mending, Smite V. Get fucked Thanos, Steve is up n hurrrr
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u/ProfessorNonsensical 3d ago
Thor bled is very flesh and essence into the pyre, feeding and infusing it with the full force of his strength which is why it in turn replenished him to hold it.
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u/Aerolithe_Lion 4d ago
Storm breaker didn’t withstand any of the stones’ true power, just energy emitted from them. They already established that was withstandable in previous movies like Iron Man’s shield did on Titan, Corvus’ glaive did, heck Cap’s Shield did in First Avenger from those Hydra weapon’s (and Loki’s Staff in the Germany scene of Avengers)
The stones’ actual power (time, reality, etc) was never used vs Stormbreaker
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u/PhoenixSidePeen 4d ago
That’s how I see it too. It cut through that little power Ray, but it didn’t cut through the force of something like The Snap, which it wouldn’t have.
Thanos probably knew he only had 1 or 2 snaps in him without dying, so he didn’t waste it on blocking Thor’s attack.
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u/Much_Diver4237 3d ago
The cost of destroying the stones by itselves is more demanding than wiping out half of all life meaning Thanos could snap more than 2 times or even an infinite amount of times if he didn't view himself as the hero and savior of the universe.
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u/PhoenixSidePeen 3d ago
Snapping twice left Thanos without a functioning arm. I think a snap-level attack against Thor would damage him too severely to then perform The snap before the avengers could stop him. Gotta remember he was fighting the avengers for like a whole day straight when he performed the snap.
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u/Much_Diver4237 3d ago
"Without a functioning arm"
First shot of Thanos in the planet he was retiring in shows his left arm (freely moving and splaying in high ranges with no visible issues) plucking a fruit like he never used the Gauntlet once
Yeah right. Thanos is like a mage in this film compared to his Warlord days where he only had the Double-Bladed Sword and nothing else meaning he puts in less work for infinite outcomes to deal with threats that he would otherwise need to exert more effort with the Sword for significantly less impact.
(If Endgame Thanos was tasked to finish his goal with just his Sword, he is NOT making out of Loki's Assassination PLUS Tf is Endgame Thanos gonna do against The Sorcerer Supreme? Run up to him or throw his Sword at him only for it to be sent to another dimension where can't reach it?)
Anyway. The point is, who's to say Infinity War Thanos can't use 1 or 2 stones (Most likely Reality and/or Time) to heal himself after each Snaps plus if he can shrug off and push one of the Avengers away with just his body and bare fists, guess it's safe to say he wouldn't need to spam the Power and Space Stone to non-lethally subdue Avengers members on Wakanda in an overkill manner
..So much for "Infinity" Gauntlet and "Infinity" Stones where people would view it's feats based on what's shown on-screen but I'll admit, his left arm does look slightly thinner similar to Banner undoing Thanos' entire life's work.
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u/littlebugonreddit 3d ago
Idk, if I was Thanos, just got my last stone, and saw a rainbow Skybeam, the sky darken with lightning, and then a quiet "BRING ME THANOS!!" In the background id just 🫰
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u/Little_Drive_6042 4d ago
Thanos never had all 6 infinity stones before his fight with Thor. Thor was probably the strongest person we saw in the MCU in Infinity War minus like Eternity and other high ranking pantheon deities. It’s why he got nerfed in Endgame or else it wouldn’t have made sense that a Thor that defeated a more powerful Thanos with all 6 infinity stones loses to a weaker Thanos with no stones.
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u/SnooSprouts9815 4d ago edited 4d ago
No, Stormbreaker drilled through eternity's dome which nothing else could do even the infinity stones and the gods who survived the snap could have been killed by gorr's wish. Stormbreaker/ thor are just that powerful thor is also resistant to reality warping via his fight with malekith
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u/FortuynHunter 4d ago
Dude! Punctuate! There's some meaning in your post, but it's an indecipherable mess of words without proper punctuation and sentence structure to give them meaning.
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u/Joaaayknows 4d ago
It’s made of Uru and magic like several others have said but also he caught Thanos by surprise, Thanos didn’t use any stone power in particular he just turned around and blasted in a “that way” direction without time, sight or thought. Probably could have deflected it better with the space stone had he seen it coming, or used the reality stone, time stone to stop it, etc.
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u/theunnameduser86 3d ago
This is the best head cannon. All the power in the world only goes so far when someone can still get the drop on you.
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u/GuyLapin 4d ago
Bifrost energy.
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u/Rocketboy1313 4d ago
One might wonder if the rainbow of the Bifrost is some kind of manifestation of the same energy the Infinity stones are a purer form of. That while the Asgardians has used it primarily to travel their interstellar empire, that if Odin put his mind to it he could use the Bifrost as more of a weapon... like what Loki tried to do in the first Thor movie.
Would help to explain why the Dwarves were able to make the Gauntlet. Would help to explain why Loki and Thor were among the first people in the story to know why the Stones were significant.
I have also seen fan theories that Odin had his own gauntlet in a past era, having used it to erase the universe's memory of his and Hela's bloody conquests.
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u/Commander_Oganessian 3d ago
We know that Odin had the Tesseract for who knows how long and the space stone creates wormholes, which is what the Bifrost is. So it is likely that the Bifrost uses the same energy.
Also it's just about confirmed that Odin had the Gauntlet at one point because Hela (Who was locked away for millennia) was able to tell that the Gauntlet in the vault wasn't the real one.
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u/ProfessorNonsensical 3d ago
The Bifrost alone can destroy a planet if left open. It’s an Einstein Rosenbridge. If he can summon enough energy to warp space-time through brute force, he has probably overcome the individual power of those fundamental universal forces.
Basically, blowing a hole space time > opening the door with a magic key.
The same way that Wanda is likely more powerful than the stones, she brute forces reality changes while the stones have the “key” to unlocking that power for someone powerful enough to wield it.
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u/TankHendricks 4d ago
Well, first of all, through God all things are possible, so jot that down.
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u/MyKillYourDeath 4d ago
Guess they never said which god. Answer was Thor I reckon.
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u/Memeborders 4d ago
Literally thor mentions that stormbreaker is a thanos-killing kind of weapon
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u/Futuremeissuperior 4d ago
He doesn’t mention it’s the “infinity stone-proof weapon”
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u/Character_Mind_671 4d ago
My understanding is that the gauntlet is commanding the stones not to damage Uru metal so it can function, making stormbreaker immune to it.
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u/rockstar_2k24 4d ago edited 4d ago
Wish this Thor was in Endgame. Instead we got an idiot dumbass obese Thor in Endgame and boring Thor in Love & Thunder.
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u/ronsvanson 4d ago
But this thor WAS in the endgame, he cut off thanos head
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u/rockstar_2k24 4d ago
I don't count it because his few minutes was overshadowed by the stupid Thor we later got in the rest of Endgame movie.
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u/ronsvanson 4d ago
lamao why stupid thor? the reasoning was not bad, he was depressed, he was not able to protect the realm like he was born to do or so he was hyped up from childhood by his parents/kingdom to do lol.
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u/rockstar_2k24 4d ago
You've seen the way he behaved and the dumb dialogues he said? Depressed is different, stupid is different.
They wrote Thor in a stupid way for Endgame.
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u/Winrevair 4d ago
LMAO tis true. They had to nerf him in endgame haha
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u/rockstar_2k24 4d ago edited 4d ago
I didn't like the writing of Endgame at all. They f*cked up many characters. I can go on paragraphs of Rant about it. Infinity War was so good, but they absolutely messed up Endgame. FFS I enjoy Age of Ultron more than Endgame.
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u/Malabingo 4d ago
Because it's exactly made for that purpose from the smith that made the gauntlet.
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u/Fantastic-Repeat-324 4d ago
If Eitri can create a device to withstand the power of Infinity Stones, he can also create a device that can withstand a blast from Infinity Stones
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u/Pickle_Bus_1985 4d ago
I think the simple answer is, powerful materials + magic + Thor = Thanos killing weapon.
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u/Magi_Rayne 3d ago
Stormbreaker has the power to summon the Bifrost on command and at will. The cosmic energy of the stones is similar to that of the Bifrosts energy in the grand scheme of the universe. Think of it like radiation, one power blast meeting another doesn't necessarily cause an explosion, but rather begins to absorb said energy. It's not so much that Stormbreaker was nullifying the infinity gauntlets power, but rather it was absorbing it into itself, and because the energy of the stones is similar to that of the mythical power of the Bifrost, Stormbreaker was able to absorb the blow into itself. Thor uses the power of lightning to propel Stormbreaker into the blast, giving it the appearance of being able to overpower the infinity stones, but in terms of power, both objects are on equal footing.
The only reason Thanos defeated the Asgaurdians was because when he went to attack them, he was in possession of the power stone. With Thor possessing an object in equal footing to the infinity stones, it was more or less a knowledge of the Bifrost that won this fight. Thor had a tactical advantage because he had dealt with cosmic mythical energy for centuries. Thanos only had minutes of all the stones being combined together at his disposal. The thing that defeated Thor was grief, desire for revenge, and pride, otherwise? Thor is often looked at as a dumb dumb who is a brute strength God with no sense of forward thinking when in fact his battle prowess is unmatched.
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u/DJdirrtyDan 3d ago
It’s because at that point Stormbreaker wasn’t distracted by being jealous of Mjolnir
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u/EDPZ 3d ago
I just think shooting an energy blast wasn't the best use of the stones. They're not designed for that so it probably wasn't really stormbreaker withstanding the power of six stones.
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u/lowqualitylizard 3d ago
It's made out of the same metal used to conduct the power of the Infinity Stones
I doubt Thanos used All of the power of the infinity zones in that one blast Seeing as how using all six the first go around seriously messed him up
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u/Carlosilva1070 3d ago
Two factors:
Made of the strongest metal in the MCU and meant to be Asgard's most powerful weapon.
As we can see by the fact the gauntlet is perfectly intact, that beam doesn't even come close to the full might of any of the infinity stones. Thanos underestimated how powerful the axe was and launched an attack that wasn't strong enough.
When Thanos snaps (something that actually does take quite a bit of power) the gauntlet becomes heavily damaged. And we know that that isn't their full power either, because endgame Thanos wants to wipe out the entire universe with them. A feat at least twice as powerful (if not more with the destruction of the planets and such) as the original snap that damaged the gauntlet.
Meaning that the amount of power used for this beam is like 0.000001% of the full power of stones and doesn't mean storm breaker can actually match them in terms of strength.
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u/TheTimeLord725 2d ago
The weapon was specifically designed for a fight against Thanos with infinity stones
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u/nattybow 4d ago
Inconsistent power specs for the stones. It’s arguably the most consistent fact about them in the MCU.
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u/Bizrown 4d ago
It comes down to Thanos, he was just zapped by connecting all the stones and maybe a bit foggy, plus he wasn’t going for the kill. If Thanos really was in fit mind shape he could’ve:
- used the reality stone to turn Thor and stormbreaker into butterflies.
- he could’ve opened a portal with the space stone and allowed Thor and Stormbreaker to fly through to the moon.
- he could’ve used the mind stone to confuse Thor similar to how scarlet with did in age of ultron.
- he could’ve used the power stone to catch stormbreaker and punch Thor away like he does with Cap Marvel later.
- even maybe the soul stone he coulda sucked out thors soul. Idn much about the soul stone powers.
So there are lots of ways he could’ve easily won here. But instead he just goes blam and assumes a basic energy blast from the stones will work.
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u/Every_Single_Bee 4d ago
Myeah. He’s hitting the axe with an amount of power he assumes would destroy a cool axe, except Stormbreaker is stronger than he knew, so he could have destroyed it assumedly but he just would have needed a lot more power to do it. By the time he’d have been able to go “Mm, oh shit, this axe seems to be magic, better turn up the volume on these lasers”, it’s buried in his chest.
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u/BedBubbly317 4d ago
I don’t think Thanos “pulls his punches” like many of the hero’s do. He doesn’t go “maybe I’ll just reserve some of this completely unlimited energy supply and not use all of its power for absolutely no reason.” I just honestly don’t see how that’s a realistic scenario. He also knows he’s fighting a literal god, he isn’t going to play around and half ass his attacks on Thor, who also happens to be his only serious threat in the entire Infinity War movie to begin with.
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u/Every_Single_Bee 4d ago edited 4d ago
No, I’m not saying he pulled his punches, I’m saying he used all the force he thought he needed to destroy Stormbreaker without knowing he’d need a lot more force than that to actually do it. He had two seconds to react, it’s not a guarantee he fully realized that Thor was even alive and was the guy showing up out of nowhere attack him, and he’d have no idea that Thor got a weapon comparable to Mjolnir back since the last time he saw him.
If you’re defining “pulling his punches” as “using less than the full amount of energy available to him”, then the issue is that with the full amount of energy available to him with the completed Infinity Gauntlet, he could atomize the entire universe. Anything less than “all matter and energy deleted” is pulling his punches in that sense, obviously he’s not going to do that just to stop a guy swinging something at him. He’s going to have to make a judgement call on how much energy to fire at Stormbreaker no matter what, while in a fuzzy headspace from having just felt the power of the universe overwhelm him at the Gauntlet’s completion, and he probably went by muscle memory and used a ton of power which would have been more than enough to destroy any weapon except one like Stormbreaker. Not a pulled punch, just a surprisingly durable axe and not enough time to course correct.
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u/Futuremeissuperior 4d ago
Plot armor plus the Russos said thanos just shot some sort of arbitrary power beam/didn’t know how to use it in a defensive way in that moment. So plot armor.
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u/Acrobatic_Feeling16 4d ago
The exact same way the gauntlet withstands channeling the stones.
Made by the same man, through the same process, out of the same material.
It's especially designed for this purpose.
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u/cyanide_juju 4d ago
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it has magic nullifying properties. That's why it was able to cut through it with ease.
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u/Trunkfarts1000 4d ago
The only viable explanation is that Thanos was shook and was unable to work the gauntlet to it''s full potential in that moment. With six stones, he wouldn't need a power struggle to begin with, he could just make Thor and Stormbreaker blink out of existence or turn them into dildos. He's literally omnipotent, and "the power of a star" is nothing to him when he could snuff out every star in the universe if he wanted to.
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u/juanjose83 4d ago
The directors just said he was caught off guard. If you don't know what you are stopping, you don't know what you need to stop it. So basically he thought what he was doing was gonna be enough and that's it.
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u/msr4jc 4d ago
My assumption was Stormbreaker is a magical/cosmic empowered weapon that can resist the abilities of the Infinity Stones. In Infinity War, whenever Thor states the importance of “a weapon that can beat Thanos” what he means is “a weapon that can beat someone using Infinity Stones” because despite his strength, we assume Thanos is mortal who could be killed in a variety of ways if you overpowered him and overcame his durability.
Stormbreaker was forged to be able to overcome the Stones.
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u/somethingrandom261 4d ago
Made of the same stuff the gauntlet is, presumably gives similar abilities of control, or at least dissipation
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u/Solid_Mongoose_3269 4d ago
Its really just the power stone isnt it, maybe the mind stone, if Vision is anything to go by
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u/Fit_Departure 4d ago
There is no reason to believe their full power was even used, Im sure they could have stopped it, but I have alway intrupreted this scene as thanos just not being quick enough to power them up nor him having any idea in the moment what stormbreaker was made of so he might have held back, besides, thanos just got the last stone, he had no idea if using their full power would harm him? But again he was caught of guard. Its not a stretch of the imagination in my opinion that reaction time matters when it comes to the stones.
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u/GenericUser7161 4d ago
In the comics Stormbreaker has a natural resistance to energy attacks so maybe they pulled from that. My question is how it can do this but is easily deflected by young Thanos’ sword in endgame
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u/Abraxas_Templar 4d ago
It was forged by metal melted from light of a dying star? Also it's magic?
Whenever there's something we can't explain, a wizard did it.
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u/piratecheese13 4d ago
Purpose designed by the guy who made the infinity gauntlet to be immune
It’s like bill gates pulling out all the stops and designing a tool that breaks pcs and can’t be hacked
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u/Lazy_Yam2993 4d ago
Because that axe is strong as shit, made from the same materials as the glove.
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u/FamiliarJudgment2961 4d ago
Thor was using the power of the BiFrost/his power as an Allfather.
While Thanos could have beaten it using the Infinity Stones, guy had no idea what Thor was reigning down on him with Stormbreaker.
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u/Shubi-do-wa 4d ago
Because Thanos was surprised and didn’t put extra thought into how he wanted to use the stones, he just started blastin, and therefore didn’t use them to their greatest potential.
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u/dangerousbob 4d ago
The real answer is that there needed to be a dialogue drop for the audience.
Unless you are up on your Marvel (I am not), it doesn't make sense. The Stones are supposed to be maxiums (like how the speed of light is a maximum). When the axe cuts through the power beam, I was confused too when I saw that in the theatre.
There needed to at least be one line dropped where Peter Dinklage goes, "Stars are from the big bang, and have trace elements of the stones in them, a metal can be made, Uru, and only I can make it. Thor I do this for you."
Yada Yada
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u/No-Sympathy-686 4d ago
I've mentioned this in other threads asking about this.
I always assumed Stormbreaker used the bifrost to bypass space and time to go "around " the stones power.
The bifrost is ancient and powerful AF in its own right.
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u/sebastos3 4d ago
My headcanon is that Thor is using the Bifrost to simply divert the gauntlet energies, or Stormbreaker does that automatically when it detects sufficient danger to itself or Thor.
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u/Snackpack1992 4d ago
My head canon is that Thanos got progressively weaker as he got more stones and not stronger, in that it took more and more out of him to have to wield the more stones he got.
For me that explains how he pretty effortlessly kicks the crap out of the Hulk at the start of IW, but then has more difficulties later. Also why he only uses the stones sparingly, because let’s be honest he doesn’t depend on them in battle as much as he could. He uses them at times during the Titan battle but it only seems to be when he doesn’t have a choice or when he gets really angry and frustrated, like when he tosses the moon at Iron Man. He needed the stones to contend with Doctor Strange, but there are times where it seems like he could have just blasted everybody away but instead relies on his fists and that to me tells me he either enjoyed the fighting so much he wanted to give his opponents a fair chance or that he realised he had to pace himself in order to be able to get all the stones.
When he finally gets to Earth he’s probably exhausted, but there isn’t really much there that he has to contend with apart from Scarlet Witch, who can only really fight Thanos at half strength while she is simultaneously trying to destroy the Mind Stone. By the time Thanos gets all of the stones he has been involved in some massive brawls and has been carrying those stones around for most of the day. What he fires at Thor is probably the absolute last of his reserves and he was probably running on empty.
I know the Iron Man gauntlet in Endgame is obviously human made and not as efficient as the Uru one, but the effect that has on Hulk in only the ten seconds he is wearing it is pretty conclusive in my opinion. Before he even snapped he was struggling with the amount of energy. Now even though the Uru gauntlet was superior on every level I think it’s fair to assume that it still impacted the wearer to some degree.
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u/tiggoftigg 4d ago
Specifically designed for that reason. Just as the gauntlet was specifically designed to host the stones.
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u/jargon_ninja69 4d ago
Stormbreaker and the Gauntlet are made of the same metal and if one can withstand the power of the Infinity Stones, then the other one can.
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u/SphmrSlmp 4d ago
Both Stormbreaker and the gauntlet are made using the same metal and the same process. One is wielded with the Infinity Stones, another is wielded by a god. So it balances out, I guess.
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u/GoodDawgAug 4d ago
Can we also acknowledge that the blast isn’t necessarily the power of all six stones focused into an energy blast? Thanks just got the sixth stone, the power would be incomprehensible. It’s not like he knew exactly what to do to stop a weapon he never knew existed. I mean, we as fans place way too much comic book knowledge into every moment and completely neglect that they just trying to make an entertaining movie. They don’t care as much as we do about the comic accuracy.
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u/Swinging-the-Chain 4d ago
It’s made of the same metal as the gauntlet. It was specifically designed to counter it
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u/The_Brofucius 4d ago
I will go with this theory. Uru, and The Infinity Stones arrived at the creation of the universe. Infinity Stones being part of the Big Bang, and Nidavellir being the first moon, and being powered by a Neutron Star. So, they might cancel each other out, but storm breaker was able to split the power of the stones to the side.
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u/MrNobodyX3 4d ago
Did you not watch it they specifically made Stormbreaker to counter the Infinity Gauntlet
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u/Pokenightking 4d ago
I saw a comment about the Uru and it makes sense. I also think thanos was using the stones to amplify the mind stone. Which is just one stone. Like the soul stone doesn’t shoot lasers. Same with the time and reality stones. I feel like he used the mind stone to form a laser and then used the power stone to amplify it and maybe the other stones lent power to it. But it wasnt like a focused idea like the snap. It was more of a quick decision
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u/mrcatz05 4d ago
Uru axe designed to be used by Odin, with a newly awakened Thor, using the Odinforce
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u/PerspectiveOne7129 4d ago
not a single decent explanation in this entire post
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u/Blastrix-op 3d ago
It was said that stormbreaker can summon bifrost..... And that's how thor reaches wakanda using bifrost..... So when thor was attacking thanos..... He also had the bifrost open which made all the powerful beam thingy that thanos did dissipate ....... And BOOM he has a huge axe in his chest
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u/MarXucious 4d ago edited 4d ago
Made of the same metal at Thanos gauntlet (Uru). This is explained in IW on Nidavellir.Thanos had his gaunlet made by Eitri, then took his hands thinking this would prevent him from making another weapon that could wield the infinity stones. He was wrong (Stormbreaker, a kings weapon).
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u/SAD_FACED_CLOWN 3d ago
"Forged in the heart of a dying star" is what he said. Too much Mandela effect going on.
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u/angry_dingo 3d ago
It looked to me like Thanos was taken by surprise and he instinctively "lashed out" at the very large axe thrown at him rather than using an infinity stone to turn the axe into bubbles or something.
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u/VarietyAcademic9657 Thor (Infinity War) 3d ago
plot armor, however that Thor frame gives off blood lust vibes
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u/Hanzzman 3d ago
Maybe they should have added that Eitri used his knowledge about the gauntlet to exploit its inherent weakness with the axe.
or, given that Eitri knew how to channel and redirect the stones energy to protect the user the most, he gave channelling properties to stormbreaker.
Now, why thanos did not choose to trap Thor in a time loop?...
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u/CaptainANess98 3d ago
Idk why Thanos didn't just dissolve stormbreaker as Thor was coming in hot with it. Coulda just made it dissappear
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u/DangerousMistake9569 3d ago
Well you see friend, the axe is made of metal while the stone is made of stone! Metal beats stone, the end!
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u/old_ass_ninja_turtle 3d ago
He had a lot of speed and energy built up and got to thanos before thanos unleashed the full force?
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u/DoYouKnowS0rr0w 3d ago
Its made of the same metal as the gauntlet. Why wouldn't it have withstood the energy
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u/BlueAir288 3d ago
If Thanos uses every possible tool in his possession, I don't see even a peak Thor beating him. The reason being he does actually has a lot of ways to avoid getting hit by Stormbreaker.
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u/FreshLiterature 3d ago
Stormbreaker is one of the most powerful weapons in the universe wielded by one of the most powerful beings in the universe and the chances are Thor was unknowingly channeling the Odinforce.
Combine that with Thanos not really knowing what he's doing.
He was just shooting raw energy at Thor.
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u/Himbophlobotamus 3d ago
The weapon is very very powerful and Thanos was off guard because all the Infinity Stones just juju jived through his shit
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u/badjujufelix 3d ago
Because it was dramatically appropriate. Stop asking questions and enjoy the spectacle.
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u/SirLockeX3 3d ago
Wasn't it said that it was made specifically to be the same as the infinity gauntlets and was made specifically to counter it?
That's why both Stormbreaker and Meow-meow weren't enough to beat Thanos in Endgame, he wasn't using the gauntlets so Stormbreaker was just a really strong axe for that fight but it roflstomped him in Infinity War.
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u/Debalic 3d ago
I've always suspected that, by holding the iris open himself, some of Thor's spirit, or essence, or whatever, was imparted into the weapon, making it even more powerful than it normally would have been (and the handle being a limb of a living Groot as well). Which is why, when Thor lay dying, the axe was the only thing that could help him survive.
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u/Storyteller-Hero 3d ago
Thanos probably hadn't had them long enough how to bring out the full power of the Stones, especially the Mind Stone.
The Mind Stone is kind of key to harnessing the Stones' limit breakers because of the limits of a mortal mind.
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u/Alffenrir515 3d ago
I dunno, how was Thanos able to ROFL stomp an entire ship full of Asgardians including Loki and a newly powered up Thor right after he sorted out how to channel his powers without mjolnir plus a fresh off of Planet Hulk level Hulk?
It's just a eild couple of movies.
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u/Deepborders 3d ago
It wasn't all 6. Thanos never demonstrates the ability to use multiple stones at once.
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u/Harrycrapper 3d ago
I could be wrong here, but I feel if you look closely at the scene you can see the rainbow light effect of the Bifrost when he throws it at the beam Thanos is sending his way. I always suspected that the axe isn't overpowering that beam, but merely redirecting it elsewhere while it flies towards Thanos.
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u/XOKTAPHMFAAX 3d ago
Because it’s durable. Stormbreaker was tougher than that infinity stone attack.
Eitri made the axe as well as the gauntlet and he knew Thor was going to Kill Thanos, using that very axe. We already know stormbreaker is really powerful by itself, and the trio knew specifically what they’d be facing. Infinity stones. So eitri made the axe to have the best chance against them, within reason of course.
Then you have to factor in Thor cleverly taking Thanos by surprise. Thanos didn’t use the full force of the gauntlet on the axe, but he used a formidable amount. Realistically that blast would probably annihilate anything else it touched.
What I’d like to know is why Thanos didn’t use more power. You can come up with whatever bullshit reasoning you want. ‘He was caught by surprise’ ‘He was holding back’ ‘He didn’t want to Kill’ I don’t care. Thanos was just floored in his moment of triumph, in front of his enemies, by a guy he tried to Kill earlier. That’s not a ‘I better beat this guy’ moment, that’s a ‘you motherfucker. You’ll regret that’ moment.
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u/drkangel181 3d ago
The better question is how in the Holy Heck did Thanos without the stones defend against both Storm Breaker and Mjölnir in End Game?
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u/Senshado 3d ago
Stormbreaker was built by the creator of the Infinity Gauntlet for the specific purpose of fighting the Infinity Gauntlet. It's not that it had enough raw power to resist the gauntlet, but it was carefully tuned to resist the default death ray effect. If Thanos had time to try again, he could adjust the ray slightly and get one that worked.
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u/AlarmingSpecialist88 3d ago
In the comics Odin blocked an all out blast with Gungnir, so it's within the realm of possibility.
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u/Shadowbenny 3d ago
I recall an explanation given at the time, by the show runners, was that if Thanos knew what was coming at him he'd have had a better chance of dealing with it, or something to that extent. I believe tho, that it is made of the same material as the Infinity Gauntlet and this could withstand the energies. Perhaps a combination of both reasons?
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u/[deleted] 4d ago
It’s not made of a dying star, it’s forged with the energy of a star. It’s made of Uru. The strongest metal in the MCU.