Infinity War — Why was the Infinity Gauntlet damaged after Thanos used it? Why doesn’t the comic Gauntlet have this limitation?

The movie version of the Infinity Gauntlet is a very different tool than the one used in the comics. This is a case of ‘media transference’ and ‘structural limitation.’

Comic stories and movie stories have complete different rules of operation and thus what works in comics does not tend to work as well in movies. green arrow and black canary costumes The Infinity Gauntlet is an excellent example of such a media limitation being enacted on something which in the comics had no discernible limits.

Sea of Destiny, Bizarre Adventures #32 (1982) Script: Alan Zelenetz, Pencils/Inks: John Bolton

In the comics:

• Stories are serial in nature. Each comic is a point in a story which comes from one place and carries the story to another point black canary costumes.
• Each story is part of a much larger tapestry, significantly larger than whatever particular point in the story being told at the time.
• As such, artifacts such as the Infinity Gauntlet become a central part of a larger story, woven into the tapestry and entire story arcs are written around it.
• Thus limits to the Infinity Gauntlet are less necessary than they would be under the much more restrictive structures of the movie story-telling environment which is in some ways, much more limited in their scope.

In the movies:

• Story and plot elements need limits, because movies have limits. They don’t have an unlimited amount of time to tell stories. They have two to three hours and must make arcs with finite curves, with finite expectations.
• People expect to leave movies with closure, with a story which has shown a beginning, a tangled middle but a neat and tidy end; an end that satisfies the cultural expectation that all will be made right, heroes will claim glory and villains and other dastardly types will suffer their ignoble fate.
• Unless it is a story which has clearly subverted the expectations in which case the heroes are done away with and the villains relax in the lap of luxury with only their conscience to disturb their otherwise brilliant overthrow of the status quo.
• The movie version of Thanos is a far cry from the comic version, because it is necessary for him to be. There has to be a clearly defined hero/villain dichotomy which is only muddied a bit by Thanos’ protestations of what he is doing is for the good of the Universe and the assumption we are gullible enough to believe it.

• Yet, Thanos’ methods leave much to be desired thus the Infinity Gauntlet in the movies is a technology limited by its creation. It is imperfect. Strong enough to complete the deed, but only once. Then its godlike powers are lost.
• They become a new plot point the heroes will use to try and reverse the evil which has been done, in the name of good. They will be forced to trod the same path as the villain, to force people to give up what they believe to be a good for a greater good, the freedom to choose, which was denied them by Thanos.
• But none of this can happen effectively if the Infinity Gauntlet has no limits. In an unlimited story, the Gauntlet can be unlimited yet bound by rules and strictures which were not replicated in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There are no greater powers than the Infinity Gauntlet to bind it.
• Thus for the sake of the story, it becomes a one-use technology which will need to be remade or repaired to be reused. Such limits bind the story, limiting it to a clearly defined set of arcs, with a clearly defined boundary of time, and capable of being held together long enough for the desired closure to take place.

In the end, Thanos will be defeated, most likely by his children, Nebula and Gamora.

• This is because they are bound to him in life and in death; they will likely be his undoing because they are the most like him; like Nebula he was pathologically driven toward success, while the other part of him Gamora, realizes his folly, if at no other time, but after the fact.
• The Universe will be saved and for the most part, what has been destroyed will be undone. Sacrifices will be made. More poignant because of the limited format of the movies, those lives lost in sacrifice will remain so.
• The Infinity Gems will be lost or destroyed, since they show us they can be destroyed, you can most assuredly assume they will be, for the sake of the Universe.

And the story will close with heroes traumatized from their exposures to the total annihilation of all that they knew, with all the lives lost even as a result of the Infinity Gauntlet, and the lesson which binds us all.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” once upon a time costumes for halloween

In the end, Thanos was mortal, driven by mortal fears, mortal ambition, mortal failings. In becoming God, he increased the size of his fears and his ambition, which means in the end, he increases the size of his folly absolutely.

This is why the Infinity Gauntlet is limited in the movies.

Because of the story telling format of the movie going experience. Limits define movies. They define the heroes, the villains and their goals. They make the stakes higher, they push everyone to make a greater effort, even if it is the wrong one.

Limits make stories better oliver queen cosplay.

And if you want to buy cosplay costumes, please take a visit to www.cosjj.com