Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20160803045138

(I'm not sure if I posted this in a forum before but I can't find such a post so I'm assuming I didn't)

So I'm pretty sure Avengers: Infinity War is the next Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to most. Though things are looking bleak right now - the Avengers split up, permanently from what I gather based on Zemo's satisfaction that he thought he could die in peace, and we know Thanos will get all six Infinity Stones to power the Infinity Gauntlet already in his possession. The most powerful being in the universe with a weapon of infinite power vs. a permanently fractured team of superheroes prophecied to die in Tony Stark's vision (in Thanos's domain no less).

If this were a show like My Little Pony, I'd be confident that the heroes would win, because it's a kid-friendly show and things always have to turn out. The question isn't whether they defeat Sombra, Tirek, the sirens, or Starlight - it's how.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not rainbows and lollipops (and by rainbows I mean evil-destroying rainbows like the ones that blasted Tirek of not one but two MLP generations to hell (at least one of them died)), it's PG-13, and Phase 3 is already looking to be much darker than Phases 1 and 2, with the Civil War that's dark and heartbreaking (yet I heard it's still an awesome and sometimes funny movie), and Doctor Strange looks pretty dark from the trailer as well. Also, the title "Ragnarok" in the next Thor movie sounds as ominous as "Civil War" did.

Furthermore, if you've seen Batman vs. Superman, the killing of superheroes is not without precedent. The DCCU was cut short at its second film, unless Batman's getting his own with its next incarnation of the Joker about seven years from now, even though Lex Luthor still lost.

Most films have a different villain that only lasts one film before their demise. Obadiah, Vanko, Red Skull, Killian, Malekith, Pierce, Ronan, Ultron, Cross. Not quite a popular style among fans, but they're saving all the "keeping them around" stuff for Loki, Zemo, and Thanos, and in the end Thanos will show just how much more of a threat he was than even Loki.

So far the heroes have always won, possible exception of Civil War which I don't have all the details on yet, but they have to until the grand finale where they go out in a blaze of glory. Or anticlimactically like Strucker, though he was a minor villain.

So my guess is, and I've said it a million times before, Thanos wins. How can the Avengers possibly defeat him, unless they take the Infinity Gauntlet and use it on him? But even if they did, it would just be repetitive of the way Ronan was killed. I suppose it's too much to ask to see him thrown into a pit of blue electricity by Nebula, the closest that death has ever come to being repeated is Rez in Gex (which isn't shown in great detail) and Megatron in Beast Machines 