Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25193520-20150425024807/@comment-1298029-20150503004140

I'm really not sure how they'll treat the Infinity War. In theory, the Gauntlet will give Thanos essentially unlimited power, and the capability to do pretty much anything. But for a movie to be believable as a major feature in a series that's so far managed to stay sober enough not to descend into ridiculousness over its many parts, I think you can't really do "anything at all". There's a reason people avoid writing omnipotent villains: either they waste their ability to do lame things, or the action looks utterly ridiculous when they try and fail to express "infinite" abilities, or the plot has no logic (why would it if the villain can do anything).

I'm really quite curious how the MCU will tackle this, because after 20 movies' worth of lead-in we kinda expect Thanos to be serious. Which pushes the authors to really make him omnipotent or nearly so, which in turns has a huge risk of making the movie ridiculous. So far, both Avengers movies managed to not come across as completely silly only, IMO, by having their feet on the ground and making sure anyone in the audience will actually believe that the stuff they do could actually happen (okay, the artificial asteroid made from a city in AoU was pushing it a little, but not so much more than alien whales in New York, when you think about it). ("Actually" not as in "in real life", but as in within the parameters of the real world populated with some super-powered people and some aliens that the MCU has set up.)

I'm not sure I'd be able to take Thanos waving around a brass glove and bringing Strucker, Pierce, Ultron, Schmidt, and who knows who else back from the dead for one more battle seriously; it sounds too much like a C-list TV movie to me.