Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1031724-20170429225700

The article still says, based on the reference that Infinity War would be split into two parts, before Marvel changed their minds and made Avengers 4 more separate, that Thanos is the main villain, and it will revolve around the Infinity Stones and Infinity Gauntlet. They also removed the bit saying Magus was in it.

I had a sudden theory that Thanos gets defeated in Infinity War, maybe even DIES (coz Marvel has a history with "anticlimactically" killing villains "too soon" such as The Other, Crossbones, and especially Strucker, even being criticized for killing the one-off "disposable" villains instead of giving them longer runs), and that Magus takes over as the new enemy in Avengers 4, supported by the post credits scene I read about in Guardians 2 involving Magus's alter-ego, Adam Warlock.

But, now Magus is being saved for later, and it'll be Thanos again in Avengers 4? Meaning they don't even actually get to their big fight in Infinity War? (I suspected as much deep down, that the whole film would just be the Avengers getting back together and hooking up with the Guardians of the Galaxy while Thanos collects Infinity Stones, like how not much else happened in Avengers 1 except there was a big fight at the end with Chitauri) 