Sunday 16 December 2018

Is Thanos in the Soul Stone?


I'm sure you know the new Avengers Endgame trailer (love the title) came out on Friday and, *deep breath in*, OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!! You see the emotional scene with Tony on the Benatar alone with Nebula, Steve crying as him and Natasha talk about the impact of what Thanos did, the amazing scene where you see Hawkeye and of course the big reveal that Scott (Ant-man and the Wasp spoiler warning) escaped the Quantum Realm. However, the thing that caught my eye (that I didn't notice when I saw the end of Infinity War) was although Thanos is believed to be on Titan 2 (his perfect visualisation of Titan) I believe he may have winded up in the Soul Stone and here's why! 

I don't think this blog needs a spoiler warning because come on, it's Infinity War!!

After Thanos sets the ending climax of the film by snapping his fingers and destroying 50% of all living creatures across the universe, he returned to the farm of Titan 2, purely just to look over what he's achieved and how much he's sacrificed, so we think! You may have thought, what is the most powerful man in the universe doing in the Soul Stone? Well, we know it is achievable because in the comics it is where Thanos goes after Adam Warlock snatches the gauntlet and also where Adam then goes. But why would he go there? There are many possible reasons but the most plausible one is to find Gamora. People have theorised that the missing half of the universe is in the Soul Stone. With so many ideas I haven't settled on where they are but I hope we see the half of the universe in an ultimate dimension, such as the upside down in Stranger Things. However I believe, when Thanos sacrificed Gamora, her soul was contained in the stone, hence Thanos would be searching for her. Although this sounds like just a thought, I think it's possible that when when Thanos snapped his fingers and saw a vision of young Gamora under an arch, he realised it was a vision of where she was - in the Soul Stone! I think he might've briefly visited the Soul Stone after Gamora was sacrificed. I thought this as directly after he sacrificed her we saw him wake up in water and when he had the vision of Gamora (after he snapped his fingers) he was standing in shallow water - linking the two. Another piece of conclusive evidence is the scarecrow. In the film when he is presumably in 'Titan 2' there is a scarecrow (this is seen more obviously in the trailer than the film), this is almost identical to the one he made at the start of the Infinity War series comics when he was - yes you've guessed it - in the Soul Stone. It also makes perfect sense that he would go there just to relax. The Soul Stone is described as a peaceful heavenly land and after all the stress he's been through finding the Infinity Gems and sacrificing everything, why wouldn't he want to chill in a farm-like placid environment and possibly find his daughter.

So, that's my theory!  I hope you enjoyed it and stayed interested, do you think this should be in the film? Do you think Gamora is also in the Soul Stone? And also, onto another theory, do you think Cassie freed Ant Man out the quantum realm as we see him in the trailer? I will be posting another blog around Christmas on an interesting Star Wars and Marvel crossover but for now, merry waiting for Captain Marvel and a happy new year!!