Why Thanos Took So Long To Attack

If you have not seen Infinity War then first, how have you not seen it? Are you a caveman? It is now also available to buy on DVD so there really is no excuse. I pre-ordered it and it arrived yesterday (the 3rd) and I've seen it twice already. This blog is an elaboration and extension of an article I read which theorises why Thanos waited the length of 18 films to attack (see article here). Here's where I'd normally do a spoiler warning for the following content but seriously if you haven't seen the film you need to sort out your priorities .....

The article basically said that the main threats to Thanos are Odin, Ego the Living Planet and The Ancient One and that Thanos had to wait until all three were no longer in the way. 

His first real threat to retrieving the Time Stone was The Ancient One. She died in Dr Strange. Her age was not revealed but we can only assume, as is the case for Odin and Ego the, that she was alive long before Thanos was born. This means that Thanos had the chance to know his enemies his whole life, hence knowing how hard they would be to defeat. The Ancient One drew power from the dark dimension. Although Thanos probably couldn't have been able to observe a different dimension like I believe Thanos does with Earth (which will be explained throughout this blog), his hatred toward The Ancient One may not have only been because she had the Time Stone (The Eye of Agamotto) but because he somehow knew she was using the dark dimension. Thanos could have considered this a huge threat if used against him. By not trying to retrieve the Time stone from her, Kaecilius killed her leaving the Time Stone more vulnerable in the hands of Dr Strange.

The second threat was Ego the Living Planet. He died in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2. Ego was not an allie of  Thanos. As we are informed in Guardians 2, Ego was a celestial who was in the universe before it was possible to remember. Ego searched for the perfect mate to have a celestial child with so together they could take over the universe. Peter Quill, child of Meredith Quill and leader of the Guardians happened to be that baby. Ego searched the universe for Peter and mysteriously found him escaping from the Sovereign fleet. Was that luck, or a little interference from Thanos to set up the meeting? Now you may be thinking, if Thanos talked  to Ego he might as well've tried to kill him. First he would've taken that risk, if him interfering is true than he would've done it in a non face to face way, maybe he used the Black Order to do his bidding. But why would he want Ego to find the Guardians? There are two explanations to that. One is that he foresaw that Quill, with him being a half celestial, would see what evil thing Ego was planning to do and he would face him and defeat him, but the reason I believe was so that the Guardians would be led to the other side of the galaxy leaving Xandar and the Power Stone unguarded. Arranging their meeting was still a risky strategy as if Ego's plan had worked it would have stopped Thanos in his tracks. Maybe it was just luck for Thanos that Ego was defeated  but either way it meant one more threat was out of the way making his barbaric attack on the universe more likely but there was still one big threat that stood in his way.... Odin.




Odin died in Thor Ragnarok. In the run-up to his death he was under Loki's spell and Loki had previously worked with Thanos. In Avengers he sent Loki to invade New York with the Chitauri. He was only mentioned in this film. The Avengers didn't get to see him face-to-face. Loki failed, but after that Thanos could've easily killed him or invaded NY himself. I believe the reason he didn't kill him was because he noticed his mischievous manor and most of all, his connection and ability to get close to Odin. I believe he predicted that Loki would do something barbaric for the throne that would cost Odin his life.  With Thanos keeping Loki alive he was able to take Odin off his kill list which left the Space Stone (tesseract) easier to steal.

This still doesn't completely answer why he waited so long. Other than waiting for his biggest  enemies to be eliminated another factor was the element of surprise. I briefly mentioned this earlier, but all the stones get put into a more vulnerable state due to other villains during the 10 years of the MCU.  As mentioned already the Space Stone was no longer guarded by Odin, similarly the Time Stone by the Ancient One, the Power Stone was no longer guarded by the Guardians but also the Reality Stone went from the Aether to the untrustable collector in the Dark World. The Mind Stone arguably became less vulnerable because it went from the to being embedded in Vision's head. With the five of the Time Stones within reach all Thanos needed was the location of the last one - The Soul Stone. Once Thanos discovered that Gamora knew where it was, Thanos was in the perfect position to try to execute his attack. He knew Gamora better than anyone and if anyone was going to get the location from her it was going to be him. He had his window of opportunity and he had to take it. The Avengers were always going to be a threat but not interfering with them previously and not really making his presence known to them until Infinity War meant Thanos's entrance was unexpected, leaving the Avengers completely unprepared.

Thank you for reading my blog. It is not an original idea of mine but has been added onto by me. Hope you enjoyed it and was interested by it. If you have any comments then please leave them below. I hope to write more blogs on Infinity War now I have it on DVD. Anyway thanks again for reading and enjoy Marvel whilst it lasts!

Also why is there still not a Captain Marvel trailer????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thor Ragnarok review part 1

Thor Ragnarok was the fifth film in the third phase of the MCU and hit the cinemas with a bang on the 27th of October.

I just saw Thor Ragnarok and Oh My God!

It's been quite a while since I've done a movie review (my last one was for Rogue One) and I thought it'd be nice too do another one on the new but loved, third film in the Thor trilogy. This film has the potential to be the best film in Marvel history - I loved EVERYTHING about it! Well, I say everything, but every film has flaws and this had kinda noticeable ones within the movie but the rest was hilarious or suspenseful and that is what I look for in good movies.

Before I go on:

!Spoiler warning! Spoilers ahead in this blog!

But, you know you've seen it already

IT'S THOR!!

"Go to hell"

Anyway lets jet into this from the start!

In the very beginning you see Thor wrapped in a chain in some sort of Hell, narrating a story to what we think is us but turns out to be a skeleton opposite him. I found that as quite a funny start of to the movie, until Thor get pulled down to face a 'Lava monster?' Basically a huge guy with horns that is actually a crown. The Monster tells Thor his plans to rule Asgard.

Now this is the thing that annoys me about Marvel villains.

And it's not just Marvel - Lex Luther does it a couple of times to Superman and many other films like Bond! Villains unravel their 'genius' plan to cause mayhem to the the heroes as they are lured to their death but instead of just killing the heroes, they give them a chance to escape  by letting the hero convince them to change their mind which happens a lot in these movies.

Anyway this kind of happens in this movie but it's really just a distraction for Thor to wield his hammer, kick the villains butt and rip the crown off his head to carry on his back.

LIKE A BOSS!

"All hail king... Loki?"

But then it skips to Asgard as Odin (or as we all know from the last movie, is actually Loki shape-shifting) is sitting on his thrown with a Loki statue outside alongside a play of Loki and Thor of how Loki 'died' starring - wait, is that Matt Damon?! Ignoring that, the play is really funny how they make Loki look like an awesome hero of Asgard as 'Odin' gets fed gapes on his throne by women. It looks like Loki has his life made but no, Thor, aka the part-pooper, arrives and crashes the fun by revealing Loki is Odin and the real Odin is missing. Then he takes Loki back to Earth where Loki hasn't been since The Avengers and goes to where Loki left Odin - a care home. They then see the care home being smashed down by a crane as Thor takes a selfie with two girls which again was quite funny!

"Strange, isn't it?"

In order to find Odin they may need help from people with higher powers then them. Maybe Jedi's, Demigods, Iron Man! No, Wizards. Eeer, what? 
Yep, the MCU has a wizard and one of them's name is literally called Dr.Strange... and he has a living cape... and is played by Benedict Cumberbatch - okay it's 'strange' (-; - but I think his first movie was greatly done for such a weird concept. And his appearance in Thor was quite funny by the way Thor has absolutely no idea what is going on, but it was a pretty pathetic and brief appearance. He kind of just shows up and goes "oh, here's your father, take him and I'll go out for the rest of the movie and give you back Loki who has literately been falling for the last 20 minutes." Agree? Anyway, they find Odin and talk to him for a while about Asgard and the throne then he perishes into the sky (also he's in Norway btw). He dies pretty quick and less dramatic than it should've been. Still a sad moment but I thought that could've been done better than it was.  Later on, Thor gets mad at Loki, Cate Blanchett (Hella) appears and smashes Thors hammer, Thor and Loki get pushed off the by-frost whilst teleporting to Asgard and land in Sakaar which is a literal realm or dimension where people across the galaxy drop their junk. So it is a huge dustbin, basically.

"The wealthy, the worthy and the... drunk?"

In Sakaar scavengers search the hills of rubbish dropping from the hundreds of portals that appeared in the sky. They mostly looked for 'contestants' for the Colosseum themed 1 on 1 battles with swords and shields, henceforth they find Thor - once again - confused. A couple of scavengers try to take him, then Valkyrie (a drunk woman) beats them to take Thor to her boss who throws the 1 on 1 battle for a hell load of money. It's quite a funny scene, her being drunk, because she falls of the platform and electrocutes Thor. This scene does remind me of when Thor is being put to sleep in the hospital in his first scene, so that was good to see how the humour hasn't changed in a way. After she drags Thor onto his ship with 60's music in the background, he gets taken into the arena and brought to the Grandmaster or 'the boss' (Jeff Goldblum) who throws the battle. He is made quite a  big deal with the others, they kind of worship him like a god. The battle he holds reminds me of the one in 'Attack of the Clones' in Geonosis but they have one 'main event' rather then 3 or 4.

"Another day, another Doug"

As Thor is being introduced to the Grandmaster he spots someone in the crowd and he is none other than Loki himself! Loki claims that he's never seen Thor before as he gets a fresh trim by Stan-Lee. Then he gets put in a holding room his two new friends Mick (a frog with knives for hands that lays eggs whenever he wants) and Korg (a man made out of stones with a kiwi accent played by the directer of the movie). Korg was my favorite character  with one of his best lines being "I was gonna start a revolution once but I didn't hand out enough pamphlets. So only my mum and her boyfriend turned up - who I hate." He seemed so casual but so funny. His friend Mick, on the other hand, was a good character because he was so irrelevant but kept on making a sudden appearance like when he's introduced or when he lays eggs also that bit at the end where he dies because Korg stood on him but then comes back to life (don't ask). Anyway, Thor goes into the battle arena with a short but nice haircut and some sort of war paint on his face. Then the Grandmaster introduces the 'main event' which turns out to be - "...oh what a coincidence, this'll be the second time he's beat me up" - Incredible Hulk! 

To be continued .......