MCU: Was Thanos IG beam a full powered beam or a reaction attack?

@emanresu_20

You also have to remember that Thor’s weapon is supposed to be the best made for a king of godlike race of people. It’s not too far fetched to assume it’s Super Powerful.

That's not what i'm debating

I'd say both. Thanos knew that he could reality warp whatever damage that Stormbreaker did away in an instant, and also may have remembered Thor's promise.

He most likely was unable to warp Stormbreaker out of existence, as it was made to counter the gauntlet. Thanos gave Thor an honorable defense to test himself and Thor. Thor failed.

I don't think Thanos used the full power of any stone throughout the movie, no reason to assume he did there.

Street levelers were tanking power gem blasts, the same stone that in GoTG threatened to wipe out an entire planet if it touched the surface. The only time you could say he did was the snap, when he was on the verge of death and finally had the power of all the stones.

It was definitely a reaction attack.

Obviously reaction attack. If he had used a full powered blast he'd have blown Wakanda to pieces

@bruceveidt: He didn't use all of the stones for that blast.

The only time when he used all of the stones for anything was the snap. Thats why the gauntlet was fried.

Reactionary. He had just got the last stone and was basking in his glory/victory when out of nowhere, Thor threw his hammer at him. He didn't have much time to react and probably just shot a random power beam.

@bruceveidt: I know I’m just saying like that might have been a full IG Attack and Thors weapon was able to overpower it

Reaction attack IMO

@tonymartial: he did use all of the gems, the beam was the same color that surged through him when he collected all the stones and wasn’t one color like the power gem attack’s or the space stones attack.

@worldofthunder: it was a beam aimed up, not an explosion.

How was it going to hit wakanda?

I say both

It doesn't look good for Thanos and the 6 IGs either way.

If that was just a reaction, then Thanos is a Mad Jobber. You mean to tell me that Thanos didn't give everything he had to try and stop that axe from hitting him to the chest?

If that was full powered, then the 6 IGs didn't live up to the hype. The 6 IGs were hyped up to Kingdom Come for years to be the most powerful artifact in the MCU and they performed very poorly. This is classic movie bait-and-switch.

Thor should've needed much much more effort to defeat Thanos. There should've been a grand epic fight scene between Thor + random axe vs Thanos + 6 IGs that could've lasted as long as Superman vs Zod in MoS at the very least. There should've been massive environmental destruction and huge collateral damage just to show off what the 6 IGs are truly capable of. We're talking about stuff that can wipe out planets here.

What we got instead was one of the most anticlimactic encounters in all of cbm history (given the hype that Infinity War have gotten over the years), that scene felt very cheap, rushed, lazy and too freaking easy.

OP: Neither. It felt more like pis due to bad power scaling and the need to show off Thor beating Thanos in the end because of revenge. It had nothing to do with how truly powerful the 6 IGs should've been.

I couldn't possibly have been a full powered attack. If it were, the gauntlet would have been destroyed like it did after the finger snap.

Infinity gauntlet isnt that strong multiple street tier characters could survive various attacks from it

Only stone that could stack up to mjolnir or stormbreaker offensively is the reality stone but that only alters reality for a few moments and doesn't seem to be permanent

yep, IG was nerfed hard when it comes to combat.

or to be precise, Stones in general.

it doesn't hold a candle to the comic version.

Definitely reaction considering that maximum potential of gems can damage gauntlet.

Reaction.

Only the snap was full power of Stones

@thor321: yeah it was very nerfed though the gauntlet couldn't contain the full power of the stones if Thanos knew this or not is to be determined

@skrskr: If it were to be a full powered blast it would at the bare minimum be a moon buster, meaning that the collision between two moon-busting forces would have caused massive environmental damage.

It was close to full powered but Stormbreaker is like its kryptonite.

yeah.

also, people say Stormbreaker is it's weakness (I don't think it was ever stated as such, only to kill Thanos).

kinda lame if that is true if you ask me.

Agree on PIS

Reaction, he doesn't know what the hammer is or what he can do, and considering he is now in control of a weapon that can melt planets, there is nothing that would suggest to him to fire an all-powerful blast. Which is unlike the shot he took at Tony, Thanos had been fighting him for a few moments now so he had a pretty good idea what the suit was capable of, plus he himself was pretty confident that he couldnt be beaten, so no need for an all-powerful shot there either.

Definitely reaction attack. Thanos was distracted and didn't have enough time to process and use the entire gauntlet. And from the beam coloring, it was the power stone only from Thanos and his reaction attack. Had he known about Thor and saw him forged with stormbreaker throwing his axe at him.... Let's just say Thor wouldn't be able to avenge his brother.

I doubt he understood the full power of the gauntlet in the three seconds he had it before getting attacked.

Both.

@worldofthunder: not necessarily with a beam of energy and an axe, that’s a cop out.

It’s not an explosion, it’s was a directed beam of energy from a glove that can warp reality.

Stop trying to put real physical limitations on its expression of power.