He knew it wouldn't work. The movie explicitly says this. He knew all scenarios where Thanos won, and I am sure one of those scenarios involved Strange using the stone. He did what he knew might work given one of a handful of possibilities.
@jedixman: See, I find that interesting because let's say Strange let Stark die. I don't see how Thanos was going to get the stone from Strange.
I think it's because he knew Stark was crucial to the battle to come to get the stones back.
Okay, maybe, I still just don't understand how Thanos would have obtained the stone if not for Strange giving it up. Just seems like plot convenice to me.
Dr Strange jobbed to Maw when he had the stone, and didn’t use the Time Stone against Thanos because there was no outcome of them winning while using it. In other words, PLOT lol.
@depinhom: Thanos in the comics is a fairly accomplished sorcerer, and in the MCU he knows more about the stones than presumably anyone else in the universe. I don't think it's far fetched to assume he'd be able to figure out a way to retrieve it. Hell he can probably use the Mind Gem and make Stephen bring it out.
@depinhom: Thanos in the comics is a fairly accomplished sorcerer, and in the MCU he knows more about the stones than presumably anyone else in the universe. I don't think it's far fetched to assume he'd be able to figure out a way to retrieve it. Hell he can probably use the Mind Gem and make Stephen bring it out.
Well, he didn't have the Mind Gem at the time, but okay, you may have a point.
@jedixman: See, I find that interesting because let's say Strange let Stark die. I don't see how Thanos was going to get the stone from Strange.
I think it's because he knew Stark was crucial to the battle to come to get the stones back.
Okay, maybe, I still just don't understand how Thanos would have obtained the stone if not for Strange giving it up. Just seems like plot convenience to me.
Maybe it's like a video game, where Strange put the Stone in his inventory but if Thanos kills Stark then kills Strange, all his loot will drop out.
He should have used the gem when they just got the glove off. Just reverse 10 seconds and stop Starlord from being a mongo. Job done, no need for Avengers 4.
He knew it wouldn't work. The movie explicitly says this. He knew all scenarios where Thanos won, and I am sure one of those scenarios involved Strange using the stone. He did what he knew might work given one of a handful of possibilities.
If I were to see over 14,000,000 different ways something were to play out against someone faster, stronger, tougher, smarter, and just overall better than me in every area for the sake of life as we know it and only one showed me winning, I would go down that route. Out of 14,000,000 there's no way at least several dozen possibilities didn't include the time stone.
It probably wouldn't have helped him very much. Or at least the potential damage it could cause was too great to merit using it against the other infinity stones.
@depinhom: When has Strange ever shown he can use the time stone to time travel? And yes we do based on the fact that Thanos wondered why Strange didn't use the stone himself...
He obviously didn’t use it because in the futures he did they lost anyways, I doubt one stone could overpower 3.
Also the writers already said thanos wasn’t trying to kill anyone he didn’t have to, so maybe when strange tries to use the time stone thanos uses his 3 stones to their max also.
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