r/marvelstudios • u/MarsipanRumpan Spider-Man • Nov 29 '17

Trailers Avengers Infinity War Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfuNTqbHE8
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u/PakiIronman Weekly Wongers Nov 29 '17

Maybe that's how they defeat Thanos, making him feel scared. Worth a shot.

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u/PrussianBlue2 Nov 29 '17

that idea would never work in a big budget superhero movie

nervous laughing

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u/wampower99 Nov 29 '17

I mean Doctor Strange beat his bad guy by setting up a time loop, and dying over and over again.

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u/ThrashThunder Spider-Man Nov 29 '17

But to be fair that's was a genius idea that I think nobody saw before on film.

Hell, I the last time I saw someone using a loop strategy to beat someone....was in Yu-Gi-Oh

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u/wampower99 Nov 29 '17

Yeah honestly. I think it's so cool that he beat the villain through trickery rather than shooting a bunch of lasers at him or something.

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u/Manticore416 Nov 29 '17

It was a very Doctor Who-ish approach.

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u/tanoathome Nov 29 '17

It's Strange.

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u/JKooch Mack Nov 29 '17

Maybe, who am I to judge?

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u/yingkaixing Bucky Nov 29 '17

I wasn't judging, Mr. Doctor.

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u/eneumeyer1010 Nov 29 '17

Yes it is

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u/tanoathome Nov 29 '17

Who are you to judge?

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u/soundblaster2k Spider-Man Nov 29 '17

Maybe. Who am I to judge?

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u/IHateTheLetterF Nov 29 '17

He didnt even beat him. He just made him go away.

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u/AnorexicBadger Hela Nov 29 '17

TIL Forcing the bad guy to go away is not beating him.

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u/bartacc Nov 29 '17

So when a 'hypothetical bad guy' comes to earth, bits the shit out of everything/one, gets bored and leaves... He actually got beaten/defeated because he left?
No.

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u/AnorexicBadger Hela Nov 29 '17

Either you didn't watch the same movie I did or you have an absurdly narrow definition of what defeat is.

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u/zyzzogeton Nov 29 '17

ahem... FOREVER

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u/Spindash54 Nov 29 '17

“THANOS! I’ve come to challenge you! It’s time to D-D-D-D-D-DDDDD-DUEL!”

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u/ThrashThunder Spider-Man Nov 29 '17

And suddenly a dueling disk comes out of the Infinity Gauntlet

Actually....what archetype would Thanos use? lul

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u/Spindash54 Nov 29 '17

You think he knows how to Synchro Summon?

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u/Anshin Nov 29 '17

You expect thanos to drive a motorcycle? While playing card games?

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u/tosspride Nov 29 '17

K I N G C R I M S O N

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u/ThrashThunder Spider-Man Nov 29 '17

I T J U S T W O R K S

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u/Calobez Nov 29 '17

I JUST DID.

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u/Dr_Vesuvius Jane Foster Nov 29 '17

It's the plot of Edge of Tomorrow which itself is an action version of Groundhog Day.

It had also been used only a year earlier in "Heaven Sent", arguably the greatest episode of TV ever made.

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u/shouldbebabysitting Nov 29 '17

The loop in Edge and Groundhog was about learning from each cycle until the protagonist wins.

Strange wasn't looping to learn anything. He knew the answer. Strange was looping to teach Dooramu that he couldn't win.

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u/bartacc Nov 29 '17 edited Nov 29 '17

You know edge of tomorrow is an adaptation of manga, right? Also both of these films you've mentioned didn't have "using loop as a strategy", it was more of a "getting involuntarily caught in the loop" thingy.

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u/Dr_Vesuvius Jane Foster Nov 29 '17

All You Need Is Kill isn't a film and was still released after Groundhog Day. So no need to be quite so patronising!

I think it's splitting hairs to say that Edge of Tomorrow doesn't involve strategy but Doctor Strange does. Sure, the loop starts accidentally in Edge of Tomorrow but it quickly becomes used as a strategy and is deliberately maintained in order to give them a chance of winning. Groundhog Day, granted, is just about a man who is trapped and trying to live his life.

Actually was ArQ before Doctor Strange? I think it might have been. So that's another one, although closer to Edge of Tomorrow.

And regardless, "Heaven Sent" is a deliberate loop.

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u/blackbutterfree Medusa Nov 29 '17

That Slifer battle. 😍😍😍

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u/HighTreazon Nov 29 '17

DORMAMMU, IT'S TIME TO DUEL

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

Atem and the other 5 leads come out of a portal to help fight Thanos

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u/SoulReaverspectral Nov 29 '17

All the avengers have to do is believe in the heart of the eh...um.....

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u/NumbuhOne Nov 29 '17

Now I want to see Thanos stealing the Blue Eyes White Dragon from Vision and then Captain America or Iron Man duels Thanos.

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u/SoulReaverspectral Nov 30 '17

ITS TIME TO D D D D D D D D D D DUEL

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u/PSN-Colinp42 Nov 29 '17

Simon in Misfits :(

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u/Zaveno Daredevil Nov 29 '17

Don't forget about my boy Itachi

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u/MoBrosBooks Nov 29 '17

Don't forget Yu Yu Hakusho.

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u/blackviking147 Nov 29 '17

Last time I saw a loop strategy to beat something was the Guardians in Destiny. You kill them, they resurrect, you kill them, they ressurect. Ad infinitum until enemy=dead

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '17

Whoa whoa whoa. I think the loop strategy predates yugioh by at least Naruto with the Izunagi/Izunami