Author: JK Schmidt / Source: Marvel
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Fans cannot stop thinking about Marvel Studios next major crossover epic, wondering how Avengers 4 will deal with the cataclysmic events of Infinity War.
The films have set up a major conflict between Thanos and Iron Man.
To be clear, EVERYONE in the universe has a bone to pick with the Mad Titan, but as Tony Stark himself said, ever since the attack on New York happened, it’s all he could think about.A new fan theory imagines why this dichotomy is so prominent, and it all goes back to the Mind Stone — the final stone Thanos acquires in Avengers: Infinity War and the first stone he has in his possession, the one he gives to Loki in the first Avengers movie.
“A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life, and at its center is”…the mind stone.
First off, props to whomever posted the original ‘mind stone is the true villian’ theory….it got me thinking. From the bonus A3 features, we know that in response to Tony asking “how do you know my name?” Thanos replies “I know your soul…it is much like mine, cursed with knowledge”. Great line, but I don’t think Thanos and Tony are necessarily “cursed with knowledge” per se; rather, I think that they are both suffering from some intense PTSD inflicted by the mind stone.
You could argue that the “endgame” actually started at the beginning of AoU, when Wanda showed Tony a vision of dead avengers and an unstoppable alien invasion. Tony’s vision, which directly led to Ultron, the disbanding of the Avengers and his inability to move on with his life with Pepper, emanated from the mind stone. In an inception-y kind of way, it instilled in Tony a drive to “do anything to make things right” which, in the most basic sense, was to prevent…
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