Post by formersamhmd on Apr 4, 2018 11:50:25 GMT
Nothing was stopping him, he was handling opposition with ease.
If he could control time, not even Phoenix would've been able to stop him. In fact, if he could control time there wouldn't have been a movie and he'd have won as soon as he revived.
Phoenix killing him in the film is no more of a ex machine to Surtur killing Hela.
Surtur was set up much better and was a villain, meaning they can't just summon his power whenever they need an easy out. Plus using him was still a loss because it meant sacrificing Asgard the place to save Asgard the people.
Not so with X-Men, where they want to have their cake and east it too and keep it around to use whenever they need an easy plot contrivance to end the story because they were too incompetent to think of better ways.