Why didn't Doctor Strange chop Thanos' arm off?

Why didn't Doctor Strange chop Thanos' arm off? May 1, 2018 20:18:43 GMT coldenhaulfield likes this

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Post by DC-Fan on May 1, 2018 20:18:43 GMT

May 1, 2018 17:59:34 GMT lenlenlen1 said:

May 1, 2018 17:31:20 GMT scabab said:

There was a scene in Infinity War where one of the Black Order (the Hulk wannabe) was about to kill Iron Man. Before it happens, Wong opens up a portal and he falls through, when he attempts to get back out though Wong closes it and it chops his arm off.

So why when they had restrained Thanos did Doctor Strange not open up a portal around Thanos and then close it around his arm to sever it and get the Infinity Gauntlet? Or he could have sent him into the sun perhaps.

Yeah, why didn't ANYONE chop his arm off!? Easy peasy, right?

Well... because story. There were any number of moments when Thanos could have been defeated. Thor could have chopped of the arm too instead of going for the chest. Even Thanos says "you should've gone for the head".

We can analyze things to death, but overall a very good movie nonetheless!

This shows the hypocrisy of MCU fans. After BvS, MCU fans kept asking "Why didn't Superman give the spear to Wonder Woman to kill Doomsday?"

Well, we can ask why didn't they chop off Thanos' hand? A better question is why did Doctor Strange give the time stone to Thanos and lied by claiming that was "the only way" when it's now been clearly established that there were several other ways to defeat Thanos (e.g. creating a portal that chopped off Thanos' hand, Thor chopping off Thanos' head with the axe).

Seriously, if Thor had gone for Thanos' head (like Thanos said he should've done) instead of going for Thanos' ribs, then that would've been a winning scenario. Did Doctor Strange ever consider that scenario before just giving up the time stone to Thanos?

Like I said before, that was really awful writing in Infinity War.