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

Why didn't Doctor Strange chop Thanos' arm off? May 1, 2018 22:19:52 GMT

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Post by Skaathar on May 1, 2018 22:19:52 GMT

May 1, 2018 20:18:43 GMT DC-Fan said:

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

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.

Giving your teammate a weapon when you're unable to properly handle it is pretty common sense though. Utilizing portals to cut off limbs when you've never intentionally used it for that purpose is a bit more unorthodox. And going for someone's head instead of their torso when you're hundreds of meters away, throwing an axe, while your target is moving and blasting you is pretty stupid. There's a higher degree of missing such a small target as a head than when you aim for center mass.