8 Most Ironic Scenes In MCU History
6. Thanos Lost A Stone Trying To Gain A Stone
In the earlier days of the MCU and of Thanos’ infinity quest, he very rarely ever got out of his floating chair. Instead, he had the likes of his Black Order, Gamora, Nebula, and Ronan do his bidding, with mixed results at best.
In the case of procuring the Space Stone from Earth, Thanos sent Loki. He gave him a Chitauri army and the Sceptre, and sent him down to Midgard with the sole aim of delivering him the Tesseract. Thanks to the Avengers however, this didn’t go according to plan. Not only did Loki not retrieve the Tesseract for the Mad Titan, he lost the Sceptre in the process.
It’s unclear whether or not Thanos was aware of what was housed inside the weapon when he gave it to the God of Mischief, but given his obsession with the Infinity Stones, it’s hard to imagine he’d have one in his possession and not know about it.
In sending Loki to Earth he expected to double the amount of stones in his possession, but instead lost the only one he actually already had.