Avengers: Infinity War - 15 Things Marvel Want You To Forget First

5. That Thanos Idiotically Gave A Stone Away

When It Mattered

Back before we knew that there was a Stone in it, Thanos gave Loki his sceptre to help conquer Earth and hand over the Tesseract to him, so he could keep the delicious Infinity Stone centre to himself.

Unfortunately, thanks to some retcon story-telling, it turned out that the sceptre had a Stone inside it itself and in trying to get his hands on all of the Infinity Stones, Thanos somehow handed one of them over to an untrustworthy ally and lost it. In other words, he was an idiot, but nobody tell him to his face.

But Now...

We're either going to be told that it was all part of his plan or that he was duped by Loki into believing that humanity was a push-over and he'd be able to gamble one Stone to ultimately get two back. Either way, Thanos will look stupid and no amount of furious back-peddling to insist it's part of his genius or a moment of weakness will help that.

The simple fact is, Marvel didn't know there was an Infinity Stone in that sceptre until later and it's just best we forget he handed it over to Loki in the first place. Especially as him being duped would cause another plothole - namely, if humanity were a pushover, why would they require a Chitauri army to subjugate them?

It's just best we put it aside entirely.