I wish Marvel would give us the supposed 45 minute scene of Thanos destroying Xandar to receive the Power Stone

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jackson501112025-09-29 14:45

I mean not a full 45 minute scene but something.

Hell I would just love for the Xander/Nova Corp destruction to be a major point in any potential Nova project.

CaledonianWarrior2025-09-29 14:48

I think 10 minutes would be more than enough tbh. Hell, I'd personally be happy with five minutes but adding another five shows off Thanos' full range of abilities, skills and resources at his disposal when invading a planet.

PhotoBonjour_bombs192025-09-29 15:21

The opening of a nova movie could just be showing us thanos destroying everything on Xander

Megaman_Steve2025-09-29 16:10

I feel like this is exactly what they would save it for.

jmgomes12025-09-29 18:45

I thought that was cancelled

Megaman_Steve2025-09-29 18:46

Oh no I just meant a hypothetical nova movie/show. Was there something ever announced, I don't remember?

CaptHayfever2025-09-29 19:29

A Nova miniseries was announced, but it's on hold for the time being.

Comfortable_Bed15362025-09-29 19:43

"On hold"

CaptHayfever2025-09-29 19:56

Unlike Blade or Armor Wars, Nova didn't seem to be having any actual development problems, so they probably *are* just gonna wait & do it later.

mwcope2025-09-29 20:38

Is Armor Wars officially dead? Last I heard about it was it was getting retooled into a movie.

CaptHayfever2025-09-29 20:40

It's not *officially* dead, just "on hold" like Nova. But Armor Wars has the massive problem of starring Rhodey....whose character arc was completely smashed into paste by Secret Invasion.

nichrs2025-09-29 19:56

It's in the same waiting room as Blade...

Thespian212025-09-29 16:02

Nah, I want the lord of the rings equivalent of a superhero film. I want live action Annihilation

devilsbard2025-09-29 16:31

As a stand alone I want them to give us all of it. 45 minutes would be great.

BitchesGetStitches2025-09-29 17:49

The Nova movie should definitely begin with the successful invasion of Xandar, showing Rider in battle along with the rest of the Nova Corps. Of course they lose, and Richard is left without a home or purpose. He becomes a drifter, hoping from system to system until the ol' call to adventure comes knocking. I'd like to see him join a pirate gang. Maybe a plot involving the Children of Thanos? And let's get our Fing Fang Foom on already.

Buffzell2025-09-29 20:17

Roman escapes and gifts him worldmine

texasjkids2025-09-29 22:42

10 minutes would be fine. 45 minutes would be longer than the final battle in Endgame

Bruhimonlyeleven2025-09-30 12:27

45 minutes is wild. Rofl.

There's zero chance in hell they filmed 45 minutes or zandar being destroyed by Thanos, so he could get the power stone. 10 at most, and that's pushing it.

Ok_Negotiation312025-09-29 14:50

I do too

If they ever do a Nova show, I would love it if they had the first episode just dealing with Thanos destroying Xandar

Matimele2025-09-29 22:07

Xandar*

theFrankSpot2025-09-29 22:58

He survived the Hellmouth only for Thanos to get him…

vanillasky6872025-09-29 14:52

When endgame was coming out, I was really hoping to see at least a flashback

EightBiscuit012025-09-29 15:15

I’m in the minority but I’m kinda hoping we never see it (unless we get flashbacks in the Nova show) and I’m glad we didn’t in the movie

Part of what made Infinity War’s opening so effective was the realization that Thanos was already winning. Showing the start of his conquest would take away from that fear factor just a little bit

NothingButG00DVibes2025-09-29 15:23

Hard disagree. In retrospect there wasn’t even that much planning before infinity war. It just came out of nowhere and they threw a bunch of plot lines together to make it work. Not showing them decimate a planet that had a huge part in governing the universe is just lazy. And if you aren’t paying complete attention you miss the fact it’s destroyed because they gloss over it so quickly.

soggyDeals2025-09-29 17:37

It’s not lazy, just good editing and world building. A long scene of the baddie killing a bunch of no names on an alien world adds nothing but time and budget to the movie. It’s an easy cut. Having major events happen off camera is necessary for the world to actually feel alive. And to justify why the universal police aren’t doing anything about Thanos.

If this was the comics and they put out multiple movies per month for the cost of a writer and a few artists, sure, they can dwell in the details. It’s not, though, they are massively expensive Hollywood blockbusters, and we get maybe 2-3 per year. Hell, even the comics gloss over world ending events, we never dwelled in the world of the weird goth people Phoenix destroyed. The MCU would feel pretty paper thin and dead if the only events that happened were on screen.

Dan_Of_Time2025-09-30 19:39

“If you aren’t paying attention”

Thor literally says he decimated Xandar.

Movies shouldn’t have to cater to people who aren’t going to listen to lines of dialogue. Once you start having to spell everything out on screen you will lose all quality.

BambooSound2025-09-29 21:47

I always thought people wanted it in another, subsequent project. ~~The opening~~ All of Infinity War is perfect.

BatmanForever232025-09-29 15:24

I don't think 45 mins of Thanos slaughtering unnamed Xandarian soldiers would be that interesting, but to each their own... probably wouldn't even take him 45 mins honestly.

repalec2025-09-29 16:16

Yeah like at best you could have a scene of John C. Reilly's character being separated from his wife and daughter on different sides of the 50% line but 5-11 years after we last saw hide or hair of Xandar would be a weird time to try and pluck the heartstrings for those characters.

ScuzzBuckster2025-09-29 18:49

I'm pretty sure Thanos straight up destroyed Xandar once he had the power stone. They say he destroyed it, not culled half its population, but completely decimated it.

unfamemonster2025-09-29 19:22

Doesn't decimate technically mean killed 10% of the population?

fatfacemonkey2025-09-29 20:33

Killed all but 10% I believe it would mean

Silvire2025-09-29 21:13

It's killing one in ten, but that's the original historical term.

In modern day is used more in the context of destroying large portions of cities, countries, populations, etc.

the_timps2025-09-30 05:19

Only if you're posting this from the 4th century.

ganbaro2025-09-30 08:16

Let's say he did multiple decimations

ChilledParadox2025-09-30 20:39

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Antrikshy2025-10-01 07:13

Is this an asymptote situation?

AdaptedInfiltrator2025-09-29 16:59

Yeah like even the final battle of Endgame wasn’t that long. Anywhere from 5-20 minutes for the supposed Xandar invasion would be good to see

BambooSound2025-09-29 21:44

You're right that doing a 45 minute version of Endgame would be boring.

If they took inspiration from stuff like 1917 and Mad Max: Fury Road though, they could probably make something pretty cool.

JonS90_2025-09-29 22:31

These are the kind of guys that want a Hulk film thats just him unstoppably destroying things for 2 hours straight.

Mickeyjj272025-10-01 15:56

I used to always joke about a friend who thinks like that. Always said the perfect movie for him would be someone getting out of bed and they’re immediately attacked by ninjas and the whole movie he’s just fighting people with no plot or anything.

NotAStatistic22025-09-30 09:08

We got two hours of Ant-Man Quantumania. Anything should go if Marvel is spending hundreds of millions on that.

BatmanForever232025-09-30 10:14

That's some of the worst logic I've ever heard.

dowker12025-09-30 09:25

So what you're saying is they should film it like:

"Hello officer Plumbus, what a lovely day it is."

"Indeed it is officer Weeble, I hope that oh no Thanos is here oh no he's killing us all help us officer Scallywag."

"I can't help you, Thanos is killing me too, and I see he's also killing officers Beeblebrox, Spunky, and Steven. Officer Michaelangelosdavid, can you save us?"

etc etc

phantomstrangerfan2025-09-30 13:27

Maybe when they finally give us Richard Rider and the annihilation event they can reuse that footage showing how he becomes Nova prime and controls the world mind. This event in a flash back would be useful and also allow us to see how powerful RR is. It would also allow us to get annihilus and Blastaar, and help introduce some pretty important cosmic characters ( RR Nova, quasar, Moon dragon, fill in some of the Eternals back story, Star Fox among them. Can also flesh out Adam Warlock, the new GotG team, and so much more). I'm probably pissing in the wind waiting for Rider to become part of the MCU, but a person can dream I guess.

blackbutterfree2025-09-29 15:28

Especially now that we've gotten confirmation of at least one alternate reality where >!the Nova Corps were back at full strength five years later (Marvel Zombies)!<, we need to see how it all shook down on Xandar.

TheRealGrifter2025-09-29 15:32

45 minutes of people being slaughtered is entertaining to you?

GormanOnGore2025-09-29 15:39

I feel like you want me to say no…

Escapedtheasylum2025-09-29 16:35

There are videos from real wars. If you're gonna dig. I've been told.

SkintCrayon2025-09-29 15:41

If they're fighting back it can be

BartleBossy2025-09-29 16:24

If you think it would just be a 45 minute gore montage, thats a failure of your own imagination.

Heroic last stands, families on either side of the 50;50 line, Richard Rider's escape... lots of compelling stories to tell in the destruction of Xandar.

RihoSucks2025-09-29 20:18

None of which would matter in relation to the rest of the movie. A 5 minute sequence wouldve been cool but 45 minutes is hilarious

NaiRad10002025-09-29 15:35

It still bugged how they just glaze over the fact Xandar and the Nova Corps were destroyed

The31stUser2025-09-29 16:21

That and they said it happened a week ago and the guardians somehow didn’t know?

souledgar2025-09-29 18:27

I mean, have you seen GotG? Xandar and the Nova Corp couldn’t even stop one ship that’s not firing back from illegally landing.

Plus-Persimmon-32692025-09-29 15:40

I feel like we're not fully understanding how long 45 minutes is

midnightphoton2025-09-29 16:55

shhh … let the delulu fans be delulu fans

N8CCRG2025-09-29 18:36

Complain all you want about writing and directorial decision in the MCU, but every time I visit this sub I thank god they don't let the fans write/direct.

replayer2025-09-30 00:16

Most story ideas that people post here sound best if you read them like they're the guys from Beavis and Butthead.

"Heh heh it'd be so cool if Savage Hulk came back and like, beat the shit out of Daredevil and like, Punisher at the same time. So cool."

NotAStatistic22025-09-30 09:06

That would probably be cooler than "heh heh it'd be so cool if Kang killed Thor, then lost to giant ants. So cool."

achshort2025-09-30 13:57

The kang that lost to ants was like one of the weakest versions

Trvr_MKA2025-09-30 19:58

If spoilers and leaks are to be believed >!Make that Spider-Man and Punisher!<

GCB19862025-09-30 05:15

Or cast

MajorNoodles2025-10-01 02:15

It was really bad for Andor. When season 2 was coming out people had some godawful theories.

Mickeyjj272025-10-01 15:49

What you don’t want a movie of Steve returning the stones?

Cultural-Doughnut-482025-10-01 22:12

I think a whole subreddit like /r/redditwritesshit where we share the awful fanfic people post might be the only way to properly shame them. The number of “SNL has GOTTA DO [terribly unfunny premise for a sketch that won’t even be timely by the next episode] IT’LL BE SO FUNNY” posts in that sub makes it unbearable.

radikraze2025-09-29 21:10

Would’ve wasted soooo much unnecessary time in the movie. Nobody wants to see that. For reference, the final battle in Endgame wasn’t even 40 mins long

SappySnow2025-09-30 20:47

I think OP means, giving us a special presentation that would act as a prequel to Infinity War. Cuz its supposedly already filmed. Adding it into the original movie would be a terrible idea

DrFeargood2025-10-01 10:51

The effects costs for 45 minutes of Thanos destroying a civilization would be in the millions.

BambooSound2025-09-29 21:24

I assume they mean like the big fight scene in Avatar 2

Mathi122025-09-29 22:05

I checked and 45 minute mark in Infinity War is where Guardians face Thanos and he kidnaps Gamora.

Up until that point Thanos already killed Loki, Hulk arrived to earth, Tony and Spidey team up against Maw and Obsidian, Vision is wounded by Glaive, Steve helps Wanda and Vision, Thor meets the Guardians and leaves with Rocket and Groot to Nidavellir and then the Guardians arrive into Knowhere...

That's how much happens in 45 minutes...

Krimreaper12025-10-01 01:47

If it exists it would likely be an assembly cut (just laying everything out on a timeline, multiple takes, b-roll, basically everything the editor would then use to make a rough cut. Which would likely be 10-15 min. With a polished scene being around 8-10

AverageAwndray2025-09-30 02:52

But we could get an animated special presentation though?

CAMvsWILD2025-09-30 05:05

Also the dude didn’t have any Infinity Stones yet, so it’d be him and his army laying waste to a planet. This would make the final battle in Endgame a bit of a retread.

Plus, his introduction is just economical storytelling. He beats the shit out of the Hulk, and in like 60 seconds, and you know how much of a threat he is.

BextoMooseYT2025-09-30 10:21

As part of the movie? Yeah that'd be insane. But as like it's own thing, or a bonus to something else that u can just watch by itself whenever u want, idk I think it could be cool ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

Grand-Winter-47312025-09-29 15:44

Yeah wish we could
Have some sort of extended edition. Need
More thanos, was so well done.

EarthboundMan52025-09-29 15:46

In what world would any scene be 45 minutes long? I'm confused.

squishgallows2025-09-29 17:00

45 minutes, one take, all practical effects, shot on location and a planet actually had to be destroyed

MizterF2025-09-29 18:26

Avengers as directed by Stanley Kubrick.

DarthStevo2025-09-29 18:32

And the camera was out of focus for 30 seconds right at the very end so a second planet had to be found and destroyed, and the original footage deleted.

fisheggsoup2025-09-29 17:18

The titled attack sequence in Pearl Harbor was a full 40 minutes long.

CaptHayfever2025-09-29 19:37

I remember Pearl Harbor not being a good movie, though.

Vampus08152025-09-30 21:59

They originally planned to introduce Nova

jordanrhys2025-09-29 15:55

If I was a betting man, Thanos would be the villain of a Nova movie.

Far_Adeptness98842025-09-29 16:02

Was that ever a supposed thing?

SubstantialNet10052025-09-29 16:03

Yah. I was surprised and disappointed we never saw him get the power stone. I would love an extended cut.

Omnislash999992025-09-29 16:11

Is there any evidence they actually filmed anything

ChaoticCaptain1772025-09-29 16:17

45 minutes is a stretch, would've been happy with 10 or 15 minutes but I still would like to watch the scene

NoMoneyNoV-Bucks2025-09-29 16:20

I don’t know if that would work for the movie, the opening scene with Thor already established motivation for relevant characters, kickstarts the story and establishes Thanos as a big threat by killing Loki and Heimdal, as well as beating Hulk.

An opening scene with the destruction of Xandar would be redundant, because the only function it would serve for the story would be establishing Thanos as a threat, which the opening of Infinity war already does as well as more.

solidsnake0702025-09-29 16:57

I love that cold open with Hulk and Thor/Loki getting taken out in the first 10 minutes. Simply *chefs kiss* in showing even the most casual fans how much of a threat Thanos is, even without watching the films prior.

MKfan6162025-09-29 16:21

Release the Xandar cut

JacenStargazer2025-09-29 16:53

They should put it in the Nova show. Also they should get around to making that alleged Nova show that should have been a tentpole of Phase 4.

AdaptedInfiltrator2025-09-29 16:59

Does this scene actually exist? Since IW I’ve seen it mentioned that this scene exists but I’ve never seen any proof. Even the deleted scenes didn’t include it. Perhaps they’re saving it for another project??

afunkybeat2025-09-29 17:20

I suspect we'll get something like it whenever they introduce Richard Rider.

Forsaken_Professor792025-09-29 17:35

Nah. We as an audience had no real connection to Xandar or the Xandarians. Having Xandar get decimated off screen adds to the grave severity of Thanos as the last time we saw the Nova Corps they were barelly able to stop Ronan. Thanos did it without a stone and hammer.

I like that the first time we see Thanos in action with the Order it's Thor Hulk, Loki, and Heimdall who are getting wrecked. Pretty much lets you know how much of an unstoppable force he will be throughout the course of the plot.

Besides the Gamora flashback and the Battle of NY kindve contextualize what the Xandar invasion may have looked like.

CaptHayfever2025-09-29 19:39

> We as an audience had no real connection to Xandar or the Xandarians.

I think you're underestimating the charm of America's sweetheart John C. Reilly.

raymondl9422025-09-29 17:36

Idk about 45 min but to release it as a teaser to dooms day showing how powerful Thanos is and then the actual movie with that panel where Doom oneshots him

omnicious2025-09-29 18:07

45 minutes is not a scene. That's a pilot episode.

BroeknRecrds2025-09-29 18:11

If we ever get a Nova project I can guarantee it would start with this

8rok3n2025-09-29 18:28

45 minutes of what? Thanos and gang slaughtering innocent people? Xander has close to no actual defense, there's the Nova Corps but they're VERY weak.

OnlinePosterPerson2025-09-29 18:29

Where are you hearing this planned scene was 45 minutes long? I’ve never heard that bit and find it very difficult to believe

NorrinRaddicalness2025-09-30 02:10

Yea there’s literally no way that’s true. Unless it was pepper in smaller scenes across the first 45minutes of the entire movie. Maybe.

And they might have 45 mins of special effect rough cut but that’s doesn’t mean they were using even 1/15th of it. It just means that’s how much they produced in trying to map out the scene.

DriveFormer85772025-09-29 18:31

So imagine the battle on wakanda but more like a quiet place with those black ravaging aliens killing the whole planet

Soulwarfare422025-09-29 18:32

If the Nova project happens, it might be the opening scene

NYkrinDC2025-09-29 18:49

They could make it into a Special Presentation, and just show Thanos going ham on Xandar.

Currycel78912025-09-29 18:56

That would make the film R-rated.

Astro_Bot_Dad2025-09-29 19:13

Honestly for all the post credits stuff we have id enjoyed simply him on xander inserting the stone into the gauntlet.so many throw away post credits and it feels like they had all the stones were they needed to be apart from that

GiantOfLight2025-09-29 19:28

I would do a Nova movie where the first half is like an academy training movie and mid way through you pull an Attack on Titan and have this massive Thanos attack that runs for the rest of the runtime of the movie.

dawne_breaker2025-09-29 19:38

Don’t worry. Sometime in the future we’ll be introduced to a character who was there and then it’ll be told.

CaptHayfever2025-09-29 19:40

45 is too many minutes for that.

Buffzell2025-09-29 19:59

Only if they use the nova force for their suits and not their vehicles

happytrel2025-09-29 20:02

I was hoping it was going to be factored into the beginning of a Nova movie

Efp7222025-09-29 20:39

do we know if they actually filmed this? or was it just 45 minutes worth of script and story boarding that was cut early on in production?

drntl2025-09-29 20:46

Can’t believe this never led to a Nove movie.

BambooSound2025-09-29 21:24

Eternals should have been a Thanos movie showing us what happened on Titan.

Raj_Valiant30112025-09-29 21:26

The absolute destruction and carnage that Thanos would unleash over Xandar would be a sight into behold and tremble over.

MallowBrain132025-09-29 21:26

people on here always ask them to “give us” things that literally do not exist. If there ever was a 45 minute scene, or even a scene at all, chances are it was just an idea on a script somewhere, never filmed, and certainly not completed into a viewable state.

chewywheat2025-09-29 21:58

Kind of a random thought but the Marvel Zombies series never really said how zombies-Thanos got the power stone. The stone was on Xandar, so he should have attacked the planet at some point. Yet the show implies Xandar was still around since Nova Corp was still here.

Smooth-Mix-43572025-09-29 22:00

First the series should explain how Thanos even got infected in the first place

Baggiebhoy842025-09-29 22:14

In the time between Infinity War and Endgame, one of my theories was that the Avengers would use either time travel or the stones to go back in time and ambush Thanos on Xandar before he got the power stone, and that's why we hadn't seen any of the destruction of Xandar. They were saving it for Endgame.

Orion141592025-09-29 22:19

Remember when they used to do the one-shots like "A Funny Things Happened On The Way To Thor's Hammer"?

One of those. Like 10 minutes max. That's it.

Gamerxx132025-09-29 23:21

I am I feel like these plot jumps are gonna happen in doomsday too. Like there’s too much to go over in just one movie unfortunately

the_kush_man2025-09-30 00:05

My friend's idea was to have one of the end credit scenes to GotG 2 be Thanos and his army invading and stealing the power stone. Would have seemed like a good place to put it since Thanos wasn't in Guardians 2

writeman002025-09-30 00:31

I reckon they're saving it for the Nova film, if it ever happens.

The_Great_Man_Potato2025-09-30 00:57

Boy am I glad you guys aren’t writing the movies

Fit_Copy24362025-09-30 01:10

Imagine that a future Nova project started like this, with Thanos destroying all of Xandar similar to the opening scene of Batman VS Superman.