Why didn't Dr Strange use the time stone in this fight?
14,000,605?
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Alert-Ad70972025-11-19 22:50
Yes
twentyitalians2025-11-19 22:50
1) because that wasn't the one strategy to win
2) Because we had one more movie
doopdoopderp2025-11-19 22:50
Because he looked forward in time and saw that every time he tried to Thanks won and the only way for them to eventually win was to give Thanos the time stone in exchange for Tony's life
katchaa2025-11-19 22:53
That works according to the plot points. But in reality it's what he used against Dormamu and there's no reason to believe it couldn't have worked here.
dvasquez932025-11-19 22:56
Unless Thanos could use one of the other stones to counter it. How’s Strange gonna keep the time loop active when Thanos uses the reality stone to turn the Eye of Agamotto into a roll of toilet paper?
Danielarcher302025-11-19 22:56
By this point, thanos had 4 other stones, whts to say in the realities where strange uses the time stone, that thanos instead teleports to earth to get the mind stone sooner, then uses it to control strange and have him hand the stone over. Or uses the reality stone to make whatever strange does with the time stone never have happened.
mrfuzee2025-11-19 23:00
Thanos had power, space, reality, and soul stones here, right? If we want to ignore ploints Thanos can probably do a great many things to render Dr Strange useless.
CyberShooobie2025-11-19 23:00
In reality it’s a movie based off comic book logic.
He saw one success out of 14 million, and that one instance didn’t involve using the time stone.
How this is still debated is bonkers to me; and it’s one of the more believable plot points I’ve seen in my 33 years of enjoying superhero media.
Zangorth2025-11-19 23:00
The Dormammu thing only worked because he exists outside of time. So Dormammu had to relive it over and over and over until he got tired.
For thanos, each time would be the first time. So, he’d never get tired and give up, Strange would just have to find a way to genuinely beat him.
Funky0ne2025-11-19 23:20
That only seems to have worked against Dormamu because he existed in an alternate, timeless dimension, and having time not only introduced into his reality for the first time, but also being caught in an inescapable time loop for his first experience of time was torture for Dormamu. It's also possible that it's because of Dormamu's nature in his reality that he was even able to be aware of all those time loops along with Strange at all, rather than just having his memory reset every time so he doesn't experience the repetitions. Since all he needed to do was just send Strange back on his way and not bother with Earth anymore, that's a pretty easy choice as he's not obsessed with fulfilling some very specific overriding purpose.
There's no reason to assume any of that would work or apply to Thanos because he exists in time and is obsessed with his mission. He likely wouldn't have an overriding awareness of every time loop that Strange has to go through, and even if he somehow did, he'd have the will to outlast Strange on enduring it till Strange loses his mind from all the repetitions first (Thanos is more than thousands of years old already anyway). The former is more likely though as it is pretty much what we already saw happen: Strange is the only one who experienced all those millions of time loops when he was trying to find a winning strategy, and everyone else was only aware of the last one he picked when he broke the loop.
zeroner_012025-11-19 22:53
You are welcome
jaronhays42025-11-19 22:53
Because he is…inevitable
Jess_UY252025-11-19 22:54
Because if he did Thanos wins. It is explicitly stated that there’s only one way for them to defeat Thanos.
Think-State302025-11-19 22:55
He did
CaptHayfever2025-11-19 22:55
He's literally hiding it from Thanos.
Goldman2502025-11-19 22:56
You remember the bit where he uses the Time Stone to see 14,000,605 futures? He saw futures where he used the Time Stone, and it didn’t work. His every action during the Infinity War fight was predestined, because he knew exactly what he had to do at every moment.
ExternalNational2025-11-19 22:56
The plot
WarlockRock112025-11-19 22:59
It’s almost like the movie explicitly explains this….. Might I suggest you pay closer attention to the movies you watch?
jamesbondswanson2025-11-19 22:59
He confused it for a green jolly rancher and ate it
Grayx_28872025-11-19 23:00
Because a) it wasn't part of the god-damn plan and b) we only have one more movie. We can't display **EVERY** Single Infinity Stone's powers in just one movie. This shit costs a lot of money to do all of that.
eagc72025-11-19 23:15
You anwsered it yourself, he saw that the winning scenario required him to avoid using the time stone
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2) Because we had one more movie
He saw one success out of 14 million, and that one instance didn’t involve using the time stone.
How this is still debated is bonkers to me; and it’s one of the more believable plot points I’ve seen in my 33 years of enjoying superhero media.
For thanos, each time would be the first time. So, he’d never get tired and give up, Strange would just have to find a way to genuinely beat him.
There's no reason to assume any of that would work or apply to Thanos because he exists in time and is obsessed with his mission. He likely wouldn't have an overriding awareness of every time loop that Strange has to go through, and even if he somehow did, he'd have the will to outlast Strange on enduring it till Strange loses his mind from all the repetitions first (Thanos is more than thousands of years old already anyway). The former is more likely though as it is pretty much what we already saw happen: Strange is the only one who experienced all those millions of time loops when he was trying to find a winning strategy, and everyone else was only aware of the last one he picked when he broke the loop.