Infinity war theory!
Spoilers ahead (duh)
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Right. So I have seen some people commenting about the gauntlet being clearly damaged after the snap.
Although this could be due to the extreme power of the infinity stones, some people have suggested that this was because Eitri purposely built a fault into it. But what if the fault was not in the gauntlet but in the stones themselves?
We see the majority of the stones demonstrating their true potential, such as the reality stone with those fucking bubbles(!), but I think one stone was under used: the tesseract. Yes we see thanos use it to teleport to other places and, though it might be beyond our own abilities, teleportation is not unique to the tesseract. Take doctor strange's sling ring and the bifrost. Maybe they don't have the same scale as the tesseract, nevertheless, it shows traveling through space is possible in multiple ways. Perhaps even in a way that can mimic the abilities of the tesseract...
This brings me onto the main point of this theory: the tesseract was a fake created by Loki.
As much as we like to believe that loki spent his time as king lying around in a bath robe, eating grapes and enjoying the arts, it is more likely a sharp mind like loki's was studying. If he was successful in creating a fake, it would explain why he took it from asgard and ended up surrendering it to thanos.
See how loki just tosses it aside? And why didn't he use it to fight thanos or just teleport away from him? It's because loki *wants* thanos to have it.
Now if one of the stones was a fake, surely the snap wouldn't have worked? Well maybe it didn't. The space stone would perhaps have been needed to teleport the lives of those affected from out of the universe. Without it, they wouldn't be able to cross over to their deaths. So instead they were taken somewhere else.
They were taken inside to soul stone.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
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(also loki's not dead. If that bitch can fake an infinity stone, he can fake a little death. Probs wants thanass to think he's dead so he doesn't get his shit kicked it)
