After all, we'd already seen the Gauntlet at the end of Age of Ultron we knew Thanos already had it because that's what all of these dang movies had been leading up to. No one doubted Hela for a second that the Gauntlet in Odin's vault was a fake. She declares it a 'fake' before pushing it haphazardly off its pedestal. In Ragnarok, Hela (Cate Blanchett) wanders through Odin's vaults looking for the Eternal Flame and comes across an ultra-shiny version of the Infinity Gauntlet (with the 'Infinity Stones' in place, mind you). If Eitri and the dwarves made the Gauntlet for Thanos - from scratch, mind you, as Eitri implies he came up with it right then and there to solve Thanos' desires to control all the Infinity Stones - during Ragnarok, then why did the Gauntlet exist at all in the MCU before Ragnarok? This means Thanos laid waste to Nidavellir during or after Ragnarok when the Asgardians were too caught up in their own destruction to guard any other part of the nine realms.īut wait. Thor tells Eitri that Asgard was destroyed (i.e., Thor: Ragnarok happened). It seems Eitri was the only one who made it out alive he takes his anger out on Thor, demanding to know why Asgard didn't come to their defense as promised. Then, upon the device's completion, Thanos killed them and left them to ruin. In Infinity War, Peter Dinklage's Eitri reveals that Thanos came to Nidavellir and forced the Dwarves to make a device that would help him harness the power of the Infinity Stones - thus, the Infinity Gauntlet was born. Because, technically, the Gauntlet wasn't supposed to exist at this point, as laid out by Infinity War.Įitri made the gauntlet for Thanos during or after Thor: Ragnarok What doesn't make sense, though, is why Thanos has the Gauntlet at this point in time. If his comment is in reference to the events of Ultron, then we can presume this scene takes place directly after Ultron. That makes sense, as one of the Infinity Stones was so crucial to Age of Ultron's plot. This oath was supposedly in reference to Ultron's failure to wipe out humanity, the genocidal version of 'It's hard to find good help these days.' While the sentient demon robot's plans were a bit less lofty than Thanos' - wanting to kill everyone on one planet versus wanting to kill half of the universe's total population - this mid-credit sequence makes it seem like Thanos was definitely paying attention to Ultron's plans and the Avengers themselves. He shoves his hand into the glove, closes his fist, and growls out an oath: 'Fine. Thanos unlocks at least four different shiny vault doors to get to the Gauntlet, which sits on a pedestal.

We first saw the Infinity Gauntlet during Avengers: Age of Ultron's mid-credits scene.

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