The sacrifice of Tony Stark was 100% unnecessary.

Im surprised no one has mentioned this yet.

The sacrifice of Tony Stark was 100% unnecessary.

I repeat, tony stark unnecessarily committed suicide.

(Daddy has to go now. I love you 3000. But, unfortunately, i love pointless suicides 3001)

Have any of you asked yourself what, exactly, did tony do with those stones?

Let remember, hulk already returned the people who were snapped away. Everything was fine, except thanos slipping through time. Overall, the avengers accomplished their mission: they got the stones and brought everyone back. They just had to deal with that not so small issue of thanos and his army. Hmm …. how do we handle this?

6 stones are absolutely not necessary to defeat thanos and his army.

The wakandans and a few avengers proved they were able to handle the chitauri in part one. Now, throw in the other avengers and some pissed off asgardians, and we are talking about a slaughter - especially after captain marvel* single-handedly destroys their ship, which likely included a large portion of their army and took away their ability to ‘rain fire’. No scene of the final battle shows the avengers struggling against that army. Obsidian was taken out in the first few seconds.

(* another thing many people didnt notice: the name ‘captain marvel’ has yet to be used in either her solo move or endgame)

This leave thanos.

Admittedly, he appears much stronger than in part 1, where he seemed very restrained. But, we see both captain marvel and scarlet witch (another name thats never used, btw) take him on head-to-head. You cant seriously convince me that thanos can take down all of the avengers working together. Strange, wanda, and danvers together could wipe him out fairly quickly.

Sooo … you have 6 infinity stones and the power to do literally anything you can dream of, but at the cost of your life. What do you do:

• Thanos: wipe out 50% of the population … in the universe
• Hulk: revive 50% of the universe.
• Stark: kill thanos and few hundred chitauri? Yep, definitely worth 6 stones and his life ….

But, but, he saved others from unnecessarily dying in the battle, you say

Keep in mind that the avengers had the stones. This means you could separate them, giving each one to a different avenger (ex: strange gets time stone, wanda gets reality, danvers gets power, etc), and defeat thanos and his army quite easily. When you have 6 infinity stones, you do not play defense, nor do you run and hide.

But, but, he didnt kill thanos and his army; he sent them back to their time.

This makes things even more complicated. Does he return them to before future nebula arrived and they have no memory of what happened? If yes, then what prevents the events from happening again? Btw, this is why i hate the use of time travelling.

Why, oh why, did tony waste a snap - and, by extension, his life - to end a battle that they were already winning?

Thanos: I am inevitable

Stark: and i …. am …. stupid and unpredictable :(