Why didn't the Avengers just use the Infinity Stones individually to beat the shit out of Thanos and his army...

Why didn't the Avengers just use the Infinity Stones individually to beat the shit out of Thanos and his army? It wouldn't have required anyone to sacrifice themselves doing the full snap. Instead they ran around like idiots with the full gauntlet out in the open which led to Thanos getting his hands on it.

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Writers are hacks

Because no one on the Avengers is powerful enough to actually wield the gauntlet and use it for an extended period of time. Hulk would be the only one who could wield it but his arm got fucked up and theres no telling what more use of the gauntlet would do after his body was already strained

Trying to use even one Infinity without protection isn't something a normal person can do easily

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why not just snap yourself into someone strong enough to wield the stones with impunity?

The Stark Gauntlet probably couldn't harness the power of each stone individually. The Infinity Gauntlet was a magic dwarf thing designed to do that, whereas the Stark one is basically just a housing unit to get all the stones in one place at one time. Also, using the Stark Gauntlet fucked up even the Hulk.

because who ever would do the snap would die like tony did. there's also the fact that it would render the gauntlet unusable after the snap so they'd have nothing to wield the stones with

You kill yourself from the activation before it ever occurs.

Strange used the time stone pretty early in his sorcerer career and Loki can use the space stone without any problems. You don't need the gauntlet to use the stones. The only one shown to fuck you up using it barehanded unless you're Thanos-tier durable is power, so Carol could have turned Thanos into a smear if she took out the power stone when she was making the gauntlet run.

It looked like none of them were strong enough to even WEAR the gauntlet. Only Thanos could wear it without his arm exploding.

You will still die but in death, you will acquire a body powerful enough to survive a snap. Only problem is that you are now dead and that newly acquired body is useless to you.

Doctor Strange used the Time Stone inside it containment unit which made it easily and more manageable. Same can be said about Loki when he used the Mind Stone and Space Stone.

But only through the focusing devices of the Eye of Agamotto pendant and the Chiutari staff.

This. Without a containment unit like The Staff, Tessaract, or Eye of Aggamotto, the stones are raw energy that can kill the user

Because none of them can handle that shit, are you kidding me?
First off:
Strange had the Time Stone in that fucking artifact that let him control it. The Eye of Agamotto is like a Mjolnir for the Timestone's power: it contains and focuses it
Second: Loki is a fucking god, he'd probably able to use the stone (also held within an artifact, the tesseract) fine.

Add in the Aether containment thing and the orb that they used to hold the Power Stone too to that list.
Every single one of the stones basically had a tool to focus its power, and Thanos himself isn't really able to use the stones raw without hurting himself (we see this when he rips the power stone out and he's clearly in pain from embedding it into his hand

>Because none of them can handle that shit
Carol probably could, and she was carrying the gauntlet with all the stones in it at one point. Hell, she probably could have snapped the thing and end it there if someone told her to.

True, but she didnt arrive until later and their goal was to get the stones away so Thanos can't win instantly if he gets it.
Among the other Avengers, only Thor and maybe Iron Man could handle a bare stone during the fight

Even handling one stone is too much for one person. Star Lord has his celestial genetics and he needed the other guardians to help handle the power stone

Tony did the snap because any other method of dealing with Thanos' army opens up the risk of countless other casualties, and, more importantly, the risk of Thanos getting the stones back. Using the Time Stone a bunch is dangerous to the universe itself apparently, so thinking they could just casually resurrect anyone that died is not a sustainable strategy. If Strange had been among the casualties, it might not have been possible for anyone else to even attempt that.

Basically, Tony knew that the snap would cost exactly one life, while alternative strategies could lose them anything, up to and including the universe itself.

They really devaluated the power of the individual stones in this movie

Is base Thanos stronger than Ego?

Depends on your meaning. Thanos can't do anything to Ego's planet body. He's strong, but he's not a planet-cracker, and without someone like Mantis to lower Ego's defenses, he won't be able to get close enough to strike Ego's heart.
Ego's avatar is effectively immortal, capable of endless regeneration, surviving in space and can project enough energy from his hands to wipe out a small fleet of fighters. Considering Thanos seemed to have trouble dealing with Wanda (who has shown similar enough powers at lesser degrees to the Ego avatar), admittedly after he was tangling with Stormbreaker-Thor, Mjolnir-Cap and Nano-Tony, I think I'd give it to Ego, but only because I think he'd outlast Thanos.
If it came down to Ego's avatar wrestling with Thanos, then Thanos would win every time.

Ego would win in a straight fight with Thanos just by throwing bodies at him as the Avatars Ego builds are expendable and unless someone tells him Thanos wouldn't know where/how to get to Ego's heart