my avengers infinity war theory which i can’t believe i even have for what will surely be a hot mess of a movie is as follows:
- heimdall is the character who dies in the first five minutes, not loki, and he gives thor the soul stone
- thor uses it to get bruce to earth and warn the avengers
- the ploy with the tesseract is a genuine bargain that loki strikes with thanos for thor’s life but it doesn’t result in loki’s immediate death. instead he ends up sticking with the black order/children of thanos
- thor gets thrown into space by thanos anyways but gets picked up by the guardians. goes and gets his cool axe
- ???
- i also think the big final battle will destroy something so massive that the only recourse is some kind of time warp retcon shit in the next movie, which was pretty much confirmed by those set photos from infinity war 2
- part of the reason i think loki stays alive for at least a little while is because i think SOMEONE near thanos is able to pull some shit with the time stone, and it looks like doc strange does not have it in the trailer
This gave me hope after the floor fell out from under me with the newest trailer.









