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SpeedDemon20 posted...

I think Thanos with 5 stones is worse (better? depending on your PoV) than Thanos with 6 stones, because if he kills you, YOU'RE DEFINITELY not coming back. He suffered no backlash from using 5 stones too. He'd just ez mode his way planet to planet. That's probably why Doctor Strange gave him the time stone (he most definitely could have kept it away from Thanos).

With 5 stones, he's just the most powerful asshole in the universe.

With 6, he can snap half of all life away.

The Gauntlet is explicitly more powerful than the sum of its parts. The snap required all six working together and still nearly killed him. With only five, he'd have to keep traveling from planet to planet and doing the job manually, which would make him radically less of a threat (if anything, it wouldn't even put him on par with Galactus).

But that's assuming that he'd even bother collecting the stones if he couldn't get all six. He didn't even bother trying to gather them all until he knew where five of the six were (and he basically gave one up and ignored a second early on, and made little real effort to get a third from Ronan). He wants the full set - the individual stones don't really appeal to him. Sure, they make him more powerful, but he's already powerful enough to do the job one planet at a time for the most part. He really only wants the stones to do the whole job all in one go.
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