Marvel Little Genius

Sunk costs refer to expenses that occurred in the past but are not relevant to current decisions. They usually also refer to cost inputs that cannot be recovered.

From the perspective of decision-making, the expenses incurred in the past are only a factor that caused the current state. What the current decision should consider are the expenses that may occur in the future and the benefits it will bring, regardless of the expenses incurred in the past.

However, when the accumulation of sunk costs is too high and exceeds the limit that the decision-maker can accept, due to the influence of psychological factors, in the decision-making process, compared with giving up the past investment and starting to invest again, he will be more inclined to increase investment in order to achieve the goal. Let past costs be able to form output and reap results.

This is the situation with Thanos now - the sunk costs are too high. The Infinity Gauntlet he wears on his left hand has now collected all four Infinity Stones except for the Mind Stone and Time Stone on Mark and Doctor Strange.

The first power gem was seized from the Nova Corps of Xandar; the second space gem was obtained from the fleeing Asgard spaceship; the thirdThe Reality Stone was looted from the Collector in the Land of Nothingness.

As for the fourth Infinity Stone - the Soul Stone, Thanos threatened Gamora with Nebula's life and learned the hiding place of the Soul Stone on Vormir. But what Thanos never expected was that... In order for the Soul Gem to manifest itself, you need to sacrifice the soul of the person you love most.

In order to restore the balance of the universe and realize his ideals, Thanos reluctantly pushed Gamora off the altar under the cliff, and finally obtained the Soul Stone.

Except for his beloved adopted daughter Gamora, the five loyal Obsidian generals either died on the earth or died in his own hands.

These are the sacrifices and irrecoverable costs Thanos has made in order to realize his ultimate ideal. This is why Thanos will tell the superheroes that he has paid too much. Later, he said to Mark's denial Came too late.

For Thanos, even though he has been shaken in his heart by Mark's argument, the sunk cost is so high that he can no longer accept the eventual change and failure of the ideal he has painstakingly pursued.

So now Thanos has only one choice, which is to go all the way to achieve the original goal.

"You showed up too late Mark Stark! I paid attention to you when you defeated the Chitauri Legion led by Loki, but I didn't expect at the time that a child with no long hair would grow up to be able to drive out guys like Dormammu today. Earth, even I was almost shaken by you.

It's a pity that I didn't pay attention to your existence earlier and didn't meet you earlier. I always thought that I was a person cursed by knowledge, but now it seems that I am imprisoned by knowledge, and you are the real curse. But no matter what, I will not change my position. The battle between us today is inevitable."

Mark disagrees with the curse of knowledge mentioned by Thanos. Guys like Thanos think that they have mastered the most important secrets in the universe. This is a great responsibility sent from heaven to this man. He also believes that he is destiny, because he knows Mature for mission, loneliness and pain

"You think you are the center of the entire universe and the spokesperson of the will of the universe, but you are not! You are nothing but arrogant and self-righteous stubbornness. There is no place for remnants of the old era like you on the ship of the new era. Today we will take away from your hands the fate that should be in each of our own hands. Take it back—do it!"

Mark gave the order, and everyone from the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy struck first and began to attack Thanos according to their own rhythms and methods.

The first to take action were the fastest Captain and Quicksilver. They used Thanos was unable to react quickly and launched a series of attacks against him.

Bang bang bang! Thanos was seen standing on the spot, his body constantly twisting, and at the same time there was a huge collision sound. This was what Quicksilver and Captain were like. A quick attack like a relay.

But don't forget, Thanos holds four infinity stones in his hands, and Thanos's body is so strong that he can fight the Hulk with his bare hands. Although the captain's attacks hit one after another, none of them hit. What damage did it cause him?

Then the Infinity Gauntlet triggered an explosion of gem energy. Under the strong energy impact, the offensive of Captain and Quicksilver was also strongly interrupted. After you finish singing, I will appear on the stage, followed by Captain and Quicksilver. , other superheroes also gathered around, and the little spider continued to launch spider silk to interfere with and restrain Thanos' actions. Black Panther, Hulkbuster Banner, the undead Black Widow and Drax, the four took advantage of At this opportunity, Thanos surrounded Thanos's front, rear, left and right, and then launched the most powerful attack.

Under numerous interferences and sieges, Thanos was unable to form an effective counterattack, and the Infinity Gauntlet was entangled in the spider's silk, and It was temporarily unable to be effective, and the situation was slowly falling into a disadvantage.

In the next second, War Machine, Winter Soldier, Falcon and Star-Lord, with the cooperation of Mark and Doctor Strange, kept passing through the portal. He started a guerrilla war next to Thanos, shooting and changing places, constantly using his high-tech weapons on Thanos.

This means that Hawkeye is not here, otherwise Thanos must experience Mark. The power of his custom-made anti-matter warhead arrows.

However, although everyone's cooperation was exquisite and they worked very hard when attacking, the situation was the same as when Captain and Quicksilver attacked before. The momentum to suppress Thanos seemed to be very strong. , but it can’t cause any harm to Thanos’ powerful physical body.

Mark had already anticipated this situation. In the original plot, there was only one weapon that could pose a threat to Thanos, and that was the Storm Tomahawk being built by Thor in Nidaville at this very moment..

An offensive like theirs, which relied on numbers and cooperation, would be difficult to cause fatal damage to Thanos. However, Mark never expected to eliminate Thanos through such an attack from the beginning. Now everyone seems to be trying their best to attack, but in fact they are just trying to contain Thanos' actions.

Their real purpose is to effectively restrain Thanos, find an opportunity to get the Infinity Gauntlet and the four Infinity Stones in his hand, and then kill Thanos through other means, such as Mark's trump card—— Forbidden Technique·Two-way Foil.

After another wave of attack fire, Doctor Strange looked at Mantis, who was already preparing to attack not far away. The two nodded towards each other in tacit understanding, and then Doctor Strange opened two teleportation portals next to Thanos. Door.

At the moment Thanos had just withstood such a heavy firepower blow and had yet to recover, Mantis passed directly through the portal opened by Doctor Strange and sat astride Thanos' shoulders. Through his own ability to empathize, he began to disrupt Thanos' mental state.

At the same time, another portal opened by Doctor Strange was next to the Infinity Gauntlet in Thanos' left hand. The floating cloak behind him flew out with a swish, wrapping Thanos' left hand tightly to prevent him from using it. The power of the infinity stones

"Now, do it!"Seeing that the time had come, Mark quickly gave instructions to the people closest to Thanos. Everyone worked together and locked Thanos's limbs with all their strength. On the other side, other companions received the instructions. They also immediately converged towards Thanos and began to work together to take off the Infinity Gauntlet on his hand.

"Please move faster, Thanos is too powerful, I can't control him for too long!"Mantis, who used her ability to empathize with Thanos, urged everyone with a painful expression.

Mark did not join in this action. In order to ensure that their plan would not go wrong, he used the Crimson Demon previously used on Ebony Maw. He took out the belt and threw it towards Star-Lord's position.

Snap! As soon as the crimson magic belt came into contact with Star-Lord's body, the magic array engraved on the magic weapon was immediately activated, firmly holding Star-Lord body is tied up

"Sorry Quill, but for the sake of the overall situation, I have to temporarily aggrieve you."

After doing all this, Mark quickly came to Thanos' left hand, released two magic chains and began to work with everyone to take off the Infinity Gauntlet.

"Damn it, why is this thing so secure? He couldn't have glued it to his palm!"Tony connected the gloves with the nano armor and activated the thrusters on the armor with all his strength, but there was still no sign of the Infinity Gauntlet loosening.

Mark, who was also exerting force with the others, was a little agitated. Secretly annoyed, all this happened too suddenly, much earlier than he expected, which also led to Mark not being fully prepared.

Now if there is something like Thor's Storm Battle Ax that can cut off the destruction , Arm weapons, or like Tony's steel suit version of the Infinity Gauntlet in Endgame, they don't have to use brute force so hard.

"etc! There really is a way to cut off Thanos' arm!"Mark suddenly remembered that in addition to the purpose of teleportation in space, the teleportation gate is also a very useful guillotine.

After all, space is king and time is supreme. The terrifying cutting effect of the power of space, not to mention Thanos' body support Can't help it, even Dormammu can't resist the erosion of space power. This can be seen from the achievements of the two-way foil. Just do it when you think of it, Mark directly opened it at the junction of Thanos' arm and the Infinity Gauntlet. A portal connects to the New York Temple. There are Terminators and other Karma Taj mages in the temple. Mark can rest assured that the Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity Stones are left there.

The next moment, as Mark continues to shrink his output With the magic power, the portal began to shrink rapidly, and finally there was no pause. When it disappeared, Thanos' left hand, the Infinity Gauntlet and the four Infinity Stones also disappeared in front of everyone.

"Success! ?"Mark was a little ecstatic and a little unsure. Things seemed to be going too smoothly. Thanos' strength shouldn't be so weak. Even with his joining in this timeline, success would come too suddenly and easily. Sure enough

, , just when Mark was doubtful, the bad premonition in his heart came true in the next second.

"Is this your plan to use against me? It was indeed carefully calculated and planned. If I had not set up this illusion to obtain this information, it would have been possible for you to succeed."

Everyone present had expressions of surprise and disbelief when this frightening voice rang in their ears. Then Thanos, whom they had just worked so hard to subdue, just transformed in front of their eyes. For nothing. Not far away, another Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet on his left hand intact stood there vividly. Looking at their depression and surprise at this time, his eyes were full of banter.

Mark, as the soul among everyone The person with the most powerful sensing ability, he was the first person to discover the true identity of Thanos. The moment all illusions dissipated, Mark's eyes caught the last ray of light of the Reality Stone on the Infinity Gauntlet. It turned out that

, After Thanos discovered the vision of Ebony Maw's soul through the Soul Stone, he began to activate the ability of the Reality Stone, dragging everyone from the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy into a real illusion.

This is The scary thing about the Reality Stone is that in the battle just now, if Thanos wins in the end, then all of this will become reality through the energy of the Reality Stone; but if Mark and the other heroes win, all of this will It will all come to nothing in the end, and Thanos will be able to obtain more of their intelligence, exacerbating the information asymmetry between the two parties.

Thanos with infinite gems in his hands and Thanos without infinite gems are so different in strength that they are simply incompatible. Same thing. This is why when the plan was first formulated, the first priority was to take the Infinity Gauntlet and the Infinity Stones away from Thanos first.

But unfortunately, Thanos had one more hand than they did. The advantage of an infinite stone is something that Mark and the others cannot make up for through their numbers.

However, although the failure of this plan surprised all the superheroes, it was not enough to cause devastating damage to their will and morale. Strike. As the last line of defense surrounding the earth, their tenacity far exceeds Thanos’ imagination.

Thanos has no choice but to deal with the dozen or so rebels in front of him, who are composed of earthlings, aliens, and even hybrids of earth and aliens. Team, his eyes revealed the kind of respect that only true opponents have. This kind of will and quality was something he had never seen before after experiencing so many killings in the universe.

"So out of respect and respect for my opponents, I will use all my strength and use thunderous means to defeat you all!

For a hero, there is no more suitable cemetery than the battlefield, and there is no more worthy ending than dying on the battlefield. Let me bury you with my own hands!"