“How Can I Explain?” is a feature where I spotlight inexplicable comic book plots. This time around, we look at what, exactly, happened in to the Marvel Universe during the Infinity Gauntlet storyline.As you all know by now, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) had a decision in Avengers: Endgame as to how to adapt the Infinity Gauntlet storyline from the Marvel Universe, and the MCU decided to have the half of the universe’s population that was wiped out by Thanos be gone for five years before the Avengers returned everyone to life, but with the five-year gap still in place (so if there were, say, 30-year-old twins, and one was erased by Thanos, and the other wasn’t, when the first twin returned five years later, they’d still be 30, but their twin would be 35). This is why we’re only now catching up to the timeline of the MCU in real time (the Hawkeye TV miniseries, for instance was set during the Christmas season of 2024). While you can agree or disagree with that decision, at least it was a straightforward answer as to what happened after Thanos “snapped” away half of the universe’s population. Five years passed, then everyone who had been erased returns.In Infinity Gauntlet #1 (by Jim Starlin, George Perez, Joe Rubinstein and Tom Christopher), Thanos tries to impress Mistress Death by snapping his fingers and erasing half of the universe’s population in an instant…
“How Can I Explain?” is a feature where I spotlight inexplicable comic book plots. This time around, we look at what, exactly, happened in to the Marvel Universe during the Infinity Gauntlet storyline.
As you all know by now, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) had a decision in Avengers: Endgame as to how to adapt the Infinity Gauntlet storyline from the Marvel Universe, and the MCU decided to have the half of the universe’s population that was wiped out by Thanos be gone for five years before the Avengers returned everyone to life, but with the five-year gap still in place (so if there were, say, 30-year-old twins, and one was erased by Thanos, and the other wasn’t, when the first twin returned five years later, they’d still be 30, but their twin would be 35). This is why we’re only now catching up to the timeline of the MCU in real time (the Hawkeye TV miniseries, for instance was set during the Christmas season of 2024). While you can agree or disagree with that decision, at least it was a straightforward answer as to what happened after Thanos “snapped” away half of the universe’s population. Five years passed, then everyone who had been erased returns.
In Infinity Gauntlet #1 (by Jim Starlin, George Perez, Joe Rubinstein and Tom Christopher), Thanos tries to impress Mistress Death by snapping his fingers and erasing half of the universe’s population in an instant…
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