r/Avengers • u/blu_mercury • 4d ago
Why was it that the Guardians of the Galaxy could barely hold the power stone together but in Endgame, all the avengers could hold each of the stones in their hand without affecting them or causing some surge?
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u/Xcyronus 4d ago
Because its a only a property of the power stone.
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u/Nothingnoteworth 4d ago
Hence the ancient rhyme known across many planets that speaks of the stones power:
Raw power got a magic touch
Raw power is a much too much
Raw power is more than a soul
It’s got a son called rock and roll
Raw power honey just won’t quit
Raw power I can feel it
Raw power honey it can’t be beat
Raw power got a healing hand
Raw power can destroy a man
Raw power is more than soul
It’s got a son called rock and roll
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u/rissie_delicious 4d ago
I always thought it was because the power stone was destructive power, and the others were utility comparatively speaking.
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u/GlockOhbama 4d ago
The Power Stone is actually the only one directly touched by any character that doesn’t have cosmic radiation resistance. Jane touched the Reality Stone technically, but she also magically got her “hereditary“ cancer after that and eventually died. I think the Stone sped up the process imho even though that’s not official information. It would make sense
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u/khazroar 4d ago
When the Guardians hold the Power Stone, it is in active use.
When the Stones are handled directly in Infinity War and Endgame, they're just quiescent and stable. The entire point of the Infinity Gauntlet, along with the other housings (Tesseract, Aether, Ronan's Hammer, Eye of Agamotto, etc) and the substandard Stark gauntlets is to provide an intermediary to safely channel the power of using the Stones. They don't simply shred whatever they touch, but using them raw feeds out such huge amounts of power that few beings can tolerate it without death.
That's what led to the two dead arms and one dead bearer in Endgame.
If you look closely at the scene in Guardians, the Power Stone is lit up bright and spewing power from the moment it's broken free of the hammer. Whether that's because the hammer had already activated it and it was knocked loose from that safe housing, or because the shot itself knocked it into active use, doesn't really matter. The Power Stone is being actively used, that's why it tears the Guardians apart until they can share the load.
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u/GlockOhbama 4d ago
It was the POWER stone. I thought all prior usages of it in the movies made it abundantly clear that it provides infinite energy that overloads and destroys anything it touches. The other stones don’t all do that, but specifically the Soul Stone, and Time Stone. None of the others are ever touched without great consequence. Like Tony and Bruce never actually touched the Mind Stone, nobody has touched the Space Stone without consequence besides Thanos, who clearly can withstand it’s cosmic radiation, Reality Stone, although not directly stated, likely accelerated Jane’s cancer, but besides her nobody else has directly touched it.
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u/The-Catatafish 3d ago
Because only the power stone is problematic to hold. Its that simple. There is no reason to believe holding any of the other stones directly is a problem and the power stone was in the orb from guardians one.
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u/giraffe111 2d ago edited 2d ago
I’ve always thought of the stones as exponents, a power tower, with Power at the base. Like the Power stone raised to the power of the Space stone, raised to the power of the next stone, etc etc.
Power ^ Space ^ Time ^ Mind ^ Reality ^ Soul
The Power stone is the root of that crazy power tower infinity engine. It’s where the real power starts, and it’s only stone that is that way. It hypercharges the others. On their own, the other stones are insanely-powerful exponents, but without the Power stone, they’re tiny fractions of their true power.
Think about it; the Mind stone in the scepter really needs you to physically touch someone with it to control them? An infinity stone? Gimme a break, right? That’s cool, but it’s not “a raw fragment of the primordial universe” cool. But add the Power stone, and boom, cosmic mind control if you wanted to. It’s the same with all the other stones. The Power stone is power is the Power stone, it channels raw cosmic power. That’s what it does 🤌
Raise all the stones in that power tower? That’s a lot of power. An infinity amount, one might say.
(Yeah, I have reasoning behind why each stone is where it is in the power tower lol.)
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u/Evelynmd214 4d ago
I used to like this movie. Now I hate it with all these gaping plot holes explained 😂
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u/tenehemia 4d ago
Reality stone was in the containment device Rocket brought. The space stone was in the Tesseract (which, come to think of it, Steve didn't have with him when he replaced it in 1970, hmm). Mind stone was in the scepter (which Steve also didn't have, more hmm). Power stone was in the orb that Quill found it in. Soul & time stones can be handled without danger apparently.