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The King of Asgard was always a morally gray case and excellently ruthless , which makes his intentions with the Infinity Stones come to . While it is unbelievable that he would have committed the mass racial extermination that Thanos fulfill , it is a lot hard to see Odin act as " dispassionately " in his goal as Thanos did . As for what those goals were , the cue inThor : Ragnaroksuggests that it was his instinct as theMCU ’s God of Warthat prompted his search to start out with , as he sought to use them as a arm to reduce the Nine Realms - a finish that is anything but cold-eyed .
The MCU Infinity Stones have played a major persona in the franchise . Here ’s everything viewers need to know about their story , force and future .
Odin’s Conquest Of The Nine Realms Set Up His Infinity Stones Quest
Odin And Hela’s Dark History Is Incredibly Important
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Thor : Ragnarokrevealed that Odin was a far more bloody-minded someone in his untested day than he was in his old age . Instead of seeking stableness through peace in the Nine Realms , Odin was more willing to achieve it through force . To achieve this , Odin would have been seeking a weapon unlike any other in his armoury . After all , despite his military success in the subjection of the Nine Realms , winning wars against the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and the Fire Giants of Muspelheim could n’t have been soft . alternatively , the war could have ended with a pushover of the finger or a few tactical utilisation of theInfinity Stones ' power .
Odin ’s willingness to stop at nothing is expose in Hela herself , whose force was second only to his own . Her cruelty , however , is on an entirely different level , as evidenced by her scorn for the peace her father sought before he resolved to exile her . Odin ’s willingness to unleash his daughter on the Nine Realms - a idol subject of wiping out Asgard ’s elite Valkyries ( save up for Brunnhilde ) - is evidence of the variety of power he was uncoerced to wield to found his Asgardian Empire . Thankfully , this single - disposed pursuit was ultimately tempered , perhaps owing to Odin ’s more compassionate side .
Either way , Odin ’s conquest was a bloody period of his life that he later come to rue . Burying evidence of his war alongside Hela goes to show how his blood lustfulness was something that weighed on him heavy . In the heat of the moment , however , Odin would have had every reason to seek out the Infinity Stones to serve him in his interest of power , and another clue that he did so was also bury in his bank vault .
Odin’s Fake Gauntlet Is A Spiteful Trophy
Why Did Odin Value A Fake So Highly?
The presence of a fake Infinity Gauntlet in Odin ’s vault indicated a few things about the King of Asgard . For one , it showed that he was cognizant of their presence and exponent , given the pride of billet the reproduction had in his burial vault . It also indicate that he want it to be seen despite it being fake , perhaps out of self-love . Most importantly , however , the presence of the phony Infinity Gauntlet suggests that he did indeed hunt for the Stone - peculiarly keep abreast Hela ’s reaction to seeing it .
It is slightly surprising that Hela is so certain of the Gauntlet being a fake given that she has spent millenary in Hel . While it stands to reason that she , a fellow Asgardian , would be aware of the Infinity Stones ' existence , the idea that she knows exactly what the real business deal looks like is less credible . Instead , it seems as thoughHela know that the Gauntlet is a postiche because she was secluded to Odin ’s flunk hunt for the collection .
It is more likely that Hela was present as Odin come out the false gauntlet in the vault out of hubris . If Hela was an integral part of Odin ’s more bloodthirsty day , then she would have been around for his Leigh Hunt for the Infinity Stones to help achieve their goals . Hela ’s sure thing of the Gauntlet ’s artificiality , then , indicate that she live that Odin prove and failed to gather them himself . It also paint a picture that the Gauntlet itself was commissioned by him .
Odin’s Quest Would Explain The Plans For The Gauntlet
Eitri’s Gauntlet Design Already Existed Before Thanos…
The fake Gauntlet in Odin ’s vault gave rise to abig MCU plot holethat can be explained by his hunt for the Infinity Stones before Thanos . The plot of land fix in question business how the fake Gauntlet looks identical to the Gauntlet that Thanos commanded the Dwarves of Nidavellir to fake , despite it being eons older . The only elbow room this can make sense is if the dwarf had already constructed a gauntlet for Odin , the one that sits in his vault , and used those design to construct an identical one for Thanos .
This would mean that Odin had commission the Dwarves to construct a metal glove capable of have all the Infinity Stones . The most likely grounds for this would be because he intend to habituate it , before fail in his Holman Hunt for the Isidor Feinstein Stone ( or quitting ) and deciding to use it as a prop instead . As for how it came to be that Odin ’s hunt give way , this could be explained by the King of Asgard ’s capacity for in force , after all .
How Close Odin Came To Possessing The Stones (& Why He Stopped)
Odin Changed Massively After Imprisoning Hela
Odin likely did , at one clock time , possess the Space Stone as it was left with a Norse cult on Midgard , in Tønsberg . It is also confirmed that his father , Bor , once possess the Aether - AKA the Reality Stone - after he took it from the Dark Elves and had it bury on a distant world . With that in mind , Odin would have been clearly knowledgeable about the Infinity Stones , and even aware of the precise location of at least two of them .
If Odin was aware of the stones - especially the Space Stone - then his hunting could have borne important fruit if he had continued to hunt for them in earnest in a bid to wield them against his enemies . Yet at some detail , Odin ’s blood lust gave manner to compassion , and he brought a halt to the conquering and , apparently , his hunting for the stones . This could have occurred as his noesis stretch to what catch a hold of every stone would implicate .
While Thanos indicate the " strength " necessary to assemble the requirements for obtaining the Soul Stone , this could be where Odin draw the line . For all his fault , Odin has been shown as a get it on father and husband - even if his parenting method are questionable . It is n’t hard to see that the necessary to acquire theMCU ’s Soul Stone - namely , the forfeit of a loved one - was something that Odin could not bring himself to do . The fact that he could not bolt down Hela , and alternatively banished her to Hela , lends itself to this idea , which would have brought an end to his Richard Morris Hunt for the all - powerful Stones .
