How Thanos ACTUALLY Beat Hulk in Infinity War

Analysis of Thanos' hand-to-hand fighting style in Infinity War, focusing on his fight with Hulk without using Infinity Stones.

Key Takeaways

Thanos’ fighting style is highly technical and efficient, focusing on disrupting opponents and targeting weak points.
He can overpower Hulk despite Hulk's raw strength by using superior technique and strategic moves.
The fight with Hulk is notable for involving no Infinity Stones, showcasing Thanos’ natural combat ability.
Thanos’ metal gauntlet enhances his strikes, adding to the damage dealt in hand-to-hand combat.
Hulk’s fighting style is more raw and less strategic, making him vulnerable to Thanos’ smarter approach.

What the video covers

The video analyzes the best Thanos fight scene in Infinity War, emphasizing the fight with Hulk that involves no Infinity Stones.
It highlights Thanos' specific hand-to-hand fighting style, which relies on technique and efficiency rather than raw power from the stones.
The fight shows Thanos overpowering Hulk using pulling forces and strategic strikes rather than brute force.
Thanos uses precise attacks targeting vulnerable points like the jaw or neck to daze Hulk, demonstrating his intelligence in combat.
The video explains how Thanos disrupts Hulk's momentum and uses his metal gauntlet to enhance damage.
Thanos’ fighting style contrasts with Hulk’s more straightforward 'Hulk smash' approach, making Thanos a more technical fighter.
The analysis includes how Thanos uses backfists and punches to wear down Hulk before finishing with a knee strike to the face.
The video also briefly touches on other fights involving Thanos, including the battle on Titan and his interactions with other Avengers.
Visual and sound effects in the fight scenes are discussed to show how they emphasize Thanos' combat intelligence.
The video encourages viewers to watch for these technical details in future viewings of Infinity War and Endgame.

Chapters

How does Thanos manage to beat Hulk without using Infinity Stones?

Thanos uses superior hand-to-hand combat skills, targeting vulnerable points like Hulk's jaw and neck, and employs efficient techniques to overpower Hulk's raw strength.

What role does Thanos' gauntlet play in the fight against Hulk?

Thanos' gauntlet, made from a strong metal from a dwarf planet, enhances the damage of his strikes, such as the backfist, making his attacks more effective.

Why is the fight between Thanos and Hulk considered one of the best in Infinity War?

Because it showcases pure hand-to-hand combat without the use of Infinity Stones, highlighting Thanos' natural fighting ability and strategic intelligence.

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The best Thanos fight scene is the beginning scene of Infinity War where he goes against the Hulk, and it involves zero Infinity Stones, which is why it's so good. The second and third best fight scenes similarly involve none or few Infinity Stones, and they all show a pattern that Thanos has a specific hand-to-hand fighting style, which is why I have anything to say about it. And since Endgame on cord, just on cord, there's no better time to go over it.

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Infinity Stones and they all show a pattern that Thanos has a specific hand-to-hand fighting style which is why I have anything to say about it. And since Endgame on cord just on cord, there's no better time to go over it.

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So, Thanos wants the Tesseract, and Loki reveals that even though Thor just said it was destroyed on Asgard, Loki's talking about some "Hey Thor, we'll make it out of this. We'll see the sunrise again." Thanos says, "Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian." Loki shoots back, "For one thing, I'm not Asgardian, and for another, we have [clears throat] a Hulk."

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misplaced Asgardian." Loki shoots back, "For one thing, I'm not Asgardian and for another, we have [clears throat] a Hulk." So, Hulk runs in and basically battering ram charges into the back of Thanos, yells angry, gets one hook off

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So, Hulk runs in and basically battering ram charges into the back of Thanos, yells angry, gets one hook off on Thanos, another left hook, then another right hook, and then smashes down on him twice. Hulk smash. Then he grabs him by the neck or the traps and slams him up against the wall twice. Not exactly choking him. Squidward's over here like, "Let him have his fun."

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here like, "Let him have his fun." Then Thanos grabs at Hulk's wrist like this while he's being choked out. There are things he could do here being choked out like this from the front. He could try something dirty like going for the eyes.

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Then Thanos grabs at Hulk's wrist like this while he's being choked out. There are things he could do here being choked out like this from the front. He could try something dirty like going for the eyes. Instead, he grabs Hulk's wrists and pulls his arms off of him. This first establishes just the strength that Thanos has. He's [music] overpowering Hulk's forward pushing momentum with a pulling force that has less strength physics-wise, and Hulk is pretty shocked that he's being overpowered.

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that he's being overpowered. I mean, we've seen what the Hulk has done. He's punched at massive alien things and defeated people his own size. So, this is shocking to the viewer and to Hulk.

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I mean, we've seen what the Hulk has done. He's punched at massive alien things and defeated people his own size. So, this is shocking to the viewer and to Hulk. It shocked me. Interestingly enough, after all that pulling apart, he lets go, and Hulk just lets his arms down, kind of wavers. He's in so much shock he doesn't even want to put his hands up.

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Then Thanos chops the side of his neck or the jaw. [music] The noise made here sounds like a bit of a bone crack but then Hulk grabs at his jaw so I'm thinking the jaw but it's kind of hard

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Then Thanos chops the side of his neck or the jaw. [music] The noise made here sounds like a bit of a bone crack, but then Hulk grabs at his jaw, so I'm thinking the jaw, but it's kind of hard to tell. He goes in with a straight hand, kind of like a throat chop, which if it was a chop at the neck kind of at the side, it could be effective.

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comes to nerves, but on a human body, there's nerves there close to the surface of the skin. Therefore, it would kind of make sense how he would hurt Hulk there. And the jaw, if it were to hit the jaw, it's a good knockout point

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I don't know how the Hulk really works when it comes to nerves, but on a human body, there's nerves there close to the surface of the skin. Therefore, it would kind of make sense how he would hurt Hulk there. And the jaw, if it were to hit the jaw, it's a good knockout point on the head. And the temporomandibular joint is also fairly easy to dislocate.

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fighting just off the bat. Either way, I like the noise Hulk makes here. It's pretty funny. Anyway, Hulk goes for a left straight, which Thanos literally hits away, parries, and then this is amazing. He does a small backfist and

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So, the reason Thanos goes for this chop, whether it's at the neck or the jaw, is sound and shows his kind of intelligence [music] with hand-to-hand fighting just off the bat. Either way, I like the noise Hulk makes here. It's pretty funny.

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done at. It immediately establishes Thanos as like this like, holy crap. Hulk doesn't really have a fighting style, and I'll make a video on Hulk at some point, but his fighting style is more just Hulk smash. You know, just

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Anyway, Hulk goes for a left straight, which Thanos literally hits away, parries, and then this is amazing. He does a small backfist and then a right straight. Remember this backfist. The interesting thing here is his gauntlet is super metal. So, it also basically dazes his opponent just hitting him right there in the face with a backfist before getting that punch off.

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straight into his back. His gauntlet is another thing that's very helpful for this, just because it's made of this insane metal from dwarf planet, so that does more damage for sure. Anyway, a left straight, Thanos blocks it with his

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You can just see the speed that's done at. It immediately establishes Thanos as like this like, holy crap. Hulk doesn't really have a fighting style, and I'll make a video on Hulk at some point, but his fighting style is more just Hulk smash. You know, just raw.

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puts a left straight across Hulk's face, bang, going straight for the jaw. And even though it doesn't get a knockout here, which is what he's going for, a hit on the jaw like that is still going to daze the opponent. Knockout or not is

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I talked about this in Spider-Man Brand New Day a little bit. Therefore, his fighting style, in quotes, can be a little more predictable. Cuz right here, he goes for another right straight, which Thanos dodges, and then puts one straight into his back.

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a short-range backfist, where he's just getting a tiny lick [music] off. Small, doesn't take a lot of energy, not much range, but it is a lick. But the pattern is disrupt the Hulk and then get the hit off. Well, really it's block, disrupt,

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His gauntlet is another thing that's very helpful for this, just because it's made of this insane metal from dwarf planet, so that does more damage for sure. Anyway, a left straight, Thanos blocks it with his forearm by closing the distance in.

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where Hulk's worn down enough to where Thanos can now do things Hulk isn't really able to dodge. Like slamming his metal knee into Hulk's face. And now the Hulk is just completely dazed. Whole body probably feels like jelly. He's

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So, he's in range to get punched in the face, but then he gets close with the left punch coming in to guarantee a block, because you're basically blocking right next to the shoulder. And then he puts a left straight across Hulk's face, bang, going straight for the jaw.

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finishing move like WWE. Pick them up when they're tired and throw them down. And also here, you can see the Hulk bleeds green, which is interesting. So, Hulk's toast, and Thor decides to still hit at Thanos with his pole for whatever

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And even though it doesn't get a knockout here, which is what he's going for, a hit on the jaw like that is still going to daze the opponent. Knockout or not is not binary, either you do or you don't, it's still going to daze him insanely hard.

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or whatever. But that fight was pure technique and efficient hand-to-hand brawling. But the fight on Titan later in the movie where everyone's attacking him constantly, Thanos still has to fight hand-to-hand a few times since they're constantly trying to stop him

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And he doesn't stop. He goes again in the stomach. Then he catches the next punch with both hands and does again what he did earlier, backfist. It's like a short-range backfist, where he's just getting a tiny lick [music] off.

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good weak area for Drax to go for. So, then Strange manifested a sword, but I guess it's not sharp at all because even without the gauntlet, Thanos just caught it bare-handed. You know, if I was in Strange's situation, I would at least

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Small, doesn't take a lot of energy, not much range, but it is a lick. But the pattern is disrupt the Hulk and then get the hit off. Well, really it's block, disrupt, heavy hit. And now all he's doing is just boxing on him.

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behind his head to kick into his stomach like that. Not sure 100% why he do that move specifically. Nonetheless, it was cool and then a kick. Talk about team coordination here. Drax, then Quill, boom, then Spider-Man. They're coming at

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Punch, punch, grab his trap, and shake him a little for some reason before Oh, man, a tremendous right straight where Hulk falls into this pillar back here. And now here's where Hulk's worn down enough to where Thanos can now do things Hulk isn't really able to dodge.

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He comes again and before Thanos catches him, he's got his hands up in the air like this. I'm assuming he's going for a kind of Hulk smash thing trying to do a double hammer fist down to his face. But

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Like slamming his metal knee into Hulk's face. And now the Hulk is just completely dazed. Whole body probably feels like jelly. He's like Rocky up against the ropes. He is just toast.

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up behind him, webs his gauntlet pulling him back. But right at this critical moment of like the most pull in physics, this is where there is the most potential energy. Thanos is stronger so he yanks Peter forward and he doesn't

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Therefore, he's going to fall. So, Thanos pulls him forward into his torso, picks him up like this, and look at his arms dangling. He is so gassed. [music] And Thanos throws him down. Classic finishing move like WWE.

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It's curved down. So the strongest part of the forearm bone right here is what's showing. Technically, Thanos is an alien but all his muscular features and insertions human. So where this is applied, hitting Spider-Man right there is super dense forearm bone straight to

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Pick them up when they're tired and throw them down. And also here, you can see the Hulk bleeds green, which is interesting. So, Hulk's toast, and Thor decides to still hit at Thanos with his pole for whatever reason. And then Thanos kicks him back.

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seem to be doing much to Thanos. He's getting punched multiple times and it literally doesn't seem to be doing anything. Nebula hits at him a couple times. This is pretty cool. She hits his gauntlet and it swings around him and

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So, in that fight scene, it's pretty clear technique beats the rage. And boy, [music] I missed the rage. Hulk's just Whereas Thanos almost uses this opportunity to just obliterate an opponent without the power stone for fun or whatever.

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goes and kicks the back of his knee. Drax is the knee guy, okay? Drax knows.

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But that fight was pure technique and efficient hand-to-hand brawling. But the fight on Titan later in the movie where everyone's attacking him constantly, Thanos still has to fight hand-to-hand a few times since they're constantly trying to stop him from closing his fist to use the stones.

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So now here where where Quill finds out Gamora's dead. Dude, such terrible writing in my opinion. I'm such a critic, but bro, the writing to do something like that where they could have beaten Thanos, but they didn't just

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It starts with Drax slashing at the back of the knee. Imagine getting the tendons back there. Obviously, he doesn't, but if he did, then boom. That leg is pretty much useless at that point. So, that's a good weak area for Drax to go for.

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by, hits at the gauntlet because here are the rules with the gauntlet. He needs to close his fist and I guess it needs to be pointing maybe at you, but he hits at the gauntlet first, kind of like a gun, like that's his weapon. So,

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So, then Strange manifested a sword, but I guess it's not sharp at all because even without the gauntlet, Thanos just caught it bare-handed. You know, if I was in Strange's situation, I would at least make my sword sharp.

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headbutt, a torrential one. Dude, this guy's big massive head against Iron Man's metal helmet, shocking that does anything, but whatever, it's still a good move right there. Then Thanos literally grabs this moon, throws the moon. If he can do that, bro, he should

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So, he goes for a front kick on Strange. Well, he jumps over and puts his bomb on his back and then flips him off. Boom. Okay, now here's something interesting. Spider-Man goes in with a punch and then grabs behind his head to kick into his stomach like that.

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take them out. this freaky stuff goes on. He throws a black hole at Strange and Strange is able to turn it into some pretty minty butterflies and that's what startles him. He's like, "Oh, butterflies." So, he throws Strange down

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Not sure 100% why he do that move specifically. Nonetheless, it was cool and then a kick. Talk about team coordination here. Drax, then Quill, boom, then Spider-Man. They're coming at him at all angles, and he's not really able to do much because it's just it's hard to to defend when it's just coming at a million different places at once.

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like, "Come on." He's ready. And then this is awesome. Iron Man goes with his double foot, bam, bam. A lot of power going right here. Thanos grabs his helmet and knocks it off and then punches him. Iron Man kicks at the gauntlet again, just

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He comes again, and before Thanos catches him, he's got his hands up in the air like this. I'm assuming he's going for a kind of Hulk smash thing trying to do a double hammer fist down to his face. But he gets caught in the throat and slammed down.

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Drax's glass. [music] Anyway, he gets a little cut on him. All that for a drop of blood. Really, all that for a drop of grape juice. Funny how so many characters with different skin colors than humans in these movies still have

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Thanos is smart here because he picks him up and throws him at Strange since Strange was doing a lot of the portals at him. Thanos blasts some fire pretty far and then Spider-Man.

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at Iron Man, gives him a power stone punch, too. Just constantly punching. Then Iron Man's shooting lasers at Thanos, who knocks his helmet off. Then he goes for the freaking Thanos backfist, of course. That's what he started with. That's his thing, man.

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Iron Man blocks it here with both his forearms, X-shaped. Then he goes for a left straight. What was the goal of that? You're not going to reach him.

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What is the point of that? Anyway, maybe he's being smart, because then he punches and he knows the gauntlet is going to catch the punch, so he can create this sharp weapon out of it. But, you know, [music] talk about

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predictable. You have a sharp weapon, Thanos knows exactly what you're trying to do. So easy to just step to the side, grabs at it, and he breaks it off, then stabs it up into Iron Man. Thanos starts petting him like a dog, says, "You have

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my respect, Stark." Then the stone gets given away. Peter Quill's like, "Did we just lose?" Yeah, whose fault is that?

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You mother All right. Now, in that fight, it's mostly just superpower freaky strange stuff. There are some cool hand-to-hand parts in there, which is what I live for, if you can't tell.

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But fast forward to end game, the final fight scene where Thanos has to fight Iron Man, Captain America, and Fat Thor.

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And this one's almost just pure brawl, where instead of the gauntlet, he's got his double-edged Darth Maul spinning sword. I love this scene. So it starts with them all looking at Thanos. They're talking like, "What's he doing?" And

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he's just chilling. So then Fat Thor summons his weapons, gets a nice makeover. [laughter] They get down there, and look at Thor's belly, man. He creeps around the side and just we see his belly 10 seconds before we see him. Just a quick thing,

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this has nothing to do with fighting, but notice Thanos's demeanor here. Very interesting. He speaks slow, lots of confidence. They're here to fight him, and he's super chill. "I know what I must do." Throws a rock. Something about

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it, every single word out of his mouth is kind of a quote, but not in a bad way, like not in a Jason Statham way.

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It's just, you know, scripted very well, greatly acted, all around greatly done character. I'm curious about the way they're going to be able to do that with because Thanos is really like the energy he exudes is very confident, relaxed,

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whatever. And with Doom it's going to be a little bit different because he's also insecure, huge ego, all that stuff. Like this scene where Mr. Fantastic is yelling, "Victor, did you do this?" And he's just looking at him. The silence Doom holds

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might be the thing that makes him intimidating. Whereas Thanos' entire demeanor is just intimidating. So all right, they get ready to brawl. He had his monologue. He put his helmet on.

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It's also interesting how so many fight scenes they have still have honor to them even in these fights to the death.

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They let Thanos get ready. They let him talk, let him put on his helmet. They don't really ever get him off guard.

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It's like, "Dude, humanity's at stake. We still need at least give him a fair shot. We're not savages." Thor yells and they all go at him. Iron Man has the sharp shiny blade thing again, hits it him, then the shield goes at him, and

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yeah, there's a lot here. Thanos blocks and is also able to block the shield, and he's able to dodge Thor's hammer, then hit Captain America simultaneously dodging Thor's Stormbreaker, kicking him back, and then blocking Iron Man's laser. Okay, this is interesting. So

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Captain America runs at Thanos and just gets hit back, which is funny. It's like he's just there to get hit. But then Iron Man blasts Thanos, he's able to block all the lasers because his blade is spinning. I remember thinking, "Wow,

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his wrist must be insanely fast. He must be really good at flipping that thing so fast with just his hand." But once you slow it down, you can actually see it rotates on its own. Look at that attention to detail. It has a wheel

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inside it that motorizes to spin. Super awesome. Anyway, Thor throws Mjolnir in the sky and hits it with the back of Stormbreaker, but Thanos picks up Iron Man to block it, so he gets hit with Mjolnir instead, which sucks. And check

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this out, man. Captain America is right next to him and does a backwards kick down. Dude, imagine being able to do a kick like that. It's so cool. But then he puts the shield up and Thanos just punches the shield, launches the sword

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thing at Thor to dodge under, but it flips around back at him like a frisbee, which blocks Stormbreaker from hitting down on him. Then he swings Stormbreaker at him, but right at this critical moment where because Thanos is so big,

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Thor isn't able to get enough charge on the swing. So, Thanos is quick enough to put his hand up at it as it's still gaining kinetic energy and he's able to easily redirect it down, basically [music] parrying it. He punches Thor's

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hand, grabs him by the trap, which he's done before, the trap grab. He doesn't grab him by the neck, he grabs at their shoulder and traps. Then he punches him twice and throws him back. Kicks him in and breaks his nose. And this is like

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really reversed from when he got the blade out and Thanos caught it. Stormbreaker gets called up to Thor, but Thanos reads what Thor is trying to do, catches it and then puts it down on Thor. And then, top 10 most legendary

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scenes of all time. How to make an entire theater erupt in [screaming] cheering. [cheering] Nothing is better than this scene here.

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Thor's like, "I knew it." Oh, you did? Why so happy given your apprehensiveness in the previous film, huh? Captain America runs at him, swings the hammer where Thanos goes to hit his sword down, but there's a big flash here and you can

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see Captain America actually blocked it with his shield and totally domed Thanos. There's a cool flip to swing the shield at him. Then as it's midair, hits it with Mjolnir, which is smart. I'm not sure how strong his freaking magnets

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have to be for the shield to one, be hit like this. That's a sure fire way for it to go that way and not come back to you.

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But then, the shield comes back to Captain's arm. I don't know if it's magnets in his hand or what, but it's interesting. He jumps up and actually knees him. Shocked that this does anything at all. I mean, I know he's a

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super soldier, but this is Thanos wearing metal armor. But he knees him in the stomach and he hits the hammer somewhere, somewhere on the legs, which I assume would do a lot of damage. Then he uses that position to boom, straight

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up shield into the face, then hammer to the face, hammer again. And this is awesome because he gets a bunch of combos on him. Shield dome, then hammer, shield to absolutely dome him, electrocute him and lightning bolt him.

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And then he jumps up and Thanos finally dodges. Thanos picks this thing up, takes his helmet off pretty angry, swings at Cap. Cap dodges another swing, dodges again, then blocks with his shield and then boom, a slice in the

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leg. Finally, someone's going for Captain America's leg. Dude, he's got a shield. Just don't hit the shield. But yeah, slices the leg right there. Oof, definitely painful. Catches the hammer and hits it back. This is also just pretty dope right here. He puts his foot

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underneath his blade and kicks it up to catch. Just some steez there. And he hits the blade through Cap's shield.

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Look at that. He's like, "Oh, I didn't know this was possible." Then he breaks the shield in the same way Tony had the vision of his shield being broken in Age of Ultron. Looks the exact same. That's definitely on purpose. So, that fight

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scene's over. Well, it's not over, but you know, then Sam Wilson is like, "On your left." But in that one, you can see that was pure just hand-to-hand CQC awesome choreography there. So, the fight against Hulk, pure technique over

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rage. And there's two times that rage lost in this film. Hulk [music] and then Star-Lord being a genius. Titan is where he had mainly magic against him. Wasn't always able to use his stones because they kept trying to keep his grip open.

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They almost got his gauntlet off, but he still won. And the final fight in Endgame was just pure skill issue.

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Obliterated all three just cuz he's that good, I guess. Anyway, you can see that there's a few things that Thanos does, and you can look back at in the fight scenes throughout Endgame encore. Main thing, he's a boxer. All right, boxing

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is like a big thing when it comes to hand-to-hand combat with superheroes, but especially with Thanos, I mean, he can box. Specific to his style in boxing, he's very good at the quick combos, especially with the backfist punch combo. It is used to daze the

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opponent so you can have an opening to get a really powerful shot on. And it clearly works. It worked against the Hulk, did it on Iron Man. It's like a a quick boom boom. But yeah, it's clear that even without the stones, he is a

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really technical strong fighter. I mean, he knows how to brawl. So, yeah, you can watch out for that stuff when or if you're going to the theaters to watch Endgame encore. If you have any movie requests, let me know in the Google Form

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down below. Subscribe for five bangers, just like this video. And yeah, great movies, super unique and cool fight scenes, especially for a superhero movie. New video soon. Peace.

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