14 million alternate universes and you are telling me that dumb bitch Strange didn’t think of opening a portal above Thanos’ head and closing it around his neck or teleporting the dried purple grape into the fucking sun in a single one of them like what kind of jackassery and complete lack of imagination honestly
Or just use the time stone to turn him into a shirveled old husk. Good look conquering the universe where you are too old to snap your fingers
Or just cut his goddamn arm off instead of trying to wiggle a metal gauntlet off while trying to keep him hypnotized.
This, honestly.
This is what we call an “idiot plot”: a plot that requires all the characters to be uncharacteristically stupid. Can also just be interpreted to mean an idiotic plot written by idiots.