retaliator : Infinity Wardidn’t waste any time with its opening sequence . In fact , itskips quite a draw .

nibble up briefly after the event ofThor : Ragnarok , the thirdAvengersstory introduces Thanos and his children ( the " Black Order " from Marvel Comics ) after they ’ve already room and take over a spaceship carrying Asgardian survivors . We ’re tell , not shown , twice that Thanos only killed " half " of the remain Asgardians of the Marvel Cinematic Universe which does n’t quite fit with what is read ( nothing but stagnant Asgardians and the entire ship blowing up via the power of an Infinity Stone ) .

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Presumably , and this will necessitate to be explained in May 2019 ’s untitledAvengers 4,Thor : Ragnarokstars   Valkyrie ( Tessa Thompson ) and Korg ( Taika Waititi ) were offered the chance to leave with half the ship ’s population before this . Why Thanos needs to kill half of them just after   the result ofRagnarokis up for public debate , but this part of the story is n’t the only of import bit of traditional knowledge skipped here .

Before this assault , Thanos had already accumulate one of the six Infinity Stones . Again ,   interview are not shown this happening but instead it ’s let out in dialog later in the movie between the indestructible Thor and theGuardians of the Galaxywhere Odinson tells the cosmic squad of misfit that Xandar was " decimate " a week earlier by Thanos where he acquired the Power Stone from the Nova Corps - where audiences last figure it at the end of the firstGuardiansmovie .

This raises   some interrogation . How did Thanos so well take Xandar without the aid of a Power Stone and why did n’t the Guardians help oneself out since they ’re all about answer distress signals ( and how did n’t they get laid this take place a week earlier ) ? Well , the first part is easy to answer and doubles down on   a job of the firstGuardians of the Galaxy picture . In that story , Ronan the Accuser ’s ( Lee Pace ) goal is to attack and ruin Xandar and its Nova Corps quad law force out because his hoi polloi , the Kree , have been long at war with them . Except , this is n’t really register . Xandar has nearly no military presence inGOTG 1 . They have no effective warships , planetary defences , or anything that can stop a giant brick from fall to the sky ( Ronan literally flies a elephantine , non - weaponized twisty - looking brick and drops it on the Earth’s surface ) .

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Okay , so that answers itself . Xandar is just a satellite that does n’t make gumption . How   could it have been at war with the Kree Empire without any warfare simple machine ? Do n’t say me those small web - making ships ( called " Star Blasters " ) are what they fought the Kree with in an intergalactic war . And do n’t tell me in the years sinceGuardians of the Galaxyhighlighted their ineffectiveness that theystilldidn’t beef up planet security .   In the goal though , it   does n’t matter becauseAvengers : Infinity Warthrows all of that out . We had a movie dedicated to saving Xandar and with a production line of dialog all of that accomplishment is wiped ( the same goes for the theme ofThor : Ragnarokwhere Asgard is its people and not a property ,   half being pass over out off CRT screen ) , presumptively by the same forces that could n’t even get the better of the less advanced Italian sandwich of Earth ( until Thanos arrived of course ) .

alike to   the case of the miss Asgardians , we ’ve long suspect that the unseen events ofAvengers : Infinity War(specifically , the collection of the majestic Power Stone from Nova Corps HQ ) would serve for future storytelling . Here it ’s the impetus to thecreation of therealNova Corpsas they are depicted in Marvel Comics - not as pilot light of web - making starfighters , but as super - powered , flight - up to cosmic bomber . Perhaps the complete inutility of Xandar and the honest-to-god Nova Corps give rise to the Xandarian Worldmind from the source material , an artificial entity that powers the Nova Corps . This would setup the inevitableNovamovie which I ’ve personally been   championing for the better part of a decade , allowing for an Earthly hoagy to join the cause ( Richard Rider or Sam Alexander , or both ) .

In thatNovamovie , which Marvel Studios United States President of productionKevin Feige says is likely coming sooner rather than later , the military blockade of   Xandar could be depicted on silver screen in all its gloriole and maybe this prison term they ’ll put up a fight .

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And before that , Captain Marvelwill preface young versions of Ronan the Accuser and his ally Korath ( Djimon Hounsou ) in March 2019 which we expect could retcon their characters to tally more personality and complexness to the scoundrel . Ronan , for case , becomes a bit of a grinder in the comics and it ’d be great to see him more than a madden , brick - flying maniac who ’s easily deflect by dance motility .

Much like the deaths of   half of the Avengers heroes inInfinity War , get ready for a wave of retcons coming withAvengers 4and the other coming film which could act with dissimilar parts of the MCU timeline and offer more context and perspectives to some of the things we ’ve already seen . Xandar could be re - see to something more like the comics , Asgard could be entirely rebuilt , and scoundrel could become hero while newfangled heroes are introduced and former heroes are kill off .

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