What If #49 - Silver Surfer gained the Infinity Gauntlet

[lordultimus]

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[scorntx]

Silver Surfer priorities:
End hunger, disease and war, make Death nicer, kill Mephisto. Woo his ex.
Do absolutely nothing to punish a guy who tried to murder half the universe and become a god just to impress that cute personification he liked.

In fact, no-one seems to be in any hurry to do anything about Thanos.
Like, at all.
... just out of curiosity, who wrote this one?

(Also, how can the Infinity Gems be destroyed? Isn't that supposed to be impossible?
Y'know, like killing Celestials or beating Galactus or breaking Mjolnir is impossible.)

[lordultimus]

Well, Doc Strange does mention it at one point, but Adam says that right now he's more an ally than the Surfer.

Ron Marz was the one who wrote this.

[zachbeacon]

No Prize Answer: Norrin becomes all knowing and sees the short period between Marvel: the End and Anhilation where Thanos is doing some good and decides it needs to happen

[lamashtar]

Somebody with the Infinity Gauntlet wished it to destroy itself once. Apparently that doesn't work and immediately summons all the cosmic entities.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Making Thanos watch Surfer play with his prized toy and undo everything he did with it was probably deemed punishment enough.

[byc]

I remembered this incorrectly...but I think I was confusing it with What If Adam Warlock got the Gauntlet.

IIRC, he suffered from paralysis by analysis.

[an_idol_mind]

Didn't the Infinity Gauntlet series end with Warlock wearing the gauntlet?

[burkeonthesly]

It did. That led into the first issue of Warlock and the Infinity Watch, where the Living Tribunal showed up, managed not to die, and made Warlock divide up the gems and start a team to keep them from being misused again.

[commodus]

Poor Mephisto! Why kill him? He did nothing wrong besides the centuries upon centuries of screwing with people for fun.
And I love how Thanos is just hovering in the background, pouting like a child because someone stole his toy.

[zachbeacon]

Surfer: And now I shall give your girlfriend. ... a makeover!

Thanos: Nooooooooooo! You monster! What have you done?

[leoboiko]

Surfer: Yes there will be one, but I proclaim she shall be... Neil Gaiman's Perky Goth waifu Death!

Thanos: Nooooooo! Why not Terry Pratchett's, you, you philistine</>?!

[every_spiegel]

Thanos looks like he's crying on these panels :D

[lbd_nytetrayn]

So... he makes her a god(dess), and she just slaps the taste out of his mouth for it? That's... peculiar.

[tcampbell1000]

Well, we skipped a page there.