Space, Time, Power, Mind, Soul, Reality. I think it's more of he can manipulate and bend these things. There's no life stone. Although the soul stone would come closest, I don't think it has the power to create more life such as more plants and animals etc for food and resources. Reality would be next closest but I think even that only allows changes in reality in terms of perception? For example changing Mantis and Drax's forms.

That's just what I think tho xP

Originally posted by SS♥ End Game.:

Space, Time, Power, Mind, Soul, Reality. I think it's more of he can manipulate and bend these things. There's no life stone. Although the soul stone would come closest, I don't think it has the power to create more life such as more plants and animals etc for food and resources. Reality would be next closest but I think even that only allows changes in reality in terms of perception? For example changing Mantis and Drax's forms.

That's just what I think tho xP

Yeah, but can't he just make more earthlike planets and speed up time on them so harvestable life forms (crops, animals, etc.) develop faster?

it was already explained that thanos only whants a girlfriend who loves death to people

Originally posted by pinkSS♥ limeSapph:

Space, Time, Power, Mind, Soul, Reality. I think it's more of he can manipulate and bend these things. There's no life stone. Although the soul stone would come closest, I don't think it has the power to create more life such as more plants and animals etc for food and resources. Reality would be next closest but I think even that only allows changes in reality in terms of perception? For example changing Mantis and Drax's forms.

That's just what I think tho xP

reality stone.... nuf said... REALITY AS IN HE CAN WARP THE VERY FABRIC OF EXISTANCE he could just use all 6 stones to duplicate every possible resource infinitely

Simply snapping his fingers damaged the gauntlet to a great extent. Imagine what creating an infinite amount of resources would do to it, or even him.

No, the gauntlet was damaged because that's how Thanos asked for it. He only wanted to use it once, stating he would "retire" after he completed his objective. The gauntlet was intentionally given the weakness of only one use because Thanos worried someone worse than him would destroy ALL life or enslave it or whatever.

Originally posted by Chris Hansen:

Simply snapping his fingers damaged the gauntlet to a great extent. Imagine what creating an infinite amount of resources would do to it, or even him.

The gauntlet with all the gems can do anything hands down,saying there is no "life stone" means he can just mix the stones powers together to make a suitable alternative.If someone wanted to make new life they would need the mind stone for them to have a consciousness,the soul stone to create a soul for them and the reality gem to make their shape,just because there isnt a stone doesnt mean it cant do something

Originally posted by SS♥ Dark Weeb:

Space, Time, Power, Mind, Soul, Reality. I think it's more of he can manipulate and bend these things. There's no life stone. Although the soul stone would come closest, I don't think it has the power to create more life such as more plants and animals etc for food and resources. Reality would be next closest but I think even that only allows changes in reality in terms of perception? For example changing Mantis and Drax's forms.

That's just what I think tho xP

Originally posted by Elysium:

The gauntlet with all the gems can do anything hands down,saying there is no "life stone" means he can just mix the stones powers together to make a suitable alternative.If someone wanted to make new life they would need the mind stone for them to have a consciousness,the soul stone to create a soul for them and the reality gem to make their shape,just because there isnt a stone doesnt mean it cant do something

Originally posted by SS♥ Dark Weeb:

Space, Time, Power, Mind, Soul, Reality. I think it's more of he can manipulate and bend these things. There's no life stone. Although the soul stone would come closest, I don't think it has the power to create more life such as more plants and animals etc for food and resources. Reality would be next closest but I think even that only allows changes in reality in terms of perception? For example changing Mantis and Drax's forms.

That's just what I think tho xP

The guy doesn't even need to make more life, just increase the density of interstellar asteroids with useful materials and change the laws of physics to prevent any increase of damage caused by the more frequent asteroids. Thats literally it.

Does no one have any idea on how the gauntlet works in the MCU. He clearly cannot use the stones to their full potential. If he can then he didn't have time because Thor was going to kill him. The reality stone's effects aren't permenant and that's the only thing that could add resources. Plus if he added a bunch of resources they would eventually disappear and he isn't just going to keep adding resources forever. Hell the snap alone damaged his arm, the writers confirmed this.

Originally posted by xdddddddddddddd:

Does no one have any idea on how the gauntlet works in the MCU. He clearly cannot use the stones to their full potential. If he can then he didn't have time because Thor was going to kill him. The reality stone's effects aren't permenant and that's the only thing that could add resources. Plus if he added a bunch of resources they would eventually disappear and he isn't just going to keep adding resources forever. Hell the snap alone damaged his arm, the writers confirmed this.

But goal wise I suppose, not just at the moment. Like, "why wasn't his goal just to add more resources" in general I think is more of the question :)

Originally posted by SS♥ Spring Cleaning!:

Originally posted by xdddddddddddddd:

Does no one have any idea on how the gauntlet works in the MCU. He clearly cannot use the stones to their full potential. If he can then he didn't have time because Thor was going to kill him. The reality stone's effects aren't permenant and that's the only thing that could add resources. Plus if he added a bunch of resources they would eventually disappear and he isn't just going to keep adding resources forever. Hell the snap alone damaged his arm, the writers confirmed this.

But goal wise I suppose, not just at the moment. Like, "why wasn't his goal just to add more resources" in general I think is more of the question :)

Yup ^

Originally posted by Insanity Baldi:

Originally posted by SS♥ DANGER NOODLES.:

Space, Time, Power, Mind, Soul, Reality. I think it's more of he can manipulate and bend these things. There's no life stone. Although the soul stone would come closest, I don't think it has the power to create more life such as more plants and animals etc for food and resources. Reality would be next closest but I think even that only allows changes in reality in terms of perception? For example changing Mantis and Drax's forms.

That's just what I think tho xP

But... the reality stone could create a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of things and make them infinite..

And the time stone would make sure they wouldn't disappear after Thanos died or when he broke concentration.

Originally posted by SS♥ Supermarket Flowers..:

Space, Time, Power, Mind, Soul, Reality. I think it's more of he can manipulate and bend these things. There's no life stone. Although the soul stone would come closest, I don't think it has the power to create more life such as more plants and animals etc for food and resources. Reality would be next closest but I think even that only allows changes in reality in terms of perception? For example changing Mantis and Drax's forms.

That's just what I think tho xP

Just a change in perception wouldn't explain the bubble bullets though. Sure, if you changed your perception of the bullets, they would look like bubbles, but that's only how you see it. The bullets would still be there, and they would have killed Gamora. It's not that they all saw the bullets differently, it's that the bullets were entirely different entities. Their reality changed.

Each stone has infinite and complete master of their essential "element"
to create life, one can simply use the reality gem and WILL IT INTO EXISTENCE, the movies did a nerfed and half-assed job of truly showing off how ridiculously powerful the Infinity stones are. Think about it, Thanos could ERASE everyone on Titan and win the battle with the reality stone alone. Why didn't he? is it because, A: Plot convenience and action scenes or B: because he didn't want to?

Of course, B is not an actual option. Thanos wanted to win that fight and get the time stone, it was all for plot convenience and spectacular fight scenes that Marvel had to give us since it's a damn MCU movie. The reason Thanos didn't just make more resources or more life or whatever the ♥♥♥♥ you want to try and feed me, He's called the Mad Titan for a reason, even if Infinity War's plot doesn't make sense, or Thanos as a whole doesn't make sense in the movies, eat our visuals, don't analyze ♥♥♥♥. We're marvel..

Meaning well, ♥♥♥♥ you cuz lazy writing (stan lee meme)

As shown when Drax and Mantis returned to their normal forms when Thanos left the fight on Knowhere, the Reality Stone's effects only seem to apply when Thanos is consistently willing it.

That would mean Thanos has to sit somewhere for ALL OF ETERNITY willing the Reality Stone's power to apply across the ENTIRE UNIVERSE. And he can't ever waver, lest he accidentally lose control over the Gauntlet and accidentally fails to keep the resources he summoned in realityIt's not a matter of what would be the most life-saving, it was a matter of what would be the most practical option with his intended goal.

On top of this, Thanos presented the idea of killing half the population to the higher-ups on Titan before it went extinct, as established with his conversation with Doctor Strange. Because they said no, and because they went extinct, Thanos now believes that his idea is the only one that will truly work, and after seeing it work on Gamora's planet, it only makes him believe it even more. He won't double the resources because he personally believes that the Snap is a more reffective method. It's not how the universe works, it's how Thanos works.

All in all, I feel like Thanos's ideals and motivations are handled superbly, and make a lot of sense if one would just bother to think it through from his point-of-view rather than as a third party watching it in the theater. Just because it's a Marvel movie with plenty of action doesn't mean that the story is bad. You just need to read in-between the lines.