What Really Happened to Iron Man?

Warning, we're in the Endgame now, so if you still haven't seen the latest Avengers adventure beware of SPOILERS.
The epic conclusion to Avengers: Endgame saw Iron Man deliver the finishing blow using his own Infinity Gauntlet to save the day. It was an iconic moment that ultimately came with a heavy cost, but what exactly happened to Tony Stark when he used the stones? Kyle sets out on his own time heist in search of answers on this week's Because Science!
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[@becausescience]

Thanks for watching Super Nerds! Next week, our first expansion show *Because Space* is launching (heh). Catch the first episode with a very special guest on 5/20. Also, Allen and I will see you in Footnotes next Tuesday to finally address all your burning Mortal Kombat questions. (Oh and here's an article on the *Demon Core* if you want to know more: archive.nerdist.com/tickling-the-dragons-tail-the-story-of-the-demon-core/) -- kH

[@iamlordapollo]

the ancient one explicitly states that the stones are necessary to hold the universe together. so if cap returns them at the end, our timeline in the mcu has no stones. how is the universe not falling apart?

[@antoniotorres8842]

The directors said that the stones are destroyed but not gone. They are just a bunch of atoms in the universe.

[@wordsmyth659]

so then peter and pepper should be Fucked i mean peter is a mutant and super human at that but its due to his particualr cellular make up that he eventually becomes man-spider but pepper she uh.. well you tell me Kyle

[@wordsmyth659]

side note i still dont get why Tony wasnt able to produce a fully mechanical arm made of nanites and use the gauntlet or something

[@valkyrieace5768]

Im not sure really what a cells bursting point is but wouldn't the snap pretty much explode the cells in his hand cuz it reminds me of a lightsaber

[@victor9sur768]

So iron man became Fe(3+) man or ....... ion man

[@Ascalis1]

Welp, you're getting the super nerd award.

[@DaSourOrange]

We learned this in science yesterday lol so I kinda get the joke

[@xx_noobdestroyer_xx9531]

Funney smart boi jöek

[@jacobsimon4358]

Get out

[@philmybush]

Agreed. Super nerd award!

[@clashwithdemon2091]

Pretty nice to see Thor has lost weight after Endgame.

[@johnedwards4313]

? You mean the actor or thor himself

[@octavioneitorgamer]

@@johnedwards4313 He means the guy in this video lol

[@danielm4874]

r/whoosh

[@Lukronius]

Alien X To the point of scrawniness! 😂

[@JTZombiE]

@@danielm4874 its r/woooosh not r/whoosh

[@jacobsimon4358]

He was turned to steel, In the great magnetic field, When he traveled time, For the future of man kind

[@prateembiswas2794]

Nobody wants him... He just stares at the world...

[@krampusklaws2238]

@@prateembiswas2794 Planning his vengeance That he will soon unfurl

[@mykelowry6734]

Who are you guys taking about ? Dr.Doom ? 🤣 Or is it an inside thing I don't get.

[@krampusklaws2238]

@@mykelowry6734 Black Sabbath - Iron Man Album - Paranoid Release date: 1970 The song is about a man who witnesses a post apocalyptic future and returns to his own time to try and warn people of the coming devastation. . Though during his return the magnetic field turns him into a metal man, mute and unable to tell the people of the disaster they just end up making fun of him and ignoring him, so he becomes the very devastation he has been trying to prevent. Though it gets mistaken to be about Iron Man from the comics, it has more of a closer relation to The Iron Giant story wise.

[@mykelowry6734]

Krampus Klaws well, that was a super dope picture you painted for me . Thank you kindly !

[@KNVT38]

So, I take it that, if Reed Richards streches and snaps the gauntlet from a couple meters away, he's kinda cheating the infinity system?

[@ultimatedragon4281]

Yes and no. A few meters are not enough, unless he has some other protection, but may he stretch way more and he could survive the snap (in theory). The catch is that such radiation would still wreck his arm and, since objects exposed to radiation kinda of get contaminated, liberating some radiation themselves for some time, the sensible decision would be to chop it off. It would be completely unusable anyways... Too much for "cheating the infinity system", don't you think? XD

[@zacharysouth8820]

@@ultimatedragon4281 It is still a WAY better option over a full blown suicide. I'd lose a arm for that hands down, without thought.

[@seph159]

@@zacharysouth8820 groot could have done it. streched out to safe distance with sombody at the ready to chop off his arm. it would then grow back

[@ultimatedragon4281]

@@zacharysouth8820 Yeah, agreed. It is still a high price though. And you can only do it what? Two times? That is, unless you make your previously chopped arm regrow with your next snap. I don't know if it is allowed (the fact that Hulk failed to snap Black Widow back kinda hints to the stones not allowing somethings to be done on the snaps), but it is a good way around if it is. Hell, if it is, you could, in theory, even snap and include a healing of the damage the snap did on you on the things that snap causes. THAT would be a complete cheat of the infinity system.

[@ultimatedragon4281]

@@seph159 Yeah, Groot would basically have unlimited snaps just using that little trick XD. The only catch is that each still would be hella painful (but hey, for all the power the stones have and still being able to completely recover, that seems a pretty good deal to me).

[@Dangolbustedman]

>4 snaps > gamma radiation flying through the universe >radiation causes mutations in Human DNA Well That’s one way to get the X-men into the MCU I guess

[@drjonesey5]

but then how would explain quick silver and Wanda in Age of Ultron as Super human before the snap. Cap didn't call them mutants he reffered to them along the lines up enhanced. It can work still but kinda odd.

[@bigrafati1221]

My chin just dropped

[@Dangolbustedman]

Heiße Schokolade I’m convinced the reason they explained the snaps with gamma radiation for this reason Because honestly the gauntlet radiating gamma rays in a universe where magic is a real thing makes absolutely no sense except as a set up for mutants. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if they rewrote that part specifically after Disney officially acquired fox

[@Dangolbustedman]

Dominick Thompson that was explained with purposeful genetic enhancement not born mutations. Although I’m assuming that will be retconned since they can actually use the term mutant now

[@sinteleon]

That and effectively it wouldn't be born mutations, since it would be because of the snap regardless. And Quicksilver and Wanda in age of Ultron is proof that this could work, since they were enhanced with the help of the mind stone. Don't forget that it's not just the gamma radiation as well; the stone were atomized during the 2nd snap, which could've already set the groundwork. Also, this does have some precedence in the comics. When Scarlet Witch banished the Phoenix Force, it also lead to the revival of the mutant population.

[@akromakroma]

Thanos: I am inevitable Stark: I am about to end this man's whole career

[@waltersims5428]

But I'm not a rapper

[@SuperAlphabetagama]

Is this what we've boiled down to? Memes in words?

[@inferno769]

@@waltersims5428 bam boop bop bada bam bohump pow *snaps*

[@GenesisXV]

Kushagra Singh Yep... you might as well get used to it.

[@anitarai4691]

Stark: and my own career

[@JoducusKwak]

distance.... i just imagined a tony stark with a stupid long arm

[@zacharysouth8820]

Mr. Fantastic Iron Man XD

[@piyusharora8633]

Did he just say he should snap as slow as possible but that increases time and hence increases the gama radiation which is exactly what we don't want ...........

[@Nempo13]

The faster the snap the more radiation you get in a single burst. If that level of radiation is going to be the same, lengthening it lowers the amount given off. Theoretically by making it take long enough you can lower the radiation levels into an acceptable range...but that would be like making that finger snap last longer than an hour or more easily.

[@jochi8874]

Was gonna say Thor got exposed to that shit in infinity war, but he also survived a star for several minutes so....

[@heyyou9472]

@GravityZero The snap. Or, the dying star when he made the Stormbreaker.

[@Zrbrcr]

The actual infinity gaunlet proved to be a fairly good sheild against this stuff, so they'll be fine

[@TriMarkC]

Not just any star, but a dying neutron star. It’s power ratio is between a supernova (outward energy) & a black hole (inward energy), & if one of them “aimed” its energy at the earth even from millions of light years away, our entire planet would be crisped. (ihavenotv.com/neutron-stars-crash-course-astronomy)

[@zamasu9924]

@@TriMarkC You beat me too it.

[@NotARangerBoy]

TriMarkC We haven’t even mentioned their magnetic field.

[@SentientHoodii]

so you're telling me he became Ion Man?

[@MaxIronsThird]

That's a fucking great joke, just imagine Tony saying, "I....AM....ION MAN", then winking to the camera.

[@banana_sienna]

Thats both funny and depressing at the same time

[@raedien]

I demand this be mentioned in the Footnotes episode.

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Nice

[@brandonogden3498]

Hey. I hate you. No, I don't, but that hit me in the feels. A critical hit. Perhaps even... A supercritical hit.

[@raspberryjam3724]

I just realized how much more powerful Thanos is than normal people. He was exposed to the same amount of radiation as Tony and, compared to Tony's reaction, it barely affected Thanos.

[@cedricvelarde]

He was exposed. Twice. And still have strength to farm

[@stevenquiles969]

12:00 They say that Tony didn’t flinch like thanos and hulk while wielding the stones because he *DID INDEED* have a protective layer of Stark Tech absorbing most of the radiation in his suit.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Talk about misplaced confidence

[@CJspirit77]

@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat yeah the other two lived lol

[@CJspirit77]

The flinch put more distance I suppose

[@kbee225]

He didn't flinch because the director wanted you to believe he was alright just to make his death all the more powerful.

[@kriegsmanjaeger5545]

I prefer to think that it's because he knew he was going to die either way and accepted it.

[@goodoleboy83]

How much radiation did Wolverine take in protecting the Japaneses soldier

[@aceman67]

he was about a mile from the Hypocenter, so about 350mSv

[@lordhubble4819]

Short answer: a lot long answer: i dont know

[@aceman67]

@@lordhubble4819 He got less radiation than Chernobyl evacuees.

[@JohnHolmesIII]

do yall think Logan could of done the snap and survived? Maybe turn his healing factor into cancerous lol

[@DodgeWatt]

@@JohnHolmesIII ​ @John Holmes III "Cancerous" cells are mutated, and not natural his healing factor would in theory keep him in a state of being compleatly broken till the radiation source was moved away or gradually decayed. I think in cannon for wolverine he would survive it. Thats not to say he wouldn't turn to dust like half the rest of the universe.

[@treehawk7065]

My daughter and I were watching the Civil War movie again and during it she asked if the Shield Helicarrier was possible; "Dad, could something like that actually be made". I told her I did not know so she told me to "ask that cool science guy that looks like Thor, he knows everything" - well, I am asking (I lost the coin toss on who would do it). While here, I have feel that I should thank you. Your shows have created a real interest in science with your fun and informative look into the MCU, and her grades in this class have increased remarkably since she became a fan.

[@furrball]

Short answer: nope, not possible in that form factor. Propellers' blades would have to spin so fast to keep the whole thing in the air, they'd have to be built out of incredibly strong materials to withstand centrifugal forces. Ok, then they've got such superstrong materials and all in the MCU, but they're, again, fictional materials. In real life, we know none up to that kind of task, except possibly carbon nanofibers, if you can manage to create a bunch of them long enough to create the blades (as long as a whole blade). But then there'd be also troubles with the energy source capable of powering electric motors (?) powerful and yet compact enough to fit the blades. And even after all that, below each propeller you'd basically have a miles-high tornado, making it quite unpleasant for whoever happens to be below the flight path of the helicarrier. Or maybe the props would spin so fast (in the order of the kilometers per second, around the hubs) that air wouldn't even be able to move fast enough to fill the gap between one blade and the next. Also, it definitely wouldn't be very stealth, even if you made it invisible. ^^ edit: or maybe it'd be possible if you made the frame out of light materials filled mostly with hydrogen, like a blimp, but I guess that's not what the narrative suggests about how the helicarrier is supposed to be built.

[@Ktr-1142-ema]

The helicarrier is possible though expensive

[@mysticalwingsproductions7932]

Furrball McDuff It is possible, but it would be years or even decades before we could get all of the materials needed in order to build it. And it would also be expensive as hell. Think of it as the idea of humans going light speed. NASA is working on something like that as we speak, but the boosters would have to be miles wide and would have to carry billions if not trillions of pounds of fuel. And even then it would take about 2 years going in the same direction for the rocket to reach light speed. So it’s not that building the helicarrier is impossible. It would just take a long time

[@mysticalwingsproductions7932]

Treehawk It is possible, but it would be years or even decades before we could get all of the materials needed in order to build it. And it would also be expensive as hell. Think of it as the idea of humans going light speed. NASA is working on something like that as we speak, but the boosters would have to be miles wide and would have to carry billions if not trillions of pounds of fuel. And even then it would take about 2 years going in the same direction for the rocket to reach light speed. So it’s not that building the helicarrier is impossible. It would just take a long time

[@Ktr-1142-ema]

@@mysticalwingsproductions7932 I think out propulsion tech needs to become more concentrated / focused, we've broken the soundbarrier in a modified car, we can do this.

[@rasgrizrevelations4145]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isnt the energy of the gauntlet also traveling through the person and thus damaging organ, killing cells and nerves and the like? They all seem to be in pain just wearing it (unless you have a body that can handle it)

[@sephelutis]

If enough radiation is absoluted it is transferred as heat (similar to light heating a piece of metal) due to resistance. There was so much gammar radiation it burnt Tony Stark's body.

[@rasgrizrevelations4145]

@Big Za I'm curious why you say his entire nervous system would be destroyed. I can imagine some nerve damage especially on and around the hand and arm were the stones were. Even people suffering from the blue flash still had intact nervous systems.

[@Scarlet_moon.]

first thing to use stones would be to create body for yourself that can handle it,then just punch Thanos into meat patty.I mean it can erase half a universe so that should be an easy stuff.

[@Player-xq1dy]

Not really. The nano gauntlet hurts no matter how strong you are, but the infinity gauntlet was made of uru so it took up all the power. You can even compare because thanos even looks hurt while wearing the nano gauntlet

[@rasgrizrevelations4145]

@@Player-xq1dy He also shows pain when using the Uru one.

[@orisaonetrick5170]

Kale,”give me the equation” AI,”sure tiny Thor”

[@turkeykaiser]

Point Break.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*Iron Man 2008:* I am Iron Man... [applause] *Endgame:* I AM... IRON MAN [snaps]

[@InnerTriggerer]

Fans Iron man 2008 : I am Iron man Fans : Yeaa!, That's my Iron man End Game : I am Iron man Fans : Nooo!, That's my Iron man

[@jakubkotwica4034]

More like ION MAN now.

[@Mr0T]

*AND ... I ... AM ....... IRON MAN!

[@possibear]

So you are saying he went hipster?

[@josephnichols2064]

@@jakubkotwica4034 buh dum tisss

[@zuko1569]

Thanos: *snaps* Iron Man: Too bad for you... I have my uno reverse card *snaps*

[@gargas3208]

This kid the next Justin y

[@matteussilvestre8583]

Thanos: *snaps* Tony: "no u"

[@matteussilvestre8583]

@Sans This one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYC8ZoecosuCa7M

[@HypotheticallyEnov]

Tony:Too bad for you... I have a dead meme

[@joety4u95]

Ye

[@Holmesy87]

The 'Demon Core' story(the Plutonium one Kyle talked about) is actually really interesting, everyone should read about it.

[@sushrutthakur3001]

What happened to Hulk's arm? Some say it won't heal even with Hulk's healing power.

[@sushrutthakur3001]

@GravityZero You must remember how much Hulk was screaming in pain when he was trying to snap everyone back to reality. But Ironman struggled comparatively less. Do you think it was his suit that protected him? Coz if this much radiation is given out, then all the Avengers in and around that area are definitely prone to the same radiation. PS I'd love to chat about this with someone like you. All my friends are just watching the movie for fun. I really wish there was someone with whom I could talk to about these details like the snap or Time travel

[@infernodragon456]

@@sushrutthakur3001 you should ask or discuss on sites like Quora or Reddit...

[@jonklaus1466]

To be fair the Hulk brought back half the universe with his snap, Tony only snapped thanos Army out of Existence. Different Feats with diffrent results.

[@sushrutthakur3001]

@@jonklaus1466 It's not about what you do with it. The moment you put on the infinity gauntlet, may it be thanos or hulk, they scream in pain. In IW, when thanos got all the stones, he too was screaming. And hulk started screaming the moment he put on the gauntlet. He could barely snap. But when tony got all the stones, he was able to bear them quite well.

[@PeanutButterParker]

even if Hulk is basically gamma radiation, he was hit with 1% of an atomic bomb, i dont think he'll heal from that

[@superpilotdude]

Thanos sword looks like helicopter blades. Thanos-copter confirmed.

[@thanosthemadtitan5125]

Ikr

[@jamespondy0]

Fuck yeah

[@41_orizaferishpriyono99]

Its. an actual thing in the comics ..... Thanos copter exist

[@darealpoopster]

oriza ferish It’s not canon.

[@chidorirasenganz]

They actually confirmed this lol

[@ugoeze7360]

We say the snap radiation killed Tony. Marvel: *Tony's contract killed Tony.*

[@JackBlack-qn7us]

You're joking right? It's not an ending contract with R. D. Junior that killed Iron Man. Right?!?!

[@waffles4243]

Yeah it is

[@milksteaven4559]

Jack Black r u stupid? It is lol

[@milksteaven4559]

Jack Black the same also goes for cap

[@BadGladeCrazy]

@@JackBlack-qn7us Chris and Robert signed on with a 6 movie contract and they happily let their contracts end with Endgame.

[@stormstare]

I would love to see an unedited version of these videos

[@augustuswayne9676]

Also what you didn't mention about the instance when the screw driver slipped and the 2 halves of beryllium coming together, the scientist slapped one half of the core off the other with his bare hand . With in a few days his arm was so cooked that it had swelled 3time it's normal size and it split open and was constantly draining fluid .

[@vordt4139]

"Well, that does it" What a thing to say when you know you are literally dead.

[@Terminate1783]

Should ve said: My time has come

[@darlalathan6143]

And that is why I never became a nuclear physicist, besides math anxiety.

[@Fallenangel_85]

Saying it like a true scientist.

[@carlfns8578]

He probably got nauseous almost immediately. 10% of all his cells bursted in that instant.

[@HeckMayster.]

What really happened to Iron man? He can finally rest.

[@KryttiKat]

:'c

[@creaturesoul4469]

He didn’t want to rest at that point though, he wanted to see his daughter grow up :(

[@josealexandrogallardo8524]

shut :'(

[@craiga.glesner424]

As usual interesting and neato stuff. Also I totes love the music you got playing all the time in the episodes, so any chance that it's something I can get a hold of?

[@johnkrumpholz3873]

Tony Stark uses his Thrusters and weapons using his mind through a device in his helmet so Tony Stark could shoot his Gauntlet far into space and use his Iron Man helmet to snap when it's at a safe distance.

[@Nempo13]

Here is the problem with that, a sentient being needs to be directly interfacing with the stones in order for them to function. IE, if you aren't touching them, you aren't able to activate them. This is actually shown repeatedly in the MCU. Ronan had to first touch the power stone to connect to it, and then could attach it to his weapon to give himself a buffer to allow him to use it, but if the stone is removed from his immediate touch...remember that he lost the power the second the stone was removed from anything touching him...the gem turned off. Same when the manage to get the gauntlet from Thanos, you see the gems visibly darken...they have become innert as no sentient being is interacting with them.

[@tylercain9697]

Related question: how much radiation was Tony taking from his arc reactor in his suit throughout the MCU?

[@infamous8131]

I don’t think it produces radiation,although I don’t know for sure

[@hordegaming4771]

Since it's basically a fusion reactor using plasma and it's not a real thing no way of telling though I'd think the palladium poisoning is probably more important to him lol

[@alamrasyidi4097]

@@hordegaming4771 But he already dealt with the poisoning by using an entirely new element to fuel the fusion, which only raises more question on what kind of radiation it produces.

[@vepiol2278]

Alam Rasyidi the arc reactor is said to be clean energy, so it wouldn’t make sense for it to be radioactive.

[@user-ex9ti7ds3m]

@@MrDandaowen Don't the vibranium mines in Wakanda have that special shielding because it is highly reactive?

[@ashoif77]

Didn't Iron Man say the gauntlet is putting out enough energy to "light up" a continent not "power"? I thought he meant literally turn a continent's surface to ash

[@darthsateus5681]

I can’t remember specifically what he said, but you might actually be right!

[@utoresa5193]

How much is that?

[@Hybrid10Prime_Creative]

@@utoresa5193 A fuck ton

[@steveman751]

Also just either the space or power stone alone could power... Well the entire universe. They have infinite power.

[@zZstormgamezXx]

You may be right. It doesn’t matter though. If you’re right than it’s even more energy than what was assumed in the video. Aka, still dead

[@WIImotionmasher]

12:50 "trying to snap as slowly as possible?" I think you meant quickly, as quickly as possible

[@jk844100]

No. He meant slowly. The amount of radiation given off in a single snap is the same regardless of if the snap takes 0.1s or a whole day. Increasing the time reduced your exposure. 1,000,000j of radiation over 0.1s is more dangerous that 1,000,000j of radiation over a day, or a week, or a year.

[@ojdcreative3849]

@@jk844100 He didn't mean to say slowly as he says before that the less time you are exposed the better. Your point might make some sence but in this situation he never spoke about doing a snap slowly would average out the radiation over time. Plus in the film, how is he going to do a snap that takes a year/month/day to do? Either way its just a fun thought experiment anyways so as long as you liked the video that all good.

[@CoffeeSprocket]

This was really interesting and cool! I was reluctant to watch this because Iron Man's sacrifice really got to me, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Thanks!!

[@kamulecPL12]

There were three snaps made on earth in MCU, every single one releasing a tremendous amount of radiation, which will cause mutations. Huh, so they did plan out justification for X-Men in MCU eventually.

[@runefaustblack]

Whoooooooa! Never thought of that!

[@mariosuarez6656]

oooh but of course!, but, mutants were around in WWII, EriC(magneto) for example, so, hmm

[@choochdrews]

Mutants are usually born with their powers.

[@rudrasingh6354]

@@choochdrews but mutations dont come out of thin air, so that means a generation or two down the line we get the x men. But no one is going to wait 2 generations, maybe the the snap sent a bit of radiation through space and time, thats why tonys arm is uneasy throughout the mcu

[@kennymartin5976]

@@rudrasingh6354 Well the snap isn't just radiaton, but also reality altering magic, so I asume that'll play into it as well

[@astropunch7708]

Jesus Tony literally Kamikaze’d himself to save the universe

[@jamesnelson7731]

Yep, exactly what Captain America said he wouldn't do when they argued in Avengers 1.

[@miinfluencer1373]

And then Tony tank missiled the Chitauri mothership and almost died. Done and done. We didn't need this one liner self sacrifice thing at all.

[@jamesnelson7731]

@@miinfluencer1373 -- Agree to disagree. I would've liked for him to have survived his snap tho. Then retire.

[@polish_idiot5430]

he should say to Peter "Mister Parker i don't fell so good"

[@phothewin6019]

@@miinfluencer1373 As if a callback to that Avengers 1 scene is the only reason for this to exist or the only reason the scene is liked by so many. Please.

[@rayneozier]

Thank you for that outro cause I was wondering what kind of exposure would the bystanders of the snap be subject to.

[@microwavedchicken4274]

This was on my recommendations and I saw it said 1 year ago and I realized endgame came out over an entire year ago, man time flies

[@eelfriedrice8423]

What if Iron Man accidentally thought of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man before he snapped?

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Thanks for making me clean sunflower seed bits off my monitor!

[@cowmoo5596]

Successful Failure He’d dust have of all marshmallows

[@zboy1152]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Redrumm]

Haha

[@demi-fiendoftime3825]

@Bere18 Random WHEN SOMEONE ASKS YOU THAT YOU SAY YES!!!!!

[@SaCeuran]

Fun fact: That plutonium sphere has since gained the moniker "The Demon Core"

[@HeatDeath51]

"Fun" fact. Geeeeez

[@WaveOfDestiny]

I watched a video about it the other day lol

[@devintariel3769]

Fun for everyone... Except for me I'm dead

[@Rowrin]

I think after it's last accident, it was put into storage then later taken apart to be used as fuel in reactor(s).

[@Attaxalotl]

Yes, it has.

[@aristedes9449]

"Could power a continent" is the biggest understatement the gauntlet has ever had said about it tbh.

[@nippon19]

"a continent", more like 20% of the milky way, the stone are the motherfucking INFINITY STONES ffs.

[@manaraxjendo7900]

I think the gauntlet in addition to channeling the power safely, also directs the energy released into the wielder to prevent the radiation from killing those around it.

[@aniketh_99]

You missed the chance to say Turn Thanos's plans to dust And meant snap as quickly as possible

[@NWreaper]

yeaaaaaah when iron man says the snap could "light up a continent", he didn't literally mean give the continent electricity. he meant lighting it up as in destroying it.

[@ayezz2811]

Even though it could light up the universe. Not just a continent 😂

[@vukpsodorov5446]

considering that thanos crushed a moon with it (and brought the remains down onto iron man and the others) even without the full set of stones, i'd say that it would be a low estimate in any case.

[@marwansobhy7050]

Thats even worse

[@ayezz2811]

V-Rex maybe 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@yeetusdeletus7039]

It probably could do both lol

[@michaelhammons91]

Dude I love your content. I learn and you're hilarious. Thanks for the videos 🍻

[@IWatchAndLearn]

Excellent as always.

[@bulkycrow]

When Kyle said: "The math is simple", my brain automatically continued: "You laugh - you lose". Degradation is upon me

[@ShipwrecccArt]

lmao you a real one

[@BrettCaton]

I'd say the infinity gauntlet directs the radiation in to the snapper only, on the grounds that they alone will pay the price. As it rewrites physics, it can easily decide where the gamma radiation etc goes.

[@papaoso8340]

I think that it directs the radiation into your objective aswell You know, to archive his purpose

[@helium-379]

So if you survive you basically live with cancer.

[@papaoso8340]

Robot Rabbit Probably just a few days or maybe a couple of hours I mean, that would be a very op cancer

[@gardenlizard1586]

Good scenario

[@jamespondy0]

The gauntlet isn't sentient, and Tony, nor the Hulk used the Infinity Gauntlet.

[@Divenity]

Problem is, the gauntlet doesn't seem to give off that radiation in the way you describe (expanding outward in a sphere from the gauntelt), it seems to just put it straight into the person wearing the thing... Tony, Rhodey, Cap, Thor, Rocket, Hawkeye, and Ant-man were standing around Bruce when he did the first snap, and all of them were perfectly fine, if it worked how you describe here everyone in that room would have died.

[@RedX-ox3vl]

Tony should have wished that the whole Thanos army was destroyed as well as no radiation occurred he would’ve lived And people call him the genius

[@Nempo13]

The gems aren't a genie. To make something happen they have a cost.

[@chxsedbd]

@@Nempo13 the cost for no radiation would be Thanos and his entire army xD

[@ares_bluesteel]

The stones have rules/limits. Hulk wasn't able to bring Black Widow back. I think specifically the stones have limits against changing how they work, for example you can't use them to bring someone back that was sacrificed to get the soul stone. You also can't use them to make yourself immune to the radiation from the snap.

[@heavypupper1219]

He theoretically could've survived for a bit longer if he had a helmet on.

[@JoeAndre_Roja]

Yeah that could be possible

[@Pauline__]

Practically, it wouldn't have mattered, however

[@nathanmount3232]

Maybe a few seconds longer lol

[@xdecatron2985]

I wanted to say that wouldn't have been as cool. But imagine if he put the helmet on between saying "I am Iron Man" and snapping the gauntlet. Cooler.

[@tehuselessguig3138]

@@xdecatron2985 yeah but He is Iron Man, the Suit isnt, thats what Iron Man 3 is about

[@lightningchicken3567]

The radiation is actually always going on based on avengers one when they were studying the tesseract

[@stripe143yellow9]

Maybe the cube is shielding the radiation from the space stone

[@fhisaldsfulda3241]

@@stripe143yellow9 the tesseract contains the space stone

[@stripe143yellow9]

@@fhisaldsfulda3241 wow, cool reply..thanks for sharing ❤

[@rogerpatrick3642]

I like your theory on that it seemed like you put a lot of time into that LOL nice going

[@lordtiberious2268]

Could this help explain some of Thor's behavioral and physical changes in Endgame? The snap in Infinity War was right in his face.

[@Liberator1917]

Lord Tiberious it’s just ptsd. Trauma can even bring down gods.

[@Spacetauren]

Hey Kyle, a little thing I thought about the gamma ray burst of the snap. Sure, such a burst would radiation poison Tony Stark to Kingdom Come, but with a 54 Billion Joule burst of electromagnetic waves, and assuming a head-to-snap distance of 30cm, the energy density of the extending ball of radiation would be 61 Billion Joules / m² at that distance. If we model the exposed surface of the head as a 10cm-radius circle, and the head as a 10cm-radius sphere, that means taking 1,9 Billion joules of energy _in the face_ , and even assuming the radiation goes past the head and is only 1% absorbed, that's still a whopping _4,6 Million joules_ of energy *per cubic centimeter of head* . I believe that's enough to conclude that, post-snap, Tony Stark's head is now vapor.

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Spacetauren Footnoted bro! 👊

[@peterhacke6317]

Exactly! Gen damage and organ failure are only symptions of mid level radiation poisoning. Extrem levels of radiation poisoning either cook or vaporize you long before any of the other symptions can get you.

[@christianelbertbudiman5247]

Since Tony isn't the only one affected by the radiation, we can assume almost everyone there is getting it. Truly an endgame.

[@davindamico1759]

look what it ended up doing to Capt.!

[@Obaminator42069]

Leonardo P captain America didn’t die, iron man, black widow, and thanos did. He didn’t spoil the movie I did.

[@thulodari6816]

@@Obaminator42069 😂😂😂

[@11amasuperboy]

At least Nat didn't get any of that radiation.

[@joshgonzalez9362]

Leonardo PreciousRb then why are you in this video that’s literally is about Ironman snapping

[@Pauline__]

These considerations make me wonder how much radiation Thanos was exposed to when he destroyed the infinity stones. He managed to survive the first snap with just a few burns on his left arm, which might've produced 10^6 Sv, but when he snapped the gauntlet to atomise the very stones themselves, he ended up with the entire left side of his body fried.

[@dabe4506]

8:17 aka the "demon core", which was responsible for another deadly criticality incident the previous year at the same facility.

[@MySerpentine]

You don't often see the word 'demon' in such a scientific conversation.

[@zaczane]

Also when thanos snapped next to Thor in infinity ALL of the Plants near them Dead Instantly dead

[@okbkcq]

Yeah, but they were also there for Thanos' power blast as it failed to stop Stormbreaker. Assume Stormbreaker was redirecting/splashing that energy to the sides.

[@Armoless]

Thor is the mightiest Avenger.. He should have been the Snapper.

[@okbkcq]

@@Armoless for the resnap, yeah....but they talked it over and decided a little more damma gamma radiation would hurt hulk less ('sides, ragemonster without the rage hasn't been fighting so good). Thor couldn't do the Tony snap because he didn't have the right gear.

[@imyoursuperbeast8220]

Tony should've had some Rad-X and some Radaways and he'd be fine

[@andyb1653]

Especially since he's in power armor.

[@danielbickford3458]

Game Theory did an interesting episode about those a while back

[@bradenfuhrmann9571]

Daniel Bickford I love Austin!!!

[@coreylong2353]

I'm your Superbeast 😂😂😂😂

[@BrettCaton]

Just get your ghoul companion to do it. He'd probably find it relaxing.

[@samweber253]

I’m really not a science guy but I love to learn about this stuff. It’s so interesting

[@brianbyles3737]

Tony Spocked himself. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one” live long and prosper 🖖

[@ArcaneEther]

All of these calculations focus on Gamma radiation specifically, from Professor Hulk's line, "it's mostly Gamma". Mostly. What about the other radiation wavelengths?

[@paladindim]

Irrelevant. 50% of those numbers would produce the same effect.

[@darealpoopster]

Jeremy Higgins Impossible to know. We don’t know if it’s radiowaves or visible light.

[@scotthenderson4687]

He said most of the radiation was x-ray and gamma, therefore Hulk took some damage from the x-rays but Hulk's gamma fueled healing factor is fast enough and efficient enough to heal hulk within a few minutes. I hope this answers your questions

[@spudthepug]

And yet Hulk’s arm was still fried a couple of days after snapping...

[@scotthenderson4687]

Scar tissue

[@parra9134]

With this explanation wouldn’t Thor be the best person to do the snap since he was unaffected in the Infinity War snap while being literally inches away from the gauntlet? 🤔

[@Dragoneth]

His mind was consumed with too much to be trusted with it.

[@Thoralmir]

Not to mention he earlier exposed himself to the concentrated radiation of a dead star.

[@cliffg.4205]

And he endured being blasted by the full force of a star, so Thor would shrug that off like a night of light drinking.

[@christianrichardson4596]

Thor is immune to all gamma radiation, so yes he would have been the best to use it physically, but he had too many mental demons and they worried he was going to screw up the "wish". They had to have someone cool headed to do it while also being resistant, which ironically was the Hulk in this instance.

[@Angus4277]

Since in previous Marvel movies Tony Stark was able to control his suits remotely and also in previous movies (Ironman 3) the suit could fly around in parts... this means that he did not need to die because he could have shot his gauntlet off into space and then snapped remotely.

[@leo-bl6mr]

A moment of silence for the scientist who used a screwdriver to work with a highly "Radioactive" substance -_-

[@chopslap5497]

ZARAKI KENPACHI yea.. you would think just having the title of scientist would kinda make him immune to such stupidity.

[@mugwump7049]

@@chopslap5497 But stupidity isn't the opposite to intelligence...

[@Dream146]

Nah he was an arrogant git who endangered the lives of his colleagues doing something really bloody stupid.

[@runefaustblack]

You said people should be hundreds of meters away from the snap in order to be safe, right? 'Cause all the Avengers were there during the battle at a much shorter distance, and nothing happened to them. I choose to believe that Tony (as well as Thanos and Hulk before) used the Space Stone to redirect all that radiation towards himself, keeping his companions safe. Enough people had died already. EDIT: Or better yet, use the SS to give the electrons back to their atoms, nullifying any fallout that may have resulted from the explosion.

[@bacelmir3522]

That would work out because there's no reason the space stone would be necessary physically dust people. That's a good reason for needing the space stone to complete the gauntlet to begin with

[@MortRotu]

No matter where that dose of radiation is directed it'd cause damage to complex life over a huge distance, even if it was travelling via Tony, gamma isn't that strongly absorbed by human, even the Iron man suit wouldn't be that good at it.

[@Luke36987]

Bacelmir you need the space stone to dust people far away, in different galaxies. Otherwise you could only dust people in your vicinity

[@pickle3641]

Even better!

[@bacelmir3522]

@@Luke36987 No you could use the soul stone for that because it was never specified if there's a limit to its range so theoretically it could seek out all souls in the universe

[@aqacefan]

So when Tony Stark was feeling nauseated from the massive dose of radiation, would that mean he had... . . . . . . . ... atomic ache?

[@blank6604]

@@C.K.Y More claps starting slowly.

[@the_grey_phoenix]

@@blank6604 even more claps starting slowly

[@TheMrminecrafthelper]

TOAST WARRIOR furthermore slow claps starting

[@nymbattheeternal1279]

Hey, love your videos. One thing though, you mentioned that everyone was unshielded when Banner snapped everyone back. Well, it could be theoretically possible that the Gamma radiation from the gauntlet is recaptured and refocused into the stones before it could travel any meaningful length beyond that of a human body. The Time, Space, or Reality stones could facilitate this effect.

[@SpaceStrike]

First make sense and second tony couldn’t survive

[@nymbattheeternal1279]

@@SpaceStrike How was I unclear? Kyle said that when Banner used the Infinity Stones to bring the people that Thanos dusted back the other Avengers, who were within a very close range as well as being unshielded from radiation, would have been killed by the massive spike in Gamma ray radiation released during the snap. All that I theorized was that the gauntlet/stones capture and absorb or dissipate the radiation before it travels farther (Farther being the operative word) than the wielder. That's how people can be within an arms reach of the one using the stone's but only the user takes the damage. Not once did I mean to insinuate that Tony could have survived his fateful snap.

[@SpaceStrike]

@@nymbattheeternal1279 I’m sorry the way you worded it made me think that. You have a point but also it could be that the radiation goes straight into the user

[@nymbattheeternal1279]

@@SpaceStrike I'll grant that, although radiation is usually omnidirectional.

[@SpaceStrike]

@@nymbattheeternal1279 true but this is mcu haha

[@commanderdreg]

you should do a video on what investiture (from Brandon Sanderson's cosmere) would do to our physics equations. from long conversations the fandom has determined that investiture fits in with mass and energy, not being able to be created and distorted and stuff like that.

[@Redrumm]

Wouldn't Tony's end snap also irradiate everyone within a mile?

[@BrettCaton]

Presumably the gauntlet narrows the consequences down to the wielder. There seems to be a lot of intelligence involved with it. Otherwise, for example, you could sacrifice a pot-plant you really loved to get the spirit stone, for example. In the comics, they were created by some of the major powers of the cosmos, like Death and Eternity, who presumably oversee its use. The MCU is less clear, but from what we see with the Red Skull, there does seem some sort of intelligence involved.

[@viruspimpc420]

Yes

[@Johnpinckney98]

@@BrettCaton Ok, that explanation is hilarious...

[@r_stair]

That's cool and all, but how loud is FUSRODAH?!

[@kaltezhan]

Now that's an interesting topic

[@noiJadisCailleach]

This was covered by Game Theory already.

[@ILikeHDG]

These are the questions that need answers.

[@mlgredpanda7654]

Seeing as the Graybeards shouted loud enough for the entirety of Skyrim to hear them and the Dragonborn scales above them... I’d say pretty loud.

[@andyb1653]

@random stair Approx. 190 dovah-cibels.

[@putateng001]

can you do a topic about quantum realm? i really curious about that but too lazy to do research and i can't understand it coz its too technical for me.

[@rockclimbing3844]

Great video

[@armageddon28]

Tony Stark is a smart man. It's theoretically possible his iron man suit gives him a resistance to the radiation.... It just wasn't enough to save him

[@lukasjuszczak1664]

Gamma burst less than half a meter from his face. No. Not enough indeed.

[@pauldeshield]

His helmet should've been on 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@3ountyhunter]

Theoretically he could have built his suit to withstand it, but he didn't have a helmet anyways

[@davidb8523]

@@pauldeshield that still wouldnt do anything

[@pauldeshield]

@@davidb8523 yeah I know. 😅

[@weberonni]

How much radiation would Thor have gotten when he opened the Iris of the sun (super nova, white dwarf?) when forging his battle axe? EDIT - I know he made a video about this. What I was referring to was Kyle's comment about this being the most radiation anyone has every received... sorry for the confusing

[@Airvirgo]

Great question

[@HAZZATHEBEAST]

pretty sure he's already done a video on that.

[@runefaustblack]

It's called "How Do You Forge Thor's _Infinity War_ Weapon?"

[@HAZZATHEBEAST]

@@runefaustblackLima well remembered.

[@runefaustblack]

@@HAZZATHEBEAST I looked up all of his _Infinity War_ videos after watching the movie a week and a half ago. Otherwise I'd never remember it.

[@Neuralatrophy]

We see the same effect in Guardians of the Galaxy when Quill obtains the power stone. I think its more of a property of the stones' metaphysics, even Thanos needed the gauntlet to handle all of them together.

[@ares_bluesteel]

I thought Quill was only able to touch the power stone without dying because he was technically half-god at that point. I'm pretty sure that is brought up in GotG 2. If he were a normal human then touching the power stone would've basically insta-killed him. Red Skull also mentions the space stone basically killing (?) him and his soul being sent to guide people to the soul stone as his punishment.

[@_cosmic_tentacle_salad_6342]

I don’t know why but having it explained like this just makes his death even sadder

[@Gu5A2]

Hulk: touches glove* (arm nearly falls off) Tony: has all stones slowly rises up into his fist (totally fine)

[@xdecatron2985]

What are you talking about? Tony got the same radiation burns as both Thanos and Hulk. It just killed him because he was a normal dude.

[@DiMono]

@@xdecatron2985 I think he means that when the gauntlet formed on Tony's hand, there were no obvious effects from wearing it until he snapped. Hulk's gauntlet caused him pain immediately, but Tony's did not. I think the explanation for that is that the suit was able to absorb the latent energy (remember when Thor hit him with his lightning and it simply charged the battery? This suit is significantly more advanced than that one) in a way that the gauntlet alone was not.

[@peteh4355]

@@DiMono Also, just because he did not show any pain does not mean he wasn't in great pain... At that moment he was focused on snapping away Thanos in the middle of a war, he probably had lots of adrenline pumping through him and was able to ignore the pain from touching the stones.

[@DiMono]

@@peteh4355 Except it wasn't just visible pain, you could see visually the effect the glove was having on him. IIRC Hulk's entire arm was visually affected by it, all the way up to his neck. That's not a pain you shrug off.

[@digitalnaf1907]

You're all wrong. Try reading the comics. Nebula undoes her fathers work and it is Adam Warlock that kills Thanos. Damn mainstream bitches.

[@danielbray3494]

An Infinity Clapper would be funny. Clap On! *Clap clap*

[@Antyla]

"The entire time I knew him, he only ever had one goal: To wipe out half the universe. If he gets all the Infinity Stones... he can do it with the clap of his hands. Just like that." 👏 ...... "You should... you should have gone for the head..." 👏 ..... "I... am... Iron Man..." 👏

[@ADCVr]

meme review... oh sorry

[@lmohammed5446]

I thought you ment ass clap

[@channonikelman2041]

Yo mama so fat, Thanos had to clap.

[@megaraphoenix]

So what about the other heroes in the area? Did they get a lethal dose or did Tony ensure that with his snap that everyone was protected too, assuming he knew about the radiation thing?

[@TLZ]

So do we think that this amount of energy compressed into the time it takes to snap might be why a snap is the trigger? In order to have the power to do what the gauntlet does, perhaps the energy NEEDS to be super compressed into the time frame of a snap.

[@djsonicc]

Chernobyl and Fukushima workers: we took on huge amounts of radiation Tony Stark: watch this

[@ren-pf6mr]

tony: hold my reactor

[@Ascalis1]

Hold my... bohrium?

[@allansouza9834]

Tony Stark: You're like a baby watch this

[@jong2359]

Infinity Gauntlet: Enough power to wipe 50% of all life from the universe on a molecular level. Not enough power to save the molecules of the user?

[@theelephantintheroom69]

I think a good explanation is that all the energy of the snap goes into the wearer's body. That'd explain the damage to their arms after snapping and also the streams of energy entering their body up the arm from the gauntlet as the set of stones is complete. It would also explain why no one in the room was killed by the Hulk's snap.

[@maltazor666]

This was really nice! So, in theory, the Flash could put the gauntlet on (eh, we make him ware a special suit), snaps his fingers and then, very quickly removes the gauntlet and runs for it. He would probably survive, yes? On a different note, does it bother anyone else that the time stone and the space stone are two different entities?

[@johnymustacio]

no, snaping involves channaling power from the gountlet in order to make what ever you want hapen... for thet matter, even putting on the gountlet channels a portion of its energy into the user. thats the pount where. even that part might hav3 been lethal for tony.

[@dimitriskotsifis4047]

I wanted F.R.I.D.A.Y. to call him point break

[@HistoryUnwound]

Wouldn't a flash of radiation that strong have killed everyone in the battlefield?

[@nordoceltic7225]

Yup, probably everybody within 10 miles at utter minimum would have gotten a lethal dose. Its what 100,000x the 100% lethal dose for humans? Inverse squares or not, everybody there save Hulk would be fucked.

[@axisz7411]

I think the suit took lots of energy and radiation

[@FierceDeity35]

@@axisz7411 yeah, we've seen the suit take thors lightning, so it's not that unreasonable for the suit to absorb gamma

[@deaclavilis6760]

I think the force of gauntlet internally tears apart the wear (probably at cellular level) this is why Tony is dead. Tony is an already dead man walking when he put the stones into his gauntlet model.

[@NotBudds]

Mr Stark, we don't feel so good.

[@marbenmin5878]

That comment you made about the hero that started it all dying to end a saga at the very beginning has me terrified for the next MCU saga as Peter Parker has started that saga...PLEASE DON'T LET MY BEAUTIFUL BOY SPIDER-MAN DIE!

[@ziasteele9332]

Maybe the gauntlet warps spacetime is the inverse square law changes and the wavelength of radiation is exponentially increases as you get only slightly further from the source. Also not all of the continent-lighting energy was in the radiation but mostly what the snaps were each meant to accomplish.

[@Somerandom1922]

Few things. Because the gauntlet performed appreciable work on Thanos' army (dustification) we can conclude that some of the energy didn't go straight into Gamma rays. We can also assume that some of the energy went into other wavelengths of light (however according to prof. hulk a majority of the energy comes off as Gamma Rays). So let's assume that only 51% of the energy of a snap is emitted as gamma rays. Another huge point is that the snap only affected Thanos' army, not half of all life in the universe. Let's assume worst case scenario with the original snap used the full output of the gauntlet... and because frankly it's hard to get a number for "Half of all life in the universe" let's just put the number at 5 Trillion life forms (In IW someone says "Killing Trillions") and assume that they, on average, require perhaps 10% of the amount of energy to dustify an average soldier in that final battle (soldiers being bigger and stronger than most life forms and this also includes beings like leviathans, those giant Chitauri and Thanos himself. Also, (because we don't have enough ridiculous assumptions) let's say that Thanos' army in the final battle consists of 10,000 soldiers (This may be a bit off but frankly, given the numbers here, it hardly matters) Now time for math. The original Snap used 54*10^9 J to wipe out 5*10^12 life forms. releasing 1,000,000 Sieverts of radiation. This has an astonishing efficiency of 92.5 Joules per thousand life forms, To put that in perspective 1 Joule is the amount of energy required to accelerate a 1 kg mass at 1 m/s^2 (~ 0.1 g) through a distance of 1 m. So to turn 1,000 life forms to dust, it took just slightly more energy than it takes to keep a relatively low power (1 Watt) LED on for a minute and a half. This also means that each life form dusted takes 0.0108 J, this is a minute amount of energy. Tony's snap, in this case, uses: Total Energy = (energy per victim) * (num soldier) * (the 10X multiplier because soldiers are harder to kill) Total Energy = 0.0108 * 10,000 * 10 Total Energy = 1080 J Unfortunately, we aren't done because I assumed that a snap would actually emit only 51% of its energy as Gamma rays as opposed to the full 100% This means that the energy required to actually kill an average life form is actually at most ~0.0054j Ok, so in the original calculation, with 1,000,000 Sieverts of Gamma radiation emitted, we end up with: Total Radiation = (Original Radiation) * (The fraction of energy released as Gamma Radiation) * ((Tony's Snap energy)/(Original Snap energy)) Total Radiation = 1,000,000 * 0.51 * (1080/54*10^9) Total Radiation = 0.0102 Sieverts Or roughly 10.2 millisieverts (note, I'm assuming that the radiation that's given off scales directly and linearly with the amount of energy used) Really only enough to slightly increase Tony's risk of cancer. Even if I'm wrong in this by two orders of magnitude (entirely possible), Tony still shouldn't have died so quickly. Because he did, however, we can assume that the statement of "as much energy as a continent" is incorrect and this makes sense as the only way to properly measure the amount of energy given off is to have accurate measurement tools next to Thanos when he made the original snap.... which they didn't. So what does this all mean? Everyone in Wakanda that didn't get dusted dies of cancer due to the insane radiation emitted when Thanos did the original snap. It also means I've spent way too much over analysing this... :D

[@rube9169]

That was pretty amazing actually. If you were able to come up with that analysis on your own, it is safe to say Marvel (or at least the producers of End Game) did not spend enough time on this to put an accurate energy analogy in Mark Ruffalo's script, lol. Also according to your calculations, Hulk DEFINITELY shouldn't have had his arm so badly damaged, even if your calculations were WAY underestimating. Your calculations also make me think, the power of all the combined infinity stones is pretty underwhelming, actually... oh well. Either that or life is way too easy to extinguish! XD

[@Somerandom1922]

@@rube9169 My headcanon is that the estimate that the hulk gave out isn't the max output of the infinity stones which should, in theory, be infinite. Instead, it's either the power output of a continent for a whole year. or it statically puts out that much power, however, that static output is mostly in forms that don't really interact with people (e.g. low energy radio waves, some visible light and a whole bunch of neutrinos) so it wouldn't really matter. Then when it gets used for an actual purpose the output skyrockets and because of the greater energies involved it gets converted to higher energy wavelengths like gamma rays.

[@louisfrancisco2171]

You're making an assumption Kyle did too: that being able to power a continent means it releases that amount of energy as (mostly) gamma rays when you use the gauntlet. If that was the case, then it would be completely useless for anything but releasing gamma rays. "It could power a continent" only means that you *could* power a continent if you wanted to.

[@jaserart]

...that or simply the glove uses the same energy for any task.

[@louisfrancisco2171]

@@jaserart That would mean it would be more dangerous to use it for moving one gram of matter than to eradicate half the life in the universe.

[@plague6716]

Avengers were close to hulk when he snapped. They should die too if your theory is correct

[@dacosmicraccoon8467]

No cuz logic

[@nathanaelfergie2579]

They were using shield when the snap happened.

[@plague6716]

@@nathanaelfergie2579 a simple shield wouldn't prevent a small nuclear bomb next to you

[@redeadbone9007]

@@plague6716 hey *AVENGERS LOGICCC*

[@miniaizen3222]

Kirai thor was right in front of thanos when he snapped in infinity war but only thanos was hurt, so might only hurt the user

[@seanbiggs1827]

I'm pretty sure that the gauntlet was radiating the continent powering levels when it was inert. It seems to spike once it's equipped and spikes to unfathomable levels when activated.

[@coryflys]

I think it could also be more than that too. Remember all the lightning and energy that fries Hulk and Thanos whenever they put on the stones. It nearly kills them. Could be a deeper cause to this but also a better solution to stopping the radiation and using the stones to there full potential without being critically injured or dying.

[@kimschroder9354]

But Tony's Snap wasn't like Thanos or Hulks snap, because it was only concerning the Army of Thanos. So there would be less radiation, since there is less Power needed to dust an Army, than half the universe.

[@Grayson.P]

The radiation output would be the same: its not the mafnitude of what yoy made happen, it is simply the stones making it hapen that releases the radiation.

[@kimschroder9354]

@@Grayson.P I'm not sure about that. We see thanos using all six stones against Thor simply projecting energy, and it does nothing to his arm, only as he snaps does he get injured by the gauntlet. That would lead me to believe it's also dependent on the magnitude...

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Kim Schröder Tony said it was releasing THAT energy, although I think Kyle got it wrong sooooo.... whatevs

[@erkolgames7368]

I think it's a fair assumption because thanos was in a much worse state after using the stones to destroy them then to kill half the universe, meaning he got hurt more when he did something "harder" which may explain how tony just started dying and didn't got instantly fried.

[@joshuaarnett762]

It seems the radiation doesn't spread, it just hits Tony.

[@deeeenisttv]

I'm pretty sure the radiation was spreading itself around Tony's armour

[@joshuaarnett762]

@@deeeenisttv I mean those levels of radiation would kill many people if it spread, so I don't think so. Otherwise the other Avengers would be in trouble

[@VoltisArt]

Don't forget plot armor. Batman isn't the only expert in that craft.

[@sechsauge]

7:49 raises the question if the flash would be able to snap and run for it without dying.

[@dustinfowler6440]

Ur outro answered my question

[@justalog7475]

What the 1 that Dr. strange sign stands for: Tony, steal the stones, captain marvel is up there, she can handle the snap Tony: *Snaps* Strange: WTF?

[@ikaro342]

@Spooky Boi ooor... He's making a joke. Dude, really.

[@zrampagegaming2674]

How do u even know marvel could have handled the snap plus by your logic she should have put it on once she got hold of the glove and snap it all away

[@Senku_014]

Spooky Boi r/whoooosh

[@Senku_014]

ZRampage Gaming r/whoooosh

[@zboy1152]

ZRampage Gaming r/woooosh

[@dillonrodriquez9873]

If magneto was a part of the mcu he could have thrown the gauntlet into the sky (100s of meters away) and snap it safely

[@dwightsimmons99]

Yess

[@omegaheartless]

Yeah, and he'd have killed both Thanos, his army, and then every non-mutant on Earth! Good trade off, I guess.

[@Astraeus..]

Wouldn't work. If that theory were workable then Tony would be alive, and Banner wouldn't have had to take the arm burn. Basically all the Iron Man armor from IM3 onward can be operated WITHOUT Tony actually being in it. The glove he builds is obviously tech like his suit. Thus he could have had everyone evacuate THEN seal the room, connect with the neural link and snap the glove remotely. The Stones almost surely require a direct physical connection to the user in order to work. If it worked at a distance you'd run into the potential that the Stones might be able to read what EVERYBODY was wishing for at the time, and that would get messy in a hurry.

[@jhayanraeperalta6862]

What's the gauntlet made of? Gold?,titanium?,tungsten?

[@retrospace2150]

@Hilbert França nah its the same material as Thor's Stormbreaker

[@fehmeh6292]

The movies have repeatedly demonstrated that it goes mostly into the body rather than disperse into area, other than some light. Measure the energy of stones work done for recreating all that biomass rather than specifically what kind of voltage the glove has when NOT IN USE. That is just the power running through gauntlet when minimally interfacing with stones, which can be held normally without issue. They seem to be their own insulators and transistors.