Sword for Thanos

[Captain Smith]

It's Endgame. Instead of Mjolnir for Cap, the Scarlet Witch summons a magic sword for Cap - which he is fully able to use. Negative side effects not an issue in the fight.

Pick a sword or suggest one that might might a difference and a quick takedown. I'll make two suggestions:

1. Tessaiga
2. Stormbringer

Results for these and others? Here's some: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_sword

[Sharpandpointies]

Changeling is a possibility.

Unless Thanos has his Infinity Gauntlet up and running, Changeling casts him into a gate through time and space that has no terminus. The person is therefore forever lost in a 'non-state' of sorts -- they're gone, not just somewhere else, but gone. They're not thinking any more, they're not being any more (hence, Thanos can't actually activate his gauntlet once 'struck' by Changeling).

I'll warrant that with the Space gem and Time gem active, Thanos can likely do something about this, but if they're not actually running, he's gone.

....granted, so is the gauntlet.

[BitVyper]

He's fully able to use it? Give him the Sword of Grayskull.

[The Watcher]

The Edge of Light and Darkness: Older than the deities, it's not so much a sword as the primal division of the Is and the Not in sword form. With it one can potentially cut anything from anything. A man from his shadow. The sores from a leper while leaving him whole. The life from a person while leaving them physically unmarked. A Realm into its most basic elements.

Basically, if there was an Infinity Stone of Separating, it would be this artifact.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

What's that one we're always trying to trick Pendaran into using ?

I suggest that one.

[Oswin]

nobody mentioning the twelve swords of power? for shame

[Username taken]

The Edge of Light and Darkness: Older than the deities, it's not so much a sword as the primal division of the Is and the Not in sword form. With it one can potentially cut anything from anything. A man from his shadow. The sores from a leper while leaving him whole. The life from a person while leaving them physically unmarked. A Realm into its most basic elements.

Basically, if there was an Infinity Stone of Separating, it would be this artifact.

Where is this sword featured?

Sounds like an interesting story.

[big_adventure]

Dragnipur, if Cap can hit Thanos with it. It's just fine and dandy killing and soul-trapping dudes who operate on a higher level than Thanos.

Oswin mentioned the 12 swords of power - Doomgiver, Shieldbreaker, Mindsword, Soulcutter are all pretty easy wins, and Townsaver might do the deal.

[The Watcher]

Where is this sword featured?

Sounds like an interesting story.

It's from the Spherewalker Sourcebook, a supplement for a tabletop rpg called Everway.

[Lord Falcon]

Changeling is a possibility.

Unless Thanos has his Infinity Gauntlet up and running, Changeling casts him into a gate through time and space that has no terminus. The person is therefore forever lost in a 'non-state' of sorts -- they're gone, not just somewhere else, but gone. They're not thinking any more, they're not being any more (hence, Thanos can't actually activate his gauntlet once 'struck' by Changeling).

I'll warrant that with the Space gem and Time gem active, Thanos can likely do something about this, but if they're not actually running, he's gone.

....granted, so is the gauntlet.

But the gate...is itself...the terminus...*head asplodes*

[Sharpandpointies]

But the gate...is itself...the terminus...*head asplodes*

Changeling is weird. It's not its own terminus. Gates in this universe have another gate to which they are linked through both space and time (sometimes many, and the user can program the one to which they want to travel). You step into the gate, and you are between. Then, instantly from your point of view, you are out the other side.

Now, gates CAN have themselves as their own destination. This is explicit in the series; Morgaine uses one to escape pursuers before the series starts, programming it to 'aim' at itself and also programming it to 'open' when it is disturbed. She then rides through it. Her pursuers, superstitious people with no knowledge of gates who think this is sorcery, back the heck off and nobody ever comes into this area again (because the gate is active, and looks scary to the culture -- they call it 'witchfires', as I recall). When the series starts, the central narrator (Vanye), outlawed, is hunting in the area. He hits a deer with an arrow, and the wounded animal runs through the gate (normally animals wouldn't go NEAR such a thing). This triggers it, and Morgaine rides out, decades after she rode in.

For her, it seems as if no time has passed. She steps through the gate and it's decades later, and winter. There's no thinking between. There's no being.

Changeling is a gate in the shape of a sword, a gate that leads to nowhere.

It has no destination. Anyone touched or caught in the winds of the gate (Vanye has 'caught' a group of riders and their horses with a single 'swing' of the sword) is instantly dragged in and sent between...to nowhere (they basically stay between). From the universe's perspective, they cease to exist. From their own perspective, they do not exist (there is no existence between gates, so they're not 'frozen in time' or 'paralyzed but still aware' or anything of the sort). Essentially, they become potential without the capacity to ever realize that potential. One might call this obliteration, and one wouldn't be too far off.

Darned thing is as bad as Stormbringer in its own way; it's not sentient, but it's indiscriminate and area affecting, and in the chaos of combat this can be deadly. It doesn't help that just holding the thing when it's drawn is exhausting (gate-force is enervating). Morgaine is pretty darned specific about where she wants Vanye to take a stand in a fight (he protects her left), and Vanye is darned careful about that, and about telling their allies where to stand as well. Nevertheless, the sword has consumed several of their allies over the course of the series.

[T51R]

I'd just be a dick and get Wanda to give Steve VOLTRON'S SWORD...