To clarify: I dont think Shuri would be incapable of eventually figuring out time travel. The point I'm disagreeing with was the earlier claim that she is flat out /more/ intelligent than Stark. Which based on feats just doesn't stack up.
To clarify: I dont think Shuri would be incapable of eventually figuring out time travel. The point I'm disagreeing with was the earlier claim that she is flat out /more/ intelligent than Stark. Which based on feats just doesn't stack up.
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As I've clarified, I am fine with saying Shuri could eventually figure it out. I was simply contending the "she's smarter" claim.
Also, just to be clear, I think Shuri is a fantastic character. I very much enjoyed her roles so far in the MCU.
I am curious though why you feel her unfettered access to super sci fi metals and a greater baseline tech wouldnt be huge boons for Stark if he were to have had them?
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That would be another thread topic: If Shuri and Tony's places were switched, could Tony remove the Mind Gem from Vision?
I'm a little bummed that we didn't get to see them meet. Shuri's intelligent, yes, and I'd like to think that she met with Tony in order to teach him about nano-tech. But what one does with that becomes a different story.
I view Shuri in the same point as Rocket -- Rocket may know more about alien engineering than Tony ("You're only a genius on *this* world"), but Rocket couldn't have built or conceive of that time machine, either. Shuri can create a near perfect holographic interface for a car half a world away, which is incredibly impressive, but Tony would've put armor and offensive/defensive gadgets on that car, too. Foresight is a component of intelligence.
And Shuri could become smarter than Tony, but I'm going to chalk that up to age and inexperience. I'm cool with giving her time, as she's a very fun character (and imo, more fun than Tony).
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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Janet is, quite literally, the person who brought up the concept of time vortexes first in the MCU.
She also came out with an intimate knowledge of Quantum energy - to the point that she knew how to heal Ava Starr, without there being any feasible reason for her to know that. She just knew. Because 30 years in the Quantum Realm.
But this, in itself, is an event that happens in a different MCU timeline to the one we saw. This isn't what happened in the movies, so it's not part of the same timeline we've seen in the movies. Ergo, Strange probably saw different outcomes in this timeline. He saw 14,000,605 in the original timeline, but that's not EVERY outcome he could possibly have seen.
In this timeline, he wouldn't have seen the timeline in which Tony Stark carried out the snap and stopped at that one, because Tony Stark wasn't destined to survive the snap here.
Strange would have looked into the future, seen a completely different set of outcomes, and stopped at one in which this set of survivors pull out a win.
It makes no sense at all for things to happen the way they did - Strange handing over the Time Stone so the time heist can happen - if it doesn't actually end up happening.
We literally can't have got to a point in which the snap happened without Strange having the situation in hand.
I've already explained this.
Shuri + Wakanda's geniuses could potentially have pulled it off.
With Shuri and Wanda left alive, Vision would likely be brought back to life without the Mind Stone. Given that he was specifically created using elements of Stark and Banner's minds - two people who mastered time travel tech - there's no reason he couldn't have used the knowledge he inherited from them to assist in mastering time travel.
Strange would still be alive. He has a library of unused spells to tap into - some of which could potentially involve time shenanigans.
Fury would still be alive. He seemed to have a plan for everything. Perhaps he could have pulled something out of his ass to help - even if it was just to give a fancy piece of tech to someone a lot cleverer than he is.
Selvig would still be alive. Selvig was able to create a portal to the other end of space back in 2012. With the further knowledge he'd have accumulated working with the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D., adding his mind to that of Shuri's Strange's magic is a potent combination.
I didn't claim it, I said that it had been stated. Hence the word "apparently".
As in the Russo Brothers have "confirmed" she's the smartest person in the MCU. "Canonically", in their words.
They did eventually walk back that comment and say they simply had different specialties.
I dunno. She talks like a Mary Sue, but she hasn't actually succeeded at all that much. She never actually managed to free Vision from the gem, for example. Her completely silent sneakers weren't actually silent. It would be different if she were kicking all sorts of ass and pulling focus away from T'Challa, but in practice she's just been a mouthy version of Q. Which, come to think of it, is just plain Q, since Q has always been mouthy. So no, I wouldn't say she's a Mary Sue.
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1) Janet healed Ghost the same way she healed Hank the same way she adapted/evolved to live in the Quantum Realm without phasing and going mad, she doesn't have some magical knowledge of how to time travel via Pym particle or else she wouldn't have warned Scott to stay away from said vortexes as they explicitly couldn't save him. I just watched the scene in question, and knowing time and space work funny when you're shrunk that small doesn't give her the ability to time travel or the idea to use it to travel in time like skipping 5 years with Scott did.
2) If Strange had learned any spells regarding time they'd have involved the Time Stone since they've had said stone for generations, and as his vision of the future only worked if he told no-one (Unchanged from Movie) he can't inspire Time Travel directly either. As I've said, their best bet is tracking down Thanos before he snaps away the stones if they've the might to take them with who they have left. BTW given that Steven is still human and can be wrong or interfere/fail to interfere in a way that results in everything going pear shaped, simply seeing 1 chance in over 14 million doesn't ensure it will happen.
3) However smart they are, if they don't get the inspiration to use Pym particles for time travel there's no Time Heist and I still don't see how.
Besides, Hank Pym wins as smartest.
He essentially invented a cure to world hunger, storage concerns, garbage shrinkage, shipping, et...
The practical applications of Pym particles is staggering. He made magic essentially.
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