Why can't you just wipe out half the universe permenantly and make the stakes real. It's a Chekovs gun. If you make a device that's capable of wiping out the universe at some point you got to massacre big chunks of the universe. Otherwise the Villans aren't real threats and it's just Dragon Ball Z style continuous power ups. Where the universe stands today would have been a great place to continue to tell stories from if they chose to kill different heroes.
Given that they killed Spider-Man, Black Panther and Star Lord we know they aren't permenantly dead, it's no different than sucking them into the stone. We know they comeback, and what we know as viewers is more important than what the heroes know. They chose to pick 3 unkillable heroes as opposed to guys on the bubble.
What I do like is that the Captain Marvel movie will exist in the post Thanos universe based on the end credits scene. The more we inhabit that universe the more real it becomes. I'm interested to see in Ant-man and the wasp touches on it too.
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