Post by Uatu the Watcher on Feb 12, 2007 18:30:23 GMT -5
The Infinity Gauntlet
Thanos uses his new power to kill half of the living beings in the Universe in an attempt to please Death. In response, many of the most powerful superheroes unite to battle Thanos for control over the Gauntlet and the Universe. Fortunately, Thanos is finally defeated by Adam Warlock, and Warlock himself becomes temporary wielder of the Gauntlet and its power. In the aftermath, the Living Tribunal decides that the Infinity Gauntlet is too powerful an item in the hands of Adam Warlock, who is clearly not of a sound mind (due to his decision to expel both Good and Evil from his being in order to become a "perfect" God) and unable to handle the powers granted by the Infinity Gauntlet: he acts violently against the court of the Living Tribunal, behaving unfit for one in his station. Therefore, the Living Tribunal uses their powers to make the gems unable to function together, preventing anyone from achieving omnipotence by possessing all of the Gems, and the Infinity Gems are once again separated and given to six different bearers, forming the new Infinity Watch. It is revealed that Warlock and the Infinity Watch that the Living Tribunal has command of even more power than the wielder of the Infinity Gauntlet; he reverses one of Adam Warlock's godly outbursts with but a thought; earlier, in The Infinity Gauntlet, the Tribunal implied that the only reason that he didn't interfere with Thanos' possession of the Gauntlet was because Thanos didn't seek to upset the Universal Balance.
Thanos uses his new power to kill half of the living beings in the Universe in an attempt to please Death. In response, many of the most powerful superheroes unite to battle Thanos for control over the Gauntlet and the Universe. Fortunately, Thanos is finally defeated by Adam Warlock, and Warlock himself becomes temporary wielder of the Gauntlet and its power. In the aftermath, the Living Tribunal decides that the Infinity Gauntlet is too powerful an item in the hands of Adam Warlock, who is clearly not of a sound mind (due to his decision to expel both Good and Evil from his being in order to become a "perfect" God) and unable to handle the powers granted by the Infinity Gauntlet: he acts violently against the court of the Living Tribunal, behaving unfit for one in his station. Therefore, the Living Tribunal uses their powers to make the gems unable to function together, preventing anyone from achieving omnipotence by possessing all of the Gems, and the Infinity Gems are once again separated and given to six different bearers, forming the new Infinity Watch. It is revealed that Warlock and the Infinity Watch that the Living Tribunal has command of even more power than the wielder of the Infinity Gauntlet; he reverses one of Adam Warlock's godly outbursts with but a thought; earlier, in The Infinity Gauntlet, the Tribunal implied that the only reason that he didn't interfere with Thanos' possession of the Gauntlet was because Thanos didn't seek to upset the Universal Balance.