>>106428855>he was holding back the whole time because he actually wanted to loose but tried to convince himself he wanted to win that's why he used the gauntlet while fighting?"He" being Thanos, correct?
I don't know how you'd conceive that he was holding back. Are you referring to the movies leading up to IW, or just questioning why he didn't fight without the Gauntlet at all?
To me he seemed to be slaved to the pursuit of halving the universal population. Everything he did he did to accomplish that. Regardless of how powerful he was that was always his ultimate pursuit. What I would wager though is that he was powerful enough to subjugate the Chitauri, Loki, Ronan and his forces, the Black Order, and their faceless forces of monsters without a single stone, to the degree that it was only after Loki and Ronan got one of their own that they thought to step out of line, and in Ronan's case, Thanos didn't look shaken by his threat. With that said, while the Gauntlet looked busted at the end of IW, it might still have some functionality, and who knows what abilities Thanos can still get out of it.
