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[MCU] A question about punching someone with an Infinity Stone

As we saw in Endgame when Thanos was on the verge of being overpowered by Captain Marvel he took the unexpected measure of extracting the Power Stone from the Gauntlet and using it to punch her away. Was using the Power Stone his only possible play, or could he have broken the stalemate by grabbing and somehow using a different Stone in that moment?
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For a nigh-immortal space genius, Thanos really likes to solve his problems via brute force.

He gets clever when he doesn't feel threatened, like turning stuff into bubbles or reducing people to sentient cubes of flesh, but Thanos is, more than anything else, a warlord, and that means his instinct is to rely on violence and raw power, not cleverness.

Assuming you're powerful enough to wield it, holding *an* Infinity Stone makes you one if, if not the, most powerful individuals in the universe. Having more than one puts you pretty close to the "unbeatable" category.

But you have to be smart about it. If your ego gets in the way, if you want to prove that you're the strongest, baddest mother fucker to ever decimate a planet, someone smart will be able to use that against you.

And Thanos is all about ego. He made a big speech about how the universe was ungrateful for his "gift", and how he was going to set things right this time. He is a megalomaniac, and he *needs* to prove that he's the strongest there is.

So when he's faced with someone who might be as powerful as he is? Power Stone. To him, there's no other option.