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[MCU]Why didn't Doctor Strange use the Time Stone to go back in time and hide the Infinity Stones better, or to kill Thanos at a more convenient time in the past or using the Time Stone's time manipulation powers dump Thanos into the end of the universe or freeze him in time forever?

Any issues of "But Thanos has an Infinity Stone so the Time Stone does not work!" are neutered if Strange goes back far enough that Thanos has none and then, he can use his time control powers to fuck Thanos up good.


If the movie ending was the "only way forward" then why not just change the past?  And as we saw with vision, the Time Stone absolutely can work on the others.  If Thanos getting them all was "inevitable" for some reason because he was a badass and would never quit, why not freeze him in time forever or freeze him for a few moments then dump him in another dimension or dump him at the end of the universe?  Or freeze him for a short time, then dump him into intergalactic space.  Or into a sun.  He isn't a god, dropping him into a sun or black hole would get the job done.


We see in Doctor Strange's movie that the stone can manipulate limited areas, so it only effecting the whole universe is a non-issue.
gpt
People were freaking out about Strange using the stone to go back 10 minutes, you're talking about going back years or at least months. By the time Strange was aware of Thanos's plans billions had already died, it's not entirely clear to me how those people can be brought back without at least the soul stone though presumably people were brought back by Strange's shorter rewind as well.