Note that this is actually an explicit difference in the MCU -- in Endgame, a non-gauntleted Thanos breaks the shield with a regular blow from his sword (presumably made vibranium or other special space metal)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
In the comics, Captain America's shield breaking is always an extremely big fucking deal involving some kind of cosmic reality warping Thanos was able to shatter it only by punching it with the Infinity Gauntlet (as a demonstration of the Gauntlet's omnipotence)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
There's a really cool moment in the What If? where Reed Richards is too late and Galactus succeeds in eating Earth Captain America says he'll stand up to him with nothing but his strength and his shield and Galactus scoffs, picks up him and crushes him in his fist
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And with the Power Cosmic Steve Rogers is instantly annihilated, but the shield remains And Galactus goes "What -- this shield -- strange -- " and holds the tiny thing between the tips of his fingers and thumbs and tries vainly to bend it in half
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
"Curious... well, no matter" And flicks it away into the stars It's a pretty awesome note for giving the Marvel universe this bittersweet tragic ending
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
You could* incorporate adamantium as-it-exists in the comics by having someone decide to make Cap's shield stronger *because* it was broken in the MCU, come up with the comic version of the shield, and then invent adamantium the same way *easily, but why, except fanservice
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Although I have to admit I always liked the plot point that the shield is immune to just about any force in the universe. It was a neat constant in the comics.
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What would an actual indestructible object be like? The go to thing to do is consider how it violates the laws of thermodynamics and of course it violates all of them right away. I'm not sure it would be like anything because being like something would allow you to destroy it.
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It's not ABSOLUTELY indestructible it's just that when it gets destroyed it's because some kind of big whole cosmic thing happened
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tuplet and
The first time it got destroyed was during the Secret Wars, when Dr. Doom used his Gary Stu powers of trickery to steal the Beyonder's powers, making him effectively omnipotent in the Beyonder's realm
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Then when the Beyonder got his powers back and restored Steve's shield so he could send all the heroes and villains back to their proper place in the universe with nothing changed, he was sloppy and left "one molecule out of place"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tuplet and
(He was also too sloppy to notice Spider-Man had bonded to a horrific evil alien parasite from the planet Klymtar, but you know)
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That one misaligned molecule meant that a serious instability was growing throughout the shield's "vibranium matrix" every time Steve used it thereafter, until one day he just drops it and it shatters
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