#I’ve been plagued by that thought since….maybe before I watched the Barbie movie? hmm.

[oops-all-stephen]

Early last year, when I was first getting into the MCU, my main objective was simply to watch every movie that Stephen was in. The rest I could watch later, if I was interested enough.

So, anyway, of course I noticed the lack of cheese-gloves in every one of Stephen’s appearances…. except, of course, Thor Ragnarok.

And I, with all the very little knowledge of Marvel lore that I had, thought I was sooooo smart because I watched that scene between Stephen and Thor and those yellow gloves and thought:

Ahhh, of course! The writers are such geniuses! Stephen, being a very powerful sorcerer as he is, is obviously attuned to certain aspects of people that aren’t necessarily physical or visible to the naked eye. He can sense auras, he seems to display clairvoyance to some extent even without the use of the Time Stone when he shakes Thor’s hand…. it’s no wonder he wears those gloves! Stephen is disabled and still JUST getting used to being disabled (and a sorcerer!) It’s been roughly a year since he had those metal pins inserted into his hands. And Thor is the God of Thunder, and while not necessarily the god of, like, weather or even “storms” in general, the heavy pressure of storm clouds is almost oppressive especially when you’re constantly flying through them and also directly causing them, right?

What if that’s his aura? What if that oppressive, heavy, barometric pressure follows Thor around even when he’s not shooting lightning from the heavens? Wouldn’t that feel…. extremely painful to somebody who’s only just getting used to his bones being held together by tiny shards of metal? Painful to someone who was born for the mystic arts despite still being, essentially, a novice to sorcery during the events of that movie?

I was so certain that the only time we see Stephen with those beautiful dishwashing gloves (I love them dearly) was because he was protecting his hands from Thor’s whole… just…. Everything. And that’s why we don’t see them again in any of his other appearances featuring Marvel characters who,,,, don’t quite carry the smothering pressure of brewing storm clouds around their person wherever they go……

But no, it really was just a wardrobe choice.