By wearing the gauntlet you must snap your fingers.
The comic series never required snapping of the fingers.
Ironman could have instantly healed then erase the bad guys.
Very true. In the original comics, after the Infinity Gauntlet, Adam Warlock purged good and evil from himself without even realizing it.
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