The Infinity Gauntlet...runs the gauntlet
TOAA has decreed, for his own personal reasons, that the gems work again in unison, and that the gauntlet must be held by someone.
Eternity has rounded up individuals he thinks may ultimately be self-defeating in nature, thus increasing the chances that he himself ends up with the gauntlet.
Oblivion however has no interest in Eternity reigning supreme over existence and has produced his own list of candidates that he thinks will serve his own ends.
They present them to the Living Tribunal, who heard the call for adjudication and came. LT will make the final say in who holds the gauntlet. He will use the cases of Thanos, Nebula, and Adam Warlock as prescedence in his ruling.
The candidates are (in no particular order)
1. Magneto
2. Captain America
3. Silver Surfer
4. Kang
5. Reed Richards
6. Professor Xavier
7. Dr. Doom
8. Mephisto
9. Annihilus
10. Odin
11. Apocalypse
12. Hank Pym
Eternity will argue that LT should reject the likes of annihilus and doom, etc..
Oblivion will argue that LT should reject the likes of Hank Pym and Silver Surfer, etc.
After listening to their arguments, and bearing in mind that LT let Thanos and Nebual retain the gauntlet but opposed Adam Warlock...who gets awarded omnipotence?