It always bothers me that nobody ever really criticizes the enormous failure of thanos’s imagination and his enslavement to a scarcity mindset.
Why not just snap your fingers and double the resources available?
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Nobody?
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In the movie, presumably, where they object to the genocide but never point out it also doesn’t make any sense. Lots of people out here have said as much.
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Lots of people noted that, both in the real world and in-universe. But it’s hard to reason with someone who is literally known as “The Mad Titan.”
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I guess I don’t read enough MCU discourse - I have not really seen much of it. Of course it is really only a movie thing, I think? In the comics it has to be killing a lot of people because he is trying to impress a girl, right?
Yeah the movies were basically trying to make Thanos a more interesting character by giving him an arguably laudable goal even if his methods were monstrous. It only kinda half-worked though because, as you say, the plan was both based on a faulty premise and didn’t really make sense.
That’s one of the things I liked about the “What If…” series; someone finally got it through his thick purple noggin that killing half the universe was a dumb-ass approach to resource management.
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Because he didn’t actually give a shit about saving resources… he just wanted to murder half the population of the universe…
Every single person who drove a nation or group of people to genocide proclaim that they have “laudable goals”… Save the Germans, save the Cambodians, save the Serbs, save the Croats, save the Hutu, save the real Americans… They all claim to be “saving” someone, but the idea that thousands or millions need to die to save others is just an excuse to justify their bloodlust.
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Laudable in the sense that “I want to reduce suffering by ending want” is a more compelling character motivation than “I want to murder half the universe to impress that sexy lady Death.” Either way he’s a psychotic mass-murdering maniac.
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Lithen you guyth, theriouthly. if he hath the reality thtone, then he can just make you think he’th making the thnap thound. Jethus, tho obviouth.
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Thanks I hate it.
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I think we can all agree that “I want to kill half the universe so I can fuck Death Incarnate, who is a sexy lady” is a much more relatable and plot-hole-free goal than “Save the universe by killing half of it instead of just doubling it.”
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To be fair, I would consider killing half the universe to be able to have lunch with Death of the Endless. I wouldn’t do it, but it would for sure be considered for a moment before I went with “No”.
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Well, yeah, but his motivation could just be “i like to murder and here are some handy excuses to make it okay”… seems far more likely to me, whatever the plot justification…
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we all get to meet her eventually.
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Really???
It’s a fantasy movie based on a comic book…
With all the far fetched way out there stuff in this movie
You are going to say the climax of the movie couldn’t have really happened because you don’t think it possible to finger snap while wearing the gauntlet…
You realize that the snap is from the comics and was merely Thanos being dramatic basically saying I Thanos am the most powerful being in existence look at what I can do with as little effort of a finger snap…
It wasn’t meant to be a necessary action to operate the gauntlet…
Obviously it was decided the snap from The comics had to be in the movie, sadly it wasn’t written into the script very well…
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