If you have the power of reality, spacetime, the mind, etc., surely you could snap in more fresh water, food, metals, plants, etc.? Was he just stubborn and didn’t want to let go the idea he proposed on his home planet?
Also, how does Thanos survive “snapping” but regular people using the power don’t? Does that imply that the type of people on Thanos’ planet is “superior” to everyone else (in my opinion, nobody should survive it because the stones are essentially the power to control every aspect of the universe itself)?
One thing of note, Thanos in Infinity War shows that you could use the stones individually (and also other characters, like Vision using it as his brain/the power source for his thinking bits and Dr Strange using the time stone to manipulate time) and that doesn’t kill Thanos or any other character it seems. Why is that, are the stones meant to be more powerful together? Also, what happened to all the stones, were they all returned to their hiding place (and if so, why weren’t they used for doing good stuff, like space stone could be used for fast travel, soul stone could bring back the dead, mind stone could solve the mysteries of the universe, reality stone could make awesome virtual reality games…)
And finally, and definitely very important, why is Thanos purple? Seriously though, why? Is it because of the comic books (like Hulk being green), or is there another reason? Did he just need to stand out from everyone else?
What will the movie be then? 3 hours of the Avengers thanking Thanos?
If you want to try and rationalize it, I think he might say that the psychological scarring is necessary for all existing societies to change to more sustainable models, or risk another such culling in the future. Due to exponential growth of life, doubling resources, especially while societies continue to abuse those resources wouldn’t probably wouldn’t do anything long term (in his mind).
I am skeptical if such psychological damage can make enough long term inter generational impact, but hey it’s a theory.
The psychological scarring is an interesting point, but that only works if you know why the snap happened.
By the end of Infinity War most of Thanos’s army and underlings have been defeated. Thanos then (within a few days/weeks) goes into retirement. So he’s not spreading word of his accomplishments or reasoning.
Carol mentions at the start of Endgame that a lot of other worlds need her help. So she could spread some information on what happened, but I’m not sure it’s going to really stick. You need the trauma of Thanos actually showing up (or his underlings and then the Avengers filling in the gaps).
That’s a good point too. Perhaps there’s more interstellar communication going on out there with the likes of Nova Core and other technologically advanced space faring groups that word would spread. Surely people would be curious as hell as to why half of life turned to dust randomly and go looking for answers.
I imagine many societies with no definitive answer would probably end up in religious hysteria.
Before the snap Thanos wasn’t necessarily a secret, he was just slowly but surely culling 50% of people on many worlds, one world at a time. Even nicknamed The Mad Titan. Maybe people would put two and two together.
But yeah, I mean I’m just trying to make excuses for a psychopath’s crazed plan lol, that’s all I got!
They don’t call him the Sane Titan.
And he’s purple because he’s an alien who Jim Starlin gave purple skin.
but why the testicle chin?
Excuse me, the proper term is ball-chinan.
Semantics aside, I believe the correct answer is “ribbed for death’s pleasure”
Too bad she doesn’t want it.
Because the only way Marvel movies know how to ratchet up the stakes is having more and more people die.
So if a new one comes out… everyone needs to die in the marvel universe.
It’s the only logical progression.
After that they’ll have to start killing the audience.
Fortunately there is another universe we can go to. Isn’t the multiverse fun?
I think batman already did that last bit
Because his original motivation was to impress a girl he liked. Death is a hot chick that he was in to but she wasn’t interested in him. So he figured killing half of all life would impress her.
They decided to make his motivation more sympathetic for the movie. They didn’t think through how his new goal could be better served with the godlike powers he gets.
Yeah. He also had an awesome helicopter.
They really should have leaned more into the “Mad” part of The Mad Titan tbh
Back on Titan, Thanos told his people “you need to kill half the population to save our civilization from disaster.” The people of Titan dismissed Thanos as insane. Thanos, being actually insane, decided he was going to prove he was right by going around massacring halves of populations.
In other words, he’s not doing this to actually help anyone, he’s doing it just to prove he was right. Solving the universe’s problems by other means wouldn’t do that so that’s not an acceptable outcome for him.
On doubling the resources, I think that falls into the “obvious, but wrong, answers contain the word ‘just’”.
let’s say you double the resources. without being specific, you just doubled light and the mass of the sun and the mass of the planet and killed everyone.
ok, let’s say you get more specific, drinkable water. double it. in place? there goes every pipe and reservoir on the planet.
plant nutrients? now the concentrations could be toxic for the plants and now they’re dead.
double the asteroid belts? a lot of these species are space faring, after all.
each species and planet would need a custom solution, and that takes work. In addition, the main issue isn’t the availability of resources, it’s how they’re allocated.
just doubling all the resources could end all life in the universe.
Same thing could be said about Thanos just halving the population. You’re making an assessment on your own charitability to the interpretation of the alternative presented, not the alternative itself
oh, I was not implying the snap was a GOOD alternative 😂
In the comics, he was trying to impress his girlfriend, Death.
Thanos is simping for Lady Death who doesn’t give a thought about him at all
No girlfriend. She barely noticed him. The ultimate incel
Much like how they dumbed-down the original story for The Matrix, they decided that a romance with Death wouldn’t sell as many action figures, lego sets and app games I suppose. Gotta keep dem stories 2-dimensional.
Doesn’t Deadpool fit in there too? Amusing cause he’s not in ‘those’ movies. Never read those comics but just reading about Thanos, Deadpool and Death seems neat.
Death doesn’t even notice Thanos exists, but finds Deadpool amusing. Thanos is watching his crush go on dates with the class clown.
plot convenience
With all the food we throw away now, it’s not a resource peoblem anyway. And that’s too much logic for a Disney movie
Fair enough
Because people are annoying AF. Cutting the number of idiots in half was a great move.
You won’t get a satisfying answer to this. It’s because the story had to happen. He’s evil.
The short answer is that they had to come up with something more palatable to a movie audience than “I’m evil and have a crush on the literal Lady of Death.”
Hah, came to comment this. Honestly, the comic got pretty wild, especially once Nebula got a hold of the gauntlet.
Go on
Ok, here is my tl;dr of the last part of the story from the comics. The gist is that after the snap, every remaining hero + Dr Doom do an all out attack on Thanos along with all the “cosmic” super bosses (Galactus, Chaos, Order, all sorta wacky beings) and they were going to win until Doom tried to steal the gauntlet and fucked it up. Thanos kills every hero and traps the all cosmic weirdos and then becomes the new “God” of the universe. When he does that and leaves the gauntlet sitting there, Nebula (that he had been torturing) grabs the gauntlet and tears the whole universe up and takes over. In the end, Dr Strange saves Thanos and convinces him to help fight/trick Nebula and restore the universe. I am sure I missed stuff, but it was pretty crazy. One of the more fun things I remember was Wolverine sticking his claws right into Thanos through the neck and for a sec Thanos thought he was dying until he remembered he could essentially just make himself “not dead” and then he turned Wolverines claws/bones into Play Doh.
Wait… I never read the comic. Please explain
As a casual viewer I just heard from you basically “you’re forgetting he’s in love with literal death personified into an tangible entity”
I’m sure you understand without context that leaves me with a lot of questions.
I once had my hair braided illegally in the Bahamas. That’s a true story. Do you have questions? I’m sure you do.
In the comics, Thanos is in love with Lady Death (sometimes called Mistress Death) who is a personification of death. Thing is, she doesn’t return his affections. So, he kills half the universe as a way to try to win said affections. I think the writers for the MCU probably felt that was a little too hokey to fly with modern/mainstream audiences.
Thank you!
Btw my hair braiding was more of a union kind of agreement I violated but I’d argue anything a cop cuffs you about is fair to call illegal. I did it purposefully as well just to tell the story.
How you frame a story matters lol.
Is lady death an X-men style hero, juggernaut, or spiderman?
Born, stumble apon, or inflicted? That matters to me for some reason.
Edit: door dr strange. (Sought)
Lady Death is an anthropomorphism of death. The marvel comics version of the grim reaper. Not a hero, just a thing that exists.
Maybe he did
Jesus-Zombie-Christ…Fucking vanilla! How do you even get hard without wiping out half the life on a planet?
