In a recent Marvel movie arc, he tries to “save” the universe from suffering and conflict and insufficient space/resources by indiscriminately deleting half of all life in the universe with a snap of his fingers using a super powerful artifact.
Never understood if you could snap half the life away, why not just double the resources or improve the efficiency of existing resource utilization? What a stupid, small brained solution to reach for when you’re tapping omnipotence. Especially because it doesn’t solve the problem because life fucks and makes more life! Fuck I hate what comic book movies became.
I’m sure I’ll be easily shown to be wrong, but I assumed that it’s because the universe’s mass is finite and that the all-powerful infinity stones only freely manipulate the substance of the universe, and therefore work with limited material. In that case, doubling resources in one place means repurposing equivalent mass from other areas.
The other problem is how you implement this solution across the universe: do you re-engineering biological systems to be twice as efficient? Do you double the input energy? What about non-biological resources: do you speed up geologic processes? Do you simply increase the size and mass of each world and assume twice the resources are available and accessible? How deep of an understanding of each ecosystem is needed to account for all potential target populations, and can a single mind hold all that information in place while giving the infinity stones such a command?
Most pertinently, Thanos was a cynic. He didn’t trust any higher lifeform to not ultimately be shortsighted and selfish, and so his brute force solution was a culling.
Never understood if you could snap half the life away, why not just double the resources or improve the efficiency of existing resource utilization?
Because he doesn’t actually care about any of that, he just wants to prove that his original plan would have worked.
So when Thanos was younger, his planet was faced with overpopulation. He proposed that half the population should be killed at random, so that the other half could have all the resources. Of course, he was called crazy, but the planet ended up dying of overpopulation anyway, which convinced Thanos that he was right all along.
So his whole reason for comitting mass genocide is all so he can point and say, “See, I was right!”
Could you imagine Earth if everything alive were like, 10% of its size? There would be so much space, so much room for resources to flourish.
So much distance between one country on one side of the planet and a country on the other side that wars between the two would be completely unfeasible.
Depicting Thanos as a role model is part of liking Marvel movies?
That does look more like a shitpost than something people who actually believe in that nonsense would put up.
While I agree, characters in one frame comics like this aren’t usually trying to be subtle or fly under the radar when demonstrating their values.
Outside of memes I genuinely don’t know anything about Thanos. Is he good or bad? What does him being on a poster mean
In a recent Marvel movie arc, he tries to “save” the universe from suffering and conflict and insufficient space/resources by indiscriminately deleting half of all life in the universe with a snap of his fingers using a super powerful artifact.
Never understood if you could snap half the life away, why not just double the resources or improve the efficiency of existing resource utilization? What a stupid, small brained solution to reach for when you’re tapping omnipotence. Especially because it doesn’t solve the problem because life fucks and makes more life! Fuck I hate what comic book movies became.
I’m sure I’ll be easily shown to be wrong, but I assumed that it’s because the universe’s mass is finite and that the all-powerful infinity stones only freely manipulate the substance of the universe, and therefore work with limited material. In that case, doubling resources in one place means repurposing equivalent mass from other areas.
The other problem is how you implement this solution across the universe: do you re-engineering biological systems to be twice as efficient? Do you double the input energy? What about non-biological resources: do you speed up geologic processes? Do you simply increase the size and mass of each world and assume twice the resources are available and accessible? How deep of an understanding of each ecosystem is needed to account for all potential target populations, and can a single mind hold all that information in place while giving the infinity stones such a command?
Most pertinently, Thanos was a cynic. He didn’t trust any higher lifeform to not ultimately be shortsighted and selfish, and so his brute force solution was a culling.
Because he doesn’t actually care about any of that, he just wants to prove that his original plan would have worked.
So when Thanos was younger, his planet was faced with overpopulation. He proposed that half the population should be killed at random, so that the other half could have all the resources. Of course, he was called crazy, but the planet ended up dying of overpopulation anyway, which convinced Thanos that he was right all along.
So his whole reason for comitting mass genocide is all so he can point and say, “See, I was right!”
Thanos is called “The Mad Titan” after all.
Or simply make all life half the size.
Could you imagine Earth if everything alive were like, 10% of its size? There would be so much space, so much room for resources to flourish.
So much distance between one country on one side of the planet and a country on the other side that wars between the two would be completely unfeasible.
The grocery store shelves would be full!
Except maybe the lower ones.
“Recent” is doing a lot of work here…
I uh… don’t think I’ve seen anything Marvel since then so I guess it feels more recent than it is lol.
And in the comic books he tried to do it to get laid. He’s really not a role model in any form