You think that’s bad – during WWII the British joked about being such good pilots that they painted bullseyes on their planes.
Turns out that they’re not the only ones using target-like “roundels” as insignia
“Wait Thanos, you only wanted to use The Infinity Gauntlet to double the food in the Universe? Yeah, we’re all cool with that. Need any help distributing it? The Hulk would make an ideal Door Dash delivery dude and he’s amped for it already. Thor is already launching meals like he’s a walking talking T-shirt Cannon.”
Or even,
“And just like that, half of the universe was infertile.”
There’s a reason he’s called the Mad Titan, and not the Rational Solutions Titan.
And getting rid of half the population, or even just doubling the resources, isn’t a “solution”, it won’t fix the problem, it just moves the day of reckoning to a later date. Population growth will inevitably produce the same conditions eventually.
As you would expect, they changed many things when adaapting comic books into films. Mostly, Thanos stayed the same. However, rather than being an evil person doing evil things for evil reasons, they made him into somebody whose end goal is good but whose methods are evil.
In the comics, Thanos is literaally in love with Death. Death often appears to him. Sometimes as a human skeleton in a purple, hooded robe and sometimes as a woman of “Icy beauty” in the same robe. Thanos doesn’t care about starvation or people suffering from lack of resources. He wants to kill half of all living beings in the universe to win the love of Death. Thanos also has, IMO, by far the best reason to keep turning up after he is killed. Death sends him back to the to world of the living so he can keep trying to fulfill his promise.
Well, his end goal was evil but dressed in a veneer of “good”
Thanos (in the movies) was just worried about being right. He identified what he thought was an issue, proposed a solution of killing 50% of everyone, was told “That’s fucked up, dude, what the hell?” and then rather than revise his solution doubled down on making sure everyone knew how smart and awesome he was by forcing it on them. It wasn’t about saving the galaxy, it was about being able to say “Haha, you all said I was stupid and fucked up but now who’s right??”
“But I put it to you: could a madman have created a revolutionary Living-Brain Extractor?”
“But I will show the world that I can be its master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world!”
Sit down, Elon, you’re high again.
nevermind
I get that Death wants…well death, but do they mention why Death wants less souls in total in the future? That’s what Thanos’ plan will result in.
That was Elon’s late night message to a woman on Bumble he thought would make a good candidate for his latest baby mama.
Death was never the type to hold out for two marshmallows.
IIRC it was based on the ‘fact’ that more people alive today than have ever died. She wanted Thanos to ‘fix’ that.
Right, seems like someone in the Marvel Universe could teach her about compound interest.
You don’t eat your seed souls.
The Joker is way WAY overused as a villain, IMHO.
Probably because “The Joker kill Lois,” has been used in a lot of alternate universe stories as the precipitating event in Superman breaking bad.
Has it ever been established that Thanos killing half of all life would actually impress Death, or is that just Thanos’s bad incel rationalization?
I’ve seen it proposed that Batman and Superman should swap arch-nemeses. Batman is the world’s greatest detective, and he wastes all of his time on a dude who goes around in clown makeup and readily admits to every crime he’s committed. The problem with the Joker is that his peculiar form of insanity is contagious, and inevitably infects the wardens of any prison he finds himself in, which results in him breaking out (plus a few more minor supervillains).
Meanwhile, Lex Luthor is clever and insidious enough to always hide his misdoings in the murk of finance and high society. Superman could always beat him in a fight, but that won’t get him put behind bars by the properly-established government.
If they swap, though, Supes could carry the Joker to a cell on the Moon, with no wardens needed, and toss him a supplies package every month or so, and Batman could put his detective skills and high-society experience to use in penetrating all of the layers of Luthor’s shell companies, and expose him for the warrants.
Whether it would actually impress her depends on the writer. However, that is the task she has set for Thanos. Minor Spoiler- In the miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos does kill half of all living beings. Death remains silent and distant.
However, a few decades later, Thanos and Death were depicted as a happy, and loving couple.
So, it depends on the writer.
It’s depressing that the words “secret agent” have become synonymous with “sex maniac.”
Well, if you’ve got a licence to kill I suppose that includes a licence for all lesser offenses as well. Including the sex ones.
- Higgins: He was an excellent field operative, until the scandal.
- Magnum: Sex scandal?
- Higgins: Unfortunately, in British Intelligence, that seems to be the only kind we have.
You just hand the officer your license, and he punches out a couple holes equal to the crime. When the card has no more empty punch spaces, MI-6 can issue you a new one.