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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

How long until Thanos becomes a hero?

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago (1 children)

His plan was utterly dumb. You have a godlike power and what do you do?
Implement a teenage edgelord plan

[–] VindictiveJudge 60 points 5 months ago (1 children)

His comics counterpart didn't even have good intentions of any kind. He just wanted to sleep with Death and thought that being the biggest mass murderer in history would be a turn on for her.

[–] deus 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine becoming a mass murderer for a woman you are into only for her to end up dating Deadpool instead

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I mean... Understandable. I get it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Movie Thanos or Comics Thanos?

Comics Thanos is a genuinely unhinged psychopath who really wanted to impress the manifestation of Death. Outside of some opposite day shenanigans and some really wild arcs, he's never gonna be a hero.

Movie Thanos is an edgelord, and will be remembered as a hero by edgelords and as an edgy idiot by everyone else because his solution is terrible. The universe would inevitably repopulate, inequality would spread again. There's very little difference between eliminating 50% of the population and increasing total resources by 50% when you have the power of infinity.

[–] GladiusB -3 points 5 months ago

Movie Thanos has one of the most relevant back stories in all of action films. He saw the universe as a burden amongst itself and with his order he can save it from itself. Most people relate to this. Even consider it a hero's journey in many games. But what his actions are with this perspective in mind is what makes him a villain. And one of the reasons I think he is up there with Darth Vader or The Joker. A good villain makes the heroes win even better.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

We can do better than eco fascism. Thanos should never be a hero.

[–] PugJesus 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Omega_Man 6 points 5 months ago