The best gag in infinity war is Tony dramatically claiming ‘the Avengers broke up’ but then it’s just Tony. Literally every other hero is chill and working together, it’s just no one wants to talk to Tony.
I’m not even one of the people who thinks Infinity War was a bad movie, I just think they could have done so much more with it with relatively few changes, in ways that frustrate me.
Like if they’d changed Thanos’s motivation just slightly– if they’d framed it as him trying to, essentially, weed the garden of life in the universe so the rest of the plants could grow healthier, rather than just a coin toss- it could have prompted every other character to wrestle with the question of who gets to make the call of who’s worthy of living and who has to die to enable that.
Basically every MCU hero has been actively responsible for, or at least complicit in, destroying locations and individuals they consider the bad guys. Some of these, we as audience are on board with; when you take down Hydra, for example, or the Chitauri, it’s hard to argue. But Thor courted war, and Tony made weapons, and these are things their character arcs have hinged on them moving beyond but that history lingers. Natasha was on the wrong team before Clint recruited her, and Hulk went on rampages. Steve and Sam and Rhodey were all in the US military; even as ‘good guys’ they have blood on their hands.
Thanos’s goal could have triggered introspection, even as they were trying to take him down, in a way that could have recontextualized the entire MCU to date. Where is the line where you can decide who’s allowed to live and die? Where is the line where you can’t be redeemed? Obviously, Thanos is on the wrong side of every answer, but just raising the question could have made the the more personal for virtually every Avenger.
if thanos wanted to kill off half of the population because there weren’t enough resources……..but then snapped half of the vegetation and animals (according to the russos)……..then isn’t he back at square one……………and there aren’t enough resources for the population……………
what about……..all of the empty and abandoned planets……..he couldn’t have restributed populations there? or like………..what about endangered species they’re pretty much gone now thanks to T Hanos…………..he really didn’t think this through………….
this is deadass what part 4 is gonna be. like he’s gonna realize “huh…. maybe this wasn’t a good idea” and reverse time.
Or he literally could have just doubled the resources
Maybe I’m wrong but all he would need is the Space Stone to teleport and redistribute resources + life. But I guess killing half of all life made more sense.
Or he could’ve just created more planets and teleported the halfs but a bitch is too dumb
He can throw a moon for a fight but teleporting some resources is too much work?
He can change reality but he uses it to fake his death and do a power point presentation?
He has the time stone, in which he could literally go back in time and save his home planet ….not by killing half of them …but by using these new powers?
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