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Retro Futurist posted:Thanos is just arrogant and bullheaded. He has a plan to save the universe and he's going to to go through with it regardless of anything, and listening to anyone else's would be weakness.
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duck trucker posted:Thanos' thinking is the same thinking hunters use. It's a very good motivation for a villian and way better for the moves than wanting to bone the concept of death. His motivation was fine when he was culling planets with his space army. A brutal but practical way for a sociopath to do things The first issue however is that he gets a magic glove that can fulfill any wish, ever, and he still does the same thing as before . The second issue is that in the movie he isn't portrayed as a 'mad titan' he is portrayed as a calm and calculating character who regrets that he has to kill to achieve his goals. Yet he kills half the universe because... what, he's too dumb? Because he doesn't have any imagination? I loved Thanos but some things like that raised an eyebrow from me. Sure you can rationalize his actions in many ways but none of them are satisfying to me with the current plot and character motivation. Just imo
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May 7, 2018 16:50
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Because he doesn't want to rule. And he doesn't want infinite power. He wants to watch the sunset.
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May 7, 2018 16:53
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He could have literally magicked the negative concepts of overpopulation away or any of the other hundred things people have come up with in threads like this. I guess he chose the most basic solution because he is lazy
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May 7, 2018 16:56
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Fartbox posted:The second issue is that in the movie he isn't portrayed as a 'mad titan' he is portrayed as a calm and calculating character who regrets that he has to kill to achieve his goals. Your definition of “mad” seems very limited.
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May 7, 2018 16:59
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Fartbox posted:He could have literally magicked the negative concepts of overpopulation away or any of the other hundred things people have come up with in threads like this. I guess he chose the most basic solution because he is lazy Thanos snaps his fingers and makes the universe slightly bigger. Then he shrugs and walks off as the Avengers notice they have an extra three feet of personal space now. [SMASH CUT TO CREDITS]
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May 7, 2018 17:04
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https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/993490649864396800?s=19 The two biggest things are colliding!
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May 7, 2018 17:27
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fortnite is just one of those games where you run around and shoot other players forever right?
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May 7, 2018 17:41
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There's no respawning so not really.
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May 7, 2018 17:42
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Soonmot posted:fortnite is just one of those games where you run around and shoot other players forever right? You also build huts and then die anyways.
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Fartbox posted:The first issue however is that he gets a magic glove that can fulfill any wish, ever, and he still does the same thing as before . The second issue is that in the movie he isn't portrayed as a 'mad titan' he is portrayed as a calm and calculating character who regrets that he has to kill to achieve his goals. Yet he kills half the universe because... what, he's too dumb? Because he doesn't have any imagination? Keep in mind that even before he had the glove, he was a dedicated psychopath who routinely tortured both his "daughters," slaughtered millions, and destroyed whole planets. Gamora was genuinely surprised to find out that he loved her, and then he threw her off a cliff anyway. The impression you're meant to come away with from all of that was that maybe he was a little bent when he started, since he proposed the "let's kill half our population" plan on Titan in the first place, but whatever happened to wreck Titan has made him maniacally focused on that as the solution to everyone's problems everywhere. When he's talking to Strange before the big fight scene, he still gives the impression that he doesn't get why anyone would object to the plan at all. So no, he doesn't have any real imagination on the subject. He's dangerously obsessed with what was, before then, an unattainable goal, and by the time he can accomplish it, he's sacrificed what little was left in the universe that gave his own life meaning and--perhaps most crucially--he's about ten seconds from Thor splitting him in half like a wishbone at Thanksgiving. Thanos isn't just "the Mad Titan" at that point; he's psychotic, obsessed, grieving, has lost just about all his followers, and has Stormbreaker instead of lungs. Of course he doesn't make a perfectly rational decision.
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duck trucker posted:Thanos' thinking is the same thinking hunters use. It's a very good motivation for a villian and way better for the moves than wanting to bone the concept of death. The deer thing is correct though. Their natural predators aren't around anymore in enough numbers and deer gently caress up the ecosystem
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Fartbox posted:His motivation was fine when he was culling planets with his space army. A brutal but practical way for a sociopath to do things Yeah he doesn't. He sees a problem and has a solution for it. Maybe there's another solution but he thinks his solution is still correct so he doesn't consider it. Considering we live in a world where the current administration has men in it who's only solution to troubles is to try to start a war I don't see how Thanos character is such a difficult thing to comprehend Edit: A.I. Borgland Corp posted:The deer thing is correct though. Their natural predators aren't around anymore in enough numbers and deer gently caress up the ecosystem Yeah I'm not saying that hunters are wrong. Just that's a much better motivation for the movies then wanting to moterboat death duck trucker fucked around with this message at 18:34 on May 7, 2018 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Just saw Wind River. Highly recommended extra-curricular Avengers work. Go check out IMDb. Seems like every goddamn movie has trivia about what superheroes the people in the movie play
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May 7, 2018 18:48
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:You also build huts and then die anyways.
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May 7, 2018 18:53
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I made this for a discord server I go to because they kept trying to over analyze Thanos' plan
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May 7, 2018 19:23
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If Joss Whedon’s dad wrote Avengers Infinity War:
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May 7, 2018 19:23
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What is even happening in these panels?
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May 7, 2018 19:28
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Sgt. Politeness posted:What is even happening in these panels?  Then Thanos gets arrested by cops
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May 7, 2018 19:32
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I see now. Comics...were a mistake.
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Sgt. Politeness posted:I see now. Comics...were a mistake. Why would a good thing bring you to that conclusion!?
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May 7, 2018 20:21
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The best part of that comic is that Thanos gets the Cosmic Cube, and instead of using it to instantly teleport anywhere he wants, uses it to create a helicopter called "The Thanos-Copter" that he flies around in.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The best part of that comic is that Thanos gets the Cosmic Cube, and instead of using it to instantly teleport anywhere he wants, uses it to create a helicopter called "The Thanos-Copter" that he flies around in. No, he had the Thanoscopter before that, according to the Deadpool issue that brings it into continuity. Apparently, Deadpool was the one who got the Cube for him.
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May 7, 2018 20:32
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Gavok posted:No, he had the Thanoscopter before that, according to the Deadpool issue that brings it into continuity. Apparently, Deadpool was the one who got the Cube for him. My new favorite thing is that Deadpool fans are going around and inserting Deadpool's comedic retcons into various comic wikis as if they were definitive fact and not retcons: ie, the Marvel Wiki now lists Deadpool as the first wearer of the black Spider-man symbiote suit.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:My new favorite thing is that Deadpool fans are going around and inserting Deadpool's comedic retcons into various comic wikis as if they were definitive fact and not retcons: ie, the Marvel Wiki now lists Deadpool as the first wearer of the black Spider-man symbiote suit. That poo poo has been going on for ages and it was annoying as gently caress to listen to those idiots argue about it when I worked.
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Thanos's goal is not to save the universe, it's to prove himself right. He's already probably killed billions of people extending his original 'solution' to countless other planets. He's not going to pursue a course of action that acknowledges another solution exists, especially since even the existence of an alternative would require he acknowledge that everything he has done his entire life was a mistake.
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Fangz posted:Thanos's goal is not to save the universe, it's to prove himself right. He's already probably killed billions of people extending his original 'solution' to countless other planets. He's not going to pursue a course of action that acknowledges another solution exists, especially since even the existence of an alternative would require he acknowledge that everything he has done his entire life was a mistake. It's almost as if the movie is trying to draw some sort of parallel between him and Tony Stark both trying to overcome past trauma using an egotistical pursuit of single-minded solutions to complex problems.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:My new favorite thing is that Deadpool fans are going around and inserting Deadpool's comedic retcons into various comic wikis as if they were definitive fact and not retcons: ie, the Marvel Wiki now lists Deadpool as the first wearer of the black Spider-man symbiote suit. To be fair, Cullen Bunn has been very adamant about that symbiote retcon. He's referenced it in at least three different minis he's worked on since. It's his version of Brian Reed's obsession with making the Peter Parker/Carol Danvers relationship happen.
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Those were all published before Secret Wars right? So in the newly made universe I guess we can say they count?
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Rhyno posted:Those were all published before Secret Wars right? So in the newly made universe I guess we can say they count? The original retcon was released during Secret Wars. The idea was that Deadpool was involved in the original Secret Wars, where he tried on the symbiote moments before Spider-Man and presumably caused it mental damage by accident. In the end, Wasp caused everyone to forget that Deadpool was involved. After the fact, Bunn did a follow-up miniseries about the symbiote going back to Deadpool in-between Parker and Brock having it. In Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again (which is supposed to be in Old Man Logan continuity), he spares the symbiote because "We used to be friends." Then in Edge of Venomverse, one universe's Deadpool gets the symbiote and it's treated like reunited lovers.
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Well poo poo, it's definitely canon now
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According to Joe Russo, that scene at the very end of IW where Thanos is suddenly in an orange aura and has a vision of a younger Gamora takes place inside the Soul Stone, and also that (likely Avengers 4 spoilers) Gamora is still alive in the Soul Stone, and potentially anyone else who turned into dust http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/05/07/avengers-infinity-war-co-director-confirms-soul-stone-theory
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hah called it
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Thanos is just traumatized because he "saw it coming" before with Titan and everybody thought he was a monster, so he didn't do anything. Ding ding, it's this. If you find yourself thinking "gosh darn it, Thanos' plan doesn't make rational sense from a purely objective standpoint" then boy howdy let me introduce you to the concept of viewing things through an emotional lens and past trauma! It's the new craze among actual human beings You gat dang robot. I'm gonna rip out the deuterium rods that power your iron frame, pose as a human being no more.
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Based on what looked like damage to the Gauntlet at the end, it's not clear that Thanos could wish for absolutely anything or be able to make multiple changes to the whole universe. Like Earth Dragonballs. The Stones themselves may theoretically be able to do anything but with an imperfect Gauntlet (or other method) or a lowly being controlling them you might be limited in what you can do.
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Lobok posted:Based on what looked like damage to the Gauntlet at the end, it's not clear that Thanos could wish for absolutely anything or be able to make multiple changes to the whole universe. Like Earth Dragonballs. The Stones themselves may theoretically be able to do anything but with an imperfect Gauntlet (or other method) or a lowly being controlling them you might be limited in what you can do. Captain America is no "lowly being."
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Lobok posted:Based on what looked like damage to the Gauntlet at the end, it's not clear that Thanos could wish for absolutely anything or be able to make multiple changes to the whole universe. Like Earth Dragonballs. The Stones themselves may theoretically be able to do anything but with an imperfect Gauntlet (or other method) or a lowly being controlling them you might be limited in what you can do. He could just....make another Gauntlet
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Endless Mike posted:He could just....make another Gauntlet Could he? He didn't make the first one and after it was complete he destroyed the maker's hands.
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