What exactly was his plan after the universe simply repopulates itself?
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Federal_End_56302025-10-07 09:22
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EmbarrassedStill22572025-10-07 14:22
Pretty evident by where we see him and the state he’s in at the beginning of Endgame.
rfy932025-10-07 09:23
He thought everyone would learn a tough lesson from what he did, see the benefits and not repopulate. He refers to a “grateful universe” after his work is complete. It’s not a particularly rational argument obviously
UdderTacos2025-10-07 09:35
So what your saying is, even if the world saw a beautiful utopia with a reasonable population, humans would still breed uncontrollably until they destroyed the planet… ya honestly your probably right
Enn-Vyy2025-10-07 09:49
there isnt even a utopia phase, the universe was still chaotic after the snap
zero_eternal2025-10-07 09:55
Imagine if the Thanos from Endgame suceeded though. That motherfucker *definitely* would've given us a utopia phase... "I will shred this universe down to its last atom, then.. with the stones you have collected for me, I will build a new one" 💀
thator2025-10-07 09:57
But the people in the utopia wouldn’t know it was a utopia until they destroyed it.
zero_eternal2025-10-07 09:59
It wouldn't be literally us, I meant *us* as the next thing, the species replacing us.
masterionxxx2025-10-07 10:10
Beyonder Mini
TheMortal912025-10-07 11:11
born out of blood..
caiaphas82025-10-07 09:59
I think it would be 10x more chaotic than what the films portray. Agriculture, medicine, distribution and transport industries would collapse overnight. We are incredibly interconnected, if 50% of doctors and food truck drivers go we are totally screwed, never mind the other professions.
masterionxxx2025-10-07 10:13
There wasn't even specification on the professions, there could have been more than 50% of doctors and other vital specialists snapped.
caiaphas82025-10-07 10:15
And it’s not like the average person can just re-train to do these incredibly important specialist jobs
MonCity192025-10-07 11:42
Nope. You are handed your path by the Ministry at 16 and you must stay on this path for life
Sheadeys2025-10-07 12:43
As an accountant, it would take me anywhere between 5-8 years to be able to fill a medical doctor’s position, maybe 3-5 to be skilled enough to be a maintenance engineer at a piece of critical infrastructure.
A lot of that is gonna fall apart much faster than that, even at low load. Add to that a number of positions where if like 8 of the wrong people die at the same time, a lot of knowledge/critical skills are just flat lost
jinzokan2025-10-07 10:16
Story logic would be he figured into the snap that enough people got snapped perfectly in each sector of life to make that not happen though. It's wild to think be he has control of infinite wisdom, knowledge, strength and understanding of how to use it so.....
Sahaal_172025-10-07 12:18
There's also just the law of averages. If he snaps away 50% of humans, that will be pretty close to 50% of the doctors in any given region, and 50% of their patients.
In isolated communities where there's just 1 local doctor then yeah, 50% chance they just don't have a doctor any more. Falcon & the Winter Solider said that people migrated after the snap; I assume a lot of these migrations were society organically reorganising itself around reforged supply lines, wealth production and economic interests in a post snap world.
TheObstruction2025-10-07 12:24
So what you're saying is that random chance really had it out for Clint.
Sahaal_172025-10-07 12:38
Random chance only really shows itself on a larger scale. For a man with 3 family members, there's a 12.5% chance that all three would be snapped (and a 12.5% chance that none of them would be)
GodFlintstone2025-10-07 13:11
The Snap was completely random though.
Thanos put no thought into it. That's why Hawkeye's entire family dissappeared as opposed to just half of them.
Khanfhan692025-10-07 12:38
Also ecosystems. Predator vs prey ratio matters a lot. Things reproduce at different rates. Prepare for swarms of unmitigated prey animals which then ravage the lands of all plant life which then leads to mounds of starved to death animals which leads to swarms of pest species and rapid spread of diseases which leads to...
Good fucking god Thanos was stupid. Sure the whole point is he's insane and delusional but it quickly crosses into sheer braindead territory. The Mad Titan? More like the Dunce Titan.
MichaelSonOfMike2025-10-07 10:03
Yeah and Hitler didnt really have a great plan either.
moose_dad2025-10-07 12:24
idk man, whales in the hudson sounds pretty sweet
rfy932025-10-07 09:54
Yeah basically, although it wasnt a utopia for the 5 years it lasted
But also thinking about it, the immediate generations after the snap are still too traumatised to appreciate the "good work" Thanos has done, and the ones a few generations later will simply forget about it and repopulate anyway as is their nature
Less sentient races wont even realise what's happened (animals and such)
Most of the universe who are sentient wont know why this thing happened or who Thanos is and will naturally repopulate
The whole thing is not a clever argument on Thanos' part, he just wants to be proven right about what he thought Titan should have done
coolridgesmith2025-10-07 11:59
I think thats a fair assesment.
I believe that its intentionally supposed to be a shit plan that makes little sense, this allows for the endgame thanos to be more extreme when he realises his plans going to fail.
raknor882025-10-07 10:20
>humans would still breed uncontrollably
We humans do love having sex. Men are also a bit infamous for not being too picky on what they stick it in to get their pleasure.
OnlinePosterPerson2025-10-07 10:26
No. All the species. His vision was much larger than only focusing on humans
tangledupinbetween2025-10-07 10:40
That's the flaw with his plan. He halved the population but forgot that when everything is halved, the amount of resources are still the same compared to before the blip. Those in the top food chain will still fighting with each other for the amount of resource that they have.
TheObstruction2025-10-07 12:27
Turns out, Thanos is just another normie who thinks he's way smarter than he actually is.
HonoraryGoat2025-10-07 09:50
The solution would obviously be to go "snippity snap, give them all the clap". Solves everything.
mani96122025-10-07 10:11
YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE PHYSICAL TOLL THAT (countless) VASECTOMIES HAVE ON A (entire universe’s collective of male organisms)
probablynotreallife2025-10-07 09:53
Yeah, that Titan seems rather mad.
Staar_Killer2025-10-07 09:57
Say that again
TarsigeroftheBush2025-10-07 10:48
They sure did have a war for those infinity stones
mrBenelliM42025-10-07 13:00
Say that again!
OrganicAd55362025-10-07 13:51
Thanos's plan didn't really have much of an endgame when you think about it
probablynotreallife2025-10-07 12:12
That.
BeardySam2025-10-07 10:59
The thing is, they really downplayed how mad his ideas are. Like, nobody discusses *any* flaws, they just go “well, killing is bad, we’ve got to stop him” and leave it at that. It’s such a gap that it leaves the door open to people to actually sympathise with Thanos as if he’s ‘complex’ or ‘deep’ because he presents himself as intelligent.
Zeravor2025-10-07 11:44
I think you have to put it in context though. In a world of "hahaha my evil machine will make me the rule of the world" and "fuck you spiderman" villains he is relatively deep.
Sahaal_172025-10-07 12:34
>"fuck you spiderman" villains
It's funny just how many villain's motivation is just hatred of spider-man for vague and nebulous reasons
BluegrassGeek2025-10-07 15:25
Many of Spider-Man's villains hate him either because he indirectly led to their creation, or because he's the one person who keeps interfering with their insane plans & makes fun of them while doing it.
Musekal2025-10-07 16:09
Venom is really the only one that was entirely driven by their hatred of Spider-Man.
Norman and Harry were the next closest villains to being pure antagonists.
Sere12025-10-07 15:52
I need a version of the movies where the villains just get frustrated and scream out "fuck you!" to Spidey at some point. Like they lose their grandiose poise and let it slip for a moment as they just cut loose with a quick f-bomb to the wallcraller.
AngeloNoli2025-10-07 10:23
A lot of people act like they found the "logical fallacy" into Thanos' plan... when he's never been rational at all. He has a god/daddy complex with the entire universe and this is just his rationalization to abuse all of it.
rfy932025-10-07 10:40
Yep people think they’ve found some gaping plot hole when the whole point is that he’s doing a bad thing because of his own ego/personal issues
gdo012025-10-07 13:02
And he does enough to shield himself from the consequences to know that most would not be grateful. Hell, he even planned for a hit squad coming for the stones.
I guess it's complicated. He wasn't delusional enough to think he was going to be crowned king of the universe but maybe he expected some retroactive praise long after he was gone.....
Redshift2k52025-10-07 13:17
He was clearly satisfied huffing his own farts all alone on a farm
He did his mission, he doesn't expect any one person to be grateful, but he BELIEVES the universe itself, free from the burden of overpopulation, will be "grateful"
vqsxd2025-10-07 15:29
Not sure if thats accurate, considering that in Endgame after seeing how the people of the universe responded to his actions 5 years later, he thought he just had to restart the entirety of the universe, since nobody was grateful
Mugiwara3002025-10-07 15:46
Not nobody. The avengers.
He succeeded in his quest but the avengers going back in time to undo what he did really pissed him off. That’s why he figured it’d be best to just make a universe where people won’t remember what he did.
thatsnotamachinegun2025-10-07 16:36
It's both:
*I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you’ve shown me that’s impossible. Life clings to the past with bloody fingernails. As long as there are those who remember what was, there will be those unable to accept what can be. They will resist.*
Clearly people other than the avengers remember what was.
MajorNoodles2025-10-07 14:49
He was absolutely not prepared for a hit squad. He just wanted to live a simple life free of temptation. Carol scoped out his planet and he didn't even notice. He was completely caught off guard.
cfmrfrpfmsf2025-10-07 15:18
He prepared by destroying the stones so no one else could use them.
MajorNoodles2025-10-07 15:48
He destroyed them so *he* couldn't use them. He was tempted to use them selfishly, and that's how he prevented that.
>the stones served no purpose...beyond temptation.
gdo012025-10-07 16:40
Why would he use them? He had no reason to undo it. It would be temptation for others
MajorNoodles2025-10-07 17:05
The stones can do lots of other things besides killing people or bringing them back. They're not limited to just those two abilities.
Mugiwara3002025-10-07 15:47
He destroyed the stones specifically because of that.
He didn’t even put up a fight or anything, he was fine with whatever happened. Even the Thanos of the past doesn’t flinch when he sees himself dying, saying it’s destiny fulfilled.
TomA09122025-10-07 14:42
Also. He’s called the mad titan. Not the logical titan, dude just wants to genocide
AngeloNoli2025-10-07 15:27
The logical titan is the lamest villain ever.
SpaceProspector_2025-10-07 18:56
"That's an ad hominem!"
\--The logical titan
TomA09122025-10-07 20:59
“Perfectly balanced as all things should be” - Thanos after using the stones to remove the public spending deficit
Sere12025-10-07 15:50
This. He's the Mad Titan. Not mad as in angry. Mad as in crazy. He's crazy and thinks he's the only sane one around for thinking genocide is the only solution and that he's the only one with the will to do it.
fadetoblack2372025-10-07 19:12
Random genocide. He seems to think because it's up to chance, it's morally okay.
CaptHayfever2025-10-07 20:38
And he conflates his physical strength with "willpower". (Though I think that, for a brief moment, he doubted that philosophy when Iron Man made him bleed. Not because he thought he'd lose, but because, again if only momentarily, he realized that somebody giving the fight all he possibly could still only scratched him.)
Cynical-avocado2025-10-07 16:15
He’s a stinker, not a thinker
brian_hogg2025-10-07 17:18
Yeah, I think it's because the character spent the movie saying "I'm rational! I'm rational!" and a large chunk of the people who watched the movie thought "well, he SAID he's rational, so he must be!"
CaptHayfever2025-10-07 20:40
Reminds me of something.
mothgra872025-10-07 19:59
You might even say he's a mad man, from titan
Cold-Dot-73082025-10-07 12:42
They probably are not even considering how in today’s world our governments make decisions which if you sit back and look at it , you would wonder how humans came to that unsustainable conclusion - and these are not titans who don’t see things from our perspective.
Maximus3612025-10-07 12:59
Yeah, I’ve always thought those people with “Thanos was right” stickers, mugs, t shirts, etc… are somewhat insane. Even jokingly, how could you even partially agree with his theory and actions?
CessMcking882025-10-07 14:36
In Endgame even the Captain begins to see the benefits when he mentions that there are even more whales.
Maximus3612025-10-07 15:01
Yeah. It’s ridiculous. Half of the entire universe’s living beings are dead, but there’s more whales now, wheeee!😂🤦
Greenpeace treehuggers dream!
SarkicPreacher7776592025-10-07 13:00
He also never thought to just double all the resources across the entire universe. He wanted to kill trillions of lifeforms.
runnfly2025-10-07 14:27
I’ve read this thought before and basically if he had done that life would multiply and consume those resources quickly, then back to “too many mouths to feed”. It’s a sci-fi trope “humanity is a virus that doesn’t live in harmony with nature and keeps expanding “. As mentioned in another post the psychological effect would stunt the population and people would be more appreciative of what they have.
Blue-bat2025-10-07 13:30
I mean he is know was the MAD Titan
IAmBadAtInternet2025-10-07 13:38
And he was trying to impress Death. Bro was gooning, maybe it’s not surprising his plan made no sense
medyas12025-10-07 15:13
that's only the comic thanos motivation
as far as we know he and aubrey plaza never met in the mcu yet (maybe excepting his beheading and if being dusted counts as his "death")
FordBeWithYou2025-10-07 14:02
Nobody ever called him The Sane Titan
Wazootyman132025-10-09 10:03
(Hans Moleman voice) I was saying Sane Titan
Tomrr62025-10-07 14:34
He's not Thanos The-100%-Sane-And-Rational Titan
Glittering_Deal23782025-10-07 10:43
They don’t call him the Sane Titan do they
gautify2025-10-07 10:48
Like Flag-smashers
Hazzadcr162025-10-07 11:30
Which is very strange, you would have thought someone that wipes out half the universe would have been a bit more logical. Not like he could have doubled resources, half peoples needs for them, eradicate hunger and disease, generally make the universe a utopia with 6 magic gems that could change the fabric of space and time or something.
rfy932025-10-07 12:48
He doesn’t want a utopia though and he isn’t altruistic. He just wants to be proven right about what he said his people should have done on Titan
TufnelAndI2025-10-07 11:54
it's probably why he's not called 'the rational Titan'
Carbuyrator2025-10-07 14:24
He wasn't known as "the rational titan."
curvysquares2025-10-07 15:14
This also explains why past Thanos goes scorched earth in Endgame and decides to use the stones to completely recreate the universe. He sees firsthand that the universe isn't grateful after the snap and that changes his mind.
Dogpicsforboobs5622025-10-07 09:24
It would probably take forever and he will probably die by then?
Kinda wish he was not killed in endgame by Thor.
Significant-Map81772025-10-07 09:26
You could easily double a population in a generation or two
MicrowaveBurrito25682025-10-07 09:24
He wouldn’t be a villain if his plan made sense
neo60002025-10-07 09:40
His plan did make sense sort of. Wanting to rid half of life for overpopulation is logical. Plus, the most dangerous villains are often the ones with the most common sense. Thanos is one of them.
AdditionalBanana95852025-10-07 09:46
His argument with overpopulation was that there wouldn't be enough resources for everyone. But he got rid of half of ALL life. That includes animals which we use for food. So the problem still kinda remains.
neo60002025-10-07 09:47
Eh, never hurts to go vegetarian I guess
Bennyboy111112025-10-07 09:52
Good luck with half the avocados.
_Azuki_2025-10-07 09:49
Resources aren't just food
AdditionalBanana95852025-10-07 09:58
That's why I said "kinda".
caiaphas82025-10-07 10:00
Good luck transporting resources when half of the farmers, drivers and engineers are gone
ParagonTom2025-10-07 10:21
Yeah. Sure, from a human concept, resources include food. But to a being such as Thanos, I imagine resources purely means the energy and matter that comprises the universe.
LonestarSurvivor2025-10-07 09:54
In fairness, that was only specified in Endgame after the writers saw how much support there was from the "Thanos was right" crowd and realized that they needed to nix that quickly
thwaway1352025-10-07 09:54
He could've merely doubled the resources. Or redistributed both resources and wealth. Or done any number of things that didn't involve genociding half the universe. And as the other commenter pointed out, it's not like he only specified human lives, meaning he got rid of half of plant and animal life as well. Every ounce of his plan was ego and resulted in everyone being worse off.
TriTexh2025-10-07 10:12
doubling or even redistributing resources wouldn't help for more than a tiny amount of time and they both have their own issues. What was needed for a long-term boost to the means of increasing available resources
this could be done in many ways, the simplest of which would be releasing all the locked gas and matter inside black holes and other similar space "sinks" made by dead stars, and change whatever mechanics allow them to be born in the first place.
this would require billions of years of time, but it would increase the universe's lifespan incalculably and boost the amount of resources stars give back when they die, which would in turn translate to higher potential for life to come to being and thrive
thwaway1352025-10-07 10:22
Of course anything of this magnitude would have issues. My point is that killing off half of all life was the worst way to go about it. It didn't solve the problem and only served to make everyone's lives more miserable. To say nothing of the fact that intrinsically his intention failed from the get-go anyway, given all the incidental deaths. The snap itself killed "only" half, but it also caused the deaths of countless more by way of crashes, abandonment, injury, etc.
mani96122025-10-07 10:14
No, Ego had nothing to do with this, he was just Peter Quill’s dad
perfectpencil2025-10-07 09:43
In all fairness at least he tried. Heroes explicitly don't even bother trying. They are keepers of the status quo.
Sunny-Chameleon2025-10-07 09:46
Reed Richards changed his world for the best though, that was unexpected
OfflineLad2025-10-07 10:05
Yeah im not a fan of the world pretty much being the same before and after the huge event that was infinity war & endgame. Like one video essay i watched said, Order 66 in star wars was such a monumental event because the world in the universe of star wars is changed drasticallly
Stevenwave2025-10-07 10:34
To be fair, the original trilogy already had a status quo set in stone that the prequels had to adhere to by their conclusion. So it was totally fair game to show a better galactic society that was eroded by Palps etc.
Not knocking you and it's a valid point, there's before and after that series of events in quick succession.
Closer to home, for all their faults, the early DCEU stuff did seem to treat Superman's emergence and the Kryptonian attack as an event that had lasting effects. The MCU had the forming of the Avengers and the battle of NY but it's always come across as less Earth shattering to that world. Even Thanos is memed on in the aftermath.
jinzokan2025-10-07 10:18
Tell me you are ok with fascism without telling me.
ahmadsarvmeily2025-10-07 09:56
Plans can often make complete sense if you just rid yourself of empathy
ogrezilla2025-10-07 12:30
that's true. His doesn't though.
raknor882025-10-07 10:22
Depends on the villain. Magneto's plans made a lot of sense, usually, and especially his motivations.
Satyrsol2025-10-07 20:41
His comic and movie plans also conveniently ignored the fact that it was a vocal and powerful ***minority*** of humans actively opposed to mutants, and every act of terrorism he committed basically ***added*** to that minority.
Any plan devoid of empathy and understanding of the masses is doomed to fail. It only makes sense in a vacuum.
TrueLegateDamar2025-10-07 09:26
He self isolated himself to avoid dealing with reality of his plan.
YodasChick-O-Stick2025-10-07 12:17
Bro just wanted to make some soup
Eject_The_Warp_Core2025-10-07 14:01
What was he cooking?
theblasphemer2025-10-07 17:55
He picked up a recipe for paella when he was on Earth. He was dying to try it...
MadPangolin2025-10-07 14:50
I think there is a pretty strong argument that he did plan for his children to join him. It’s noticeable how upset/disappointed he looks after one of his adopted children fails/abandons him. It’s also uncanny that he has *at least* 6 adopted children & he didn’t expect any of them to disappear, almost like he had a thought in the back of his head that they’d be protected.
hell20_2025-10-07 09:26
He was blinded by his vision. His Endgame plan would unironically have worked. The Infinity War plan doesn't make much sense due to the Death storyline being snubbed.
Am-I---BetterThanYou2025-10-07 09:27
Snip, snap, snip, snap. Michael Gary Thanos Scott init
sixthestate2025-10-07 09:28
It’s spite, stubbornness and revenge, not rational pragmatism.
abysmallybored2025-10-07 09:28
He's called the Mad Titan, he's not a rational person lmao he probably wasn't even thinking that far ahead...
repowers2025-10-07 09:43
Thanos the Very Rational Titan
MonCity192025-10-07 11:46
Sounds like a children's show character
jamesbondswanson2025-10-07 09:30
It’s always interesting how he chooses what he did over just making resources infinite lol
GrimLuker22025-10-07 09:39
Where would those resources end up if he did?
jamesbondswanson2025-10-07 10:15
Pull an apple off a tree and it instantly regrows. Literally anything. He just needed to use his imagination. He had the ability to bend reality in any way, but his decision to kill a bunch of people instead shows how limited his imagination was and reflects his violent nature. He thinks of just bluntly killing people first instead of being creative with the stones.
mrfuzee2025-10-07 09:44
Why why why do people keep repeating this?
His plan was to teach the universe a hard lesson, by slaughtering half of the population everywhere to force an abundance on the remaining population. “Watch the sun set on a grateful universe”.
In his mind, if he just gave the universe extra resources, then they would continue to overpopulate and then just consume all of that. There wouldn’t be any drastic lesson that might make people change their ways.
NEITHER of these plans are likely to work, but the one least likely to work is the one where he just gives everyone resources.
wobdarden2025-10-07 09:59
If resources are infinite, how does overpopulation work?
jamesbondswanson2025-10-07 10:12
I didn’t say extra recourses I said infinite. He could also make more space and planets for infinite population ect. It’s interesting because he was committed to reality and its rules the way they were as much as anyone else. He was hopeful we could live with the same rules despite having the option to change all the rules and solve the problem without question.
Clear-Meal7252025-10-07 10:14
How can a infinite resource works though? If I drink water on my glass, would it simply refill itself?
jamesbondswanson2025-10-07 10:16
Yes lol he had magic stones that can do anything. Just use your imagination.
Clear-Meal7252025-10-07 10:27
If I'm a mad titan. Decimating half the universe is so much easier than continously using such magic stone (which we saw taking such a heavy toll from the users) eternally to maintain this infinite resources.
kingmanic2025-10-07 09:30
He's a doer not a thinker. He thought it up and it was rejected then his home worlds ecology collapsed. So obviously he tripled down on his first idea while threatening violence to get his way. I think it's still canon he's royalty, so he's the typical nepo-baby terrible manager.
King_Tamino2025-10-07 11:05
Or we go with the simple concept, hear me out, that the person called *mad Titan* is actually mad, not in a clear mind and does not act rationally…
Hayterfan2025-10-07 11:21
I want Daffy Thanos
TokuWaffle2025-10-07 11:26
Perfectly balanthed
fishyronin2025-10-07 12:10
Ath all thength thood be
deadbeef42025-10-07 12:11
As all succotash should be.
ElectricMilk4262025-10-07 12:26
This made me audibly laugh
CATNIP_IS_CRACK2025-10-07 12:11
Seems like a crazy theory.
The logic behind his plan is made super clear to anyone paying attention. You just need to decode the secret message hidden in the credits of Infinity War using the decoder ring that came in Captain America branded Kellogg cereal boxes from fall 1981 through summer 1982 as explained in the the post credit scenes of the first two Thor movies. Then you use the string of numbers to isolate the sound waves from specific frames in Endgame to hear the recording of Thanos explaining his plan and why it makes perfect sense. The informations right there in the movie.
Simple explanation, all the real Marvel fans figured it out. People look way too deeply when the answer’s right in front of them, no need to come up with crazy theories like the Max Titan being mad.
Obvious-Water5692025-10-07 09:32
In his mind, all of sentient life would learn not to do that in the wake of this tragedy.
For one of the highest IQs in the Marvel universe, It was pretty dumb and short-sighted.
Accurate-Gap-33602025-10-07 09:33
In the end, it was never about the good of the universe for Thanos. It was about proving that he was right.
CohlN2025-10-07 09:43
i don’t know, maybe-
who knows how MCU’s thanos would’ve responded, but in what-if, there was a vegetation that solved the resource issue- and that thanos stopped his plan for the gauntlet and supported it
he still took every opportunity to share his plan to try n flex n get cred for it, but he didn’t go through with it
wobdarden2025-10-07 09:54
This also hinged on space-faring Black Panther to convince him the error of his ways.
It makes sense there.
CohlN2025-10-07 10:11
very true, i’d probably be a lot more willing to listen to space-faring black panther as well
Slow_Fish26012025-10-07 09:33
Nothing. He reached his goal and that's it.
Ghost-Writer-19962025-10-07 09:38
Was he immortal? If yes, then he might've gone to a murderous spree. That's our Mavel's Paul Atreides, the genocidal messiah
SilentKarasu772025-10-07 09:38
Thanos had enough traumas with what happened to his planet, that's why he carried out his plan and carried it out since he murdered Gamora's people, was he right? Yeah
Was it okay? No
He couldn't decide who did and who didn't, but in the end he fulfilled his selfish purpose.
neo60002025-10-07 09:39
"To rest on a grateful universe". You heard him haha
terry4962025-10-07 09:46
Thanos' Plan B:
[I'll do it again ](https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/255751858/Goofy-do-it-again)
MuppetMan1205962025-10-07 09:47
I joke with my wife because I side with Thanos. Obviously I really don’t, but I can see what he was trying to accomplish. Just like the way the Emperor was bringing peace to the galaxy with a giant “laser” that could blow up planets.
Escapedtheasylum2025-10-07 09:48
He's the Mad Titan. Not the Borimg Analyst Titan.
HerrPizza2025-10-07 09:48
hey, he's not called Thanos the rational-thinking-everything-through-and-considering-alternatives-that-everyone-benefits-from Titan
Ambitious-Pirate-5052025-10-07 09:48
To slow down the Celestials
AbyssWankerArtorias2025-10-07 09:52
When you consider the population doubles at an increasingly fast frequency, it really was a dumb plan.
EternalMaori2025-10-07 09:53
"Watch the sun set on a grateful universe"
r01-85062025-10-07 09:54
He would have likely done it again if the Stones didn't diminish him. He would likely have seek other ways, other Macguffins.
MichaelSonOfMike2025-10-07 10:03
He’s a nut. Just because his evil plan makes sense to him doesn’t mean it makes sense.
thepeenersnipperguy2025-10-07 10:03
He's not called the Reasonable And Good At Planning Titan
jimidemibb2025-10-07 10:14
It’s a good idea to understand that Thanos’ plan was stupid and a flawed premise from the get-go. He is not operating off logic here, he just thinks he is and he’d die for it. Thats what makes him a frightening villain, alongside how strong he is.
FallenJkiller2025-10-07 10:14
I am pretty sure most civs would not repopulate if they knew a mad god halved the population before.
uncxltured_berry2025-10-07 10:17
why didn’t he just snap to reduce fertility
RockSignificant2025-10-07 10:21
Dude just needed to snap a plentififul infinite universe and would've been a decorated hero.
a_phantom_limb2025-10-07 10:24
The holes in Thanos's plan stem from the fact that they removed the comic version's obsession with Death that drove his actions in *The Infinity Gauntlet*. He was desperate to win her affection, and she led him to believe that the Snap would earn it.
MCU Thanos, on the other hand, sees himself as rational and his mission as noble. Yet one serious conversation with an exceptionally smart and/or wise character - I can think of several - would have confirmed for him that the problem of finite resources could never be permanently solved by his method.
So we get seven years and counting of people's observations that Thanos's plan doesn't really make sense.
angruss2025-10-07 13:39
People: why are you doing this?
MCU Thanos: overpopulation is a serious problem and we need to stop it for reasons I’m not actually smart enough to justify.
Comic Thanos: so I can bang a goth chick that looks like Aubrey Plaza.
veemonjosh2025-10-07 15:32
Who wouldn't commit universal genocide for goth Aubrey Plaza?
CTeam192025-10-07 16:10
> Comic Thanos: so I can bang a goth chick that looks like Aubrey Plaza.
Thanos doesn't love Death like he wants to fuck her. He loves Death like a Christian would love Jesus. Thanos is suicidal, loves Death, worships Death, wishes to be with Death, and will kill everyone to be with Death. But Death doesn't want him so he lives. In Thanos Imperative he goes to the "Cancerverse" a Universe where Death was destroyed and no one can die. The Captain Marvel of that universe believes he can end death in the 616 Universe by killing the Avatar of Death(Thanos) in doing so he brought Death to the Cancerverse and everything was killed. Afterwords he said: "I cannot lie. When I found you had let me come back unkillable, I despaired. I should have known you had a plan for me. I've done what you needed me to do. I did it for you. Now take me with you end this empty existence and let me stay at your side forever." But he is rejected by Death and forced to still live. It isn't sexual he just wants to be by Death's side forever which for him to be by her side he must die. Imagine if Christian that decided that to be one with Jesus he had to kill everyone else to be with him basically.
ewokninja1232025-10-07 17:57
... I think I like MCU Thanos for film. That comic plot line is asking a lot of the audience. I mean, at this point in the MCU they hadn't even introduced the multiverse yet.
CaptHayfever2025-10-07 21:05
No, he loves her romantically. That's why he gets jealous of Deadpool.
the_war_won2025-10-07 13:43
This is the real answer. He did it to impress a girl.
The fact that the MCU version doesn’t have Death for him to obsess over means the writers had to come up with some other reasoning for wanting to end half of life in the universe, but ultimately it doesn’t make much sense.
BonesAndBlues2025-10-07 10:29
There was a deleted scene when he used the reality stone to appear in your bedroom and scowl at you until you lost your boner if you attempt to have more than 1 child
Sweet-Message11532025-10-07 10:39
his title is MAD Titan not "critically analyzed everything Titan"
iz92ab2025-10-07 10:41
I’m unsure, he also appears to have a whole planet to himself which seems kind of selfish considering his issue with not enough resources universally.
poopoobuttholes2025-10-07 10:43
can't believe this dumbass' plan originally was to do it manually LOL, does he not fucking realize how ginormous the universe is?
Odd-Statistician42682025-10-07 10:46
He didn't have one. It does sort of go into the whole "I was wrong I should've dusted the whole universe and started it over". Thanos is only technically right because of the movie Eternals. Not because he was actually right
xdrkcldx2025-10-07 10:48
It would take too long. Not his problem. Plus, it probably wouldn’t happen. Most societies would die off after something like that.
skronk612025-10-07 10:57
I don’t think he could get off that planet 😆 dude was done
HsRonacse2025-10-07 11:00
There's a fan theory of Thanos knowing about the Celestials and the Thanos actually wanted to derail the birth of most Celestials. That's why the cost of the snap was massive because it also targeted powerful beings. Keep in mind that a light tap from the powerstone was enough to destroy a planet. So killing half of regular life across the universe shouldn't be that hard but if we count beings on the level of Captain Marvel and Celestials, then it would make sense.
NeoDanomaru2025-10-07 11:01
I dunno but if he truly thought the Universe would appreciate his plan and be grateful for cutting its population in half, then he truly was mad!!!
BlackTeckel2025-10-07 11:01
i always thought it was a better plan to make 60 or 70% of the universe popularion sterile.
nobody would notice at first till some weeks or months passed.
nobody would know who to blame.
the result would be the same
GrayGuard972025-10-07 11:01
Vesties2025-10-07 11:01
wish they never made those movies
TheAjalin2025-10-07 11:04
Why does this look like a video game in the image but i know its from the movie?
Earl_N_Meyer2025-10-07 11:05
The worst thing is that, the way population works, it would only set the universe back one doubling period, which is, unfortunately, not long. For humans, about 50 years.
NGGKroze2025-10-07 11:11
The profound problem with everyone talking doubling the resource or repopulating is they are based this on real life events or their understanding of how it should be.
But there was never an event in humanity where randomly half the population turns to dust without warning/notice/explanation. Also his snap was 50/50 the whole universe, not 50/50 the per planet. So in a vast universe, some planets could have gone half, other could have lost more, 3rds less - the idea was to be random, dispassionate for rich and poor alike.
Also if we use the counter argument of double the resource - what happens when there is twice the amount of resources are consumed especially by the powerful.
Also he explained his plan - after the snap, he rest, he enjoys his goal fulfilment (also the reason he destroyed the stones in Endgame)
Beleg12342025-10-07 11:13
Imagine nothing happened when he snapped. All he did was cause half the population to become infertile. All the heroes are looking around like 🥲
JereRB2025-10-07 11:16
He gets another arm.
EnvironmentalWolf722025-10-07 11:17
He would snap again
flumphit2025-10-07 11:21
There was not a huge surplus of thought allocated to the problem of replacing the Mad Titan’s original motivation in the comics. I imagine “has a huge crush on Aubrey Plaza, will do literally anything to get her attention” was far too relatable, and had to be scrapped.
PraetorGold2025-10-07 11:22
Yep.
darthbiscuit2025-10-07 11:23
People forget that the “Mad” in “Mad Titan” doesn’t mean angry. Dude was crazy. He didn’t have a plan.
Wiplazh2025-10-07 11:25
Why didn't he just reduce fertility rates
BeingNo85162025-10-07 11:25
If he was around by the time the whole friggin universe doubled in population again (long shot, most worlds would have just died I think), Thanos would probably get into another mission of genocide.
That's kind of what supervillains and autocratic dictators and terrorists do. You give them a second chance and they'll just try to do the same thing again only worse.
WildRacoons2025-10-07 11:25
and super intelligence is one of his superpowers smh
Latterlol2025-10-07 11:26
If you remove half, you have removed quite a lot of living creatures, it would give resources time to come back, give the planets time to breath and bloom again.
But the plan alone isn’t that smart, everything can be a resource, people eat fish, so fish is a resource, but he also removed half of those, so it doesn’t add up that well.
But I guess we’re not ment to overthink it, it was Thanos plan, and it just means he didnt think it that much through or didn’t tell us everything.
Proud-Calligrapher182025-10-07 14:05
I made a lot more sense in the comics, where he was just hot for Death.
Evil_Weevill2025-10-07 14:27
You're assuming he had a plan. He was not some great mastermind. He was just a really powerful, self-righteous douchebag who convinced himself that a hard reset was the better plan because anything else is too hard.
Same as every other megalomaniacal villain who's convinced of their own righteousness. What makes them a villain is that they choose the easy path, destruction, and convince themselves the ends justify the means.
Dracorex132025-10-07 15:10
At least wanting to do a sex with Aubrey Plaza is less confusing.
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A lot of that is gonna fall apart much faster than that, even at low load. Add to that a number of positions where if like 8 of the wrong people die at the same time, a lot of knowledge/critical skills are just flat lost
In isolated communities where there's just 1 local doctor then yeah, 50% chance they just don't have a doctor any more. Falcon & the Winter Solider said that people migrated after the snap; I assume a lot of these migrations were society organically reorganising itself around reforged supply lines, wealth production and economic interests in a post snap world.
Thanos put no thought into it. That's why Hawkeye's entire family dissappeared as opposed to just half of them.
Good fucking god Thanos was stupid. Sure the whole point is he's insane and delusional but it quickly crosses into sheer braindead territory. The Mad Titan? More like the Dunce Titan.
But also thinking about it, the immediate generations after the snap are still too traumatised to appreciate the "good work" Thanos has done, and the ones a few generations later will simply forget about it and repopulate anyway as is their nature
Less sentient races wont even realise what's happened (animals and such)
Most of the universe who are sentient wont know why this thing happened or who Thanos is and will naturally repopulate
The whole thing is not a clever argument on Thanos' part, he just wants to be proven right about what he thought Titan should have done
I believe that its intentionally supposed to be a shit plan that makes little sense, this allows for the endgame thanos to be more extreme when he realises his plans going to fail.
We humans do love having sex. Men are also a bit infamous for not being too picky on what they stick it in to get their pleasure.
It's funny just how many villain's motivation is just hatred of spider-man for vague and nebulous reasons
Norman and Harry were the next closest villains to being pure antagonists.
I guess it's complicated. He wasn't delusional enough to think he was going to be crowned king of the universe but maybe he expected some retroactive praise long after he was gone.....
He did his mission, he doesn't expect any one person to be grateful, but he BELIEVES the universe itself, free from the burden of overpopulation, will be "grateful"
He succeeded in his quest but the avengers going back in time to undo what he did really pissed him off. That’s why he figured it’d be best to just make a universe where people won’t remember what he did.
*I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you’ve shown me that’s impossible. Life clings to the past with bloody fingernails. As long as there are those who remember what was, there will be those unable to accept what can be. They will resist.*
Clearly people other than the avengers remember what was.
>the stones served no purpose...beyond temptation.
He didn’t even put up a fight or anything, he was fine with whatever happened. Even the Thanos of the past doesn’t flinch when he sees himself dying, saying it’s destiny fulfilled.
\--The logical titan
Greenpeace treehuggers dream!
as far as we know he and aubrey plaza never met in the mcu yet (maybe excepting his beheading and if being dusted counts as his "death")
Kinda wish he was not killed in endgame by Thor.
this could be done in many ways, the simplest of which would be releasing all the locked gas and matter inside black holes and other similar space "sinks" made by dead stars, and change whatever mechanics allow them to be born in the first place.
this would require billions of years of time, but it would increase the universe's lifespan incalculably and boost the amount of resources stars give back when they die, which would in turn translate to higher potential for life to come to being and thrive
Not knocking you and it's a valid point, there's before and after that series of events in quick succession.
Closer to home, for all their faults, the early DCEU stuff did seem to treat Superman's emergence and the Kryptonian attack as an event that had lasting effects. The MCU had the forming of the Avengers and the battle of NY but it's always come across as less Earth shattering to that world. Even Thanos is memed on in the aftermath.
Any plan devoid of empathy and understanding of the masses is doomed to fail. It only makes sense in a vacuum.
His plan was to teach the universe a hard lesson, by slaughtering half of the population everywhere to force an abundance on the remaining population. “Watch the sun set on a grateful universe”.
In his mind, if he just gave the universe extra resources, then they would continue to overpopulate and then just consume all of that. There wouldn’t be any drastic lesson that might make people change their ways.
NEITHER of these plans are likely to work, but the one least likely to work is the one where he just gives everyone resources.
The logic behind his plan is made super clear to anyone paying attention. You just need to decode the secret message hidden in the credits of Infinity War using the decoder ring that came in Captain America branded Kellogg cereal boxes from fall 1981 through summer 1982 as explained in the the post credit scenes of the first two Thor movies. Then you use the string of numbers to isolate the sound waves from specific frames in Endgame to hear the recording of Thanos explaining his plan and why it makes perfect sense. The informations right there in the movie.
Simple explanation, all the real Marvel fans figured it out. People look way too deeply when the answer’s right in front of them, no need to come up with crazy theories like the Max Titan being mad.
For one of the highest IQs in the Marvel universe, It was pretty dumb and short-sighted.
who knows how MCU’s thanos would’ve responded, but in what-if, there was a vegetation that solved the resource issue- and that thanos stopped his plan for the gauntlet and supported it
he still took every opportunity to share his plan to try n flex n get cred for it, but he didn’t go through with it
It makes sense there.
Was it okay? No
He couldn't decide who did and who didn't, but in the end he fulfilled his selfish purpose.
[I'll do it again ](https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/255751858/Goofy-do-it-again)
MCU Thanos, on the other hand, sees himself as rational and his mission as noble. Yet one serious conversation with an exceptionally smart and/or wise character - I can think of several - would have confirmed for him that the problem of finite resources could never be permanently solved by his method.
So we get seven years and counting of people's observations that Thanos's plan doesn't really make sense.
MCU Thanos: overpopulation is a serious problem and we need to stop it for reasons I’m not actually smart enough to justify.
Comic Thanos: so I can bang a goth chick that looks like Aubrey Plaza.
Thanos doesn't love Death like he wants to fuck her. He loves Death like a Christian would love Jesus. Thanos is suicidal, loves Death, worships Death, wishes to be with Death, and will kill everyone to be with Death. But Death doesn't want him so he lives. In Thanos Imperative he goes to the "Cancerverse" a Universe where Death was destroyed and no one can die. The Captain Marvel of that universe believes he can end death in the 616 Universe by killing the Avatar of Death(Thanos) in doing so he brought Death to the Cancerverse and everything was killed. Afterwords he said: "I cannot lie. When I found you had let me come back unkillable, I despaired. I should have known you had a plan for me. I've done what you needed me to do. I did it for you. Now take me with you end this empty existence and let me stay at your side forever." But he is rejected by Death and forced to still live. It isn't sexual he just wants to be by Death's side forever which for him to be by her side he must die. Imagine if Christian that decided that to be one with Jesus he had to kill everyone else to be with him basically.
The fact that the MCU version doesn’t have Death for him to obsess over means the writers had to come up with some other reasoning for wanting to end half of life in the universe, but ultimately it doesn’t make much sense.
nobody would notice at first till some weeks or months passed.
nobody would know who to blame.
the result would be the same
But there was never an event in humanity where randomly half the population turns to dust without warning/notice/explanation. Also his snap was 50/50 the whole universe, not 50/50 the per planet. So in a vast universe, some planets could have gone half, other could have lost more, 3rds less - the idea was to be random, dispassionate for rich and poor alike.
Also if we use the counter argument of double the resource - what happens when there is twice the amount of resources are consumed especially by the powerful.
Also he explained his plan - after the snap, he rest, he enjoys his goal fulfilment (also the reason he destroyed the stones in Endgame)
That's kind of what supervillains and autocratic dictators and terrorists do. You give them a second chance and they'll just try to do the same thing again only worse.
But the plan alone isn’t that smart, everything can be a resource, people eat fish, so fish is a resource, but he also removed half of those, so it doesn’t add up that well.
But I guess we’re not ment to overthink it, it was Thanos plan, and it just means he didnt think it that much through or didn’t tell us everything.
Same as every other megalomaniacal villain who's convinced of their own righteousness. What makes them a villain is that they choose the easy path, destruction, and convince themselves the ends justify the means.