Stupid Thanos

Wasn’t Thanos’ whole thing about decimating half the population of all these planets stupid? Knowing what we know about how fast we on Earth grew from 1 billion to 8 billion, didn’t he realize he’d have to keep snapping every few decades to keep populations in check? 🙄🙄

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Jet-Let46062025-12-07 12:53

Yeah its like he was some kind of madman of titanic proportions who wanted to killed trillions based on some flimsy pseudo science. Somebody better stop him. Thank god we don't have people like that IRL.

taquitosmixtape2025-12-07 12:55

To add to this, he assumes people would be grateful for his actions after the grief. They would thank him and learn a lesson of not overpopulation in the future simply because they were given a chance.

-_The_Dark_Knight_--2025-12-07 13:01

The "mad" titan😤

Adipay2025-12-07 13:21

I think Marvel was gonna retcon it to tie in with the Eternals but have since abandoned that story thread.

knotsteve2025-12-07 16:56

I think that is just Thanos fans cooking up theories. Marvel was never going to give Thanos a "better" motivation. Killing trillions to stop Celestials from hatching is never going to get Thanos a Nobel Peace Prize, or even a FIFA Peace Prize.

Christopher_Home2025-12-07 18:41

It makes sense and given Eternals is pretty much dead, there'sno way to know how that thread would have tutned out. And no, just because he has a reason, doesn't justify mass universal genocide regardless of the reasoning.

It's fine to leave it, the MCU loves crapping on the villains afterall, but it really is a disservice to one of the MCU's best villains, he's relegated to a being villain just because.

GullibleGap99662025-12-07 15:56

The one that Thor killed was like a politician saying he would build back better so they wouldnt need to snap again. The Thanos who got snapped away in End game was raging mad and not really thinking things through at that point

Sharikacat2025-12-08 01:04

Thanos hoped that people would learn that overpopulation is a problem. Overpopulation leads civilizations to need to spread like a disease and destroy other worlds, other civilizations for survival because they can no longer support themselves with what they have.

Thanos' quest was ultimately one of sustainability. Yes, if people didn't learn this lesson and carried on as if nothing happened, they'd repopulate to their pre-snap total relatively quickly, but that's also why snapping more resources would be a terrible idea - exponential growth would lead to the destruction of those resources even quicker.

Here's a thought exercise: As a means of population control, if Earth adopted a one-child policy similar to China (without a culture that made women second-class citizens), think about how that *should* effect how we care about people. Every life becomes necessary. All of a sudden, war is that much more of a terrible idea. Governments should care more about investing in making sure *every* child is well cared for, everything from helping end hunger and disease to trying to make these growing adults are properly educated so they can truly contribute to society.

GodOfArk2025-12-08 09:01

He was a genocidal maniac who just needed an excuse to slaughter people. Once you remember this, all Thanos plotholes fill automatically

hell20_2025-12-08 10:57

This thing happened because the Death storyline wasn't adapted. #ThanosWasRight

Additional_Ice_3582025-12-08 11:38

Thanos is an extremist and expecting him to think reasonably is silly and sounds like something straight from CinemaSins. Plus remember what he said with Gamora, the planet she came from now have sufficient food and have been good since. So they appreciate what they have and have been thriving since and maybe rethink overpopulating again.

It's like the same vain of "why doesn't Batman just kill the joker". You have to strip of what makes his character for that to happen.

Blustrngblunderpuss2025-12-08 11:44

Yes, but the refraining from overpopulation is likely to be a temporary thing and will change with future generations as the memory of the snap fades. Would you trust humanoids to control themselves? Thanos, having observed so many planets, ought to have known that.

Additional_Ice_3582025-12-08 13:44

It doesn't have to be correct, in his eyes it's the right thing to do. At least then be can be at peace knowing he did his due diligence in his mind.

Using pretty much the same example; heros with no kill rules. They know the villain will get out of prison but they feel they did the right thing, even if the villain gets out and kills again they refuse to change their core beliefs/concepts.

I get your point but this is my thought process towards that.

Serawasneva2025-12-08 12:04

The point was to teach the universe a lesson about population control. It was also about proving he was right on titan, that his plan would have worked.

EveryAccount77292025-12-08 15:42

Earths population did not grow that fast immediately after a GOD destroyed half the population of the universe to keep population growth in check

there is a lesson there

to assume it would be completely ignored is, weird.

DiceNinja2025-12-08 16:06

They tried to substitute a crap plan for his real motivation and get the same result. In the comics he’s trying to woo Death and get her to love him by killing half of all life. It’s just as evil, but is straight forward and makes sense to him. The MCU version is paper thin if you think too hard.

Blustrngblunderpuss2025-12-08 16:18

Aaah, that kinda makes more sense. I’ll have to read to comics.

DiceNinja2025-12-08 19:06

Thanos Quest and the original Infinity Gauntlet. Trade Paperbacks are cheaper and readily available.

Rastarapha3202025-12-29 12:42

I've always found this motivation to come out of nowhere

Ten years of teasing for a motivation that doesn't really hold up or fit in with any good development that came before (I understand the parallel with Tony, but at least with him we saw good reasons for him to have bad ideas)

And when we explain "he's mad," I think the simp death motivation is much better on paper