Thread by @AlexandraErin

Also, the fact that he killed half the plants and animals, coupled with the destruction wreaked on supply lines across every planet, means he did nothing to address starvation even in the short term.

https://twitter.com/letsgoayo/status/1437204184659550208

And no, non-sapient plants being snapped away is not something that was visually represented, but something that I believe the filmmakers confirmed as their intent.

I don't believe he even did that. If we take earth as being in any way typical as a representation of the "problem", it's not a lack of resources but intentional bottlenecks in distribution.

https://twitter.com/crwilley/status/1437452173420466179

Which is a problem I don't think you can solve with the Infinity Stones at a universal scale, because... what is the solution? And how do you hold yourself together long enough to direct the energy of the stones to enact something that complicated?

You can say "snap away capitalism" but what does that look like? What is being changed, materially, in the universe? Using the gauntlet to do something as straightforward as removing half of the living organisms, distributed randomly throughout the universe, almost kills the user

The comic version of Thanos, causing death on an unprecedented scale *was the point* of causing death on an unprecedented scale. Trying to give him a noble, misguided anti-villain rationale makes him into a ridiculous figure.

And the thing is, I like the film's take on the character as a premise, but it's a premise that requires the films to be explicit that he's *wrong*. I wish they had made it canon that *he* destroyed Titan, plunging it into an extinction war over his crackpot fascist beliefs.

I mean, as much as I would love more Hela, I don't think she slots that neatly into the Death role of the original Thanosiad. Her being "goddess of death" reads as more of a badass boast for a warrior goddess than a cosmo/mythological fact.

https://twitter.com/NeverOnBrand/status/1437453791864008706

She's a death goddess in the sense of having a skeleton army and killing a lot of people. We never see her acting as a psychopomp, nor having any sway over the processes of death, and she's been locked away in a pocket dimension since before Thor or Loki were born.

The motivation that works best for MCU Thanos is that he's killing half the universe because he wants to. You can tie that into what we see on screen by making it sunk cost fallacy - after he killed his own entire world rather than admit he's wrong, half the universe is nothing.

And the read I find most compelling on Loki is a similar arc. Especially if you incorporate some of the deleted scenes, Thor and Avengers are the story of Loki doubling down and escalating each time one of his schemes goes awry.

So with Thanos having been the power behind Loki and the Bigger Bad waiting in the wings... I would have loved to see them delve into that more.

Especially given that the story that Loki tells about why he does what he does is a need to bring "order".