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Like to elaborate a bit (Marvel 4 spoilers I guess)

Thanos's goal is to grab the infinity stones to snap and systematically remove half the life in the universe with it. It doesn't really have anything to do with gaining power or benefiting himself in particular. It's about making the universe as a whole in a better spot. At the same time he has no qualms with killing a bunch of people to do it because it's for a good cause, so he's clearly not good because he's doing "bad" things to get it done.

He achieves that manner in the most efficient way possible, which is generally the way a neutral person acts. He would be Lawful if for some reason it had to be arbitrarily chosen ala the way of the infinity gauntlet and it had nothing to do with the end he's trying to achieve, but as I understand it he's only choosing that method because it's the most effective way to do it. He would be evil if he wanted to use the gauntlet to rule the universe or had some sort of benefit to reap personally due to snapping (for example, if he wanted resources to boom so he could then plunder those resources, or if he needed to take half the population to rule the universe more efficiently for some reason-- but the dude honestly just seems to want the universe as a whole to boom).

Now, granted, Neutral Evil makes the most sense if you take Thanos's character as a whole because you have to wonder how he got in his position to even make a play at the infinity stones and the company he keeps and the flashbacks, and I doubt he had this goal in mind his entire life, but in the vacuum of the MCU he comes off pretty True Neutral to me.
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