Other things that still make me scratch my head about the MCU: -Thanos was a big threat for years. If Captain Marysue was really working as an intergalactic crime-fighter, why didn't she do anything about him then? Back when he had his fleet, he wasn't exactly hard to find and was probably the biggest threat in the galaxy. -At the end, Steve Rogers going back in time and returning to the same future as everybody else basically contradicts the entire alternate reality theory. But at the same time, you have other incidents where the past changed (such as Thanos leaving it) where the future is unchanged. And supposedly the version of Loki who stole the Cosmic Cube.. erm, Tesseract in the past will return and be the "current' version of Loki. How does that work on any level? -Plus if this was to permanently impact timelines causing them to splinter, wouldn't those timelines be better off for *not* having the Infinity Stones? If Thanos is missing even one stone, he can't complete the Snap. And, within the context of the story, it's strongly suggested that he had only made his move BECAUSE he had finally located all of the stones at once since he didn't begin the process until he had extracted information from Nebula regarding the Soul Stone
And, in retrospect, I'm happy that I wound up delaying IW & EG to watch WS first since it made that elevator scene so much better. ... although it simultaneously introduces another problem, since if Cap was trying to put things right by returning the stones, he also made it seem that he was already on Hydra's side -- something that Cap never was -- which, at the very least, runs into the problem where Hydra thinks that they've been exposed which impacts the status quo.
Also I'm kicking myself for not picking up Marvel vs Capcom Origins (which apparently has been off psn since 2014), which I hadn't realized included a port of Marvel Superheroes That's what I fucking hate about digital releases, gone is just gone.
The Wave Master posted...
I like to think that people are inherently good, but my life experiences tell me otherwise. I guess technically I'm insane because I keep thinking people are good, and all evidence suggest otherwise. Repeated hope is insane.
Thanos in the MCU is just a wounded kid that needs serious mental health help; because he never got over what happened to him as a kid. (Just like Batman)
That's why he didn't find a more useful or permanent solution to his plan once he got the Infinity Gauntlet. He didn't rationally think about how best to use this power, he only thought about how he could best prevent another child from suffering like he did.
Nothing in the MCU version suggests that he was bullied as a kid. Instead, he explains his backstory as seeing the impacts of limited resources on his own population and the devastation it caused. The only reason people "laughed" at him was his prediction, which ultimately turned out to be right. Even within the context of that backstory and motivation is an implicit recognition of population growth since the growth was the problem. He had no mechanism to control growth.
Metalsonic66 posted...
It would have been cool to have a hint of the Death obsession though. They had the "court death" line in Avengers but that was it. They could have even used Hela and tied it into Ragnarok
Kinda seems like it'd have to be an all-or-nothing kind of deal. Speaking of Hela, I had been wondering if she could have beat Thanos.
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(\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist.