Thanos - Overpopulation is a problem

Agent Smith (The Matrix) - Humans are a cancer, consuming everything and spreading uncontrollably

Overpopulation isn’t the problem, logistics are. We have the ability to provide for the population of the planet, we can even figure out how to do it without raping the planet and ruining it for future generations… just not while the rich get richer.

Also, halving the population would only temporarily delay the problem if overpopulation was actually the issue.

Thanos plan was just stupid.

Yup. Why not double all the resources in the universe? Or halve consumption of them? You have the hand of all creation. There is no limit. Be more creative than “kill half.”

His reasoning was more direct in the comics, which was that he loved death herself, and wanted to kill half of the universe to impress her. That would have been messy and stupid in a movie in a way that it both was and wasent in a 1970s comic book, so they just filled in the gap for the films with something vaguely plausible.

Yeah, I just feel like with some slight tweaking they could have made it more interesting. Like even “one of the stones was used to destroy half of my world and no one came to our aid (asguardians, etc.) so let’s see how the rest of the universe likes it”
His comics motivation of wanting to bang Death was much more logical.
Oh I don’t disagree, his motivations are kinda stupid no matter how you look at it. I just think for a bullion dollar movie franchise they could have some up with something slightly more interesting.

Absolutely not. Thanos is the least understandable any villain has ever been to me. If a planet barely had enough people to survive? Halve the population. If the planet has 4x the ideal number of people? Halve the population. Neither group knows why this thing happened to them. The first dies out, the second is back to the same level in two generations. Everyone is miserable.

Even ten minutes of half-hearted contemplation will give you dozens of better alternatives. He literally had infinite power. Why not make every being in the universe aware of the overpopulation and willing to act on it? At the very least he could tell the survivors why he did it so they can change their behavior.

In the comics, he was trying to fuck Death.

She was not impressed.

I like the comic version more tbh, where he has a crush on Death and just wants to impress her by killing a ton of people. Probably would have made for a worse movie but I find that a more relatable reason lol

Humans are a cancer

Sounds like collective punishment lol