Thanos - Overpopulation is a problem
Agent Smith (The Matrix) - Humans are a cancer, consuming everything and spreading uncontrollably
Thanos - Overpopulation is a problem
Agent Smith (The Matrix) - Humans are a cancer, consuming everything and spreading uncontrollably
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.