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Being Complex doesn’t mean everything you do is okay
*Spoiler Alert, if you haven’t seen Infinity War, stop reading*
Given Marvel’s great work creating a backstory that gives Thanos a Thomas Malthus sized justification for his moves to cull half of the population of the universe some people might be concluding that Thanos is heroic.
No, Thanos is not heroic.
Yes, I know that Thanos cried a few perfectly rendered purple CGI tears before he sacrificed Gamora but I am still pretty convinced that he is a gigantic Barney the Dinosaur colored A**hole.
Thanos doesn’t seem to totally grasp that what he has been doing was problematic, doesn’t seem to believe any of it was wrong, and absolutely doesn’t see how central he has made his own ego in the process of deciding life and death.
Why am I so certain that Thanos is bad?
- Thanos is trying to kill half the people in the universe and wants people to thank him for the honor.
Yup, Thanos literally tells the people he is preparing to kill to be thankful because he is showing them mercy.
That doesn’t even make sense…Death is death, and personally, I would prefer to live more years rather than be extended the tender mercies of the…
