I don't even see it as a subgenre that needs all it's intricacies explained away, but that's just me. It's not exactly high brow Sci Fi / Fantasy.
As someone whose the pinnacle of childhood were the Schumacher’s Batman films, I’m more than happy with what we have atm
Exactly.As someone whose the pinnacle of childhood were the Schumacher’s Batman films, I’m more than happy with what we have atm
Alright gramps!
You're definitely overthinking this. As others have pointed out it's a popcorn blockbuster.
Apparently that was part of the thinking behind Batman: The Killing Joke. The fact that nobody dies. There is a panel in that comic that possibly shows Batman strangling the Joker.
Why not click his fingers and fill everyone's bellies? Why does he have to kill when he can create? Doesn't make sense.
Maybe Thanos can't create stuff out of thin air without taking matter from somewhere else? (If matter in the universe is limited)
I like this theory.
Yeah, pretty much the only one. Died from cancer. That was a nice graphic novel.
Yeah, think you might be right. Agents of Shield had someone who was supposedly creating stuff out of thin air who was inadvertently stealing it from other dimensions.
Hold your horses nobody is shutting anything down. People are just either commenting on how pointless it is, disagreeing with it, or clearing up misconceptions.
You know it!Hold your horses nobody is shutting anything down. People are just either commenting on how pointless it is, disagreeing with it, or clearing up misconceptions.
Wanna shut down thoughts of others do ya?
I kind of agree, but I thought it was more of an issue in Homecoming, with the gadgets and AI. I think most likely they are trying to differentiate the MCU Spidey from the previous version and do something new for the screen (it's obviously a bigger element of the more recent comics) and gearing up to strip him of all the technology after Infinity War 2 and Iron Man's possible death.
He's omnipotent with the gauntlet. He can do whatever he wants.
He doesn't want to be a hypocrite, though.
Shut down thoughts of others? Where?
He is one Talks about balance and wiping out half but his actions wipe out way more than half. All the plains in the air, hospitals, vehicles on the road etc and that's just Earth.
I was just making a joke. The plot fails because it's a film about a bunch of people with magical powers not based in any way in reality who can't take somebodies glove off. Any criticism past that is stupid. This is a villain who watched his world die, try to accomplish something insane. That's it. He's not a round table of philosophers or 30 Caf members bouncing ideas off of each other, nor did he go to university to develop his critical thinking skills prior to hatching his plan. He got an idea and ran with it, like half the UK public did with Brexit and like half the US public did with Trump for also stupid reasons. People make stupid decisions that don't make sense every single day. As someone said above, if you can accept a premise of Norse Gods, magic stones that alter time and reality itself, flying sorcerers and technology so advanced you can pretty much make whatever you want happen just by thinking it i.e Iron Man's new suit and a guy who can climb on walls because he got bitten by a spider then you can forgive an evil person who's plan is flawed. I don't know where this requirement came from that villains must have totally logical, sensible plans that are infallible. I don't remember that ever being the case in any film I've seen with a villain in it. Or if someone could name an outlier, it would probably be exactly that.
The real reason James Gunn got fired.
Against the overall totals of half the universes “population” disappearing I doubt the figures from planes or automotive accidents really sque the figures that much.
You're all over the place here. Of course criticism isn't stupid. This is world of comics. There's nothing more scrutinized that every detail in comics. Scientific theory has a bigger margin of error.
The plot fail because he's omnipotent yet he preaches that it's the only way. He's built up to be a villain with a POV where the viewer should think "yea, he's ruthless but his motives are at least noble and good" but all along he's got the power to do whatevery he wants so there's really no point for him to kill half.
That's an even stupider reason than the reason in the film. You also keep saying that Thanos is omnipotent, Thanos is never omnipotent. When he has the gauntlet and all the stones combined, he has powers that effectively make him kinda omnipotent, but Thanos as a being is not, especially without the stones in the gauntlet. So the entire time he's chasing the stones and has his plan, he's not even close to being described as omnipotent. Ergo, he's just as susceptible to flawed thinking as you or I. Also in the comics, pretty much every time he is beaten by the heroes it's because he has a plan that has a major flaw in it. It's totally normal for villains in any medium be it comic books, James Bond movies, fecking Scooby Doo, for the villains to have flaws in their thinking and rationale.
Spoilers mate, spoilers!!!!
Thread title.
Yeah, except it’s possible spoilers for the next movie which no one has seen yet. It’s common curtesy as that is material from the source material which could play a part in the 2nd movie. Everyone else when they’ve discussed that have used spoilers.
I thought he just wiped out humans?
Last part is fair, people have used spoilers for comic talk, but not all. Marvel aren't following the comics fully, and what he has talked about in general won't be in the next movie for sure.
Apparently half of all life, including plants and animals. Makes it an even more stupid plan.
Ok, that’s pretty dumb.
And he needed to make a sacrifice to obtain the soul gem, so could well be.
So he just went around to each planet deciphering which species was the equivalent of humans? And it just so happened to be that on every single planet with a human like species, that species had a balance between themselves and resources that was exactly the same as his planet/earth, so as to make killing half of everyone, everywhere, actually make sense?
