Is he a well written character?

No. He is well spoken but his motivations are retarded and ruined a potentially good capeshit movie.

What is his motivation?

Death i'm guessing, who is a person in the comics and is a qt goth girl iirc

Saving the universe.

What if its revealed he was doing this all for Death and she is the one who defeats him?

Lady Death. In the comics his entire motivation revolves around getting the female version of the Grim Reaper to be his gf. So he is obsessed with killing as many people as he can to impress her.

Crashing this plane.

Yes

Fuuuuuck no. They went the laziest of possible routes to try to make him sympathetic, by making him a “greater good” villain, but couldn’t ass themselves to actually make him right.

With unlimited power literally in his hands, the best solution he could come up with was a fucking bandaid. What’s worse, it’s a “solution” to a problem that’s self-correcting.

are you?

He doesn't have internal ramblings about other races and not having a gf so no

No. If he has the time stone and the soul stone why can't he bring titan back?

>potentially good capeshit movie
No such thing.

No. He is an idiot who doesn't know anything about logistic and exponential growth,

He’s not even as well-spoken as some of the posters in this thread. His dialogue is sophomoric. Anyone who thinks:

>I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail nonetheless. As lightning turns the legs to jelly. I ask you to what end? Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same. And now, it’s here. Or should I say, I am.

has never read a good book in their entire lives. Shit, they’ve never even read a good *comic* book.

This.
US Comic book characters can only be badly written.

Considering I actually give a shit about his character compared to any of the interchangablely bland and overly 'snarky' heroes, I'd say he is. At least in comparison to them.

>we can empathize with Thanos because he wants to 'save' the universe through conquering and eliminating half of population
>we can see his suffering because he had to sacrifice his adopted daughter, after killing her parents and people when she was a child.

I hate that I got tricked into watching this "well-written" villain. Thor was the best character in this shitfest.

>Impress your gf by increasing her workload quadrillion-fold.

Solid plan.

It's funnier than this.
When he gets the Infinity Stones in the comics he asks if Death wants to fuck him now.
Mephisto then says now he is more powerful than Death,so he went from a orbiter to her boss
Then he uses the gauntlet to make a female version of himself so "neither of us will be virgins"

I think they went in thinking it would make him likable. Too bad, the movie already does that with out Madame Death.

Without her, it didn't make sense though. He has world-altering powers and only thought of, "HMMMM KILL HALF OF EVERYONE." Atleast with Madame Death you get a reason for that. Plus, it adds to his internal monologue and conflicted reasoning-- like killing Gamora. All in all, I think they didn't want him to be too likable if he was just some lovestruck, brainwashed guy who deep down knew he was doing something fucked up.

That's fucking stupid lmao

Just you wait until you fall in love, user! You too will do stupid things.

Why didn't he just create more resources?

Because that only postpones the problem.

>As lightning turns the legs to jelly
Poetry

You can't create matter out of nothing.

That’s just it. In the comics, he’s not unaware of it being something other people would think is fucked up; it’s just that he doesn’t care. He knows they’ll think it’s wrong. He just pretends that *he* sees nothing wrong with it. The “big picture” that he believes others don’t see is that there is no greater good, no evil; only courage, cowardice, and desire. Those who act on their desires are acting in courage. Those who restrain themselves within the bounds of some code are using it as a shield for their cowardice. He doesn’t “fight you on your level” out of any conception as noble as honor, he does it because he enjoys it, enjoys besting others, proving to them what he already knows: he’s better than you. His entire life is built around a Darwinistic, amoral philosophy.

But it’s all a lie.

Because just like the overwhelming number of people in existence, he does have a conscience, an internal voice that judges him and his actions. That’s revealed in his taking Gamora as his daughter. It’s that act of compassion that his soul is revealed. It is Thanos’s own soul that ultimately defeats him, that conscience that won’t be silenced.

And then there’s Disnos.

Loki, Killmonger and Vulture are much better written. And I don't even like Loki. If Thanos was right, then the human population wouldn't have gone over one billion. More humans means more manpower, which translates into more production and therefore more resources. While advances in science and technology, along with optimization of supply chains, production lines and the superiority of free markets in allocating resources, allows us to do more with less.
People who think Thanos is a good villain are the same ones who unironically comment that humans deserve extinction.

What’s more. He doesn’t *know* it will win him Death’s affection, only that it might. In the comics, mass-death is just a means to a possible end. He does it more or less on a whim.

Property rights, motherfucker.

It all falls apart without property rights

Yup. Forgot about that.

>More humans means more manpower, which translates into more production and therefore more resources

*more efficient resource extraction. More humans doesn't mean there's suddenly more metals in the crust for example

>a character is well written if their philosophy is correct

Except we're not anywhere near as close to exhausting said resources. And I'm not even accounting for recycling, renewable alternatives and asteroid mining.

give me an example of a "well written" villain

You’re kind of missing his point. Thanos isn’t just supposed to be a little crazy; he’s also supposed to be an off-the-charts genius. It’s hard to reconcile that aspect of his character with a retard who can’t even into logistics.

Hannibal and his elephants.

What if he was trying to keep the universe safe from someone, say Galactus? Wiping out half of all living life forms would have caused Galactus to go after other universes. The Avengers defeat Thanos, return everyone who was wiped out, and suddenly Galactus reemerges as the new threat for the next phase?

Don’t forget about B.A.

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he said villain

No idea. I really thought they were going to make Cate Blanchett the movie version of Lady Death and have her be Thanos's lover from thousands of years ago. But they just killed her off immediately and Thanos's joke motivation from the comics is his real motivation in the movie.

and I said Hannibal and his elephants.

no

That would have zero effect on Galactus. He consumes planets for their biosphere. At best, Thanos would only make him have to go through twice as many.

For sixty years.

Sort of, but the major flaw is his fucked up solution.
Killing half of sentient life in existence only lasts so long. People breed it back in no time.
Even the villain(s) in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann had a more believable motivation for keeping the universe suppressed and below a certain population limit. If they didn't, things would "spiral" out of control, as in that universe willpower translates directly to magic.

I'm not sure how to fix Thanos. He's a very entertaining villain but this flaw keeps him from being KINO.

This right here finally proved to me beyond all doubt that they never really had a story fleshed out.

Cutting the population in half doesn't?

Alexander the Great.

It would make so much more god damn sense.
Why did Thanos give Loki a whole infinity stone in Avengers 1? He knew he was Hela's (half) brother and wanted to prove devotion to her family when she came back.
Why did Thanos genocide the Asgardians at the beginning of the movie? Because they killed his gf and he wanted payback.
Why does Thanos sit on his ass instead of actually going out and getting these stones? He's waiting for Hela to return to start doing that.
But instead they just make it up as they go along without trying to have any remote sense of logic.

>Galactus
at this point I'd prefer a weight-loss drama

What makes it even worse to me is that they had the perfect opportunity to give us cosmic-scale court intrigue à la Game of Thrones by introducing Hela *early*, using Thor’s movies to introduce any *hint* of the pact the terrestrial pantheons have with the Celestials, then have Hela dethroned from her own Realm and banished to Midgard, deprived of the strength she has as the ruler of Hel. You could essentially make her an amalgam of Hela and the Enchantress, complete with Skurge as her lapdog.

From there, you could make her both a player in GotG as well as the Thor movies, with Skurge growing increasingly aware of the fact that he’s getting BBD’d by Thanos. It could be about using the Reality Stone as a means of regaining her throne in Hel and Thanos coming to understand the nature of the Stones and how they can be used together for even greater feats. All of this would culminate in Thanos providing Hela with an army of dead so large that she can o erwhelm Asgard and begin the *actual* Ragnarok, not the bullshit we just got. Instead we get

>muh resources

I hate Disney so, so much.

That was a massively fucking shit idea infinity war would be hot garbage they kept Lady Death.
How likely she would have been added in if Cuck Whedon was directing it?

By actually building a fucking story instead of giving us a decade where fully two-thirds of the movies are pure filler. I fucking hate this shit.

yes, to the point i felt satisfied with his victory. the end of INFINITY WAR is fucking kino, it justifies the whole wait.

if all becomes shit - and it will - you can pretend that the whole story ends there, like lars von trier melancholia.