Even if you think controlling population is the only solution, Thanos' solution is just so brain dead. Recovering from being reduced to 50% population happens pretty fast, so he's gonna have to keep doing genocide one or two times each century probably.
Thanos doesn't understand how math or demography work at a fundamental level.
The urge to give certain characters cartoonishly evil agendas and personalities helps rationalize the "Do everything it takes to win" narrative that serves to churn out dramatic action sequences.
Thanos doesn’t understand how math or demography work at a fundamental level.
They could have conceivably massaged the plot to make the scheme seem more rational. I'm reminded of the civilization-wide sterilization inflicted on the one race in Mass Effect that nearly runs it to extinction. But the movie was drawn out enough before tossing in an intro class on second derivative population growth rate.
But all of it ultimately just boils down to the need for another glorious reenactment of World War 2. Epic-scale fantasy media seems fixated on this singular point in history. One in which the primal urge to kill on a planetary scale was unleased by globe-spanning empires, and the movie's host country emerged victorious.
You can't do a WW2 fantasy reenactment without a Holocaust. So of course you need Intergalactic Hitler as your final boss.
I have no doubt they're going to do the same soy-banter le-mega arc into a climactic battle with Galactus over the next five or ten years, and for the same reasons.
Even if you think controlling population is the only solution, Thanos' solution is just so brain dead. Recovering from being reduced to 50% population happens pretty fast, so he's gonna have to keep doing genocide one or two times each century probably.
Thanos doesn't understand how math or demography work at a fundamental level.
The urge to give certain characters cartoonishly evil agendas and personalities helps rationalize the "Do everything it takes to win" narrative that serves to churn out dramatic action sequences.
They could have conceivably massaged the plot to make the scheme seem more rational. I'm reminded of the civilization-wide sterilization inflicted on the one race in Mass Effect that nearly runs it to extinction. But the movie was drawn out enough before tossing in an intro class on second derivative population growth rate.
But all of it ultimately just boils down to the need for another glorious reenactment of World War 2. Epic-scale fantasy media seems fixated on this singular point in history. One in which the primal urge to kill on a planetary scale was unleased by globe-spanning empires, and the movie's host country emerged victorious.
You can't do a WW2 fantasy reenactment without a Holocaust. So of course you need Intergalactic Hitler as your final boss.
I have no doubt they're going to do the same soy-banter le-mega arc into a climactic battle with Galactus over the next five or ten years, and for the same reasons.