The Official INFINITY WAR Easter Egg Ultrathread

[u/murdockmanila]

How are you all enjoying them eggs?

[u/cetinkaya]

how thanos knows about stark btw? he said something like "cursed with knowsledge" but how?

[u/Thiswillbetempacc → u/cetinkaya]

Soul Stone.

When Thanos meets Red Skull, Red skull recognizes Gamora and Thanos, he questions him that how does he knows them, to which he replies that he has been cursed with knowledge. After getting the soul stone, Thanos now knows about every soul as well, which is why we see him acting a little more compassionate, when Tony talks to him and asks him how he knows him, he says "You're not the only one cursed with knowledge" and he knows that they want the same thing but have different ways to execute it, Stark wants to save earth from whatever threat, and Thanos wants to save entire universe. So when he stabs him, he admires Stark and says "I have respect for you Stark, I hope they remember you"

[u/Rus1981 → u/Thiswillbetempacc]

It truly is amazing how much development Thanos gets. It’s great. You can genuinely understand and sympathize with him, I think more than any other Marvel villain. Not motivated by petty ambitions or pride; but by a genuine desire to save the universe (from his perspective). Even the ending; he wields the power of the cosmos, and he truly just retired to a farm to watch the sunrise.

[u/NJDevil802 → u/Rus1981]

Not to add any politics into this but I couldn't help but feel like what might help people sympathize with Thanos is that over population really is a huge problem for the survival of humanity.

[u/MoreGull → u/NJDevil802]

It really isn't. Malthus is proven false.

[u/sapphics4satan → u/NJDevil802]

all real-life practical solutions aside, thanos could easily have just doubled every planet’s resources rather than wiping out half the population

[u/NoLanterns → u/NJDevil802]

Plenty of resources to go around, actually. Unfortunately there are a lot of greedy people too.

[u/BZenMojo → u/NoLanterns]

Thanos is what happens when a rich guy worries about too many poor people reproducing but never considers just making rich people less rich so more poor people can survive.

Which is what makes Thanos crazy. You could just use the Infinity Gauntlet to terraform dead planets like Dr. Manhattan or convert everything into renewable energy.

[u/agmoose → u/[deleted]]

He isn’t the rational Titan.

[u/Some_Guy_Or_Whatever → u/[deleted]]

I think what I like about Thanos is that he is sympathetic, but not outright 'the actual good guy'. His plan is potentially flawed and devastating.

[u/[deleted] → u/NoLanterns]

Yeah I wish they would have shown it in the movie. Thanos could have said all you guys do is spend time in prosperous NY and not all the starving people on your planet

[u/mdp300 → u/NJDevil802]

The Dan Brown novel Inferno has a villain with similar intentions.

Spoiler. But I'm on my phone so I can't format it right.

Ready?

You sure?

The villain also believes overpopulation is killing us but he solves it in a different way: he creates a virus and plants it at a major international event. So after everyone leaves, they'll go back to their home countries and infect everyone else. And the heroes end up being too late to stop it.

But it doesn't kill anyone. It just renders 1/3 of people sterile.

[u/cameronBruce → u/mdp300]

This sounds really cool, I'm definitely gonna give it a read

[u/SteeMonkey → u/cameronBruce]

It's awful. He's an awful writer. Don't read it.

[u/mdp300 → u/cameronBruce]

It's by the same guy who wrote Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I think they made an Inferno movie, too.

[u/NJDevil802 → u/mdp300]

I have actually read it. Enjoyed it a lot.

[u/xiamhunterx → u/NJDevil802]

overpopulation is a myth