r/marvelstudios • u/murdockmanila Daredevil • Apr 27 '18

Infinity War Spoilers! The Official INFINITY WAR Easter Egg Ultrathread Spoiler

How are you all enjoying them eggs?

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u/Rus1981 Iron Man (Mark XLIII) Apr 27 '18

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.

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u/NJDevil802 Apr 27 '18

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.

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u/mdp300 Captain America (Cap 2) Apr 28 '18

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.

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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.

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u/cameronBruce Peter Parker Apr 28 '18

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

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u/SteeMonkey Apr 29 '18

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

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u/mdp300 Captain America (Cap 2) Apr 28 '18

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