Avengers: Infinity War
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Thanos ' captain program inAvengers : eternity Waris more unholy than fans first thought - but it make less sense the more Marvel tries to explain . As repeatedly explain in the movie , Thanos want the Infinity Gauntlet so he could pass over out half of all life in the universe . Despite the Avengers ' best efforts , the Great Titan assembled the six Infinity Stones and , with mastery over Space , the head , Power , the Soul , Time , and Reality , he snapped his fingers and won .
Many of the Avengers , including Spider - Man , Doctor Strange , Scarlet Witch , and Black Panther , along with half the population , faded to dust . Avengers : Infinity War ’s post - credits sceneoffered a coup d’oeil of the mass murder as devoid multitude were dust along with Nick Fury and Maria Hill . Ant - Man and the Waspconfirmed Hank Pym , Janet Van Dyne , and their daughter Hope also work to ash at Thanos ' mitt .
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The death Thanos reaped upon the existence is incalculable , but it was put on his ira was aimed at hoi polloi and sentient unknown ( as evidenced by the demise of Groot ) . on the face of it , it ’s even more sweeping than it appeared . Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige confirmed the purple monster alsokilled half of all animate being and plant lifein the universe with the grab of his fingers . So , when Thanos said"half of all life"had to pop off , he mean it . Unfortunately , his plan does n’t make gumption and it seems like the filmmakers at Marvel did n’t think what Thanos want to accomplish all the way through .
InAvengers : Infinity War , Thanos explained his planwas about universe control . He told Doctor Strange that his own homeworld of Titan grew too large to be supported by its resources and he decided that eliminating half of the hoi polloi would restore balance . He applied his plan to other planet like the homeworld of his adopted daughter Gamora . He mow down half her people and twelvemonth later , he claimed the final result was her satellite was now a Shangri-la . But if the Titan trust there were too many people in the universe and too few resources to sustain them , then killing one-half of all life does n’t solve the problem in any way . Thanos wiping out one-half of the flora and fauna in the universe means he ’s had a cardinal impact on how we consume major resources , leave the survivor no better off than they were before .
If he killed people , industrial plant , and animals , then Thanos did n’t in reality fix anything and he just pull aggregate murder for the sake of it . While his population command programme was deeply blemished to begin with , it hold up with some semblance of warped reason if Thanos only pour down hoi polloi - which is what he state was his destination .
In the comic strip , Mistress Death tax Thanos with killing half of the creation , but it was understood that she intend masses and not also brute and plant . Thanos only killed half the universe ’s hoi polloi inThe Infinity Gauntlet . Thanos ' digit snapalso killing works and animal not only does n’t hold up logically , it ’s also not supported by what fans saw inAvengers : Infinity War . As soon as the crazy Titan snarl his finger , the Avengers and their allies in Wakanda started dying , but only the people - the tree and other flora life all around them ( not countingGroot ) did n’t also fade to rubble .
Although Kevin Feige confirmed the full extent of Thanos ' aggregative murder , even his Holy Writ may not truly be"official"unless it ’s depicted in a pic . Therefore , if what Feige says is unfeignedly canyon , it has to be made cleared that one-half of all animals and plant are also gone inAvengers 4- and the film should deal with the complication of that amount of cosmopolitan loss as well . Otherwise , Marvel ’s best villainset forward a master plan that was already disjointed to begin with , and they ’re now make it worse by offer up an explanation that create more problems than it solves .