Thanos wanted to wipe out half the universe because he thinks there's finite resources to sustain life. So, if the power of the infinity stones give him Godlike powers, why not make infinite resources instead of wiping out half the universe?
shareNo movie worth watching there bud.
We needz a reason to go to the cinema.
Because he's a psychopath who has been fixated with his dream of destroying half the universe his entire adult life. He acquired the power to do so, and did what most megalomaniacs would do in the situation-- go with what they've always believed is the right thing to do.
It's like asking "So and so wants to fix such and such country. Now that he's king/president/dictator/whatever why not do it in an intelligent and humane way?" Because people don't change just because they get rich or powerful.
Thanos is not a fool, and with that level of power it couldn't take more effort to create rather than destroy.
If his motivation was truly a twisted sense of mercy for the greater good it doesn't make sense.
How many people do you know who have ever reevaluated their political or religious beliefs and decided "say, I've been completely wrong my entire life!" and proceeded to believe some other doctrine? Are those that don't fools?
I'd suggest that 95% or more of humans, and likely Titans, develop a sense of belief and purpose during their early life, and carry it basically unchanged until their grave, regardless of intelligence.
I'm not saying he should have changed his mind once he got the gauntlet.
Was his dream to kill half the galaxy, or to help the longevity of the universe?
From what he said in the movie, it's the latter..seemingly a positive thing.
What I'm asking is why his plans from the start is the destructive route when other options were available and would lead to the same goal. He knew what the gems could do.
There must be some other motivation for going with the genocide route, and it's certainly not for convenience when a snap of his finger could just as well have created infinite-ish resources.
As they explained his backstory, it seemed that he grew up on Titan, and was a figure of some political importance. When overpopulation threatened to end life on Titan, he fought for many years to solve it by a random culling of 50% of the population. He was not able to get his way, and watched as other measures failed, and the planet died. Since then, he's traveled the universe, and each time he finds a sentient race, he kills half of them. He's been doing this for a long time. The clear inference is that he's mad, and singleminded. He was even willing to sacrifice the one person he loves-- his adopted daughter Gamora-- in pursuit of his goal. It stands to reason that once he achieved the power to instantaneously accomplish it, he wouldn't have a sudden change of heart, or rethink his belief system.
shareShould have been sterilization. The end of the movie could have some of the heroes get a tingling in their nether regions. that would have been blockbuster gold...
shareI've brought up this question in 2 other threads so obviously I agree with the argument.
One explanation is that Thanos' true motivation from the comics is a bit weird to introduce at this point, trying to impress death which is an actual entity in the comics but not necessarily in the movie universe.
its easier to destroy than replenish , he destroyed worlds and now they are thriving , like being in paradise, he sees destroying half the universe and returning it to paradise as he did with gamoras home planet
shareAs pointed out, he's a psychopath. Though specifically he's a genocidal psychopath. When this psychopath realized that killing half the people of an overpopulated planet helped those that remained, he ran with it. In his mind he got to help civilizations while committing genocide at the same time... a genocidal psychopath's wet dream.
share"Easier" has nothing to do with it. He now has infinite power, infinite means infinite. It would have taken him the exact same amount of effort to make resources more abundant or even infinite.
He killed people because he likes killing people.