I've posted this before but..
Thanos snaps his fingers and halves the population of the known universe by half....but what would that accomplish? The world's population is 7.6 billion people, so if he halves it it'll be 3.8 billion people, what the population was roughly in 1967...
They portrayed it like 90% of the world was snapped out of existence when it wasn't...there would still be a lot of people on earth.
He did this on a universal level, not just Earth.
Also, in the comics he did this to impress a cosmic being that represented death, which wasn't shown in the film. So, his actions in the comics were like a giant human sacrifice, rather than some plot to improve life by killing people.
Is talking about it scientifically , what Thanos did was pointless because in like 15-20 years or even less the population in the universe would be the same again , and yes it was fucking stupid to change that from the comics.
shareYes. I don't know why they changed the story as there was nothing wrong with it to make it filmable.
They do this with some many comic movies. Some stories and characters have been around for about a hundred years and generations like them, then a filmmaker will ignore all that and make his own version which is inferior.
Okay, but what is your point?
Although it wasn't addressed specifically imagine the chaos -- emotional, economic, social, environmental -- of half the world's population disappearing in an instant. In reality, many millions more would die in the followup weeks, months and years.
It was sort of hinted at in the post-credit scene but it would be many times worse than this.
Some random scenarios:
Picture planes falling from the sky around the world as pilots, air traffic controllers and ground crew ashed out.
Dams, construction equipment, traffic accidents, trains, ships, etc running amok as their operators disappeared.
Spreading diseases such as Ebola, measles, cholera when critical medical personnel in global hot spots suddenly disappeared.
What if the distribution of victims wasn't uniform? If countries such as Russia, or Pakistan, or Israel were hard hit, they might fear an attack by their bigger surviving rivals and launch an attack in the name of mutual assured destruction.
Even the ash itself... 3 billion plus people converted to ash. That's got to have some major environmental effects equivalent to a major volcanic eruption.
So, I agree that the post snap universe was ridiculously done in that it grossly underestimated the consequences of such an event and the number of people that would eventually die from it.
What you just described is way more plausible
shareAgreed it was bullshit.
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