THANOS; A Remake of Avenger Infinity War/EndGame's Villian Profile.
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First off, I need to categorically state that Thanos is a big deal.
If he wasn’t, the Marvel Cinematic Universe wouldn’t have positioned him as the one to create the biggest standoff of the entire franchise; a face-off with earth’s mightiest heroes.
After an impressive trans-dimensional sojourn across the universe, the imposingly-ripped, lavender-skinned villain conqueror simply known as Thanos finally hit pay dirt.
He had a finger-snapping Eureka moment.
He looked across the intergalactic landscape and decided that the universe needed pruning.
There was a glaring disparity between its finite resources and its infinite life forms. The universe was a fast sailing ship, on a collision course with a boat-sinking iceberg.
Can you see what I am getting at yet?
The truth is that Thanos is a genius.
Uncelebrated but a genius nevertheless.
We basically owe him our lives. We should all gather round the master mind and sing him praise songs that would reverberate across the fabric of the universe.
But we have instead flagged him wrongly; branded him a villain.
You see, no one else had the balls to do what Thanos did.
Not universe-leaping regulars like Thor, Captain Marvel or the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Thanos crafted a simple economic solution to a problem that has plagued the world for years.
The sad truth is that the universe is dying and its resources with it.
Why? We have too many people feeding off it.
Economists have over the years slaved to find a sustainable system where the finite resources of the earth would match the infinite life forms that inhabit it.
That search is still ongoing.
Yet when a single-minded intergalactic life form like Thanos decides that the only way to save the universe and it’s bludgeoning inhabitants is to prune it with a snap of his infinite-stone powered fingers, the avengers are all riled up about it.
Can you see my point now?
So would you rather guard a universe where its life forms are unable to survive another life cycle because its resources have all been used up by its entitled population?
Maybe Captain America might be a bit consumed by his exaggerated ‘Americanism’ or Ant man by his annoyingly small-time philosophy, but I expected more from genius-minds like Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.
Anyway the last time I looked, Spider man was still tethered to his friendly neighborhood viewpoint and Thor too engrossed with trans-galaxy accommodation challenges, so who, if not a universal high-flyer like Thanos would be totally invested in fixing the world?
Let’s not be quick to judge a book by its dust-covered wrappings.
Not everything that looks strange is actually Dr. Strange.
*This newsletter was curated while listening to TheBig4 by Kingsley Okonkwo