you failed. and do you want to know why? because you love nothing. no one.
I’ll never understand how he still got the soul stone from killing her after she gave this speech. Tf Russos just come out and say it: your film was pro-abuse propaganda.
Thanos didn’t love Gamora. You don’t sacrifice the one you love for power. Because if Thanos had sacrificed the one he loved most, he would have had to choose himself. No one loved Thanos like Thanos did.
You missed the point. Thanos isn’t doing this for power. His motivations are purely noble, in a warped and twisted way. He did love Gamora, he considered her to be his successor and he even let her go join the Guardians until his plan forced her back into the fold.
That doesnt make him right, or justified. He’s still a monster and worthy of the title ‘Mad Titan’, but the twist was that he DID love Gamora, truly.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Sweet baby Yoda so many people need to do some freakin research or at least develop some common sense before stating such harmful crap.
First of all the Russos Thanos was completely different and not consistent with any canon like the first Thanos in several MCU movies prior. They tried in a pitiful fit of desperation to make him a sympathetic villain to distract from Loki and what they came up with was a narcissist with an IQ in the negatives. “He even let her join the Gaurdians” NO. When Pre-Russo Thanos found out about Gamora going rogue he got pissed and threatened Ronan and made a point to make Nebula jealous and grinned sadisticly when she went off to do his bidding and kill the Gaurdians including Gamora.
Second, narcissists only love themselves. They view their children as extensions of themselves and shape them into what they want them to be, often just like them. That is NOTHING like love.
Third, Thanos purposes were nowhere near noble. This has to do with the worst directing/writing in cinematic history but we have to discuss it anyway. He talks repeatedly about the universe being grateful to him and revering him as a god. (Recall Loki’s last words to him.) And something is seriously wrong if anyone thinks it’s noble to torture and murder in the name of whatever cause you woke up one day and decided was right to force on others.
Fourth, he killed Gamoras people and parents in front of her (I don’t care what you want to say about infinity war go watch the first Gaurdians of the galaxy again) and in her own words “he killed my parents in front of me, he tortured me and turned me into a weapon”. And then he pitted her against Nebula from childhood and tortured her to get information from Gamora. All the so called nice things he did were self-serving and it doesn’t take a freakin psychologist to see it. They were to manipulate her and use her sentiment against her.
How dare people say that was love. Go to therapy
Literally the only sign that Thanos loved Gamora was that the soul stone (i.e. the narrative) told us so. Everything else tells us the opposite. That’s shitty storytelling at best and a pro-abuse message at worst. The fact that the soul stone was guarded by a Nazi might be the only thing that can make the story make sense, because that does point toward the idea that maybe the soul stone doesn’t at all do what anyone in-universe says it does. Maybe it just grants sociopaths’ wishes if they do something cruel near it. Maybe the idea that it forces you to sacrifice what you love is the same kind of propaganda as when Thanos says he’s committing genocide for the good of the people he’s killing.
Go ahead and uncritically swallow the bullshit, nonsensical retcon of thanos’ characterization and motivation if you want, despite the fact that he still acts like a psychopathic, narcissitic warlord incapable of loving anyone, despite whatever ~noble reasoning~ he claims to have. But don’t act like we don’t understand, as if we haven’t written and read reams of meta and critical analysis (much of it written by abuse survivors and psychologists) explaining why no, actually Thanos doesn’t love Gamora, can’t love Gamora, even if he believes he does.
Two things here: 1. Nothing Thanos does is psychopathic. Don’t use that word when you mean to say absurd, ridiculous, baselessly cruel, etc. We don’t want him; he’s not one of us.
And 2. Love can be toxic. Love can be unhealthy. Love isn’t a magically pure thing. An abuser can and often does love their abusee. Think of Mother Gothel from Tangled. She did, in the end, love Rapunzel; that didn’t change the fact that she was a horrible, cruel person who hurt her and others for her own gain.
I think, when we talk about love, we need to remember that it isn’t holy. It isn’t inherently good. It isn’t inherently anything, because--as cliche as it is--it’s a chemical reaction. And to acknowledge that love can be a tool to help or hurt others, if anything, makes love when it’s healthy and empowering so much more special, because it could be either.
