But the problem isn’t limited resources, it’s mismanaged resources and hoarding by the elite. And, I mean, with the Mind Stone, Thanos could theoretically fathom everything, especially when coupled with the Power Stone.
My problem is that he could have, with the Infinity Gauntlet, done literally anything. He could have made people more compassionate. He could have created infinite, clean energy, he could have made it so beings don’t require food, he could have given activists and humanitarians superpowers, he could have done a billion other things, and he just…kills people?
He’s not even internally consistent. The Asgardians, having just undergone a mass extinction event, were all killed. He didn’t revive half of the killed population of Asgard, he didn’t even kill half of the survivors. He just killed everyone aboard the ship. So, what gives??
We also know that his “killing half the world” thing doesn’t always work. In fact, in the one example of a world which had previously been savaged by Thanos and the population halved, it led to the extinction of the planet. We know he executed half of the population of Gamora’s home planet. We also know that Gamora is the last living being from her species. In canon, relying on the movies, Thanos didn’t even check to see if killing half the population is even effective, he just assumed it works and people are better for it. Leaving aside the trauma of losing so many and the societal collapse which follows, it didn’t even work (in the one canon example we’ve got, which, while not a reliable sample size, is all we’ve got, and c’mon, they gave us that and just that for a reason), and his grape ass didn’t bother checking up on them.
They tried to hard to make him “reasonable”, imo. I much prefer his comics motivation–killing all life to woo Lady Death–to this psuedo humanitarian motive. They could have given us such good shots and monologues of his obsession and love, he could even have been a sympathetic character. Just imagine Brolin talking about his sacrifices and gifts to his Lady Love, about giving her the whole universe and beyond, instead of,,,,this.
I’m just really disappointed, tbh, I expected more of Thanos and was underwhelmed