They already casted Reed Richards in the Doctor Strange movie. Even had an actor so popular it basically was half the movie's marketing for them.
They treated him so shitty (so they could prop up the the genderbent Captain America and the raceswapped Captain Marvel as the only ones who could fight back against Scarlet Witch) that it was basically the only thing people talked about from the movie. He acts like an actual retard, using only a slow and obvious forward hand stretch to attack a reality warper, after explaining his strongest teammates weakness and then dies a horrifically painful death.
Why would anyone, actor or moviegoer, want to be part of that role? Especially as the Fantastic 4 is probably the most boring, unwanted cast of characters possible from comic books. If not for Doctor Doom they would have been banished to obscurity and anyone clamoring for them is just hoping for more of him.
Thanos at least had the reasoning of trying to be impartial. As in, he could recognize that the moment he did anything beyond 50/50 he was playing favorites one way or another and that's where it ceases to be logic and becomes "evil."
It makes sense, even if you disagree with him its a consistent principle that he tried to hold (until he didn't with Endgame).
And I can understand Scarlet Witch's motivation, it has some seedling of a point. The problem is treating her as if she is justified in any way. Like, she fell in love with a lie and now she is using her cataclysmic powers to make everyone else suffer for it. That means she can never be trusted again and need to be put down for reality itself's safety.
Yes, Thanos is consistent and if you suspend your disbelief and take his basic plan as logical, everything that follows makes sense. Consistently stupid, but that was the fig leaf that made Infinity War 2 billion dollars or whatever.
I could see there is some kind of pathway where A (muh kids) might lead to B (whatever happened there) for Scarlet Witch, but in addition to the weird idea that she might be sort of justified, the escalation was way too fast. This is a character that ostensibly had a sound mind as of Endgame. What MCU writers think of as a "motivation" is actually an excuse to smash action figures together.
I will also defend Thanos by saying this: he was deluded, and he was intentionally and competently written as deluded. What I think people miss (and I'm confused that they do, since it seems fairly obvious) is that when he says he expects the universe to be grateful, he is completely serious and completely literal.
As he explains to Doctor Strange, his motivating event is the death of his world. He is completely convinced that his solution (kill half the planet) would have worked, and because he can't move past that, the thing he thinks to do is replicate his solution across the universe. The circumstances aren't exactly the same, but that doesn't matter—he's stuck on the fact that people didn't take his solution and the idea that if only they had, it would have worked. Ultimately, he wants to solve the problem, but he also wants to be proven right. He thought that when he succeeded, people would accept the logic behind what he had done (and presumably, that they would then reorder their societies using the reprieve he had bought them).
We know that he harbors this delusion because of how he reacts when he time travels forwards in Endgame and sees that people, even after he implements his solution, don't agree with it. He sees that they have not taken his gift as a chance to build salvation, but as something that must be undone at all costs, and he is so stunned and affronted by this that he decides to burn the entire universe and build a new one from the ground up.
Thanos concerned about overpopulation? Don't alter birth rates, just kill a bunch of people randomly
Could also increase resources to make "overpopulation" a non-issue. That's part of the problem with giving a character the ability rewrite reality. You have to write them as being a dumbshit to get around them being able to do literally anything they want.
Technically it solves the problem (at the risk of destroying civilization), but you would need to prune the population every so often for that to be a real solution.
They already casted Reed Richards in the Doctor Strange movie. Even had an actor so popular it basically was half the movie's marketing for them.
They treated him so shitty (so they could prop up the the genderbent Captain America and the raceswapped Captain Marvel as the only ones who could fight back against Scarlet Witch) that it was basically the only thing people talked about from the movie. He acts like an actual retard, using only a slow and obvious forward hand stretch to attack a reality warper, after explaining his strongest teammates weakness and then dies a horrifically painful death.
Why would anyone, actor or moviegoer, want to be part of that role? Especially as the Fantastic 4 is probably the most boring, unwanted cast of characters possible from comic books. If not for Doctor Doom they would have been banished to obscurity and anyone clamoring for them is just hoping for more of him.
There are so many things wrong with that movie. The Illuminati acting like smug retards for no reason is just one.
I am constantly amused by the MCU's inability to give their villains a motivation that an adult would understand.
Thanos concerned about overpopulation? Don't alter birth rates, just kill a bunch of people randomly
Scarlet Witch wants kids? Mind rapes an entire town
Thanos at least had the reasoning of trying to be impartial. As in, he could recognize that the moment he did anything beyond 50/50 he was playing favorites one way or another and that's where it ceases to be logic and becomes "evil."
It makes sense, even if you disagree with him its a consistent principle that he tried to hold (until he didn't with Endgame).
And I can understand Scarlet Witch's motivation, it has some seedling of a point. The problem is treating her as if she is justified in any way. Like, she fell in love with a lie and now she is using her cataclysmic powers to make everyone else suffer for it. That means she can never be trusted again and need to be put down for reality itself's safety.
Yes, Thanos is consistent and if you suspend your disbelief and take his basic plan as logical, everything that follows makes sense. Consistently stupid, but that was the fig leaf that made Infinity War 2 billion dollars or whatever.
I could see there is some kind of pathway where A (muh kids) might lead to B (whatever happened there) for Scarlet Witch, but in addition to the weird idea that she might be sort of justified, the escalation was way too fast. This is a character that ostensibly had a sound mind as of Endgame. What MCU writers think of as a "motivation" is actually an excuse to smash action figures together.
I will also defend Thanos by saying this: he was deluded, and he was intentionally and competently written as deluded. What I think people miss (and I'm confused that they do, since it seems fairly obvious) is that when he says he expects the universe to be grateful, he is completely serious and completely literal.
As he explains to Doctor Strange, his motivating event is the death of his world. He is completely convinced that his solution (kill half the planet) would have worked, and because he can't move past that, the thing he thinks to do is replicate his solution across the universe. The circumstances aren't exactly the same, but that doesn't matter—he's stuck on the fact that people didn't take his solution and the idea that if only they had, it would have worked. Ultimately, he wants to solve the problem, but he also wants to be proven right. He thought that when he succeeded, people would accept the logic behind what he had done (and presumably, that they would then reorder their societies using the reprieve he had bought them).
We know that he harbors this delusion because of how he reacts when he time travels forwards in Endgame and sees that people, even after he implements his solution, don't agree with it. He sees that they have not taken his gift as a chance to build salvation, but as something that must be undone at all costs, and he is so stunned and affronted by this that he decides to burn the entire universe and build a new one from the ground up.
Could also increase resources to make "overpopulation" a non-issue. That's part of the problem with giving a character the ability rewrite reality. You have to write them as being a dumbshit to get around them being able to do literally anything they want.
Technically it solves the problem (at the risk of destroying civilization), but you would need to prune the population every so often for that to be a real solution.