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.
Well that's likely because all their shows with the replacement heroes starting bombing left and right, so they needed to start putting their not-dead and still liked characters in quickly and fast.
Her descent could have worked, heck it could have worked that fast even after Infinity War. But Endgame is in the middle there messing up the timeline of "grief."
Nobody alleged Thanos was inconsistent lol. He thinks he has the solution, but why? Has he considered and rejected more reasonable options? No, because there are just flat out better options and that would make the movie look bad.
What the Salari did to the Krogan in Mass Effect makes sense. You have a race of warrior frogs running out of control across the galaxy because they hatch hundreds of eggs to a clutch, so you infect them with a virus that makes 999/1000 eggs nonviable. It's a dire measure but it actually stops the exponential curve that causes overpopulation.
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.
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.
Well that's likely because all their shows with the replacement heroes starting bombing left and right, so they needed to start putting their not-dead and still liked characters in quickly and fast.
Her descent could have worked, heck it could have worked that fast even after Infinity War. But Endgame is in the middle there messing up the timeline of "grief."
Nobody alleged Thanos was inconsistent lol. He thinks he has the solution, but why? Has he considered and rejected more reasonable options? No, because there are just flat out better options and that would make the movie look bad.
What the Salari did to the Krogan in Mass Effect makes sense. You have a race of warrior frogs running out of control across the galaxy because they hatch hundreds of eggs to a clutch, so you infect them with a virus that makes 999/1000 eggs nonviable. It's a dire measure but it actually stops the exponential curve that causes overpopulation.
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.