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."
Of course Thanos is wrong. That doesn't make him internally inconsistent. I replied to Adamrises with this, but I'll also put it here since you are seemingly in the other camp:
Thanos 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.
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.
I’m telling you that Thanos’ character includes a very specific blindspot, and you’re telling me “movie bad because Thanos didn’t do [thing that falls within his blindspot].” If you are going to insist on that, there’s no point to this discussion.
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."
Of course Thanos is wrong. That doesn't make him internally inconsistent. I replied to Adamrises with this, but I'll also put it here since you are seemingly in the other camp:
Thanos 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.
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.
I’m telling you that Thanos’ character includes a very specific blindspot, and you’re telling me “movie bad because Thanos didn’t do [thing that falls within his blindspot].” If you are going to insist on that, there’s no point to this discussion.
Bro this is supposedly a genius character that can't see choices a college freshman would see. It's not a believable blindspot.