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Thanos gives the Surfer a lecture on why genocide is good, actually.

Thanos speeds up the flow of time. The aliens have been all but wiped out by disease, just as Thanos predicted.

Meanwhile...

Date: 2024-10-12 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tcampbell1000
This version's a lot closer to movie Thanos than I remember. But man, I love that little grin just as he starts to show his hand. The Thanos from this period really got to enjoy himself.

Date: 2024-10-13 11:07 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] steverodgers5
Yeah, I'd forgotten how Thanos explained it here. Which is quite close to his movie ethos too. Albeit with the crucial difference that here, the inspiration appears to come from Thanos currying Death's favour, with her seemingly being the one proposing the Universe was out of balance. As opposed to the movie Thanos who seemed to try and justify it as some form of selfless altruism on his part.

I can't help but feel like this was the original idea for Thanos in the movies too, given the line Whedon used to introduce him at the end of the first Avengers movie, and Thanos's knowing grin at it. I'm not sure if general audiences at the time would have been able to buy into the notion of a figure of Death that Thanos was looking to impress, but I know I woud have been up for it!

Date: 2024-10-20 11:41 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] tcampbell1000
You're absolutely right: Whedon gave interviews to that effect.

Date: 2024-10-12 05:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] deh_tommy
Man, that was absolutely insidious.

Why was Drax dead?

Date: 2024-10-12 07:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] obsidianwolf
Yeah IIRC it was around the time her ego reached it's peak and she enslaved an entire planet with her telepathic powers and Drax was part of the group of heroes who opposed her.

It ended with her killing her dad and the shock of killing him left her powers greatly decreased so she couldn't enslave planets any more.

Date: 2024-10-12 05:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] starwolf_oakley
A few "villains of the week" on NCIS and Hawaii 5-O have this "population control" motive.

Date: 2024-10-12 07:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cainofdreaming
It's such a Ra'sty motivation. And illogical. People won't stop breeding, so you'd just have to do periodical cullings.

Date: 2024-10-12 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] scorntx
When you're someone like Thanos, that's not a bug. It's job security.

Date: 2024-10-21 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] shadur
So Thanos started out as a moron and it wasn't just the MCU interpretation. Good to know.

(I'll spare you all the lecture on math, population growth curves and short-term thinking by people who think they're smart, but the TLDR is that population growth isn't even remotely the problem, wealth inequality is. But rich people and gullible capitalists really prefer hearing "philosophies" that explain that the problem is too many "other" people and culling back the "herds".)

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