Analyzing Evil: Thanos From The MCU

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  @TheVileEye · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @jmsmith1767 · 4 years ago

  Thanos being somewhat soft spoken and measured was always more menacing than a loud barking screaming monster.

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  @LycanVisuals · 4 years ago

  I came to be a Thanos apologist after working in customer service.

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  @thmistrapillay1811 · 4 years ago

  Thanos&apos;s dedication to what he believes is his purpose is what makes him engaging as a villain

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  @someone2746 · 4 years ago

  “…A man with a will that can’t be broken is destined to either succeed or die trying…”<br><br>Well said about the character and in general.

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  @samuellaakso7012 · 4 years ago

  Speaking of killing Loki, I love this small piece of dialogue at the beggining of IW, where Loki claims himself as Odins son. As he has forgiven Odin and accepts himself as his heir. And nobody is forcing him to do that. Thanos doens&apos;t give two sh*ts for how Loki sees himself. It&apos;s almost more like an apology to Thor for everything he has put them trough. Just a small piece of dialogue but I think it adds so much to the scene and to Loki.

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  @hankfortwel · 4 years ago (edited)

  While a good analysis, I think you overlooked something that A LOT of people have overlooked with MCU Thanos: His ego. His ego, to me, is firmly why he&apos;s a villain. In listening to how he talks about his plan and what inspired it, there&apos;s this lingering sense of spite and pettiness to it. &quot;They called me a madman and what I predicted came to pass.&quot; He has it in his head that if they just listened to him, everything would&apos;ve worked out. If only they just recognized him instead of writing him off and realized he was right. If only they listened. <br><br>That&apos;s the thing about Thanos and his &quot;logic&quot; regarding his plans. Most of his arguments boil down to &quot;I&apos;m right.&quot; Endgame, while presenting a younger Thanos for most of the runtime, really shows what actually drives him. When the Avengers ambush Present Thanos at the beginning of the film, what does he say? &quot;You should be grateful!&quot; and when he expresses his plans to shred down the universe and rebuild it, he caps it off by proclaiming that it would be &quot;a grateful universe.&quot; Even when discussing his plans to Strange in IW, he mentions that he would watch the sun rise on a &quot;grateful universe.&quot; For all his logic and faux compassion, that&apos;s what matters to Thanos, that he be finally recognized as the one who knew how to save everyone. <br><br>This is evident in his first scene in IW, &quot;I know what it&apos;s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you&apos;re RIGHT, yet to fail, nonetheless.&quot; To me, this just shows that at the end of the day, Thanos is still burned by the fact that he was written off as a madman. This is why, for such a compassionate sounding and seemingly run-by-logic being, he has such flashes of sadism and spite when personally involved in battle and murder. This is why each time we see him shredding planets, we always hear Maw hyping him up about what an honor it is to be &quot;saved&quot; by him. Because it isn&apos;t run by logic or compassion anymore, but a desire to finally be seen as right all along. Whether or not Thanos realizes this is up for debate, but to me, this is who Thanos was by the end: a spiteful and petty being who wanted to BE right instead of DO right.

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  @mauriciovillegas7285 · 4 years ago

  One defining characteristic is that when the second Thanos knows he lost, he just sits down and waits for the inevitable. No cursing, no rage, just a last moment of personal peace.

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  @grapeshot · 4 years ago

  &quot;I didn&apos;t teach you to lie that&apos;s why you&apos;re so bad at it.&quot;

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  @cleanserofnoobs4162 · 4 years ago

  I feel Thanos in Endgame is very diffrent from the one we got in Infinite war. In Endgame, he seems less compassionate, more cruel and wicked. He even says he&apos;ll enjoy stopping earth.

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  @Graphcentral · 4 years ago

  You should’ve mentioned Nebula, since she was literally tortured and made into a mechanical monstrosity due to Thanos’ cold and callous nature. That would’ve been a better way to let us know how evil Thanos really is.

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  @freezingsilver · 4 years ago

  It was inevitable that The Vile Eye would eventually cover Thanos

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