Thanos Infinity War Snap Wasnt About Resources Theory Explained

Thanos’ Infinity War Snap Wasn’t About Resources – Theory Explained

A new Avengers: Infinity War theory reframes Thanos’ snap motivation, explaining that it doesn’t have to do with overpopulation and lack of resources.

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Thanos Infinity War Snap Wasnt About Resources Theory Explained

A new Avengers: Infinity War theory explains why Thanos’ (Josh Brolin) snap wasn’t about the scarcity of resources. It has been more than three years since the Infinity Saga culminating film hit theaters. Since then, a lot of things have happened in the MCU, including the reversal of the decimation in Avengers: Endgame. But, the unintended ramifications of the blip continue to play a part in MCU Phase 4.

While Marvel Studios started teasing the existence of Thanos in 2011 in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. Since then, he appeared in several ways throughout the franchise, slowly establishing his presence in the shadows. However, it wasn’t until 2018’s Infinity War that he properly made his entrance. Admittedly, this was a big risk. The film was already packed as it was, with all pockets of the universe coming together to fight a common enemy. Luckily, directors Joe and Anthony Russo, with writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely found a way to effectively establish the Mad Titan as a credible threat. It also helped that he’s supposedly driven by the right intentions — to prevent the scarcity of natural resources that sustain the growing population.

In Infinity War, Thanos was motivated by the idea called Malthusianism which is “is the idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population die off.” But user u/IsaiasRi claims that this is not the case; instead, the villain’s intentions were driven by his personal ambition to be a Leviathan. The idea comes from Thomas Hobbs’ book Leviathan which posits that “for as long as men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in the condition known as ‘war’; and it is a war of every man against every man.” Using the snap, the Mad Titan wants to establish himself as the all-powerful being that would keep the galaxy both in awe and terrified — so much so that men are preoccupied that they don’t have the time or energy to fight off one another. Through this, eternal peace is preserved.

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This is why simply doubling the resources, which many have pointed out to be a more simplistic approach to the problem, wouldn’t accomplish Thanos’ goal. It would simply be a band-aid solution and is something that would need to be repeatedly done moving forward. Meanwhile, exhibiting such power on a massive scale as the Snap did would’ve had generational effects. It would’ve continued to be referenced in the centuries to come as this galactic event, that even when Thanos died, the catastrophic event would remain at the forefront of everyone’s consciousness. This would also explain why Thanos decided on wiping off the rest of the universe in Avengers: Endgame; he realized that the only way to be a Leviathan from that point would be to create an entirely new galaxy that considered him untouchable.

Looking back, this is a deeper way of analyzing Thanos’ actions and motivations. Given his relatively limited screen time in the MCU, Marvel Studios didn’t have the opportunity to go in-depth with Thanos’ personal story. He claimed that the snap was motivated by good intentions in Avengers: Infinity War, but this doesn’t necessarily make that true – as there’s always the potential that he was so blinded by his self-righteousness that he never really understood where this need to balance the universe was really coming from. Much of what’s known about Thanos also came from him, with no other sources to corroborate whether or not he’s indeed telling the truth.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/thanos-infinity-war-snap-leviathan-resources-theory/

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