ReynTime250
Since: Jan, 2015
Mar 16th 2018 at 6:15:18 AM
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- Lantern Jaw of Justice: Played with. He's a space tyrant with a god complex, but he still features a well defined jawline that you'd see on the various heroes to illustrate he's a Well-Intentioned Extremist meant to be a Foil to the good guys.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: This version of Thanos is driven to stop what he believes will eventually become an apocalyptic Overpopulation Crisis. By using the Infinity Gauntlet to wipe half of intelligent life, he'll be saving the other half from using up their natural resources faster than those resources can be replenished.
- Freudian Excuse:
- The majority of his species died after an Overpopulation Crisis led them to use up all the natural resources on his homeworld of Titan. Thanos believes it's his duty to stop such a tragedy from ever happening again... even if it means wiping out half the universe to save the other half.
- He was also ostracized during his childhood due to his genetic deformity, which played a major role in shaping his personality.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Thanos is a Death worshiper who killed half the universe as an offering to his "love". In the MCU, Thanos is a true Well-Intentioned Extremist who believes killing trillions is a necessary evil to "save the universe from itself" and protect trillions more from resource wars, overpopulation, and permanent environmental damage to their own homes.
These have come from Josh Brolin's interview (Which could just be an interpretation of the character) but is not ever mentioned in the actual work. I think we should wait for these edits until the film is out on April 27th as we have no idea other than these random statements about how bad Thanos will be.
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Larkmarn
Since: Nov, 2010
Mar 16th 2018 at 7:43:45 AM
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Moreover, Josh Brolin wouldn't even count as Word of God so much as Word of Saint Paul.
Frankly, I take anything an actor says about their character, particularly them painting their character as more noble or impressive with a huge grain of salt.
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SatoshiBakura
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Mar 18th 2018 at 7:17:02 AM
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Agreed. Let's remove anything unconfirmed by the movie itself until it comes out. There's a chance that Josh Brolin is playing Trolling Creator.
Should I add the shot from the new trailer where all members of the Black Order are standing together as the picture for the Black Order in general? Only problem is that Loki is in the shot too; I have a version where he's edited out and it doesn't look perfect, but I think if you don't know, then you won't notice that something is airbrushed out...