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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Because Thanos is an insane maniac who wants to believe he is right and won't listen otherwise because when people didn't listen to him the first time things ended badly
Prettiest Meta Knight Gijinka, nglWord of God has already explained why. It's because Thanos is utterly obsessed with proving that his original "halve the population" plan that got him called "Mad" by the rest of the Titanians would work.
He didn't actually care about fixing anything. He just wanted validation.
Edited by M84 on Apr 3rd 2021 at 1:17:19 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedBecause presumably, that was harder to do, if not impossible under the Infinity Stones power.
What's easier, killing off half of all life in the universe, or doubling the mass/volume of everything non-living in the universe? The latter sounds harder to me. And if it's not doubling the mass of everything non-living, just focusing on "resources", that makes it even harder because then you have to qualify what is a "resource". Sand is super important for making glass, does that make sand a "resource"? What about plants and animals, they're "resources" for food.
Also that, but my explanation could be part of the reason.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 2nd 2021 at 10:20:13 AM
Endgame was intentionally vague on whether the stones even could bring back to life anyone who wasn’t killed by the stones themselves, to sell the “we can only bring back the people who died five years ago and that’s it, not anybody who died since, not anyone who died dramatically in the mission to stop Thanos, nobody” thing in its conclusion that keeps Tony Stark’s sacrifice dramatic.
Because of that, it’s not not clear if Hulk even could have brought back anyone who was collateral damage from the snap, but the answer is likely “no, he didn’t.”
At the time I assumed that it was because the resource shortage didn’t ultimately wipe out the Titans and that maybe there was a war what fucked up the planet
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah, I prefer the idea that he was just some random farmer who broke into a Senate meeting about their planet's orbit being off due to a recent meteor strike and he started ranting about how their planet was going to die out because they were overusing resources and they needed to cull half the population, and they called him a madman and had security toss him out.
Regardless it’s impressive how he went from whatever he was to being the strongest most feared being in the universe.
And at the moment to my knowledge there’s no indication that the Titans are a faction of Eternals so his species doesn’t even appear inherently superpowered.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I used to assume he's a scientist (an element also present sometimes in his 616 self) and he's probably this powerful on biomodifications.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I feel Thanos was stuck in the sunk-cost fallacy, he had been duocimating planets for so long that by the time he got on the plan to collect the magic wish granting rocks that doing anything else would be tantamount to admitting he was wrong.
The duocimating started after his planet because, of course, doing anything else eould be admitting he was wrong.

I'd make a comment about super-math, but I doubt there is a computer good enough to even approach calculating that.
Wake me up at your own risk.