#for power

- Sir, why exactly did you drink gasoline?

Not just that he’s a tall grape with absolutely no grasp of how resources, societal hierarchies, and having the literal ability to CREATE MATTER AND LIFE ON A WHIM might be a better option for his salvation complex than slicing the universe in half, but that the Russos’ Thanos replaced a Thanos that was practically gift-wrapped for them and was left ready and waiting for years.

You know the one.

The guy who was told that attacking Earth would be akin to ‘courting Death,’ and gave us this ominous shit-eating grin

“Don’t I fuckin hope, guy, I hope she likes bouquets made from the corpses of enemies because I’m growing a garden out here”

versus 

With no offense to Mr. Brolin, this expression coupled with the distinctly over-humanized redesign just sweats fedoras. 

This is not to say that the other Thanos is devoid of the fedora aura what with his heavily foreshadowed crush on Death. 

If he was anything like his comic version, he was planning to offer up a Gauntlet-slaughtered universe to woo her despite her not having half a shit to offer for his courtship. Like, ooh, wow, dead people. The same dead people she was going to collect anyway. On her own. Cool, great.

But gifting a cosmic-level genocide to the sentient epitome of Death herself is still 1) in line with the comics, 2) metal as fuck, 3) a genuinely disturbing and understandable motivation for a next-to-omnipotent, sadistic, murder-hungry madman, and 4) Metal as Fuck. 

Look at this bastard. Look at him in his ancient floating rock throne meting out planetary slaughter for the sake of magic rocks that will allow him to murder more planets much faster just so he can better peacock at the Grim Reaper. 

None of that bullshit, “oh I just killed halfsies so I could make life better for the half I didn’t massacre, it’s all cool now~~ uwu” motivation. 

This guy? He’s not the Mad Titan. He’s the Asshole Idiot Titan. That’s what the watered down Ooh Lets Make Him an Anti-Villain characterization rewrite did to him. That this Thanos was written as wanting to improve/save the universe through 50/50 murder not only goes against the MCU’s canon (everyone’s pointed out the bullshit of what happened to Gamora’s people), but goes against common sense. Extremely, overwhelmingly, you cannot be this unimaginatively stupid common sense.

Infinity Gauntlet = ABILITY TO MAKE ANYTHING

Neo Savior Thanos: @ the randos I allow to live, you guys better share, snap snap

By trying to force the anti-villain love that struck gold with Loki, Killmonger, and, just lately, Ghost, the Russos ruined a character that was interesting, believable, and honest-to-god terrifying because he was such an unapologetic monster in his roots. 

What could have been a masterpiece of an enemy is now just a letdown. 

RIP you magnificently evil shit.