superhero movies the challenging political sentiments are not coming from the heroes they're coming from the villains And the provocative ideas they raise are initially paid 1ss lip-service to then conveniently forgotten in the heat of the third-act battle Yet it's a long way from 'You mess with one of us you mess with all of us And then finally there is Infinity War's 160 villain Thanos With a name like that you know he's not a good guy But neither is he textbook evil He doesn't want to build an empire or amass wealth or any of the usual despotic bad-guy things Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population 165 He just wants to restore balance to the universe indiscriminately You could call him a Malthusian extremist 'The universe is f

superhero movies the challenging political sentiments are not coming from the heroes they're coming from the villains And the provocative ideas they raise are initially paid 1ss lip-service to then conveniently forgotten in the heat of the third-act battle Yet it's a long way from 'You mess with one of us you mess with all of us And then finally there is Infinity War's 160 villain Thanos With a name like that you know he's not a good guy But neither is he textbook evil He doesn't want to build an empire or amass wealth or any of the usual despotic bad-guy things Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population 165 He just wants to restore balance to the universe indiscriminately You could call him a Malthusian extremist 'The universe is finite its resources are finite If left unchecked it will cease to exist' he explains 'So many mouths and not enough to go round' You wouldn't call that 170 evil if David Attenborough had said it perhaps it's time to control the population to allow the survival of the environment Thanos's methods are hardly humane but there is a logic to his argumentclimate change and environmental destruction are inarguable threats Human existence is unsustainable But Avengers gotta avenge Rather than debating the 175 validity of Thanos's arguments and acknowledging that something ought to change the superheroes once again fight tooth and nail to preserve the status quo One thing Thanos's rampage does achieve in Infinity War Better watch out Mememore...