Thanos Actually CHOSE Who He Killed With 'The Snap' | Screen Rant
The movie version of Thanos may have had serious differences from the Marvel Comics he was based on, but one thing remains the same: he is NOT as neutral as he claims to be when it comes to deciding which half of the universe he erases from existence with a snap of his fingers.
When the villain and Doctor Strange’s brief talk during Avengers: Infinity War, the Mad Titan told Strange of his original plan to “save” the people of his home Titan from overpopulation. According to Thanos, he wanted to kill half of Titan’s population randomly and dispassionately, with no distinction between rich or poor. Presumably, he planned to also kill half the population of the universe in much the same way once he gathered the Infinity Stones, leaving the question of who lived and died completely to chance. But did he? Both the comics and the movies paint a very different picture of Thanos, one that reveals the Mad Titan actually did discriminate on who died during his infamous “Snap” – and who lived.
To explore this idea, we must first take a closer look at Thanos’ family. In Avengers: Infinity War, the Red Skull identified Thanos as “Thanos, Son of Eros.” In the comics, however, Eros (also known as “Starfox”) is actually Thanos’ brother, a charming rogue who uses his powers of persuasion to seduce women. Thanos and Eros’ father is A’lars, better known as “Mentor,” the leader of the Titanian colony, later revealed to be a member of the god-like race the Eternals. A benevolent scientist, Mentor raised his sons on Saturn’s moon Titan. Thanos, however, repeatedly attacked Titan and even killed his own mother Sui-San (and Mentor’s wife). Mentor routinely aided superheroes, including the Silver Surfer, against Thanos – but when Thanos gathered the Infinity Gems to form the Infinity Gauntlet, he made sure that Mentor was among the dead when he killed half the universe by snapping his fingers.
He later summoned Eros to him and explained this was because his father could potentially stand in the way of his plans. Clearly then, the comic book Thanos discriminated in his choice of victims when he erased half the universe’s population. But is this also true of his MCU counterpart? Oddly enough, there’s evidence to suggest MCU’s Thanos also didn’t kill off half the population of the universe completely at random, either.
Consider: if Thanos’ snap had killed half the universe’s population at random, there would have been a fifty-fifty chance that Thanos himself would have been erased in the process, leaving the Infinity Gauntlet behind. This would have allowed a sufficiently powerful being (possibly Thor, who was still in excellent shape at the time) to grab the gauntlet and “re-snap” everyone back to life (while making sure Thanos and his minions re-materialized in a prison somewhere). While this would have denied audiences the fun of Avengers: Endgame, it would have saved Thor a five-year ordeal of binge drinking and playing Fortnite endlessly.
As it turned out, Thanos survived the snap and managed to destroy the Infinity Stones before the Avengers could catch up with him – but there’s still one more scene to consider. Earlier in the movie, Doctor Strange looked ahead into millions of possible alternate futures (14,000,605 to be exact) and reported that the Avengers had only won in one of them. If Thanos’ “snap” had really killed people randomly, roughly fifty percent of the futures Doctor Strange had seen should have ended in a victory since Thanos would be dead and the Infinity Gauntlet would have been left up for grabs. Even if Thanos had booby-trapped the gauntlet or left behind some safeguards, one would suspect that the Avengers would have been able to work their way around them in at least a few million alternate realities.
Thus, it’s clear that Thanos made sure to spare himself when he snapped half the universe’s population away – although this was only so he could have enough time to destroy the stones and ensure the Avengers wouldn’t be able to undo his work. He may claim to be fair, but Thanos isn’t above stacking the deck in his favor. In any reality.
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