If you have the power of reality, spacetime, the mind, etc., surely you could snap in more fresh water, food, metals, plants, etc.? Was he just stubborn and didn’t want to let go the idea he proposed on his home planet?

Also, how does Thanos survive “snapping” but regular people using the power don’t? Does that imply that the type of people on Thanos’ planet is “superior” to everyone else (in my opinion, nobody should survive it because the stones are essentially the power to control every aspect of the universe itself)?

One thing of note, Thanos in Infinity War shows that you could use the stones individually (and also other characters, like Vision using it as his brain/the power source for his thinking bits and Dr Strange using the time stone to manipulate time) and that doesn’t kill Thanos or any other character it seems. Why is that, are the stones meant to be more powerful together? Also, what happened to all the stones, were they all returned to their hiding place (and if so, why weren’t they used for doing good stuff, like space stone could be used for fast travel, soul stone could bring back the dead, mind stone could solve the mysteries of the universe, reality stone could make awesome virtual reality games…)

And finally, and definitely very important, why is Thanos purple? Seriously though, why? Is it because of the comic books (like Hulk being green), or is there another reason? Did he just need to stand out from everyone else?

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    First… Not everyone is just hiding being a dick because it’s socially unacceptable. Most people just aren’t dicks and don’t want to be. Just like most people don’t have to be told not to kill others, that’s just not something they’d do. They don’t have to be threatened with prison, or eternal damnation, or anything like that to stop themselves.

    Second… Superman is an alien. How do we know what is normal for his species? The only insight we have is the comic universe.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Okay. But…

      People with superpowers are still people, and most people are a mix of good and bad.

      And some people are absolutely vile (see maga, Johnson, Theil, Trump,)

      And some are positively saintly. (See most dogs.)

      You would expect superpeople to be similar. So if we see fascist people getting power occasionally and ruining the world; you’d expect superpeople to do so too

      • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        1 day ago

        There are a mix in comics. The good are superheroes the bad are supervillians. And some of them are in the grey. Batman doesn’t kill, but has no problem beating the shit out of henchman. Red hood killed people for good reasons, most of the time. He is sometimes a hero and sometimes a villain. Poison Ivy is a villain who often helps women and doesn’t hurt kids.

        Also Deadpool. Just yeah, great guy who is an unrepentant killer.