What if "The Snap" Actually Happened? (Realistic Scenario)

[@kanohiofdovah1114]

>50% of the life gone. The world: Huge panicking, looting, raiding and famine Venezuela: JUST LIKE THE SIMULATIONS

[@xtensioncordtv1969]

Venezuela isn't affected because they're already starving

[@vinny9868]

Venezuela: I don't see a difference.

[@akshatjain2775]

IT'S VUVUZELA TIME

[@y33t23]

Venezuela: What's the joke?

[@frankgonzalezdelvalle8180]

as venezuelan:"Wait, arent you guys already starving?"

[@h4724-q6j]

"It now becomes a battle over survival, resources and order." Thanos really didn't think this one through.

[@samuelwhite3173]

No, Kevin was being an idiot when he made that statement that plants die too. He later retracted the statement. It is only the animal life, as seen when the plants in Wakanda are still alive, and the stones (Which are sentient) are also still alive.

[@brandonlyon730]

Still that’s half the livestock population, maybe not as bad as the plant thing, half of the meat production disappearing isn’t going to the help with food production.

[@d-dh2143]

Psychopaths in love usually don't think.

[@dankerbell]

its almost like thats why hes the villain

[@mikal0719]

Yeah

[@toddhowardforreal3912]

"'Purple man using stones' will never a theory" You seriously underestimate the meme community

[@sub-brotherhood8990]

Well without the internet memes will be centralized to one location unless reprinted or stolen

[@dontsubscribetome3262]

dallas krawsczyn pigeonet

[@Saulgoodman67677]

I can see a black market for printed memes

[@guilhermegondin151]

The marketing of memes in places where internet is gone would be quite something, in fact, you could make a life out of a single page, probably.

[@sub-brotherhood8990]

@@dontsubscribetome3262 i cant tell if this is an insult or complement please elaborate

[@TheLoneTerran]

Hey, at least we'd finally get an actual answer over whether viruses are alive or not.

[@tylerslagel5485]

*stones wipe out only 25% of viruses*

[@isaacthered]

...which is why you need Lysol, which wipes out 99.8% of the germs that infinity stones just don't.

[@cerridianempire1653]

@@isaacthered only 99.8%?! were still screwed

[@Dadd7]

Hmm now that I think about it SCREW the infinity gauntlet when U have CORONA

[@jakewiththecake2915]

Yeah I feel like not that much people would die well I mean a lot but not half maybe like a quarter or so because we ain’t thinking about trees animals or bugs which there are a lot more bugs than people

[@clevermcgenericname891]

As Thanos prepares to snap his fingers, a lone man in a black ball cap shouts out, "You should really make it half of all *sentient* life." Thanos pauses "Good point!" Thanos snaps his fingers, and as he fades away, the human man says; "This has been Cody, from Alternate History Hub."

[@vladutcornel]

Cows and Elephants are still sentient.

[@sleep3417]

@@vladutcornel Plants and bacteria aren't

[@Sneaker3719]

*sapient

[@vladutcornel]

​@@sleep3417 No, but I would prefer to turn to dust instead of turning vegetarian.

[@ordinarydevin]

☝🏻 Yeah fuck that. Plants are the food that food eats!

[@orangey894]

Infinity war summary: single dad tries to end world hunger with his rock collection

[@christianjoseph6502]

Funky Kong pretty much yeah

[@SoulCD]

LMAO

[@IemandIemandus]

They're minerals!

[@azarbijamer9422]

LOL

[@fezzzost950]

But he dusted half there food source so there still going to be just as hungry

[@Nexxarian]

The crazy thing is, the universe is a big place. How do you know there's not a big angry purple guy out there collecting funny colored stones and is about to do this?

[@Zotemann]

Nexxarian 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@nicoled6988]

Oh my gosh you just blew my mind...

[@TooCooFoYou]

Mr. Nexxarian, I don't feel so good...

[@iz2333]

He is inevitable

[@MultiMarcsOfficialChannel]

Crazy thing is, there might be a billionaire out there that is probably building an iron Man amor...

[@-PanPan-]

I wonder, a part two to this where everyone comes back all of a sudden like at the end of Endgame. That would probably also have ramifications to it wouldn't it?

[@jayscards8640]

Falcon and The Winter Soldier deals with this.

[@moxiemaxie3543]

Duh? Just request a part 2 "The Blip: The Miracle Reverse" ? Idk

[@WizelBalan]

People coming back would be a disaster, people have moved on and started over, gotten older, kids are no longer kids, some parents or others have died in the years that have passed leaving the returning people with nobody. Suddenly regions have twice as many people which effects resources, leaders of nations come back and find they are no longer in charge, wars could erupt over power struggles. People that had jobs would not have them as they are listed as dead or those businesses went under when half their employees disappeared. Houses would be condemned or demolished, millions would be homeless.

[@FOGGYlama123]

What is the snap and the blip happened at the time they did in the MCU

[@jackyzimmerman]

@@WizelBalan Exactly. It was far too big an idea for Marvel to pull off with any satisfying answers. In Far From Home those implications are not so much glossed as they are steamrolled over. Feige and the Russo’s didn’t want to invalidate Infinity War by changing the timeline but honestly it feels like they’re pretending the snap never happened anyway 😂

[@kennedylareign]

Imagine all the people that would have committed suicide after the snap because their family got dusted.

[@JuanMPalacio]

sksk sksk Mass suicide would be huge.

[@shane7945]

And then the people that keep us safe get snapped? Examples are bus drivers, pilots, firefighters. Like, a lot more people would die then.

[@wraithsz]

not to mention thanos caused the death of hundreds of people before the snap by trying to get the stones

[@ZED_117]

*SPOILER ALERT FOR ENDGAME* I wonder if the people that died by either suicide or just by an accident caused by the dusting (like a plane crashing) came back after the de-snaping that happened in the Endgame

[@antarcfroze]

Nice

[@CalebJMartin]

Cody: At least the worst is behind us... Video: *Things Get Worse* Me: _You lied to me_

[@gxdofwxr2730]

434 likes and no replies

[@gxdofwxr2730]

well not anymore

[@ShadowZeroFlame]

@@gxdofwxr2730 you've ruined a perfect *balance* !

[@OrigoZ]

It was perfectly balanced until you came along

[@babyskadiproductions]

Thanos: I will kill half of life to save resources *kills resources too* Thanos: dammit

[@joenathan8594]

*All lifE goes extincted due to the great instability caused by the snap* Thanos "oopsie doopsee, ditsy witsy"

[@lilahdog568]

Thanos: "uh oh spaghetti-os"

[@Rosa-et1cv]

Well obviously, by resources, Thanos was talking about rocks.

[@bisacool7339]

ikr such a dumb lore.

[@justinworkman7994]

Thanos: hrmmmmmm....maybe I didn't think this threw enough...

[@mattjennings101]

I'm so glad someone addressed the food situation. I'm a farmer in Pennsylvania. When I heard "Half of all life" I knew it was different than "Half of all *sentient* life" and the ramifications of half of all crops disappearing

[@新思维新思考新境界]

I'm not a biologist but I thought about what would happen to the ecosystem and symbiosis of the very smallest life. If half of all life is gone, then ALL large multi-cellular life would die. Half of life gone means half of microbes dies. It would upset the ecological symbiosis between unicellular life and multicellular life to collapse. There is a saying that bacteria don't need us to survive but we need bacteria to survive. If half of the bacteria in our bodies are gone, my guess is that we would all be dead in a matter of hours or even minutes. Those who survive would have to be so lucky that the probability of most of his inner bacteria were not snapped away to a point below the critical threshold. What are the odds? 50% to the power of millions and billions would give a percentage so low that if multiplied by the sum total population of all humans, or even all big multicellular organisms, would still be less than 1. So mathematically speaking, we would are be doomed.

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

I still assume it’s sentinent life. But plants and animals are included because of aliens like Groot and rocket. Those can get snapped in other planents but we didn’t see trees in Wakanda being dusted

[@stargazer-elite]

@@新思维新思考新境界holy cow I never thought of that 😨 that just make the snap even more horrifying

[@rgmoses2189]

But I believe he truly did only kill half of all sentient/intelligent life, we saw this throughout the movie when he went planet to planet killing half of the dominant population before leaving. He didn't stop and begin burning down half of all crops, killing half of all livestock, followed by half of all wildlife; his intent was only to kill those that mattered to leave an abundance for the remaining population. As a modern day farmer you know that farming today doesn't require much manpower as it used to aka a single farmer with the right equipment can grow and harvest as many crops in a season as thousands of farmers back in the day would, meaning if half of all farmers disappeared but all their crops stayed intact the remaining farmers would be able to give the world just as much food as we had before the snap while having half the amount of mouths to feed. I still want to see this what if

[@ratgang2007]

anybody realise how much dust youd have to sweep

[@azarbijamer9422]

I'd rather turn into dust than clean it up

[@biracialhunter5103]

You could save money on cremation

[@lilahdog568]

The other half of the population suffocates on the dust filled air

[@vigilante5606]

Chinese industrial city: you hear sumthin?

[@wildfall1966]

The Rat Gang Meh my room is dustier

[@ColonelPeppers]

Cody upgraded his videos: introduced backpacks, magnifying glass and he has a beard. Good job Cody.

[@northernleigonare]

Good man that Cody. Always thinking on his feet. - Obi Wan Kenobi 22BBY

[@siriseriez2570]

What if ant man did the unthinkable?

[@maccwillsmacc]

SiriSeriez expand in the arse? Yes, that is very unthinkable.

[@nickdimopoulos4052]

Hold on there, bucko

[@fulcrum2951]

Dude

[@blackjack5167]

Thanos watch out ant man is behind you

[@kaiserwilhelmii2251]

Thanos can just clap his cheeks and kill antman

[@mav1884]

And Thanos says he’s a hero, just imagine what he did to so many other planets

[@AxolotlAndy]

Thanos was honestly nuts and butthurt, I know thats the way the Avengers arch was supposed to work so, you know the movies were what they are but if you literally have the 6 pillars of the whole universe you can pretty much play God and fix everything and anything. *Inb4 the obsessed Marvel fanboy yelling at me on how the MCU doesn’t work like that.*

[@od4361]

@@AxolotlAndy *Obsessed Marvel screaming*

[@AxolotlAndy]

@@od4361 Ha Ha, *”Become a super virgin or don’t get involved.”* Regardless they were good movies, and well, treat Thanos like what you’re supposed to, a villain.

[@od4361]

@@AxolotlAndy *More obsessed Marvel screaming, along with calling you a DC fanboy or smthing*

[@nothinginhiding]

imagine u on a planet with 6 other people and this shit happen

[@TrueWizardry]

"The day after Day One" Um... I think that's called Day Two...

[@shikiaura]

I don't appreciate you flaunting your fancy-pants college degree over here

[@domino_201]

Day 1.5 because day is half of the day:

[@Dadd7]

domino effect exactly

[@FMJ_x_NLMB]

Calm down don't use all 3 of you brain cells

[@jhaynox659]

Yeah. Why not create your own video and let's see if how many views you get.

[@orielsebastian]

Imagine giving birth while Thanos snaps. -Oh my god! Is it a boy or a girl? -No

[@pizzavictory113]

Sebastian Alvarez that’s dark as hell lol

[@bryanthernandez9769]

Sebastian Alvarez omg that’s Dark are you sure you are not from the DC Universe

[@derpydetectives989]

@@bryanthernandez9769 I understood that reference.

[@ArmourExe]

What if the mother giving birth got snapped but the unborn baby didn't...😶

[@fartballs1604]

Ashes in the no no zone

[@PrismSimon]

The part about cities actually explains why New York is so empty in the Endgame trailer

[@thorn6067]

I thought that the reason why New York was so empty was obvious

[@PrismSimon]

@@thorn6067 a lot of people criticized that part of the movie because they thought that the city should be half full and not entirely empty

[@arned3901]

They're also not starting an apocalypse, because of the heroes

[@luhuntrix6928]

@@arned3901 try doing apocalypse while the possible maestro hulk is present and the same with the god of thunder with a beer belly and the rest of the avengers not to say the ronin is killing the people who do harm to the rest of the people

[@thorn6067]

@@PrismSimon Good point.

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

This is why, despite what Thanos said, it was never about balance. The snap was his way of punishing a universe that wouldn't consider his plan because it was barbaric by any logical metric. I think that at some level, he was aware of this, but simply didn't care anymore.

[@klynt2763]

Humanity collapse and civilization fall Humanity at world famine Thanos: *"Perfectly Balanced as all things should be"* Humanity: WTF bro?

[@enochdemille2396]

@evansdrad why not just use the time stone? he really should've thought that one through

[@kaiseramadeus233]

@@enochdemille2396 tbh if he did that there would be no Endgame, which means Marvel/Disney loses out on billions of dollars. And if he did that, he might as well should look into the reason Doctor Strange gave him the Time Stone, thus defeating Captain Mary Sue or anyone else to stop him. But then again, his entire plan makes 0 sense. All he had to do was increase resources

[@enochdemille2396]

@@kaiseramadeus233 i haven't seen endgame yet, so i didn't mention anything about it. otherwise i'm sure i'd share your opinion. and don't worry, i'll get around to it

[@peytonceltigar9677]

Gonna suck if you have a dust allergy even if you live the snap.

[@feds6297]

The dust disappears.

[@keith8225]

That’s me right there

[@NovSkull]

Fucking dust mites

[@gaby7904]

especially if you were pegrnant

[@Nugcon]

Thanos: Snap the population to conserve resources People: Fight over resources Thanos: :o

[@vinny9868]

Just kill half of the humans, I guess.

[@a.wright281]

Thanos: snaps again

[@Kyskima]

Star how don’t you know pikachu

[@igiveup12]

wtf i got another text, it was about you enjoying some roblox series lol youtube why aaaa

[@HiopX]

Thanos: snaps to save resources also Thanos: halfs the most important resources, too

[@LadyAstraan]

Many people forget that Thanos is called the MAD Titan. Everyone knows he's insane. His plans are insane. The guy's crazy.

[@luisf2793]

His genes literally come from genocidal monsters

[@nxdeflowers]

“hey mom, i just wiped out an entire species”

[@Chance57]

Who forgot this? Comic readers didn't and movie goers were exposed to that moniker, used disparagingly, what? One time in one movie in a decade of movies? He dismissed it himself and claimed he wasn't when he showed his origins on Titan.

[@jarrarwinks8470]

He isn't mad, he just wants to rail Lady Death like there is no tomorrow.

[@lhei_tayuun]

A culling isn't a solution, it's a stopgap. He's not mad, he's just stupid. And if we listen to Kevin Feige, Thanos is *even stupider.* If the Avengers wanted to stop him, all they had to do was get him in front of a mirror and he'd have eventually picked a fight with "that purple guy over there." They could have put a ring of twigs on the ground around him and he'd have thought he was trapped. If they threw a blanket over his head he'd have assumed it was night time and fallen asleep. Play a never-ending loop of The Big Bang Theory's theme song on their phone and he'd sit there waiting for the episode to start until he starved to death. No, it would have be great if he was mad. Say, insane enough to murder half of existence to try and impress the abstract concept of death--just spitballing here. But no. They gave him a rationale, and I spend the entire film wondering why the hell anyone follows him, because they made a lot of noise about him being powerful and a threat, but just like calling him "the mad titan", all it seemed to be was lip service. "Purple man stronk--he punch good" is about all we got, and this does not a vast army gather, let alone hold. That's even assuming he was able to string enough words together into a believable coherent imitation of speech to get people to follow him in the first place.

[@user-ir1xo9jp8w]

Watching this makes me want a follow-up on a what-if the half just suddenly popped back.

[@HeroicPunk]

Absolutely agree. Five years later the other half of all life suddenly appears as if they never left. WTF happens then? xD

[@SSC0002]

I'm the oldest of my siblings. If I got dusted and then came back 2 of them would brag about being older than me

[@corpsemachine6949]

@@SSC0002 I would be so pissed

[@aceshighdueceslow]

Well seeing as those extinctions or near-extinctions of flora and fauna mentioned in the video likely will happen sooner than 5 years...the other half returning would still probably die because of a lack of stability. Same for all the infrastructure and stuff in the cities, hell Scott Lang probably might remain stuck where he was because in all the chaos who would give half a fuck about locking up a van? In reality, after 5 years that lock up was probably abandoned as part of the mass exodus the video mentions, so even if that rat does manage to free him, he's going to die locked in as there wouldn't be any security to notice him there. Sure, Tony gets to live a life of luxury, but that's because he's part of the 0.0000001% and he cares more about securing his own legacy than saving a world that he helped destroy.

[@ryanm5852]

aceshighdueceslow not in endgame

[@octoombasquad8607]

I would think the loss of half our bacteria would be the biggest loss. Imagine the insanely weakened immune systems everywhere

[@frenchfriar]

That could easily put a quick end to most animal life everywhere.

[@polrealfake]

EAT ALL THE YOGURT!!!

[@ijent3819]

Imagne not getting sick as often

[@madingwang7778]

@@polrealfake but there is only half as much cows left

[@cjsyblik3296]

Yea but viruses would be snapped too.

[@ts25679]

"With infinite god-like power I could: A) Improve access to scarce resources e.g. double them + spread'em about B) Modify sapient entities to require and use fewer resources C) Exterminate life on an unprecedented scale with no consideration given to the consequences..."

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

its not infintie. too much will kill you

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

@@godemperorofmankind3.091 yes. But do you think that people will just.. Eat themselves to death?

[@flyingfireballmaster1816]

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Have you seen the average American diet? People are already eating themselves to death.

[@totemictoad4691]

writers have no sense of scale,,, there are 400 billion stars give or take in this galaxy, we think, this galaxy is one of hundereds of billions in the universe we can see based on an estimate using the hubble deep field, and there's stars and rocks and shit between the galaxies too not lots but its there,,, if you dismantled the planets in our solar system and turned them into giant stations orbiting the sun drawing on its power you could home a population in the trillions in this solar system and have several earth's worth of spare 'land' to house stations full of wilderness's of every biome on earth, if you sort out recycling this setup will be able to operate until the death of the sun,..... we don't even need more resources in the universe to sustain populations inconceivable for billions of years we just need better use of the resources that are literally right there

[@ts25679]

@@totemictoad4691 You seem like the kind of fellow who would appreciate Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur here on KZbin.

[@javier8015]

Feige is wrong on this one because in the scene in wakanda and on Hawkeyes farm you never see trees or grass get snapped. Thanos mostly likely meant sentient life and more specifically the dominant life that has higher reasoning on planets. The stones can interpret the users wishes and if Thanos was worried about supply problems why would he remove supply from planets.

[@mistersniffers5922]

Yes. Feige was talking out of his ass, the story was about political control and sentient races competing for resources. Feige may have been imagining that the plants & animals died but he failed to show it in other ways too, as humanity (almost all the sentients shown in the film are human) didn't all immediately get extremely sick as all the gut biome and other living creatures in their bodies immediately dies. The necrotic shock will most likely kill many normal humans.

[@Alb410]

He said life, not intelligent life. The movies mean nothing in this scenario.

[@Some_Call_Me_Pietro]

We also see half the plants in Thanos' farm have died

[@Jellofreeze]

Let's also consider it would not be literally half of everything. In the film all 6 Avengers are saved but nearly all the Gaurdians get snaped. Therefore the groups dont die by 50%. Based on the movie math......90% of plant life might exist but 90% of fish might die. . This video is great but it also assumes 50% of farmers would die when that might not be the case. Randomly only 30% might die and scientist might have the higher death rate. 50% of all life in the universe doesnt mean every microcosm will be divided by 50%. You could have more spiders die while most snakes live

[@Chance57]

@@Jellofreeze law of averages pretty much makes all of that a moot point. On such a massive scale, you'd expect the trend to hold wherever you look. He didn't snap for a 50-50 chance a living thing would die, he snapped to eliminate 50%. The difference is small but meaningful as the first option allows for exceedingly rare scenarios where the snap kills all life or none and also allows for situations like you mention.

[@norwae1420]

thanos: kills half the population bc they're using up too many resources also thanos: *kills resources*

[@matthewbergeron3641]

it is clear in the movies that plants and livestock are never affected by thanos snap. It wouldve been obvious in the wakanda scene when everyone else is getting dusted.

[@cherryfries623]

Matthew Bergeron but that doesn’t make any sense. He would have specified “half of humanity” then. And not only did the snap clearly impact earth’s “main species”, but Captain Marvel clearly said that they weren’t the only ones dealing with the snap’s changes, so that wouldn’t be possible, either.

[@rey_nemaattori]

If thanos also killed half the resources, it would be a completely useless snap...only in the very long time scale it would actually have some benefits, as there's new land area to farm, and there's still the same amounts of minerals and ores left.

[@cherryfries623]

Rey Nemaattori which is why the idea makes absolutely no sense. Because with his wording, he would have taken out half of all living things, not just the people. Also, why would he also take away the animals, as well? They contribute to the ecosystem and if half of them are gone, then that destroys the environment especially if half the plants didn’t go.

[@hennochoi]

@@cherryfries623 I thought it was clear that thanks snap was really dumb... Not only about snapping resources or not but about the fact that we can see modern society are often in a state no or negative growth of the population

[@nerdomatic2489]

There are 24 children and twelve chairs. What do you do? Iron Man: Build twelve more chairs. Thanos: Kill half the kids and sit yo ass down watching a grateful universe.

[@crypto1223]

Downfall The Universe sends a rat to fuck up Thanos’ plans, Endgame happens. Universe: How would you like it? Thanos: Sits defeated, and turns to dust. Universe: Returns to some normality, and is grateful for creating earth and humanity.

[@DraikSpectre]

There are 24 children and twelve chairs. What do you do? Iron Man: Build twelve more chairs. Thanos: Kill half the kids and break half the chairs. I fixed it for you.

[@nerdomatic2489]

@@DraikSpectre Lmao

[@SWHalo2]

Anakin: Kill all the kids

[@NieMonD]

Why would you say “24” and “twelve”?

[@SnifyWisper]

Thanos: Wipes out half of life to preserve resources the the remaining half. The remaining half: Starts fighting of resources. Thanos: Am I a joke to you?

[@sayvionwashington1939]

Me: Yes

[@sebastionsdeepslumberasmr5467]

@@sayvionwashington1939 im replying to this comment. Hope you have a nice day :)

[@SnifyWisper]

@@sebastionsdeepslumberasmr5467 Thanks.

[@-ninetynine-2498]

SnifyWhisper why didn’t he just make it a theirs a surplus of resources....

[@theguyishere249]

Well that is unless he only killed the people not the food and crops

[@GeoRyukaiser]

Thanos' original motivation, and completely lack of caring about the aftermath, in the comics make a lot more sense compared to his movie counterpart. He didn't think he was a hero... He was trying to get laid.

[@CreativeWitchArt]

That's a motive I can get behind

[@mirceazaharia2094]

Worst case of coombrain in history... so far.

[@SaraNightfire1]

@@Chemical_Agent4340Worst part is: She wasn't impressed, she actually was pretty pissed.

[@RhelrahneTheIdiot]

​@@SaraNightfire1Understandably so to be fair, firstly he interfered with a atrocious number of people's intended deaths and she's the one who has to sort through all those deaths all at once. That backlog is never being cleared, countless souls now stuck indefinitely in place and unable to pass on.

[@TheKeyblader133]

It also doesnt help that the way he executed his plan is possibly THE dumbest way he could have done it without exception lmao. Guess what dumbass? If you eliminate half of all life to 'fix' a resource shortage, you not only eliminated people, crops and animals, but you COMPLETELY REMOVED that material from the universe! It is the same exact problem except half as big and way more chaotic! Nice job scrotum face

[@WhiteWeaseI]

7:12 What, the snap causing more starvation than it would prevent? See, this is what happens when you f*** with the supply chains!

[@machixius]

Damn it thanos you wanted to SOLVE resource crisises NOT DESTROY THEM

[@1ULTRAKNIGHT]

R/ thanosdidnothingwrong: "B-bu-bu he's a hero of his own story"

[@scp-173biohazardpeanut7]

Dude thanos is H O T

[@shawnconway5696]

He should've just doubled the resources

[@matthewplays7232]

Hi kevin

[@才興]

Thanos: snaps half of all life away *Goes to his farm to rest but half of his crops are dusted* Thanos: wait-

[@onur97able]

Shit

[@18idlesuggest]

Lmao

[@jevilthejoker940]

*FUCK, GO BACK*

[@maxrubert5795]

He got to choose which organisms would be exempt from the snap. His plants, The Asgardians, and Gamora's people, for examplr

[@DxvinderSingh1699]

Jevil The Joker I said go back!

[@nmheath03]

Thanos: *wipes out 1/2 of all life so the other half can live peacefully* Life: *collapses because the remaining 50% can't support itself and a mass extinction occurs* Thanos: hol up

[@galaxymew5138]

XD

[@jozixl8808]

BRUH

[@darksoulsdezpc3012]

MOMENT

[@anemu3819]

420 likes

[@sours-orchard]

Thats what would happen. I mean really. There would be alot of death from people on planes. And the nuclear plants and stuff wouldn't be able to support itself.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

"The measure of a man is what he does with power". - Plato.

[@concept5631]

Power does not corrupt, it reveals.

[@corebabajustin1238]

woMan

[@testinghydra5652]

Thanos: *Wipes out half of all life* Society: *production cuts in half due to lower population and workforce* Five years later Avengers: *Brings everybody back* Society: *Mass strain on resources as human population doubles after 5 years of decreased demand*

[@alexrudolph301]

Woah you predicted the plot of Falcon and the Winter Soldier

[@coemcoem7070]

I mean, the resources come back too

[@benjaminralston7046]

@@coemcoem7070 The resources come back too, but there's no means to cultivate and distribute them. Supply chains have crumbled and adjusted to the smaller supply. The people who just returned don't understand what happened and why the world is suddenly in utter chaos, so they can't exactly just go back to work.

[@spaceballs44]

I thought they were able to rewind time back to before the snap even happened so all the resources and people were intact as if nothing happened when Iron Man snapped his fingers.

[@TanukiTracks]

@@spaceballs44 No, they explicitly said they *won't* do that because this would undo people being born and so on in the intervening time. Maybe they could have, but they decided against it.

[@ethanl5527]

I don't think Kevin Feige was right about the plants, you don't see any of the trees in Wakanda being dusted. Edit: Yeah he confirmed he wasn't thinking when he said that.

[@AzetheReal]

It’s random so technically all those trees were randomly chosen to survive. I’m sure somewhere a group of people on some planet were untouched but their entire stock of resources got snapped, thus killing them in a weeks time.

[@florbengorben7651]

@@AzetheReal but that still doesn't make sense considering Thanos' goals. He wanted to make resources more abundant and effective for intelligent life so they didn't all die from starvation. Taking away half of all resources directly counters Thanos' goals.

[@YawnerCube]

Oh, I beg to differ. We saw one tree get dusted. Groot. Poor Groot...

[@PlzTouchSomeGrass]

Maybe they just wither?

[@scewt]

I think its stupid how that is even a theory, thanos' plan all together is just halving population if he were to half basically all of the food supply his entire plan would make no sense

[@knightwolf9553]

Meanwhile Detroit hasn’t even noticed the changes.

[@ipgd69]

can't have shit in detroit

[@notlogical4016]

guy 1:"oh hey where did jerry, terry, larry, and like, half of everyone go?" guy 2:"probably got stabbed"

[@brandonvillatuya9539]

"This is Detroit." "And this is Detroit after the snap."

[@joeligma2971]

yash buddha that was totally off topic, but it probably will destroy modern society

[@mikerodgers7620]

Poop

[@alansmithee419]

Thanos: "I'll kill half of all life so that people don't run out of resources." People after the snap: *Immediately run out of resources because he destroyed half of the food* Thanos: *surprised Pikachu face*

[@mindshuffler3332]

He isn't called the Mad Titan for nothing.

[@gemfloatsh2580]

also just why didnt he create more resoursces

[@alansmithee419]

@@gemfloatsh2580 There's only so much space in the universe. As long as populations keep growing you'll *eventually* have to start killing people anyway.

[@giantcrack8079]

@@alansmithee419 universe is expanding faster than light why would universe run out of space

[@alansmithee419]

@@giantcrack8079 Ok, true, but that only serves to complicate the problem rather than fix it. There are populations all over the universe in the MCU, if we assume the universe is homogenous we can say that the whole universe contains a spread of civilisations all across it. Each of these will expand outward in a sphere centred on their planet of origin (or at least we can make that assumption). Eventually these spheres will meet, and the whole universe will be filled, no matter its size (could even be infinite - there would just be an infinite number of civilisations) or expansion rate. There are some more practical problems. Even assuming there's only one civilisation in the universe you still find it to be near impossible: Populations grow exponentially; the volume of a sphere grows polynomially. This means that without cutting off the population growth (by killing people or enforcing birth control laws - two things most first world societies are incredibly averse to) a civilisation will need to start expanding its borders at an exponential rate (an exponential divided by a polynomial is still exponential). So essentially you would need some kind of warp technology developing fast enough to allow its maximum velocity to outpace the space requirements for continued existence of life. This will likely require exponentially more energy to keep warp vessels running at these higher speeds. To prevent this energy from forming gravitational fields that will collapse into a black hole you'll need to start building exponentially bigger and bigger vessels, and after that also less and less dense vessels (large black holes have less effective density than small ones - the largest are less dense than air), eventually becoming so sparse that no-one can stand in them. Even if you somehow avoid all those problems you still have to hope that the required expansion of your civilisation is slower than the expansion of the universe - which is itself an exponential - the limit is doubling in size (eight times the volume) every 12.2 billion years. So, if your civilisation grows faster than eight times every 12.2billion years (incredibly slowly - we've done that over the past 200 years or so) you're completely screwed. Tl;dr: you're right, but it doesn't help.

[@Ryder.Draconis]

If the snap happened, I think preventing extinction of endangered species would be last on the list of priorities.

[@riograndedosulball248]

Yes, Thanos is a Psychopath but in infinity war we can see that he really cares about nature, preserving animals and plants would be his top tier preocupation

[@epicinfernape4635]

:P LMAO spoiler alert

[@GreatAukEntertainment]

Uh what

[@LesbianWitchAcademia]

Actually, in any situation in which the endangered species is an apex predator, it would be Vitally important to ensure that they would not go extinct, lest the entire food chain in that region experience a catastrophic collapse

[@eddiesanchez1899]

How did this happen? -A giant purple man stole a necklace from a wizard. No, really, what happened???

[@cabbageable]

A giant purple raisin*

[@allenlegaspi3395]

A wizard that looks like sherlock holmes*

[@The_Hunters_Lodge]

A long time ago, actually never, and also now Nothing is nowhere, when? Never Makes sense right? As I said it didn't happen

[@elevate07]

Nothing was never anywhere. That's why it's been everywhere. It's been so everywhere you don't even need a "where." You don't even need a "when." That's how every it gets.

[@FeyTheBin]

Buff Grimace

[@KentroSN]

*Man standing on dusted tree* Tree 5 years later: I'm about to end this man's whole carreer

[@crazykenproductions606]

Penetration complete

[@wafflingmean4477]

Yeah I imagine when everything reappeared heaps of forests would experience explosions as a one tree appeared inside another one over and over. This would happen with some houses and living beings too. Speaking of awkward places to reappear, a hell of a lot of people would appear in the sky, having been on planes when they got dusted.

[@antaresmc4407]

@@wafflingmean4477 not really, position is relative, there is no point they could actually appear, except from the exacti point they left in space AND time... And MCU doesnt handle well causal paradoxes...

[@danforrest7709]

@@wafflingmean4477 If you wanna get really technical, the earth probably has moved millions of miles since the snap. All those people would just reappear in space- where the Earth was 5 years ago.

[@randomuser1692]

Right after he says “it now becomes a battle over survival, resources, and order” a Black Friday commercial starts

[@2half1whole46]

Thanos: I can balance the universe by killing half of all life World: *Falls into chaos* Thanos: *suprised pikachu*

[@aloizfide3115]

Me: YOUR A FUCKING IDIOT THANOS -_-

[@yungstallion2201]

You’re

[@mgeiger2341]

Thanos: I wish to eliminate half of life throughout the universe. Glowy Stones: All life? If you say so... Thanos: *No, wait, I meant sentient life!* Glowy Stones: Too late, no backsies!

[@bluewin756]

your avatar character looks like bucky in civil war

[@snazdogdbfan251]

Just wanted to buy some plums

[@texasrepublic2332]

Yea...

[@davidmalone4615]

Great eye!

[@justhere9731]

This is what he’s doing while he’s dead

[@kazumasjourneyofsong511]

Bluewin tru

[@nickcalderon2637]

I mean, Thanos is called "The Mad Titan" for a reason. This scenario just proved that name correct.

[@CaptSakeMangusto]

In the MCU after Endgame you can call him The Imbecil Titan. Only an Idiot would create the weapon of ultimate power, became an omnipotent being and after wipe out half the life in the universe destroy it and make himself defenseless and helpless before his enemies. Say whatever you want about Palpatine outsourcing and micromanaging everything but be that stupid he never was not.

Real snapping has never been tried.

[@LadyLarkAvin]

So with this aftermath scenario, the comic book reasons for him doing this would actually make more sense than the MCU reason. After all, if you want to impresses Death, this would get her attention for sure.

[@CaptSakeMangusto]

@@LadyLarkAvin Hollywood movies are not allowed to enter metaphysical realms beyond the range of cheap jump scares. Even Mythological entities as Thor are not even recognized as Gods and instead are declared Aliens because Studios are Prophets of Materialism.

[@ItsButterBean1020]

Honestly that's kinda smart, that way no one can undo what he';s done and he's at peace knowing he's won.

[@scottjuhnke6825]

As an historian and political scientist, I have to give maximum props for this! Extremely well done!

[@JustinianG]

I think you'd like this timeline I made. it's basically an optimistic version of this one. don't let the title fool you . Please critique it kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4HXZourbaqVmNk

[@johncollins5091]

I think the biggest issue behind Thanos's idea of purging half of all life in the universe is that, while in the comics he was only interested in doing so because he was in love with Death, who was for some reason a person, this was adapted out into this "From my perspective..." sort of ideology for the movie, one to give his character more depth than an erection, and because the writers didn't want to have to go through explaining Death and her existence/mechanics into an already crammed movie. While it certainly made sense for Thanos not to give a damn about the ramifications of eliminating half of life everywhere, It does become a problem when it suddenly becomes a question of morals. Despite them not having explained or adapted the logic of Thanos properly, the fact that no plant-life having vanished from the scenes in Wakanda as half of the heroes vanished into dust, may have pointed at the idea that maybe when Thanos meant to eliminate 'half of all life' in the universe, he meant to eliminate Sentient life, capable of thought and industrialization, which was the main reason all these starving planets, according to him, where all being pushed out of balance.

[@Zekiraeth]

While i agree with you completely, Kevin Feige, who was the one that said that all plant life etc. was also killed, is the producer of the movie. So it still applies to the MCU even if it makes no sense.

[@emperornguyen]

@@Zekiraeth Besides, eliminating half of life doesn't have to be proportionate. If 2 planets with the same size were compared side by side with the same number of people and resources, either they both experience the depletion or one planet becomes completely lifeless.

[@enchantressdeath1289]

It's possible that both with motivating factors, and that was the conflict within him. His emotional side obsessed with death, but his rational side needing something to justify his actions with

[@SWHalo2]

A man on a (misguided) crusade to save the universe from overpopulation makes for a more compelling villain than some guy trying to get laid.

[@Joesolo13]

@@SWHalo2 exactly. Villains aren't supposed to make perfect sense and be right. They wouldn't be villains then.

[@coso2lavendetta284]

Imagine if in a little village nobody died for the snap. They will be like "Oh that happened"

[@voidwaiker5497]

That’s the thing with the snap, was it half of life on each planet? Because in theory some planets would lose almost if not all and others wouldn’t lose anything.

[@nutellajunkie8848]

That has to be a very small village for that event to be somewhat likely. Yes, I like chance and yes, Im fun at parties.

[@coso2lavendetta284]

@EnterTextHere_ maybe a perfect half of all the species died (half of human, half of cats, half of oak)

[@lmao2302]

@EnterTextHere_ If it's 50% of ALL life wouldn't a vast majority of the deaths be bacteria.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

When the FBI finds your google searches. Yes I think almost all of that 50% would be insects, and bacteria alone

[@Thalassicus01]

Even worse: Randomness is clumpy and unpredictable, and wouldn't perfectly split every profession in half. Some entire industries could get dusted, like *all* farmers.

[@tdap1802]

Snap all the government is dead. welp. *Bye Bye U.S.*

[@elizawulf8180]

I mean, it's a universal snap, and we're such an insignificant part of the universe - realistically, it should have meant all of Earth was insta-dead.

[@ethanwhite9258]

Y’all are wrong, it isn’t random it’s 50%, and that is in actuality very consistent, it would be very very close to 50% of any group over 1000

[@ethanwhite9258]

The odds of the snap not effecting anyone in a group of 1000 people is 0.000...296 0s...0001%, and keep in mind that there is 7000000x the amount of people on the earth, not to mention the 70 billion farm animals and the what o would guess to be trillions of Afganistán that are considered plant life and the billion trillion microbes, the odds of that happening are worse then ant man coming back from the quantum realm.

[@yeahkeen2905]

Eliza Wulf that’s not realistic, just possible. It’s much, MUCH more likely that some of earth would disappear. The chances that earth was completely fucked or unaffected is extremely low.

[@13ghettoDolphins101]

To be fair, Thanos’ snap was to cull 50% of life *in the universe*. Therefore, humanity could be totally wiped out or completely unaffected by this.

[@KalenAlmeida]

true, but theres just so much life to put up to a coinflip that statistically the chances are almost impossible that even 49% or 51% got dusted but yeah some planets mustve got very fucked

[@siddh4rthbagwe]

but again, the he would probably prefer half the life from each planet getting dusted, so that it's more in proportion but thats just my take(i kinda dont like the idea of some planets being unaffected and others being fully wiped out)

[@loganbigmo]

Well, it's been stated that Thanos' Snap affected 50% of each species. So regardless, 50% of humanity was affected

[@foxgaming1084]

yeah, with that in mind i imagine how in the universe planets and or galactic societies will probably be affected as well, like having planets depending on one power house of a planet or two just for it fall apart because of the snap.

[@alinkbetweengames4328]

Endgame seems to retcon out the "50% of plants" part.

[@InquisitorThomas]

Maybe he meant sentient plants, after all Groot got snapped.

[@hallowjupiter6305]

I honestly think whoever said plants were included, was just plain wrong. It wouldn't make sense anyone, as a I rambled about in my comment earlier

[@Giantnyaloka]

@@hallowjupiter6305 Is groot not a plant then?

[@hallowjupiter6305]

@@Giantnyaloka he's sentient

[@ArnoldsKtm]

When they bring everyone back, you can hear birds and see trees appear out of nowhere... But yeah, I think removing plants makes no sense.

[@henrybricks2953]

3:37 "purple man using stones isn't gonna be the first thing to be theorize" Avenger fans: ArEyoUSuREaBOuTthat?

[@zadok23]

I think the assumption is that the snap affects a world where Marvel and Thanos dont exist kinda like nobody having ever heard of zombies in the walking dead.

[@timeweaselproduction]

Alex Jones would have a field day if the snap happened.

[@mihajlo961x]

@@Tosia-aisoT Hahaha

[@darthsader7089]

@@timeweaselproduction That is if he survived the snap

[@cheatsykoopa98]

@@zadok23 honestly this is what I hate the most about the zombie genre, the "dont use the z word" trope. as if nobody in these movies/tv shows/games ever heard of zombies, it just sounds fake for us who live in a world where zombies are part of horror pop culture I can understand the government not wanting to believe it for some time, but not denying it until its too late

[@halo4xgamer]

Why does his cartoon avatar look like Bucky in his apartment in Civil War?

[@wyattlundrigan4740]

EL OH EL thats what i thought too

[@lortarx5190]

He looks more like Q from impractical jokers

[@willofthewinds3222]

I love how Feige immediately made this utter apocalyptic disaster immediately impossible to survive by not limiting to just sapiant species. Like, with a little self-control the world would actually make some level of sense to survive for five years.

[@bridgebiskut885]

"At least the worst is behind us." *T H I N G S G E T W O R S E* *E X T I N C T I O N*

[@OlafoWaffle]

tossed in the middle, the living envy the dead

[@Vrex360]

*Always Sunny in Philadephia theme plays*

[@tawelwchgaming8957]

Well a lot of animals are already going extinct.... what I'm wondering is.... if there is 1 left of a certain species... does it go away with the snap? As an ecologist, i can tell you that, yea, extinction is inevitable, because of climate change and loss of habitat. The snap only exacerbates it. Plants though, well within a generation perhaps 40% of the plants will come back. We have seed banks and farmers are generally good at keeping a store of seeds (unless it is certain Monsanto seeds, those you have to buy every year).

[@tawelwchgaming8957]

Another issue is that if he just wiped out half of all humans, within a generation or two, the population will be back to where it was. Just look at the population boom after WWII

[@ArmyRangerSJ]

In the movie the trees don't disappear. And Thanos is only seen killing half the population. And they say that's his goal in the movie. So plants are unaffected.

[@TheY2AProblem]

Me: *gets snapped away* Boss: You’re still coming in, right?

[@nicholasleclerc1583]

TheY2AProblem “PARKER !!! You’re 5 years late ! What in heaven’s name were you doing ??? YOU’RE FIRED !!!”

[@toch0418]

@@nicholasleclerc1583 I have pictures of Spider-Man...

[@KicksPregnantWomen]

Maybe

[@EE-fk1rp]

Hahahahaha same here

[@Locoking420]

Kill your boss say he vanished in the snap

[@nickolauscantor1572]

* Thanos snaps his finger, killing half of all life in the universe * * Mass hysteria, resource wars, mass animal extinctions, loss of freedom and liberty, massive sudden climate change * Thanos: "Perfectly balanced, as all things should be"

[@funkgoeson4936]

I like how he tried to solve overpopulation and lack of resources but didn't realize that food comes from things that are alive

[@bruhtonbruhkkinson6848]

Riu Where does this food get it’s nutrients from?

[@KevinMcScrooge]

He's trying to balance the stats of the universe.

[@kristismith3662]

Dogs and cats like living together mass histaria

[@victorianoble3374]

@@funkgoeson4936 Well he comes from a very high tech civilization and his food might have been made produced by a star trek style replicator or been made from inorganic matter on some kind of factory and for him anyone who eats living things is a disgusting savage who doesn't really deserve to live in his beautiful balanced universe

[@joelwilness849]

beginning of the movie: oh, Thanos is the villain end of the movie: oh, he's actually the hero watching the video: he's a monster

[@ortherner]

yep

[@hieutruong7456]

He’s a psychopath who never understood societies

[@sirkeeper2885]

@@hieutruong7456 This. They tried to make him a good villain, with some ways to empathize, but they made a dumb dumb who can't think of the consequences of anything.

[@sebastiansepulveda547]

@@sirkeeper2885 that could still make Thanos a good villain if they went with him believe that societies collapsing is a necessary evil for life to continue, or make him so delusional that he doesn’t care about the consequences

[@curryposterizeslewashedjam3588]

@@hieutruong7456 not his fault. His mother literally tried to kill him when was born

[@yes1399]

Marvel should release a movie on somebody trying to survive during the snap and it’s aftermath

[@raycongaming9534]

I would definitely watch it if this actually happened

[@domino_201]

Ye

[@wafflingmean4477]

They need to introduce a new character living through circumstances like this. As it is, it is so unrealistic how everything just went back to normal once everyone reappeared. The very nations most of these reappearing people inhabited would no longer even exist. Heaps would appear in empty deserts where once it had been rich farmland full of people, or arriving in cities that have burned to the ground.

[@luupdup]

that would be brilliant

[@JacksonHoulihan]

I wish they’d have made a tv show all about the humans trying to deal with all the super hero activity. Just have regular people talking about extraordinary events and the ramifications of those events. I thought it was a lost opportunity that would have tied it altogether nicely.

[@ItsVeeVie]

you should do a hypothetical scenario where a "reverse thanos snap" happened, where all life on earth (including resources) doubled, whether it creates duplicates of people or makes completely new people with memories and backstory is up to you \

[@MudkipJarodaXX]

I'd say the new problem would be infrastructure, housing, and jobs for all the new humans. There's more food, at least, and more trees/phytoplankton/plants, so CO2 is less of a problem, too. The only problem would be, after all of that, mineral resources and finite sources like those.

[@evacody1249]

You see this is where Thanos could have done something good in making sure there was enough resources for everyone. But nope he did it the wrong way.

[@linwoodvalentine7693]

Clone wars or the movie us

[@axvle]

There's a TV show about this - "The Leftovers" (only iirc 2% of the population disappeared there).

[@fodetoure1576]

You need to make one about what it would be like for everyone to come back 5 years later

[@NauticalCoffin2404]

After 1 month the 3.5 blipped people starve to death, as the infrastructure to feed them decayed for 5 years. After that month there is a sudden increase in available food, at least until all the corpses rot at which point you have diseases beyond counting that wipe out much of the remaining population.

[@Jobungar]

-you fly a plane -pilots get snapped by Thanos -chaos in plane -*chaos intensives*

[@thehKB24]

Jevil: *Happiness Noises*

[@ntactime_w3488]

*chaos ends abruptly*

[@azarbijamer9422]

- something like 911 happens

[@thevenator3955]

This is what I've been trying to tell people! *HE NEEDS TO SNAP TWICE!*

[@griffinhoffman6746]

Wouldm't that only take 3/4ths of life?

[@gamestersquadofficial1123]

@@griffinhoffman6746 LMAO!

[@bluenightfury4365]

What if he snaps three times? or even more?

[@GeeMannn]

@@bluenightfury4365 it will get smaller and smaller, like the center of a Newton Fractal until the stones cant kill off anymore "living" organisms.

[@FalcoNat]

@Griffin Hoffman That is correct. Each snap has the same effect, killing half of existing life. Snap 1 = 100% -> 50%, so Snap 2 = 50% -> 25%.

[@artistwithouttalent]

3:41 PURPLE MAN used STONES! It's super effective!

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

😂😂😂😊

[@shreyassathyaprakash659]

Thanos: I killed them. I killed half of them. They're dead And not just the humans, but the animals and plants, too.

[@spider1o160]

References to other movies are tight!

[@wearevenom4992]

They didn't die they just went to the soul place where Ganora was.

[@emperorpalpatine66]

My apprentice

[@sebastiansepulveda547]

@@wearevenom4992 no they didn’t, if they did then wouldn’t be able to be snapped back like Ganora

[@coemcoem7070]

Bacteria and other life forms as wel

[@TheChildYearns]

Thanos: Literally kills half the universe Also Thanos: Yeah, becoming a farmer would be pretty cool.

[@Agent-Blaze]

Invert that and you just depicted Heinrich Himmler

[@xaviergonzalez44]

It's a peaceful life

[@iaml7536]

Have fun finding food.

[@slayride136]

@@Agent-Blaze theory: Himmler reincarnated Thanos

[@McLean757]

Wasn’t the whole point of the snap to only hit people so resources were more abundant for those that survived? The fact they changed it to every living thing makes Thanos’ whole character a joke

[@daunteware6027]

Hoodie they retracted that statement only human and animals no plants in wakanda turned to dust

[@mubi697]

@@daunteware6027 aren't animals still a big food resource tho?

[@banjo9158]

@@mubi697 yes, but the plants don't turned to dust, but animals, yes.

[@caldw615]

Even if the resources stayed the same you've lost half the people in the world responsible for importing, trading and communications which would take too long to try and recover.

[@pt975]

Thanos is the Mad Titan. Hes completely insane. He watched his own people and planet die due to resource wars and he thinks he can save the rest of the universe. Dude has major trauma issues and mental health problems.

[@notsae66]

So in essence, Thanos' plan to save the universe would be an abject failure. As expected.

[@BeanieDraws]

Spoiler warning - He pretty much discovered this.

[@ericdickerson3273]

It’d make perfect sense if life only means animals. Didn’t see any plants getting snapped in the movies. They were in a forest and not a single speck of dust off a plant. So if plants stay the same and we all feminist, could be useful.

[@yeahkeen2905]

Michael Klump he doesn’t realize that in Endgame. He realizes that no one appreciated his plan so kill everyone. It had nothing to do with him realizing he was wrong,

[@theguythatasked6400]

The reason he tried to alt+f4 existence is that no one appreciates his work and instead undone it, so to permanently put an end to it he decided to delete all and start a new. I mean, he could have just deleted have the universe+ all the threats to him

[@HollowWeird]

This guy in video forget life keeps going

[@stevenlewis2599]

Imagine you pass your homie the blunt and he juss fade away

[@connoratwood7893]

Unless he’s already faded... Eeeyyyyyyy

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

Duuuuuuuuuuude ! 😮😮😮, 🤣

[@μαλακας-β4φ]

Change the world my final message

[@carolev.5648]

Late to the party, only seeing this video now. With the benefit of having watched Endgame, I think that Thanos was NEVER really out to save the universe by destroying half of its life. No, he was just throwing a big, fat tantrum because his solution to "save" Titan was rejected. He wanted to be vindicted and validated; he wanted for someone to not only approve of his plans, but to admit to its brilliance and eventually to worship Thanos for coming up with it. That's why he harps on about "a grateful universe" in both movie; he isn't all that far removed from Nazis harping about Lebensraum as a justification to their conquests. That's why the older Thanos always planed to destroy the Stones once done, to avoid anyone reversing the process (which is indeed exactly what the Avengers tried to do): one more big childish 'because I said so!'; he only waited that much, imo, because it toook that much time for him to recover from the first Snap. And similarly, when his 2014 version sees his plan fulfilled, and yet not a single soul grateful for that, he just snapped (pun unintended); he stops pretending he wants anything but admiration, and decides to just create his worshippers ex nihilo.

[@nathanseper8738]

That is disturbingly plausible. It is insane how people can commit themselves to a horrific cause against all logic and reason.

[@mathildadeer]

I kinda thought it was out of character for past Thanos to suddenly want to wipe out the entire universe but this actually expains that really well!

[@deleetiusproductions3497]

I like the concept of him having to "recover". That implies that the stones would need some kind of recharge, which is an idea that I thought of on my own. Not necessarily applied to Avengers, but it was there.

[@ADiretoria100]

People say that MCU Thanos is not comic accurate for not loving death, but tbh, its the opposite, even confirmed by the writers, Thanos didnt wanted to save the universe, he just deeply wanted mass genocide. A big difference is that comic Thanos KNOWS he is the bad guy, which is why he always looses after becoming a god without any intervation from the Living Tribunal, he knows what he does is wrong and sabotages himself. MCU Thanos is different because he thinks he is right no matter what, and there was literally no way he could have lost after getting all six stones unless he was immediatly attacked, since the MCU stones are way much weaker and nerfed than the comic ones. After all, Thanos still loves death, even if he doesnt know, and the MCU one is even scarier because he found an excuse to make him the hero of the universe, which is why he always wins.

[@Rando240]

i mean thats the only realistic fate. He couldn't make more food bc then overpopulation would just start again. Plus keep in mind he planned this for pretty much his whole life so I'm sure that if there was better way he would've thought of it.

[@noelquiroga3959]

What if Guy Fawkes was successful in blowing up the British Parliament?

[@ChiefHog87]

Noel Quiroga ye that’s a good one

[@rydemk4168]

What if Guy Fieri was Successful of burning the Earth?

[@NateRiversforRever]

@@rydemk4168 successfully took you to flavortown*

[@gokuuzumaki8307]

What happened if there was an odd number of people in the universe.

[@PalletEater214]

Moleed Mire just give that person a disease and they can be considered partially dead. Like cancer ;)

[@netbotcl586]

someone's body get splitted in half.

[@Peppy2975]

then you get people who turn into half of themselves

[@riversamadeus1186]

Hat person makes the headlines, atleast they find the body

[@Alchemeri]

Someone turns into a vegetable or something

[@koujimoreno]

In the comics, he did it for a girl, not to save anyone or anything.

[@mazdakmina9493]

LMAO Wow! I *have* to know: how exactly did *that* play out? Who was this woman? Why did Thanos like her so much to do something like this? And perhaps most importantly, *why* was she *impressed* by something like this (or at least, why did he *think* this would make her love him)? That *last* one especially, because *what woman* or even *person* do you know who would *fall in love* with someone for *killing* half of *all living beings* on *any* planet? (Sitting around with her female friends, having a conversation. "My boyfriend's the best! He personally knows Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Ryan Reynolds, and Idris Elba, and introduced me to all of them!" "Oh yeah? Mine owns a private jet and has his pilot's license, and personally taught me to both fly the plane and took me to thirty different countries I've always wanted to visit, all in the last three months! Beat that!" "Oh, mine does! My boyfriend genocided half the universe! Face it ladies, your men will never have the sweet heart mine does!") I am *very* interested now in hearing the backstory of this!

[@koujimoreno]

@@mazdakmina9493 The woman was the living personification of death. He snapped half the universe to impress her, but she saw him like any girl would see a neckbeard. She was also pissed because the realm of death is her job and he was fucking things up. After it was all said done, he got pissed because he saw she still didn't want him so he used the infinity gauntlet to make a female version of him (which is weird). In the end he was defeated, all things went back to normal and he had a few more attempts at trying to get death to notice him. She dates deadpool, there's hijinks, yaddie yaddie yadda...The whole DeathxThanos thing happens alot and in the story 'Thanos: The End' he manages to 'get' death (spoilers ahead) by killing everything in the universe except the Cosmic Ghost Rider (who is the punisher) and the Hulk (which he keeps as a pet). He gets another thanos from another reality to challenge him (cause who else can beat thanos except thanos?) and loses and finally dies (which is what he wants).

[@mazdakmina9493]

@@koujimoreno Hahahahaha That is *exactly* as hilarious and interesting as I expected! Wow! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@TheMojaveLamp]

Ah yes, my daily reminder that comic books are fucking WEIRD.

[@randomuser5831]

Deadpool also kept trying to kill himself for a while cuz he was in love with her as well

[@thomasturner6980]

Legend says that Antman needs a long shower after he defeats Thanos

[@tengkualiff]

Lmaooo

[@briandiehl9257]

No, but his suit would never be touched again

[@stephenmurphy2212]

Thomas Turner fortunately for him he doesn’t go up his arse.

[@lorelord2272]

@@stephenmurphy2212 SPOILER ALERT (JK)

[@briandiehl9257]

@@stephenmurphy2212 Blaspheme

[@Nova3482]

Getting tickets to Endgame would be easier

[@klynt2763]

But who would run it?

[@oniagent391]

The guy never been notice people

[@hellodan2166]

Nova3482 i am watching it tomorrow :D

[@roguemaniac7929]

Hellodan Games I have already watched it Amazing movie btw the ending was awesome and sad at the same time

[@megamike15]

@@klynt2763 the people working at the theaters not dusted.

[@Treviisolion]

The thing is, even without half of all other life being snapped away, it still wouldn’t be great. Modern society relies on global supply chains that are being carefully self-optimized on a daily basis, and have centuries of backup behind them. Normally if 1 person disappears in that supply chain, you’ll find another. If enough workers disappear because of a strike or something, other companies can take up the slack and the supply chain shifts to take advantage of other nodes in the line. With only 50% of the workforce, every node is struggling to survive. For example, let’s say you ship things, well now you only have half the population (or less thanks to all the people in traffic accidents) to ship the same amount of goods. Except your normal pickup guy doesn’t show up. So you call the post office to see if someone else can pick up your shipments, except they’re already struggling to fulfill all the orders they have, and figuring out who’s available (and dealing with the millions of driverless cars on the road). So things just don’t get shipped. The few that do, end up finding that people don’t care about their orders from before the snap. Consumers are either gone or struggling in the panic, business owners are gone or closing down shop as panicked people don’t pay for goods, they loot. Power plants just aren’t turned on or worse malfunction, power grids fail as people in charge aren’t there to oversee them. Even assuming that we eventually get things in order and rebuild things, thanks to the principle of economies of scale, until populations participating in the global supply chain become comparable to modern day populations, (or technology makes up for the gap, which in the chaos technology just isn’t going to progress), prices are going to be more expensive for some things. While food costs likely are going to go down as the amount of arable land in many regions will be more or less the same, most other goods are going to be much more expensive, because while 10 people can produce a 100 units a day, 20 people can often produce 500 units a day thanks to more and better automation, larger scales of production, etc. in short, more people per unit item of most goods will be need to be paid in order to get that good from the factory to your home. And that’s the best possible scenario, more people living in poverty, with higher prices on goods, until population levels recover (which is another thing, what is going to stop most populations assuming they or their support systems don’t totally collapse, from recovering to their pre-Snap levels in a couple generations). Endgame treats the snap like ww2 occurred in the blink of an eye, memorials for the day, a population in mourning but recovering, but the fact is as explained, this would be a crisis far beyond ww2. WW2 killed an estimated 3% of the world population, certainly a shock, but one that was partially mitigated by the fact that a large percentage of them (soldiers) had already been removed from the economy over the course of a few years, the economy had time to react, and it was still brutal. The Black Death is closer, but even it only destroyed a third of the population of Europe and took several decades to do so, in addition, the majority of people in Europe were farmers who for the most part did not really rely on outsiders in order to survive like we do (how many people here grow all their own food from scratch, cook it, make and repair the tools they need to do that, can build their own shelter, etc.). Your village is dead, go to the next one that you can find that has enough survivors to still be a thing, find an empty plot of land and start farming. With our level of specialization, that just isn’t a possibility in today’s world. Try asking an accountant to manage a nuclear power plant and see how well that goes. The only real life example I can think of that seems even vaguely on the same scale is the Bronze Age collapse, where the ancient world effectively underwent the apocalypse. Cities were destroyed, advanced supply chains and trade routes disappeared, societal order broke down, and many weaker nations straight up disappeared. It took the region centuries to recover, and some nations like Egypt, never fully recovered their glory from that time. But this would be a much more dangerous shock to the world. Farmers have a tendency to be the most secure during troublesome times, because they can produce their own food (though the breakdown in law and order leaves them vulnerable to roaming bandits that has a tendency to encourage feudal like arrangements for protection). Meanwhile cities while generally are almost fully dependent upon trade to exist and not starve, are the most vulnerable. The percentage of the world that exists as farmers has been steadily decreasing since the dawn of agriculture, though it dropped drastically around the Industrial Revolution, while the urban population has been rising. During the Bronze Age Collapse, the loss of cities was likely only a small drop in their population, while the majority of farmers, the vast majority of their population, likely would have survived, even if their quality of life dropped drastically. Meanwhile about 50% of the world’s population is urban, and we can expect a good majority to die, cities tend to consume themselves pretty quickly, and the violence in the aftermath would kill a lot of people. All in all, I would not be surprised if after Thanos killed 3.5 billion people, another 1 billion died in the first year afterwards. Considering the miserable state of affairs afterwards, as well as the fact that older people without modern healthcare support would just die in their 50s and 60s, and in the next ten years we could easily see the population drop by another billion people. But well assuming farmers can produce at least a quarter of what they currently can using more sustainable techniques and without modern machinery (which yea, good luck) food prices may just indeed go down. Congratulations, hope you like living in the rural 1800’s or in dystopian cities, because those are now your options.

[@ThanosDestroyeryearsago]

Thanos was a complete idiot.

[@LjuboCupic1912]

@@ThanosDestroyeryearsago not really, he was an insane man who wanted validation.

[@thatannoyingkid871]

You had no ideas Covid was coming to prove you wrong lol.

[@spadeecstasy8709]

You need more like wtf

[@LuckerW3]

mucho texto

[@iframe1]

I always assumed he was killing half of intelligent life, because that's what was causing all the issues according to him + in the movie we don't see half of all living things during a snap disappear, I mean they were in the forest and half of the trees didn't vanish

[@theovermind6041]

There is a thing in endgame, during the intro with the archer dude (don’t remember his name) the birds get quiet. They got snapped aswell.

[@ben927]

I didn't see any plants evaporate in Wakanda in Infinity war.

[@thiccbrianwith72pickles74]

Oh damn

[@darkmasteroverlord372]

Props.

[@ketsuban_jpg]

Luck 100

[@ottokapanen3460]

Just luck

[@jeremy2965]

Pretty sure kevin Fiege fucked u0 and should've said half of all SENTIENT life. Which would exclude plants. But at the same time, it's a comic book movie

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

This snap plan makes no sense if it reduces the population AND resources. Completely defeats the purpose if it doesn’t target sentient consumers. Feels bad, thanks for the upload cody!

[@brandonlyon730]

Well he’s not called the MAD Titan for nothing.

[@theallmemeingeye5927]

To quote Negan: "PEOPLE ARE A RESOURCE"

[@chironcovear3435]

I think the purpose was he was driven mad after his plan which would’ve worked on Titan was never allowed to work.

[@BickyNuckley]

Abserd O That’s not true, as it’s shown in Endgame (and this is somewhat of a spoiler so don’t look if you haven’t watched it yet), Antman is looking out a window and makes a comment of how birds are back.

[@couqueza4169]

!!!!!!ENDGAME SPOILERS!!!!! You have been warned. Don't ruin the movie for yourself It looks like the wearer of the gauntlet gets to decide who dies. We see this when Tony snaps his fingers and kills Thanos and his entire remaining army. So that makes me think that Thanos could've chosen that only humanoids and such would die, excluding livestock, wild animals and plants

[@hattenkofer]

Nearly the same chaos would result after Hulk's un-snap. After five years, if after these five years any stability has been reached, it means that half as many farmers grow half as much food for half as many consumers. Now suddenly everybody is back asking "What's for lunch?" Add to that the problem of where the dusted people go back to. Do all of the restored Asgardians find themselves (very briefly) floating in empty space like a confused bowl of petunias because their space ships have moved on? So has earth and all other planets. Does the pilot of that helicopter that crashed in the post-credit scene in Infinity War get resurrected in mid-air? Oh dear.

[@OrigoZ]

That's why people on planes, boats and even the international space station would dead.

[@Brakiros]

Yeah they don't think of such things as they get returned to the exact place they disappeared, a lot of people who get unsnapped would die

[@umapessoa240]

If a person got snapped and a tree grew in that exact spot, what would even happen when they got unsapped

[@Brakiros]

@@umapessoa240 they'd instantly die having snapped back inside a tree

[@halinaqi2194]

Earths rotation itself will kill them, including orbit.

[@-avalon-9440]

If this happened? Some kid would say: “Mommy, I don’t feel so good...”

[@camdensparks524]

Actually. We can see from the other avengers that died, they didn’t feel anything. They just died. Spider-Man didn’t feel it, he sensed it beforehand.

[@lucasharvey8990]

@@camdensparks524 thank you. I've been confused about that particular sentence for months. That actually makes a ton of sense.

[@madgreensonunbound5801]

@@camdensparks524 I read somewhere that someone theorized that because he had enhanced healing, Peter's powers were fighting it, causing him to last longer than the rest there on Titan as well as lots of pain. Luckily, Endgame shows that it was not the case

[@TheOneEyedMac]

@@camdensparks524 damn, imagine knowing you would die.

[@RealMeekSiren]

Son:turns to dust Mom:-videogames-

[@bigpigeon2384]

Ghosty sixtyninth like

[@DeeptenSarkar]

And this is the quality content I came to the comments section to see 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ParasaurolophusEwan]

Actually my mom isn't like that

[@jakeebel674]

ParaEwie good for you

[@bariodoesrandomstuff4845]

**kid reads book because he likes studying** Mom: video games

[@bruhbruh-kv8tm]

"Your friends fall apart and float away." Tigerstar: *Cody I don't feel so good* Edit: I've never gotten this many likes. Thanks

[@grimtheghastly8878]

**casually dies inside**

[@SkittleNutz77]

Just like Spider-man.... you say "quit being a lil biatch!"

[@linustalbot439]

Isnt it possible that some countries could be completely unaffected and others are completely wiped out ?

[@Menno_3]

Theoretically, yes. In practise? Highly unlikely.

[@stevenvroom1041]

@@Menno_3 Well, it's indeed highly unlikely if every living being has an equal chance of poofing away. And while that is a logical default assumption there is nothing saying that is actually the case in this scenario. And given that these stones would have to follow some sort of logic to select beings it could be some odd situations pop up. (though I do not think the writers intended anything like that)

[@mitchellkosciusko8791]

If this scenario happens, just shit in a sock and suck the shit out of the sock

[@GeeMannn]

*New Zealand becomes a global superpower*

[@petersmythe6462]

If it's random then it's technically possible. In the same sense flipping a coin a million times in a row and getting heads every time is. I.E. so unlikely it wouldn't happen.

[@kairi3177]

Thanos: *after the Snap* "I'm a hero. I've saved the universe" Cody: Allow me to introduce myself...I'm about to destroy your whole career

[@Ghosteriz]

Magician: I'm gonna do one final tricks! Thanos snap: **SNAP** Magician: *Vanished* Crowd: *WHAO* ... vanished

[@jijomathew8125]

Magician vanishes with half of the audience Audience: Thank you Mr. Magician Thanos:dafuq

[@sarahmossman6378]

Ummm guys I think their-

[@Multi_Step]

they're*

[@friskdreemurr6281]

*half the crowd*

[@bean9662]

Magician: One final trick Thanos: Snaps *All of the crowd disappears* Magician: what the fuck

[@pe1900]

I think there could be a possibility of an entire plane being fine and most of the airport it lands on isn't. "Oh what a wonderful flight and OH MY GOODNESS"

[@greggmayles2733]

Or two pilots land the plane and they don't realize everyone else is gone

[@aceshighdueceslow]

If anything, the fact that air traffic control amd ground control has also been affected by the snap, there will be lots of crashes because there is a delicate relationship between pilots and control. If we thought the chaos on 9/11 was bad with flights getting grounded amd people being stranded, now imagine that on a global scale and the potential number of crashes being staggeringly higher. Not even taking into account potential disasters caused by panic on flights where the pilots are safe but a decent chunk of the passengers and possibly some of the flight staff have poofed out of existence.

[@tuberculosisterrence567]

WHY IS IT SO DUSTY?!

[@pe1900]

@@aceshighdueceslow yes that is true but it is also true that this comment is a joke

[@aceshighdueceslow]

that's no fun

[@rnpola9408]

Thanos: *snap* the internet: Top ten bruh moments in history

[@chaywen9240]

Reddit: "Lol epic meme bro have my upvote my brother is dead"

[@lorddog7249]

Chaylen Tejeda Also Reddit: *F*

[@owenmcphee-keath3388]

top ten anime kills

[@Horrorfreak106]

#1 bruh moment for me will always be burger king foot lettuce.

[@RabdoInternetGuy]

Thanos: "Balanced, as all things should be." This Video: Yeah, *No.*

[@ZombieChimpanzee]

so Thanos basically destroys the universe? basically what I figured.

[@Prettywitchiusaka]

Yeah. And he thinks we should be "grateful". Grateful for what? A dying world to depressed and scared to move froward? Great strategy!

[@SploogeCannon]

He just wipes any race not resilient enough to withstand the effects from the universe, essentially survival of the fittest

[@Prettywitchiusaka]

@Jack Wilson Temmie I meant Thanos when I said that.

[@Prettywitchiusaka]

@@SploogeCannon Not necessarily, he says himself in Infinity war he wants to be random, which it was. For it to be survivor of the fittest, Thanos would've had to specify he only wanted those strong enough to survive the new world or something like that.

[@jelly_fish764]

Most of it anyway

[@brendanrisney2449]

The original Thanos was legit trying to murder everybody. I think the cinematic version wasn't supposed to kill anything but the sapient species. Did trees turn to dust int he movie? I don't remember them doing that. (Haven't watched Endgame, so maybe they explain it there)

[@Robbie_Riot]

The president of marvel studios said that half of the plants and animals we're snapped.

[@lordkarasu2263]

Brendan Risney Kevin feigie(?)said it’s half of life, I’m the end game trailer black widow says “thanos did exactly what he said he would, he wiped out half of ALL life” so yeah, we screwed.

[@Robbie_Riot]

@@lordkarasu2263 yeah it was Kevin

[@radix4400]

That just seems counterintuitive. Like what resources is all this life depleting? Is it inorganic rocks? Because reducing the population won't solve that finite issue. If it is stuff like the environment, removing half of plants doesn't solve anything. The only way this overpopulation thing seems to work should be intelligent life. I think we can at least say only half of animal life.

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

Yeah, that always confused me. I know Thanos is supposed to be the Mad Titan, but that’s such a glaring oversight, on top of the movie not showing anything BUT sentient life disappearing.

[@TheRibottoStudios]

I think this video confirmed it....The Snap, is the WORST apocalyptic scenario to live in. Not only due to the sheer amount of chaos, but watching to watch your loved ones fade to dust and there's no reason why, no answers....just grief and chaos in a world forever damaged. And not only that, but with how sudden it would be, and with populations of countries all over varying by huge degrees, smaller populated countries most likely wouldn't survive. Not to mention right away you'd have MORE than half dying because plane crashes, ship wrecks, nuclear power plants going...well nuclear it would be absolute insanity. I mean yes we would survive, but it would take HUNDREDS of years to bounce back from the Snap. I'd rather live in a nuclear war apocalypse because then EVERYONE is dead. Here? Only half-about half anyways-and if you survive you're just left with pain and no answers. You have to try and move on. And some won't be able to. Meaning MORE life would be lost. It wouldn't be a grateful universe as Thanos thinks in his deranged mind. It would be a universe full of anger and pain and rage. Oof.

[@cortster12]

A gray goo scenario could be close, I think.

[@alpacamaster5992]

Cold war gone hot would kill almost every human that's worse much worse and it actually could've happened.

[@crazychinese7315]

watch your love ones got cook alive by nukes is better how?

[@alpacamaster5992]

It's much worse

[@alpacamaster5992]

The whole ultron thing is actually scarier robots killing humanity and replacing them

[@Markfr0mCanada]

10:20 You just described one of the features of feudalism. People who's lives had been destroyed by war joined an army because the troops got fed in a vicious feedback loop. During times of war an army was actually the safest place to be.

[@franciscovazquezjr4550]

Oooo, what a nice way to spend time waiting to go see Endgame

[@franciscovazquezjr4550]

@@Batkudev nice, I'll see it in about 5-6 hrs lol

[@lotusthemermaid]

Yes!!! I'm seeing it in 7 and a half hours! ❤❤❤

[@dodoontherocks]

I saw it yesterday... no spoilers from me tho :D

[@dodoontherocks]

@@franciscovazquezjr4550 enjoy a masterpiece:)

[@franciscovazquezjr4550]

@@dodoontherocks thank you my friend lol

[@fkeyae4217]

Thanos in Endgame: Tell me Avengers is your world not more peaceful This video: Thanos: Oh my bad

[@machixius]

yes ikr

[@TheAntiNeoCon]

No because thanos would take over the planet like he has before. Meaning if you want food you would listen to your overlord thanos

[@frking100]

In this case people dont know what happened in the avengers universe know what happened. Also the lost of plants and animals seem like a way to make thanos the bad guy as the whole point was that there would be more food and food comes from plants and animals. Also the people who got snapped where at random so there is no 50 percent less doctors or farmers. The smaller the pool of workers the smaller it is affected

[@taherbertolinirodrigues9104]

@@frking100 the plan is still idiotic as It functions on Malthusian theories, which were proved to be false.

[@frking100]

@@taherbertolinirodrigues9104 The plan would be dumb if it hadn't worked before. Thanos cites the planet which it worked there is also the historical source of the flowering economy after the black plague thus making it not idiotic but rather an experiment. You have to run multiple trials and see if you get the desired results. In our reality we dont have enough measurable instances to draw accurate data but in the avengers universe thanos has enough data to at least prove that his experiment is precise

[@martinxy1291]

Thanos: *Has glove that can do ANYTHING* Also Thanos: *Kills half of everyone insted of 2x resources*

[@kylemccormack1785]

It's explicitly explained in Infinity War that Thanos believes the universe is FINITE. That means, fundamentally, that he's adhering to the concept that energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. That's that the Decimation did.

[@wJermell0]

@@kylemccormack1785 But you could just move resources around. Use the space stone to teleport a planet into a habitable zone, make desolate land farmable, turn boulders into giant loaves of bread. It's like the guy has literally every possible option made easy and he just yeets half of everything and calls it a day.

[@Notilaam]

It’s almost like he’s a super villain of some sort.

[@clayxros576]

@@kylemccormack1785 And then they....oh wait....you haven't seen Endgame have you? Frick

[@martinxy1291]

@@Notilaam but the way they describe him is more of someone strong that will make the hard decisions. With both the reality and fact that he could have done anything else makes him seem like a snub asshole who thinks he knows what's best without even listening to anyone else's opinion

[@the_beast183]

Hell, this is accurate even with the world shutting down because of the pandemic. Sure, it’s a lot of hyperbole to consider a few million dying on the same scale as half of all life dying, but it would take a lot less than half of all life dying to shut down what we’ve worked so hard to build.