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"My reward, my purpose, my life, is the work itself - my work done my way! Nothing else matters to me!"
This works freakishly well.
Avengers: Endgame
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This works freakishly well.
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Thanos the Mad Titan IS Howard Roark in The Fountainhead.
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Thanos IS Apocalypse in the Darkseid Story.
Sabertooth
Currently on a road trip with Magnus the Red
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I mean, the fact that he threw Gamora off a cliff should be a hint towards that.
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Holy fuck, was Ayn Rand really Thanos this whole time?!
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If you have to ask...
Carrnage
Human
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Thanos is more malthusian.
Zap Rowsdower
Ex-cultist vagrant
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Indeed, Ayn Rand would consider him evil for wanting to do something for the benefit of the universe as a whole rather than himself. For him to be Ayn Rand level he'd have to be motivated entirely by, and admit to, doing stuff purely because he wants to rather than out of a misguided sense of twisted altruism.
AKA, Thanos isn't selfish asshole enough to be Ayn Rand.
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Let's see if I can find those quotes where she talked about the "beautiful soul" of a child kidnapper/murderer...
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I wonder if Rand 's head would explode if she ever considered the fact that someone would want to selfishly persue selflessness.
Bernkastel
The Witch of Miracles
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Yes, I remember there being a bit in Atlas Shrugged where the MC is doing something for her love interest and he thinks she is doing something that is (gasps) altruistic. He is incredibly offended by that.
Thanos wants people to see him as selflessly virtuous. Rand found the idea of being selflessly virtuous disgusting to the point of making her own characters be openly insulted by it.
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Who were they looking to convince? Thanos?
Everyone was in agreement the man and his plan were mad and beyond reason at this point.
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And yet Infinity War made a point of having Gamora debate Thanos about his plan, implied to be "yet again". It was for the benefit of the audience, like what I suggested the possible "your plan doesn't even work beyond the horrific methods" rebuttal would be.
In other words, I can believe there is a way to write in an excuse for a character onscreen to mention how Thanos's plan doesn't work, whether to Thanos or to someone else in passing (and the other person going "yeah, he's nuts as we all know"). And given some of the scenes that were put into Infinity War and Endgame, I'm also sure such a scene will be just as consequential, and so not have a reason to be cut (as opposed to those other scenes which made it into the movie).
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As I recall that was done so that you would know what the plan was. That the plan is fuckin' monstrous was kind of taken as a given.
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Hell, Gamora during that whole debate seems less actively arguing with Thanos then simply repeating to him that this is evil bullshit, because clearly, she realized years ago that you can't logic Thanos out of this one, because logic isn't involved.
Triggerhappy
Stick with Trigger and You'll Make it Through
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Pretty sure she just dismissed that as a form of mental illness. You had to be a selfish prick in exactly her way. Else you were doing it wrong.
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The film is being re-released in cinemas.
Avengers: Endgame is returning to theaters with a new scene
Avengers: Endgame is returning to theaters with a new scene
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Those motherfuckers.
*pulls out wallet*
The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
*pulls out wallet*
The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
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I hope this re-release is worldwide and not just US only like some fear, if it worldwide, that's a nice early Birthday gift for my birthday tomorrow.
ZerbanDaGreat
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Disney: "fuck fuck fuck it's not enough that we make all the money in the universe and there's another mcu movie coming out in like a fucking week we have to beat avatar or we're worthless what do we do"
Avengers Endgame: "You could not live with your own failures, and where did that bring you? Back to me."
Avengers Endgame: "You could not live with your own failures, and where did that bring you? Back to me."
Arthur Frayn
Fake God by Occupation, Magician by Inclination
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That new post-credits scene had better be Luis narrating the entire MCU, or we riot.
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I hope that isn't what the new post credits scene is.
I'm actually kind of hoping that these lists decide to average out the rerelease box office income and the original movie, which would actually put them significantly lower on the charts, just out of spite at the attempt to game the list.
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Avatar got a release too.I'm actually kind of hoping that these lists decide to average out the rerelease box office income and the original movie, which would actually put them significantly lower on the charts, just out of spite at the attempt to game the list.
Also Disney could not give less of a shit about who the number one movie is, because they own the entire top 5