No question he was a total asshole, and a mass murder of incomprehensible scale.
But his actions were not genuinely genocidal.
Again, he didn’t wipe out entire civilizations- only half the population of every planet/whatever in the universe, and he did so entirely at random. (With every being having a 50% chance to live.)
He wasn’t trying to wipe out any specific culture or ideology or people, and I’m pretty sure that his methods were functionally designed to avoid doing so.
When the Avengers go back to the past and Past Thanos learns that Future Thanos succeeded but still failed, Past Thanos says clearly that means he didn’t genocide hard enough, erasing half of all life was too kind, and he really needs to erase all life and start from scratch - which does sound very familiar. Sorry, I vote full genocidal, even if not specific to one or some cultures.
go back to the past and Past Thanos learns that Future Thanos succeeded but still failed, Past Thanos says clearly that means he didn’t genocide hard enough,
Past Thanos is now a fundamentally different person than “future” Thanos. Depending on what kind of handwaveian pseudo logic you care to subscribe to, either “future thanos” no longer exists, they’ve just created a new shittier universe, in which past-thanos does different things; Past Thanos enver does shitty things and really learned his lesson, so they never go back and never tell past thanos and so past thanos becomes the original first thanos… and… fuck… or they created two thanos that exist in the same universe but functionally separate. Like Will Ryker and Tom Ryker.
If you think that’s a headache, yes it is.
but, yeah. Past Thanos is fundamentally altered by the time traveller’s interactions, and is therefore a different person that “future” thanos.
In any case, that’s still- technically not genocide which, per Merriam Webster:
: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
Lacking the intent to destroy a group of people based on race, or their cultural group or similar, means while still just as bad and evil, it is not, in fact, genocide. It’s not my fault the world failed to remember the world is full of pendants who like to believe words have meaning.
No question he was a total asshole, and a mass murder of incomprehensible scale.
But his actions were not genuinely genocidal.
Again, he didn’t wipe out entire civilizations- only half the population of every planet/whatever in the universe, and he did so entirely at random. (With every being having a 50% chance to live.)
He wasn’t trying to wipe out any specific culture or ideology or people, and I’m pretty sure that his methods were functionally designed to avoid doing so.
When the Avengers go back to the past and Past Thanos learns that Future Thanos succeeded but still failed, Past Thanos says clearly that means he didn’t genocide hard enough, erasing half of all life was too kind, and he really needs to erase all life and start from scratch - which does sound very familiar. Sorry, I vote full genocidal, even if not specific to one or some cultures.
Past Thanos is now a fundamentally different person than “future” Thanos. Depending on what kind of handwaveian pseudo logic you care to subscribe to, either “future thanos” no longer exists, they’ve just created a new shittier universe, in which past-thanos does different things; Past Thanos enver does shitty things and really learned his lesson, so they never go back and never tell past thanos and so past thanos becomes the original first thanos… and… fuck… or they created two thanos that exist in the same universe but functionally separate. Like Will Ryker and Tom Ryker.
If you think that’s a headache, yes it is. but, yeah. Past Thanos is fundamentally altered by the time traveller’s interactions, and is therefore a different person that “future” thanos.
In any case, that’s still- technically not genocide which, per Merriam Webster:
Lacking the intent to destroy a group of people based on race, or their cultural group or similar, means while still just as bad and evil, it is not, in fact, genocide. It’s not my fault the world failed to remember the world is full of pendants who like to believe words have meaning.