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  • 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.



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    They generally don’t.

    Usually, what they do is go home to live with their handler’s family. Which- generally- they’re okay with.

    But they’re still trained to attack on command and require someone who knows how to handle them to be around.

    If they don’t live with their handlers, then they find another qualified person to take them in. (A trainer or similar, for example.

    Used to be? They’d just euthanize them because dumping them in rescues was a great way to get some bad press.





  • 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.


  • It’s also important to note that Mr. Testicle Chin wasn’t genocidal. He just wanted to wipe out half of all sentient life.

    An asshole? Sure. Just as bad? Maybe. But his goal wasn’t to kill everyone of a specific culture or erase a culture.

    He’s not Israel trying to wipe out Palestinians, or a china the Uyghurs or Canada the natives… as fucked up and evil as he is, he’s actually trying to save them- from overpopulation.