Infinity War: a simple calculus

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Mike A:
With the reality stone he doesn't "have" to do anything. He can literally do whatever he wants. He could make all beings capable of living without consuming food for fuel. He could make every creature immortal. He could expand the size of the universe. I am not well versed in comic book lore. Is there a limit to the power of the reality stone? If not why did he even bother fighting the Avengers? He could have turned them all into donkeys with a thought.

fallacy:
I can tell you why, it's just a crap movie. Marvel has always gotten flack for having bland villains with weak motivations. They could have either had the big bad come to earth threatening to destroy it with a big blue beam from space for no real reason for the millionth time; or they could go with option B which was coming up with some crap about him coming to earth not knowing anything about the planet and it inhabitants but needing to save everyone by killing them. Clearly the avengers need to all assemble if he is going to do that.

Mr. Peabody:
Mike A and fallacy have....chosen wisely. More at Mike A: as some have said, the only limit is the imagination. However, the imagination un-checked breeds vacuousness.

@DrakeTungsten: first-world population numbers and resource use are far less than the rest of the world. Yeah, the plot required it. 'I thought of this!.....so.....that must happen to make it so.' It is the equivalent of fitting facts to theory. I watch [some of] these movies because they're pretty - and to keep abreast of things. I almost don't play fighting games.

@nitrogen_widget: but he or his offspring in some much later age will have to cull the flock again.....

@jdbailey1206: in the comic book universe he was the Mad Titan. In the MCU, he's just a man from another planet. Good and evil. No in-between?

@Malenko: I thought Thanos was a rip-off of Thanatos - Death. Conflict comes in numerous flavors. The most banal are the tribal.

Mr. Peabody:
Speaking of punching gods......

'....fantasy talked about gods. Science fiction started talking about us.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2423351839&feature=iv&src_vid=hNxPTk9gR54&v=JI9lVkJdif4

Malenko:

--- Quote from: Mr. Peabody on November 02, 2018, 02:52:34 am ---@Malenko: I thought Thanos was a rip-off of Thanatos - Death. Conflict comes in numerous flavors. The most banal are the tribal.

--- End quote ---

He was actually originally a rip-off of Metron , and then later more of a rip off of Darkseid. In terms of appearance at least.
But there's no origin of his name I can find. I don't think he's name is supposed to be any correlation to Death but its possible. His brother is Eros so I think Thanos is supposed to be the opposite. So either hate or...infertility?

I'm obviously over thinking this. I just don't think they'd call him death and have him be in love with death too :p

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