Infinity War Thread With The Spoilers

On the one hand, yeah it's a little silly, but on the other hand, what are they going to say? "Don't worry, everybody! Clearly half the cast isn't going to stay dead, so don't even bother discussing the current movie or, heck, watching the next one." It's a bit of necessary theater. They pretend everybody's dead, we pretend everybody's dead, and then everybody pretends to be surprised when A4 reveals that everyone, in fact, is not dead--except for one or more of Captain America/Thor/Iron Man/Hulk, who will die and remain dead until the next reboot. Maybe I'm just used to comic book logic, but I don't feel like anyone's intelligence is being insulted. The winking and nudging is just part of the experience.

The Russos keep acting like everyone being dead is real, and each time the say the more I lose respect for them. Stop insulting our intelligence when your production company has had guardians 3 announced since last year. Unless you are willing to really tell us that yes, the MCU is going to make guardians 3 with only rocket and nebula and a bunch of new guys. Which who wants to watch a guardians movie without groot, drax, star lord, gamora, and mantis?

They're not going to keep Spider-Man and Black Panther dead, obviously. Why do you appear to be getting so upset over a bunch of fictional characters dying by a reality-altering superpowered set of gems that can most likely reverse some or all of the damage later if/when they are recovered from the villain??

Im not upset over them dying, Im annoyed because the directors are trying to ask me to buy into it when they clearly aren't going to stay dead.

Good news everyone! Howard the Duck survived the halfening!

This makes me all the more hopeful for the canonization of the fan theory that all of the dissolved people went to another universe, and we'll follow along with their adventures in Phase n+1 and leave the other ones behind, because Universe B is now a universe without Howard The Duck.

I liked Thanos as a villain. Yes, if you examine his motive logically it feels unnecessary. At the end of the day he's a slapnuts lunatic who's obsessed with killing half of things when it's very clearly not the only solution to things. I don't think that invalidates his arc though? We see the character going through struggles, his relationship with Gamora, Nebula, and his other children, the tragedy of having to throw Gamora off a cliff because Red Skull said so. (Seriously how crazy is it that Red Skull is back). The fact that he's shown working for it keeps from having a character at even his least-powerful form in the movie beating the shit out of the Hulk from feeling cheap. Yes, he's everywhere he needs to be at all times just about effortlessly smacking down the heroes, but he's putting in the legwork. And when he told the vision child Gamora "yes, but it cost me everything", I felt it. This was a lunatic who had a (logically just wrong) vision, busted his arse and pulled it off, and in the process lost all of his children and everything he loves. Except Nebula. He still has Nebula. 

"You speak Groot?"
"It was an elective in Asgard."