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Well, if you're gonna be really nerdy about it, keeping the ability of life to reproduce intact and culling 50% of the population once only gets you one slice of the doubling time back. I'm not the first to point out that Thanos started a galactic war to send the population of Earth back to 1975. Tony's kid would still be alive by the time humanity thwarts Thanos through sheer horniness.
He'd have been way better off by making every sentient species like 90% less likely to conceive or whatever. Except then most animals and plants would go extinct, so what's the point. It's really very unclear what "resource" Thanos is trying to preserve.
So... you know, if his take doesn't make sense in the first place, and we do know that he at least impacted animals, because the movie explicitly shows a bird showing up as a confirmation that the un-snap worked, it's not a crazy idea to ponder all the other ways it'd be weird, counterintuitive or self-defeating. Dead gut biomes, suddenly liberated E. coli, sudden deserts and unexpected outcomes of random distributions are all fun thought experiments, I suppose.
But mostly, it shows that it raises enough questions to break suspension of disbelief a little, which I think is the biggest sin of that particular change. The comic take is absurd, but at least it settles the question.
I dunno man, "a madman thinks he understand the universe way more than he really does" doesn't break suspension of disbelief for me. I agree with you that his plans are flawed, but he's not infallible. I'm not trying to gage whether or not his plan makes sense, I'm trying to gage whether or not him believing it makes sense. History is full of arrogant men with half-baked plans for salvation; I don't see how Thanos is any different.
That's fair, I suppose. I'd just argue that the movie forgot to... correct him? Endgame even makes a point about how nature is healing and the air is cleaning.
If the point was that he was wrong and misguided, the movies didn't make that clear. Instead it was just "he's ruthless and evil, but he maybe has a point" as an angle, which is a really weird way to frame your omnicidal nutcase.
I get why, relatable villains are more interesting, especially if you're going to have the entire movie revolve around him. It's just that they went about it in a way that raises questions.
To be clear though, I also agree that the comic book version of Thanos's motivation was way better. Like not even a competition. But I don't think the MCU version is so nonsensical so as to be unbelievable as a motivation.