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I want villains with understandable goals. Evil for evil's sake has struck me as stupid since adulthood.
Thanos was a great villain by this standard. He had lived through the suffering and collapse of his homeworld due to overpopulation, so his motivations actually made sense.
His plan was childishly idiotic which ruined any good will his motivation had
Funnily enough I watched Avengers yesterday and was reminded of the sheer stupidity of Thanos' plan.
Kill half the living beings. Great. After a traumatic event, people typically nstart banging like bunnies and you'll get a great amount of offspring and within 30 years things will be worse than before because of what you did.
Instead, bring the miracle of contraception and improve living standards for everyone and watch a miracle unfold with so much less resources required than maintaining huge armies to cause suffering
He could have just made half the people born ever again sterile