Okay! I kinda wish they didn't even show him showing remorse, or reconsideration, or changing his goals, because I feel like the cycles of consequences and escalation have already been present in the movies, but I do like that different types of behaviour stemming from the same motivation are shown. It fits, though, this is just a personal preference.
I think I wrote about this after I'd seen IW the first time, about how it redeemed Ultron as a villain for me by solidifying that theme of the consequences of the solution exceeding the problem that everyone was trying to fix. It happened in IM-IM2, it happened further with Fury in Avengers, with Tony in Ultron -- it's the reason neither Tony nor Steve "won" in Civil War, and why T'Challa won there and in Black Panther. Big solutions are shown to fail all the time, and then the people undertaking the big solutions are the ones who are stuck in a cycle of repairing their mistakes. SHIELD. Tony. Thanos. It doens't work, and the consequences of your actions will define you.
Even Tony doesn't fully break out of this, because he dies in the end. This is why, as much as I dislike it, Steve is the one who lives. Because he's never been one for big solutions -- he ends up representing an opposing big solution in CW, but even there his motivations are just "protect Bucky".
Bad is inherited. Bad passes on. There is no single character in the MCU who doesn't have to fight not to pass the bad on, and a lot of characters who think that necessity of passing the bad on necessitates they create a greater good to pass on with it. Thanos being the extreme end of that thinking is what makes him for me.
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Date: 27/4/19 11:12 (UTC)I think I wrote about this after I'd seen IW the first time, about how it redeemed Ultron as a villain for me by solidifying that theme of the consequences of the solution exceeding the problem that everyone was trying to fix. It happened in IM-IM2, it happened further with Fury in Avengers, with Tony in Ultron -- it's the reason neither Tony nor Steve "won" in Civil War, and why T'Challa won there and in Black Panther. Big solutions are shown to fail all the time, and then the people undertaking the big solutions are the ones who are stuck in a cycle of repairing their mistakes. SHIELD. Tony. Thanos. It doens't work, and the consequences of your actions will define you.
Even Tony doesn't fully break out of this, because he dies in the end. This is why, as much as I dislike it, Steve is the one who lives. Because he's never been one for big solutions -- he ends up representing an opposing big solution in CW, but even there his motivations are just "protect Bucky".
Bad is inherited. Bad passes on. There is no single character in the MCU who doesn't have to fight not to pass the bad on, and a lot of characters who think that necessity of passing the bad on necessitates they create a greater good to pass on with it. Thanos being the extreme end of that thinking is what makes him for me.