*Read to the end of the article for more information on our competition.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe. What a cultural phenomenon. With 21 movies, several TV shows, and more on the way, you would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of Robert Downey Junior’s Iron Man, Chris Evans’ Captain America, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and other beloved Marvel characters.
But the MCU didn’t gross billions of dollars just because of the heroes. If it wasn’t for the villains, the MCU wouldn’t be as successful as it was today. With the likes of Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger, Tom Hiddleston’s Loki giving our heroes a run for their money, these villains helped make marvel movies what they are. And biggest of all them; Thanos.
Thanos, the mad titan. Thanos, the big purple grape. Thanos, the greatest villain of the MCU, if not the greatest villain of all time. All simply because of one thing. He believes he is right. And we can (somewhat) relate to his point of view.
Thanos saw his world die due to overpopulation and made it his quest to prevent the same from happening to any other world. To this end, he collected the six infinity stones and wiped out half the universe an effort to save the other half. He believed he was right, and at the end of it all he could rest and “watch the sun rise on a grateful universe”
Thanos was wrong. Dead wrong.
The snap would not result in full bellies and a paradise as Thanos’ believes, but would rather leave Earth in an apocalypse. The moment the snap happens, there would be chaos. While 50% of life would initially die, the death toll would end up way higher. While the mid credits scene for Infinity War showed a glimpse of the chaos (SUVs swerving of the road, helicopters spinning into buildings, Sam L Jackson dropping half an F bomb), there were most definitely horrific scenarios occurring offscreen. Planes would fall out of the sky having lost their pilots, trains would derail having lost their drivers. People in hospital would bleed out, their surgeons disappearing mid surgery. Nuclear reactors could fall into meltdown, creating dozens of Chernobyls and Three Mile Islands world wide. Millions of people would go mad seeing their loved ones disappearing before their eyes for no reason at all. There would be mass suicide. If nukes didn’t start flying in panic and destroy the world right then, collateral damage would most certainly wipe out a significant portion of the 50% left alive in the snap, and that’s just in the first moment of it happening.
In the coming weeks, a collapse of basic infrastructure would kill many more. Governments would descend into anarchy with losses in leadership and the armed forces; the states of the world would essentially be decapitated. There would most definitely by a loss of electricity, water, food transportation, emergency services and much more. Millions would certainly perish from starvation and illness. Riots and anarchy would claim the lives of many more.
The global death toll for Earth would not be 3.97 billion, it would be closer to 7 billion, if not all of humanity. Any potential survivors would be in isolated pockets scattered around the world, fending for survival. There would be no paradise, only an apocalyptic dark age.
Obviously for the sake of the movie, this won’t happen within the MCU for story reasons, but admittedly we won’t know how the Russo brothers (the directors of Infinity War and Endgame) will tackle the world post-snap until Endgame comes out on the 24th. I myself cannot wait to see what Endgame entails, and I hope you are as excited as I am. Pivot is holding a competition with tickets up for grabs, so make sure to like, comment and share this and upcoming posts to be in the running!
COMPETITION TIME!!!
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The winners will be drawn at random and announced on our Facebook page on 1 May.
