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What Will Happen When Thanos Returns?

Ten Years in the Making

By Q-ell BettonPublished 5 years ago 4 min read
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I don’t generally write reviews on big films. I don’t see the point. It’s not that I do not have an opinion, it is just they tend to be well covered, generally. Whether I loved or loathed the film, if it is a tent pole movie, an awaited-for release, it will be reviewed by hundreds, if not thousands of reviewers.

The biggest films have multiple reviews even before they have hit the local multiplex or the small local cinema. The likes of the Star Wars films and the Marvel films are event films. People who are not necessarily film fans have heard of the likes Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, even, though not necessarily my cup of tea, The Twilight Saga.

There are not many films that get me excited. There are a lot of films I want to see, a lot of films that I have seen. John Wick 3 is way up high on the list of films I want to see, as is the next Star Wars installment. I’ve seen most of the Star Wars films, though I would not call myself a massive fan. I have not seen the small films that add to the cannon.

When it comes to Marvel, however, it is a different story. I am all in on the MCU. I used to collect comics, X-Men and Daredevil, and the magic and majesty of super-powered beings, fighting not just to defeat some nefarious figure, but also to defend humanity, and its values really spoke to me.

Comics, in their colour, two dimensional, panels, depicted and portrayed the best qualities of humanity; hope, adaptability, tolerance, and tenacity. In the films of the MCU they, almost perfectly, for the most part, have been brought to life.

Unlike Fox films, the MCU has someone in Kevin Feige who not only understands film, he understands comics. Aside from the odd misstep (Thor: The Dark World anyone?) the films under the MCU have been good, to great, to excellent. Last year’s Avengers: Infinity War, part one of a two-part saga, was the cumulation of a decade of interweaving films and stories.

Avengers: Infinity War proved to be not only a massive success, it was and is also a great film. It gets better after multiple viewings, the fluidity of the visuals and emotional impact of the storytelling is breathtaking. Watching it again as I write this, some fifteen hours before I watch one of the most anticipated films in my lifetime, Avengers: Endgame, I cannot imagine how they are going to top it.

Early word on the film has built expectation. As ever, and especially in these times of social media, the film critics and social media influencers who had been privy to the premiere were quick to praise the brilliance of the conclusion to the saga. Still, having not seen it, and avoiding all and any information about it, I cannot wait to see how the story is concluded.

Avengers: Infinity War introduced one of the best villains the MCU has seen in Thanos. Though the heroes throughout the decade long run of films were always interesting and well-rounded, the villains were always secondary. Very rarely was an antagonist worthy of the film they were in.

Only in the last few years, as the interweaving story has really begun to build to its inevitable conclusion, has the quality of antagonist gone up. In the highly entertaining Black Panther, there was Killmonger, a villain with a purpose and conviction. Similarly, when Spider-Man became part of the MCU, Vulcan was another great baddie, close enough to the comics to please the hardcore fans, but also modern and believable.

In Thanos, the MCU has a villain that is not only a massive, extinction level threat, he also is a complex and interesting character. Like Killmonger in the Black Panther, he is not maniacal or driven by greed. To him, in his own mind, the solving of the problem that plagues all living things—too many beings to sustain without enough sustenance—was not a difficult conundrum.

With the right means, the Infinity Stones, he could rectify the problem. With a thought, a mere snap of his fingers, once he wielded all the power of the stones, he would be able to erase half of all life in the universe. Not only would he be able to solve the sustainability problem, but it would be in a fair and impartial manner.

The reasoning cannot, if you believe and concur with his rationale, be faulted. It could be argued, from an all life standpoint, that he is actually a hero, prepared to make the sacrifices necessary to benefit the universe. The Avengers are only thinking of the human race and their friends. What about the rest of the universe?

This time tomorrow, I will have seen the conclusion to an epic body of work. Feige has set the bar really high at the MCU, and I, along with millions of others, cannot wait to see what the endgame is.

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Q-ell Betton

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