The Last Movie You Watched

[Rev. Rye]

Well, if Thanos had enough power to remove that much life, it stands to reason he could have used his power to create sufficient resources for everyone, and not have had to kill anyone at all. If that was his intention, he could have enlisted the Avengers et al to help him recover the stones.  This could have made for just as much action as the film they did make, and would have made a lot more sense. 

And, since Thanos opts to kill trillions instead of creating more resources for them, he's clearly a bad guy.

Well, to be fair, A) Someone named Thanos is probably not going to be interested in creating new resources, and B) He's clearly been wedded to His preferred solution for a long time, especially since He's put it into practice long enough to raise a girl from a planet whose population He's halved and have her grow old enough to be played by Zoe Saldana (in the film stated to be 20 years.)

Why would having Him suddenly change tactics on a dime after decades of genocide with the prospect of getting the Infinity Stones actually make it less of a plot hole? In the real world, we have people who get ideas about how things operate and, once proven wrong, still go about the world peddling their bullshit.

Case in point: Peter Duesberg was one of the early scientists to study AIDS and he hypothesised that AIDS was caused by either excessive inhalant use or excessive use of anti-retroviral drugs like AZT, and that HIV has nothing to do with it and all those people dying of it in Africa are all misdiagnosed. He was proven utterly wrong, but he still pushes his bullshit, up to and including convincing Thabo Mbeki, second President of South Africa, a country where 1 in 6 Adults (and, by some estimates, 1 in 2 children) are HIV positive, that the consensus on AIDS is bullshit, and that they should do nothing helpful about it, leading to the deaths of a third of a million people.

Seriously, I'm on the autism spectrum and even I'm finding it easy to understand why Thanos doesn't decide to just create more resources with all the ultimate power he has.