Tag: infinity war

A pedantic but also kind of important note about the word “genocide”

As I understand it, part of the meaning of the word is that it’s the attempt to eliminate a specific *kind* of person (either from a certain territory/jurisdiction or from existence in the world as a whole), identified by race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or some similar categorization scheme.

Thanos’s Snap therefore does not count as genocide because it is indiscriminate across such categories, so I prefer to call it “mass murder.” Arguably it is motivated by class-based contempt, but he does not specifically target the poor. His halving of individual populations like that of Gamora’s home planet might rightly be called genocide because he targeted that planet rather than others and was aiming to “cull” that specific population.

Carry on with eviscerating his defenders, though, because they’re appalling.

led-lite:

philosopherking1887:

fuckyeahrichardiii:

maryxglz:

Loki – Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

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honestly the only way he’s handing over the real tesseract here is if Thor is under threat of imminent death.

True dat.

They have not given us the shot of Thanos palming Thor’s head like a gd basketball that we saw at D23 and SDCC this year. It was so clearly the same scene that I’m sure this is what Loki is doing. Probably with Thor doing quality ‘LOKI, NOooooooOOoOOOO’s

Oh shiiiittttt you’re breaking my heart already and I haven’t even seen the damn movie.

just because loki took the orgy ship to escape asgard doesn’t mean he didn’t still take it with him. like how else is thanos going to get his grubby hands on it? i’m betting that look took like every weapon he could while he was down there because that’s a loki thing to do

raven-brings-light:

Oh yeah I 100% still think Loki took the tesseract. Just maybe that’s not how he escaped Surtur’s big firestorm.

Also I won’t be surprised if the reason Thanos’s ship found them is BECAUSE Loki took the tesseract and Thanos was tracking it.

We know that Loki escaped in the orgy ship because we see it perched on the big ship toward the end. I only noticed that on the second viewing because I was looking for it, though.

I’m also 100% sure Loki took the Tesseract for two reasons, one story-internal and one external. The internal reason is that Loki knew Asgard was going to blow up and that when it did the Tesseract was just going to go flying off into space somewhere, which would be an incredible waste of an Infinity Stone as far as he was concerned. The external reason is Chekhov’s gun, basically: why did they make a point of showing Loki’s attention being attracted by the Tesseract if they weren’t going to do anything with that?

I also think that Thanos found them because of the Tesseract, because I think the Infinity Stones can find each other. I think Thanos found the Tesseract on Earth in the first place because he had the Mind Stone in the scepter. Now that he doesn’t have the Mind Stone anymore, I suspect that he was able to find the Space Stone because he has one of the others: either (A) he somehow got hold of the Aether (the Reality Stone) after the Collector’s stash was destroyed; (B) he has the Soul Stone (the only one we still haven’t seen); or © he has fucked up Xandar and gotten the Power Stone back from the Nova Corps, but we don’t know about it yet because, at least according to the MCU Wiki, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 took place in 2014, shortly after the first GOTG, so a lot of shit could have happened in the last 3 years.