The most notable of these is the Star Wars subreddit r/EmpireDidNothingWrong, where at any given moment you might find Yoda jokingly being called a terrorist, a lot of humorous, worshipful love for Stormtroopers, and Empire propaganda. This prompted a user named whitebandit to create the new Thanos Did Nothing Wrong subreddit, in the vein of similar apologist subreddits. If that means that half of humanity has to go then half of humanity has to go.” He’s just trying to bring balance to the universe. The phrase “Thanos did nothing wrong” was established even before the movie came out on March 16, Reddit user Bundon5300 commented in the Marvel Studios subreddit: “Thanos really isn’t doing anything wrong. This jarring ending to the film spawned a lot of meme-ing, especially from jokers who were, perhaps, overly sympathetic to Thanos’s plight. Over 350,000 users were banned by random selection - an attempt to mimic Thanos’s “solution” to the overpopulation of the universe whereby, thanks to his capture of the Infinity Gauntlet, half of humanity was instantly erased.

Thanos, the Marvel Infinity War villain whose controversial plot to bring “balance” to the world has fueled philosophical debates since the movie debuted at the end of April, can now claim credit for another mass purge.Īfter nearly a week of hype and anticipation, the subreddit r/ThanosDidNothingWrong on Monday began a mass purge of half its membership. Warning! This entire article is a massive spoiler for the end of Avengers: Infinity War.

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