(Hated Meta Trope) Plot Holes that are not Plot Holes. There is an explanation if you bother to watch the movie

[u/KingZaneTheStrange]

"Plot Hole": Why didn't Thanos just make the universe bigger to end overpopulation!

Explanation: Thanos wants to kill half the population to end overpopulation right? If he created more resources, the universe would just become overpopulated all over again. He explains this in his villain monolog. There are parts of his plan that make no sense (he's called the Mad Titan for a reason), but this one is actually explained. His plan was also to punish people for their greed, and making more food would not be much of a punishment. He also has a savior complex which makes him double down on his plan to prove he's right

"Plot Hole": Why wasn't the Death Star's exhaust port fortified!

Explanation: It fucking WAS. They had laser cannons surrounding the port because the Empire knew it was a weak point. The imperial general saw the rebels and chose to do nothing about it. He says "I think you overestimate their chances". Luke needed help from Han Solo, the disembodied voice of Ben and the Force in order to get the torpedoes into that tiny hole. Han even says that the shot was "one in a million".

[u/ZmasterL9]

I dont see how many people miss the point with Thanos. Overpopulation is not the actual problem he sees in the universe, is the greed, the eternal growth, the neverending expansion. He warned his spicies and they did not listen so he lost them all. What he wants is to teach a lesson, the make the universe realise they were on the path to extinction.

That's why, in Endgame, he wants to destroy the universe and build a new one, because the universe did not learn. It was never just about the resources.

Edit: I never said it made any sense or he was right, is just what he wanted.

[u/RavenSorkvild → u/ZmasterL9]

I mean how we could come to conclusion that "we are the problem beacuse we just grow and consume too much" by some strange event when half of all the species dissapear on random. If that were to happen, it would simply be one of several thousand theories.

[u/PeterVanHelsing → u/RavenSorkvild]

Honestly, I still wish we could have seen how the rest of the universe reacted to the Snap. Riots and wars and mass suicides would have undoubtedly taken place. The wealthy would have horded all the remaining resources, since the Snap affected crops and livestock too. Mass starvation would happen.

[u/AgentWowza → u/PeterVanHelsing]

I always thought that universe's Earth's reaction a bit too optimistic.

You know the nukes would be flying 5 minutes into the snap irl.

[u/TheToaNuva → u/RavenSorkvild]

Yeah and he succeeds in Inifinity War and continues to destroy the Inifinity stones in Endgame. But what if, hear me out, the universe didn't learn from some random mass extinction and folks just carried on rebuilding and reproducing? And you don't have the stones to teach them a second lesson? The main villain of the biggest movie franchise is just a dumb motherfucker

[u/OnlyAdvertisersKnoMe → u/RavenSorkvild]

Exactly, that explanation doesn’t make sense. Sentient species would just grow exponentially again; they wouldn’t just stop growing their populations.

I can’t stand when people try to rationalize Thanos’ motives as anything other than bad writing. Even if you try to say “but he’s insane, that’s why he’s called the Mad Titan!” it’s still bad writing because being crazy and having a nonsensical end goal makes for a lame villain.

[u/TimelessFool → u/RavenSorkvild]

He talks about the example of Gamora’s home world where everything is better because the survivors learned to appreciate what they have thanks to the wiping of half their population when Thanos came. So to Thanos the gauntlet is his already existing modus operandi but quicker and on a grand scale.

Was Thanos being truthful there? I don’t know. But that’s good enough justification for him to go on his universal genocide plan

[u/Numerous1 → u/TimelessFool]

Since she’s the last of her kind…probably not. 

[u/TimelessFool → u/Numerous1]

She’s not… Infinity War made it clear that Thanos wiped out half of Gamora’s people and let the other half live out their lives

https://youtu.be/7DhbfNmeFH8?si=f5QuD0ls74d2AdSz

[u/vodrake → u/TimelessFool]

Guardians of the Galaxy established that Gamora was the last of her kind when it was displaying the criminal record after they were all arrested. So either GotG was later retconned, or wiping out half of her people led to a catastophic cavolcade of events where everybody else died out.

[u/RechargedFrenchman → u/TimelessFool]

He did initially, yes, and then in the years since her species went extinct except for her with the implication it's a direct result of Thanos' actions.

[u/NoLeadership2281 → u/ZmasterL9]

Bingo, dude is an egotistical madman with messiah complex, like u said, it all started from his own people rejected his solution to save their species, their extinction only fueled his delusions of could’ve save his people if they listened to him, now he wanna proves the universe he’s always right, the fact that he’s such a convincing liar, he even managed to tricked the audience into believing he’s doing it for the betterment of the universe, dude tortured his children, slaughtered planets across the galaxy, in the end he’s doing it to justify his self righteous and bloodlust, it’s disappointing to read the comments continuously missing the point of his character

[u/PeterVanHelsing → u/NoLeadership2281]

Yeah, Thanos is just an asshole.

[u/NoLeadership2281 → u/PeterVanHelsing]

Oh yea, dude dismembered his daughter’s body parts and replace them with cybernetic implants every time she lost a fight is the definition of a prick 

[u/SlouchyGuy → u/ZmasterL9]

Right? Like, he muses the whole movie about it, expects "grateful" universe after

[u/lirwolf → u/SlouchyGuy]

Which was kinda goofy to begin with because for the vast majority of planets, they have absolutely no idea why half of all life just randomly turned to dust. Earth knows because of the avengers, but most species wouldn’t know what Thanos’ whole thing was, or even that he exists.

[u/SlouchyGuy → u/lirwolf]

Not really goofy in his logic, he thinks that those planets will see benefit either way by the results and will stand with him in ideology

[u/PeterVanHelsing → u/ZmasterL9]

No, he doesn't want to teach the universe a lesson. He's an asshole who wants to prove that he was right. His goal was always selfish. His people didn't listen to him and he never got over that, so he wants to prove that his solution would have worked by slaughtering people wherever he goes. He's not trying to make anyone realize anything. He is just being an asshole.

[u/maxfridsvault → u/ZmasterL9]

Right? Also a lot of people see it as just the Earth he's trying to preserve. No- he's talking about the entire universe. Adding more resources would just double the population eventually and make it even more unstable, from his point of view. He's still evil and mad for seeing this to be an ethical choice, but he's scarred from his own past and views it as a necessary conquest he was chosen for.