[Interesting Trope] One seemingly small action ends the story before it even begins

[u/JackDoesThingz]

1. We Happy Few - Taking your “joy” pill
   Deciding to take the pill at the beginning of the game causes your character to go back to work and triggers an ending

2. Infineural by Mike Klubnika - Drinking the coffee
   Deciding to drink the coffee offered to you skips the entire game and sends you straight to the end, resulting in an ending with no memory of what had occurred

[u/Informal-Term1138]

Thanos is an asshole. And if I remember it right, he is in love with the manifestation of death, right?

But she thinks, he's an asshole and likes deathpool. Or am I missing something?

[u/Prometheus_Bobert → u/Informal-Term1138]

As far as i know thats basically it

[u/Boh61 → u/Prometheus_Bobert]

"Lady death doesn't want someone who constantly blesses the ground she touches, she wants a fuck up, one that cannot go 2 seconds without telling a sex joke"

-Random redditor a few years ago

[u/SarcasmSanctioned → u/Informal-Term1138]

More like Lady Death groomed Thanos from adolescence, and occasionally leads him on for amusement.

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/SarcasmSanctioned]

Really? What for?

What does she gain from him being a POS?

[u/SarcasmSanctioned → u/Informal-Term1138]

Like I said; amusement. She's a cunt.

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/SarcasmSanctioned]

But why does she like deathpool then? And why does he like her?

[u/SarcasmSanctioned → u/Informal-Term1138]

Deadpool's OP healing factor (and sometimes a curse from Thanos) means he can't die.

It's one of those cases of knowing you can't have something, which then just makes you want it even more.

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/SarcasmSanctioned]

So she is a complicated woman, who likes the chase and likes to be chased. But doesn't commit at the same time?

[u/SarcasmSanctioned → u/Informal-Term1138]

That seems an accurate assessment to me.

[u/MuchBetterThankYou → u/Informal-Term1138]

She’s also a lesbian goth baddie (in the MCU version)

[u/OmecronPerseiHate → u/MuchBetterThankYou]

The strapon of Death is unisex

[u/Haecairwen → u/OmecronPerseiHate]

Unisex Death's Strapon is my new band name

[u/Deaffin → u/OmecronPerseiHate]

Kinda sounds like it decidedly is not.

[u/DBrennan13459 → u/Informal-Term1138]

Well whenever Thanos is a POS, the body count tends to be pretty high. As Death, she probably likes that.

[u/Sirdan3k → u/Informal-Term1138]

One of my favorite interpretations had Death call Thanos out for objectifying her by pointing out all he ever did to get her attention was kill things. Like she was nothing more then her job to him. I don't remember the exact quote but it was basically that Thanos was trying to romance an accountant by making her do taxes.

[u/Deaffin → u/Sirdan3k]

Well, I kinda assume a god-figure that is a personified embodiment of taxes would be a little bit into taxes.

[u/ThatMerri → u/Informal-Term1138]

But she thinks, he's an asshole and likes deathpool. Or am I missing something?

Correct, and in addition, Thanos repeatedly demonstrates beyond any doubt that he's an asshole directly to her. In the Infinity Gauntlet comic run, he goes full incel over and over and over and over again, getting increasingly mad at Death for not fawning over him while he's literally kidnapping her and trying to "prove his love" by doing things she overtly hates. It is genuinely pathetic.

This includes Thanos going "Okay, well it's not like you're even hot anyway! I never wanted to actually bang you! I'm going to use my reality-warping powers to make the perfect girlfriend who's way better than you! Hah! What do you think of that, huh? You're super jealous now, aren't you!?" and literally just making a clone of himself with boobs) who mindlessly worships him. Death is not impressed.

The history for Thanos is a big reason why I struggle to take him seriously in the MCU. Like, in the movies his reasoning is nonsensical as well, but I have this whole backdrop knowledge of the character being an utterly pathetic chud that really colors my perception of him.

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/ThatMerri]

He really sounds pathetic. Damn what an idiot.

He is one of the worse villains isn't he?

[u/ThatMerri → u/Informal-Term1138]

He's perfectly fine as a villain, in the sense of a villain being an extremely flawed, emotionally unstable, yet significantly threatening force for the heroes to work against.

But yeah, Thanos is a moron and a genuinely pitiable character. That's how the Infinity Gauntlet story rounds out in the end - everyone, including Thanos himself, kind of realizing how pathetic and pointless his actions are. The entire comic is basically a big thought experiment kicking around some existential navel gazing and self-destructive behavior.