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No, Avengers Infinity War Writer's Comments Do NOT, In Fact, Mean A Change In Relationship Of Death And Thanos

The entertainment news business is a complicated beast, but if you understand how it works, its patterns are predictable. Take the constant over-analysis of every comment ever made by anyone within five degrees of separation to a vaguely geek-adjacent project. The way it works is, someone connected to a project, like a superhero movie, makes a comment somewhere, either at a press junket, in an interview, on social media, or really any place at all. One entertainment news outlet, looking for content to meet the unrelenting daily demands of the 24 hour entertainment news cycle examines the comment, looking for an angle to spin into a clickbait "news" story. After that one story is published, every other entertainment news site runs a copy of it, because no single site can be allowed to monopolize the clicks for any google search term.

This how a blatantly incorrect story about Thanos changing his relationship with Death in Avengers: Infinity War from the Infinity Gauntlet comic book the story is loosely based on has made its way to every entertainment news site on the internet today. The comment comes from Infinity War writer Stephen McFeely, who said of Thanos, the main villain in the film:

His goal is to rebalance the universe as he sees it. When he figures out that the Infinity Stones could do this for him at the snap of a finger, that becomes his main goal.

The angle that this signals a change in the relationship between Thanos and Death, explained by Eisner Award winning website CBR, is:

"Infinity Gauntlet" revolves around Thanos' desire to woo death. To do this, Death encourages Thanos to eliminate half of the life in the universe using the six Infinity Gems and accompanying Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos hopes that by obeying his love, and showing his dedication to Death's cause, he will gain him some points along the way. While Thanos' actions certainly would have rebalanced the Marvel universe in a grim and significant way, this was never the titan's motivation.

But if anyone involved in this game of rumor telephone had simply read just six pages into the first issue of Infinity Gauntlet, they would see:

"Apparently, Death has long thought the fact that there are more people alive today than have ever died was a type of cosmic imbalance."

So McFeely's comments fit perfectly with the original story of The Infinity Gauntlet, making this a non-story in even more of a sense than clickbait stories usually are.

Here at Bleeding Cool, we're no more innocent than anyone else in the game of blatant clickbait journalism. We gotta eat, yo. But at least we've also read our comics.

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