'Avengers: Endgame': The not-so-hidden environmental politics of Marvel's blockbuster

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'Avengers: Endgame': The not-so-hidden environmental politics of Marvel's blockbuster
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Monday is Earth Day, and later this week, the premiere of 'Avengers: Endgame.' The two are not dissimilar. As superheroes fight genocide-survivor turned villain Thanos, the environmental message is clear: resource scarcity and overpopulation.

Tickets to the opening night of Marvel Studios'"Avengers: Endgame" are not the only scarce commodity involving the film.

Thanos' ambitions are due to his own planet, Titan, running out of resources and ultimately being destroyed. Last year, when Josh Brolin's Thanos snapped his fingers and wiped out half of all living creatures , the act served not only as a devastating conclusion that aided in the film's $2 billion-plus worldwide gross, but also as a form of symbolism to a simplistic way of thinking.

The environmental politics of the Marvel superhero saga did not go unnoticed on social media, as exemplified in this data provided by Crimson Hexagon.

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