11 Best Things The MCU Did Differently To The Comics
1. Thanos' Motivations - Avengers: Infinity War
While Thanos himself is a verifiable tyrant, war-criminal and out and out awful being, one thing there's no denying is that writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely made the right decision to drop 'Death' from his backstory.
In the original Infinity Gauntlet storyline, Thanos embarks on his mad quest to end half the life in the universe in a vein attempt to woo the living embodiment of Death. The act of wiping out half of existence is equally cruel - there's no denying that - but knowing that it was done to impress a spirit just makes Thanos feel less intimidating.
The onscreen Thanos, on the other hand, boasts a fanaticism that - when taken alongside his power - makes him genuinely terrifying. His dogmatic streak bears the echoes of real-life tyrants, and rooting the Mad Titan in that context makes him twice as scary as his comic book counterpart.