Open AccessThe Malthusian Alternative and Overpopulation in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame
Author(s) -
Trine Mærsk Kragsbjerg
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
leviathan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-3981
DOI - 10.7146/lev.v0i7.125338
Subject(s) - overpopulation , depiction , ideology , chess endgame , contemplation , infinity , aesthetics , population , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , economics , politics , demography , law , literature , political science , art , mathematics , mathematical analysis , microeconomics
This article examines the depiction of the environmental problem of overpopulation in the two Marvel films Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame through the analysis of the character Thanos and his Malthusian theory and his cornucopian thinking counterpart, The Avengers. The article investigates how these two theories affect and form the subject of overpopulation in the two films and what signal the films send in relation to environmental alternatives. It suggests that the films hinder the contemplation of all environmental alternatives through their depiction of the Malthusian alternative as a villainous and unwarranted ideology.