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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Does the name Thanos mean nothing?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    No it does not mean "nothing", it's short for Thanatos which is a name for the fraudian concept of "death drive", the drive compelling organisms to kill and destroy

    Yes I know what you really meant but I got curious about where the name came from

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Thanatos is the name of the Greek god/personification of the moment of death. Freud (lol fraud) would've been using that name as everyone reading his work would have been familiar with The Illiad and other works featuring Thanatos.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    We're being technical here...

    Thanos did kill a lot of people, but the snap didn't kill a single life.

    So he might be on top, but I'd assume most of the time he ordered people to press buttons to destroy planets.

    So if we're using that, it's whoever was ordering the Sith around when the death Star did it.

    Palpatine?

    Honestly no idea how they'd stack up.

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