Thanos creator: "that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego..."

[Tanuki]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/thanos-creator-feels-violated-trump-campaigns-avengers-ad-1261553?__twitter_impression=true

"In the climax of Avengers: Endgame, the chief villain Thanos utters the now-famous line "I am inevitable" before snapping his fingers in an attempt to destroy all life in the universe. On Tuesday, that scene took on new meaning when the campaign for President Donald Trump released a video with Thanos replaced by Trump. 

Jim Starlin, the comic book writer and artist who created Thanos in 1973, was not amused by the use of his creation in the video.

"After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer," Starlin said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "How sick is that? These are sad and strange times we are going through. Fortunately, all things, even national nightmares, eventually come to an end."...(more)

[spanone]

1. K&R...

[Docreed2003]

2. K&R

[Mike 03]

3. K&R

[Baitball Blogger]

4. It is actually alarming.

He doesn't see himself as Captain America. He sees himself as the villain of the show.

Maybe that's a good question for the debates. What kind of super being would you be? Captain America or Thanos?

Maybe we should also give him the option of Quark from Star Trek?

[Ilsa]

14. Quark? You mean Q? Or the Ferengi? nt

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Wasn't Quark a typical Ferengi?

[Ilsa]

21. Yes, but he's lots better than trump.

For one, he's smarter and made better deals. But certainly not omnipotent or powerful.

[rwsanders]

20. I would bet on the Ferengi. Even if it wasn't intentional by the creators, it would be hard to

miss the parallels between them and the republicans.

[Grokenstein]

33. Trump would be Jabba the Hutt.

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There are no other options. Ehhhwic and Joonyer can fight over who gets to be Salacious B. Crumb.

[Gothmog]

6. This is stupid even for trump

Link to tweet

[CatWoman]

11. ...

Link to tweet

?s=20

[ancianita]

16. The more texts, the more data mining and further phone access the Parscale-Bannon-Conway

campaign can transfer to Russian hackers.

[Girard442]

27. Doesn't this look like the best prank ever?

"Hey, let's make a video showing Trump as a total asshole and a total loser. Then we'll get him to pay for it himself."

[Cha]

34. Not really.. just his latest level of stupid

depravity. They'll be scraping him off the bottom of the 666 Circle of hell any day now.. tricked and defeated

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. K and R. Great response.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Dumpy Trumpy got it all wrong. It's porky pig that should have his superimpose face

Or maybe Daffy Duck, they more accurately represent the president installed by our American filthy rich.

I wonder if the Waltons, Zuckerberg or Kochs pat themselves on the back for allowing the short man in Russia to install the most hated president ever?

[iluvtennis]

22. LOL....Porky Pig or Daffy Duck - that's spot on.

[malthaussen]

9. Why don't they go whole hog in their next ad...

... and have Mr Trump declare "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven?"

Probably because they wouldn't know John Milton if they tripped over him in Wal-Mart.

-- Mal

[Lonestarblue]

10. Trump thinks images like this make him look strong.

He’s too stupid to know their context, or maybe he just doesn’t care because looking strong like his dictator friends is what’s important to him. And his voters don’t care about the mass murderer image because they think it would be fine for Trump to have all the liberals in the country murdered.

[ancianita]

18. Not about that. This is honeypot drawing of phone contacts through data mining of phones

used to hack offline election machines, or infect connected digital networks. Most of his audience isn't likely to know about that.

[Nature Man]

24. He's not strong, he's a punk

a two-bit hustler.

[SCVDem]

12. Intellectual property theft

Whether art or music, the orange ass must be charged and prosecuted.

Just like CHI Na!

[NotASurfer]

13. Thanos was about removing half of all *sentient* life

Maybe the Cult of 45 is safe under that assessment and the snap, if wielded by their Dear Leader, would only target non-members?

[JHB]

17. They already have that sort of thing in reverse, The Rapture

All the "saved" float off to Paradise, and all the sinful unsaved are stuck here to suffer.

[ancianita]

15. Is Thanos in the public domain? Which generation audience is Trump after? Is the Marvel

franchise now contracted as part of Trump's and Putin's joint campaign?

Or is this more outrage fuel?

[samir.g]

23. fair use, I guess

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Seems like copyright infringement to me n/t

[Newest Reality]

26. K&R

[UniteFightBack]

28. All is not lost America. We can vote all these muthafuckas out. We need to TURN UP and TURN OUT

live never before.

[captain queeg]

29. I think the Blob from x-men is a better fit for Cheeto

I think that was his name. So fat and ponderous no one could move him. Or break his grip when he got ahold of something. If I remember right (it’s been a long time) I think they even look similar.

[Clash City Rocker]

30. The Thanos of the comics was a lot deeper than Trump

He even fought as a good guy from time to time.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

31. Don't forget the picture where they super-imposed his face

on the body of Stallone. Hahahahahahahahaha.

[Blue Owl]

32. Trump is Thanus

n/t

[Gothmog]

35. This is also disturbing

Link to tweet

[Grokenstein]

36. Sad. Pathetic. Loser.

They think they're "triggering the libs" but they're only admitting that the Egomaniac-in-Chief is bottomlessly insecure and needy.

Link to tweet

[DFW]

37. Trump is closer to "Thanatos" than "Thanos."

Ask almost any Greek.

[olegramps]

38. I hope that when the nightmare ends that there something left to salvage in the rubble.

The Republicans are conducting a scorched earth policy that has absolutely no moral or ethical restraint. I have watched the Republican Party over the last fifty years, I am in my eighties, increasingly resort to some of the lowest tactics possible to maintain power. Each Republican president from the Nixon years has abused the powers of the presidency resulting in every Republican administration being a cesspool of scandal with their henchmen going to prison. I really at a loss as to when it will have gone too far, since I have thought that after each Republican presidency that they would be vanquished to garbage heap of history. I have been disappointed time and time again when their propaganda network put yet another criminal in the White House to do their bidding. They owe Reagan a ton of gratitude for providing them with the weapon to corrupt the nation when he repealed the Fairness Doctrine and allowed multiple station ownership. This has been coupled with the attack on the Free Press and the discrediting of every government office that would dare to oppose their fascist inspired agenda.

What is unfortunately being ignored is their determination to transform the presidency into functional dictatorship under what they term the Unitary Executive Theory in which they claim that the Second Amendment provides the president with unlimited authority over very executive branch of government. Attorney General William Barr has been a powerful proponent and it is the reason that he was chosen. He along with the Federalist Society from which nearly every person nominated for a judgeship is quickly dominating the courts spelling the doom for the democracy and the reality of their long cherished goal.

[Boomerproud]

39. Thank you for your heart and wisdom.

I'm 63 and am not the least bit optimistic about my winter years. Peace to you.