THE MARVELS Director Nia DaCosta Believes Thanos' "Snap" Was All Captain America's Fault

THE MARVELS Director Nia DaCosta Believes Thanos' "Snap" Was All Captain America's Fault

Candyman director Nia DaCosta, who is currently in-production on The Marvels, has an interesting theory relating to Steve Rogers being indirectly responsible for Thanos wiping out half of the universe.

By MarkCassidy - Oct 20, 2021 12:10 PM EST
Filed Under: The Marvels

Well, this might prove to be a controversial take!

During an interview with Inverse, The Marvels director Nia DaCosta shared her thoughts on "The Snap" (officially known as The Decimation), revealing that, in her opinion, Captain America was at least partially responsible for Thanos wiping out half of all life in the universe.

In Avengers: Infinity War, the team realizes that the Mad Titan will need Vision's Mind Stone to see his nefarious scheme through to the end, and when the Synthezoid offers to sacrifice himself in order to destroy the stone, Rogers tells him that they "don't trade lives." The Candyman filmmaker believes that Steve's decision to keep Vision alive is what ultimately led to Thanos being able to acquire the stone and carry out his plan.

"Something I like to say a bit flippantly about Captain America is that the Snap is all his fault because he was trying to do his best, trying to do the right thing," said DaCosta when asked for her thoughts on superheroes becoming martyrs. "There is a world in which he’s a villain because, at the end of the day, he should have just sacrificed Vision. He chose one robot’s life, albeit a sentient one, over literally the entire universe. There’s a sort of anti-hero in that if you want to look at it through that lens."

It's certainly an intriguing theory, and DaCosta does make a good point: Vision did end up dying anyway - after a lot of people gave their lives to protect him and the stone.

"People would say I’m crazy for thinking that way, but there’s something connected to the journey of the anti-hero and the hero," she added. "The hero’s pain is something that spurs them to martyr themselves, and an anti-hero’s pain is a thing that kind of starts their journey as opposed to ending it."

What do you guys make of DaCosta's comments? Can you see where she's coming from? Be sure to share your thoughts in the usual place.

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NightmareB4
NightmareB4 - 10/20/2021, 12:04 PM
...no
The1st
The1st - 10/20/2021, 12:43 PM
@NightmareB4 - She is really giving the needs of the many speech. Bold move I guess.

Fogs
Fogs - 10/20/2021, 12:54 PM
@NightmareB4 - Well that statement says more about her than about steve.
Gizmoduck
Gizmoduck - 10/20/2021, 1:49 PM
@The1st - Many make this exact argument daily about vaccinations on this website and more everyday. What's the difference, the needs of the many argument is the only argument there is when it comes down to it. Would I sacrifice my friend/loved one for the rest of the world to live...nope, but that's just me. When it comes down to it most people wouldn't be able to really sacrifice someone they care about even if it meant half the universe dies.
The1st
The1st - 10/20/2021, 2:26 PM
@Gizmoduck - The difference is reality. These are movies. Whenever I watch something along these lines and you have that needs of the many or one moment, for example, I just turn to my friend or family member and say just that. Of course Steve's choice was what it was. It's a movie, a comicbook movie at that. If we did everything we were supposed to do the world would be...Ni'Var. Logic and heroism usually don't go hand in hand.
JonC
JonC - 10/20/2021, 6:15 PM
@The1st - so does the "needs of the many" speech also apply to Thanos?!
Gizmoduck
Gizmoduck - 10/20/2021, 8:10 PM
@The1st - so you agree Steve is a villain.
The1st
The1st - 10/21/2021, 8:21 AM
@Gizmoduck - I agree it's a movie and it was done for dramatic effect.
The1st
The1st - 10/21/2021, 8:23 AM
@JonC - Nope, but he explains simplicity of his vision several times on the What If Starlord episode.
dracula
dracula - 10/20/2021, 12:04 PM
wasn't exactly his choice to make alone
Reaper87
Reaper87 - 10/20/2021, 4:43 PM
@dracula - apologies if this sounds dumb, but since Vision said the same energy signature could destroy it, and wanted to sacrifice himself and they others wouldn’t let him, why didn’t he just go with Dr Strange or Wong to some isolated place, shoot a beam through a portal to be directed back to the stone and destroy it that way?
Luigi
Luigi - 10/20/2021, 12:04 PM
Well... yeah.
narrow290
narrow290 - 10/20/2021, 12:04 PM
if Cap is at fault so is Gamora and Starlord
Super12
Super12 - 10/20/2021, 12:05 PM
Ah yes, an individual's life is not worth protecting if the masses deem it unworthy. Easy to say when you're the masses and not the individual.

Dumb.
lawndart
lawndart - 10/20/2021, 12:09 PM
@Super12 - relative morality…eventually you are able to justify anything
LlamaLord
LlamaLord - 10/20/2021, 12:31 PM
@Super12 - Yea, but in this case the individual was also one who deemed it unworthy when against the entire universe.
LordMushu
LordMushu - 10/20/2021, 12:35 PM
@Super12 - Dang that’s deep….
Vision85
Vision85 - 10/20/2021, 12:05 PM
100%, but I think that really Steve would have let Vision make that play....but it would ruin the movie. But then with the time stone perhaps not, but either way it doesnt make sense for the guy who is all about the ultinate sacrifice for the greater cause being like that.
inkniron
inkniron - 10/20/2021, 12:05 PM
Shit, why don't we blame Shuri's overconfidence and not being able to separate the stone? Blame Thor for not going for the head Blame Fury for not calling on Captain Marvel sooner. You could really go down a rabbit hole of blame.
JonC
JonC - 10/20/2021, 6:19 PM
@inkniron - in her defense she said it was complicated and would take some time... which she didn't get.
CLTMAN29
CLTMAN29 - 10/20/2021, 12:07 PM
Steve saves vision.
Quill loses his shit over Gamora.
Thor doesn’t go for the head.

Chris’s really are the worst.
dracula
dracula - 10/20/2021, 12:10 PM
@CLTMAN29 - now Thor 4 has a chris as the villain.

Oh and Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) took the aeither from its dimension, allowing people like thanos access to it.
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