Fan theory: survivors of the Thanos snap still had half of their gut biome randomly die, so for the week following the snap, basically everything with a digestive tract had explosive diarrhea.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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And again when everyone was brought back, including the gut bacteria.
Twist: The Gut Bacteria was brought back to its origin point. Not into your stomach wherever you happened to be years later.
But then people would've come back in the middle of space since the Solar System moves
Gut bacteria divide rapidly because they are constantly getting flushed out.
If you remove half, I think your gut would recover in like 15 minutes.
You are probably removing a far higher proportion any time you eat a really high fiber meal
If this were true. Antibiotics wouldn't be such a problem for Gut health...But they are???
That's because antibiotics carpet bomb everything. If they didn't they'd be pretty pointless. Hell, part of the reason antibiotics are losing efficiency is because either due to poor use or over use - there are survivors after they are deployed.
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Good point, now do conjoined twins.
Someone might feel lonely or relieved. I wonder how many conjoined twins are good at just accepting how they are vs the ones that argue with each other. There's one in my area and they are the happiest people. They just passed away but they were always getting along according to interviews.
There's one in my area and they're the....
Yes they can obviously be used singularly, but around the context of conjoined twins my brain enjoyed the choice of terms.
Tbh if you were interviewed by the news. Would you tell the news that you don't get along with the person you are literally joined to the hip with?
It's not like you can do one of those cut-away video side interviews. She is always there.
Also why invite them into your dirty laundry? Being on the news is a big event for most people. Your coworkers, your family, and friends are going to watch you.
Good insight.
They bleed out because those pesky shared organs are important
So they both die? Half immediately and other when they return to the corpse? Also this would be 2 removed, so do the stones take this into consideration or are they inaccurate?
The people snapped don't die. That's why they can be brought back.
But there are plenty of alternatives. The conjoined twins count as "one person". Alternatively the stones are aware enough to avoid snapping like this. The stone takes 2 "normal" people for every conjoined lifeform
Though to be honest, Thanos didn't care about any of the subtext like pilots, or driving car, so I don't think he would care enough to will these edge cases.
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Oh, my god. That woman engulfed a baby like a python and then Thanos saved it.
@sunsofold @HonoraryMancunian guys, I think this Thanos guy might be some sort of hero!
*CHANTING* Thanos! Thanos! THANOS!
Oh shit he turned that woman into a baby
Yoda: *gasp* that log had a child..>
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Never really understood why Thanos thought this action would provoke much change besides killing a shit ton of life.
There are a bunch of different versions of Thanos in the comics. This version was whatever Marvel thought would put butts in seats. The rationale is that he survived a famine and his dumb little brain thought the best way to help others avoid famine was to disappear a bunch of them randomly lol. He didn't even make all superheroes that wanted to kill him disappear. Total idiot.
Yeah, I like the version where he has a crush on Death and wants to impress her by killing half the people in the universe.
But I think they wanted to set up an infinity war where he deserved to win, which IMO he absolutely did. I was disliking it the first time I watched because I expected it to do the typical hero movie thing where the heroes pull off a win even after fumbling things as hard as they did in infinity war, but then he did the snap. Advantage of not paying attention to their plans, as I wasn't aware that there was going to be a second part until I saw how that ended, so it was a surprise.
But all he really did was turn back the doom clock by one doubling period. You can't stop exponential growth with a single cull, unless that cull is pretty much 100% (or leaves the remnants so scattered they age out of reproduction age before uniting).
Yeah I suppose I shouldnβt take comic books or their movies too rationally. Iβll turn my brain off and enjoy it for what it is.
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So there was this show, The Leftoversβ¦
Well, the alternative was a lot more macabre. That would've been a controversial move as an artist.
Do you think the ash cloud would just pour out of her like a dusty queef?
This brings up the question: what is the cutoff point for the age of a fetus to be considered an individual life which could be killed by Thanos' snap?
I guess that depends on what religion Thanos followed since it very much was dependent on his personal wishes.
Republican Thanos would snap off at the penis during first penetration
Thanos is a man of science, so it must be picking out the ones that would survive on their own outside of the womb. (Lol I'm talking right out of my butt on this one.)
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Random sperm and eggs just sitting on the sidewalk.
I don't really get this one
It's a reference to one of the marvel movies in which thanos kills half of humanity by randomly disintegrating people. In this case the mother is disintegrated but the baby not.
Ahem, half of all the life in the universeβοΈπ€
That's another part I don't remember seeing. Why didn't half the trees ash away in the forest? What about things where there's no good line between where 'one' ends and 'another' begins like fungal mycelium? Since all humans are composed of living cells, shouldn't half of the cells die?
I always thought it was a dumb plot point, but obviously it's whatever "half" definition however Thanos thought of it. So probably just half of sentient creatures, or something. The point is, the answer is whatever Thanos wanted.
In my head canon, there's some species out there that didn't ever get Thanos snapped. Why? Because he commanded the stones to randomly dust half the people in the universe. And it turns out that Thanos is just really racist against that one species and subconsciously didn't consider them to be people.
Well it for sure killed my entire "Suspension of disbelief".
Counter argument- βhalf of all life removed at randomβ isnβt βhalf of all life planet to planetβ. Maybe all our flora survived and another lost the balance. You could theoretically have a planet that lost absolutely nothing but several others were wiped out entirely to balance that.
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Aha, okay. I've seen the movie, but the reference wasn't that clear to me π
Thanks for explaining though!
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