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Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
— Avengers: Infinity War ‧ 2018
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Said gently to a frightened child, over a trinket, it is the cruelest line in the film. Thanos's whole creed fits in a toy knife, and the quiet tone makes it worse. It gives the later Snap an awful gentleness.
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In context
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018). The line is a flashback. On Gamora's home planet Zen-Whoberi, Thanos finds the young Gamora fighting one of his soldiers and takes her aside. He shows her a knife balanced on his fingertip: pretty, isn't it, perfectly balanced, as all things should be. He lets her try to balance it too. While she is concentrating, his Black Order massacres half the population of her people; her family is among the dead. She keeps the knife, and Thanos adopts her.
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- Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki: GamoraBackstory, Zen-WhoberiReference checked
- Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki: ThanosTraining His Children, QuoteReference checked
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