So, Wandavision?

[MarkB]

My recollection is that there's a quick line to Hulk before he snaps people back, that stipulates that they all come back safely. Stark and Banner are not dumb, thankfully.



Assuming a pilot and co-pilot, the chance of losing both should be one-quarter.

More of issue, I expect, are all the cars on the road, because there's no co-pilot there. It is daytime in Wakanda when the snap occurs, that means a lot of traffic accidents in Europe and Africa. Less in the Americas and Asia.

How safely is "safely", I wonder. If people who were in a plane instead re-appear at ground level they're not in immediate danger, but a lot of them will be stranded way out in the wilderness.

And that's just on Earth. Out in the galaxy, you've got to solve that at a few million times the scale, for everyone who was in a spaceship in interstellar space when they got Snapped.

Imagine all the people who were asleep when they got Snapped, and wake up in what is now someone else's bed.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The people who got snapped out of planes that went on to crash are a lot luckier than the people who stayed behind - only to crash.

I suspect that the She-Hulk show will deal with some of the legal fallout - which hopefully will be both poignant and hilarious.

 

[Umbran]

And that's just on Earth. Out in the galaxy, you've got to solve that at a few million times the scale, for everyone who was in a spaceship in interstellar space when they got Snapped.

For the whole, infinite universe, the scale is infinitely larger.

 

[Tonguez]

I am good with it in terms of plane pilots. Doubling the food supply so that folks don't starve to death is a bit of a longer stretch. But, clearly, it worked out somehow.

I think 2020 might have given us some hints in as much as food supply was considered as essential work and a number of unemployed were encouraged/diverted to harvest work.

Most estimates state that the World currently produces 1.5 x the global population (ie more than society actually need) and that a good lot of it gets wasted or stored.
So a sudden drop in population would mean that there would be a lot of initial over supply of food in storage, lets say with some rationing that lasts the first 2 years of the snap. After that the various government declare crisis and emphasise food security as a priority - leading to increase diversion of resources and people to food production and storage.
After the Blip the returned population will be eating in to the stored supply, but not to the extent that there would be worldwide starvation.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I think 2020 might have given us some hints in as much as food supply was considered as essential work and a number of unemployed were encouraged/diverted to harvest work.

Most estimates state that the World currently produces 1.5 x the global population (ie more than society actually need) and that a good lot of it gets wasted or stored.
So a sudden drop in population would mean that there would be a lot of initial over supply of food in storage, lets say with some rationing that lasts the first 2 years of the snap. After that the various government declare crisis and emphasise food security as a priority - leading to increase diversion of resources and people to food production and storage.
After the Blip the returned population will be eating in to the stored supply, but not to the extent that there would be worldwide starvation.

That's how I see it. There would be some rationing in the first year or two after the unsnap and then the increase in labour force would put things right. You'd think that the decrease over the five years would teach us how to do it more sustainably the second time around, too.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

That's how I see it. There would be some rationing in the first year or two after the unsnap and then the increase in labour force would put things right. You'd think that the decrease over the five years would teach us how to do it more sustainably the second time around, too.

assuming the wackos don't seriously surge and take over governments and turn the world into a reactionary crapshow, obviously.

 

[Umbran]

assuming the wackos don't seriously surge and take over governments and turn the world into a reactionary crapshow, obviously.

Well note, in that time the heroes weren't inactive. Clint Barton was off on a killing spree in Japan as Ronin, presumably to keep organized crime under some vague limits. We see Black Widow and others on a conference call, coordinating. So, there's someone around keeping matters from going completely bonkers.

 

[Umbran]

Mentioning Ronin reminded me of something...

Wanda gets let off the hook? Yeah.

But Ronin is off the hook for goodness knows how many people he killed in Japan.

Through the whole thing, Black Widow is telling us how horrible a person she was killing goodness knows how many people.

How much damage to property and life does Hulk inflict? But Professor Hulk is walkin' around a free man...

And Tony Stark. The dude was a weapons manufacturer. Ultron is his fault. So, Sokovia? His fault. The Sokovia Accords, and thus the Civil War? By continuing trail of cause and effect, Tony's fault.

I mean, It was a Stark weapon that killed Wanda's parents. If she had grown up with them, maybe she'd not be such a wreck...

The problem with real-world-style consequences is that they tend to end stories. Tony and Natasha finally pay for their acts with their lives... so their stories are done.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Well note, in that time the heroes weren't inactive. Clint Barton was off on a killing spree in Japan as Ronin, presumably to keep organized crime under some vague limits. We see Black Widow and others on a conference call, coordinating. So, there's someone around keeping matters from going completely bonkers.

Very true. And I prefer the optimism that such a fate can be avoided, anyway.

 

[Bawylie]

I thought it was brave to make Wanda the villain of the piece. But they really tucked their tails between their legs with the denouement. Really really backed away from confronting the moral crisis at the center of the climax.

A-

Would’ve gotten full marks but for the end.