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Once Thanos comes to know about parallel universe after Nebula is caught , which means there is infinite amount of resources in this world. Which can be shared and current population can continue to survive.

What still motivates him to kill half the universe? His point was to maintain balance.

Now we just move resources across time lines and maintain the balance.

Why he continues this motive?

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Your premise is flawed. Not because parallel universes don't exist - they're how time travel is achieved in the MCU - but because Thanos does change his plan.

Specifically, at the same time that he learns about time travel and parallel universes, he learns that the Avengers are planning to use said time travel to undo his success in the original timeline. This causes Thanos to realise that, as long as the universe remembers those they lost in the Snap, they will never be grateful towards him for doing it, so he revises his plan to "destroy the universe and rebuild it from scratch so that it was perfectly balanced from the start".

In other words, Thanos changes his plan from killing half the universe to achieve balance, to resetting the entire universe to achieve balance. And if he's already achieved balance, then he won't need to go raiding other timelines.

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Thanos did not find out about parallel universe, only about time travel. Time travel would not solve the problem of finite resources in the universe.

Also stealing resources would make people in other parallel universes starve, so it would be against his motive to help some people while making other suffer.

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    Time travel would solve it if you killed the source of the humans
    – Vishwa
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 10:12
  • But Thanos does not want to get rid of all people, he want them to live the best lives they can.
    – TK-421
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 10:38
  • he never said that
    – Vishwa
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 10:40
  • "When I’m done, half of humanity will still exist. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be."
    – TK-421
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 10:41
  • not having humans wouldn't mean world is not balanced. actually nature has it's own balancing cycle, it's us humans who fight against it and prevent it. no other animal was this much successful doing it. so if humans are not there, there will be another beings that will collectively take humans'place
    – Vishwa
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 11:20
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Infinite resources mean infinite amount of being that want to deplete them. And because as Thanos know there are more and more beings who want to use them. So infinite resources but "eaters" is infinite plus 1 going to infinity.

Borrowing through time is doing nothing because If you have two of things when you start using them and then go back to BEFORE you started using them to borrow for future then you don't have two anymore. Because you depleted your resources earlier. Hence forbidding you to even start to use those hence not creating need to go back to past to borrow them hence not creating lack of them hence allowing you to start using them hence creating need to go back (and so on ad infinitum). Welcome to Time travel 101.

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  • I'm assuming you're going by the writers interpretation of time travel here not the directors? Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 12:07
  • @TheLethalCarrot Yes and no. The MCU time travel idea is that it create another universe. So in this case it would create over and over again universe with stolen resources and one from which they're stolen. Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 12:22
  • I prefer the "Bill & Ted" interpretation of time travel, where you can always remind yourself in the future to time travel to the past to provide the resources you need in the present :-P
    – m1gp0z
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 20:44
  • You mean Time Loop? Commented Jul 27, 2019 at 4:05

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