Did Thanos pick them on purpose or was it random?
At the end of Avengers: Infinity War,
Thanos' plan comes to fruition as people begin disintegrating, including Bucky Barnes, Drax, Groot, Mantis, Maximoff, Parker, Quill, Strange, T'Challa, and Wilson.
Could this be caused by Thanos' direct manipulation or does it happen without Thanos' interaction but as some random event?
The heroes getting disintegrated, was it because it was Thanos's choice to complicate the possible regrouping of the Avengers/Heroes or was it just random?
Best Answer
The available evidence suggests that they were randomly selected.
When Thanos meets Doctor Strange on his (former) homeworld, he talks about the solution he had proposed (which was rejected) to resolve the problems caused by its overpopulation. That solution was to
kill half of the population, who would be selected in a "lottery, fair to rich and poor."
We also see the same thing occurring to
Gamora's homeworld in a flashback to when she was a child.
Given that his original plan was for it to be random, I think it's reasonable to conclude that that's still the plan. Besides,
they weren't able to stop him from obtaining all of the Infinity Stones when all of them were alive. There's no reason for Thanos to care which of them survive and which don't.
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