Thanos snap

present singular third person Thanos snaps · participle present Thanos snapping · participle past Thanos snapped · past Thanos snapped

1. alternativeAlternative form of Thanos-snap.

   You don't want to have to "Thanos snap" half the population out of existence in order to get to a point where the peasants are doing better.

   2020 March 26, Patrick Reis, “Ask an Expert on the Fall of Rome: Are We F-cked?”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022

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   Link's ship crashes on a paradise-like island where he's told by an owl that the only way he can get out is by awakening the egg atop the mountain. That's the game. Pretty simple and innocent-sounding... until you realize at the end of the game that awakening the egg basically Thanos snaps the whole island. Every single friend you make, resident, and happy person in paradise dead and gone forever. That's a wee bit dark.

   2019 December 20, John O'Connor, “10 Legitimately Evil Things Link Has Done (That Everyone Ignores)”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2023

   Reaction to the changes is decidedly mixed at this point: Some players are eager to try a more structured take on Overwatch PvP, while others predict the end of tank relevance: As redditor kooog put it, "OWL tanks just got Thanos snapped."

   2021 May 20, Andy Chalk, “Overwatch 2 PvP will be 5v5 with only one Tank per team”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 27 May 2023