Avengers: Infinity War proves Marvel is still the Libertarian choice for superhero stories.

This week Marvel released their opus-to-date, Avengers: Infinity War, a superhero blockbuster stuffed to the gills with a decade’s worth of characters. The villain in Infinity War, Thanos the Mad Titan, is delicious on screen and Marvel’s best bad guy to date; his mission, yet another character driven libertarian plot line from a studio that has continuously given libertarian thought a well-received center stage in multiple successful films. Fair warning, there are minor spoilers ahead.

Since 2008, the Marvel superhero franchise has ballooned into a multi-multi-billion dollar phenomenon. It began that year with the most explicitly libertarian action hero possibly ever, Tony Stark/Iron Man. In the 2010 sequel the armor-clad Avenger delivers a great courtroom speech defending intellectual property rights and actually proclaims, “I’ve successfully privatized world peace.” I know a lot of libertarian legs were tingling during that scene.

“I also have thoughts about the gold standard and the Non-Aggression Principle.”

Tony Stark spent much of the next ten years of Marvel movies explaining to government officials why they can’t have his property and how he and the Avengers (aka: the private sector) can do things better than the government can.

Captain America: The First Avenger started with good old-fashioned beating up the…