Thanos and the Night King were fighting the exact same battle
Warning: spoilers ahead for season 8 of Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame.
The morning of Game of Thrones’ long-awaited Battle of Winterfell episode, “The Long Night,” Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo tweeted a fan-made picture of the Night King and Thanos face-to-face, with the hashtag #WeWannaSeeThisFight. But the truth about the villains — two of the most significant in popular culture this decade and both coming to their biggest, death-filled clashes in one weekend — is that they have no reason to fight each other. Based on what we know about their goals, their fight is essentially the same.
For many seasons of Game of Thrones, the Night King mostly came across as a bastion of pure death. But during “A Knight of...