Talk:Salem/@comment-26306690-20181118160521/@comment-25936766-20181130002755

You know, we could consider it as Steve, God of Darkness, not wanting to drag out something needlessly, for multiple reasons.

Salem brought an army. Let's say Bob and Steve defeated them normally. Then, like Salem made clear after Steve Thanos-snapped everyone, she would've just gone and gathered another army and try again, because she has the mental maturity of a child and utterly refuses to try to learn her lesson, instead just doing the equivalent of making a tantrum until she gets what she wants.

After enough repetitions, the Gods could've ended up killing far more people than what Steve did with the Thanos-snap. Neither them nor Salem would've gotten anywhere, it would've been a pointless, needless cycle of death.

Steve Thanos-snapping all of humanity sans Salem is just him solving the equation. If there are no more humans other than Salem, then she has no army to gather and fight the Gods with, and thus, the Gods don't have to waste their time killing countless people time and time again for literally no gain for anyone.

Of course you can argue that maybe Steve didn't care about that and acted on impulse, but in any case, he killed millions in one day and avoided killing gazillions over time for nothing.