The first time he gathered the stones, he attempted to extinguish all the stars in the universe. The second time, he brought them together in the Infinity Gauntlet, granting himself omnipotence. Starlin has said he came up with Thanos while he was in a college course on psychology: a character who was motivated by nihilism and a fascination with death. Yeah, basically.
Jack Kirby really, really liked shaggy God stories. He created the Eternals at Marvel Comics after creating the New Gods a new pantheon of gods born after the old pantheon died at DC Comics — and after co-creating the Inhumans genetically advanced humans with godlike powers with Stan Lee.
The Eternals and their foes, the Deviants, are two distinct races genetically crafted from proto-humans 5 million years ago by beings known as the Celestials Ego is a Celestial , in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At a certain point, many of the Eternals traveled to Titan to begin a new life away from Earth.
In my first Thanos drawings, if he looked like anybody, it was [the time-traveling New God,] Metron. I had all these different gods and things I wanted to do, which became Thanos and the Titans. That last bit is confusing. What, exactly, is his motivation? Within the Marvel universe, there are various supernatural beings that are living embodiments of abstract concepts like eternity, infinity, and death. Thanos is in love with Death and, more often than not, enacts his genocidal schemes as a way to impress her with his killing ability.
Riches and world domination mean very little to him: He dreams bigger than any other major Marvel villain. The Eternals have various and, for sci-fi, pretty straightforward superhuman abilities, such as super-strength, near-immortality, and energy-blast attacks. Being surrounded by non-gross people made him resentful of everyone around him, and he grew up into a hateful warlord.
He fell in love with her and has worshipped her ever since. What makes him unique in the supervillain pantheon? This took him to Titan, the moon of Saturn, and its own group of Eternals. There, he found the entire planet had been decimated in its own Eternal civil war with one survivor — the Titan Eternal Sui-san. Using a genetic device, the two rebuilt Titan and repopulated it with new Eternal-like beings dubbed Titans; they were stronger and could live longer than the original Titan Eternals, but were still outclassed by the Earth Eternals.
Like many fictional brothers, the two do not like each other , and Thanos will often just capture and torment Eros.
Surely his absence from the whole Infinity Saga is substantial enough for either. How he connects to the Celestials and his overall purpose in the MCU remains to be seen, as is whether or not Thanos will pop up again for another Marvel sibling spat. With the help of the former Herald known as Terrax , he kidnapped Tyrant's arch-enemy and recent opponent, Ganymede. Ganymede, in the meantime, had joined Thanos and Terrax, in order to exact revenge on Tyrant. The trio battled Morg , Galactus' most deadly Herald and an unwilling lackey of Tyrant, who eventually escaped.
Thanos, who briefly fled the scene in order to learn the truth about Tyrant's origins, returned to battle Tyrant himself with the help of one of Tyrant's own "power orbs" which contained the energies siphoned from Morg , laying waste to a sizable portion of Tyrant's planet. Thanos emerged from the battle declaring that, since he had withstood the powerful Tyrant for a time and gained what he sought from him, further struggle was pointless and admitted it would likely have resulted in his own destruction.
The Silver Surfer, later, sought out Thanos in order to discern Death's motives for plaguing him with images of death with the obvious intent on making him her new consort. Enraged, Thanos beat the Surfer to death and delivered his body to the Realm of Death himself. Believing Death to be unappreciative, Thanos revived the Surfer and sought to leave, further insulting Death, who cursed the Titan with immortality, forever barring him from her embrace.
Others would continually come in and out of Thanos' life. Gamora returned to Thanos' side, forsaking her relationship with Adam Warlock and the Infinity Watch. The computer intelligence known as Quasimodo took over Sanctuary II and used it to capture and torment the Silver Surfer and Spider-Man before being ousted by Thanos, who declared the two heroes now owed him a debt. Thanos revealed that Marlo had become the physical refuge for the embodiment of Death and as such, was the target of the death god known as the Walker.
Ultimately, Death itself defeated the Walker. These duplicates were unstable in different ways, explaining Thanos' uncharacteristic behavior and power levels in recent months. Thanos indicated that the "Thanos" who confronted Ka-Zar , Thor, and the Celestial Madonna had each actually been one of his Thanosi duplicates.
After defeating the Thanosi, Thanos decided to atone for the destruction of Rigel-3 caused by the Higher-Powered Thanosi defeated by Thor [52] and agreed with Adam Warlock to aid a colony of Rigellians in evacuating their planet before Galactus could consume it. During the course of this mission, Thanos learned Galactus was collecting the Infinity Gems in an effort to end his unyielding hunger.
Thanos later learned Galactus was being manipulated into releasing the Hunger , a multiversal entity capable of feeding on entire universes. Despite opposition from Thanos, Galactus unwittingly freed the entity, and when its intentions were revealed, the pair teamed-up to destroy it. En route to the intergalactic prison known as the Kyln , Thanos met Death for the first time since his banishment from her realm.
Death claimed to be worth wooing, but said Thanos had to offer her something other than death. At the Kyln, Thanos encountered the prisoners Peter Quill , who had retired from the role of Star-Lord , and Gladiator , a Strontian warrior of the Shi'ar Empire , as well as an evolved Cosmic Cube called Maker , who was rendered amnesiac and emotionally unstable by its choice to assume a humanoid female form.
Thanos battled the Maker, causing its mind to shut down and leaving its power trapped within a comatose physical form. He then instructed the Kyln officers to keep the entity on life support indefinitely in order to prevent it from being reborn. The destruction freed Thanos and his fellow inmates, and he found himself accompanied by the chaos-mite Skreet in his plans to leave the remains of the prison.
He discovered, however, that the destruction wrought by the battle with the Maker freed the last prisoner brought in by Peter Quill before giving up the title of Star-Lord: the Fallen One , the true first Herald of Galactus who had been held in a container deep in the Kyln. Thanos defeated the former Herald and placed him under complete mental control. Having grown tired of the same life cycles playing out their variations over and over, Thanos decided to help Annihilus with his war against the universe, curious to see how a radical shift in it would play out.
Due to Moondragon 's revelation that Annihilus actually intended to destroy both their universe and the Negative Zone , Thanos decided to release Galactus via a fail-safe he had implanted in the machine where he was trapped.
Before he could finish the process, however, Drax the Destroyer impaled him from behind with his bare hand, removing his heart from his chest. The Mad Titan's corpse was subsequently found by an insane Adam Warlock and placed in a regenerative cocoon of his. Thinking it was housing their messiah, the Magus, the Universal Church of Truth took the cocoon to their homeworld, Sacrosanct , [61] where Thanos was ultimately awakened by Phyla-Vell.
When Adam Magus detonated the Church converted worlds to open the dimensional rift known as the Fault further, Thanos managed to escape captivity and attacked the Guardians, [61] but was soon subdued again.
Due to his role as Death's avatar, the Guardians decided to take Thanos with them to the Cancerverse , a universe on the far side of the Fault where Death no longer existed, in order to stop its invasion of their reality. Once there, Thanos and the Guardians came into contact with the Machine Resistance.
They revealed that Death and her avatar were killed by Lord Mar-Vell , the Cancerverse's avatar of life, in a ritual called the Necropsy, which allowed the Many-Angled Ones to enter and corrupt their reality. As they tried to figure out a way to reverse the ritual, Drax succumbed to his predestined imperative and killed Thanos again, this time by disintegrating him.
Drax attempted to destroy Thanos again, but ended up being destroyed by him instead. Because Drax was also an avatar of life, Mar-Vell sensed his death and sent the Revengers to capture Thanos, intending to sacrifice him in the Necropsy.
Escaping to the site of the Necropsy rite, [67] Thanos feigned submission to Mar-Vell and let him perform the ritual, which summoned Death instead of killing her. She proceeded to kill Mar-Vell and the other immortal denizens of the Cancerverse.
Thanos begged Death to take him with her, but was completely ignored. Enraged, Thanos blamed Star-Lord for his predicament and vowed to destroy their home universe for that. With the rest of the Guardians back home, Star-Lord joined forces with Nova to keep Thanos trapped in the Cancerverse while it collapsed.
In the end, it was Nova who managed to get the Cube. He used it to send Thanos, Star-Lord, and Drax back home. When the Galactic Council declared Earth off-limits, Thanos powered a group of humans to do his bidding there.
Called the Zodiac , the group's orders were to amass the vast array of cosmic-level weapons found on their planet. Despite the Avengers' interference, the Zodiac managed to collect a supposed Cosmic Cube for their master.
Unaware that he had actually banished all of his recent victims to the Cancerverse, Thanos went to Earth in order to either destroy or gain control of it. With the Elders' help, the Avengers and the Guardians returned to Earth and deactivated the Cube, allowing them to take on Thanos without problem. They subsequently handed Thanos over to the Elders. Manipulated by Blackheart , Eternity trapped Death outside the universe, causing an imbalance in it since nothing could die anymore.
Thanos consequently rescinded his curse, turning Deadpool into the only mortal creature in the universe, and killed him for the transgression. However, upon realizing Death would only speak to Deadpool, Thanos resurrected him so they both could save her. Eventually, the pair managed to get out of the universe and encountered Eternity personally. Thanos attacked Eternity mercilessly, blaming him for all of his life's ills. Realizing this was what Death wanted all along, Deadpool attacked Thanos and was possessed by the Enigma Force , gaining the powers of Captain Universe.
Using those powers, Deadpool fought Thanos on equal ground, but it was his speech during the fight that convinced Death of the validity of life's existence. Death therefore whisked Thanos away and returned to her domain, restoring mortality to the universe. Accompanied by a recently resurrected Adam Warlock, Thanos went on a quest to find a powerful artifact that would lead to a moment of great transfiguration in his universe.
This event turned out to be simply a fusion of two universes: Earth and Earth The result of this fusion was Earth's Adam Warlock retroactively taking over the position of the now annihilated Earth's Adam Warlock. Unfortunately, Annihilus detected the alternate Adam Warlock's energy signature and invaded the Posiverse to capture him. Thanos tried to intervene and ended up being trapped in an empty space where nothing but him existed.
With no other alternative, the Mad Titan killed himself. Using the alternate Adam Warlock as a power source, Annihilus destroyed most of the universe by the time Thanos was brought back to life by Death. The Mad Titan rallied the survivors of Annihilus' onslaught to defeat him, but they were all killed. Barely surviving the battle himself, Thanos watched as the universe ceased to exist after Pip the Troll awakened the alternate Adam Warlock elsewhere.
In the void, the alternate Adam Warlock used his powers to bring Thanos back and the Mad Titan proposed they search for the Above-All-Others , as the entity was the only one powerful enough to restore the universe. They struck a deal with the Above-All-Others and the universe was restored to a point before Annihilus' invasion, prompting the duo to do a preemptive strike that completely decimated the Annihilation Wave.
After Annihilus had been dealt with, Thanos asked the alternate Adam Warlock to bring his Earth counterpart back to life, to which he agreed. When the Avengers left Earth in order to fight the Builders , Thanos took advantage of their absence to invade the planet with the reassembled Black Order.
Thanos was using the tribute as a cover for his true objective: to kill his lost Inhuman-descendant son, whose actual identity and location were unknown to him. In an attempt to kill Thanos, Black Bolt attacked him with a sonic scream that activated a Terrigen Bomb and destroyed Attilan, but the Mad Titan survived. While Terrigen Mist spread across the globe, Thanos and Black Bolt emerged from the rubble and had a brief fight that ended with the Inhuman king unconscious.
After receiving intel from Proxima Midnight , who had in turn received it from Namor , that the Time Gem was in Wakanda , [83] Thanos accompanied his armies there in order to collect the cosmic artifact. He ended up discovering the secret hiding place of the Illuminati in the Necropolis , along with their stockpile of planet-destroying weapons and a prison housing Terrax the Truly Enlightened and the Black Swan.
In Orollan , Thanos finally met his son, Thane , and was about to kill him when he learned of the Avengers' return.
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