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Thanos
Textless variant cover of Infinity #4 (October 2013) Art by Jerome Opeña and Dustin Weaver
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Invincible Iron Man #55 (February 1973)
Created by	Jim Starlin Mike Friedrich
In-story information
Species	Eternal–Deviant hybrid
Place of origin	Titan
Team affiliations	Infinity Watch Black Order
Notable aliases	The Mad Titan
Abilities	Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, and agility Access to nearly all powerful mystical artifacts and weapons Superhuman physiology of Eternals Skilled hand-to-hand combatant Plasma energy projection Genius-level intellect Nigh-invulnerability Master tactician

Thanos is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-artist Jim Starlin, the character first appeared in The Invincible Iron Man #55 (cover date February 1973). An Eternal–Deviant warlord from the moon Titan, Thanos is regarded as one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. He has clashed with many heroes including the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, the Eternals, and the X-Men.

In creating Thanos, Starlin drew inspiration from Jack Kirby’s New Gods series for DC Comics, particularly the character of Darkseid. Thanos is usually portrayed as a villain, although many stories depict him as believing his actions to be justified. Perhaps the character’s best-known storyline is The Infinity Gauntlet (1991), the culmination of several story arcs that see him gather the six Infinity Gems and use them to kill half of the universe’s population, including many of its heroes, to woo Mistress Death, the living embodiment of death in the Marvel Universe. Although these events were later undone, the storyline has remained one of the most popular published by Marvel.

Debuting in the Bronze Age of comic books, the character has appeared in almost five decades of Marvel publications, as well as many media adaptations, including animated television series and video games.

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the character was first played by Damion Poitier in the film The Avengers (2012) and then by Josh Brolin in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and the first season of the animated series What If…? (2021).

Origin

Writer-artist Jim Starlin conceived of Thanos of Titan during college psychology classes. As Starlin described:

I went to college between doing U.S. military service and getting work in comics, and there was a psych class and I came up with Thanos … and Drax the Destroyer, but I’m not sure how he fit into it, just anger management probably. So I came up to Marvel, and editor Roy Thomas asked if I wanted to do an issue of Iron Man. I felt that this may be my only chance ever to do a character, not having the confidence that my career was going to last anything longer than a few weeks. So they got jammed into it. Thanos was a much thinner character and Roy suggested beefing him up, so he’s beefed up quite a bit from his original sketches … and later on I liked beefing him up so much that he continued to grow in size.^[1]

Starlin has admitted the character’s look was influenced by Jack Kirby’s Darkseid:

Kirby had done the New Gods, which I thought was terrific. He was over at DC at the time. I came up with some things that were inspired by that. You’d think that Thanos was inspired by Darkseid, but that was not the case when I showed up. In my first Thanos drawings, if he looked like anybody, it was Metron. I had all these different gods and things I wanted to do, which became Thanos and the Titans. Roy took one look at the guy in the Metron-like chair and said: «Beef him up! If you’re going to steal one of the New Gods, at least rip off Darkseid, the really good one!»^[2]

Publication history

Thanos’s first appearance was in The Invincible Iron Man #55 (February 1973), featuring a story by Jim Starlin that was co-scripted by Mike Friedrich. The storyline from that issue continued through Captain Marvel #25–33 (bi-monthly: March 1973 – Jan. 1974), Marvel Feature #12 (Nov. 1973), Daredevil #107 (Jan. 1974), and Avengers #125 (July 1974). He returned in an extended storyline that spanned Strange Tales #178–181 (Feb.–Aug. 1975), Warlock #9-11 (Oct. 1975 – Jan. 1976), Marvel Team Up #55 (March 1977), and the 1977 Annuals for Avengers and Marvel Two-in-One (Thanos does not actually appear until the end of Warlock #9). He was also featured in a short backup story in Logan’s Run #6 (June 1977) and had a small role in the Death of Captain Marvel graphic novel (April 1982).

The character was revived in Silver Surfer vol. 3, #34 (Feb. 1990) and guest-starred until issue #59 (November 1991), while simultaneously appearing in The Thanos Quest #1–2 (Sept.–Oct. 1990) and The Infinity Gauntlet #1–6 (July–Dec. 1991). After an appearance in Spider-Man #17 (Dec. 1991), Thanos had a recurring role in Warlock and the Infinity Watch #1–42 (Feb. 1992 – Aug. 1995). This was followed by crossover appearances in Infinity War #1–6 (June – Nov. 1992), Infinity Crusade #1–6 (June – Nov. 1993), Silver Surfer vol. 3, #86–88 (Nov. 1993 – Jan. 1994), Warlock Chronicles #6–8, Thor #468–471 (Nov. 1993 – Feb. 1994), Namor The Sub-Mariner #44 (Nov. 1993), Secret Defenders #11–14 (Jan.–April 1994), Cosmic Powers #1–6 (March–July 1994), and Cosmic Powers Unlimited #1 (May 1995).

Thanos appeared in a connected storyline in Ka-Zar vol. 2, #4–11 (Aug. 1997 – March 1998), Ka-Zar Annual (1997), and the X-Man and Hulk Annual (1998), before featuring in Thor vol. 2, #21–25 (March–July 2000) and the 2000 Annual. The character was next used in Captain Marvel vol. 4, #17–19 (June–Aug. 2001), Avengers: Celestial Quest #1–8 (Nov. 2001 – June 2002), Infinity Abyss #1–6 (Aug.–Oct. 2002) and Marvel: The End #1–6 (May–Aug 2003).

In 2004 Thanos received an eponymous title that ran for 12 issues. In 2006, the character played an important role in Annihilation: Silver Surfer #1–4 (June – Sept. 2006) and Annihilation #1–6 (Oct. 2006 – March 2007). The character was re-introduced in Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, #24–25 (April–May 2010) and played a major role in The Thanos Imperative: Ignition (June 2010) and The Thanos Imperative #1–6 (July–Dec. 2010).

The character returned in Avengers Assemble #1 (March 2012).^[3] A mini-series titled Thanos: Son of Titan by Joe Keatinge was planned for publication in August 2012, but was cancelled.^[4]

The character’s origin was expanded in the five-issue Thanos Rising miniseries by Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi which was published monthly beginning in April 2013.^[5] Later that same year, Thanos played a central role in the Infinity miniseries written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Jim Cheung, Jerome Opeña, and Dustin Weaver.

In May 2014, Jim Starlin and Ron Lim worked together on the one-shot Thanos Annual, which is a prelude to a new trilogy of original graphic novels. The first, Thanos: The Infinity Revelation, was released the following August.^[6][7] Beginning in February 2015, Starlin also penned a four-issue miniseries titled Thanos vs. Hulk, which was set prior to the graphic novels. The second installment in the trilogy, Thanos: The Infinity Relativity, was released in June, 2015.^[8] The third graphic novel, Thanos: The Infinity Finale, as well as the connected mini-series The Infinity Entity were published in 2016.^[9]

At the same time Starlin was writing these graphic novels and tie-ins, the character also appeared in New Avengers #23–24 (Oct–Nov 2014),^[10] Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3, #18–20 (Oct–Dec 2014), Legendary Star-Lord #4 (Dec 2014), a six-issue miniseries titled Thanos: A God Up There Listening (Dec 2014), Avengers vol. 5, #40–41 (Mar–Apr 2015), and Deadpool vol. 3, #45 («#250») (Jun 2015). Thanos also played a major role in the five-issue miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet vol. 2, (July 2015 – Jan 2016), a tie-in of the cross-over Secret Wars (2015).

In 2017, as part of Marvel NOW!, Thanos received his own solo title written by Jeff Lemire and drawn by Mike Deodato. After 11 issues, Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw took over as the creative team. This storyline crossed over with Donny Cates’ Cosmic Ghost Rider storyline.

In 2021, Thanos was later reintroduced as a primary antagonist in the comic series Eternals vol. 5, #1-12, by the writer Kieron Gillen and artist Esad Ribić, and plays a prominent role in exploring Eternals mythos and retcons.

Fictional character biography

Thanos was born on Saturn’s moon Titan as the son of Eternals A’lars and Sui-San, the grandson of Kronos, the nephew of Zuras, and the grandnephew of Oceanus and Uranos. His brother is Eros of Titan. Thanos carries the Deviants gene, and as such, shares the physical appearance of the Eternals’ cousin race. Shocked by his appearance and the belief that he would destroy all life in the universe, Sui-San went insane and attempted to kill him, but she was stopped by A’lars. During his school years, Thanos was a pacifist^[11] and would only play with his brother Eros and pets. By adolescence, Thanos had become fascinated with nihilism and entropy, worshipping and eventually falling in love with the physical embodiment of Mistress Death.^[12]

At some point in his youth, a younger Thanos was sent to Earth by Mephisto where he fought the prehistoric Avengers where he was repelled.^[13]

As an adult, Thanos augmented his physical strength and powers through his superior scientific knowledge using a combination of mysticism and cybernetic enhancements.^[14] He also attempted to create a new life for himself by siring many children as well as becoming a pirate. He finds no fulfillment in either until he is visited again by Mistress Death, for whom he murders his offspring and his pirate captain.^[15]

Wishing to impress Mistress Death, Thanos gathers an army of villainous aliens and begins a nuclear bombardment of Titan that kills millions of his race.^[16] Seeking universal power in the form of the Cosmic Cube, Thanos travels to Earth. Prior to landing, his vessel destroys a nearby car as a family witnesses his arrival.^[17] Unbeknownst to Thanos, two of the family members in the vehicle survive: the father’s spirit is preserved by the Titanian cosmic entity Kronos and is given a new form as Drax the Destroyer while the daughter is found by Thanos’s father, Mentor, and is raised to become the heroine Moondragon. Thanos eventually locates the Cube, and also attracts the attention of Mistress Death. Willing the Cube to make him omnipotent, Thanos then discards the Cube. He imprisons Kronos and taunts Kree hero Captain Marvel, who, with the aid of superhero team the Avengers and ISAAC (a super-computer based on Titan), is eventually able to defeat Thanos by destroying the Cube.^[18]

Thanos later comes to the aid of Adam Warlock in a war against the Magus and his religious empire. During the process, he ends up adopting Gamora in order to use her as his assassin and kill Adam Warlock before becoming Magus.^[19][20] During this alliance Thanos cultivates a plan to reunite with Mistress Death, and secretly siphons off the energies of Warlock’s Soul Gem, combining these with the power of the other Infinity Gems to create a weapon capable of destroying a star. Warlock summons the Avengers and Captain Marvel to stop Thanos, although the plan is foiled when Thanos kills Warlock. The Titan regroups and captures the heroes, who are freed by Spider-Man and the Thing. Thanos is finally stopped by Warlock, whose spirit emerges from the Soul Gem and turns the Titan to stone.^[16][21] Thanos’s spirit eventually reappears to accompany a dying Captain Marvel’s soul into the realm of Death.^[22]

During the «Infinity Saga» storyline, Thanos is eventually resurrected^[23] and collects the Infinity Gems once again.^[24] He uses the gems to create the Infinity Gauntlet, making himself omnipotent, and erases half the living things in the universe to prove his love to Death.^[25] This act and several other acts are soon undone by Nebula and Adam Warlock.^[26] Warlock reveals that Thanos has always allowed himself to be defeated because the Titan secretly knows he is not worthy of ultimate power. Thanos joins Warlock as part of the Infinity Watch and helps him to defeat first his evil^[27] and then good^[28] personas, and cure Thor of «warrior Madness».^[29]

Thanos later recruits a team of Earth-bound super-villains and puts them under the field leadership of Geatar in a mission to capture an ancient robot containing the obscure knowledge of a universal library and extract its data.^[30] Thanos uses information from the robot to plot against and battle Tyrant, the first creation of Galactus turned destroyer.^[31] When trapped in an alternate dimension, Thanos employs the aid of the brother of Ka-Zar, Parnival Plunder^[32] and later the Hulk^[33] to escape, although both attempts are unsuccessful. Thanos is eventually freed and comes into conflict with Thor, aligning himself with Mangog in a scheme to obtain powerful mystical and cosmic talismans which will allow him to destroy all life in the universe,^[34] and during their battles Thanos decimates the planet Rigel-3.^[35]

Thanos then uses the heroes Thor and Genis-Vell (Captain Marvel’s son) against the death god Walker, who attempts to woo Mistress Death and then destroy the entity after being rejected.^[36] Thanos then devises a plan to become the All-Father of a new pantheon of gods created by himself. Thanos, however, finds himself opposed by the Avengers’ former member Mantis and her son Quoi, who apparently is destined to be the Celestial Messiah. Thanos abandons this plan after having to unite with Mistress Death to destroy the «Rot», a cosmic aberration in deep space caused by Thanos’s incessant love for Death.^[37] Thanos also once conducted extensive research on genetics, studying many of the universe’s heroes and villains before cloning them, and gene-spliced his own DNA into the subjects. Although he later abandons the project, five clones survive, being versions of Professor X, Iron Man, Gladiator, Doctor Strange, and Galactus respectively. A sixth and unnamed version of Thanos also appears, and it is revealed the incarnations of Thanos encountered in the past by Thor and Ka-Zar were actually clones. The true Thanos – with the aid of Adam Warlock, Gamora, Pip the Troll, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, and Dr. Strange – destroys the remaining clones.^[38]

When the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten uses a source of cosmic power, the Heart of the Universe, to seize power in present-day Earth (killing most of Earth’s heroes in the process), Thanos uses a time-travel stratagem to defeat him. Thanos then uses the Heart of the Universe to reverse Akhenaten’s actions and was also compelled to correct a flaw in the universe, for which Mistress Death kisses him, and speaks to him for the first time. Changed by the experience, Thanos advises confidant Adam Warlock he will no longer seek universal conquest.^[39]

Thanos decides to atone for the destruction of Rigel-3, and agrees to aid a colony of Rigellians in evacuating their planet before Galactus can consume it. During the course of this mission Thanos learns Galactus is collecting the Infinity Gems in an effort to end his unyielding hunger. Thanos later learns Galactus is being manipulated into releasing a multiversal threat called Hunger, which feeds on entire universes. Despite opposition from Thanos, Galactus unwittingly frees the entity, and when its intentions are revealed, the pair team up and attempt to destroy it.^[40]

En route to the Kyln, an intergalactic prison, Thanos meets Death for the first time since re-building existence with the Heart of the Universe. Death claims to be worth wooing, but says Thanos must offer something other than death. At the Kyln Thanos encounters Peter Quill, who has retired himself from the role of Star-Lord, and the Strontian warrior Gladiator of the Shi’ar Empire, who are both prisoners, as well as the Beyonder, who has been rendered amnesiac by its choice to assume a humanoid female form. Thanos battles the Beyonder, causing its mind to shut down and leaving its power trapped within a comatose physical form. Thanos then instructs the Kyln officers to keep the Beyonder on life support indefinitely in order to prevent the entity from being reborn.^[41] The destruction frees Thanos and his fellow inmates, and he finds himself accompanied by the chaos-mite Skreet in his plans to leave the remains of the prison. He discovers, however, that the destruction wrought by the battle with the Beyonder has freed the last prisoner brought in by Peter Quill before he gave up the title of Star-Lord: the Fallen One, revealed to be the true first Herald of Galactus, who had been held in a container deep in the Kyln. Thanos defeats the former Herald and places him under complete mental control.^[42] He later appears in Wisconsin attempting to charge a weapon called the Pyramatrix with the life force of everyone on Earth until he is defeated by Squirrel Girl. After the battle, Uatu the Watcher appears and confirms to Squirrel Girl that she defeated the real Thanos, not a clone or copy.^[43]

During the Annihilation War, Thanos allies himself with the genocidal villain Annihilus. When the Annihilation Wave destroys the Kyln, Thanos sends the Fallen to check on the status of the Beyonder, whose mortal form he finds has perished. Before the Fallen can report back to Thanos it encounters Tenebrous and Aegis: two of Galactus’s ancient foes. Thanos convinces Tenebrous and Aegis to join the Annihilation Wave in order to get revenge on Galactus, and they subsequently defeat the World Devourer and the Silver Surfer. Annihilus desires the secret of the Power Cosmic and asks Thanos to study Galactus. Once Thanos learns Annihilus’s true goal is to use the Power Cosmic to destroy all life and remain the sole survivor, he decides to free Galactus. Drax the Destroyer kills Thanos before he can do so but discovers that Thanos had placed a failsafe device to allow Silver Surfer to free Galactus in the event that Annihilus betrayed him.^[44] During a climactic battle with Annihilus, Nova is near death and sees Thanos standing with Mistress Death.^[45]

During «The Thanos Imperative» storyline, a cocoon protected by the Universal Church of Truth is revealed to be hiding Thanos, who has been chosen by Oblivion to be the new Avatar of Death.^[46] Resurrected before his mind could be fully formed, Thanos goes on a mindless rampage before being captured by the Guardians of the Galaxy.^[47] Thanos pretends to aid the Guardians against the invading Cancerverse, and after discovering its origin kills an alternate version of Mar-Vell, the self-proclaimed Avatar of Life. This causes the collapse of the Cancerverse, and Nova sacrifices himself in an attempt to contain Thanos inside the imploding reality.^[48] Thanos escapes^[49] and returns to Earth seeking an artificial cosmic cube. He forms an incarnation of the criminal group Zodiac to retrieve it, but he is defeated by the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy and remanded to the custody of the Elders of the Universe.^[50]

During the «Infinity» storyline, Thanos soon invades Earth again after being informed that most of the Avengers have temporarily left the planet.^[51] He launches an assault on Attilan, which he offers to spare in exchange for the deaths of all Inhumans between the ages of 16 and 22. Black Bolt later informs the Illuminati that the true purpose of the invasion is to find and kill Thane, an Eternal/Inhuman hybrid that Thanos had secretly fathered years earlier.^[52] Thanos is trapped in a pocket limbo of stasis by his son.^[53] Thanos is freed by Namor and was among the villains that joined his Cabal to destroy other worlds.^[54] Thanos later meets his end on Battleworld, where he is easily killed by God Emperor Doom during an attempted insurrection.^[55]

Investigating a temporal anomaly on Titan during «The Infinity Conflict», Thanos finds Pip the Troll and an older Eros who has come from the future. Eros tells him about an enemy made out darkness that will destroy Thanos in the future. Eros and Thanos craft a plan, but when they go to implement it Thanos is confronted by his future self who tells him to alter the plan to ensure his safety. The future Thanos then takes control of the past Thanos’ body.^[56] Under the control of his future self, Thanos began searching through ancient temples and sites to find something that would allow him to eventually become like his future. Through his journey he was also forced to kill Adam Warlock who might interfere with his future’s plan. After being unable to locate Eros, his future self tells Thanos that Eros was extremely important to his cosmic masterwork. Then after locating a moving comet Thanos goes to the comet which contained a treasure more powerful than the Infinity Gems. Despite the speed of comet being enough to immediately vaporize any being Thanos was able to get it since he «existed outside the norm». With this artifact Thanos was able to absorb every cosmic being that exists in his universe, eventually facing Eternity and Infinity. Despite their best effort Thanos defeats them and absorbs the two beings. He then merges with his future self finally taking the battle to the Living Tribunal and the One Above All.^[57] Facing the One Above All and the Living Tribunal, Thanos’ future self went on to absorb both of them becoming the entirety of the Multiverse. As the multiverse began dying, while his future self searched for Eros, present Thanos was locked away within his future’s psyche not allowed to interfere. In a desperate ditch effort to prevent all of this Eros, alongside Pip, travel to different points of Thanos’ past and tell him he is not alone and that he is loved. However, it is all in vain as Thanos simply did not care, but these temporal paradoxes did allow present Thanos to use that little access of his future’s power to talk to Eros through his past selves. He directs Eros and Pip to his future’s psyche and had Eros free him, but unfortunately this allows future Thanos to finally find Eros and had him absorbed inside his universe. Then Adam Warlock came and refuses to free Thanos because he would end up as Eros and tells Thanos that trust would be the only thing that would stop future Thanos. As his future self saw that existence was just a never-endless cycle which trapped all beings decided to commit suicide and «free» everyone from this «torture». Thankfully, Kang prevented Eros from going to talk to Thanos’ past selves which allowed him to avoid capture. This caused future Thanos to get distracted which allowed present Thanos to take control and reset everything prior to his future machinations, while erasing his future in the process.^[58]

Thanos is unintentionally brought back to the universe by Galactus.^[59]

When Thanos prepares to raid a Project Pegasus facility to steal a Cosmic Cube during the «Civil War II» storyline, he is ambushed and defeated by a team of Avengers who were tipped off by a vision from Ulysses Cain. During their battle, he mortally wounds War Machine and critically injures She-Hulk.^[60][61][62] After his defeat, he is imprisoned in the Triskelion,^[63] and manipulates Anti-Man into facilitating his escape.^[64] Thanos goes on a killing spree, but Black Panther, Blue Marvel and Monica Rambeau are able to stop him by devising a device that blocks the electrical synapses in his brain.^[65]

Thanos somehow later recovers during the «Thanos Returns» story and escapes captivity, and reclaims his Black Order forces from Corvus Glaive. After retaking command of his Black Quadrant outpost, Thanos discovers that he is dying.^[66] Thanos tries to force his father, Mentor, to find a cure for his malady, but kills him when he is unable to.^[67] Soon after Thanos would be battered and detained by the Shi’ar Imperial Guard after he invaded the very planet station of his father’s facility sitting in their territory.^[68] A quick jump into the future shows Thanos’s estranged son Thane having bested his mad father with the personification of death at his side.^[69] Presently locked within a maximum security cosmic Alcatraz, Thanos sits alone within a cell as his sickness ravages his body. All while being mocked by its prison warden whom he lured into a false sense of security in order to escape; ripping off his arm for escape access and murdering half his personal staff in a bid for freedom.^[70] Having narrowly escaped his imprisonment before its self-destruction, Thanos retreats to a hidden outpost where a roving mercenary colony loyal only to him was once stationed. Only to find it decimated at the hand of the new lover of Mistress Death; who reveals that she had stricken her former avatar with his fatal sickness, being his son Thane, now boasting the power of the Phoenix Force. Whom under her coaxing, had banished the mad titan back to the decimated Moon of Titan now entirely stripped of his godlike powers.^[71] For the next few months, Thanos would survive alone and all but powerless in the ruins of his home city. Surviving off the flesh of mutated vermin and being accosted by local scavengers who preyed upon him in his weakened condition, he is soon picked up by the unlikely crew of Thane’s betrayed cohorts Tryco Slatterus, his adopted daughter Nebula and his brother Eros of Titan.^[72] Having heard of their plight, the three were dismayed to find Thanos stripped of all he was and had ever been; his second daughter only agreeing to come along so she could kill her father, immediately assaulted him.^{[volume & issue needed]} Starfox was able to preempt her attempt at patricide while inviting his wayward tyrant of a brother aboard their vessel. Thanos mentioned the only way for him to be relieved of his mortality was to seek out the God Quarry heralded by The Witches of Infinity. Starfox initially wrote this off as fable and folklore. Now on the path to the cosmic coven set at the edge of the known universe, Thanos and crew stop short of a black hole, knowing full well that it is where the witches make their home. The Mad Titan jumps into the pinhole of nothingness alongside his brother, whom not trusting his butcherous sibling with the supposed infinite power of said collective; having survived the crushing force of the singularity they dove into, Thanos and Eros are greeted by the Coven at the godly graveyard.^[73] Thanos demands the three that are one to return his godhood to him. Starfox tries his best to charm the enchantresses only to be rebuked by them, much to Thanos’s joy when they prematurely aged him. Seeing as it was neither their place to destroy nor turn away those seeking them, The Witches profess the only way for the warlord to be made whole again was to climb down into the God Quarry and await a trial that would test his soul. Immediately after setting foot within the graveyard of old gods, Thanos is subsumed into the bedrock within which they rest.^[74] As his journey of the core being commenced, Thanos’s trial began with him as leader of earth and the universes greatest champions, the Avengers. But he is unable to escape the nagging feeling that he has forgotten something, until the quarry itself wearing the guise of Falcon reminds him of who he used to be; tempting him to live as a hero and a man at peace for the first time in his immortal life. But Thanos laughs maniacally as he coldly rebukes such a path, ruthlessly killing his would be friends and allies while choosing to remain whom he always was. His cosmic might returned to him, Thanos is freed from the God Quarry, wherein he immediately accosts his brother Eros and threatens the coven to release him from their domain so that he might do away with Thane once and for all.^[75]

Around the time of the New Thor’s appearance, Thanos is approached by a mysterious hooded woman, who proposes an alliance. He tasks her with bringing him the hammer of the deceased Ultimate Thor.^[76] The woman fails, but removes her disguise to reveal herself as Hela, the Norse goddess of death. She tells Thanos that she needs his help to reclaim Hel, and in exchange, offers to give him the one thing he has been searching for his entire life: death. After this, the two kiss.^[77]

Some time after his battle with Thane during the «Thanos Wins» story, Thanos travels to the Chitauri homeworld. However, upon subjugating the planet, he is attacked by a being identified only as The Rider, who captures Thanos and uses a piece of the fractured Time Stone to bring Thanos millions of years into the future, where he encounters an elderly version of himself who has destroyed nearly all life in the universe.^[78] At first, Thanos believes it to be some sort of trick, but is convinced once the future Thanos utters the name Dione, which Thanos’s mother had planned to name him before she went insane.^[79] King Thanos reveals he needs his younger self’s assistance to defeat the Fallen One, the last being left in the Universe, so that he may finally reunite with Death.^[80] The Fallen One soon arrives, revealed to be a darkened Silver Surfer armed with the hordes of Annihilus and the deceased Thor’s Mjolnir, using the latter to swiftly kill the Rider. The Surfer is distracted by the feral Hulk that Thanos kept chained in his basement, allowing the two Thanos to kill him using Surtur’s Twilight Sword.^[81] Upon the Surfer’s death, Death arrives, and Thanos realizes the true reason that King Thanos brought him into the future: so that King Thanos can finally die, reasoning that if he must die, it can only be at the hands of himself. At first, Thanos is more than happy to oblige his future counterpart’s request, but quickly stops, disappointed at how pathetic and submissive his older self has become. Resolving to never become as pathetic and complacent as King Thanos has become, Thanos uses the fragment of the Time Stone and the Power Cosmic left in the Surfer’s corpse to return to the present day. As the future begins to crumble around him, King Thanos realizes that his younger self has taken the steps necessary to ensure that this timeline will never take place. As he fades into nothingness, King Thanos asks Death what his younger self did, to which she simply responds «he won.»^[82]

During the «Infinity Wars» storyline, Thanos later discovers that the Infinity Stones are being collected once again and begins plotting to reassemble his gauntlet. However, he is assaulted by Requiem, whom he apparently recognizes, and is quickly killed. She then destroys the Infinity Gauntlet and also commands the Chitauri loyal to Thanos to die.^[83]

In a prelude to the «A.X.E.: Judgment Day» storyline, Thanos is revived by the Eternals. After receiving a vote from the Uni-Mind, Thanos becomes the Prime Eternal and kills Druig.^[84] He has Druig revived and visits Uranos in the Exclusion where Thanos learns the Eternals’ three principals. After Druig departs, Uranos gives Thanos an imprint key that enables an armory to access the fail-safe that Uranos put in to destroying the Machine.^[85] Thanos is told by the Eternal scientist Domo that his genes deriving from Eternals and Deviants is the reason why the Machine doesn’t recognize him as an Eternal. As Thanos fights the Eternals, Druig betrays Thanos and activates the fail-safe in Thanos’ armor which causes Thanos to die from his mutation. With Thanos gone, Druig becomes the new Prime Eternal.^[86]

Powers and abilities

Thanos is a mutant member of the race of superhumans known as the Titanian Eternals. The character possesses abilities common to the Eternals, but amplified to a higher degree through a combination of his mutant–Eternal heritage, bionic amplification, mysticism, and power bestowed by the abstract entity, Death. Demonstrating enormous superhuman strength, speed, stamina, immortality and invulnerability among other qualities, Thanos can absorb and project vast quantities of cosmic energy, and is capable of telekinesis and telepathy. He can manipulate matter and live indefinitely without food, air or water, cannot die of old age, is immune to all terrestrial diseases, and has high resistance to psychic assaults. Thanos is also an accomplished hand-to-hand combatant, having been trained in the art of war on Titan.^[87]

Thanos has proven himself capable of briefly holding his own in battle against Odin,^[88] and of blasting Galactus off his feet.^[89]

Thanos is a supergenius in virtually all known fields of advanced science and has created technology far exceeding that which is found on contemporary Earth. He often employs a transportation chair capable of space flight, force field projection, teleportation, time travel, and movement through alternate universes. Thanos is also a master strategist and uses several space vessels, at least three under the name «Sanctuary», as a base of operations.

Cultural impact and legacy

Accolades

• In 2014, IGN ranked Thanos 47th in their «Top 100 Comic Book Villains» list.^[90]
• In 2016, Complex ranked Thanos 21st in their «25 Greatest Comic Book Villains of All Time» list.^[91]
• In 2017, Screen Rant ranked Thanos 10th in their «25 Greatest Comic Book Supervillains Of All Time» list.^[92]
• In 2019, IGN ranked Thanos 6th in their «Top 25 Marvel Villains» list.^[93]
• In 2021, CBR.com ranked Thanos 2nd in their «15 Most Powerful Eternals» list.^[94]
• In 2021, Screen Rant ranked Thanos 8th in their «10 Most Powerful Members Of The Eternals» list^[95]
• In 2021, CBR.com ranked Thanos 2nd in their «10 Strongest Characters From Eternals Comics» list.^[96]
• In 2022, The Mary Sue ranked Thanos 7th in their «Strongest Marvel Villains» list.^[97]
• In 2022, The A.V. Club ranked Thanos 6th in their «28 best Marvel villains» list.^[98]
• In 2022, Newsarama ranked Thanos 1st in their «Best Marvel supervillains» list^[99] and 6th in their «Best Marvel characters of all time» list.^[100]
• In 2022, Screen Rant included Thanos in their «20 Most Powerful Marvel Villains» list.^[101]
• In 2022, CBR.com ranked Thanos 1st in their «13 Most Important Marvel Villains» list.^[102]

Impact

The Reddit forum /r/ThanosDidNothingWrong, dedicated to sharing theories and memes about the character, went viral in July 2018 when it was announced that half of the forum’s subscribers would be banned, mirroring Thanos’ plan to eradicate half of all life in the universe. The number of subscribers rose from 100,000 users in June, to over 700,000 on July 9, leading to over 350,000 users being banned, the largest such banning in Reddit’s history.^{[103][104][105]} A May 2019 Forbes column posited that «Thanos did nothing wrong» has become a popular internet meme, and that the film Endgame provides some evidence in favor of this view, in particular when Captain America says, «I saw a pod of whales when I was coming over the bridge . . . There’s fewer ships, cleaner water.» The author notes that given the contemporary extinction crisis driven by human actions, «you could indeed argue that Thanos did nothing wrong — and in the long run, the villain might have actually saved the world.»^[106]

Other versions

Amalgam Comics

In the 1996 Amalgam Comics books published jointly by DC Comics and Marvel, Thanos was merged with Darkseid to become «Thanoseid».^[107]

Earth X

In the alternate universe limited series Earth X, Thanos dwells in the Realm of the Dead with the entity Death.^[108] Additionally, this version’s mother was a Skrull, which Death used in combination with her own secret to make him believe that she was his mother. When the deception is revealed, he uses the Ultimate Nullifier on Death.^[109]

Heroes Reborn (2021)

In an alternate reality depicted in the «Heroes Reborn» miniseries, Thanos places the Infinity Gems in Infinity Rings and fights Doctor Spectrum.^[110][111]

Kid Thanos

After having witnessed a fight between the prehistoric Avengers and a younger Thanos, an alternate version of Doctor Doom called Doom Supreme is persuaded by Mephisto to put together a variation of the Multiversal Masters of Evil made from the evilest villains in the Multiverse and conquer it while saving Earth-616 for last. One of its recruits is a variation of the younger Thanos called Kid Thanos.^[112] Kid Thanos accompanied Doom Supreme in attacking Avengers Mountain. They fought Black Panther, Namor, and Valkyrie up to the point where Avengers Mountain exploded.^[113] Afterwards, both of them had spoken with Mephisto and Iron Inquisitor before rejoining with the other Multiversal Masters of Evil members so that they can get back to work.^[114]

In a flashback, Kid Thanos was with the Multiversal Masters of Evil when they attacked Earth-91.^[115]

Kid Thanos was with the Multiversal Masters of Evil when they attacked an unidentified Earth. Afterwards, they were attacked by Ghost Rider where he used his Hell Charger to knock down Kid Thanos and Hound.^[116]

Marvel Zombies 2

Thanos features in the limited series Marvel Zombies 2, set in the alternate universe of Earth-2149. Having been «zombified» and recruited into the cosmically powered Galacti, the character is killed by a cosmic-powered Hulk after an altercation over food.^[117]

Ultimate Marvel

The Ultimate Marvel imprint title Ultimate Fantastic Four features an alternate universe version of Thanos who is the ruler of Acheron and has a son called Ronan the Accuser who is in possession of a Cosmic Cube,^[118] a vast empire consisting of thousands of worlds on another plane of existence.^[119]

In other media

Television

• Thanos appears in Silver Surfer, voiced by Gary Krawford. Due to Fox’s broadcast standards, this version is depicted as a worshiper of Lady Chaos.^[120]
• Thanos appears in The Super Hero Squad Show, voiced by Steve Blum in his first appearance,^[121] and by Jim Cummings in all subsequent appearances.^[122]
• Thanos appears in Avengers Assemble^[123] and Guardians of the Galaxy, voiced by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.^[122]
• Thanos appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes — Guardians of the Galaxy: The Thanos Threat, voiced again by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.^{[citation needed]}
• Thanos appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes — Black Panther: Trouble in Wakanda, voiced again by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.^[122][124]

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Thanos appears in the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s films, known collectively as the «Infinity Saga», primarily portrayed by Josh Brolin via motion capture.^[125][126] Alternate timeline versions of Thanos also appear in the Disney+ animated series, What If…?, with Brolin reprising the voice role.^[127]

Video games

• Thanos appeared as a playable character in Marvel Super Heroes^[128] and Marvel vs. Capcom 2, voiced by Andrew Jackson.^[122]
• Thanos appears as the final boss in Marvel Super Heroes In War of the Gems.
• Thanos appears as a DLC character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes.^[129]
• Thanos appears as a playable character of Lego Marvel’s Avengers, voiced again by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.^[122]
• Thanos appears as a playable character in Marvel Future Fight.^[130]
• Thanos appears as a playable character in Marvel: Contest of Champions.^[131]
• Three incarnations of Thanos appear as playable characters in Marvel Puzzle Quest. The first two, based on the comics («Modern» and «The Mad Titan»), were added to the game in December 2016,^[132] while the third, inspired by the MCU incarnation («Endgame»), was added in April 2019.^[133]
• Thanos appears in Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series, voiced by Jake Hart.^[122] This version seeks an ancient artifact called the Eternity Forge, but is killed in battle by the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Thanos appears as a playable character in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite,^[134] voiced again by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.^[122] He is captured by Ultron Sigma until he is rescued by an alliance of heroes from the Marvel and Capcom universes and aids them in devising a plan to combat Ultron Sigma.
• The MCU incarnation of Thanos appeared in Fortnite Battle Royale as part of Marvel-sponsored Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame tie-in events, voiced by archive audio of Josh Brolin.^[135][136]
• The MCU incarnation of Thanos appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.^[137]
• The MCU incarnation of Thanos appears as a boss in the Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity War tie-in update, voiced by Kyle Hebert.^[138][139]
• Thanos appears in Marvel Powers United VR, voiced again by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.^[122]
• Thanos appears in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, voiced again by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.^[122]
• Thanos appears as a playable character in Marvel Strike Force.^[140]
• Two versions of Thanos from different alternate realities appear in Marvel Future Revolution, voiced again by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.^[141]

Novels

• Thanos appears in the 2017 novel, Thanos: Death Sentence by Stuart Moore.^[142] The book follows Thanos’ last chance to win Death’s love after his defeat at the end of The Infinity Gauntlet.
• Thanos appears in the 2018 novel, Thanos: Titan Consumed, by Barry Lyga.^{[citation needed]}

Collected editions

A number of the stories featuring Thanos have been republished into trade paperbacks and other collected editions:

• The Life of Captain Marvel (collects Iron Man #55, Captain Marvel #25–34, Marvel Feature #12), 1991, ISBN 0-87135-635-X
• Essential Avengers: Volume 6 (includes Captain Marvel #33; The Avengers #125, 135), 576 pages, February 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3058-6
• The Greatest Battles of the Avengers (includes Avengers Annual #7), 156 pages, December 1993, ISBN 0-87135-981-2
• Avengers vs. Thanos (collects Iron-Man #55, Captain Marvel #25–33, Marvel Feature #12, Daredevil #105–107, Avengers #125, Warlock #9-11, 15, Avengers Annual #7, Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2, and material from Logan’s Run #6), 472 pages, March 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6850-8
• Essential Marvel Two-in-One: Volume 2 (includes Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2), 568 pages, July 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2698-8
• Marvel Masterworks Captain Marvel: Volume 3 (collects Captain Marvel #22–33, Iron Man #55), 288 pages, hardcover, April 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3015-2
• Marvel Masterworks Captain Marvel: Volume 6 (collects Captain Marvel #58–62, Marvel Spotlight #1–4, 8, Marvel Super-Heroes #3, Marvel Graphic Novel #1; Logan’s Run #63), 296 pages, hardcover, May 2016, ISBN 978-0785199946
• Marvel Masterworks Warlock: Volume 2 (collects Strange Tales #178–181; Warlock #9–15; Avengers Annual #7; Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2), hardcover, 320 pages, hardcover, June 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3511-1
• The Death of Captain Marvel (collects Captain Marvel #34, Marvel Spotlight #1–2, Marvel Graphic Novel #1), 128 pages, hardcover, June 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4627-X
• Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos (collects Silver Surfer #34-38 and Yule Memory from Marvel Holiday Special 1992 by Jim Starlin, Ron Lim, Terry Austin), 128 pages, April 1993, ISBN 0-87135-968-5
• The Thanos Quest:
  • Volume 1 (The Thanos Quest) miniseries #1-3, 1990-1991 (caution, later printings of this edition have poor quality) ISBN 0-87135-681-3
  • Volume 2 (The Thanos Quest) miniseries #4-6, 1990-1991 (caution, later printings of this edition have poor quality) ISBN 0-87135-682-1
• Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos (collects Silver Surfer #34–38; The Thanos Quest miniseries; «The Final Flower!» from Logan’s Run #6), 224 pages, April 2006, ISBN 0-7851-2046-7 (hardcover, August 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4478-1)
• The Infinity Gauntlet (collects The Infinity Gauntlet limited series), 256 pages, March 2000, ISBN 0-87135-944-8 (December 2004, ISBN 0-7851-0892-0; July 2006, ISBN 0-7851-2349-0; hardcover, August 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4549-4)
• Infinity War (collects Infinity War limited series; Warlock and the Infinity Watch #7–10; Marvel Comics Presents #108–111), 400 pages, April 2006, ISBN 0-7851-2105-6
• Infinity Crusade:
  • Volume 1 (collects Infinity Crusade #1–3, Warlock Chronicles #1–3, Warlock and the Infinity Watch #18–19), 248 pages, December 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3127-2
  • Volume 2 (collects Infinity Crusade #4–6, Warlock Chronicles #4–5, Warlock and the Infinity Watch #20–22), 248 pages, February 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3128-0
• Thor: Blood and Thunder (collects Thor #468–471, Silver Surfer #86–88, Warlock Chronicles #6–8, Warlock and the Infinity Watch #23–25), 336 pages, July 2011, ISBN 978-0-7851-5094-7
• DC versus Marvel Comics (collects DC vs. Marvel mini-series, Doctor Strangefate #1), 163 pages, September 1996, ISBN 1-56389-294-4
• Ka-Zar by Mark Waid and Andy Kubert:
  • Volume 1 (collects Ka-Zar #1–7, Tales of the Marvel Universe #1), 208 pages, January 2011, ISBN 978-0-7851-4353-6
  • Volume 2 (collects Ka-Zar #8–14, Annual ’97), 216 pages, March 2011, ISBN 978-0-7851-5992-6
• Deadpool Classic: Volume 5 (collects Deadpool #26–33, Baby’s First Deadpool, Deadpool Team-Up #1), 272 pages, June 2011, ISBN 978-0-7851-5519-5
• The Mighty Thor by Dan Jurgens and John Romita Jr.: Volume 4 (collects Thor vol. 2, #18–25, Annual 2000), 256 pages, November 2010, ISBN 978-0-7851-4927-9
• Infinity Abyss (collects Infinity Abyss limited series), 176 pages, 2003, ISBN 0-7851-0985-4
• Thanos: The End (collects Marvel: The End limited series), 160 pages, May 2004, ISBN 0-7851-1116-6
• Thanos: Redemption (collects Thanos #1–12), 304 pages, November 2013, ISBN 0-7851-8506-2
  • Epiphany (collects Thanos Vol. 1 #1–6), 144 pages, June 2004, ISBN 0-7851-1355-X
  • Samaritan (collects Thanos Vol. 1 #7–12), 144 pages, October 2004, ISBN 0-7851-1540-4
• Annihilation:
  • Volume 1 (collects Drax the Destroyer miniseries, Annihilation: Prologue one-shot, Annihilation: Nova miniseries), 256 pages, October 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2901-4 (hardcover, March 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2511-6)
  • Volume 2 (collects Annihilation: Ronan miniseries, Annihilation: Silver Surfer miniseries, Annihilation: Super-Skrull miniseries), 320 pages, November 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2902-2 (hardcover, May 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2512-4)
  • Volume 3 (collects Annihilation: The Nova Corps Files one-shot/handbook, Annihilation limited series, Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus miniseries), 304 pages, December 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2903-0 (hardcover, July 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2513-2)
• The Thanos Imperative (collects The Thanos Imperative #1–6, The Thanos Imperative: Ignition, The Thanos Imperative: Devastation, Thanos Sourcebook), 248 pages, hardcover, February 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5183-4
• Infinity (collects Infinity #1–6, New Avengers vol. 3, #7–12, Avengers vol 5, #14–23, Infinity: Against the Tide Infinite Comic #1–2), 632 pages, hardcover, February 2014, ISBN 978-0785184225
• Thanos Rising (collects Thanos Rising #1–5), 136 pages, hardcover, July 2014, ISBN 978-0785190479
• Thanos: A God Up There Listening (collects Thanos: A God Up There Listening #1–4 and Thanos Annual #1), 120 pages, hardcover, December 2014, ISBN 978-0785191582
• Thanos vs. Hulk (collects Thanos vs. Hulk #1–4, Warlock (1972) #12), 112 pages, June 2015, ISBN 978-0785197126
• Thanos: Cosmic Powers (collects Secret Defenders #12–14, Cosmic Powers #1–6), 344 pages, November 2015, ISBN 978-0785198178
• Deadpool vs. Thanos (collects Deadpool vs. Thanos #1–4), 112 pages, December 2015, ISBN 978-0785198451
• The Infinity Gauntlet: Warzones! (collects The Infinity Gauntlet #1–5), 112 pages, December 2015, ISBN 978-0785198741
• Siege: Battleworld (collects Siege #1–4, Uncanny X-Men (2011) #9–10), 144 pages, February 2016, ISBN 978-0785195498
• Secret Wars (collects Secret Wars #1–9 and material from Secret Wars #0 FCBD), 312 pages, March 2016, ISBN 978-0785198840
• The Infinity Entity (collects: The Infinity Entity #1–4, Thanos Annual #1), 116 pages, July 2016, ISBN 978-0785194217′
• Thanos The Infinity Revelation, Jim Starlin, 2014, ISBN 978-0785184706
• Thanos The Infinity Relativity, Jim Starlin, 2015, ISBN 978-0785193036
• Thanos The Infinity Finale, Jim Starlin, 2016, ISBN 978-0785193050
• Thanos returns (collects Thanos Vol 2 #1-5), 136 pages, by Jeff Lemire, 2017 ISBN 978-1302905576
• Thanos Vol. 2: The God Quarry (collects Thanos Vol 2 #7-11), Jeff Lemire 2018, ISBN 978-1302905583
• Thanos Wins (collects THANOS Vol 2 #13-18, THANOS ANNUAL 1), Donny Cates 2018, ISBN 978-1302905590

References

External links

• Thanos at the Marvel Universe wiki
• Thanos at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Thanos at the Marvel Directory
• Thanos on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
• Thanos at Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki

Thanos
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
Thanos as portrayed by Josh Brolin via motion capture in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
First appearance	The Avengers (2012)
Last appearance	Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Based on	Thanos by Jim Starlin
Adapted by	Joss Whedon Zak Penn Christopher Markus Stephen McFeely[a]
Portrayed by	Josh Brolin
Voiced by	Josh Brolin (What If…?)
Motion capture	Damion Poitier (The Avengers)
In-universe information
Alias	The Mad Titan
Species	Titan
Affiliation	Children of Thanos Chitauri Sakaarans Outriders
Weapon	Infinity Gauntlet Double-sided blade
Family	A’lars (father) Eros (brother)
Children	Gamora (adoptive daughter) Nebula (adoptive daughter) Corvus Glaive (adoptive son) Cull Obsidian (adoptive son) Ebony Maw (adoptive son) Proxima Midnight (adoptive daughter)
Home	Titan Garden

Thanos is a fictional character portrayed primarily by Josh Brolin via motion capture in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Marvel Comics supervillain of the same name. Thanos is depicted as an alien warlord from the doomed planet Titan with a Malthusian mindset and galactic-spanning genocidal agenda. His primary goal is to obtain the six Infinity Stones, cosmic gems with the power to stabilize the universe’s overpopulation and prevent what he views as its inevitable demise. With the help of his adopted children and after the Infinity War primarily against the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, and their allies, Thanos is successful in assembling the Stones within his Infinity Gauntlet and committing the Blip, which disintegrates half of all life in the universe. He then atomizes the Stones and retires, but is eventually killed by Thor.

Thanos serves as the main, overarching antagonist in the MCU’s Infinity Saga, having appeared in five films, most notably in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Several versions of Thanos from within the MCU multiverse also appear in Endgame, the Disney+ animated series What If…? (2021–present), and the Phase Four film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

The character has been well received by critics and fans alike. Thanos is often credited as one of the MCU’s best villains, as well as one of the greatest film villains of all time.

Fictional character biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Thanos is born approximately 1,000 years ago on the planet Titan to A’Lars, along with his brother Eros.^[1][2] Eventually Thanos comes to realize that the growth of Titan’s population will inevitably result in its downfall due to lack a of resources, and so he proposes to kill half of the planet’s population at random. However, his people reject his solution as pure madness and cast him out. Over time, Thanos’ prediction come to pass, and he witnesses the death of his people until he is the only surviving member of the Titan race.^[3][4]

Balancing the universe[edit]

Thanos concludes that other planets would eventually suffer the same fate as Titan, and believes that it is his destiny to eliminate half of the universe’s population so that the survivors may thrive. To realize his «great plan», he takes command of a warship, the Sanctuary II, and embarks on a campaign of conquest and genocide. He becomes recognized and greatly feared for his power and influence. Thanos also takes control of various armies, including the Chitauri, the Sakaarans, and the Outriders.^[5][6][3] He forges alliances with the Other and Ronan the Accuser. Additionally, he occasionally adopts orphan children from planets he invades, including Gamora, Nebula, Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Midnight. Thanos gives special attention to Gamora, whom he considers his favorite.^[6] Eventually Thanos learns of the six Infinity Stones and embarks on a mission to collect them in order to use them to fulfill his mission instantaneously. Prior to 2012, he finds the Mind Stone and places it within a scepter.^[5]

In 2012, Thanos directs the Other to form an alliance with Loki, and provides him with the Mind Stone scepter and the Chitauri army to subjugate Earth in exchange for the retrieval of the Space Stone within the Tesseract. Following Loki’s defeat by the Avengers and the loss of the Mind Stone, the Other reports about the failed attack on Earth to Thanos.^[5]

In 2014, Thanos locates the Power Stone and sends Ronan, Gamora, and Nebula to retrieve it. However, all three betray him: Gamora joins the Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan decides to keep the Power Stone for himself and renounces his alliance with Thanos, and Nebula sides with Ronan when he vows to kill Thanos after destroying Xandar. The Guardians of the Galaxy defeat Ronan and leave the Power Stone with the Nova Corps.^[6]

In 2015, Thanos arrives on Nidavellir and forces the native Dwarves to forge the Infinity Gauntlet to hold all six Stones, before killing all of them, except for Eitri.^[3][7] Thanos is angered at his recruits’ failures, so he dons the Gauntlet and vows to find the Stones himself.^[8]

The Blip[edit]

In 2018, Thanos is accompanied by his children and they decimate Xandar to retrieve the Power Stone. Shortly after, they intercept the Statesman, carrying Asgardian refugees following their world’s destruction, and kills half of them, while also incapacitating Thor. Thanos attempts to barter the Tesseract from Loki in exchange for Thor’s life, but Thanos is attacked by the Hulk, whom he easily defeats. After Heimdall saves Hulk, Thanos kills him. He then destroys the Tesseract, obtaining the Space Stone inside, and orders his children to retrieve the Mind and Time Stone on Earth before rendezvousing with him on Titan. After killing Loki, Thanos destroys the Statesman, and teleports himself and his children away; unknowingly leaving Thor alive.^[3]

Thanos travels to Knowhere and obtains the Reality Stone from Taneleer Tivan. The Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter Quill, Drax, Mantis, and Gamora arrive to try and stop him. Thanos uses the Reality Stone to quickly defeat them before capturing Gamora and teleporting away with her. Knowing she had learned the location of the Soul Stone, he coerces her into revealing it to him in exchange for sparing Nebula, whom he has captured and has been torturing. Thanos and Gamora travel to Vormir, where the Soul Stone’s keeper, Johann Schmidt, informs them that the Soul Stone requires the sacrifice of a loved one, requiring Thanos to tearfully throw Gamora off a cliff to her death.^[3]

Thanos arrives on Titan expecting to meet Ebony Maw, but instead encounters Stephen Strange and learns that Maw has been killed. Thanos is then ambushed by Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Quill, Drax, and Mantis. A battle ensues, and Nebula also arrives to fight him. Thanos is briefly incapacitated by their combined efforts but before Stark and Parker can remove the Infinity Gauntlet from his hand, Nebula realizes that he murdered Gamora, leading Quill to impulsively attack him in a fit of rage. Thanos breaks free of their hold and overpowers them. After stabbing Stark, he prepares to kill him, but is stopped by Strange, who barters the Time Stone in exchange for sparing Stark’s life.^[3]

In Wakanda, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive launch an invasion, but fail to retrieve the Mind Stone and perish in the ensuing battle. Thanos teleports to Wakanda and encounters resistance from the Avengers and their allies: Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanoff, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, James Rhodes, T’Challa, Okoye, and Groot. He effortlessly overpowers them as he prepares to take the Mind Stone from Vision. Wanda Maximoff is able to hold him off for a few moments as she kills Vision in order to destroy the Mind Stone. However, Thanos uses the Time Stone to reverse her actions; he tears the Mind Stone from Vision’s head, killing him. Thanos knocks Maximoff out and places the final Stone in his Gauntlet. However, he is pierced in the chest by Thor’s axe, Stormbreaker.

Badly wounded, Thanos is taunted by a vengeful Thor but manages to snap his fingers, successfully decimating half of all life in the universe. With his mission complete, he teleports away to the Garden, where he rests.^[3]

Death[edit]

Twenty-three days later, Thanos, now living on the Garden, is ambushed by Rogers, Romanoff, Thor, Rhodes, Banner, Carol Danvers, Rocket Raccoon, and Nebula who seek to obtain the Stones to reverse his actions. They manage to subdue him and Thor cuts off his left arm, only to find the Gauntlet empty. Thanos reveals that he used the Stones to destroy the Stones in order to avoid the temptation of using them further and to prevent his mission from ever being undone, prompting Thor to decapitate him.^[9]

Legacy[edit]

Thanos’ actions have a universal impact, and the surviving Avengers work to quell the chaos he caused on Earth and other planets until finally undoing his actions five years later in 2023.^[9]

Maximoff has flashbacks of Thanos deactivating Vision, and in her extreme grief, has a mental breakdown and unknowingly creates a false reality.^[10]

Ajak, leader of the Eternals, informs Ikaris that when Thanos erased half of all life in the universe, he inadvertently delayed the Emergence, saving the Earth and many other planets from complete destruction.^[11] She further explains that when the Avengers restored the population, it created the necessary conditions for the Emergence, but also convinces her that the Earth deserves saving. After the Eternals stop the Emergence and some of them prepare to locate others of their kind spread across the universe, their ship is boarded by Eros, brother of Thanos.^[2]

The sudden return of the population has a drastic impact as well, such as on Earth, where its governments attempt to reintegrate the Blipped population. This causes socioeconomic conflicts and entities like the Flag Smashers who believe that Thanos was right. They feel that life was better during the Blip and use terrorism to prevent forced repatriation.^[12] Additionally, the phrase «Thanos was right» is observed in popular human culture. People graffiti the phrase in public spaces and use it on merchandise for profit.^[13][14][15]

In New Asgard, fresh on their mind about Thanos, Valkyrie and Miek attend the grand opening of «Infinity Conez» which sells ice cream cones with candy around the top of the ice cream to represent each Infinity Stone.^[16][17]

Alternate versions[edit]

Destruction of Earth[edit]

In an alternate 2018, after learning of Thanos’ assault on Earth and assuming he will be the cause of its prophesied destruction in his timeline, a gravitonium-infused Glenn Talbot, having become increasingly narcissistic and unhinged under the corrupting influence of the gravitonium and believing he can save the world from Thanos himself,^{[18][19][20][21]} attempts to draw more gravitonium from the core of the Earth to increase his power.^[22] He inadvertently destroys the Earth and everyone on it, including Thanos, and fulfilling the prophecy he intended to avert.^[23][24]

Battle of Earth[edit]

In an alternate 2014, Thanos, after conquering a planet, dispatches Gamora and Nebula to Ronan’s ship to retrieve the Power Stone. However, he becomes aware of the Avengers using time travel when Nebula alerts him to the arrival of her future self. Thanos then extracts the memories of 2023-Nebula via 2014-Nebula’s consciousness. He learns that his future self succeeded and that the Avengers killed him, and are attempting to undo his work. He has the 2014-Nebula impersonate her future self and travel to 2023 so that she can use the Quantum Realm to bring Thanos and his army there.^[9]

The Avengers successfully obtain the Stones and revive Thanos’ victims in 2023. Immediately afterward, Thanos, within his ship Sanctuary II, exits the Quantum Realm and opens fire on the Avengers Compound, destroying it. While his army searches for the Stones, Thanos engages in an intense fight with Stark, Rogers, and Thor, during which he declares that the Avengers’ mission to undo his deceased future self’s work has hardened his resolve, and that for the universe to be truly balanced, all of existence must be destroyed, rebuilt anew, and repopulated with life that only knows gratitude.^[9]

Thanos defeats Stark and Thor, leaving only Rogers left standing. He calls forth his entire army but the restored Avengers, Guardians, Wakandan and Asgardian armies, the Masters of the Mystic Arts, and the Ravagers arrive and engage Thanos and his army in a final battle. After an intense struggle, Thanos obtains the Stark Nano Gauntlet, but Stark is able to distract him long enough to steal back the Stones from the gauntlet. The warlord can only watch on as Stark snaps his fingers. Though Thanos and his army are erased from existence, and it ends in the Avengers’ winning the battle, using the Nano Gauntlet also resulted in Stark losing his life.^[9]

What If…?[edit]

Several alternate versions of Thanos appear in the animated series What If…?, with Brolin reprising his role.

Joining the Ravagers[edit]

In an alternate reality, Star-Lord T’Challa convinces Thanos to change his ways and join the Ravagers by claiming that there are other ways to preserve the universe’s known resources. A running gag is that Korath the Pursuer called Thanos by the name of «Captain Genocide». Thanos participates in their mission against the Collector in 2008 where he fights Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight, who, in this reality, are no longer at his service after the Collector fills the power vacuum and becomes the kingpin of the intergalactic underworld after Thanos joins the Ravagers. Instead, they become the Collector’s private security force along with Ebony Maw and Corvus Glaive. Thanos later engages in battle against Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight. Following the Collector’s defeat, Thanos and the Ravagers travel to Wakanda where Thanos engages in a conversation with Okoye about his former plan to kill half of the universe.^[25]

Zombie outbreak[edit]

In an alternate 2018, Thanos arrives on Earth in Wakanda with a nearly complete Infinity Gauntlet, but is infected by a quantum virus and transforms into a zombie.^[26]

Killed by Ultron[edit]

In an alternate reality, Thanos arrives on Earth to retrieve the Mind Stone after collecting the other Infinity Stones, but is swiftly killed by Ultron who uses a laser attack to slice him in half. Ultron then proceeds to take the Stones for himself and sets about to kill all life in the Multiverse.^[27]

Killed by Gamora[edit]

In an alternate reality, Thanos is killed by Gamora who claims his warlord position, armor, and blade.^[28][b]

Earth-838[edit]

In an alternate reality, Thanos is killed on Titan by the Illuminati, who use the power of the Book of Vishanti to impale him with his own double-edged sword.^[30]

Concept and creation[edit]

Background and development[edit]

Jim Starlin conceived Thanos during a college psychology course and introduced him as a villain in The Invincible Iron Man #55 (February 1973). Starlin originally designed the character as skinny and lanky, but editor Roy Thomas suggested he «beef him up».^[31] In the comics, Thanos is a mutant member of the race of superhumans known as the Titanian Eternals. The character possesses abilities common to the Eternals, and is able to demonstrate enormous superhuman strength, speed, stamina, and invulnerability among other qualities.^[32]

Casting and appearances[edit]

The MCU began building towards Thanos in The Avengers (2012), in which Damion Poitier portrayed the character in an uncredited cameo appearance.^[33] It was Joss Whedon’s idea to include Thanos in the film as his only instructions from Kevin Feige were that the film’s villains should be aliens, and the rest was up to Whedon.^[34] In May 2014, Josh Brolin signed a multi-film contract to portray the antagonist, debuting in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Thanos was originally going to have a larger role in the film, but Whedon felt that the character needed to be threaded more gently.^[35] Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely noted that Thanos’ lingering presence in the franchise helped legitimize him as a threat prior to Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Despite this, little screen time had been devoted to Thanos’ history and motivations. Markus stated, «We don’t get an element of surprise [with his introduction in Infinity War]… You can count on a lot of scenes where we illuminate a lot about him very early», with McFeely adding, «It is incumbent upon us to give him a real story, real stakes, real personality, and a real point of view».^[36]

Infinity War went through numerous story iterations, and over the course of development Thanos’ presence in the film grew. VFX Supervisor Dan Deleeuw noted «Thanos went from supporting villain to one of the main characters driving the plot».^[37] In one draft, the film was told directly from Thanos’ perspective with him serving as narrator.^[38] Exploring more of Thanos’ backstory via flashbacks was considered at one point, but only concept art was created and no scenes were filmed involving a younger Thanos.^[39] Despite leading the cast in screen time in Infinity War^[40] and being considered the main character of the film by many, Thanos had a secondary role in Avengers: Endgame (2019). McFeely explained «we had to give ourselves permission to backseat the villain […] You’re rolling around in the loss and the time heist, and you think it’s sort of Avengers against nature».^[41] Joe Russo stated that after Thanos was successful in Infinity War, he is now «done. He did it. He’s retired».^[42] Markus and McFeely had difficulty in factoring the older, post-Infinity War, Thanos into the film due to the character already possessing the Infinity Stones, until executive producer Trinh Tran suggested that they kill Thanos in the film’s first act.^[43] Markus explained that the character’s early death «reinforced Thanos’ agenda. He was done … it was like, ‘If I’ve got to die, I can die now'».^[43]

Archival footage of Thanos killing Loki in Infinity War is shown in a scene of the first episode of the Disney+ TV series Loki in a scene showing Loki what his future would have looked like.^[44][45]

Characterization[edit]

A major aspect of Thanos’ comic book storyline is his attempts to woo the female manifestation of Death. This plot was omitted from the films, as the filmmakers instead chose to pair the character with Gamora and focus on their father-daughter relationship. McFeely explained this choice by noting that Thanos and Gamora had a lot of history that they wanted to explore, which would add layers to Thanos to avoid him becoming «the big mustache-twisting bad guy who wants ultimate power just to take over the world and sit on a throne.»^[46] Avoiding the Death storyline moved away from the tease Whedon used in The Avengers with the character, where Thanos felt that by challenging the Avengers, he was courting death. Though the tease was purposely ambiguous, Whedon felt when he featured Thanos, he did not know what to do with him, feeling that he hung Thanos out to dry. Whedon added that «I love Thanos. I love his apocalyptic vision, his love affair with death. I love his power. But, I don’t really understand it». Whedon enjoyed the approach the writers and Russos took in Infinity War, giving Thanos «an actual perspective and [making] him feel righteous to himself», since the Death storyline would not necessarily translate well.^[47]

Even when not using the Infinity Stones, Thanos is shown to be a skilled physical fighter, defeating the Hulk in hand to hand combat in Infinity War and wielding a double glaive in combat in Endgame. He also possesses superhuman strength, speed, and stamina.^[48][49]

Design and special effects[edit]

Digital Domain worked on creating Thanos for Infinity War and Endgame, producing over 400 visual effects shots.^[50] The company created a new facial capture application called Masquerade, based on the concept of machine learning through computer algorithms, specifically for the film, beginning work on the system 3–4 months before filming began to develop and test it. They presented their results to Brolin, the Russos, and executives from Marvel ahead of filming to demonstrate the subtleties Brolin would be able to bring to the character, which helped inform Brolin on how to portray the character.^[50] Before the start of filming, Brolin’s facial expressions were captured with ILM’s Medusa system, which along with his motion capture data from set, were fed to Masquerade to «create a higher-resolution version of what Brolin did on set» so animators could apply that to the CGI character.^[37] Digital Design considered having «snap» briefly pop up on screen when Thanos snapped his fingers as a reference to how the snap occurred in the «Infinity Gauntlet» comic. Port said «as a fun aside, we explored the idea of lifting the actual graphic from the frame of the comic showing the snap, the little yellow action triangles for a single frame of the moment of the snap. They appreciated the idea but didn’t ultimately go for it».^[51]

Physical appearance changes[edit]

Thanos’ design changed drastically between his first appearance in The Avengers and his larger role in Infinity War. With Brolin’s first appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy, motion capture technology was used to capture Brolin’s facial features, with Thanos’ skin also being changed to a darker shade of purple than it was in The Avengers. Advancements in CGI and motion capture technology allowed for the use of more of Brolin’s features in Infinity War and Endgame, while also once again changing the shade of purple for Thanos’ skin with it becoming more of a lighter purple. In earlier appearances, Thanos had four scars on his cheeks and eleven lines on his chin, but the number of scars was reduced to three and the number of chin lines was reduced to nine with his Infinity War design update.^[52] Kelly Port, Digital Domain’s VFX Supervisor, noted the design of Thanos took into account the versions that appeared in previous films but were adjusted more towards Brolin’s features, which also helped with matching his performance to the digital character.^[37]

Portrayal[edit]

Brolin stated that he based his portrayal of Thanos by taking inspiration from Marlon Brando’s performance as Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979), saying in an interview in October 2020; «I mentioned Brando in Apocalypse Now. [Kurtz] who is very elusive and insane but what he is saying makes sense and is poetical». He also added; «I started seeing the parallel which I liked for me. I loved being able to resort to a film like Apocalypse Now when I was doing something like Avengers«.^[53]

Reception[edit]

The MCU’s rendition of Thanos has received critical acclaim, being regarded as one of the best MCU villains to date,^{[55][56][57][58][59]} as well as one of the greatest film villains of all-time.^[60][61] In 2022, WatchMojo named Thanos the 10th greatest film villain of all-time.^[62] He has also been regarded as one of the best villains of the 2010s^[63][64] and the 21st century so far.^[65] Owen Gleiberman of Variety called Brolin’s performance «supremely effective» and said, «Brolin infuses Thanos with his slit-eyed manipulative glower, so that the evil in this movie never feels less than personal».^[66] The Hollywood Reporter‘s Todd McCarthy echoed this sentiment, saying «Brolin’s calm, considered reading of the character bestows this conquering beast with an unexpectedly resonant emotional dimension, making him much more than a thick stick figure of a supervillain».^[67] Writing for IGN, Scott Collua pointed out that audiences «understand his perspective and believe his pain», making the antagonist surprisingly sympathetic.^[68] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised both the character and Brolin: «[Thanos is] thunderously voiced by a dynamite Josh Brolin in a motion capture performance that radiates ferocity and unexpected feeling».^[69] The Atlantic called Thanos an «unexpectedly resonant monster, filled with sadness and even a perverse sense of honor».^[70]

Critics noted that Thanos was a significant improvement over previous antagonists in the franchise.^[71] According to Screen Rant, the MCU struggled to create captivating antagonists throughout its first two phases. However, this changed in Phase Three with well-received villains such as Killmonger and Vulture, culminating in Thanos, whose «repudiation of the MCU’s narrative worship of its heroes creates a deep uncertainty in our expectation that follows through each encounter toward the inevitable, horrifying conclusion».^[57] George Marston attributed Thanos’ success to «the weight behind his character. Like the best villains in media, Thanos sees himself as a hero. It’s the power of Brolin’s performance that begins to draw viewers into that maniacal goal over and over, almost making Thanos seem likable or perhaps even reasonable, before the utter horror of him actually accomplishing his goal kicks in».^[59] Similarly, The Washington Post declared Thanos Marvel’s most compelling villain due to his «deep, reflective intelligence» as well as his «profound adherence to his belief system».^[56]

Some fans criticized Thanos’ portrayal in Endgame, feeling that the 2014 variant of him was more openly villainous compared to what was established in Infinity War, saying that he ended up «swapping his unusual plan of balancing the population with a less evocative idea of destroying then reforming the galaxy».^[72] Screen Rant felt that once Thanos learned of the Avengers’ plot to reverse what his older self had done, he «regresses by falling back upon a one-dimensional aim to just destroy the universe wholesale», which made him seem more like a «generic big bad» in the film. The site argued that his lack of history with the Avengers resulted in the nuances and connections being lost, which was most notable in his climatic battle with Maximoff as she still had Vision’s death freshly on her mind, but Thanos dismisses her because at that point in his life he hadn’t killed Vision.^[73]

In 2017, after comic book writer Jim Starlin expressed dissatisfaction with Marvel’s pay for his Guardians of the Galaxy characters, including Thanos, Gamora, and Drax, Disney readjusted his agreement for Thanos’ appearance in Infinity War and Endgame.^[74]

Cultural impact[edit]

Thanos and his «snap» spawned much audience enthusiasm. The website, DidThanosKill.Me was created for fans to see if they would have been spared by Thanos or not.^[75] The ending of Infinity War also spawned the creation of the Reddit subreddit, /r/thanosdidnothingwrong. A user within the subreddit suggested that half of the approximately 20,000 subscribers at the time be banned from the subreddit, in order to mimic the events of the film. After the community agreed to the measure, the moderators approached Reddit’s administrators to see if the mass ban would be possible. Once the administrators agreed to the random ban of half the subscribers, it was set to occur on July 9, 2018.^[76] Notice of the impending ban made the subreddit’s subscribers increase to over 700,000, including both of the Russo brothers.^[77] Ahead of the ban, Brolin posted a video saying «Here we go, Reddit users», and ending it with a snap.^[78] Over 60,000 people watched a live Twitch stream of the ban occurring, which lasted several hours.^[77] The ban of over 300,000 accounts, which included Anthony Russo, was the largest in Reddit’s history.^[77][79] Those banned then gathered in the new subreddit, /r/inthesoulstone.^[76][77] One Reddit user who participated described the ban as embodying «the spirit of the Internet» with people «banding together, en masse, around something relatively meaningless but somehow decidedly awesome and hilarious».^[79] Andrew Tigani of Screen Rant said this showed «how impactful the film has already become to pop culture. It is also a testament to how valuable fan interaction can be via social media».^[78]

A popular tongue-in-cheek fan theory regarding Thanos’ defeat in Endgame before the film’s release, jokingly referred to by the portmanteau «Thanus», claimed that Thanos would be killed by Ant-Man entering his anus and then expanding himself, blowing off Thanos’ body. This theory became a widespread Internet meme.^[80] After the film was released and proved the theory wrong, Christopher Markus revealed that due to the strong nature of the Titans, Ant-Man would have been unable to expand himself and would simply be crushed against the walls of Thanos’ rectum.^[41] In 2022, The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed that a character introduced in season three, Termite, was a parody of Ant-Man, and his actions of killing people by shrinking to enter their bodies and expanding was partially inspired by the Internet memes about Ant-Man entering Thanos’ rectum.^[81]

Following the premiere of Endgame, Google included a clickable icon of the Infinity Gauntlet in Google Search results for «Thanos» or «Infinity Gauntlet» as an Easter egg. The icon, when clicked, made a finger-snapping motion before half of the search results disappeared, akin to the disappearance of characters following the Blip.^[82]

During the 2020 United States presidential election campaign, a Twitter account affiliated with the 2020 Trump campaign posted an Internet meme of then-incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump superimposed on a clip of Thanos declaring himself «inevitable» in Endgame, with the meme reposted by Trump’s own Instagram account.^[83] Thanos creator Jim Starlin subsequently criticized Trump, saying he «actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer».^[84][85] In August 2020 Starlin revealed a new villain for an issue of Dreadstar Returns named King Plunddo Tram that heavily resembled Trump, with Plunddo Tram being an anagram of Donald Trump.^[86] In the issue, Tram is beheaded, with Starlin saying «a certain politician using a character of mine in one of his political ads may have riled me a bit. I figured he was open game at that point».^[87]

In March 2021, to congratulate James Cameron on Avatar regaining the title as the number one film of all-time at the worldwide box office over Endgame, the Russo brothers used an image with Thanos’ armor scarecrow and the Avengers’ logo dusting away into the Avatar logo.^[88][89]

In other media[edit]

• In the «couch gag» of season 30, episode 12 of The Simpsons, Thanos occupies the family couch and uses the Infinity Gauntlet to wipe out all of the Simpson family except for Maggie.^[90]
• Thanos’ name appears on a guest list in The Simpsons short Plusaversary.^[91]
• In Deadpool 2 (2018), Deadpool mockingly calls Cable «Thanos» as both characters are played by Josh Brolin.^[92]
• In 2018, the video game Fortnite featured a mode where players were able to play as Thanos for a limited period.^[93] In 2021, Thanos became a cosmetic outfit available for purchase.^[94]
• An alternate version of Thanos, «King Thanos», will serve as the main antagonist of a multiverse-centric attraction at Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure.^[95]

Accolades[edit]

Merchandise[edit]

Several toys have been released since Thanos’ Guardians of the Galaxy appearance. For the film, Hot Toys released a figure of Thanos with his throne,^[109] while Funko released two variants of a Funko Pop, including one that glows in the dark.^[110][111] The toy and merchandise gates burst open with the release of Infinity War. Hot Toys released a figure of Thanos and a 1:1 scale Infinity Gauntlet,^[112][113] while Funko released a variety of Pops, including multiple variations of regular sized figures, as well as a 10 inch jumbo Pop.^[114] Pops after the film released included a set of six chrome figures each in the color of one of the Infinity Stones and movie moments featuring Thanos vs. Captain America and Thor respectively.^[115][116] Funko has also included a variety of Thanos items in their Marvel Collector Corps subscription boxes, including the Infinity War box, which included a Pop of Thanos in Sanctuary II, a keycap, and an Infinity Gauntlet mug.^[117] LEGO released a BrickHeadz and a traditional set featuring Iron Man, Star-Lord, and Gamora minifigs alongside a Thanos bigfig,^[118][119] while Hasbro released a five pack of Marvel Legends with Thanos and his children. Hot Toys released two figures of Thanos after Endgame; a regular version which came with the Infinity Gauntlet^[121] and a battle damaged version that came with the Nano Gauntlet.^[122] Like with the initial wave of figures for Infinity War, Funko released both a regular sized and a 10 inch tall Thanos,^[123] while Pops after the film released included Thanos in his Garden attire.^[124] After the season one finale of What If…?, Funko announced a Ravager Thanos Pop.^[125]

A variety of Thanos related toys were released for both Marvel Studios’ tenth anniversary and the Infinity Saga. For the anniversary, Funko released an updated version of Thanos from Guardians of the Galaxy, this time with him sitting on his throne.^[126] To celebrate the Infinity Saga, Funko released a Thanos Pop using the colors of the Infinity Stones,^[127] while LEGO released multiple sets, including two sets for Endgame‘s final battle. One included Sanctuary II^[128] and the other was set at the Avengers’ Compound.^[129] LEGO also released an Infinity Gauntlet with articulating fingers, allowing for builders to put it in a snapping pose,^[130] while Hasbro released a Marvel Legends two pack featuring a battle damaged Iron Man in his mark LXXXV armor and a battle damaged Thanos.

Entertainment Weekly released an issue of their magazine for Infinity War featuring Thanos on the cover and a cover story interview with Brolin.^[132] Empire had two covers for each of Infinity War^[133][134] and Endgame^[135][136] featuring Thanos; one available to the general public and one that was exclusive to subscribers. Many posters were available for purchase including the theatrical posters for Infinity War and Endgame which both featured Thanos. Other posters included one exclusive to Odeon Cinemas^[137] and one featuring the children of Thanos.^[138] Limited edition posters were released for Marvel Studios’ tenth anniversary, as well as to celebrate the Infinity Saga with posters for the four Avengers films. Two posters were released for the tenth anniversary, one including the heroes and one for Thanos and the other villains.^[139] For the Avengers posters, Thanos was prominently included on the Infinity War and Endgame versions.^[140] Other pieces of merchandise include Fatheads,^[141] apparel, accessories, art books, and a variety of Infinity Gauntlet items.^{[142][143][144]}

See also[edit]

• Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Thanos on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
• Thanos on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
• Thanos on Marvel.com

Thanos
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
Thanos as portrayed by Josh Brolin via motion capture in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
First appearance	The Avengers (2012)
Last appearance	Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Based on	Thanos by Jim Starlin
Adapted by	Joss Whedon Zak Penn Christopher Markus Stephen McFeely[a]
Portrayed by	Josh Brolin
Voiced by	Josh Brolin (What If…?)
Motion capture	Damion Poitier (The Avengers)
In-universe information
Alias	The Mad Titan
Species	Titan
Affiliation	Children of Thanos Chitauri Sakaarans Outriders
Weapon	Infinity Gauntlet Double-sided blade
Family	A’lars (father) Eros (brother)
Children	Gamora (adoptive daughter) Nebula (adoptive daughter) Corvus Glaive (adoptive son) Cull Obsidian (adoptive son) Ebony Maw (adoptive son) Proxima Midnight (adoptive daughter)
Home	Titan Garden

Thanos is a fictional character portrayed primarily by Josh Brolin via motion capture in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Marvel Comics supervillain of the same name. Thanos is depicted as an alien warlord from the doomed planet Titan with a Malthusian mindset and galactic-spanning genocidal agenda. His primary goal is to obtain the six Infinity Stones, cosmic gems with the power to stabilize the universe’s overpopulation and prevent what he views as its inevitable demise. With the help of his adopted children and after the Infinity War primarily against the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, and their allies, Thanos is successful in assembling the Stones within his Infinity Gauntlet and committing the Blip, which disintegrates half of all life in the universe. He then atomizes the Stones and retires, but is eventually killed by Thor.

Thanos serves as the main, overarching antagonist in the MCU’s Infinity Saga, having appeared in five films, most notably in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Several versions of Thanos from within the MCU multiverse also appear in Endgame, the Disney+ animated series What If…? (2021–present), and the Phase Four film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

The character has been well received by critics and fans alike. Thanos is often credited as one of the MCU’s best villains, as well as one of the greatest film villains of all time.

Fictional character biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Thanos is born approximately 1,000 years ago on the planet Titan to A’Lars, along with his brother Eros.^[1][2] Eventually Thanos comes to realize that the growth of Titan’s population will inevitably result in its downfall due to lack a of resources, and so he proposes to kill half of the planet’s population at random. However, his people reject his solution as pure madness and cast him out. Over time, Thanos’ prediction come to pass, and he witnesses the death of his people until he is the only surviving member of the Titan race.^[3][4]

Balancing the universe[edit]

Thanos concludes that other planets would eventually suffer the same fate as Titan, and believes that it is his destiny to eliminate half of the universe’s population so that the survivors may thrive. To realize his «great plan», he takes command of a warship, the Sanctuary II, and embarks on a campaign of conquest and genocide. He becomes recognized and greatly feared for his power and influence. Thanos also takes control of various armies, including the Chitauri, the Sakaarans, and the Outriders.^[5][6][3] He forges alliances with the Other and Ronan the Accuser. Additionally, he occasionally adopts orphan children from planets he invades, including Gamora, Nebula, Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Midnight. Thanos gives special attention to Gamora, whom he considers his favorite.^[6] Eventually Thanos learns of the six Infinity Stones and embarks on a mission to collect them in order to use them to fulfill his mission instantaneously. Prior to 2012, he finds the Mind Stone and places it within a scepter.^[5]

In 2012, Thanos directs the Other to form an alliance with Loki, and provides him with the Mind Stone scepter and the Chitauri army to subjugate Earth in exchange for the retrieval of the Space Stone within the Tesseract. Following Loki’s defeat by the Avengers and the loss of the Mind Stone, the Other reports about the failed attack on Earth to Thanos.^[5]

In 2014, Thanos locates the Power Stone and sends Ronan, Gamora, and Nebula to retrieve it. However, all three betray him: Gamora joins the Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan decides to keep the Power Stone for himself and renounces his alliance with Thanos, and Nebula sides with Ronan when he vows to kill Thanos after destroying Xandar. The Guardians of the Galaxy defeat Ronan and leave the Power Stone with the Nova Corps.^[6]

In 2015, Thanos arrives on Nidavellir and forces the native Dwarves to forge the Infinity Gauntlet to hold all six Stones, before killing all of them, except for Eitri.^[3][7] Thanos is angered at his recruits’ failures, so he dons the Gauntlet and vows to find the Stones himself.^[8]

The Blip[edit]

In 2018, Thanos is accompanied by his children and they decimate Xandar to retrieve the Power Stone. Shortly after, they intercept the Statesman, carrying Asgardian refugees following their world’s destruction, and kills half of them, while also incapacitating Thor. Thanos attempts to barter the Tesseract from Loki in exchange for Thor’s life, but Thanos is attacked by the Hulk, whom he easily defeats. After Heimdall saves Hulk, Thanos kills him. He then destroys the Tesseract, obtaining the Space Stone inside, and orders his children to retrieve the Mind and Time Stone on Earth before rendezvousing with him on Titan. After killing Loki, Thanos destroys the Statesman, and teleports himself and his children away; unknowingly leaving Thor alive.^[3]

Thanos travels to Knowhere and obtains the Reality Stone from Taneleer Tivan. The Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter Quill, Drax, Mantis, and Gamora arrive to try and stop him. Thanos uses the Reality Stone to quickly defeat them before capturing Gamora and teleporting away with her. Knowing she had learned the location of the Soul Stone, he coerces her into revealing it to him in exchange for sparing Nebula, whom he has captured and has been torturing. Thanos and Gamora travel to Vormir, where the Soul Stone’s keeper, Johann Schmidt, informs them that the Soul Stone requires the sacrifice of a loved one, requiring Thanos to tearfully throw Gamora off a cliff to her death.^[3]

Thanos arrives on Titan expecting to meet Ebony Maw, but instead encounters Stephen Strange and learns that Maw has been killed. Thanos is then ambushed by Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Quill, Drax, and Mantis. A battle ensues, and Nebula also arrives to fight him. Thanos is briefly incapacitated by their combined efforts but before Stark and Parker can remove the Infinity Gauntlet from his hand, Nebula realizes that he murdered Gamora, leading Quill to impulsively attack him in a fit of rage. Thanos breaks free of their hold and overpowers them. After stabbing Stark, he prepares to kill him, but is stopped by Strange, who barters the Time Stone in exchange for sparing Stark’s life.^[3]

In Wakanda, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive launch an invasion, but fail to retrieve the Mind Stone and perish in the ensuing battle. Thanos teleports to Wakanda and encounters resistance from the Avengers and their allies: Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanoff, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, James Rhodes, T’Challa, Okoye, and Groot. He effortlessly overpowers them as he prepares to take the Mind Stone from Vision. Wanda Maximoff is able to hold him off for a few moments as she kills Vision in order to destroy the Mind Stone. However, Thanos uses the Time Stone to reverse her actions; he tears the Mind Stone from Vision’s head, killing him. Thanos knocks Maximoff out and places the final Stone in his Gauntlet. However, he is pierced in the chest by Thor’s axe, Stormbreaker.

Badly wounded, Thanos is taunted by a vengeful Thor but manages to snap his fingers, successfully decimating half of all life in the universe. With his mission complete, he teleports away to the Garden, where he rests.^[3]

Death[edit]

Twenty-three days later, Thanos, now living on the Garden, is ambushed by Rogers, Romanoff, Thor, Rhodes, Banner, Carol Danvers, Rocket Raccoon, and Nebula who seek to obtain the Stones to reverse his actions. They manage to subdue him and Thor cuts off his left arm, only to find the Gauntlet empty. Thanos reveals that he used the Stones to destroy the Stones in order to avoid the temptation of using them further and to prevent his mission from ever being undone, prompting Thor to decapitate him.^[9]

Legacy[edit]

Thanos’ actions have a universal impact, and the surviving Avengers work to quell the chaos he caused on Earth and other planets until finally undoing his actions five years later in 2023.^[9]

Maximoff has flashbacks of Thanos deactivating Vision, and in her extreme grief, has a mental breakdown and unknowingly creates a false reality.^[10]

Ajak, leader of the Eternals, informs Ikaris that when Thanos erased half of all life in the universe, he inadvertently delayed the Emergence, saving the Earth and many other planets from complete destruction.^[11] She further explains that when the Avengers restored the population, it created the necessary conditions for the Emergence, but also convinces her that the Earth deserves saving. After the Eternals stop the Emergence and some of them prepare to locate others of their kind spread across the universe, their ship is boarded by Eros, brother of Thanos.^[2]

The sudden return of the population has a drastic impact as well, such as on Earth, where its governments attempt to reintegrate the Blipped population. This causes socioeconomic conflicts and entities like the Flag Smashers who believe that Thanos was right. They feel that life was better during the Blip and use terrorism to prevent forced repatriation.^[12] Additionally, the phrase «Thanos was right» is observed in popular human culture. People graffiti the phrase in public spaces and use it on merchandise for profit.^[13][14][15]

In New Asgard, fresh on their mind about Thanos, Valkyrie and Miek attend the grand opening of «Infinity Conez» which sells ice cream cones with candy around the top of the ice cream to represent each Infinity Stone.^[16][17]

Alternate versions[edit]

Destruction of Earth[edit]

In an alternate 2018, after learning of Thanos’ assault on Earth and assuming he will be the cause of its prophesied destruction in his timeline, a gravitonium-infused Glenn Talbot, having become increasingly narcissistic and unhinged under the corrupting influence of the gravitonium and believing he can save the world from Thanos himself,^{[18][19][20][21]} attempts to draw more gravitonium from the core of the Earth to increase his power.^[22] He inadvertently destroys the Earth and everyone on it, including Thanos, and fulfilling the prophecy he intended to avert.^[23][24]

Battle of Earth[edit]

In an alternate 2014, Thanos, after conquering a planet, dispatches Gamora and Nebula to Ronan’s ship to retrieve the Power Stone. However, he becomes aware of the Avengers using time travel when Nebula alerts him to the arrival of her future self. Thanos then extracts the memories of 2023-Nebula via 2014-Nebula’s consciousness. He learns that his future self succeeded and that the Avengers killed him, and are attempting to undo his work. He has the 2014-Nebula impersonate her future self and travel to 2023 so that she can use the Quantum Realm to bring Thanos and his army there.^[9]

The Avengers successfully obtain the Stones and revive Thanos’ victims in 2023. Immediately afterward, Thanos, within his ship Sanctuary II, exits the Quantum Realm and opens fire on the Avengers Compound, destroying it. While his army searches for the Stones, Thanos engages in an intense fight with Stark, Rogers, and Thor, during which he declares that the Avengers’ mission to undo his deceased future self’s work has hardened his resolve, and that for the universe to be truly balanced, all of existence must be destroyed, rebuilt anew, and repopulated with life that only knows gratitude.^[9]

Thanos defeats Stark and Thor, leaving only Rogers left standing. He calls forth his entire army but the restored Avengers, Guardians, Wakandan and Asgardian armies, the Masters of the Mystic Arts, and the Ravagers arrive and engage Thanos and his army in a final battle. After an intense struggle, Thanos obtains the Stark Nano Gauntlet, but Stark is able to distract him long enough to steal back the Stones from the gauntlet. The warlord can only watch on as Stark snaps his fingers. Though Thanos and his army are erased from existence, and it ends in the Avengers’ winning the battle, using the Nano Gauntlet also resulted in Stark losing his life.^[9]

What If…?[edit]

Several alternate versions of Thanos appear in the animated series What If…?, with Brolin reprising his role.

Joining the Ravagers[edit]

In an alternate reality, Star-Lord T’Challa convinces Thanos to change his ways and join the Ravagers by claiming that there are other ways to preserve the universe’s known resources. A running gag is that Korath the Pursuer called Thanos by the name of «Captain Genocide». Thanos participates in their mission against the Collector in 2008 where he fights Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight, who, in this reality, are no longer at his service after the Collector fills the power vacuum and becomes the kingpin of the intergalactic underworld after Thanos joins the Ravagers. Instead, they become the Collector’s private security force along with Ebony Maw and Corvus Glaive. Thanos later engages in battle against Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight. Following the Collector’s defeat, Thanos and the Ravagers travel to Wakanda where Thanos engages in a conversation with Okoye about his former plan to kill half of the universe.^[25]

Zombie outbreak[edit]

In an alternate 2018, Thanos arrives on Earth in Wakanda with a nearly complete Infinity Gauntlet, but is infected by a quantum virus and transforms into a zombie.^[26]

Killed by Ultron[edit]

In an alternate reality, Thanos arrives on Earth to retrieve the Mind Stone after collecting the other Infinity Stones, but is swiftly killed by Ultron who uses a laser attack to slice him in half. Ultron then proceeds to take the Stones for himself and sets about to kill all life in the Multiverse.^[27]

Killed by Gamora[edit]

In an alternate reality, Thanos is killed by Gamora who claims his warlord position, armor, and blade.^[28][b]

Earth-838[edit]

In an alternate reality, Thanos is killed on Titan by the Illuminati, who use the power of the Book of Vishanti to impale him with his own double-edged sword.^[30]

Concept and creation[edit]

Background and development[edit]

Jim Starlin conceived Thanos during a college psychology course and introduced him as a villain in The Invincible Iron Man #55 (February 1973). Starlin originally designed the character as skinny and lanky, but editor Roy Thomas suggested he «beef him up».^[31] In the comics, Thanos is a mutant member of the race of superhumans known as the Titanian Eternals. The character possesses abilities common to the Eternals, and is able to demonstrate enormous superhuman strength, speed, stamina, and invulnerability among other qualities.^[32]

Casting and appearances[edit]

The MCU began building towards Thanos in The Avengers (2012), in which Damion Poitier portrayed the character in an uncredited cameo appearance.^[33] It was Joss Whedon’s idea to include Thanos in the film as his only instructions from Kevin Feige were that the film’s villains should be aliens, and the rest was up to Whedon.^[34] In May 2014, Josh Brolin signed a multi-film contract to portray the antagonist, debuting in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Thanos was originally going to have a larger role in the film, but Whedon felt that the character needed to be threaded more gently.^[35] Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely noted that Thanos’ lingering presence in the franchise helped legitimize him as a threat prior to Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Despite this, little screen time had been devoted to Thanos’ history and motivations. Markus stated, «We don’t get an element of surprise [with his introduction in Infinity War]… You can count on a lot of scenes where we illuminate a lot about him very early», with McFeely adding, «It is incumbent upon us to give him a real story, real stakes, real personality, and a real point of view».^[36]

Infinity War went through numerous story iterations, and over the course of development Thanos’ presence in the film grew. VFX Supervisor Dan Deleeuw noted «Thanos went from supporting villain to one of the main characters driving the plot».^[37] In one draft, the film was told directly from Thanos’ perspective with him serving as narrator.^[38] Exploring more of Thanos’ backstory via flashbacks was considered at one point, but only concept art was created and no scenes were filmed involving a younger Thanos.^[39] Despite leading the cast in screen time in Infinity War^[40] and being considered the main character of the film by many, Thanos had a secondary role in Avengers: Endgame (2019). McFeely explained «we had to give ourselves permission to backseat the villain […] You’re rolling around in the loss and the time heist, and you think it’s sort of Avengers against nature».^[41] Joe Russo stated that after Thanos was successful in Infinity War, he is now «done. He did it. He’s retired».^[42] Markus and McFeely had difficulty in factoring the older, post-Infinity War, Thanos into the film due to the character already possessing the Infinity Stones, until executive producer Trinh Tran suggested that they kill Thanos in the film’s first act.^[43] Markus explained that the character’s early death «reinforced Thanos’ agenda. He was done … it was like, ‘If I’ve got to die, I can die now'».^[43]

Archival footage of Thanos killing Loki in Infinity War is shown in a scene of the first episode of the Disney+ TV series Loki in a scene showing Loki what his future would have looked like.^[44][45]

Characterization[edit]

A major aspect of Thanos’ comic book storyline is his attempts to woo the female manifestation of Death. This plot was omitted from the films, as the filmmakers instead chose to pair the character with Gamora and focus on their father-daughter relationship. McFeely explained this choice by noting that Thanos and Gamora had a lot of history that they wanted to explore, which would add layers to Thanos to avoid him becoming «the big mustache-twisting bad guy who wants ultimate power just to take over the world and sit on a throne.»^[46] Avoiding the Death storyline moved away from the tease Whedon used in The Avengers with the character, where Thanos felt that by challenging the Avengers, he was courting death. Though the tease was purposely ambiguous, Whedon felt when he featured Thanos, he did not know what to do with him, feeling that he hung Thanos out to dry. Whedon added that «I love Thanos. I love his apocalyptic vision, his love affair with death. I love his power. But, I don’t really understand it». Whedon enjoyed the approach the writers and Russos took in Infinity War, giving Thanos «an actual perspective and [making] him feel righteous to himself», since the Death storyline would not necessarily translate well.^[47]

Even when not using the Infinity Stones, Thanos is shown to be a skilled physical fighter, defeating the Hulk in hand to hand combat in Infinity War and wielding a double glaive in combat in Endgame. He also possesses superhuman strength, speed, and stamina.^[48][49]

Design and special effects[edit]

Digital Domain worked on creating Thanos for Infinity War and Endgame, producing over 400 visual effects shots.^[50] The company created a new facial capture application called Masquerade, based on the concept of machine learning through computer algorithms, specifically for the film, beginning work on the system 3–4 months before filming began to develop and test it. They presented their results to Brolin, the Russos, and executives from Marvel ahead of filming to demonstrate the subtleties Brolin would be able to bring to the character, which helped inform Brolin on how to portray the character.^[50] Before the start of filming, Brolin’s facial expressions were captured with ILM’s Medusa system, which along with his motion capture data from set, were fed to Masquerade to «create a higher-resolution version of what Brolin did on set» so animators could apply that to the CGI character.^[37] Digital Design considered having «snap» briefly pop up on screen when Thanos snapped his fingers as a reference to how the snap occurred in the «Infinity Gauntlet» comic. Port said «as a fun aside, we explored the idea of lifting the actual graphic from the frame of the comic showing the snap, the little yellow action triangles for a single frame of the moment of the snap. They appreciated the idea but didn’t ultimately go for it».^[51]

Physical appearance changes[edit]

Thanos’ design changed drastically between his first appearance in The Avengers and his larger role in Infinity War. With Brolin’s first appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy, motion capture technology was used to capture Brolin’s facial features, with Thanos’ skin also being changed to a darker shade of purple than it was in The Avengers. Advancements in CGI and motion capture technology allowed for the use of more of Brolin’s features in Infinity War and Endgame, while also once again changing the shade of purple for Thanos’ skin with it becoming more of a lighter purple. In earlier appearances, Thanos had four scars on his cheeks and eleven lines on his chin, but the number of scars was reduced to three and the number of chin lines was reduced to nine with his Infinity War design update.^[52] Kelly Port, Digital Domain’s VFX Supervisor, noted the design of Thanos took into account the versions that appeared in previous films but were adjusted more towards Brolin’s features, which also helped with matching his performance to the digital character.^[37]

Portrayal[edit]

Brolin stated that he based his portrayal of Thanos by taking inspiration from Marlon Brando’s performance as Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979), saying in an interview in October 2020; «I mentioned Brando in Apocalypse Now. [Kurtz] who is very elusive and insane but what he is saying makes sense and is poetical». He also added; «I started seeing the parallel which I liked for me. I loved being able to resort to a film like Apocalypse Now when I was doing something like Avengers«.^[53]

Reception[edit]

The MCU’s rendition of Thanos has received critical acclaim, being regarded as one of the best MCU villains to date,^{[55][56][57][58][59]} as well as one of the greatest film villains of all-time.^[60][61] In 2022, WatchMojo named Thanos the 10th greatest film villain of all-time.^[62] He has also been regarded as one of the best villains of the 2010s^[63][64] and the 21st century so far.^[65] Owen Gleiberman of Variety called Brolin’s performance «supremely effective» and said, «Brolin infuses Thanos with his slit-eyed manipulative glower, so that the evil in this movie never feels less than personal».^[66] The Hollywood Reporter‘s Todd McCarthy echoed this sentiment, saying «Brolin’s calm, considered reading of the character bestows this conquering beast with an unexpectedly resonant emotional dimension, making him much more than a thick stick figure of a supervillain».^[67] Writing for IGN, Scott Collua pointed out that audiences «understand his perspective and believe his pain», making the antagonist surprisingly sympathetic.^[68] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised both the character and Brolin: «[Thanos is] thunderously voiced by a dynamite Josh Brolin in a motion capture performance that radiates ferocity and unexpected feeling».^[69] The Atlantic called Thanos an «unexpectedly resonant monster, filled with sadness and even a perverse sense of honor».^[70]

Critics noted that Thanos was a significant improvement over previous antagonists in the franchise.^[71] According to Screen Rant, the MCU struggled to create captivating antagonists throughout its first two phases. However, this changed in Phase Three with well-received villains such as Killmonger and Vulture, culminating in Thanos, whose «repudiation of the MCU’s narrative worship of its heroes creates a deep uncertainty in our expectation that follows through each encounter toward the inevitable, horrifying conclusion».^[57] George Marston attributed Thanos’ success to «the weight behind his character. Like the best villains in media, Thanos sees himself as a hero. It’s the power of Brolin’s performance that begins to draw viewers into that maniacal goal over and over, almost making Thanos seem likable or perhaps even reasonable, before the utter horror of him actually accomplishing his goal kicks in».^[59] Similarly, The Washington Post declared Thanos Marvel’s most compelling villain due to his «deep, reflective intelligence» as well as his «profound adherence to his belief system».^[56]

Some fans criticized Thanos’ portrayal in Endgame, feeling that the 2014 variant of him was more openly villainous compared to what was established in Infinity War, saying that he ended up «swapping his unusual plan of balancing the population with a less evocative idea of destroying then reforming the galaxy».^[72] Screen Rant felt that once Thanos learned of the Avengers’ plot to reverse what his older self had done, he «regresses by falling back upon a one-dimensional aim to just destroy the universe wholesale», which made him seem more like a «generic big bad» in the film. The site argued that his lack of history with the Avengers resulted in the nuances and connections being lost, which was most notable in his climatic battle with Maximoff as she still had Vision’s death freshly on her mind, but Thanos dismisses her because at that point in his life he hadn’t killed Vision.^[73]

In 2017, after comic book writer Jim Starlin expressed dissatisfaction with Marvel’s pay for his Guardians of the Galaxy characters, including Thanos, Gamora, and Drax, Disney readjusted his agreement for Thanos’ appearance in Infinity War and Endgame.^[74]

Cultural impact[edit]

Thanos and his «snap» spawned much audience enthusiasm. The website, DidThanosKill.Me was created for fans to see if they would have been spared by Thanos or not.^[75] The ending of Infinity War also spawned the creation of the Reddit subreddit, /r/thanosdidnothingwrong. A user within the subreddit suggested that half of the approximately 20,000 subscribers at the time be banned from the subreddit, in order to mimic the events of the film. After the community agreed to the measure, the moderators approached Reddit’s administrators to see if the mass ban would be possible. Once the administrators agreed to the random ban of half the subscribers, it was set to occur on July 9, 2018.^[76] Notice of the impending ban made the subreddit’s subscribers increase to over 700,000, including both of the Russo brothers.^[77] Ahead of the ban, Brolin posted a video saying «Here we go, Reddit users», and ending it with a snap.^[78] Over 60,000 people watched a live Twitch stream of the ban occurring, which lasted several hours.^[77] The ban of over 300,000 accounts, which included Anthony Russo, was the largest in Reddit’s history.^[77][79] Those banned then gathered in the new subreddit, /r/inthesoulstone.^[76][77] One Reddit user who participated described the ban as embodying «the spirit of the Internet» with people «banding together, en masse, around something relatively meaningless but somehow decidedly awesome and hilarious».^[79] Andrew Tigani of Screen Rant said this showed «how impactful the film has already become to pop culture. It is also a testament to how valuable fan interaction can be via social media».^[78]

A popular tongue-in-cheek fan theory regarding Thanos’ defeat in Endgame before the film’s release, jokingly referred to by the portmanteau «Thanus», claimed that Thanos would be killed by Ant-Man entering his anus and then expanding himself, blowing off Thanos’ body. This theory became a widespread Internet meme.^[80] After the film was released and proved the theory wrong, Christopher Markus revealed that due to the strong nature of the Titans, Ant-Man would have been unable to expand himself and would simply be crushed against the walls of Thanos’ rectum.^[41] In 2022, The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke confirmed that a character introduced in season three, Termite, was a parody of Ant-Man, and his actions of killing people by shrinking to enter their bodies and expanding was partially inspired by the Internet memes about Ant-Man entering Thanos’ rectum.^[81]

Following the premiere of Endgame, Google included a clickable icon of the Infinity Gauntlet in Google Search results for «Thanos» or «Infinity Gauntlet» as an Easter egg. The icon, when clicked, made a finger-snapping motion before half of the search results disappeared, akin to the disappearance of characters following the Blip.^[82]

During the 2020 United States presidential election campaign, a Twitter account affiliated with the 2020 Trump campaign posted an Internet meme of then-incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump superimposed on a clip of Thanos declaring himself «inevitable» in Endgame, with the meme reposted by Trump’s own Instagram account.^[83] Thanos creator Jim Starlin subsequently criticized Trump, saying he «actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer».^[84][85] In August 2020 Starlin revealed a new villain for an issue of Dreadstar Returns named King Plunddo Tram that heavily resembled Trump, with Plunddo Tram being an anagram of Donald Trump.^[86] In the issue, Tram is beheaded, with Starlin saying «a certain politician using a character of mine in one of his political ads may have riled me a bit. I figured he was open game at that point».^[87]

In March 2021, to congratulate James Cameron on Avatar regaining the title as the number one film of all-time at the worldwide box office over Endgame, the Russo brothers used an image with Thanos’ armor scarecrow and the Avengers’ logo dusting away into the Avatar logo.^[88][89]

In other media[edit]

• In the «couch gag» of season 30, episode 12 of The Simpsons, Thanos occupies the family couch and uses the Infinity Gauntlet to wipe out all of the Simpson family except for Maggie.^[90]
• Thanos’ name appears on a guest list in The Simpsons short Plusaversary.^[91]
• In Deadpool 2 (2018), Deadpool mockingly calls Cable «Thanos» as both characters are played by Josh Brolin.^[92]
• In 2018, the video game Fortnite featured a mode where players were able to play as Thanos for a limited period.^[93] In 2021, Thanos became a cosmetic outfit available for purchase.^[94]
• An alternate version of Thanos, «King Thanos», will serve as the main antagonist of a multiverse-centric attraction at Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure.^[95]

Accolades[edit]

Merchandise[edit]

Several toys have been released since Thanos’ Guardians of the Galaxy appearance. For the film, Hot Toys released a figure of Thanos with his throne,^[109] while Funko released two variants of a Funko Pop, including one that glows in the dark.^[110][111] The toy and merchandise gates burst open with the release of Infinity War. Hot Toys released a figure of Thanos and a 1:1 scale Infinity Gauntlet,^[112][113] while Funko released a variety of Pops, including multiple variations of regular sized figures, as well as a 10 inch jumbo Pop.^[114] Pops after the film released included a set of six chrome figures each in the color of one of the Infinity Stones and movie moments featuring Thanos vs. Captain America and Thor respectively.^[115][116] Funko has also included a variety of Thanos items in their Marvel Collector Corps subscription boxes, including the Infinity War box, which included a Pop of Thanos in Sanctuary II, a keycap, and an Infinity Gauntlet mug.^[117] LEGO released a BrickHeadz and a traditional set featuring Iron Man, Star-Lord, and Gamora minifigs alongside a Thanos bigfig,^[118][119] while Hasbro released a five pack of Marvel Legends with Thanos and his children. Hot Toys released two figures of Thanos after Endgame; a regular version which came with the Infinity Gauntlet^[121] and a battle damaged version that came with the Nano Gauntlet.^[122] Like with the initial wave of figures for Infinity War, Funko released both a regular sized and a 10 inch tall Thanos,^[123] while Pops after the film released included Thanos in his Garden attire.^[124] After the season one finale of What If…?, Funko announced a Ravager Thanos Pop.^[125]

A variety of Thanos related toys were released for both Marvel Studios’ tenth anniversary and the Infinity Saga. For the anniversary, Funko released an updated version of Thanos from Guardians of the Galaxy, this time with him sitting on his throne.^[126] To celebrate the Infinity Saga, Funko released a Thanos Pop using the colors of the Infinity Stones,^[127] while LEGO released multiple sets, including two sets for Endgame‘s final battle. One included Sanctuary II^[128] and the other was set at the Avengers’ Compound.^[129] LEGO also released an Infinity Gauntlet with articulating fingers, allowing for builders to put it in a snapping pose,^[130] while Hasbro released a Marvel Legends two pack featuring a battle damaged Iron Man in his mark LXXXV armor and a battle damaged Thanos.

Entertainment Weekly released an issue of their magazine for Infinity War featuring Thanos on the cover and a cover story interview with Brolin.^[132] Empire had two covers for each of Infinity War^[133][134] and Endgame^[135][136] featuring Thanos; one available to the general public and one that was exclusive to subscribers. Many posters were available for purchase including the theatrical posters for Infinity War and Endgame which both featured Thanos. Other posters included one exclusive to Odeon Cinemas^[137] and one featuring the children of Thanos.^[138] Limited edition posters were released for Marvel Studios’ tenth anniversary, as well as to celebrate the Infinity Saga with posters for the four Avengers films. Two posters were released for the tenth anniversary, one including the heroes and one for Thanos and the other villains.^[139] For the Avengers posters, Thanos was prominently included on the Infinity War and Endgame versions.^[140] Other pieces of merchandise include Fatheads,^[141] apparel, accessories, art books, and a variety of Infinity Gauntlet items.^{[142][143][144]}

See also[edit]

• Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Thanos on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
• Thanos on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
• Thanos on Marvel.com

Суперзлодей, появляющийся в публикациях Marvel Comics и связанных СМИ

Танос
Вариант обложки Infinity # 4 (Октябрь 2013 г.) Джером Опенья и Дастин Уивер
Информация о публикации
Издатель	Marvel Comics
Первое появление	Непобедимый Железный Человек # 55 (февраль 1973 г.)
Создано	Джимом Старлином
Внутренняя информация
Виды	Вечные — Девиантные гибридные
Место происхождения	Титан
Принадлежность к команде	Дозор Бесконечности. Черный Орден
Известные псевдонимы	Безумный Титан
Способности	Сверхчеловеческая сила, скорость, выносливость, стойкость, ловкость и долголетие Сверхчеловеческая физиология Вечных Опытный рукопашный боец ​​ Гений -уровень тактик Обладает доступом почти ко всем могущественные мистические артефакты и оружие

Танос — вымышленный суперзлодей, появляющийся в американских комиксах p опубликовано Marvel Comics. Персонаж был создан писателем-художником Джимом Старлином и впервые появился в The Invincible Iron Man # 55 (обложка от февраля 1973). Танос — один из самых могущественных злодеев в вселенной Marvel, он сражался со многими героями, включая Мстителей, Стражей Галактики, Фантастическая четверка и Люди Икс.

Персонаж появляется в Кинематографической вселенной Marvel, изображается Дэмионом Пуатье в Мстителях (2012) и Джошем Бролином в Стражах Галактики (2014), Мстители: Эра Альтрона (2015), Мстители: Бесконечность Война (2018) и Мстители: Финал (2019) с помощью голоса и захвата движения. Персонаж также появлялся в различных комиксах, включая мультсериалы и видеоигры.

Содержание

• 1 Происхождение
• 2 История публикаций
• 3 Биография вымышленного персонажа
  • 3.1 Космический куб и драгоценные камни бесконечности
  • 3.2 Сага бесконечности
  • 3.3 Другие приключения
  • 3.4 Аннигиляция
  • 3.5 Императив Таноса
  • 3.6 Бесконечность
  • 3.7 Конфликт бесконечности
  • 3.8 Ultimates и гражданская война II
  • 3.9 Возвращение Таноса
  • 3.10 Недостойный Тор
  • 3.11 Победа Таноса
  • 3.12 Войны бесконечности
• 4 Силы и способности
• 5 Другие версии
• 6 В других СМИ
  • 6.1 Телевидение
  • 6.2 Кино
  • 6.3 Видеоигры
  • 6.4 Романы
• 7 Сборник
• 8 Прием
• 9 Примечания
• 10 Источники
• 11 Внешние ссылки

Происхождение

Писатель-художник Джим Старлин первоначально задумал Таноса Титана еще в колледже психология классы. Как описал Старлин:

Я учился в колледже между США. военная служба и работа в комиксах, а также был курс психологии, и я придумал Таноса… и Разрушителя Дракса, но я не уверен, как он в него вписался, просто управление гневом наверное. Итак, я подошел к Marvel, и редактор Рой Томас спросил, не хочу ли я сделать выпуск Железного человека. Я чувствовал, что это может быть мой единственный шанс когда-либо сыграть персонажа, не будучи уверенным, что моя карьера продлится дольше нескольких недель. Итак, они втиснулись в это. Танос был гораздо худощавым персонажем, и Рой предложил усилить его, так что он немного улучшил его по своим первоначальным наброскам… и позже мне так понравилось его усиливать, что он продолжал расти в размерах.

Старлин имеет признал, что на внешний вид персонажа повлияли Джека Кирби Дарксайд :

Кирби сделал Новых богов, что, на мой взгляд, было потрясающе. Он был в то время в DC. Я придумал некоторые вещи, на которые это вдохновило. Вы могли подумать, что Таноса вдохновил Дарксайд, но когда я появился, это было не так. На моих первых рисунках Таноса, если он и был похож на кого-нибудь, это был Метрон. У меня были все эти разные боги и вещи, которые я хотел делать, которые стали Таносом и Титанами. Рой взглянул на парня в кресле, похожем на Метрона, и сказал: «Подкрепи его! Если ты собираешься украсть одного из Новых Богов, по крайней мере, ограбь Дарксайда, действительно хорошего!»

Публикация история

Первое появление Таноса было в The Invincible Iron Man # 55 (февраль 1973), в котором рассказывался Джим Старлин, сценарий которого был написан Майком Фридрихом. Сюжетная линия из этого выпуска продолжалась в Captain Marvel # 25–33 (два раза в месяц: март 1973 — январь 1974), Marvel Feature # 12 (ноябрь 1973), Сорвиголова № 107 (январь 1974 г.) и Мстители № 125 (июль 1974 г.). Он вернулся в расширенной сюжетной линии, охватывающей Strange Tales № 178–181 (февраль – август 1975 г.), Warlock № 9–11 (октябрь 1975 г. — январь 1976 г.), Marvel Team Up № 55 ( Март 1977 г.), Ежегодники 1977 года для Мстителей и Marvel Two-in-One (Танос фактически не появляется до конца Warlock # 9). Он также был показан в короткой резервной истории в Logan’s Run # 6 (июнь 1977 г.) и сыграл небольшую роль в графическом романе «Смерть капитана Марвела» (апрель 1982 г.).

Персонаж был возрожден в Silver Surfer vol. 3, № 34 (февраль 1990 г.) и был приглашенным гостем до выпуска № 59 (ноябрь 1991 г.), одновременно появляясь в The Thanos Quest № 1-2 (сентябрь – октябрь 1990 г.) и The Infinity Gauntlet # 1–6 (июль – декабрь 1991 г.). После появления в Человек-паук # 17 (декабрь 1991 г.) Танос неоднократно играл в Warlock and the Infinity Watch # 1–42 (февраль 1992 — август 1995 г.).). Затем последовали кроссоверы в Infinity War # 1–6 (июнь — ноябрь 1992 г.), Infinity Crusade # 1–6 (июнь — ноябрь 1993 г.), Silver Surfer vol.. 3, # 86–88 (ноябрь 1993 — январь 1994), Warlock Chronicles # 6–8, Thor # 468–471 (ноябрь 1993 — февраль 1994), Namor The Sub-Mariner # 44 (ноябрь 1993 г.), Secret Defenders № 11–14 (январь – апрель 1994 г.), Cosmic Powers № 1–6 (март – июль 1994 г.) и Cosmic Powers Unlimited № 1 (май 1995 г.).

Танос появился в связанной сюжетной линии в Ка-Зар т. 2, # 4–11 (август 1997 г. — март 1998 г.), Ka-Zar Annual (1997 г.) и X-Man и Hulk Annual (1998 г.), прежде чем появиться в Тор об. 2, № 21–25 (март – июль 2000 г.) и Ежегодник за 2000 г. Затем персонаж был использован в Captain Marvel vol. 4, № 17–19 (июнь – август 2001 г.), Avengers: Celestial Quest № 1–8 (ноябрь 2001 г. — июнь 2002 г.), Infinity Abyss № 1–6 (август – октябрь 2002 г.)) и Marvel: The End # 1–6 (май – август 2003 г.).

В 2004 году Танос получил одноименный титул, который выдержал 12 выпусков. В 2006 году персонаж сыграл важную роль в Annihilation : Silver Surfer # 1–4 (июнь — сентябрь 2006 г.) и Annihilation # 1–6 (октябрь 2006 г. — март 2007 г.). Персонаж был повторно представлен в Стражах Галактики т. 2, № 24–25 (апрель – май 2010 г.) и сыграл важную роль в Императив Таноса : Зажигание (июнь 2010 г.) и Императив Таноса № 1–6 (июль – декабрь 2010 г.).

Персонаж вернулся в Avengers Assemble # 1 (март 2012). Мини-сериал «Танос: Сын Титана» Джо Китинджа планировался к публикации в августе 2012 года, но был отменен.

Происхождение персонажа было расширено в пяти выпусках Восход Таноса, мини-сериал Джейсона Аарона и Симона Бьянки, который ежемесячно публиковался, начиная с апреля 2013 года. Позже в том же году Танос сыграл центральную роль в Бесконечности мини-сериал, написанный Джонатаном Хикманом и нарисованный Джимом Чунгом, Джеромом Опеньей и Дастином Уивером.

В мае 2014 года Джим Старлин и Рон Лим вместе работали над одноразовым ежегодником Таноса, который является прелюдией к новой трилогии оригинальных графических романов. Первый, Thanos: The Infinity Revelation, был выпущен в августе следующего года. Начиная с февраля 2015 года, Старлин также написал мини-сериал из четырех выпусков под названием «Танос против Халка», действие которого происходило раньше графических романов. Вторая часть трилогии, Thanos: The Infinity Relativity, была выпущена в июне 2015 года. Третий графический роман, Thanos: The Infinity Finale, а также связанный с ним мини-сериал The Infinity Entity были опубликованы в 2016 году.

В то же время, когда Старлин писал эти графические романы и врезки, персонаж также появился в New Avengers № 23–24 (октябрь – ноябрь 2014 г.), Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3, № 18–20 (октябрь – декабрь 2014 г.), Legendary Star-Lord № 4 (декабрь 2014 г.), мини-сериал из шести выпусков под названием «Танос: Бог там слушает» (декабрь 2014 г.), Avengers vol. 5, № 40–41 (март – апрель 2015 г.) и Deadpool vol. 3, № 45 («№ 250») (июнь 2015 г.). Танос также сыграл важную роль в мини-сериале из пяти выпусков The Infinity Gauntlet vol. 2, (июль 2015 — январь 2016), врезка кроссовера Secret Wars (2015).

В 2017 году, в рамках Marvel NOW!, Танос получил свой собственный титул, написанный Джеффом Лемиром и нарисованный Майком Деодато. После 11 выпусков Донни Кейтс и Джефф Шоу возглавили творческую группу. Эта сюжетная линия пересеклась с сюжетной линией Cosmis Ghost Rider Донни Кейтса.

Биография вымышленного персонажа

Танос родился на спутнике Сатурна Титане как сын Вечных А’ларс и Суй-Сан ; его брат Эрос Титана. Танос несет ген Девиантов и, как таковой, имеет внешнюю внешность двоюродной расы Вечных. Потрясенная его внешностью и верой в то, что он уничтожит все живое во вселенной, Суи-Сан попыталась убить его, но ее остановил А’ларс. В школьные годы Танос был пацифистом и играл только со своим братом Эросом и домашними животными. В подростковом возрасте Танос был очарован нигилизмом и смертью, поклоняясь и в конечном итоге влюбляясь в физическое воплощение смерти, Госпожу Смерти. Став взрослым, Танос увеличил свою физическую силу и возможности благодаря своим превосходным научным знаниям. Он также попытался создать для себя новую жизнь, породив много детей, а также став пиратом. Он не находит удовлетворения ни в том, ни в другом, пока его снова не посетит Госпожа Смерть, ради которой он убивает своего отпрыска и своего пиратского капитана.

Космический Куб и Камни Бесконечности

Желая произвести впечатление на Госпожу Смерть, Танос собирает армию злодейских инопланетян и начинает ядерную бомбардировку Титана, убивающую миллионы его расы. В поисках универсальной силы в форме Космического Куба Танос отправляется на Землю. Перед посадкой его судно уничтожает ближайшую машину, поскольку его прибытие становится свидетелем его прибытия. Без ведома Таноса, двое членов семьи в транспортном средстве выживают: дух отца хранится космической сущностью Титана Кронос и получает новую форму как Дракс Разрушитель, а дочь найден отцом Таноса, Наставником, и воспитан, чтобы стать героиней Лунный Дракон. Танос в конце концов находит Куб, а также привлекает внимание Госпожи Смерть. Желая Куба сделать его всемогущим, Танос затем сбрасывает Куб. Он заключает в тюрьму Кроноса и насмехается Кри героем капитаном Марвелом, который с помощью команды супергероев Мстителей и ИСААК (суперкомпьютер на основе Титана), в конечном итоге может победить Таноса, уничтожив Куб.

Танос позже приходит на помощь Адаму Уорлоку в войне против Мага и его религиозной империи. Во время этого процесса он принимает Гамору, чтобы использовать ее в качестве своего убийцы и убить Адама Варлока, прежде чем стать Магом. Во время этого альянса Танос вырабатывает план воссоединения с Госпожой Смерть и тайно откачивает энергию Камня Души Чернокнижника, объединяя их с силой других Камней Бесконечности, чтобы создать оружие, способное уничтожить звезду. Чернокнижник вызывает Мстителей и Капитана Марвела, чтобы остановить Таноса, хотя план проваливается, когда Танос убивает Варлока. Титан объединяется и захватывает героев, которых освобождают Человек-паук и Существо. Таноса, наконец, останавливает Варлок, чей дух выходит из Камня души и обращает Титана в камень. Дух Таноса в конце концов появляется снова, чтобы сопровождать душу умирающего капитана Марвела в царство Смерти.

Сага о Бесконечности

Танос в конце концов воскресает и снова собирает самоцветы Бесконечности. Он использует драгоценные камни, чтобы создать Перчатку Бесконечности, сделав себя всемогущим, и стирает половину живых существ во вселенной, чтобы доказать свою любовь к Смерти. Этот акт и несколько других вскоре отменены Небулой и Адамом Варлоком. Чернокнижник показывает, что Танос всегда позволял себе проигрывать, потому что Титан втайне знает, что он не достоин высшей силы. Танос присоединяется к Чернокнижнику как часть Дозора Бесконечности и помогает ему победить сначала его злых, а затем добрых персонажей и вылечить Тора от «Безумие воина».

Другие приключения

Позже Танос набирает команду связанных с Землей суперзлодеев и ставит их под командование Геатара в миссии на захватить древнего робота, содержащего малоизвестные знания универсальной библиотеки, и извлечь из него данные. Танос использует информацию от робота для заговора и битвы против Тирана, первого творения Галактуса, превратившегося в разрушитель. Оказавшись в ловушке в альтернативном измерении, Танос использует помощь брата Ка-Зара, Parnival Plunder и позже Халка, чтобы сбежать, хотя обе попытки были неудачный. В конце концов Танос освобождается и вступает в конфликт с Тором, присоединяясь к Мангогу в плане получения могущественных мистических и космических талисманов, которые позволят ему уничтожить все живое во вселенной, и во время их сражений Танос уничтожает планета Ригель-3.

Затем Танос использует героев Тора и Генис-Велла (сына капитана Марвела) против бога смерти Уокера, который пытается добиться расположения Госпожи Смерти, а затем уничтожает сущность после отклонено. Затем Танос разрабатывает план, как стать Всеотцом нового пантеона богов, созданного им самим. Таносу, однако, противостоят бывший член Мстителей Мантис и ее сын Куой, которому, по-видимому, суждено стать Небесным Мессией. Танос отказывается от этого плана после того, как ему пришлось объединиться с Госпожой Смерть, чтобы уничтожить «Гниль», космическую аберрацию в глубоком космосе, вызванную непрекращающейся любовью Таноса к Смерти. Танос также когда-то проводил обширные исследования в области генетики, изучая многих героев и злодеев вселенной до клонирования их, и встроил свою ДНК в субъектов. Хотя позже он отказывается от проекта, пять клонов выживают, будучи версиями Профессора X, Железного человека, Гладиатора, Доктора Стрэнджа и Галактуса соответственно. Также появляется шестая и безымянная версия Таноса, и выясняется, что воплощения Таноса, с которыми в прошлом встречались Тор и Ка-Зар, на самом деле были клонами. Настоящий Танос — с помощью Адама Варлока, Гаморы, Тролля Пипа, Человека-паука, Капитана Марвела и доктора Стрэнджа — уничтожает оставшихся клонов.

Когда древнеегипетский фараон Эхнатон использует источник космической силы, Сердце Вселенной, чтобы захватить власть на современной Земле (убивая при этом большинство земных героев), Танос использует уловку путешествия во времени, чтобы победить его.. Затем Танос использует Сердце Вселенной, чтобы обратить вспять действия Эхнатона, а также был вынужден исправить изъян во вселенной, за что Госпожа Смерть целует его и впервые разговаривает с ним. Измененный опытом, Танос советует своему доверенному лицу Адаму Варлоку, что он больше не будет стремиться к универсальному завоеванию.

Танос решает искупить разрушение Ригеля-3 и соглашается помочь колонии ригеллианцев в эвакуации их планеты перед Галактусом. может поглотить его. В ходе этой миссии Танос узнает, что Галактус собирает самоцветы бесконечности, чтобы положить конец своему непреодолимому голоду. Позже Танос узнает, что Галактусом манипулируют, чтобы он выпустил мультивселенную угрозу под названием Голод, которая питает целые вселенные. Несмотря на сопротивление Таноса, Галактус невольно освобождает существо, и когда его намерения раскрываются, пара объединяется и пытается уничтожить его.

По пути к Килну, межгалактической тюрьме, Танос встречает Смерть впервые после воссоздания существования с Сердцем Вселенной. Смерть утверждает, что стоит ухаживания, но говорит, что Танос должен предложить что-то кроме смерти. В Килне Танос встречает Питера Куилла, который отказался от роли Звездного Лорда, и Стронтианского воина Гладиатора из Империи Ши’ар, которые оба являются заключенными, а также Потусторонний, у которого амнезия заставила его принять гуманоид женский облик. Танос сражается с Потусторонним, заставляя его разум отключиться и оставляя его силу в ловушке в коматозной физической форме. Затем Танос инструктирует офицеров Килна держать Потустороннего на системе жизнеобеспечения на неопределенный срок, чтобы предотвратить возрождение сущности. Разрушение освобождает Таноса и его сокамерников, и он оказывается в сопровождении клеща хаоса Скрита в его планах покинуть останки тюрьмы. Однако он обнаруживает, что разрушения, вызванные битвой с Потусторонним, освободили последнего заключенного, которого привел Питер Квилл, прежде чем он отказался от титула Звездного Лорда: Падший, который оказался истинный первый Вестник Галактуса, которого держали в контейнере глубоко в Килне. Танос побеждает бывшего Вестника и ставит его под полный умственный контроль. Позже он появляется в Висконсине, пытаясь зарядить оружие, называемое Пираматрикой, жизненной силой каждого человека на Земле, пока его не победит Девушка-белка. После битвы Уату Наблюдатель появляется и подтверждает Девушке-белке, что она победила настоящего Таноса, а не клона или копии.

Аннигиляция

Во время Война уничтожения Танос вступает в союз с злодеем-геноцидом Аннигилусом. Когда Волна Аннигиляции уничтожает Килн, Танос отправляет Падших проверить статус Потустороннего, чья смертная форма, которую он находит, погибла. Прежде чем Падший успевает доложить Таносу, он встречает Тенеброуса и Эгиду : двух из древних врагов Галактуса. Танос убеждает Тенебруса и Эгиду присоединиться к Волне Уничтожения, чтобы отомстить Галактусу, и впоследствии они побеждают Пожирателя Миров и Серебряного Серфера. Аннигилус желает тайны Космической Силы и просит Таноса изучить Галактуса. Как только Танос узнает, что истинная цель Аннигилуса — использовать Power Cosmic, чтобы уничтожить все живое и остаться единственным выжившим, он решает освободить Галактуса. Дракс Разрушитель убивает Таноса, прежде чем он успевает это сделать, но обнаруживает, что Танос установил отказоустойчивое устройство, позволяющее Серебряному Серферу освободить Галактуса в случае, если Аннигилус предаст его. Во время решающей битвы с Аннигилусом Нова близка к смерти и видит Таноса, стоящего с Госпожой Смерть.

Императив Таноса

Кокон, защищенный Вселенской Церковью. Истины выясняется, что он скрывает Таноса, который был выбран Oblivion в качестве нового Аватара Смерти. Воскреснув до того, как его разум был полностью сформирован, Танос впадает в бессмысленное буйство, прежде чем его схватили Стражи Галактики. Танос делает вид, что помогает Стражам против вторжения Рака, и после обнаружения его происхождения убивает альтернативную версию Мар-Велла, самопровозглашенного Аватара Жизни. Это приводит к краху Рака, и Нова жертвует собой, пытаясь удержать Таноса внутри разрушающейся реальности. Танос сбегает и возвращается на Землю в поисках искусственного космического куба. Он формирует воплощение преступной группы Зодиак, чтобы вернуть его, но он терпит поражение от Мстителей и Стражей Галактики и помещен под стражу Старейшинами Вселенной.

Бесконечность.

Танос вскоре снова вторгается на Землю, узнав, что большинство Мстителей временно покинули планету. Он начинает нападение на Аттилан, которое он предлагает пощадить в обмен на смерть всех нелюдей в возрасте от 16 до 22 лет. Чёрный гром позже сообщает Иллюминаты утверждают, что истинная цель вторжения — найти и убить Тана, гибрида Вечного / Нечеловеческого, которого Танос тайно породил несколько лет назад. Танос попадает в ловушку своего сына в подвешенном состоянии стазиса. Нэмор освободил Таноса и был среди злодеев, которые присоединились к его Кабалу, чтобы уничтожить другие миры. Позже Танос встречает свой конец в Мире битв, где его легко убивает Божественный Император Рок во время попытки восстания.

Конфликт Бесконечности

Расследование временная аномалия на Титане, Танос находит Пипа Тролля и старшего Эроса, пришедшего из будущего. Эрос рассказывает ему о противнике, разоблаченном тьмой, который в будущем уничтожит Таноса. Эрос и Танос разрабатывают план, но когда они приступают к его реализации, Танос сталкивается с его будущим «я», которое говорит ему изменить план, чтобы обеспечить его безопасность. Затем будущий Танос берет под свой контроль тело Таноса прошлого.

Под контролем своего будущего я Танос начал поиски в древних храмах и местах, чтобы найти что-то, что позволило бы ему в конечном итоге стать таким, как его будущее. Во время своего путешествия он также был вынужден убить Адама Варлока, который мог помешать его плану на будущее. После того, как он не смог найти Эроса, его будущее я сказал Таносу, что Эрос был чрезвычайно важен для его космического мастерства. Затем, обнаружив движущуюся комету, Танос направляется к комете, которая содержит сокровище более мощное, чем самоцветы бесконечности. Несмотря на то, что скорость кометы была достаточной, чтобы немедленно испарить любое существо, Танос смог получить ее, поскольку он «существовал за пределами нормы». С помощью этого артефакта Танос смог поглотить каждое космическое существо, существующее в его вселенной, в конечном итоге столкнувшись с Вечностью и Бесконечностью. Несмотря на все их усилия, Танос побеждает их и поглощает двух существ. Затем он сливается со своим будущим я, наконец, принимая битву за Живой Трибунал и Один Выше всего.

Перед лицомЕдиного Выше всего и Живого Трибунала будущее «Я» Таноса продолжало поглощать оба они стали единой частью Мультивселенной. Когда мультивселенная начало умирать, в то время как его будущее я искало Эроса, настоящий Танос был заперт в его будущей психике и не мог вмешиваться. В отчаянной попытке предотвратить все это, Эрос отправляется в разные моменты Таноса и говорит ему, что он не одинок и его любят. Тем не менее, все это напрасно, поскольку Таносу просто было все равно, но эти временные парадоксы позволили нынешнему Таносу использовать этот доступ к своей будущей силе, чтобы поговорить с Эросом через свое прошлое. Он направляет Эроса и Пипа к своей будущей психике и заставляет Эроса освободить его, но, к сожалению, это позволяет будущему Таносу наконец найти Эроса и погрузить его в свою вселенную. Затем пришел Адам Уорлок, который освобождает Таноса, потому что он используется Эросом. В котором есть возможность покончить жизнь самоубийством и «освободить» всех от этой «пытки», его будущее я видел, что существование было просто нескончаемым циклом. К счастью, Канг помешал Эросу поговорить с прошлым Таносом, что позволяет ему избежать захвата. Это заставило будущего Таноса отвлечься, что нынешнего Таносу взять под контроль и перезагрузить все до своих будущих махинаций, стирая при этом свое будущее.

Ultimates и Civil War II

Танос — это непреднамеренно возвращен во вселенную Галактусом. Когда Танос готовится совершить набег на объект Проекта Пегас, чтобы украсть Космический Куб, он попадает в засаду и побежден командой Мстителей. Во время битвы он смертельно ранил Боевую машину и тяжело ранил Женщину-Халк. После своего поражения он заключен в Трискелион и манипулирует Анти-Человеком, чтобы облегчить его побег. Танос продолжает убивать, но Черная Пантера, Голубое чудо и Моника Рэмбо могут остановить его, разработав устройство, которое блокирует электрические синапсы в его

Танос возвращается

Танос каким-то образом позже восстанавливается и сбегает из плена, а также отбирает свои силы Черного Ордена у Корвуса Глефы. Вернув себе командование своим форпостом в Черном квадранте, Танос обнаруживает, что умирает. Танос пытается заставить Ментора найти лекарство от своей болезни, но убивает его, когда тот не может. Вскоре после того, как Танос будет избит и задержан Ши’аром Имперской Гвардией после того, как он вторгся на станцию ​​на самой планете объекта его отца, расположенного на их территории. Быстрый прыжок в будущее показывает, что отчужденный сын Таноса Тейн победил своего безумного отца, олицетворяя смерть на его стороне.

В настоящее время запертый в космическом Алькатрасе с максимальной безопасностью, Танос сидит в одиночестве в камере, пока его болезнь разрушает его тело. Все это время над ним издевались тюремный надзиратель, которого он заманил ложным чувством безопасности, чтобы сбежать; оторвал ему руку для побега и убил половину своего личного состава в стремлении к свободе. Едва избежав своего заточения до его самоуничтожения, Танос отступает к скрытому форпосту, где когда-то размещалась бродячая колония наемников, верная только ему. Только чтобы найти его уничтоженным новой рукой возлюбленной Госпожи Смерть; который показывает, что она поразила своего бывшего аватара его смертельной болезнью, будучи его сыном Таном, теперь обладающей силой Силы Феникса. Который под ее уговорами изгнал безумного титана обратно на уничтоженную Луну Титана, теперь полностью лишенный его божественных сил.

В течение следующих нескольких месяцев Танос будет выжить один и почти бессильный в руинах своей родной город. Выживший из плоти мутировавших паразитов и нападавших на него местных падальщиков, которые охотились на него в его ослабленном состоянии, он вскоре был подхвачен маловероятной командой преданных когорт Тейна Трико Слаттерусом, его приемной дочерью Небулой и его братом Эросом с Титана. Услышав об их тяжелом положении, трое были встревожены, обнаружив, что Танос лишился всего, чем он был и кем когда-либо был; его вторая дочь только согласилась пойти с ней, чтобы убить своего отца, немедленно напала на него.

Старфокс смог предотвратить ее попытку отцеубийства, пригласив своего своенравного тирана брата на борт своего судна. Танос сообщил, что единственный способ избавиться от его смертности — это поиски Каменоломни, о котором объявили Ведьмы Бесконечности. Первоначально Starfox списал это на басню и фольклор. Теперь на пути к космическому ковену, расположенному на краю известной вселенной, Танос и останавливаются у черной дыры. Безумный Титан прыгает в дыру в небытии вместе со своим братом, который не доверяет своему кровожадному брату предполагаемую бесконечную мощь этого коллектива; Переживительную силу сингулярности, в которой они нырнули, Танос и Эрос встречают Ковен на божественном кладбище.

Танос требует, чтобы трое, которые были одним, вернули ему его божественность. Старфокс изо всех сил старается очаровать чародейку только для того, чтобы они упрекали ее, к большой радости Таноса, когда они преждевременно состарили его. Что не им было места ни уничтожать, ни отвергать тех, кто их ищет, ведьмы заявляют, что единственный способ для военачальника снова стать здоровым — это спуститься в Карьер богов и ждать испытания, которое проверит его душу. Сразу после того, как Танос ступил на кладбище старых богов, он попадает в скалу, в которой они покоятся.

Когда началось его путешествие по ядру, испытание Таноса началось с него как лидера земли и величайших вселенных чемпионы, Мстители. Но он не может избавиться от мучительного ощущения, что-то забыл, пока сама добыча в облике Сокола не напомнит ему о том, кем он был раньше; соблазняя его впервые в его бессмертной жизни стать героем и мирным человеком. Но Таносакально смеется, он всегда холодно упрекает такой путь, без того, чтобы убивать своих друзей и союзников, решая остаться, кем он всегда был. Его космическая мощь вернулась к нему, когда он обратился к своему брату Эросу и угрожает ковену освободить его из их владений, чтобы он мог покончить с Тейном раз и навсегда.

Недостойный Тор

Примерно во время появления Нового Тора к Таносу приближается таинственная женщина в капюшоне, которая предлагает союз. Он поручает ей принести ему молот умершего Абсолютного Тора. Женщина терпит неудачу, но сбрасывает маскировку, чтобы показать себя Хелой, норвежской богиней смерти. Она говорит Таносу, что ей нужна его помощь, чтобы вернуть Хель, и взамен предлагает дать ему то, что он искал всю свою жизнь: смерть. После этого двое целуются.

Победа Таноса

Через некоторое время после битвы с Тейном Танос отправляется на родную планету Читаури. После покорения планеты он подвергается нападению, идентифицированного как Всадник, который захватывает Таноса и использует кусок сломанного Камня Времени, чтобы перенести Таноса на миллионы лет в будущее, где он встречает пожилую версию себя, которая уничтожил почти все живое во Вселенной. Сначала Танос считает, что это какая-то уловка, но когда будущий Танос произносит имя Диона, которое мать Таноса планировала назвать его, прежде чем она сошла с ума. Король Танос показывает, что ему нужна помощь своего молодого, чтобы победить Падшего, последнего из оставшихся во Вселенной, чтобы он наконец мог воссоединиться со Смертью. Вскоре прибывает Падший, который оказываетсяненным Серебряным Серфером, вооруженными ордами Аннигилуса и Мьёльнир покойного Тора, использует который последний, чтобы быстро убить Всадника. Серфера отвлекает дикий Халк, которого Танос сковал цепью в своем подвале, позволяяя двум Таносам его убить, используя Сумеречный меч Суртура. После смерти Серфера Смерть приходит, и Танос понимает будущее истинную причину, по которой король Танос привел его в: чтобы король Танос мог наконец умереть, что если он должен умереть, это может произойти только в руки самого себя. Паулу Танос более чем счастливоначальник просьбу своего будущего коллеги, но быстро останавливается, разочарованный тем, насколько жалким и покорным стало его старшее я. Решив никогда не становиться таким жалким и самодовольным, каким стал король Танос, Танос использует фрагмент Камня Времени и Космическую Силу, оставшуюся в трупе Серфера, чтобы вернуться в наши дни. Когда будущее начинает рушиться вокруг него, король Танос понимает, что его более молодое я предприняло шаги, необходимые для того, чтобы эта временная линия никогда не имела места. Когда он исчезает в ничто, король Танос спрашивает Смерть, что сделал его младший я, на что она просто отвечает: «Он победил».

Войны Бесконечности

Во время «Войн Бесконечности «Сюжетная линия, Танос позже обнаруживает, что Камни Бесконечности собираются снова, и начинает заговор, чтобы собрать свою перчатку. Однако на него нападает Реквием, которого он, по-видимому, узнает, и быстро убивает. Затем она уничтожает Перчатку Бесконечности и приказывает умереть читаури, верным Таносу.

Силы и способности

Танос — мутант из расы сверхлюдей, известной как Титанианец Вечные. Персонаж обладает способностями, общими для Вечных, но усиленными в большей степени за счет комбинации его мутантного Вечного наследия, бионического усиления, мистики и силы, дарованной абстрактной сущностью, Смертью. Демонстрируя огромную сверхчеловеческую силу, скорость, выносливость, бессмертие и неуязвимость среди других качеств, Танос может поглощать и излучать огромное количество космической энергии, а также способен к телекинезу и телепатии. Он может манипулировать материей и жить бесконечно без пищи, воздуха и воды, не может умереть от старости, невосприимчив ко всем земным болезням и обладает высокой устойчивостью к психическим атакам. Танос также является опытным рукопашным бойцом, обученным искусству войны на Титане.

Танос показал себя способным ненадолго выстоять в битве против Одина, и сбить Галактуса с ног.

Танос — супергений практически во всех известных областях передовой науки и создал технологию, намного превосходящую то, что есть на современной Земле. Он часто использует транспортное кресло, способное совершать космические полеты, силовое поле проекцию, телепортацию, путешествие во времени и движение через альтернативные вселенные. Танос также является опытным стратегом и использует несколько космических кораблей, по крайней мере, три под названием «Святилище», как базу для операций.

Другие версии

• В книгах Amalgam Comics 1996 года, опубликованных совместно DC Comics и Marvel, Танос объединился с Дарксайд, чтобы стать » Таносид ».
• В альтернативной вселенной ограниченной серии Земля X Танос обитал в Царстве Мертвых вместе с сущностью Смерть. Выясняется, что его мать была Скруллом, и Смерть использовала ее секрет, чтобы заставить его поверить, что Смерть была его матерью. Когда обман раскрывается, он использует Ultimate Nullifier при смерти.
• В Ultimate Marvel отпечаток title Ultimate Fantastic Four представлена ​​альтернативная вселенная версия Таноса, который является правителем Ахерона (и имеет сына по имени Ронан Обвинитель, который владеет Космическим Кубом ), огромной империи, состоящей из тысяч миров на другой план существования.
• Танос фигурирует в ограниченной серии Marvel Zombies 2, действие которой происходит в альтернативной вселенной Земля-2149. Будучи «зомбифицированным» и завербованным в галактические галактики, обладающие космической энергией, персонаж погибает от столкновения с космической силой Халком после ссоры из-за еды.
• В конце Venomverse, Танос, который был поглощен Ядами и был их первым командиром вместе с Ядовитым Доктором Думом, столкнулся с Думом после поражения Дума от Армии Яда. После этого он и Дум попытались вторгнуться на Землю-616, но после смерти Ядовитой Королевы большинство Ядов, включая Таноса и Доктора Дума, были уничтожены.

В других СМИ

Телевидение

• Танос был фигурирует в мультсериале Silver Surfer, озвученном Гэри Кроуфордом. В соответствии со стандартами вещания Fox, Танос изображен как поклонник Леди Хаос.
• Танос появляется на The Super Hero Squad Show, озвучивает Стивен Блюм в своем первом появлении, и Джим Каммингс во всех первых изображениях.
• Танос появляется в Avengers Assemble и Анимационные шоу Стражи Галактики, озвученные Исааком С. Синглтоном младшим
• Танос появляется в Lego Marvel Super Heroes — Стражи Галактики: Угроза Таноса, снова озвучивает Исаак С. Синглтон-младший. Он отправляет Ронана Обвинителя и Небулу, чтобы они нашли Строительный камень, чтобы он мог использовать его для создания оружия, которое поможет ему уничтожить Землю.
• Танос появляется в Lego Marvel Super Heroes — Черная пантера: Проблемы в Ваканде, снова озвучивает Исаак С. Синглтон-младший. После избиения Мстителями Танос сотрудничает с Эриком Киллмонгером и Улисс Клауэ стать совершит набег на Ваканду за его Вибраниум, чтобы он мог сильнее.
• Версия Таноса из MCU появится в грядущем Disney + мультсериал, Что, если…?, с Джошем Бролином репри петь роль.

Фильм

Танос появляется в различных фильмах Кинематографическая вселенная Marvel.

• Танос появляется в финальных титрах фильма Мстители как таинственный благодетель Локи, которого изображает Дамион Пуатье (указан как Человек №1). Для его появлений он изображается Джошем Бролином с помощью захвата движения.
• Танос появляется в титрах не указан в Стражах Галактики, где он представлен как приемный отец Гаморы и Небула.
• Танос появляется в эпизодической роли во время титров фильма Мстители: Эра Альтрона, надевая Перчатку Бесконечности, чтобы получить Камни бесконечности сам.
• В Мстители: Война бесконечности Танос начинает свой крестовый поход, чтобы собрать все шесть Камней бесконечности и восстановить равновесие во вселенной.
• В Мстители: Финал, через три недели после уничтожения половины всего живого, Танос попадает в засаду и убит выжившими Мстителями на своем ферме. Позже в фильме прошлая версия Таноса путешествует во времени и пытается помешать Мстителям повернуть вспять его будущие действия.

Видеоигры

• Танос появился в качестве игрового персонажа в Capcom файтингах. Marvel Super Heroes и Marvel vs. Capcom 2, озвучивает Эндрю Джексон.
• Танос появляется как последний босс в Marvel Super Heroes In War от Capcom. Драгоценные камни.
• Танос появляется как персонаж DLC в Lego Marvel Super Heroes.
• Танос появляется как игровой персонаж Lego Marvel’s Avengers, озвученный Исааком С. Синглтоном. Младший
• Танос появляется как играбельный персонаж в Marvel Future Fight.
• Танос появляется как игровой персонаж в Marvel: Contest of Champions.
• Три воплощения Таноса появляются как игровые персонажи в мобильной игре « три в ряд »Marvel Puzzle Quest. Первые два, основанные на комиксах («Модерн» и «Безумный Титан») были добавлены в игру в декабре 2016 года, третий, вдохновленный воплощением MCU («Финал»), был добавлен в апреле 2019 года.
• Танос появляется в Стражах Галактики: Серия Telltale, озвучивает Джейк Харт. Он ищет древний артефакт под названием Кузница Вечности, но его убивают в битве Стражи Галактики.
• . Танос появляется как игровой персонаж в Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, снова озвученный Исаак С. Синглтон-младший. Его захватывает Ультрон Сигма, пока его не спасут оставшиеся герои, и он не поможет им разработать план борьбы с Альтроном Сигмой.
• Воплощение Таноса в MCU появилось в Fortnite Battle Royale в рамках спонсируемых событий Marvel Avengers: Infinity War и Avengers: Endgame, озвученных архивными кадрами Джоша Бролина.
• Воплощение Таноса в MCU появляется в Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.
• Воплощение Таноса в MCU появляется как босс в дополнении Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity War, озвученном Кайл Хеберт.
• Танос появляется в Marvel Powers United VR, озвучивает Исаак С. Синглтон младший
• Танос появляется в Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, озвучивает Исаак. К. Синглтон младший
• Танос появляется как игровой персонаж в Marvel Strike Force.

Романы

• Танос появляется в романе 2017 года «Танос: Смертный приговор» Стюарта Мура. Книга следует за последним шансом Таноса завоевать любовь Смерти после его поражения в конце The Infinity Gauntlet.
• Танос появляется в романе 2018 года Танос: Поглощенный Титан, автор Барри Лига.

Собрание изд

Некоторые истории с участием Таноса были переизданы в торговых книгах в мягкой обложке и других собраний:

• Жизнь капитана Марвела (собирает Железного человека # 55, Captain Marvel # 25–34, Marvel Feature # 12), 1991, ISBN 0-87135-635-X
• Essential Avengers: Volume 6 (включает Captain Marvel # 33; The Avengers # 125, 135), 576 страниц, февраль 2008 г., ISBN 0-7851-3058-6
• Величайшие битвы Avengers (включает Avengers Annual # 7), 156 страниц, декабрь 1993 г., ISBN 0-87135-981-2
• Мстители против Таноса (собирает Железного Человека № 55, Капитана Марвела № 25–33, Marvel Feature № 12, Сорвиголову № 105–107, Мстители № 125, Чернокнижника № 9-11, 15, Avengers Annual # 7, Marvel Two-In-One Annual # 2, и материалы из Logan’s Run # 6), 472 страницы, март 2013 г., ISBN 0- 7851-6850-8
• Essenti al Marvel Two-in-One: Volume 2 (включает Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 2), 568 страниц, июль 2007 г., ISBN 0-7851-2698-8
• Marvel Masterworks Captain Marvel: Том 3 (собирает Captain Marvel # 22–33, Iron Man # 55), 288 страниц, твердый переплет, апрель 2008 г., ISBN 0-7851-3015-2
• Marvel Masterworks Captain Marvel: Volume 6 (собирает Captain Marvel # 58–62, Marvel Spotlight # 1–4, 8, Marvel Super-Heroes # 3, Графический роман Marvel # 1; Logan’s Run # 63), 296 страниц, твердый переплет, май 2016, ISBN 978-0785199946
• Marvel Masterworks Warlock: Volume 2 (собирает Strange Tales # 178–181; Warlock # 9–15; Avengers Annual # 7; Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 2), твердый переплет, 320 страниц, твердый переплет, июнь 2009 г., ISBN 0- 7851-3511-1
• Смерть капитана Марвела (сборник Captain Marvel # 34, Marvel Spotlight # 1-2, Marvel Graphic Novel # 1), 128 страниц, твердый переплет, июнь 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4627-X
• Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos (собирает Silver Surfer # 34-38 и Yule Memory из Marvel Holiday Special 1992, авторства Джима Старлина, Рона Лим, Терри Остин), 128 страниц, апрель 1993, ISBN 0-87135-968-5
• Квест Таноса:
  • Том 1 (The Thanos Quest мини-сериал № 1-3, 1990-1991 (осторожно, более поздние тиражи этого издания имеют низкое качество) ISBN 0-87135 -681-3
  • Том 2 (Thanos Quest мини-сериал № 4-6, 1990-1991 годы (осторожно, более поздние издания) этого издания имеют низкое качество) ISBN 0-87135-682-1
• Серебряный Серфер: Возрождение Таноса (собирает Серебряный Серфер # 34–38; Квест Таноса мини-сериал; «Последний цветок!» из Logan’s Run # 6), 224 страницы, апрель 2006 г., ISBN 0-7851-2046-7 (твердый переплет, август 2010 г., ISBN 0-7851-4478-1 )
• The Infinity Gauntlet (собирает ограниченную серию The Infinity Gauntlet), 256 страниц, март 2000 г., ISBN 0-87135-944-8 (декабрь 2004 г., ISBN 0-7851-0892-0 ; июль 2006 г., ISBN 0-7851-2349-0 ; твердый переплет, август 2010 г., ISBN 0-7851-4549-4 )
• Война бесконечности (собирает ограниченную серию Infinity War; Warlock and the Infinity Watch # 7–10; Marvel Comics Presents # 108–111), 400 страниц, апрель 2006 г., ISBN 0-7851-2105-6
• Infinity Crusade:
  • Volume 1 (собирает Infinity Crusade # 1–3, Warlock Chronicles # 1–3, Warlock and the Infinity Watch # 18–19), 248 pages, декабрь 2008 г., ISBN 0-7851-3127-2
  • Том 2 (собирает Infinity Crusade # 4–6, Warlock Chronicles # 4–5, Warlock and the Infinity Смотрите # 20–22), 248 страниц, февраль 2009 г., ISBN 0-7851-3128-0
• Тор: Кровь и Гром (собирает Thor # 468–471, Silver Surfer # 86–88, Warlock Chronicles # 6–8, Warlock and the Infinity Смотрите # 23-25), 336 страниц, июль 2011, ISBN 978-0-7851-5094-7
• DC против Marvel Comics (собирает DC vs. Мини-сериал Marvel, Doctor Strangefate # 1), 163 страницы, сентябрь 1996 г., ISBN 1-56389-294-4
• Ка-Зар от Марк Вайд и Энди Куберт :
  • Том 1 (собирает Ka-Zar № 1–7, Tales of the Marvel Universe № 1), 208 страниц, январь 2011 г., ISBN 978-0-7851-4353-6
  • Том 2 (собирает Ka-Zar # 8–14, Annual ’97), 216 страниц, март 2011 г., ISBN 978-0-7851-5992-6
• Дэдпул Классика: Том 5 (собирает Дэдпул № 26–33, Первый Дэдпул ребенка, Команда Дэдпула № 1), 272 страницы, июнь 2011, ISBN 978-0-7851-5519-5
• Могучий Тор от Дэна Юргенса и Джона Ромита-младшего : Том 4 (собирает Тор т. 2, # 18–25, Annual 2000), 256 страниц, ноябрь 2010 г., ISBN 978-0-7851-4927-9
• Infinity Abyss (собирает ограниченную серию Infinity Abyss), 176 страниц, 2003 г., ISBN 0-7851-0985-4
• Thanos: The End (собирает ограниченную серию Marvel: The End ), 160 страниц, май 2004 г., ISBN 0-7851-1116-6
• Танос: Искупление (собирает Танос №1–12), 304 страницы, ноябрь 2013 г., ISBN 0-7851-8506-2
  • Epiphany (собирает Thanos Vol. 1 # 1–6), 144 страницы, июнь 2004 г., ISBN 0-7851-1355-X
  • Samaritan (собирает Thanos Vol. 1 # 7–12), 144 страницы, октябрь 2004 г., ISBN 0-7851-1540- 4
• Annihilation :
  • Volume 1 (собирает мини-сериал Drax the Destroyer, Annihilation: Prologue one-shot, Annihilation: Nova miniseries), 256 страниц, октябрь 2007, ISBN 0 -7851-2901-4 (твердый переплет, март 2007 г., ISBN 0-7851-2511-6 )
  • Том 2 (собирает мини-сериал «Аннигиляция: Ронан», «Аннигиляция: серебро»). Surfer minise ries, Annihilation: Super-Skrull miniseries), 320 страниц, ноябрь 2007 г., ISBN 0-7851-2902-2 (твердый переплет, май 2007 г., ISBN 0-7851-2512-4 )
  • Том 3 (сборник: Аннигиляция: файлы Корпуса Новы, одноразовое руководство / справочник, Аннигиляция, мини-сериал, Аннигиляция: Вестники Галактуса), 304 страницы, декабрь 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2903-0 (твердый переплет, июль 2007 г., ISBN 0-7851-2513- 2 )
• Императив Таноса (собирает Императив Таноса № 1–6, Императив Таноса: Зажигание, Императив Таноса: Разрушение, Справочник Таноса), 248 страниц, твердый переплет, февраль 2011 г., ISBN 0-7851-5183-4
• Infinity (собирает Infinity # 1–6, New Avengers vol. 3, № 7–12, Avengers vol 5, № 14–23, Infinity: Against the Tide Infinite Comic № 1–2), 632 страницы, твердый переплет, февраль 2014 г., ISBN 978-0785184225
• Восход Таноса (собирает Восход Таноса № 1–5), 136 страниц, твердый переплет, июль 2014 г., ISBN 978-0785190479
• Танос: Бог вверх Там слушают (собирает Thanos: A God Up There Listening # 1–4 и Thanos Annual # 1), 120 страниц, твердый переплет, декабрь 2014 г., ISBN 978-0785191582
• Танос против Халка (собирает Танос против Халка # 1–4, Чернокнижник (1972) # 12), 112 страниц, июнь 2015, ISBN 978-0785197126
• Танос: Космический Powers (собирает Secret Defenders # 12–14, Cosmic Powers # 1–6), 344 страницы, ноябрь 2015, ISBN 978-0785198178
• Deadpool vs. Thanos (собирает Deadpool vs. Thanos # 1–4), 112 страниц, декабрь 2015 г., ISBN 978-0785198451
• The Infinity Gauntlet: Warzones! (собирает The Infinity Gauntlet # 1–5), 112 страниц, декабрь 2015, ISBN 978-0785198741
• Siege: Battleworld (собирает Siege # 1–4, Uncanny X- Men (2011) # 9–10), 144 страницы, февраль 2016, ISBN 978-0785195498
• Secret Wars (собирает Secret Wars # 1–9 и материалы из Secret Wars # 0 FCBD), 312 страниц, март 2016, ISBN 978-0785198840
• The Infinity Entity (собирает: The Infinity Entity # 1–4, Thanos Annual # 1), 116 страниц, июль 2016 г., ISBN 978-0785194217 ‘
• Танос: откровение бесконечности, Джим Старлин, 2014 г., ISBN 978-0785184706
• Танос: теория относительности бесконечности, Джим Старлин, 2015, ISBN 978-0785193036
• Танос: финал бесконечности, Джим Старлин, 2016, ISBN 978-0785193050
• Возвращение Таноса (собирает Танос Том 2 # 1-5), 136 страниц, Джефф Лемайр, 2017 г. ISBN 978 -1302905576
• Танос Том. 2: The God Quarry (собирает Танос Том 2 # 7-11), Джефф Лемир 2018, ISBN 978-1302905583
• Побеждает Танос (собирает THANOS Vol 2 # 13-18, THANOS ANNUAL 1), Донни Кейтс 2018, ISBN 978-1302905590

Прием

Танос занял 47-е место в IGN ‘ 100 лучших злодеев комиксов всех времен и номер 21 в списке 25 величайших злодеев комиксов Complex.

Форум Reddit / r / ThanosDidNothingWrong, посвященный поделиться теориями и мемами о персонаже, стало вирусным в июле 2018 года, когда было объявлено, что половина подписчиков форума будет заблокирована, что отражает план Таноса по искоренению половины всей жизни во Вселенной. Число подписчиков выросло со 100 000 в июне до более 700 000 9 июля, в результате чего было заблокировано более 350 000 пользователей, что является крупнейшим подобным запретом в истории Reddit.

Май 2019 г. Forbes колонка утверждала, что «Танос не сделал ничего плохого» стал популярным интернет-мемом, и что фильм «Финал» дает некоторые доказательства в пользу этой точки зрения, в частности, когда Капитан Америка говорит: «Я видел стаю китов, когда проходил через мост… Кораблей меньше, вода чище «. Автор отмечает, что, учитывая современный кризис вымирания, вызванный действиями человека, «вы действительно можете утверждать, что Танос не сделал ничего плохого — и в конечном итоге злодей действительно мог спасти мир»

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Викицитатник содержит цитаты, относящиеся к: Таносу

• Таносу на вики-странице вселенной Marvel
• Танос в базе данных комиксов (заархивировано из оригинального )
• Таноса в каталоге Marvel
• Танос на базе данных Marvel, Marvel Comics wiki
• Танос в Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki