Speedy picked up the Cosmic Cube, wrapped Thanos up in grass, and then the police led Thanos away in handcuffs. The big event that inspired Avengers: Infinity War had Thanos trip himself up in his moment of ultimate victory.
Thanos had the full Infinity Gauntlet, which allowed him to mold the universe at his will, all to impress Death. After defeating the surviving superheroes and overpowering the cosmic entities, he went one-on-one with Eternity himself. Thanos won, escaping his physical body to instead become an unbeatable force living in the fabric of the cosmos. Nebula zipped over to snatch it, gaining omnipotence, while Thanos was demoted.
Thanos then joined the heroes against Nebula and afterwards faked his death by getting hit so hard by Thor that he exploded. Sweet plan! The most memorable part of Infinity Gauntlet was the sequence where Thanos powered himself down just enough so that the remaining superheroes had the slightest chance to beat him. They all died horribly, but that was part of the plan. Two What If comics showed what would have happened had he removed the Gauntlet.
One story had the Silver Surfer wield the Infinity Gauntlet with good intentions to make the universe a better place, only to gradually go insane from its power. Doctor Strange brought in Shalla Bal to talk some sense into him, which caused the Surfer to destroy the Gauntlet itself seemingly at the cost of his own life, but instead, he and Shalla snuck off to a paradise planet.
In the other story, Surfer pulled the Gauntlet off Thanos, but fumbled it due to Thanos blasting at him. Surfer lost his hold on it and it was snatched out of the air by the comedic Impossible Man.
The issue was more about Silver Surfer as the main character and while Thanos was depowered, he practically forgotten about within a couple pages. Thanos had some plot based on terraforming the entire universe so that all the plant life would kill everyone else, including Hillbilly Stephen King. In this story, Thanos absolutely towered over Ka-Zar and was able to shrug off all of his attacks.
They fought it out in the middle of a volcano and while Thanos had Ka-Zar in a bearhug, the power of love gave Ka-Zar some crazy Spider-Man-under-a-pile-of-wreckage strength and he both escaped the hold and knocked Thanos into the lava below.
After his loss to Ka-Zar, Thanos was locked up in some kind of energy dimension, unable to escape without help. In the form of a giant, he tried to convince the Hulk to pull him out of that dimension in exchange for power, only for Nate Grey to interfere. Alone, Hulk and X-Man were no match for the colossal Thanos. Thanos teamed up with Mangog to best Thor, power up with a bunch of cosmic artifacts as Thanos is wont to do and bring forth the end of all life in the universe.
Thor was able to take out Mangog in a way most badass, but he was still no match for the amped-up Thanos. Odin summoned Firelord to make the delivery in time. Enhanced and ready for a piece of the Mad Titan, Thor fought Thanos to a standstill at first until destroying one of the empowering artifacts and turning back Thanos to normal.
From there, it was only elementary that Thor would thrash Thanos into a purple mess. Thanos creator Jim Starlin would later retcon this loss, as well as the Ka-Zar incident, as being against mere clones. Thanos talked up some plot about ruling the universe with something called the Pyramatrix. Squirrel Girl ran into action as a way to end her part of the story. Later in the issue, it was shown that she defeated Thanos all on her own with Uatu the Watcher verifying that it was indeed him.
HOW she won was never explained. The first Annihilation was essentially the story that planted the seeds for modern-day Guardians of the Galaxy being a thing. In it, Thanos was more of a henchman to main villain Annihilus, much like how the Grim Reaper is somehow the henchman to Dracula in the Castlevania games. Part of their reign of terror had to do with Galactus being captured and weaponized against his will. Before he could do that, he noticed Death hanging out in the room.
As he realized what was up his time, to be more specific , Thanos suddenly saw his own heart torn out of his chest from behind. Drax the Destroyer was created to kill Thanos and damn it, that was exactly what he was going to do. In the family-friendly world of Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four 16 , Thanos clobbered Captain Mar-Vell so hard in the middle of a space battle that the Kree hero was knocked into Earth.
There, he teamed up with the Fantastic Four to fight Thanos. At first, the heroes used the utility fog to create duplicates of themselves and fight Thanos on The original Marvel Zombies miniseries ended with a handful of heroes-turned-zombies devouring Galactus and absorbing his cosmic abilities.
They moved on to scouring the cosmos to devour both planets and the inhabitants. As of Marvel Zombies 2 , not only did their ranks increase to include various high-ranking space characters like Phoenix, Gladiator, and Thanos, but they also seemingly finished off all the food in the universe. A sequel showed how things would have gone had they existed during Infinity Gauntlet. Wolverine smooth-talked Thanos into smiting Mephisto and making Wolverine his new advisor.
Wolverine, having a better understanding of women than Thanos, talked up how important touch is to a relationship and insisted that Thanos march over to Death and touch her face.
By the time Thanos built up the resolve and reached over, Wolverine chopped his arm off and called him a sucker. Marvel, Dr. Doom, and space trucker US Ace take on Thanos. It was a silly endeavor, but very much worth reading. When the heroes and Doom fought Thanos, they got their asses handed to them as expected. Out of nowhere, US Ace drove his space truck into Thanos. Thanos tried to put the Gauntlet back on, only for Spider-Man to steal it with a web yoink and put it on.
Spider-Man wished that Thanos never found the Infinity Gems and the story reset itself where only Spider-Man and Thanos remembered the incident. The Universal Church of Truth seemed like they were resurrecting Adam Warlock or his evil self Magus, but instead they brought Thanos back from the dead. The Guardians of the Galaxy had to fight what was essentially a purple Hulk with his junk flapping around.
The team revisits history at several points to grab the Infinity Stones before Thanos does, costing the life of Natasha along the way, but ultimately successful in bringing the Stone back.
Professor Hulk uses a new gauntlet, but that victory only lasts momentarily. Unbeknownst to them, Nebula is actually a past version of herself who sneaks along for the ride and is still loyal to Thanos. The Mad Titan himself arrives from the past, thanks to a smuggled vial of Pym particles, and brings his whole army along.
Knowing now that his "snap" is not appreciated by the denizens of the universe, he's decided to simply wipe out the entire universe and build from scratch instead of leaving half the original inhabitants behind.
That doesn't sit well with the Avengers, but they're temporarily incapacitated by Thanos's almost instant destruction of their compound. While Clint flees through the tunnels with the Infinity Gauntlet, Thor, Tony, and Steve head out to face down Thanos, wielding their usual weapons.
They make a valiant effort, but are knocked out one by one. Thor attempts to use his axe, Stormbreaker, but Thanos gains the upper hand. This gives them a second wind, but Thanos again beats them back, leaving Cap alone, with a broken shield, versus Thanos and his entire army. That's when Steve gets an unexpected call through his comm link: "On your left. And by the cavalry, we mean every single hero who was brought back from the snap , plus all of their allies.
Sam, Bucky, and Spider-Man arrive, Pepper joins the fray in her Rescue armor, Wanda brings her magic to the fight, T'Challa, Shuri, and Okoye bring basically all of Wakanda with them, Valkyrie leads the survivors of Asgard , the Guardians of the Galaxy and their cosmic allies arrive, and Doctor Strange brings every sorcerer imaginable. As the battle commences, the most important focus becomes getting the Infinity Stones out of Thanos's reach and back where they belong in time.
While Scott and Hope work to repair the time portal in their van, the rest of the team takes turns keeping the gauntlet safe from Thanos and his army. What follows is the most epic game of hot potato ever put on film: Clint passes the gauntlet to T'Challa, who fights his way out from underneath Thanos's army until Ebony Maw literally pulls the ground out from under him.
And in the process, the Avengers introduce touching wrinkles into Marvel Cinematic History, like a wistful meeting between Thor and his mother, and between Tony Stark and his father Howard. Or, like so many other movies before it, does it become a deus ex machina cop-out? And if they do, should they care? Meanwhile, is its overall story compelling enough to convince more casual fans to just go along with the time travel?
I love this stuff. And yet, as the movie goes on, the details start to unravel a bit. Did he do any superheroic things? Was he living in this reality alongside his unfrozen self, watching and knowing how everything would go down? But you know what? Even Endgame knows this, and throws a bunch of comedic shade at other movies that mess with viewers heads about time travel. It is, in the very best way, just a movie. There is something inherently unnerving about time travel.
What will you find when you travel backward or forward to a place unknown? What if you disrupt the past as you knew it to be and completely alter your present? Yet I am entranced by those who try to answer these questions, which I myself would never dare attempt to solve on my own.
Why not throw Huey Lewis in there, and hoverboards, and a gratuitous musical number, and a weird relationship between our hero and his mom? Maybe not that last one, actually.
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