Thanos (Marvel Comics)

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==Summary==
Thanos was born on Saturn's moon Titan as the son of Eternals A'lars and Sui-San; 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 attempted to kill him, but she was stopped by A'lars. During his school years, Thanos was a pacifist and would only play with his brother Eros and pets. By adolescence, Thanos had become fascinated with nihilism and death, worshiping and eventually falling in love with Mistress Death.
As an adult, Thanos augmented his physical strength and powers through his superior scientific knowledge. 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. 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, and then begins search of more power in order to fulfill his goal of spreading death and destruction through the universe for his love, earning the name feared across the universe, as the Mad Titan.
==Powers and Stats==
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Key: Base | With the Infinity Gauntlet
Name: Thanos, Overmaster, DioneThanos Vol 2 #14
Origin: Marvel Comics
Gender: Male
Age: Thousands of years old at the least
Classification: Titanian Eternal, the Mad Titan
Powers and Abilities:
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Immortality (Types 1 & 6), Regeneration (Mid-Low), Enhanced Senses (Likely detected & caught a rock being thrown at him without looking at it. Identified a Skrull being turned into another alien. Smelled Pip the Troll leaving his Sanctuary), Telepathy, Mind Manipulation (Had a mind war with Moondragon and won. Destroyed Pit the Troll's mind. Mind controlled the Hulk), Perception Manipulation & Madness Manipulation (Via Mind-Sync Time-Warp; Can alter the perception of others, attempting to drive them mad and make their minds his slaves), Possession (Can upload his consciousness into the mind of a living target, overcoming it), Magic, Hacking (Casually jamed Shi'ar's sophisticated interstellar networks), Energy Manipulation & Projection, Could completely stop Mjolnir being thrown at him by unknown means, Forcefield Creation (Has technology that allows him to activate invisible, normal or 3 personal forcefields. On his own able to use a forcefield around himself and on other things to keep them from others), Summoning, TeleportationThe Infinity Revelation: pg. 12Avengers Annual #7: pg. 32, Astral Projection, Petrification (Once petrified a Skrull, killing him), Curse Manipulation (Cursed Deadpool with eternal life), Flight ( on his own), Matter Manipulation (Can dissolve molecules), Death Manipulation (, a universe where death does not exist), Life Manipulation (Drained the life force of a being and bestowed it to another), Healing (Healed a cleric), Portal Creation (Created a portal that allowed him to travel to another point of existence), Stealth Mastery (Demonstrated here. His armor also has a cloaking device), Sealing (Attempted to seal Odin), Paralysis Inducement (Can unleash blasts of paralyzing energy) Annihilation #2: pg. 5-6, Resistance to Reality Warping (Was able to keep hold of himself after he entered the Nexus of Reality), Mind Manipulation, Telepathy (While having the Mind Gem, Moondragon was unable to read his mind), Black Holes (Survived being sucked inside a miniature black hole that collapsed on itself), Hellfire Manipulation (Withstood an explosion of Hellfire from Cosmic Ghost Rider), Matter Manipulation (Is unaffected by Corvus Glaive's Glaive) Thanos #1: pg. 13, Energy Manipulation (The energies Thanos imploy are strange and hard to manipulate) Annihilation #2: pg. 7, Fear Manipulation (Resisted Cloak's fear inducing powers.) & possibly Pressure Points (Shruggs off a pressure strike that would kill most other beings) Warlock and the Infinity #8: pg. 18-19. Formerly Immortality (Type 5)
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All in base to an unfathomably greater extent, Precognition & Cosmic Awareness (Users of the gauntlet see time as a repeating loop; Whereas others experience the present, the users have already lived that before several times, only allowing themselves to make unimportant mistakes. This applies to characters as fast as several abstracts and a casual The Living Tribunal. It's stated that every moment that ever was or will be cascades over the user), Reality Warping, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Age Manipulation (Made the Runner more than a million years old and turned him into a baby), Elemental Manipulation, Biological Manipulation (Blew up two of Death's minions from the inside. Constantly tortured Nebula and Eros by altering their bodies), Explosion Manipulation, BFR (Can trap people inside the Soul gem, can vanish others, etc.), Creation, Life & Death Manipulation (Created life. Eliminated half of the universe), Time Stop (Caused time to come to a standstill, froze Earth's defenders in time), Size Manipulation, Portal Creation (Created a portal between him and an enemy attack to avoid it, could open time portals which would pull opponents to the prehistoric past, etc.), Time Travel, Transmutation (Turned Wolverine's bones into rubber, turned "Thor" into glass, turned Nova into Toy Blocks), Status Effect Inducement (Demonstrated here, here & here), Absorption (Absorbed the combined attack of several cosmic beings), Sealing (Imprisoned the cosmic beings, including Eternity), Multilocation (Can ignore distance itself and appear in multiple places simultaneously), Soul-based Morality Manipulation (Redirected Drax's motivation to kill him towards the Silver Surfer), Power Bestowal (Can give others Immortality and small portions of his power), Cloth Manipulation (The gauntlet attacked Mephisto when he tried to steal it), Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm abstract entities), Resistance to Sealing and BFR (Resisted Cloak's pull into the dark dimension.Infinity Gauntlet Vol 1 5 ), Empathic Manipulation (Rebelled against Mistress Love and Sire Hate's attempt at controlling his emotions), Basic Magic and Hellfire (Unaffected by Mephisto's hellfireInfinity Gauntlet Vol 1 5), Access to all the powers the Infinity Gauntlet has (Only demonstrated using the ones listed earlier)
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Attack Potency: High Universe level (Consistently shown as superior to the likes of Silver Surfer and Thor) | Low Outerverse level (Simultaneously defeated multiple cosmic and abstract entities, including Death, Lord Chaos, Master Order, the Stranger, The One Above All [The Celestial] and Galactus. Later sealed Universal Eternity with the same ease; The usage of the gauntlet's power is limited to the user's imagination, Thanos being far above other users such as Nebula and Adam Warlock, who could overpower all said abstract entities with sheer power), can ignore durability in multiple ways
Speed: Massively FTL+ combat speed and reactions (Scaling from Thor) | Immeasurable (Those armed with the Infinity Gauntlet are swifter than abstract entities), can make himself Omnipresent (Thanos has the ability to become omnipresent in the same manner as Eternity, but doing so makes him lose the Infinity Gauntlet, as it is abandoned alongside his physical body, and should the gauntlet be removed from his body, he will lose said omnipresence and go back to baseInfinity Gauntlet Vol 1 5)
Lifting Strength: Infinite (Superior to the likes of The Hulk and Thor) | Immeasurable
Striking Strength: High Universe level | Low Outerverse level
Durability: High Universe level (Superior to Heralds of Galactus and Thor, and can take attacks from them with little to no issue) | Low Outerverse level
Stamina: Superhuman (Not even blows from the Silver Surfer and Thor could knock him out) | Infinite
Range: Standard Melee Range normally, Tens of Meters to Interplanetary with certain weapons and attacks | Low Outerversal
Standard Equipment: His armor and clothing contain a vast amount of devices that increase his stats as well as give him many different types of weaponry and allow him to draw power from various sources across the universe and other dimensions | The Infinity Gauntlet
*Optional Equipment: His Throne/Chair which can teleport, cross dimensions, cloak him from the senses of cosmic beings, generate force shields, and fly at FTL speeds. Sometimes he has the Reality Gem but rarely uses it.
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (A skilled fighter and master tactician, capable of creating extremely advanced technology in all fields of science, and possesses vast mystical knowledge. Created a time machine. Improved life in the already futuristic planet Rigel-3 in several ways; Such as adding a couple of rungs in the beta-soy' genetic ladder to overcome the genetic problem that was limiting the plant's production, building new safeguards to better ensure their system's security, which he was previously capable of bypassing. He also made their planetary teleportation defense come online in half the time as previously required, sent them designs that would vastly improve the propulsion systems of their star fleet and stated that much of their technology seemed outdated compared to their galactic neighbors, which he could help them with. Mathematically ascertained the existence of the Heart of the Universe and detected where it and his masters were, seeing their security arrangements as rather pathetic) | Nigh-Omniscient (Same, but to a greater extent. The Infinity Stones were stated to grant the user Omniscience. Thanos claimed to know "all there is to know" because of his possession of the Infinity Gems)
Weaknesses: None notable | Needs to have the Infinity Gauntlet/gems to maintain his power. Subconsciously let himself be defeated for not finding himself worthy of his power, however, this did not stop him from accomplishing multiple victories before his downfall
Notes:
*Do not attempt to scale Thanos to characters using the Thanos Returns and Thanos Wins storylines by Donny Cates. Several of the feats performed by Old King Thanos were performed off-panel via unknown means, and several of the on-panel ones would be extreme outliers if used to scale the present-day Thanos.
*Do not attempt to scale Thanos to other mainstream Marvel characters using the storylines The Infinity Siblings, The Infinity Conflict, and The Infinity Ending by Jim Starlin. These stories severely and repeatedly contradict the canon of not only the main Universe 616, but the entire Marvel Multiverse, and seem to be ignored by every other writer and narrative.
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