Thanos

Thanos was a male Titan and an omnicidal warlord who sought to wipe out half of all life in the universe. Due to the collapse of his homeworld as a result of overpopulation, Thanos believed the universe would eventually be condemned to destruction once all of its resources were inevitably used up by its immense population. In order to prevent this, Thanos set about tracking down the Infinity Stones — six immensely powerful gems, whose combined power would enable him to wipe out half of all life in the universe with a simple snap of his fingers, thus fulfilling his goal. He engaged in a ferocious crusade across the universe, using spies or other agents to assist him in locating the Stones.
==History==
===Early life===
Thanos was born to his father A'Lars on the planet Titan, which was home to a sentient species by the same name, who evolved on their homeworld as a race of powerful, god-like beings.
====Collapse of Titan====
Thanos loved his people unconditionally, and when Titan became threatened by the imminent catastrophic collapse of overpopulation, he desperately sought to save the planet. Coming up with his own solution, Thanos suggested killing half of the population of their planet entirely at random, freeing the rest from starvation. However, his idea was considered too drastic and was dismissed by his people, who exiled him from Titan as a result.
Unfortunately, Thanos' warnings were proven right, as Titan was subsequently devastated over the decades, rendering it nearly uninhabitable. The Titans were reduced to extinction, leaving Thanos as the only survivor. As a result of Titan's fall and the circumstances surrounding it, Thanos felt the cataclysm legitimized his belief that the universe's vast swell of life was depleting its finite resources, and was therefore doomed to destruction.
===Conquest of the universe===
====Infamous conqueror====
In order to save other planets from Titan's fate, Thanos used his uncanny skills to amass resources and became a world-conqueror, moving throughout the universe and destroying half of all life on the planets he conquered due to his ideology of balancing the universe. He did this with the assistance of his trusted and loyal follower known simply as The Other.
Thanos came to be feared by many, earning the reputation of a galactic warlord due to his immense power and gaining control of the deadly armies of the Chitauri, the Sakaarans, and the Outriders. His infamy was so staggering that Thanos came to be considered among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, being in the universe. Thanos' conquest of other worlds eventually enabled him to rule over a large region of space, from which he resided in an asteroid field he named "Sanctuary"; during his many conquests, he resided on his massive command ship, which was large enough to house a great portion of his armies.
Although Thanos rarely encountered many beings who could oppose him, there were some worlds that even he nevertheless remained wary of, such as Krypton, Cybertron, and the Nine Realms ruled by Asgard. He also refrained from attacking planets in the Andromeda galaxy, as unlike the Milky Way and other galaxies he had traveled to, its inhabitants were not secluded to their own regions of space: they were all banded together in a galactic-wide society, and his forces were not numerous enough to wage war against thousands of unified planets. Nevertheless, Thanos remained up to date on events happening in the Andromeda galaxy through the use of spies.
At some point during his centuries of conquest, Thanos also encountered the Yuuzhan Vong, a vicious race that religiously sought after the death and extermination of all life.
====Forming the Black Order====
Recognizing that he could not defeat so many powerful beings by himself, Thanos sought to acquire the aid of other unique and powerful individuals. To accomplish this, he collected orphans from several races that he conquered, each of which had special abilities unique to their species. His oldest children were Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight, and later on he added Sylvia, a Force-sensitive female from the fringes of the Andromeda galaxy. These warriors, all of whom were devoted to Thanos' command as his adopted children, comprised the Black Order. Having received personal training from Thanos himself, the Black Order rapidly gained infamy alongside him as some of the most dangerous individuals in the universe.
===Seeking Power===
====Quest for the Infinity Stones====
Thanos eventually realized that there were far too many lifeforms in the universe for him to balance by himself. Deducing that the Infinity Stones — objects of immense power that held considerable dominance over various aspects of the universe — could solve this issue permanently, Thanos made it his life's goal to locate and gather them, forging several alliances to do so. By the time of the Galactic Empire, Thanos had discovered the location of the Power Stone in the Andromeda galaxy. He enlisted the aid of a Force-sensitive known as the Third Brother to help him acquire it from the caverns beneath the heavily fortified structure that served as the personal residence of the Sith Lord Darth Vader.
==Personality and traits==
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==Powers and abilities==
Thanos was an immensely powerful warlord, feared throughout the Milky Way galaxy as one of the most powerful beings in the universe. As a Titan, Thanos possessed an incalculable level of physical strength rivaling that of even Kryptonians, who were one of the most powerful known species in the entire universe. His physical constitution also gives him high levels of resilience and durability, as he was able to withstand the strain of wielding all six Infinity Stones simultaneously using the Infinity Gauntlet, and also handle them directly without harm. In addition to his strength and durability, Thanos also has seemingly limitless stamina, incredible reflexes and agility, and a powerful regenerative healing factor that allows him to quickly recover from nearly any injury.
Along with his physical traits, Thanos was an extraordinary accomplished warrior with nearly a millennia of combat experience, which was only enhanced by his physical prowess. He was relatively unmatched by others, and under his tutelage all of his adopted children in the Black Order became highly accomplished fighters in their own right. Thanos also possessed a genius-level intellect, even amongst his own kind, and became a master tactician through his centuries of warfare.
==Appearances==
==Sources and copyrights==
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