Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

## Thanos

### **Employees:**

The Other, Chitauri, Leviathans, Outriders, Black Order, Gamora (formerly), Nebula (formerly), Ronan the Accuser (formerly), Korath the Pursuer (formerly)

### **Enemies:**

Ronan the Accuser)
Korath the Pursuer
Eitri
the Dwarves
Heimdall
Sif
Loki Laufeyson
Collector
Thor Odinson
Hulk
Iron Man
Spider-Man
Captain America
Falcon
War Machine
Black Widow
Scarlet Witch
Hawkeye
Vision
Star-Lord
Drax the Destroyer
Mantis
Groot
Rocket Raccoon
Doctor Strange
Bucky Barnes
Black Panther
Hank Pym
Janet van Dyne
Hope van Dyne
Irani Rael
Xandarians
Rhomann Dey
Cassie Lang
Asgardians

## Character Information

### **Interests:**

Power, death, waging wars, destruction, killing, torture, defeating his enemies, balance, the Infinity Stones, Gamora

### Dislike(s):

Superheroes, lying, anyone who tries to stop him, Gamora and Nebula's betrayal, failure, harm to Gamora

### Weapons

Infinity Gauntlet

**Thanos**is the main antagonist of the *Infinity Saga*of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. **Thanos** is the main antagonist of the *Infinity Saga* of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, debuting as the overarching antagonist of both Phases One and Two, before appearing as the main antagonist of Phase Three. He is also a posthumous antagonist in Phase Four.

## Role

* He is the main antagonist of the *Avengers* film series as the overarching antagonist of *The Avengers* and *Avengers: Age of Ultron*, and the main antagonist of *Avengers: Infinity War* and a minor antagonist in *Avengers: Endgame*
	+ His past counterpart appears as the main antagonist of the fourth and final film.
* In the *Guardians of The Galaxy*, he is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Ego) of the first film
* He is a background antagonst in *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2* and Season 5 of *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*, *Ant-Man and the Wasp*.

He is a posthumous antagonist in *Spider-Man: From Home* and Phase 4.

## Background

### Personality

Thanos wished to spare other planets from the fate of his home world, Titan. However, he did it for drastic and evil desires, even killing those who stood in his way. Thanos still would keep his word, as he promised to help Ronan destroy Xandar in exchange for the power stone, promised Loki the Earth in exchange for the Tesseract, and even spared Tony Stark in exchange for Doctor Strange giving him the Time Stone.

Despite his cruel nature, he loved his children unconditionally. He especially felt unconditional love towards Gamora, who was dubbed his favorite daughter and was ridden with guilt in having to kill her. However, he punished them harshly if they failed him. For example, Maw said there would be judgement if he failed Thanos in getting the Time Stone that Doctor Strange protected with his magic. Despite Maw failing, Thanos knew he was dead but knew that he at least tried. He later tore Nebula apart and had any part of her replaced to make her stronger every time she failed against Gamora; however, he did not realize that it just tore her apart, both physically and emotionally.

However, after Thanos saw his future self from 2018 viewing past Nebula's memories and his death, he realized that people would not be able to move on from the Decimation and remember life before it and decided to rip the universe atom by atom and recreate it in his own image. However, he accepted his defeat at the hands of Tony Stark.

## Appearances

### Marvel's *The Avengers*

Thanos gives Loki a scepter that has the mind stone in it, hoping that Loki will take the people of Earth. However, Loki fails to bring him the Tesserect after Loki is taken by Thor to Asgard.

### Guardians of the Galaxy

It is revealed that Thanos is working in the shadows, having Ronan retrieve the Power Stone. Instead of giving it to Thanos, Ronan betrays his former master and decides to go and destroy Xandar.

### Age of Ultron

After the failures of Loki and Ronan the Accuser, Thanos went to a secret vault that held the Infinity Gauntlet and proclaimed that he would find the Infinity Stones himself.

### Avengers: Infinity War

Thanos begins his reign of terror by killing off half of the Asgardians and half of Xandar by stealing the Power Stone and taking the Space Stone from Loki, before killing the God of Mischief after he attempted to betray Thanos again, and letting Thor float through space. He later manipulated reality on Knowhere with the Reality Stone to get Gamora, who he forced to lead him to the Soul Stone, being guarded by the Red Skull. He sacrificed his daughter for the Infinity Stone and battled the heroes on Titan but emerged victorious after Peter Quill lost his temper with Thanos after learning he had killed Gamora.

Later, Thor attempted to kill Thanos with Stormbreaker, his new axe, and to avenge his brother and peoples' deaths. However, Thanos, with a snap of his fingers, wiped off half of the universe, erasing random people.

## Trivia

* Thanos was almost cut from *Guardians of the Galaxy* but Gunn decided to keep him in the final film in order to connect *Guardians of the Galaxy* to *The Avengers* (2012).