Thanos

Thanos, referred to as the Dark Lord by his most loyal underlings and the Mad Titan by the galactic community, is a terrifyingly powerful Titan warlord who rules over a distant region of space and commands two massive armies, known as the Chitauri and the Outriders, and a small group of followers known as the Black Order. His own main objective was to bring stability from the universe, as he believed its massive population would inevitably use up the universe's entire resources and condemn it. However, his methodology to succeed was warped; through using the Infinity Stones, Thanos intended to harness their power to exterminate half of life in the universe.

He spent many years hunting down these stones and his desire to achieve his ultimate goal is what led Thanos to forge new alliances with Loki and Ronan the Accuser in their respective campaigns against Earth and Xandar, as seen in his promising to aid them in exchange for an Infinity Stone. Both of the new alliances had cost Thanos much of his resources, including one of the stones and the loyalty of his daughters, Gamora and Nebula, and inadvertently resulted in the formation of the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Fed up with all the failures of his subordinates, Thanos decided to seek out the location of the Infinity Stones himself.

Thanos engaged in a ferocious warpath throughout the universe to obtain all of the Infinity Stones. In his journey, both he and his Black Order invaded Xandar, Earth, and Knowhere and even murdered Loki, along with half of the surviving Asgardians, and even, albeit very reluctantly and remorsefully, his beloved daughter Gamora. The primary aggressors against Thanos became an alliance comprising the Avengers, Masters of the Mystic Arts, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the nation of Wakanda. Despite facing off against a powerfully combined opposition and the wrath of Thor and losing almost all of his army, Thanos eventually triumphed over his enemies once he finally completed the Infinity Gauntlet, using this to finally complete his goal and destroy half of the life within the universe at the snap of his fingers, surviving the War and escaping while some of the heroes who opposed him were left alive but unable to do anything but accept defeat.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Fall of Titan

Thanos was born to Alars and an unnamed woman, a member of the Titans, a race of powerful, god-like beings that evolved on a planet with which they shared their name. Thanos was born misshapen, bearing a physical mutation that left him marked as an anomaly amongst his people and therefore left him an outcast. Despite his status, Thanos unconditionally loved his people and desperately sought to save Titan when the planet became threatened by the imminent catastrophic event of overpopulation. When Thanos suggested killing half the population of the planet to solve the problem, his idea was considered too drastic and was dismissed by his people, which resulted in Titan becoming subsequently devastated as well as nearly uninhabitable. Another result of this devastation was that the Titan species was on the verge of extinction.

### Quest for the Infinity Stones

With the destruction of Titan weighing heavily on his conscience, Thanos became determined to not let other planets suffer it's fate and as he continues to wipe out half of life within the universe to balance the planet said lifeform came from, he would realise that there are too many and eventually came to believe that the universe's large swell of life was depleting its finite resources, and would eventually cause the destruction of the universe itself. Deducing that the Infinity Stones, objects of immense power that held considerable dominance over the various forces that occupied the universe, could solve this issue, Thanos made it his life's goal to gather them, and forged several alliances in order to locate them. He successfully located at least one of the stones; the Mind Stone, which he then hid inside a Scepter that was capable of manipulating minds. He would become among the most powerful and feared warlords in the Galaxy, moving throughout the universe and destroying half of the planets he conquered due to his ideology of balancing the universe by destroying half of all life and even ruling over a distinct region of space and gaining control over the deadly armies of Chitauri and Outriders.

#### Training his Children

Thanos collected orphans from each race that he conquered. When killing half of the Zehoberei people to balance Zen-Whoberi, Thanos's attention was caught by a young Zehoberei named Gamora. Commenting that she had "spunk", Thanos took her aside as his Chitauri army began the massacre, keeping her distracted with a knife. Thanos adopted Gamora as his daughter afterwards, training her to become the deadliest in the galaxy, and growing to genuinely care about her as a result unlike the other children.

He also massacred a Luphomoid family to raise Nebula to be another devoted and deadly assassin. Thanos was the most cruel to Nebula due to her constant losses against Gamora in training, causing Thanos to remove a body part from her, which according to him was to make her stronger than Gamora. Aside from Gamora and Nebula, Thanos took in and trained other children as well, namely Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight. The latter four warriors, more faithful and devoted to Thanos' command than Gamora and Nebula, comprised the Black Order. Thanos also acquired the services of the Other to act as his servant.

#### The Orb

Through many years of searching, Thanos discovered a lead on the Orb's location, sending Nebula and Gamora to the Cloud Tombs of Praxius under Korath's command. Nebula fell victim to a trap during the mission, and Thanos, not one to tolerate failure, forbade Gamora from rescuing her. Nebula was forced to amputate her own arm in order to escape. The Orb was never recovered, but Thanos let the failure pass and resumed his search. He also sent Gamora to find the Soul Stone, but she reported back to him that her search had been unsuccessful, although Thanos was not fooled as he had never taught Gamora to lie and as such she sucks at it but oddly decided to keep this to himself.

#### Chitauri Invasion

Thanos discovered that the Tesseract was on Earth and allied himself with Loki in order to retrieve it, providing him the Scepter and his Chitauri army, who would help him conquer the entire planet in exchange for handing over the Tesseract to him. Through his intermediary, The Other, Thanos threatened the god of mischief, saying that if he failed in delivering the Tesseract to him, Thanos would force him to endure a new kind of horrific suffering.

Despite his vast army of the Chitauri and powerful weapons, Loki was defeated during the Battle of New York, and the Scepter-laden Infinity Stone came into HYDRA's hands, while the Tesseract was transported to Asgard by Thor, along with the now captured Loki. The Other reported to his master how the Earth's inhabitants were not as weak as they were thought to be. He also declared that challenging the Earth's heroes would be to court Death. Thanos rose to his feet and smiled at the prospect of what was coming.

#### Quest for the Orb

Sometime later, Thanos brokered a deal with his old ally, Ronan the Accuser of the Kree Empire, promising to lend a fraction of his forces in a genocide against the Xandarians in exchange for locating the Orb for the Mad Titan. Ronan and Korath the Pursuer quickly discovered the Orb on Morag and attempted to deliver it to Thanos, but the stone fell into the possession of a Ravager called Star-Lord who was trying to sell it to Broker before Ronan could claim it.

Unwilling to be denied the stone, Thanos ordered Ronan to pursue Quill and recover the stone, sending Gamora to aid the Kree in his pursuit. Gamora found Quill first, cornering him on Xandar where he was attempting to sell the Orb. She recovered it but Gamora had chosen to cut all ties with him, due to the torture she and her many siblings have suffered through from the Mad Titan and planned to hand the Orb over to the Collector, who also sought the Infinity Stones for his own purposes, something that Thanos was aware of but kept to himself.

When Ronan relayed news of Gamora's betrayal to Thanos which he had learned had been planned for some time, the Kree berated the Mad Titan for not taking the situation seriously and even murdered The Other when he lectured Ronan on not showing Thanos respect. Undaunted by The Other's death and Ronan's complaints, Thanos showed his fury for Ronan causing him to lose Gamora, his favored daughter, and failing and while he insists on honoring his end of the deal, should Ronan fail again, Thanos will bathe the starways in his blood. Thanos then instructed Nebula to take Gamora's place as Ronan's aide.

##### Ronan the Accuser's Betrayal

Ronan the Accuser and Nebula both eventually stole the Orb from the Guardians of the Galaxy, but when Thanos was contacted by Ronan to be updated on their progress, he was furious to discover that the Kree, having experienced the true power of the Orb, intended on keeping the Infinity Stone for himself, despite Korath the Pursuer noting Thanos was the most powerful being in the universe. Nebula joined with Ronan, contemptuous towards Thanos after the horror he forced her to endure throughout her youth. Now believing himself superior to Thanos, Ronan promised to come after the Dark Lord when Xandar was destroyed. Unphased, Thanos cut contact with them without a word. Ronan would eventually lose his life at the hands of the Guardians of the Galaxy, who gave the Orb to the Nova Corps, making yet another Infinity Stone lost to Thanos.
Infinity War

#### Doing it Himself

With both Loki and Ronan the Accuser having failed Thanos in their tasks of conquering worlds and bringing him the Infinity Stones, and both of his daughters lost to him, Thanos, fed up with the failures, had finally grown tired of the lack of progress in his crusade and decided to take matters into his own hands. He forced the dwarves of Nidavellir to forge the Infinity Gauntlet in order to control the power of all the six Infinity Stones at once before massacaring them all, leaving only the Dwarf King Eitri alive, whose hands he cut off. Thanos then began to hunt for the Stones himself, believing himself to be capable of completing the task while smiling confidently to himself at the prospect of victory.

#### Acquiring the Power Stone

Sometime before encountering Thor and the Asgardians, Thanos went to Xandar, destroyed the Nova Corps and Empire and retrieved the Orb and destroyed it to unveil the Power Stone and then inserted it into his Gauntlet before massacaring half of the Xandarians as part of his quest to balance the universe.

#### Obtaining the Tesseract

With his ship, the Sanctuary II, Thanos tracked down the ship carrying the Asgardian survivors of the cataclysmic Ragnarök on their way to Earth, Loki and his brother Thor among them. Thanos then massacred half of the Asgardians and badly beat Thor, then tortured him with the Power Stone in order to force Loki to give up the Tesseract. Even though Loki was able to offer a distraction for Hulk to attack, Thanos easily defeated Hulk. After Heimdall gave the Hulk a chance to escape by teleporting him to Earth, Thanos retaliated by executing him with Corvus Glaive's spear, much to Thor's dismay. The mad Titan then ordered The Black Order to retrieve the other stones after crushing the Tesseract and retrieving the Space Stone from it. Loki offered to help, but Thanos, easily seeing through his trickery, foils Loki's attempt to stab him. Thanos then crushed Loki's neck, his punishment for him failing during the Chitauri Invasion and then mocked a distraught Thor by bringing Loki's corpse to the restrained Thor's knees and saying that he will not be resurrected again as he is truly dead. Thanos then destroyed the Statesman with the Power Stone and warped his children and himself out of the exploding ship, leaving Thor and dead Asgardian bodies to float in space.

#### Interrogating the Collector

Thanos then arrived on Knowhere long before the Guardians of the Galaxy could and after killing the Collector and retrieving the Reality Stone, having predicted the arrival of the Guardians, tricked them successfully with a realistic illusion conjured by the Reality Stone that made it look as if he was still torturing the Collector, also pretending to be killed by Gamora. He then reveals himself after revealing that he knows that Gamora still deep down cared for him, and boasts that while reality is often unpleasant, with the Reality Stone, he can make reality to be whatever he wants. Indeed, he effortlessly imcatipates both Drax the Destroyer and Mantis by using the Reality Stone to turn them to pieces and restrains Gamora before she could pick up her Godslayer, breaking the blade at the same time. Thanos is then confronted by Star-Lord, who threatens to kill him if he doesn't let her go, but calmly realizes that Peter is Gamora's boyfriend and when Gamora begged him to kill her to prevent Thanos from discovering the location of the Soul Stone, Thanos then brought her closer to Quill and dared him to do it. However, when Star-Lord hesitatingly shot, Thanos simply used the Reality Stone to turn his ammunition into bubbles and teleports away after praising him for being willing to sacrifice his girlfriend to save the universe.

#### Soul for a Soul

Back on his ship, Thanos gave Gamora food, saying that he believes that she is hungry, but Gamora tosses it to his throne, saying bitterly that she always hated the throne, which Thanos simply retorted to by saying yet he always hoped she would sit on it. Thanos and Gamora then argues on Thanos's destruction of her home, with Thanos remaining calm even as Gamora denies everything that Thanos believes and reminding Gamora that it was due to his training that she became the fiercest woman in the Galaxy and he was so confident in her abillities that he even send her to locate the Soul Stone, which she sarcastically apologized for failing to do.
However, Thanos is unfazed and says that he is disappointed not because she did not find the location but she did and lied. He takes Gamora to reveal that Nebula has been captured and tortures her in front of Gamora. Even though Gamora desperately sought to conceal it, Thanos reveals that he is aware that Gamora had lied to him, going as far as to say that while Thanos turned her into the warrior and assassin she is now, he never taught her to lie and thus she is never a good liar. Giving in, Gamora tells Thanos the stone is on Vormir. Gamora and Thanos travel to Vormir via a portal from the Space Stone where they meet Red Skull, who guided them to the top of a nearby cliff.

The guardian of the Soul Stone explained to Thanos that obtaining the Stone requires the sacrifice of a loved one. Upon hearing this, Gamora mocked Thanos as heartless and uncaring, but Thanos, having truly loved Gamora as his daughter, sheds tears that he would have to kill her. Although Gamora desperately attempts suicide, Thanos used the Reality Stone to turn her knive into bubbles and then threw her off the cliff still in tears. A light bursts out that briefly knocked Thanos out but once he awoke, he found the Soul Stone in his right hand and inserts it into his Infinity Gauntlet.

#### Battle of Titan

After sacrificing Gamora, Thanos arrives on Titan to retrieve the Time Stone from Doctor Strange, only to find the barren ruins of Ebony Maw's Q-Ship. The Power, Space, Reality and Soul Stones gleaming on his Infinity Gauntlet, the warlord was instead greeted by a lone Doctor Strange, sitting on a faraway hill, carrying the Eye of Agamotto. He swiftly deduced that Ebony Maw died upon seeing Strange free and waiting for him but showed no regard for it, only commenting that he accomplished his mission nevertheless and lamenting for Gamora's loss only. Remaining unfazed by Strange's confident threat that he may regret Maw bringing him face-to-face with him due to his mastery of the mystic arts, Thanos simply asked Strange where did he think Maw brought him to and corrected Strange when he calmly guessed Titan as being his home, saying it was. The Titan then told him about the history of his planet while altering the reality around it to show it's former beauty before stopping. He then explains on how he plans to commit painless and randomly fair genocide across the entire universe with the assistance of the Infinity Stones, after which he simply intended to rest.

After that, Iron Man dropped a massive piece of debris on him, which only served to infuriate Thanos, who simply blasted away the rubble and transformed it into an endless swarm of bats and hurled them at Iron Man, forcing him to flee. Spider-Man then used his webbing to blind Thanos, and Drax quickly slashed him with his knives while Doctor Strange conjured a sword made of Eldritch Magic to engage Thanos in close combat, but Thanos swiftly composed himself and quickly overwhelmed them, overtaking Drax through several stones with a single blow and blowing away Doctor Strange upon bringing down his Eldritch Magic shield with a kick. However, Star-Lord maneuvered through Thanos's blasts with aid from Doctor Strange, who conjured platforms for him to jump on and shot him before planting an explosive on Thanos' back, which briefly stunned him. The Cloak of Levitation wrapped itself around the gauntlet and Spider-Man attacked Thanos, but it only served to irritate the titan, who swiftly pinned Peter down and angrily called him an insect before flinging him at Strange, knocking him to the ground. Iron Man caused a massive explosion next to Thanos, who remained once again uninjured and simply activated the Power and Space Stones to absorb and blast the flames back at him. Thanos was once again attacked by Spider-Man but he easily broke out of his web and used it to pull Spider-Man towards him, striking him in the face.

Suddenly, a Necrocraft crashed upon Thanos but he easily survived and was punched by Nebula. Coldly greeting his former adopted daughter, Thanos blatantly dismissed killing her as being a "waste of parts". He then swiftly overpowered her but the group took advantage of the time Nebula bought and managed to barely restrain Thanos. Doctor Strange restricted the gauntlet while Drax, Iron Man and Spider-Man restrained Thanos' arms and legs, allowing Mantis to inflict sleep upon him using her powers. Star-Lord then mocked Thanos and demanded the location of Gamora, visibly causing him to become crest-fallen and react in anguish. Mantis then revealed that Thanos was mourning, which led Nebula to understand in horror and sadness that he had sacrificed her for the Soul Stone. Star-Lord then angrily questioned Thanos to tell her that Nebula was lying and Thanos emotionally said he had to. Infuriated, Star-Lord ruthlessly lashed out and punched Thanos, causing Mantis to lose her control over him. Freed from his trance and now truly furious upon being reminded of how he was forced to kill Gamora, which only served to make him more determined to complete his goal so as not to let her sacrifice be in vain, Thanos brutally attacked the group, taking down the Guardians with a single wild shockwave and then using the gauntlet to pulverize an entire moon, which he then hurled at his opponents in a hail of meteors, taking advantage of Titan's unusually high gravitational pull to make the projectiles much more rapid and faster to force Spider-Man to focus on saving the unconcincious Guardians so he may fight Strange.

Thanos then confronted and ferociously dueled the sorcerer upon cornering him, with Strange launching the first strike with fiery beams. Thanos leaped into the air to avoid them and retaliated with a blast of energy from the Gauntlet. Strange summoned the Mirror Dimension to absorb it and then hurled it back at Thanos. Thanos responded by crushing it with the Power Stone, unable to be trapped inside thanks to the Reality Stone, and then threw the remnants back at Strange in the form of a destructive black hole with the Space Stone, which Strange transmuted into blue butterflies. However, Thanos eventually won when he dispelled the many replicas of Doctor Strange the sorcerer conjured with the Soul and Power Stones and sundered his Astral Form out of his body until he regained control but it stunned him long enough that Thanos was able to pull him to his hand before he can react. Thanos admitted he was impressed by Strange's mastery over Magic but soon realized he has removed the Time Stone and tossed him aside after crushing the Eye of Agamotto.

Before he could look for it and finish Strange, Iron Man, being the final Avenger standing, used a trap to restrain Thanos' gauntlet hand. After a brief conversation in which Thanos revealed that thanks to the Soul Stone, he now knew who Iron Man was and what drives him, which Stark expressed his profound grudge towards him, Thanos was attacked relentlessly by all of Iron Man's advanced technology but remained uninjured and easily fought back, pummeling Iron Man to the ground and forcing him back with a powerful energy blast until he was eventually striked with enough force to bleed. Unfazed, Thanos simply mocked Iron Man for drawing so minimal blood after all his efforts and effortlessly caught Iron Man off-guard and brutally beat him down, badly damaging his armor. He used the gauntlet to deflect Iron Man's repulsor beams before punching off his helmet, breaking off his sword and stabbing him in the gut with it. Thanos admitted his respect for Stark before beginning to use the Stones to execute him. However, Doctor Strange intervened, offering the Time Stone in exchange for Stark's life. Thanos agreed but reminded Strange to not attempt any magic and despite Iron Man's vain attempts to stop Strange, Strange manifested and let the Time Stone float to Thanos, who then inserted the stone into the gauntlet, leaving him with only one more to collect: the Mind Stone. Suddenly, Star-Lord appeared out of nowhere and began shoot at him but Thanos remained completely uninjured and simply left for Earth.

#### Battle of Wakanda

Having obtained the powers of the Time, Space, Reality, Soul and Power Stones, Thanos arrives on Wakanda to retrieve the final Infinity Stone, the Mind Stone. He confronts Captain America, Black Widow, Falcon, War Machine, Bruce wearing Hulkbuster, Black Panther, Okoye and Groot single-handedly without fear and after briefly staring at his enemies, calmly walks towards them as they began their attempt to repel him.

Even with all of his army destroyed, Thanos with the nearly complete Infinity Gauntlet proves to be practically invincible and far too powerful for all of his opposers and he makes short work of them, effortlessly stopping Hulkbuster and imprisoning it in solid stone by making it intangible for a while, effortlessly sending Captain America to the ground, easily catching Black Panther in the neck when he charged at him and negated Black Panther's attempt to use his energy pulse upon choking him before slamming him down to the ground to redirect it, downing two individuals within seconds.

He then calmly sending Falcon to the ground after easily withstanding his bullets, casually crushing and twisting the guns of War Machine's armor and pinning him with large debris to interfere with his flight before simply flinging him away, knocking down Winter Soldier soon after with a single shockwave of energy, stopping Okoye's spear and easily downing her to the ground, trapping Black Widow with large concrete walls and then easily breaking out of Groot's vines and incatipating him as well.

As he approaches Vision and Scarlet Witch, Captain America desperately buys time as much as he can and to Thanos's shock, is able to land a few hits on him and block his Infinity Gauntlet hand, but it is only temporary as Thanos swiftly dispatches the Super Soldier with a single punch. Now free of distractors, Thanos is about to retrieve Vision's Mind Stone when he saw Scarlet Witch try to destroy it. Thanos tries to stop it but Wanda is able to push him back, although he slowly charges through the beam but it is too late as Wanda destroys the Mind Stone before he could get to them.

Rather than angrily killing the girl for her hinderance of his goals, Thanos sympathised with her tearful sacrifice of Vision to destroy the Mind Stone, as he too had sacrificed Gamora for the Soul Stone. Activating the Time Stone, Thanos turned back time and reversed Wanda's actions, restoring both Vision and the Mind Stone. Before Wanda could intervene, Thanos forcefully ripped the Stone from Vision's head, killing him in the process. The Mad Titan placed the Stone within the Gauntlet, and with all six Stones assembled, assumed infinite power and control over the universe.

#### The Snap

Moments after the Infinity Gauntlet's completion, Thor arrived on the scene and struck Thanos with an all out lightning bolt. Still shocked by the sudden arrival and Thor's new weapon, Thanos fired an energy beam but unfortunately, he was unable to execute the beam at the Gauntlet's full potential, which Thor effectively took advantage of by using all of his power to enchant Stormbreaker with lightning and then threw it with all his might. The fully powered axe quickly overwhelmed the incompletely powered beam and ultimately struck Thanos in the chest, finally wounding him. However, the Mad Titan appeared unfazed by his injury, even as Thor forced the blade of the axe as deep as he could into Thanos. Thanos simply pretended dying, before revealing his charade by taunting Thor that he should have aimed for his head, and before his stunned opponent could react, he snapped his fingers. Energy surged from the Gauntlet, with a blinding light flooding the battlefield; the universe was about to be altered on an unprecedented scale.

Thanos briefly passed out, and to his great surprise, reawakened in a vast orange void within the Soul Stone. The void was empty, save for Thanos himself and one building in the distance. The building resembled the same archway on Zen-Whoberi where Thanos and Gamora met many years ago. Sure enough, as Thanos approached the arch, he encountered the child Gamora once again. Thanos excitedly told her that he had finally completed his mission. When Gamora asked "what did it cost?", he became solemn in his demeanor. Thanos simply replied, "Everything".

Regaining normal consciousness, Thanos returned to his body in Wakanda. Thor furiously questioned Thanos about the finger-snap, but he offered no answers and simply smirked at him. Though the Gauntlet appeared scorched and worn out, Thanos was able to teleport away with the Space Stone. As half of all life across the universe began to disintegrate as a result of the snap, a fully healed Thanos reappeared on another planet. He rested in a small hut with a view overlooking the alien countryside. Having at long last accomplished his objective and defeated and killed much of his opposers, Thanos smiled satisfactorily as he peacefully gazes out at the local sunrise, perfectly content with the fact that he had saved the universe.

## Personality

Thanos is usually seen by everyone else as the ultimate personification of sadism, cruelty, megalomania, infinite destruction, death, power, and madness, with his search for the Infinity Stones seen by others as his plot to gain dominion over all the civilizations in the universe. He desired to use the Tesseract to look beyond the known worlds to find greater ones that it would unveil. He is also relentless as seen by finding children to take as his own so he can raise them as assassins while forcing them to watch as he murders their families and tirelessly searching for the Infinity Stones. However, in truth, Thanos is a much more complex villain.

He is extremely intimidating and unforgiving of failures. The Other once warned Loki that he would know a new kind of pain if he did not give them the Tesseract, this was proven true when he ruthlessly murdered Loki for his failure in retrieving the Tesseract for him and when the Asgardian tried to kill him, although for unknown reasons, he did not torture Loki before killing him, likely due to finding the beaten God of Lies not worth his time and being far more interested in his winning war for the Infinity Stones. Even though Ebony Maw had never failed Thanos, he still feared his master and father enough that he did not dare to go to Titan without the Time Stone. Thanos threatened to bathe the starways in Ronan's blood if he failed to deliver the Orb, visibly terrifying Ronan. He even forbade Gamora from rescuing Nebula when the latter fell into a trap whilst on a mission in the Cloud Tombs of Praxius. He has little to no regard for his followers, showing absolutely no empathy when Ronan killed The Other and referring to Gamora as his "favorite daughter," even with Nebula present, as well as remaining calm even after learning Maw is dead, although he did seem to respect Maw's efforts, as he said that he accomplished his mission anyway by bringing Strange to Titan, and showing no care for the rest of the Black Order's deaths upon arriving on Wakanda. He was even able to command the Chitauri and Outrider armies, both being highly savage and powerful creatures, unchallenged.

He is extremely confident, to the point of borderline arrogance and being almost impossible to intimidate. He was shown to be smiling when The Other told him challenging the Avengers would be like courting Death. He was even unfazed at the idea of Ronan powered by the Power Stone coming after him despite knowing well that Ronan was already very powerful even without the Stone and the fact that he was backed up by Nebula who had betrayed him, displaying only anger at the betrayal. He also smiled confidently after deciding to hunt for the Infinity Stones himself.

He is also manipulative and mistrustful, sending Ronan to retrieve the Orb for him and not telling him that it contained an Infinity Stone. He is surprisingly patient, as he keeps a low profile, lurking in the shadows and making others do his work for him, even after centuries of failure. However, his patience has limits and when it is pushed to the edge, he is fully willing to take action when necessary, as after Loki and Ronan betrayed him and caused him to lose the only Infinity Stone he managed to find and two of his daughters, Thanos finally was fed up with the failures and decided to take matters into his own hand and hunt for the Infinity Stones himself.

While Thanos was able to inspire absolute loyalty into his Black Order children, he is not completely flawless in his ability to fake parental affection, as he is despised by his own "daughters," Gamora and Nebula. Raising them in a brutal way, Thanos would pit them against each other in the hope that Nebula would beat Gamora; however, when Nebula lost, he would remove parts of her in order to make her stronger, taking her apart piece by piece and replacing her with artificial limbs and organs so she would be able to defeat her sister. He proves that he has absolutely no care for Nebula, as he had no qualms torturing her to get the location of the Soul Stone out of Gamora, and held her in a low regard, going as far as to coldly said he did not want to waste his time to kill Nebula. However, Thanos is not completely unable to love, as is it seen that he deeply loves Gamora as his own child. When he first met her, he quickly took an intrest in her and cared for her enough to shield her from seeing the massacre of her people as well as sparing her from the half of the Zehobereis that he killed and adopt her as his own child. Indeed, he was known for favoring and holding Gamora's abilities at a higher regard than all his other children, being known for considering her his favorite daughter and openly telling her he considered his training to have molded her into the fiercest woman in the galaxy. He also seemed to consider her the only one worthy to inherit his Throne, openly saying that he hoped still despite her hatred for the chair that she would sit on it one day. He expressed anger at Ronan for alienating Gamora and later on attempted to reconnect with his daughter, patiently and calmly talking to her despite her bitter rejection of all he believed and notably he did not torture Gamora to force the location of the Soul Stone out of her but instead Nebula. He was seen in shock and tears when he realized that to get the Soul Stone he had to throw "a loved one" off the cliff, knowing the only one he truly loved was Gamora and apologized tearfully and was visibly struggling to muster enough will to sacrifice her as she frantically screamed. When Star-Lord asked where she was, Thanos was visibly crest-fallen and Mantis stated that Thanos was traumatized and in severe emotional pain from sacrificing Gamora, with even Nebula admitting that sacrificing Gamora must have been the only thing to caused him that much pain. The reminder of how he killed Gamora caused Thanos to finally became truly furious and also even more determined to fulfill his goal to honor her sacrifice. After finally achieving his goal, he went as far as to solemnly say that killing her caused him to lose everything.

Even though he was shunned by his own people for a hideous mutation he bore, he loved them unconditionally and desperately sought to save them, going as far as to propose wiping out half of his kind so the other half may survive. His plan for saving his homeworld was rejected and thus lead to the fall of his race. This incident would have presumably turned him into the being he is now today with his desire to exterminate half of the population of every planet so as to save these civilizations from the same overpopulation tragedy which destroyed his home planet. This is why Thanos truly believed his cause for killing off half of everyone in all planets to be a righteous cause, seeing himself a righteous soul who is doing what is necessary to save all the civilizations of the universe, so they do not face the same tragedy as his home planet. He was not lying at all, as he states that the people on Gamora's home planet do not suffer from environmental hazards, global hunger or any other form of violence anymore, due to him killing off half of their population.

Thanos has shown a dark sense of sarcastic humor and is able to remain calm and unfazed in situations that would frighten and shock most others, as he remained fully composed even after thwarting Loki's assassination and mocked him for chosing the word undying and even was not at all angered by Loki defying him before dying by saying he will never be a god. He even remained unfazed after being badly injured by Thor and even mocked him for not going for the head.

Thanos has also shown himself to be surprisingly honorable. He does not go back on the end of the deal he made with others and would honor them even when angered, as he was still willing to destroy Xandar for Ronan should he retrieve the Orb even though he was angry by Ronan coming to him empty-handed and aliniating his favored daughter Gamora. He extends this even to his enemies, as he did not kill Iron Man after acquiring the Time Stone as he promised to Doctor Strange and instead simply left Titan. He also is capable of praising others should they prove worthy, as he said that he wished people would remember the heroism and will that Iron Man fought with if he was removed from existence once he used the Infinity Gauntlet and praised Doctor Strange for his mastery in the Mystic Arts to be able to single-handedly go up against him with the Infinity Gauntlet. He was also complimentary of Star-Lord as he was going to kill Gamora, saying that he "liked him" for doing what would have needed to be done in order to stop Thanos on his quest to obtain the Infinity Stones. He also showed some empathy towards Scarlet Witch's killing Vision despite the fact that she destroyed the Mind Stone, which is necessary for his goal, as he too had killed Gamora for the Soul Stone.

## Powers and Abillities

Thanos is an immensely powerful Titan, feared throughout the galaxy as among the most powerful beings in the universe, if not the very most powerful. He is able to easily overpower beings as powerful as Thor and Hulk, intimidate the likes of Ronan the Accuser and Loki and commands his Chitauri and Outriders legions unchallenged. The Confederacy, despite their combined strength, openly admitted that their forces could not face Thanos and said even if Glenn Talbot, in his initial stages of having Gravitonium, were to join forces with the Avengers, he would still lose. When Ronan the Accuser was about to betray Thanos and take the Power Stone for himself, Korath the Pursuer strongly suggested it against it, fearfully acknowledging Thanos as being the most powerful being in the universe and expressed doubt that even Ronan powered by the Power Stone along with himself and Nebula can defeat Thanos. Thanos himself showed no concern of Ronan's threats to kill him with the Power Stone. When Nebula told Gamora that she planned to kill Thanos, Gamora stated that she didn't know if it was possible, and even Thor acknowledged that he needed Stormbreaker if he were to face Thanos, as fighting the Mad Titan without it would be suicidal. The immensity of Thanos's power is displayed by his ability to effortlessly handle the power of the Infinity Stones, even being able to survive wielding all six with the Gauntlet without being harmed.

**Immortality**: Thanos is effectively immortal, having been a galatic warlord for centuries. He is invulnerable to most forms of damage, as even Gamora has stated that killing Thanos may not be possible, and the only known weapon with the power to kill Thanos was Stormbreaker, the most powerful weapon forged from Uru, and only if the axe was powered to the maximum and the attack was lethal.

**Superhuman Strength**: Thanos has displayed terrifying levels of superhuman strength, quite possibly the strongest being in the universe, capable of easily brandishing the Infinity Stones without being harmed, even wielding all six with the Infinity Gauntlet without strain. During his acquisition of the Tesseract, Thanos effortlessly overpowered and severely beat Thor almost to death and was able to casually restrain and drag him despite Thor's best resistances and while Hulk briefly surprised and pummeled him, Thanos was quickly able to break out of Hulk's mighty grip on him and proceeded to effortlessly overpower and knock him out, beating the nearly invulnerable and immensely strong gamma monster to a bloody pulp and crippling him so badly that Hulk would refuse to transform ever since. He also proved capable of easily crushing the Tesseract to reveal the Space Stone and after easily forcing Loki's knife hand aside upon his attempted assassination, Thanos effortlessly lifted and then snapped Loki's neck with one hand. During the Battle of Titan, Thanos was able to easily overpower and knock out Drax the Destroyer through stones with a single punch, destroy Doctor Strange's magical shields with a kick while silmutaneously blowing him away, easily pin down and break out of Spider-Man's webs within moments and use the web to pull Spider-Man to him and quickly overtake and send Nebula flying with a single punch. Even a powerful binding spell used by Doctor Strange combined with Drax holding his legs, Star-Lord's blasters emitting electricity, and Spider-Man webbing him were barely able to restrain him long enough for Mantis to force him into a deep slumber and even then, Thanos was still able to put up a fierce enough of a fight that Iron Man and Spider-Man were unable to pull off the Infinity Gauntlet and upon waking up, Thanos was easily able to swat Mantis and Drax away, break out of Strange's binding spell and regain the Infinity Gauntlet from Spider-Man. While restrained by the hundreds of Eldritch Whips from Doctor Strange's replicas, Thanos was casually able to activate the Infinity Gauntlet to break free. He then easily overpowered Iron Man in his Mark L Armor, tearing apart the armor easily with his hands. Upon arriving on Wakanda to retrieve the Mind Stone, Thanos effortlessly stopped Black Panther's full-force charge with a single hand and then slammed Black Panther with enough force to cause his Panther Habit's nanites to overload with energy and expel a kinetic pulse, and very nearly overpowered Captain America with a single hand, soon easily knocking him out with a single punch. Upon reconstructing Vision, Thanos then effortlessly lifted the android off the ground and quickly ripped the Mind Stone from Vision's body, tearing through the Vibranium housing with ease.

**Superhuman Durability**: Thanos has incalculable levels of resilience and durability, rendering him capable of easily touching the Infinity Stones without being harmed and even wielding the power of all six Stones with Infinity Gauntlet without strain. Hence, during the Attack on the Statesman, Thanos was able to emerge out of a one-on-one fight with a mature Thor without sustaining any injuries while the latter was beaten almost to death and then remain completely uninjured and barely fazed by blows from Hulk, afterwards remaining unfazed by a blow from Thor. During the Battle of Titan, the combined efforts of Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and the Guardians of the Galaxy proved to be insufficient to do much harm on him, and Thanos displayed being able to take a slash to the leg from Drax's knives and Star-Lord's blaster shots while surprised and only flinched and he was able to effortlessly catch blows from Drax and Strange using their weapons. He was also almost instantly back on his feet after being exposed to a powerful stunning device implanted by Star-Lord and remained uninjured after having a massive pillar dropped on him and colliding with a Necrocraft at full speed. He was completely unharmed by all of Iron Man's Mark L Armor weapon and repulsor attacks, even mocking Stark for drawing only minimal blood after all his efforts. He even remained completely unfazed and uninjured when Star-Lord furiously unleashed a barrage of shots and calmly warped himself out. During the Battle of Wakanda, he was completely unfazed by shots from Winter Soldier, remained uninjured and barely hurt by Captain America's collapsible shields blows, and was able to withstand the energy attacks from Scarlet Witch as well as a powerful lightning blast from Stormbreaker without harm. Thor needed to put in all of his power into the maul in order for it to severely injure him and notably, even that was not enough to kill him, even after Thor twisted the axe as deep as he could into Thanos, with Thanos retaining enough strength to activate and use the Infinity Gauntlet at the scale needed to wipe out half of the universe, surviving such vast display of power despite the severe injury, although it did cause him to briefly entered a catatonic state but he quickly recovered, even going as far as to mock Thor for not aiming at his head.

**Superhuman Reflexes**: Thanos, despite his size and muscular body, possess incredulous superhuman reflexes, as he was able to effortlessly dodge a few blows from Hulk, and then instantly struck him multiple times before Hulk had a chance to respond. Thanos also easily reacted to Loki's swift attempt to kill him, effortlessly choking Loki to death before the latter could react. With just a single hand, Thanos was able to easily grab Gamora before she could strike him with Godslayer (which Thanos broke in the process), and to even react to the extremely agile Spider-Man's attacks, eventually getting a grip on him and pinning Spider-Man down, as well as casually react to the highly agile Black Panther's full speed charge with a single hand and effortlessly punch Captain America before he could react while he was blocking Thanos's Gauntlet hand. He also was able to easily catch Iron Man Mark L Armor's sword and then break it and stab him with the piece before he could react. He could easily react to and outspace both Drax the Destroyer and Doctor Strange's moves even while his sight was hampered by a web cotton and also managed to quickly overtook Nebula and deliver a powerful punch that send her flying. While Thor was able to surprise and punched off a portion of Thanos's helmet, Thanos soon effortlessly kicked him away before he could react. He has also been shown to be able to easily react to the bullets of War Machine Armor: Mark IV and Okoye's spear when she threw it at him, allowing him to easily repel them with the Gauntlet's powers.

**Superhuman Agillity**: Thanos has shown superhuman levels of agillity far greater than regular humans despite his large and muscular body, as shown when he was able to jump high from a piece of debris into the air to dodge Doctor Strange's fiery rays and then land perfectly on his feet without any problems.

**Superhuman Speed**: Thanos, despite his large and muscular body, is exceptionally fast, capable of easily outmaneuvering and beating the Hulk in hand-to-hand combat within seconds as well as swiftly pummeling Iron Man in his Mark L Armor in close quarters combat.

**Superhuman Stamina**: Thanos's musculature seemingly produced very little to no fatigue toxins, displaying tremendous levels of superhuman stamina. He proves able to exert himself at prime capacity for prolonged periods of time even when pressured without any deterioration in his performance, as shown when he was able to repeatedly battle the heroes on Titan without showing any strain or relenting at all despite being pressured a little by them and after defeating them, was immediately able to continue fighting against the heroes on Wakanda, defeating them effortlessly without showing any loss on his fighting effiency.

### Infinity Gauntlet

After equipping the Infinity Gauntlet into his left arm, combined with his already extraordinary physical constitution and raw power, Thanos is granted the potential to safely harness the supernatural powers of all the six Infinity Stones should he add them to the Gauntlet. The more stones Thanos inserts into the Gauntlet, the more power he gains and he acquires the stones dominion over the necessary fabrics of existence. Eventually, upon acquiring all six stones, Thanos becomes nearly infinitely powerful, the most powerful being in the universe, gaining absolute control over all the fabrics of existence and able to do almost anything he desires, to the point that even with a severe injury, he killed off half of life within the universe by just snapping his fingers. His power with the Infinity Gauntlet was so great that Doctor Strange's use of the Time Stone to peer through over 14 million futures saw only one in which Thanos is defeated. Presumably due to having done thorough research on the Stones, Thanos displays incredible understanding and knowledge of their powers and quickly fully mastered all of them, allowing him to use their dominion over the fabrics of reality for combative purposes with extreme finesse, making him nearly impossible to defeat in battle, with him able to seamlessly change between the stones and even able to combine them. So far he has shown the following supernatural powers.

**Nigh-Omnipotence**: With all six Infinity Stone in the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos gains nearly omnipotent levels of supernatural power, with control over all six aspects of existence, making him the most powerful being in all of the universe and wielding such near-limitless godly levels of power that allows him to do almost anything he desires. His power is so great that even while considerably injured, he still was capable of wiping out half of the universe with a simple snap of his fingers. With this level of power, Thanos is almost invincible, to the point that the only way to subdue him is for the gauntlet to be removed, which will take away his power or if a sufficiently powerful being wielding a sufficiently powerful weapon were to surprise Thanos, as Thor wielding the Stormbreaker managed to considerably injure Thanos and Thanos said that Thor may have killed him had he aimed for Thanos' head.

**Regenerative Healing Factor**: Upon completing the Infinity Gauntlet, its power was able to quickly heal and regenerate any of Thanos' wounds, regardless of severity or blood loss, allowing Thanos to instantly heal and recover from any injury he sustained from fighting the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, with even the wound dealt by Thor using the devastatingly powerful Stormbreaker completely vanishing without any trace of it ever being there.

**Energy Absorption and Warping**: Combining the Power and Space Stones, Thanos is able to absorb energies he was exposed to and transform them into something else, as he could absorb the explosive energy of Iron Man's missiles, and redirect it at the Avenger as a single concentrated beam of fiery energy.

**Terrain Manipulation**: Combining the Reality and Space Stones, Thanos can manipulate the terrain at a great enough scale to be able to pull the surface of Titan in order to force Doctor Strange closer to him.

**Death Inducement**: After the Gauntlet was completed and the Stones reached their full potential, Thanos gains the power to induce death on a universal scale at whim, using each of the Stones's control over the fabrics of existence to wipe out half the universe even after he had already been grievously wounded. However, using the Gauntlet at such a weakened state took a great toll on Thanos, scorching the Gauntlet and Thanos's left arm.

**Space Manipulation**: After inserting the Space Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos acquires the stone's complete control over space. The most useful power Space Stone grants Thanos is the power to open portals to anywhere he desires, allowing him to now effortlessly travel to anywhere he desires without needing to use any other transportation, even able to achieve interdimensional travel without aid now, as he easily warped to Knowhere, Titan and later Wakanda by casually opening a portal and he can also take others with him, as he warped not only himself but also the entire Black Order after having the Power Stone slowly blow away the Statesman and can also forcibly warp others along with him with ease, as he effortlessly took both him and Gamora despite her resistance to his ship and later Vormir, as well as being able to use the portals to influence other locations without directly being there, doing so to send the Power Stone's energies to the moon and then send the pieces through the portal, with his precise control over the portals even allowing him to remove an object attached to him if he so desires, as he removed Stormbreaker from his chest upon warping away from Wakanda, as well as decide how big or small his portals are. However, due to his extensive research of the Infinity Stones, Thanos displays a strong understanding and mastery of it's powers, as he is able to use the Stone liberally in battle to great effect, warping the fabric of space to achieve a variety of powerful effects. Thanos was able to skilfully use the Stone as a powerful form of telekinesis, warping the fabric of space around objects in order to manipulate and move them with just a single gesture of the Gauntlet. This ability proved to be among Thanos's most often used. The Stone was able to instantly freeze Loki's knive mid-stab with a casual gesture, effortlessly crush the guns on War Machine's armor, knock down Falcon. Such was its strength, the Stone was even able to telekinetically pull the shattered fragments of Titan's moon across space to rain down on the attacking Avengers during the Battle of Titan. With the Space Stone, Thanos could also create compression forces strong enough to create singularities that sucks up anything within close proximity, as shown when he summoned a devastating vortex that gathered up all in it's path and sent it at Doctor Strange, which Strange could not block and was forced to transmute it into a multitude of blue butterflies to repel it. Thanos even had the skill needed to use the Space Stone to phase and unphase objects out of space, rendering them incorporeal and just as easily make them corporeal again, such as when Thanos used the Stone to phase the attacking Hulkbuster out of space, causing the Avenger to fall through the Titan harmlessly and fall into a cliff and then make him corporeal again to trap him in solid stone. Thanos can also manipulate the Space Stone's energy reserves to create extremely strong force-fields of blue energy capable of instantly vaporizing the bullets of War Machine's armor and even blocking the energy of Scarlet Witch. After the Gauntlet was completed and the Space Stone reached it's full potential, it appears that the Space Stone allows the influence of the other Stones to reach the whole universe, allowing Thanos to use the power of all Stones to wipe out half the universe.

**Reality-Bending**: After inserting the Reality Stone into his Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos acquires complete control over reality, allowing him to warp the very fabric of reality itself to be whatever he desires, as he himself boasted to Gamora. His skill in using the Reality Stone is shown to be more advanced than Malekith, capable of skillfully warp reality more powerfully than Malekith's display of the Stone's power over reality, achieving numerous powerful capabilities.

* **Dimensional Negation**: Having the Reality Stone also grants Thanos the power to nullify the warping of dimensions, as Thanos was able to prevent himself from being trapped inside the Mirror Dimension by a gateway to said dimension send at him by Doctor Strange.
* **Illusion Conjuration**: Thanos can use the Reality Stone to alter reality to create highly realistic and elaborate physical simulations and illusions of false realities over a wide range of influence, which he did to create a false illusion of himself interrogating the Collector in a completely deserted Knowhere, in order to fool the approaching Guardians of the Galaxy and mask the colony's true status as burning down and utterly ruined. Said illusion was so convincing that the illusion of himself was able to physically interact with the environment, as he was able to be engaged by and even killed by Gamora. He was also able to warp reality around Titan to show Doctor Strange how the planet once was beautiful.
* **Invisibillity**: It seems the powerful illusionary powers the Reality Stone granted Thanos also allows him to make himself invisible, as upon unveiling the illusion, he initially talked to Gamora unseen before revealing himself.
* **Matter Transmutation**: He can use the Reality Stone to transmute and warp matter to anything he wants. This allows Thanos to effortlessly transform weapons into harmless substances, as he instantly turned Star-Lord's ammo within his gun into a flock of bubbles before he had a chance to shoot and did the same with Gamora's sword before she attempted to kill herself, transform and manipulate specific parts of the environment to use against his enemies, as shown when he transmuted the pieces of the ship that he destroyed when Iron Man threw it at him into a countless swarm of bats that he sent towards Iron Man and also spawned a cage of stone pillars to trap Black Widow.
* **Biological Manipulation**: The Reality Stone even makes Thanos capable of warping the bodies of a living organism, showing the power to release a ball of the Reality Stone's energy capable of turning his targets into pieces of themselves, as he easily turned Drax the Destroyer into pieces and Mantis into strips, although it is only temporary, as Drax and Mantis eventually returned to their original form. However, with the Infinity Gauntlet completed and the Reality Stone amplified to it's full potential, it became so potent that it can actually destroy the body of others truly by disintegrating them to dust, something which Thanos used to wipe out half the universe with a simple snap of his fingers, with the Reality Stone turning all the victims bodies to dust.

**Energy Manipulation**: After inserting the Power Stone into his Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos acquires complete control over the destructive force of the universe, giving him vast energy-manipulating powers. Due to his strong understanding of the Power Stone's capabilities, Thanos was able to use it for more diverse and versatile capabilities, manipulating the Stone's explosive energy to achieve a wide variety of extremely lethal energy powers, with the Stone becoming one of his most versatile and often-used in combat for its destructive potential.

* **Strength Augmentation**: Thanos's control over the energy of the Power Stone can allow him to infuse it into the Gauntlet, with it being strong enough to shatter a gateway to the Mirror Dimension sent to him by Doctor Strange.
* **Energy Detonation**: Thanos is able to unleash the Power Stone's destructive energy to charge objects with unstable explosive energy with just a single gesture from the Gauntlet, causing them to overload and violently detonate. This ability proves to be the most commonly used out of all the diverse capabilities of the Power Stone due to its great versatility and combat potential thanks to his ability to control the time and size of the detonation, whether instantly or slowly or how devastating, allowing him to use it with devastating effiency, as Thanos was able to cause the Stone to slowly overload and detonate the damaged Statesman after retrieving the Space Stone, giving himself time to teleport him and his Children out and later violently and almost instantly detonated a ruined spaceship fragment that was dropped on him by Iron Man. He can even exert so much powerfully destructive energy that he was able to rip apart the surface of Titan's moon with its sheer power.
* **Energy Projection**: Thanos's primary usage of the Stone is to project it's explosive energy in many forms of extremely powerful energy attacks, showing much greater raw power and versatility than Ronan's use, that applied incredible amounts of powerful concussive force that are even potentially capable of outright destroying objects with its volatile power or incapacitating and greatly damaging even the most durable of individuals. He can directly concentrate the Stone's energy into destructively powerful beams easily strong enough to cleave through rocks, force back a shielded Iron Man and sending him flying with great force and damaging his armor. He was also able to unleash the energy wildly as a shockwave of energy that was easily potent enough to knock out Star-Lord, Drax and Nebula instantaneously despite their great superhuman resilience and displays being able to focus the energy into repulsive waves that were easily potent enough to effortlessly blast away the superhumanly strong and resilient Captain America and Winter Soldier and easily stop Okoye's spear in mid-air before flinging both it and her away, during the Battle of Wakanda. He also was able to use it as a powerful form of defense by conjuring a very strong force field of energy that was easily powerful enough to block Iron Man's repulsors even when the latter used both of his hands to emit two blasts at once.
* **Pain Inducement**: Thanos is able to subtly use the energy of the Power Stone as a very effective form of torture by exposing an individual to the energy of the Power Stone to cause them to tremendous pain and can limit the amount of energy sent into the body of said being to avoid killing them. This was potent enough to cause a fully-empowered Thor excruciating amounts of pain, forcing Loki to cooperate with him. He can combine this with the other Stones to increase the torture's potency, with him thus brutally torturing Nebula with both the Power and Space Stones, electrocuting her with the Stone's energy while painfully ripping apart her cybernetics, all the while casually avoiding exerting too much force and killing her.
* **Energy Convertion**: After the Gauntlet was completed and the Power Stone reached it's height of power, it appears that the Power Stone was able to convert the influence of the other Stones into energy to be unleashed upon the whole universe, as when Thanos snapped his fingers to wipe out half the universe, it caused energy to surge from the Gauntlet and cover the whole battlefield of Wakanda and caused omnious rumbling through the universe.

**Time Manipulation**: After inserting the Time Stone into his Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos acquires complete control over time, allowing him to control time itself by manifesting mystical green runes of energy surrounding the user's arm and wrist before finally conjuring a green, circular mandala made of energy in the palm of his hand. Instantly completely mastering the Time Stone's powers, he is shown to hold far greater familiarity in it's use than Doctor Strange.

* **Event Recreation**: Thanos is capable of rewinding time to recreate certain events with a surpassing amount of finesse, enough so as to truly recreate destroyed objects, even those of great power, while resurrecting beings and keeping some from being affected, as he was able to recreate the events where Vision died, so as to resurrect Vision and recreate the Mind Stone, even after Wanda Maximoff had destroyed both of them, while preventing his foes from getting rewinded so as to prevent them from making an attempt to stop him, whereas Doctor Strange could not truly recreate the stolen pages of the Book of Cagliostro.
* **Time Acceleration**: After the Gauntlet was completed and the Time Stone reached it's full potential, Thanos became able to flash-forward the lives of others at such a rate as to age them to death within seconds, which aided in his use of all six Stones to wipe out half the universe, with the Time Stone causing the victims to quickly age and turn into brown decomposing corpses.

**Soul Manipulation**: After inserting the Soul Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos acquires complete control over souls as well as life and death, giving him divine authority over souls and the right to decide who lives and who dies. Although it's esoteric properties made Thanos use it least often, he still displays himself to be familiar and proficient with it.

* **Soul Detection and Attacking**: Thanos gains the power to detect and attack the souls of others, allowing him to identify the real one among mystical replicas of others and attack them, as evidenced when he was able to tell which one is the real Doctor Strange and disperse his duplicates with a single burst of energy, also pushing the sorcerer's astral form out of his body for a while.
* **Soul Containment**: The Soul Stone contains a mysterious pocket dimension that contains the soul of Gamora, as she is the one he sacrificed to obtain the Stone, and the dimension would pull Thanos to it should he be overwhelmed by a situation until he recovers and the appearance of the realm and sacrifice seems to change to fit the form that Thanos most wanted to see, as shown after wiping out half of all life in the Universe, the sheer energy required to achieve such a feat in his weakened state nearly overwhelmed Thanos, and briefly sent him into a dream state caused by the Soul Stone itself, transporting his mind to a world consisting of a barren, infinite expanse of feet-high water under an orange sky. Within the dream world, Thanos saw himself as without the Gauntlet or his injuries sustained from Stormbreaker. Before returning to his senses, he was briefly able to communicate with a reflection of his deceased daughter, Gamora, standing under a Zen-Whoberi gateway - in the form of the young child she was when Thanos first met and adopted her - telling her of his final fulfilment of his lifelong goal and admitting to her his deep regret that she had to die for it to happen.
* **Soul Destruction**: After the Gauntlet was completed and the Soul Stone reached it's full potential, the Soul Stone's dramatically enhanced powers grants Thanos the power to wipe out souls at a global scale, which aided in his use of all six Stones to wipe out half the universe.
* **Soul Perceiving**: Having the Soul Stone has also granted Thanos the uncanny ability to look into and obtain information from the souls of other beings, seemingly the same power that it granted the Red Skull. Hence, Thanos was able to recognise and call Tony Stark by name, despite having never personally encountered him before the Battle of Titan and could see and compliment the Avenger's own "curse", the knowledge of an impending and inevitable threat consuming his world and those he loved, noting the similarities to his own quest to save Titan and the Universe from inevitable destruction.

**Mind Manipulation**: After inserting the Mind Stone into his Infinity gauntlet, Thanos acquires the stone's dominion over the hearts and minds of people.

* **Mind and Heart Destruction**: Apparently, with the Mind Stone at it's full potential inside the completed Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos becomes able to destroy the minds and hearts of others, which aided in Thanos's use of all six Stones to wipe out half the universe.

## Skills

**Genius-level Intelligence**: Even at his youth, Thanos was deemed a genius among his kind, despite his deformation. His long life allowed Thanos to refine his intellectual aptitude to the highest degree, making him one of the most, if not, the most intelligent beings in the universe. His extradionary intellect makes him extremely lethal even without his power or combat skills, as shown by his ability to conquer many worlds. By simply using his manipulative and strategic skills, he indirectly causes the Battle of Xandar and Chitauri Invasion, both of which caused the formations of the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Avengers to fight their respective battles. Thanos proved to far surpass even geniuses of the highest calibare, such as Loki, who he easily outsmarted on more than one occasion - he not only successfully used Loki as a pawn without the latter realizing it for a long time, but he was later also able to successfully finish off the God of Mischief by easily predicting that he would attempt an assassination and countering it casually, and the likes of Iron Man, Bruce Banner, and Doctor Strange, as he easily remained effectively anonymous to them, preventing Stark and Banner from learning his hand in Loki's invasion and eluding Strange's list of otherworldy threats. It was only after Thor received a vision on the Infinity Stones that he came to suspect Thanos' involvement, with Thor admitting that Thanos had been using his intellect to play a very intricate game and has effectively used the Avengers as pawns without them even realizing it until Thor saw the vision but even then Thor was unable to truly figure out that it was Thanos who seeked the Stones. Thanos also easily deceived the Guardians of the Galaxy into letting their guard down, thus allowing Thanos to incapacitate them and capture Gamora.

**Master Tactician**: The greatest master strategist in the universe with centuries of experience and unparalled knowledge and skill in tactical warfare, Thanos is a pheneomonally accomplished and versatile master strategist. Even without relying on his powers and combat skill, he easily conquered several worlds effectively. Thanos's tactical genius and ingenuity allows him to create extremely complex and well-coordinated plans and execute them effectively, with the strategies he created and employed being so effective that he gave the Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy immense trouble all the while remaining anonymous. Thanos is even a far more superior tactician than Loki, who was famous for being a crafty genius in orchestrating chunning schemes, as he easily deceived the God of Mischief into becoming his minion and later easily predicted and outsmarted Loki's attempt to assassinate him. Thanos's strategical intuition also allows him to accurately predict incoming events and effectively manipulate said events to his advantage, as he was able to anticipate the Guardians going to Knowhere to retrieve the Reality Stone and arrived there before they could prevent him from taking it. Thanos even went as far as to set up a brilliant trap for the Guardians by casting an illusion to fool them into believing that he is still torturing the Collector for the Reality Stone while in actuality he had acquired the Reality Stone long before they arrived, all the while easily manipulating Gamora using illusions specifically seen in her mind to lure her into emotionally charging at Thanos, which worked to a great effect, catching Gamora and the Guardians completely off-guard and allowing Thanos to successfully capture Gamora and escape from the Guardians uninjured. Thanos is able to create effective strategies in the midst of combat, as he efficiently employed Titan's strong gravitational pull to separate much of his opposers by breaking and launching the pieces of Titan's moon at his enemies from the atmosphere so as to make them much more rapid and faster, forcing Spider-Man to focus solely on saving the incatipated Guardians and allowing Thanos to engage and overpower Doctor Strange and Iron Man, eventually culminating in Strange being forced to surrender the Time Stone to Thanos. Thanos can also swiftly think his way out of debilitating, nearly impossible to overcome, setbacks, as after Scarlet Witch destroyed the Mind Stone, Thanos was unfazed, due to now having the Time Stone, and swiftly reversed time prior to Vision's destruction while taking care as to not include the heroes in the time reversal to prevent them from attempting to stop him, thus allowing Thanos to finally complete the Gauntlet and render Vision's sacrifice in vain. Even after Thor severely wounded him, a once again unfazed Thanos convincingly pretended that he was close to death before revealing that he will still live and can still accomplish his mission by sarcastically mocking Thor for not aiming for his head, catching Thor off-guard and stunning him long enough that Thanos was able to snap his fingers before Thor could react.

**Master Manipulator**: Thanos is an exceptionally skillful and experienced manipulator, far surpassing even Loki, the God of Mischief himself who was famous for his manipulation abilities. Without leaving his throne, he was able to easily and effectively manipulate other powerful beings, such as Ronan the Accuser and even Loki himself, into doing his bidding. His manipulation ultimately caused both the Chitauri Invasion and the Battle of Xandar. As Thor noted, Thanos has effectively manipulated the Avengers for his own goals.

**Master Leader**: Thanos is an ingeniously accomplished and experienced leader, as he was able to lead the Outriders and Chitauri armies unchallenged, despite their savagery, and inspire absolute loyalty into his Black Order children. Thanos's outstanding leadership was displayed by the fact that he was known for having led his forces with such efficiency as to having easily decimated many species and killing half of said species during his mission to re-balance the universe.

**Master Torturer**: Thanos is ingeniously accomplished in many fields of torture, with his skills in torture being highly feared and well-known among his followers, as Loki was visibly terrified of the possibility of being tortured by Thanos when the Other warned him that Thanos can torture him to the point that he would beg for something as sweet as pain and Ebony Maw fearing the idea of Thanos punishing him should he fail to break the spell Strange cast on the Time Stone and retrieve it. He is able to effortlessly cause the maximum amount of pain while avoiding killing or rendering his victims unconscious, as shown when he very effectively tortured a mature Thor with the Power Stone, effortlessly exerting enough energy to cause him excruciating pain while avoiding exerting too much without even looking, swiftly making Loki give up the Tesseract, and later when he masterfully tortured Nebula to make Gamora give up the location of the Soul Stone, Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to painfully pull apart Nebula's cybernetics implants, but he was casually able to avoid truly ripping the necessary implants apart in order to cause her severe pain without killing her, swiftly causing Gamora to give in and tell Thanos the Soul Stone was on Vormir.

**Master Combatant**: Thanos is the most powerful warrior in the universe with millennia worth of fighting experience. His supreme fighting skills combined with his collosal physical powers allows him to easily outfight even the strongest and most experienced enemies. Hence, Thanos was able to effortlessly beat the Hulk ( the former undefeatable champion of the Grandmaster's Contest of Champions) to a bloody pulp while toying with him, easily hitting him before he can react and easily single-handedly defeat and beat a mature Thor almost to death when he attacked the Statesman. He also effortlessly overpowered and restrained Gamora before she could react and take up Godslayer in his capture of her and during the Battle of Titan, Thanos was able to casually fight off both Doctor Strange using a sword made of Eldritch Magic, and Drax with his knives and quickly overwhelm them (while his sight was hampered by a web cotton), effortlessly fight off and swiftly pummel Spider-Man with only one hand (while his other hand was restricted by the Cloak of Levitation), easily fight off and quickly defeated Nebula wielding her batons despite being distracted by her mentions of Gamora, easily pummel Iron Man despite Iron Man's nanotech Mark L armor and swiftly disarmed him of his sword and grievously wounded him with it, with only Doctor Strange's intervention saving Iron Man from death. Upon arriving on Wakanda, Thanos easily countered Black Panther's charge by choking him with a single hand and then pummeled him to the ground with a single punch and effortlessly defeated and knocked out Captain America with a single blow. It was only with a sneak attack that Thor armed with Stormbreaker was able to land a severe wound on Thanos.

## Relationships

### Thanos and Gamora

Thanos met Gamora during his massacre of her people, the Zen-Whoberi and was quickly attracted to her bravery and strength in fighting off her restrainers and on how she bravely asked where is her mother despite likely knowing that Thanos was the instigator of the whole event. Tooking her aside to spare her from the massacre, Thanos taught her on his views of balance via a knife to distract her from the view. Thanos would grew to genuinely care for her unlike his other children, who he only regarded as pawns, training her rigoriously until she became the fiercest woman in the Galaxy, of which Thanos was proud of himself for, and considering her the only one who can inherit his Throne. Thanos was aware of her growing hatred for him but he also knew that deep down she still cared and still believed that she can become loyal again. This does not blind him to the fact that she wants to somehow elude him, as he was not fooled by her lie of not finding the Soul Stone, having knew of her desire to hinder his plans and escape from him. Thanos was enraged after she finally did betray him, blaming Ronan for carelessly sending her away. When they finally meet again, Thanos cordially greeted her despite her betrayal and even tried to make her willingly go back to him, implying that he may spare the Guardians if she did, although he was not above restraining her when she attempted to strike. Nevertheless, Thanos patiently and kindly tried to reconnect with his lost daughter when they talked, calmly tolerating her rejection of his views. It should be noted that Thanos did not torture her but instead Nebula to find the Soul Stone. When it was revealed that he had to sacrifice a loved one to get the Stone, Thanos, having genuinely loved only Gamora as his daughter, cried of having to kill her and apologized tearfully, visibly struggling to throw her off the cliff and tearfully closing his eyes after doing so. His grief remains strong, as Mantis quickly sensed it and this indirectly allowed Thanos to strike back when Star-Lord furiously asked him to say that Gamora is still alive, with the reminder of Gamora's death making Thanos even more determined than ever to complete his goal so as to honor her sacrifice. When he finally did it despite having been grievously wounded, Thanos met Gamora for apparently the last time and sadly admitted that the only thing he lost was her, showing how much he deeply cared for her.

### Thanos and the Black Order

Thanos's most loyal liutenants were all his adopted children and they comprised the Black Order. Although their devotion to him was absolute, Thanos did not care for them and showed no regard for their deaths, showing only grief for Gamora. However, Thanos seemed to be willing to nevertheless respect their efforts if they earned it, as he did say that Maw accomplished his mission anyway after learning of his death.

### Thanos and Nebula

Thanos adopted Nebula after massacring half of her species the Luphomoids. Thanos did not care for her at all and treated her much more harshly than his other children due to her weakness, repeatedly subjecting her to cybernetic augmentations and punishing her for failing to retrieve the Orb by forcing her to cut off her own arm. Thanos constantly down-graded her, ruthlessly calling Gamora his favored daughter in front of her. When she finally betrayed him, Thanos was merciless towards her after capturing her when she attempted to assassinate him, having her tortured extensively for days and later ruthlessly torturing her personally with the Infinity Gauntlet. When Nebula freed herself and confronted Thanos on Titan, Thanos coldly greeted her and displayed his down-grading attitude by mocking her by saying that he considered killing her a waste of spare parts.

### Thanos and Drax the Destroyer

As Thanos has ordered Ronan to kill Drax's wife and daughter, Drax despises Thanos the most out of the Guardians. Thanos himself seems to be aware of it and while holding no personal grudge towards the so called Destroyer, he has no remorse for what Drax has gone through and seems to actually mock him for it, as when Drax angrily yelled at Thanos upon him subduing Gamora, he mockingly smirked at him before he used the Reality Stone to incatipate him. They later engage, with Thanos proving himself to be an even more undeniably superior foe than Ronan did, swiftly knocking Drax out with a single punch.