Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

**Thanos** is the main antagonist of the *Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga*, serving as the overarching antagonist of *The Avengers*, *Guardians of the Galaxy*, and *Avengers: Age of Ultron*, the unseen overarching antagonist of *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2*, *Ant-Man and the Wasp*, and the fifth season of *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*, an unseen antagonist of *Thor: Ragnarok*, the main antagonist of *Avengers: Infinity War* and *Avengers: Endgame*, and a posthumous antagonist of *Spider-Man: Far From Home*, *WandaVision*, and *The Falcon and the Winter Soldier*.

Thanos was an extremely powerful alien warlord who commanded three massive armies called the Chitauri, the Sakaarans and the Outriders, as well as a small group of fanatical followers known as the Black Order. He is the archenemy of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and the Avengers as a whole.

Thanos formed an alliance with Loki to invade Earth, and later forged a partnership with Ronan the Accuser to destroy Xandar - both in exchange for the deliverance of two powerful Infinity Stones, only for the pair to end up failing their tasks before they betrayed Thanos afterwards. Thanos was also indirectly responsible for the creation of Ultron as his supplying of the Mind Stone to Loki was what gave Ultron free will to rebel against humanity in the first place.

He later obtained all six Infinity stones, fought with the Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, and successfully wiped out half the life in the universe. His actions would ultimately be undone, however, after the Avengers successfully retrieved the Infinity Stones through time travel. Soon after, an alternate version of Thanos from the past, time traveled to the present in an effort to destroy the Avengers and erase the whole universe in order to create a new one, but was defeated and erased from existence once and for all before he could carry out that plan. However, even after his demise, Thanos' actions still haunted the Avengers.

In *The Avengers*, he was portrayed by Damion Poitier. In the rest of the MCU, he was voiced/portrayed by Josh Brolin, who also played Dr. William Block in *Planet Terror*, Tom Chaney in *True Grit*, Derek Bates in *Into the Blue*, and Cable in *Deadpool 2*.

## History

### Origins

Thanos was born to A'Lars, a member of the Titans, a race of powerful, tall, god-like beings that evolved on the planet Titan. He was considered a freak by his fellow Titans due to a genetic mutation he bore. Despite this treatment, Thanos loved his people and desperately sought to save Titan when the planet became threatened by the imminent catastrophic event of overpopulation. When society was facing collapse, Thanos suggested killing half the population of the planet to solve the problem, not in a prejudiced, but random, dispassionate, and fair to rich and poor alike. However, his idea was considered too drastic and was immediately dismissed by his people, resulting in Thanos being cast out like a madman by his people, which eventually earned him his reputation as "The Mad Titan". However, as Thanos predicted, Titan subsequently became devastated as well as nearly uninhabitable. Another result of this devastation was that the Titan species was on the verge of extinction. Thus, proving Thanos was right to an extent.

After the fall of Titan, Thanos, devastated by his inability to prevent the destruction of his people and possible resentment towards him for not listening to him, came to believe that the universe's vast population was consuming its finite resources, and if left unchecked, would eventually cause the destruction of the universe itself. Thus, to save other planets from Titan's fate, Thanos willingly became a world-conqueror, moving throughout the universe and destroying half of all life within the planets he conquered due to his ideology of balancing the universe. Thanos always made sure that the half of the population that was slaughtered was picked entirely at random so everyone would have a 50% chance of survival as even he felt that again certain groups was going too far. He earned a fearful reputation as a galactic warlord, due to his immense power and even ruling over a distinct region of space, and gaining control over the deadly armies of the Chitauri, the Outriders, and the Sakaaran Mercenaries, that he was widely considered among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, being in the universe, so greatly superior to others that even the thought of anyone defeating him in a fight was considered laughable. His cunning, ruthless nature stroked people's fear of him.

To build his strength, Thanos collected children from several races that he conquered. His oldest children were Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Midnight after slaughtering half of their respective races. The four warriors, completely faithful and devoted to Thanos' command, comprised the Black Order, although he felt no love for them but did appreciate their loyalty.

Among the species he culled was the Zehoberei, a species of green humanoids. During the slaughter, Thanos' attention was caught by a young Zehoberei named Gamora, who was fighting against one of his Chitauri soldiers. Thanos admired her fighting spirit and took her aside just before Chitauri army began the massacre. There, Thanos explained his beliefs using a switchblade knife by balancing it on his finger. He then gave it to Gamora and told her to do the same just as Ebony Maw ordered the Chitauri soldiers to open fire on a group of Zehobereis. Afterward, Thanos adopted Gamora as his daughter afterwards, training her to become the deadliest woman in the galaxy, and over the years he had grown to genuinely care about her as a result. With her being the only one who he truly cared for her among his children, even as she changed from being devoted to him to hating him, Thanos still believed she could become loyal to him again and inherit his throne, continuing to favor her above all others.

Also taken in was Nebula, a Luphomoid from another world he visited and had her and Gamora given cybernetic implants. Both Nebula and Gamora had a sibling rivalry but became somewhat attached, with Nebula saying "of all our siblings, I hated you the least", which could imply none of Thanos' other children showed Nebula any compassion. Despite how close they were, they were constantly driven apart by Thanos forcing them to compete against each other. Thanos once called Gamora "my favorite daughter" without considering Nebula being present at the moment. In their childhood, Thanos would force the two to battle each other, and Thanos would force a cybernetic enhancement on the loser. Each and every time, Nebula would lose and her body became less and less organic. At some point, he took command of the Chitauri species and used their leader, the Other, as an emissary.

During one particularly dangerous training session, Nebula and Gamora engaged each other in fierce combat in a competition to retrieve a data ingot for Ronan. The two female warriors were evenly matched and their bout leads them to a cliffside from which Gamora tossed Nebula over. Nebula was severely injured after the fall and subsequently was forced to undergo cybernetic augmentations. As she was being repaired, Thanos approached her and openly expressed his disappointment over Nebula's actions, lecturing her on the limits of weakness, even going as far as to say "flesh itself is a weakness" and even mentions he should kill her for her failure.

Even with his best efforts, Thanos eventually realized that they are far too many lifeforms in the universe for him to balance. Deducing that the Infinity Stones, objects of immense power that held considerable dominance over the various forces that occupied the universe, could perhaps solve this issue permanently, Thanos made it his life's goal to gather them and use their combined power to erase half of all life in the universe immediately, 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.

Through many years of searching, Thanos discovered a lead on the Orb's (which contained the Power Stone) location, and sent his daughter 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 being one who tolerates failure, forbade Gamora from rescuing her. Nebula was eventually forced to amputate her own arm in order to escape. The Orb was never recovered, but Thanos decided to let the failure pass and carried on his search. Thanos also sent Gamora to find the Soul Stone but reported back to him that her search had been unsuccessful, while in actuality Gamora had lied and she had found a map to the location of the Soul Stone and burned it to ashes. However, Thanos, being as perceptive as he is, easily saw through her lies. However, he allowed her to believe she had fooled him for the time being and decided to use this information in the future when it became useful to him. Thus, his conquest to preserve all life continued.

### The Avengers

In the film, Thanos appears in a post-credits scene, where the Other tells Thanos that the Tesseract, the Space Stone, is on a small world, a human world. It also informs him that Loki is ready to lead the Chitauri, and so he was given the scepter with the Mind Stone to get the Tesseract. In a post-credits scene, Thanos is revealed to have been Loki's benefactor, having provided the Chitauri Army and the Mind Stone inside Loki's scepter used by Loki in his attempted invasion of Earth. When advised by the Other that opposing the Avengers would be "to court death", as the human race was not as weak as Loki claimed, Thanos glances at the camera and flashes an evil grin.

### Guardians of the Galaxy

Thanos plays a more active role in the film, where he has enlisted the help of Ronan, Korath, and his daughters, Gamora and Nebula, to retrieve the Orb (Power Stone) for him. As it turns out, Gamora is not actually Thanos's daughter, since Thanos killed Gamora's family and snatched her as an infant to train her into the perfect assassin, having abused and tormented her in the process of doing so. This causes Gamora to betray Thanos, which leads to a chain of events that leads to Gamora finding her true calling as a protector of the universe and a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. It also results in other races hating her because of the actions she committed while under Thanos's rule.

When Ronan and Nebula are called to discuss Gamora's betrayal, Ronan kills The Other, who was speaking for Thanos, much to Nebula's surprise and concern. Thanos does not care about the death of the Other but is furious at Ronan for not only failing to obtain the Orb but also having alienated and cost him Gamora.

After berating Ronan and calling him "Boy", Thanos says he will destroy Xandar for Ronan if he brings him the Orb but promises to "bathe the star-ways with his blood" should he fail him. Nebula then easily persuaded the frightened Ronan to leave, as they knew too well he is no match for Thanos even without the Stones.

As stated before, Thanos promised Ronan that he will help Ronan destroy Xandar in exchange for Ronan's services. However, once Ronan gets a hold of the Orb, he feels he no longer needs Thanos's help and also decides to betray him. Nebula also decides to betray Thanos out of jealousy over Thanos showing a preference for Gamora over her. Ronan and Nebula take Korath with them, while Thanos, unfazed by their threats of killing him, cut off contact with them in anger of their betrayal. Their actions would later finally convince him to stop relying solely on others to get the Stones.

In the end, Ronan and Korath are killed by the Guardians of the Galaxy (including Gamora), Nebula escapes and becomes a renegade villain independent of Thanos, and the Guardians give the Orb to the Nova Corps for safekeeping. Drax the Destroyer, who got revenge on Ronan for killing his family, decides to turn his attention to Thanos, as the latter was the one who sent Ronan to kill Drax's family to Gamora's dismay.

However, Thanos was still determined to find the six Infinity Stones and the Infinity Gauntlet so he can use them to conquer and rebalance the universe and this event would finally make him decide to come out to the open. He would eventfully encounter the Guardians for the first time several years later.

### Avengers: Age of Ultron

Thanos is indirectly mentioned numerous times in this film; the first time was when Tony said of a possibility that a powerful villain would destroy the Avengers. This was foreshadowed when Tony and Banner found Loki's scepter and used it to bring life to a peacekeeping A.I. program, which later became known as the homicidal cyborg Ultron, much to both Tony and Banner's distraught.

Gaining sentience from the power of the Mind Stone after breaking the scepter and killing HYDRA leader Wolfgang von Strucker, Ultron decides to utilize the Mind Stone in his plot to destroy the Avengers and all of humanity with his own army of Ultron Sentinels. Tony also suffered a nightmare (thanks to the powers of Scarlet Witch) where he sees all the Avengers being murdered (presumably by Thanos) while more Leviathans are heading towards Earth, foreshadowing Thanos' plot to take over the universe with the Infinity Stones.

Eventually, as Ultron and his Sentinels end up being destroyed by the Avengers at Sokovia while the Mind Stone ends up in the possession of Vision, Thor, from his vision in the River of Sights, finally realizes that someone (Thanos) is the one who has been manipulating the events throughout the years for the Infinity Stones, referring to Thanos's part in Loki's invasion and Ronan's quest to acquire the Orb, although what part Thanos played in the Dark Elves's attempt to use the Aether remains unknown but he either somehow woke them up or had no actual part in their awakening.

Thanos finally appeared in a mid-credits scene, where he is fed up with losing his resources and his henchmen failing him and betraying him in his failed attempts to acquire the Stones. Deciding to take matters into his own hand, Thanos arrived to Nidavellir and forced the Dwarf King Eitri to forge the Infinity Gauntlet in order to control the power of all the six Infinity Stones at once. After they had completed the Gauntlet, Thanos massacred them all, leaving only Eitri due to his help but he still cut off the Dwarf King's hands to prevent further weapon forging. 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. He then took the Infinity Gauntlet from its hiding place, swearing to collect all of the six Infinity Stones (including the Mind Stone) by himself.

At some point off-screen, Thanos learned that the Power Stone was on Xandar and traveled to the planet promptly, effortlessly destroying and decimating the Nova Empire in process. Afterwards, Thanos retrieved the Power Stone after breaking the Orb and then inserted it into his Gauntlet before massacring half of the Xandarians as part of his quest to balance the universe.

### Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Thanos doesn't appear in the film but is mentioned twice, once by Nebula (who angrily blames Gamora for the lifetime of pain and misery that she suffered at the hands of Thanos), and another by one of the Ravagers (led by Taserface) as he is aware that Nebula is Thanos' adoptive daughter. Eventually, after having a change of heart and helping the Guardians defeat Ego and the Sovereign, Nebula reconciles with Gamora but leaves her despite Gamora's pleas to become a Guardian and help them protect people from Thanos, intending to instead kill Thanos and prevent anyone else from falling under his control and experience the same suffering she had.

### Thor: Ragnarok

Thanos doesn't appear nor is mentioned in the film. However, his giant ship (the *Sanctuary II*) is seen during a mid-credits scene as it was intercepting one of the Grandmaster's giant ships containing the Asgardians survivors following the deaths of Hela and the Berserker Army, as well as the destruction of Asgard, by the hands of Surtur. It can be implied that Thanos and his forces are going after the Space Stone (the Tesseract) that Loki saved from Ragnarok following Surtur's death.

### Avengers: Infinity War

In the film, Thanos is first seen when the Black Order massacred half of the Asgardians aboard Thor's ship. Thanos personally confronted and easily defeated and beat Thor half-to death, dragging him as he claimed to know what it was like to fail, but also stating one cannot stop destiny from arriving. Thanos then threatened to kill Thor in front of Loki if he did not hand him the Tesseract. Despite Thanos' threat, Loki seemed to be fine with Thor's death, which didn't faze Thanos, knowing fully well Loki was simply pretending to not care and quickly went through with his threat and began slowly killing Thor with the Power Stone, at which point Loki gave in and told Thanos to stop. Thor then informed Thanos that they did not have the Tesseract, claiming it was destroyed during the destruction of Asgard. However, this was disproven when Loki spawned the Tesseract in his hand, much to Thor's dismay and Thanos's glee.

After manifesting the Tesseract, Loki assured Thor that the sun would shine on them again. Thanos mocked this claim and told Loki his optimism was misplaced. Loki then distracted Thanos by saying he was not an Asgardian, which shocked Thanos due to Loki always claiming to be one in all their interactions, allowing Hulk to attack. Despite the Hulk's raw power, Thanos proved to be a much more skilled and stronger opponent and, after quickly composing himself, beaten up the Hulk and then once again easily overpowered Thor after he futility attacked him with a piece of metal which was broken off from his head, allowing Maw to bind Thor. After Heimdall gave the Hulk a chance to escape by teleporting him to Earth, Thanos calmly told him he should not have done it and then executed him with Corvus Glaive's glaive, much to Thor's dismay.

As Thanos took off his armor, Ebony Maw then handed Thanos the Tesseract, which Thanos easily crushed in his hand, revealing the Space Stone, which Thanos inserted into the Gauntlet alongside the Power Stone. The Mad Titan then ordered the Black Order to retrieve the other stones on Earth. Loki offered to help, but Thanos mocked Loki's experience on Earth as being derived from his failures and knowing fully well Loki planned to assassinate him, when Loki offered his fidelity, the Mad Titan easily caught Loki's attack with the Space Stone. Thanos then disarmed Loki while sarcastically mocking Loki for choosing the word "undying", and rebuked that he should have chosen his words more wisely.

Thanos then grabbed Loki by the throat and lifted him in the air, slowly strangling the Frost Giant to death, while giving Thor a mocking look as he watched helplessly. Struggling to speak, Loki defiantly told Thanos that he would never be a god. Thanos was unfazed by Loki's words and calmly crushed Loki's neck as punishment for an attempt to kill him before exhaling a deep breath of having killed someone he considered disgusting, having always held disdain at Loki's selfish desires. Thanos then cruelly dropped Loki's corpse in front of a distraught Thor and taunted him by the fact Loki is truly dead and thus would not be resurrected. Using the Power Stone, Thanos then destroyed the Statesman and teleported his children and himself out of the exploding ship, leaving Thor and the dead Asgardian bodies to float in space.

With two of the Infinity Stones in his possession, Thanos sends the Black Order to Earth to collect the Time Stone (the Eye of Agamotto) and the Mind Stone while he travels to Knowhere, where he is interrogating the Collector to get hold of the Reality Stone (the Aether). As the interrogation was underway, the Guardians of the Galaxy (sans Groot and Rocket) arrive to stop Thanos. The plan was going smoothly until Drax, due to having lost his wife Hovat and his daughter Kamaria at the hands of Thanos's army, almost compromised the Guardians' position due to his anger, prepared to attack Thanos head-on and be the one that kills him. Star-Lord attempted to convince him to wait, noting that Thanos did not have the Stone yet, thus they could still take it from him before he even noticed. His attempt to stop Drax was unsuccessful, however, with Drax ignoring Quill, prompting Mantis to force him to sleep in order to prevent him from giving their location away.

Unfortunately, the sound of Drax collapsing on the ground drew Thanos's attention anyway, and he violently threw the Collector into a tank before advancing towards the Guardians. Before Star-Lord could give combat instructions to Gamora and Mantis, Gamora swiftly attacked Thanos without waiting, engaging in melee combat with her sword Godslayer. However, while Thanos managed to effortlessly destroy Godslayer, Gamora quickly fatally stabbed him in the neck with the remains of Godslayer and then stabbed him very switchblade Thanos had offered her as a child. Thanos appeared to quickly bleed out from his injuries, astonishing the other Guardians and the Collector, who stood in disbelief. The Titan pleaded with Gamora, heartbroken that she would murder him with his own gift to her, before succumbing anticlimactically to his injuries. After Thanos' apparent "death", Gamora down sobbing when she thinks that she has killed her father; partly out of relief, partly out of grief, since she was raised by the Titan after all.

Nevertheless, Thanos's voice was still heard in spite of the Titan's apparent death. Thanos noted that Gamora's tears indicated she still cared for him to an extent. As the dead Titan and the surrounding Knowhere began to dissolve in a red mist, revealing a burning wasteland, Thanos's trickery was finally revealed: The Titan had already laid waste to Knowhere and retrieved the Reality Stone, conjuring an elaborate illusion using the Stone in order to lure in his adopted daughter, who he knew would come for him. Thanos soon appeared himself and commented that while the reality was often disappointing, with the power of the Reality Stone, this no longer held true as reality would be his to command. Indeed, Thanos needed Gamora to disclose the location of the Soul Stone, is the only one who knew its whereabouts, telling her that he counted on their arrival.

Gamora immediately attempted to attack Thanos, but was quickly restrained by the massive Titan. Enraged and recovered from Mantis' sleep inducement, Drax attempted to attack Thanos, only for Thanos to simply smirk at Drax, knowing the latter wanted to avenge his family, and immediately incapacitate him with the Reality Stone, turning him into a statue that immediately crumbled. Terrified, Mantis inadvertently revealed herself, causing Thanos to turn his attention to her and transform her with the Stone as well, cutting her into still-conscious ribbons of flesh, before being confronted by Quill.

Thanos recognized Quill as Gamora's lover, who fruitlessly demanded that Thanos release Gamora, threatening to kill him with his blaster. However, Gamora reminded him of his promise to kill her if she was captured by Thanos, which they made shortly before their arrival. Reluctantly, Quill pointed his Quad Blaster at Gamora, though Thanos was skeptical that Quill would have the courage to follow through on his promise. Thanos then dared Quill to kill her by putting her up against the blaster point-blank. As they confessed their love to each other, Quill finally pulled the trigger. However, the Blaster only fired harmless bubbles - Thanos had preemptively transmuted the blaster's ammunition using the Stone, before transmuting the blaster itself into bubbles. Impressed with Quill for having the courage to do what was necessary, Thanos admitted to having a liking to Quill before he teleported himself and Gamora away with the Reality Stone, leaving Drax and Mantis to reconstitute themselves in the absence of the Reality Stone's effects.

Back on his Sanctuary, Thanos attempted to give Gamora food, believing that she was hungry, but Gamora angrily tossed it into his throne, saying bitterly that she always hated the throne, which Thanos simply retorted by saying he always hoped that she would sit on it anyway and succeed him. Having already heard Gamora's repeated confessions of hatred for his ship and her life, Thanos remained unfazed by all of Gamora's angry statements and simply said that he saved her when Gamora reminisced on how she was a child when Thanos took her.

Thanos then revealed to Gamora on how thanks to his decision to massacre of half the population of her planet, Zen-Whoberi is now prospered and simply dismissed the massacre as a small price to pay for salvation when Gamora angrily said it. Thanos then reminded Gamora on how she once had the same will as he had and that it was due to his training that she became the fiercest woman in the Galaxy and he was so confident in her abilities that he even send her to locate the Soul Stone, which she sarcastically apologized for failing to do. However, Thanos was unfazed and said that he is disappointed not because she did not find the location but she did and lied to him.

Thanos then took Gamora to reveal that Nebula has been captured due to her attempt to assassinate him. However, Thanos did not kill her and instead imprisoned her for interrogation, proceeding to torture her in front of Gamora. Even though Gamora desperately sought to conceal the location of the stone, Thanos revealed that he was aware that Gamora had lied to him by showing a video recording inside Nebula's system. Thanos went as far as to say that while Thanos turned her into the warrior she is now, he never taught her to lie and thus she was never a good liar. Nebula, when Thanos briefly pauses her torture, desperately tries to stop Gamora from telling him where the Soul Stone is. Thanos demanded the Stone's location again, but when Gamora stayed quite, tortured Nebula even further, long enough for Gamora to feel remorse for her pain. Finally giving in, Gamora told Thanos the stone was on Vormir.

Thanos and Gamora traveled to Vormir via a portal from the Space Stone and warned her that the stone better be recovered from where she last lost it or else Nebula would be killed. Thanos and Gamora then walked on top of the cliff and met a mysterious figure. The Stonekeeper would then talk to Thanos about retrieving the Soul Stone and how it extracts a terrible price but Thanos responded to his statement, that he was ultimately prepared for it. The Stonekeeper guided them to the top of a nearby cliff, as the Guardian of the Soul Stone explained to Thanos that obtaining the Stone required the sacrifice of a loved one. Upon hearing this, Gamora laughed in relief and mocked Thanos as a heartless and uncaring monster who loves nobody and nothing. Seeing Thanos has shed tears over this revelation, Gamora further mocked him for crying over his failure to obtain the Soul Stone, until the Stonekeeper informed her that his tears were not for him, but for her. Finally realizing that Thanos had genuinely grown to love Gamora, she was genuinely surprised for a moment and quickly and desperately attempted suicide using her knife, refusing to die for the Soul Stone, but Thanos used the Reality Stone to turn her knife into bubbles. Thanos lamented on how he had once ignored his destiny and cannot do it again before apologizing to Gamora as he tearfully hurled her off the cliff to her death.

As Gamora hit the ground, Thanos winced and closes his eyes when he clearly hears the sound of her hitting the stone, and her screams stop. Thanos sternly looked over the cliff and mourns over Gamora's death. A light burst out that briefly knocked Thanos out but once he awoke in the shallow waters of a river-like environment, he found the Soul Stone in his right hand and inserted it into his Infinity Gauntlet.

With four Infinity Stones in place, Thanos travels back to his homeworld Titan, where he intends to wait for Ebony Maw to deliver the Eye of Agamotto. However, he found Doctor Strange waiting for him and instantly deduced that Maw is dead due to Tony Stark (Iron Man) killing him to save Strange (the current holder of the Eye). Unfazed, 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. Thanos then told him about the history of his planet while altering the reality around it using the Reality Stone to show it's former beauty. Thanos explained how he planned 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 and watch the sunrise on an "grateful universe".

As his conversation with Strange ended, Iron Man dropped a massive piece of debris on him, which only served to infuriate Thanos, who simply blasted away the rubble and transmuted 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 the Destroyer quickly slashed him with his Knives while Doctor Strange conjured a sword to engage Thanos in close combat, but Thanos swiftly composed himself and quickly began to overwhelm them, overtaking Drax through several stones and blowing away Doctor Strange upon bringing down his Eldritch Magic shield with a kick.

However, Star-Lord maneuvered through Thanos' blasts with help 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 Infinity Gauntlet, preventing Thanos from using it. Using this moment to his advantage, Spider-Man attacked Thanos with several kicks, assisted by Doctor Strange's portals, , but it only served to irritate the Mad Titan, who swiftly pinned Spider-Man down and angrily called him an insect before flinging him back at Doctor Strange, knocking him to the ground. Iron Man caused a massive explosion next to Thanos, who remained once again uninjured and simply used the Infinity Gauntlet to absorb the entire explosion and blast the flames back at him, knocking him from the air. 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 ship crashed upon Thanos but he easily survived and was attacked by Nebula. Coldly greeting his former adopted daughter, she warned him that he should have killed her when he had the chance, to which Thanos hatefully spits that it would have been "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, Strange opened a portal for Mantis above Thanos 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. Mantis then revealed that Thanos was in mourning, which led Drax to wonder what a "monster" like Thanos had to mourn. Nebula, however, understood in horror and sadness that he had sacrificed Gamora for the Soul Stone. Star-Lord then angrily confronted Thanos to tell her that Nebula was lying and Thanos emotionally said he had to kill her.

Infuriated beyond all reasoning, Star-Lord repeatedly hit Thanos with his blaster, hitting Mantis' hands in the process which caused her to lose her grip on Thanos. 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 angrily and brutally attacked the group, putting the Guardians of the Galaxy to sleep with a single wild shockwave and then using the Space Stone to pull an entire moon from the sky. Thanos then furiously used the Power Stone to obliterate the entire moon, which he then hurled at his opponents in a hail of meteors.

While Iron Man dodged the meteors and Spider-Man went to save the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thanos ferociously dueled Doctor Strange 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 swiftly transmuted into blue butterflies, which momentarily confused Thanos.

Doctor Strange than proceeded to make almost countless copies of himself and attempted to restrain Thanos with Eldritch Whips. However, Thanos dispelled the many replicas of Doctor Strange using the Soul and Power Stones in unison and sundered his Astral Form out of his body until he regained control. Thanos was able to pull him to his hand before he could react. Thanos admitted he was impressed by Strange's mastery over Magic but criticized him for not using his "greatest weapon". Thanos then grabbed and crushed the Eye of Agamotto and tossed him aside.

Before he could look for the Time Stone, Iron Man, being the final Avenger standing, used a trap to restrain Thanos' gauntlet hand, making him unable to use its power. After a brief conversation in which Thanos revealed that he knew who Iron Man was and what drove him, which Stark expressed his profound grudge towards him, Thanos was attacked relentlessly by all of Iron Man's advanced technology but remained uninjured throughout the onslaught. Iron Man dashed forward and immediately struck Thanos again with two repulsor-powered battering rams, beating him back into a wall with enough force to break it. Recovering quickly, Thanos tore off Iron Man's helmet with his bare hand and punched him to the ground, although Stark reformed his helmet just in time to prevent his head from being knocked off. With Iron Man dazed from the devastating blow, Thanos quickly ripped the clamp from the Gauntlet, and blasted the downed Avenger with a concentrated beam from the Power Stone. Barely recovering, Iron Man managed to block and sidestep the blast by forming a shield.

Boosting towards Thanos in a renewed assault, Iron Man swiftly pinned the Gauntlet to the ground using a foot clamp before twisting around and pummeling the Titan's face with a repulsor-boosted hammer, with enough force to make him bleed. Unfazed, Thanos wiped the small amount of purple blood from his face and simply taunted the Avenger for giving so much labor and struggle only to shed a single drop of blood. Thanos then grinned and effortlessly ripped the Gauntlet free from Iron Man's hold, flipping the battered Avenger onto his back. Thanos began to brutally beat the downed Avenger with his fists, breaking off more and more of his armor with each strike. With Iron Man helpless to resist, Thanos lifted Iron Man up and followed with a point-blank blast with the Power Stone to the Avenger's chest, sending him flying and heavily damaging his armor.

Despite missing much of the upper half of his armor, Iron Man desperately persisted and attempted to hold off the advancing Thanos with his repulsors. Thanos merely blocked the blasts with the Infinity Gauntlet and began beating the Avenger once again, completely destroying his helmet. Stark attempted to defend himself with his bare hands, only for the massive Titan's overwhelmingly superior strength to force him to use both hands to barely block a blow from Thanos's single hand. As Thanos effortlessly blocked and firmly trapped his left hand, Stark then shifted the nanites from his left arm to his right arm to form a sword, and wildly stabbed at the Titan but Thanos easily caught the sword and ripped it from Stark's hand and ruthlessly stabbed him in the abdomen with it, quickly ending the fight in a no-contest victory.

Cradling the injured Stark's head in his hand, Thanos revealed his respect for the Avenger, genuinely impressed by his fearlessness and determination. Thanos took the time to tell the injured Stark that once his goals are complete half of humanity will still exist and he hopes they will remember him. Thanos rises the Gauntlet to finish off Stark only for Doctor Strange to intervene, offering the Time Stone in exchange for Stark's life, much to Stark's surprise and dismay. Thanos agreed but warned Doctor Strange to not double-cross him. Despite Stark's pleas to not give in, Doctor Strange revealed the Time Stone, having disguised it as a star in Titan's sky, and reluctantly surrendered it to Thanos. After taking the Stone, Thanos inserted it into the thumb slot of the Gauntlet, allowing him to control time itself now, leaving him with only one more to collect: the Mind Stone. Suddenly, Thanos was attacked by an awakened and enraged Star-Lord, who began to wildly fire at him, but Thanos remained unfazed and activated the Space Stone and vanished through a portal to Earth to retrieve the final stone.

Meanwhile, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Cull Obsidian assemble a massive army of Outriders to attack Wakanda, being aware that the hero Vision has the Mind Stone lodged in his forehead and is currently located in Wakanda. This forces several Avengers and the Wakandan warriors to fight back against Thanos's army. At first, the heroes are being overwhelmed, but Thor, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot arrived at the rescue with a new powerful weapon called Stormbreaker, allowing the Avengers and Wakandan warriors to finish off Glaive, Proxima, Obsidian and the Outriders to their defeat and deaths.

As unnatural winds began to blow, signalling Thanos' arrival, Captain America sensed the incoming threat and ordered the other Avengers to converge on his position to assist. Suddenly, a portal opened, and Thanos himself stepped through it, finally arriving on Wakanda and Earth. With the Power, Space, Reality, Soul, and Time Stones mounted on the Infinity Gauntlet and only the Mind Stone, his final objective, not installed inside it, Thanos calmly and confidently glared at the heroes that stood between him and his goal. As Banner recognized Thanos and confirmed his identity, Thanos began slowly advancing towards Vision to get the final Stone.

Steve Rogers rallied the Avengers to hold Thanos off for as long as they could while Scarlet Witch, was forced to mercy-kill Vision to prevent Thanos from obtaining the stone. Bruce Banner, in the Hulkbuster armor, made the first strike, leaping furiously at Thanos, only for the Titan to calmly use the Space Stone to phase through Banner. Banner tumbled helplessly through Thanos into a solid rock cliff, where he released Banner from the phase, imprisoning him in the rock. As Captain America dashed at Thanos, Thanos casually blasted Rogers aside with a shockwave from the Power Stone. Black Panther then leaped at Thanos, but the Titan merely grabbed him in mid-air by the throat before he brutally punched him into the ground. Falcon then attempted to provide air support, only for Thanos to block all of his attacks effortlessly and incapacitate him by disabling his wings with the Space Stone.

Using the Space Stone to deflect War Machine's shots, Thanos simply and effortlessly compacted the Avenger's armor telekinetically before flinging him aside. Bucky Barnes then arrived to reinforce but was simply blasted aside with the Power Stone. Black Widow and Okoye moved to replace Barnes, with the latter throwing her spear at Thanos' head. Thanos simply stopped the spear and blasted Okoye aside with the Power Stone and then used the Reality Stone to trap Black Widow in a cage of rock before she could react. Groot then attempted to restrain Thanos using his vines, but Thanos effortlessly snapped them apart with pure strength and continued advancing toward Vision and the Mind Stone.

As Maximoff continued to pool energy into the Stone, Thanos was engaged once again by Steve Rogers, who managed to dodge Thanos attacks and land multiple hits upon the Titan. Despite managing to briefly hold back the Infinity Gauntlet, Rogers was finally downed with a direct punch to the head, leaving only Scarlet Witch to defend Vision. Desperately, Maximoff held Thanos back with a beam of energy to stall him further, who continued to slowly advance while blocking the beam with the Space Stone. Despite continuing to advance forward, Thanos was too late - with a final confession of love to Maximoff, Vision peacefully shut his eyes as the Stone's structure began to destabilize, and finally shatter in a violent explosion, disintegrating itself and Vision completely, destroying the Mind Stone.

As Maximoff lay on the ground, heartbroken, Thanos only stared at the barren crater where Vision had once remained. However, despite seemingly failing his goals, Thanos not only remained calm but comforted Maximoff, sympathizing with her pain at having to sacrifice what she loved most, having previously sacrificed his dearest daughter, Gamora, for the Soul Stone. Maximoff bitterly retorted, claiming he knew nothing of her pain, but Thanos replied that he had lost more than she could ever know just before noting that there was no time to mourn, Thanos activated the Time Stone, using its powers to reverse Vision's destruction, restoring the Mind Stone and rendering Maximoff's actions moot. Before she could stop him, Thanos easily knocked her aside, taking Vision by the throat and ripping the Mind Stone right from his forehead, killing him a second time. Flinging his lifeless corpse aside, Thanos inserted the Stone into the Gauntlet. As the Stones' combined energies flowed through his body, even causing a bit of pain to the Titan, Thanos admired the Gauntlet, having finally completed his quest.

In a last-minute attempt to finish off Thanos and avenge all those who Thanos had killed, Thor blasted Thanos into the ground with a powerful lightning blast from his new weapon, Stormbreaker. Regaining his footing but unaware of the true properties inside the axe, Thanos unleashed an energy blast on Thor from the Infinity Gauntlet, who then hurled it with all his electrical power and great strength at Thanos' torso. The power of the fully enchanted axe, having been created to counter the Gauntlet, quickly overwhelmed the beam, and Thanos could do nothing to stop Stormbreaker from burying itself deep in his chest. Landing in front of the severely injured Thanos, Thor proceeded to vengefully remind Thanos of his promise to kill him. Thor than forced Stormbreaker deeper into his chest, causing him further pain and injury to make sure Thanos suffered before his death. However, despite being grievously wounded and in severe pain, the wound was not enough to kill him and the Mad Titan, although struggling to speak at first, victoriously taunted Thor for not aiming for the head for an instantaneous kill. Thor, realizing his mistake too late, could do nothing but yell in horror as Thanos mustered the strength to simply snap his fingers anyway and activate the death wave. The Gauntlet was activated in a blinding flash of energy, altering the Universe on an unprecedented scale.

Nearly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of power required to use the Gauntlet's full power in his weakened state, Thanos briefly passed out, and to his great surprise, reawakened in a vast orange void, a world within the Soul Stone, without the Gauntlet or his fatal injury. Turning to find a lone Zen-Whoberi archway, Thanos found a reflection of a young Gamora's spirit standing alone underneath. Initially expecting Gamora to lash out at him, Thanos was surprised when Gamora calmly asked if he accomplished his mission and Thanos, preparing himself for the inevitable argument, resignedly acknowledged he had. Although horrified by the severe consequences of his victory, Thanos found that Gamora no longer had the drive to do so, having been resigned to being defeated and gently asked what his actions had cost. Thanos sadly replied that his actions cost him everything, as he had lost the only thing that mattered most to him, Gamora herself, to which Gamora sadly concurred by nodding at this answer.

Regaining consciousness, Thanos returned to his body in Wakanda, the Infinity Gauntlet, and his left arm scorched and burned by the immense release of energy. Seeing no apparent change, Thor furiously questioned Thanos about what he had done, but Thanos, knowing that his goal was finally completed, merely smirked at Thor mockingly for how his selfish desire for revenge had cost him victory before teleporting away, leaving only a confused Thor and Stormbreaker falling to the ground, covered in Thanos' blood.

Quickly after Thanos vanished, half of all life in the universe slowly disintegrated into ashes: As Rogers questioned Thor as to Thanos' whereabouts, Bucky Barnes suddenly crumbled into dust in front of Rogers. M'Baku could only watch with horror as the Wakandan soldiers around him began to fade. Hidden on the ground in long grass, Falcon disintegrated as Rhodes called out to him, not realizing yet that his companion and friend was already gone. T'Challa, attempting to help Okoye up and encourage her to fight, fell into ashes before her eyes just as he attempted to help her up. Afterward, Rocket tearfully watched Groot fade away as he weakly called for his "father" to help him. Kneeling over Vision's lifeless body, Wanda Maximoff vanished into dust with a face of relief and peace on her face.

On Titan, in the aftermath of their defeat, the effects of the Gauntlet began to claim the lives of the battered Mantis, Drax, Star-Lord, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man, leaving Iron Man and Nebula as the only survivors on Titan. As the effects of Thanos' mass genocide took hold across the Universe, the remaining survivors could do nothing but stand in utter shock and defeat, unable to do anything but accept the reality of Thanos' victory.

Far away on an unknown distant planet, Thanos limped out of a farm with his wounds mostly healed, and his armor hung up on a nearby scarecrow. Finally, at peace, he sat down and smiled to himself in relief, satisfied that he finally defeated the heroes and achieved his goal. As a call-back to what he said to Doctor Strange on Titan, Thanos calmly watched the sunrise upon what he saw as a grateful universe.

### Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Thanos does not appear in the series, but he was mentioned in the Season 5 episode "*The One Who Will Save Us All*", where Graviton learned from the Kree about Thanos' plot to wipe out half of the universe. As such, Graviton suggests that they ally with the Avengers to fight against Thanos, but the Kree convinced him to obtain more Gravitonium in order to absorb it and increase his own powers.

### Ant-Man and the Wasp

Thanos does not appear nor he is mentioned in the film. However, during a mid-credits scene following the arrest of Sonny Burch and the curing of Ghost, it is revealed that Thanos' death wave has killed Hank Pym, along with his wife Janet van Dyne, and their daughter Hope (known as the Wasp), leaving them to be wiped away from existence. The Pym family's demise also caused Hope's partner Scott Lang (known as Ant-Man) to be left trapped in a Quantum Realm, much to his complete distraught.

### Captain Marvel

Although not appearing in the movie, Thanos is mentioned scarcely. Following the defeat of the Supreme Intelligence and Starforce of the Kree Empire, Captain Marvel gave Nick Fury a modified pager in case he would have to send out distress calls to her as she would be busy helping Talos and his fellow Skrulls find a new home planet to live in. The pager would be activated 23 years later during the events of *Infinity War*, prompting Captain Marvel to head over to the New Avengers Facility, where she saw that the surviving Avengers, moping over their failure to defeat Thanos and deeming Thanos's actions as being a nightmare, had retrieved Fury's pager before demanding to know where Fury is. She later found out in horror that Fury activated his pager before he was dissolved to his death along with half of the universe's populace thanks to Thanos' death wave.

### Avengers: Endgame

Three weeks after the cataclysmic events of Thanos's victory, a weakened and horribly scarred Thanos is first seen picking crops from the fields of his hut before heading inside to cook up a stew. As he sat, Captain Marvel, who had been recruited by the Avengers, smashed through the roof of his hut and restrained him, alongside Bruce in the Hulkbuster and War Machine. As the weakened Thanos struggled against them, Thor quickly smashed through the hut and sliced Thanos' left arm off with Stormbreaker in order to free the Gauntlet. As Thanos roared in agony, Captain America and the rest of the Avengers came in, and Rocket Raccoon went to get the Infinity Stones from the Gauntlet, only to discover they were gone. Captain America interrogated the Mad Titan on the location of the stones, and Thanos revealed that once he fulfilled his goal to eradicate half of the universe, the Stones served no purpose beyond temptation. An angry Bruce Banner proceeded to assault Thanos, raging at him for his murder of trillions. Thanos retorted that they all should be grateful, disregarding the pychological effect his decimation had on the Avengers and the survivors.

Thanos taunted the Avengers by revealing that he had actually destroyed the Stones in case he would be tracked down so that his work wouldn't be reversed, which may explain the scars he received. He also reveals that he did it so that he wouldn't feel tempted to use them again. Knowing that his work for the universe is done, Thanos proclaimed that he was inevitable. The Avengers refused to believe this and War Machine suggests tearing down Thanos' hut to find the Stones, but Nebula (in spite of her hatred towards Thanos) stated that Thanos is never a liar of any sort despite his atrocities, implying that his statement of destroying the Stones has to be true. With his last words, while knowing that he would die, Thanos confirmed this by thanking Nebula for pointing that out and admitting that he was wrong to treat her too harshly. With this horrible revelation revealed, a furious Thor decapitates Thanos with Stormbreaker in revenge, and a grieving Nebula took solace in Thanos' last words by closing his eyelids out of respect. The surviving Avengers then return back to Earth in shame, knowing now that even after killing Thanos, they have lost to him again as that they cannot reverse the death wave to bring back their loved ones.

For the next five years, the surviving populace is forced to live with the damage that Thanos caused, but are unable to move on due to being traumatized by the deaths of their loved ones. However, Ant-Man escapes from the Quantum Realm and meets up with the Avengers, stating that he got stuck there when the death wave happened and that it took five hours for him to escape instead of five years. The Avengers soon learned that they can use the energy from the Quantum Realm to create a time machine so that they can go back and get the Infinity Stones to reverse the massacre. To that end, the Avengers split away into traveling into different timelines: Hulk and Captain America managed to retrieve the Time and Mind Stones during the Chituari invasion of New York from 2012, Iron Man and Captain America retrieved the Space Stone and several Pym Particles from 1970 S.H.I.E.L.D HQ, Rocket and Thor retrieved Mjølnir and the Reality Stone from 2013 Asgard, and Romanoff sacrificed herself in 2014 Vormir to allow Barton to obtain the Soul Stone.

In an alternate 2014 reality, Thanos informed Nebula and Gamera that he had found an Infinity Stone. Once they arrived inside Thanos' warship, Sanctuary II, a blood-covered Thanos transported into the ship after going on a massacre with his Double-Edged Sword. As he cleaned the blood from his massive sword, Thanos noted to his daughters that Ronan the Accuser had located the Power Stone and will be dispatching them to his ship. Gamora noted that Ronan would not approve of this, but Thanos merely told her that Ronan's alternative was death and that his obsession clouded his judgment.

Nebula bowed down to her father and noted that she'll never fail his mission, Thanos was pleased and told her that he knew she wouldn't. Suddenly, Nebula collapsed in pain as her mind was then rewired with her future self, revealing her intentions of taking the Power Stone before Thanos could. As Thanos grew suspicions, he ordered Gamora to bring Nebula to his ship, all while threatening Nebula for seemingly going behind his back.

After bringing her to his ship, Thanos and Ebony Maw decided to run diagnostics on Nebula's memory file. Maw noted to Thanos that Nebula's file was intertwined with another one and her memories aren't actually from her but from another Nebula from the future. A puzzled Thanos claimed the idea was impossible, but Maw further informed him that her future self carries a timestamp, being nine years later.

Thanos told Maw to access Nebula's memory files for the Infinity Stones. After Maw had accessed Nebula's memory files in the future, Thanos saw the Avengers planning their time heist for the Infinity Stones and told Maw to stop the video. Thanos recognized the Avengers as the "unruly wretches" the Other had told him about, before taking notice of a reflection in the video, Thanos told Maw to amplify the reflection, and as he did, it was revealed to be a reflection of Nebula, revealing she was part of the team. Thanos ordered Maw to scan more memories from the future, wanting to see everything he could.

Meanwhile, on Morag, War Machine had successfully time-traveled back to 2023 with the Power Stone, but 2023 Nebula remained behind as her memories were still overloading. While 2014 Nebula had finally accessed her own memory files from the future, Thanos observed his injured future self, explaining that he destroyed the Infinity Stones, although he was almost killed by it. Thanos came to the realization that the Avengers weren't trying to stop something he had been doing in their timeline but stopping something that his future self had already done in their timeline.

As he reviewed the Avengers' ambush on his future self, Thanos noted to Gamora that he had already completed his quest in collecting the Stones, successfully executing his plan to balance the universe. After Gamora bowed down before her father, Maw proclaimed that this was Thanos' future, while Thanos declared that it was his destiny. Continuing the footage, Thanos soon witnessed his brutal death at the hands of Thor. Although those in the room were horrified by this, Thanos was not fazed at the sight of his own death and calmly said that his destiny was fulfilled.

After Thanos' comment, Ebony Maw declared that Nebula was a traitor and attempted to strangle the past Nebula for joining the Avengers. Nebula desperately said that she would never betray Thanos as Thanos calmly approached her. Thanos listened to her call for mercy and broke Nebula free from the restraints on her neck and noted that he understood it was not her. Holding up her chin, Thanos explained to Nebula that she will have the chance to prove her loyalty to him. Using the information gathered to further his goal, Thanos proceeded to capture 2023 Nebula on Morag while he sent 2014 Nebula to interrogate her once she was brought aboard his ship.

Once the past Nebula had retrieved the Pym Particles that the Avengers used to go back in time, Thanos was introduced to it while sitting on his throne. Looking at the Pym Particle that he was given, Nebula informed him of her plan to impersonate her future self and recover the Infinity Stones. As 2014 Nebula time-traveled to the future, Thanos assigned Gamora to watch over her future adoptive sister. In order to be able to follow Nebula into the future as well, Thanos had Ebony Maw use his sorcery to reverse-engineer the Pym Particles so that there would be enough for his fleet to use in order to time-travel into the future.

By the time the past Nebula arrived on Earth in 2023, the Nano Gauntlet had been constructed by the Avengers using the gathered Infinity Stones, with Hulk using it to reverse the effects of the Snap. Although horribly injured by using the Gauntlet, Hulk was successful in bringing back all those who had died originally during the Decimation. However, as they did this, past Nebula used the time machine to transport Thanos and his entire fleet from 2014 to the present day.

After arriving in the future, Thanos obliterated the New Avengers Facility with the *Sanctuary II*, causing Hulk, War Machine and Rocket Raccoon to become trapped under the rubble to drown before Ant-Man came to rescue them. After destroying the New Avengers Facility, Thanos transported himself into the wreckage to try and relocate his position of the plan. Upon leaving his ship, Thanos was approached by past Nebula, who earned Thanos' praise for bringing him and their armies over to the present. Thanos then sent Nebula to find the Infinity Stones while he calmly waited, intending to lure the Avengers to him.

Fully aware of the transgressions of what has happened and is about to happen, Thanos calmly awaits the arrival of the Avengers. As Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor approached the Mad Titan, the latter confronted them for being unable to move on without their loved ones and making his deeds so ungrateful to the universe. Declaring this as the last straw as he was already annoyed with them for stopping his invasion of Earth, Thanos announces his next plot of destroying the universe and rebuilding it with vast resources and life that will be forced to be grateful to him. When Captain America noted how the new universe would be built from blood, Thanos said it wouldn't matter because the Avengers won't live to tell them about, before engaging the three Avengers in a brutal battle.

During the ensuing fight, Thanos overwhelmed the three Avengers with his superior speed and power, and his immense skills with his massive double-edged sword. While Thanos engaged Captain America in close combat, Iron Man blasted his repulsors from the help of Thor's lightning, causing Thanos to use his Double-Edged Sword to spin it with his right arm and deflect it the massive attack. Thanos pushed forward with his Double-Edged Sword, moving closer and closer to the Avenger. Once he grew close enough, Thanos broke himself out of the situation and picked Iron Man up with his bare hands, attempting to rip the Avenger in half. Before he could do so, Thor was forced to throw Mjølnir at Iron Man, knocking the Avenger out of Thanos' hands and saving his life, although knocking him out.

Captain America once again engaged Thanos in combat, landing a hit on the Titan, but Thanos merely punched the Avenger away as he protected himself with his shield. Thanos then threw his sword at Thor, who evaded the attack and lunged at Thanos with Stormbreaker. Thanos's sword returned to Thanos' hand and he was able to block Thor's attack. Thanos then parried Stormbreaker out of Thor's hand and proceeded to beat the Avenger down. Due to the God of Lightning being weakened from years of inactivity, Thanos easily overpowered Thor and brutally beat him down into the ground. Thor attempted to summon Stormbreaker to kill Thanos, but Thanos caught it before Thor could and attempted to cut Thor in half with the axe in revenge for his future self's death. Before Thanos could do so, Mjølnir is thrown at his back and knocks him down. The hammer flies back to its wielder, who is revealed to be Steve Rogers - who has proven himself worthy to wield the mystical hammer, much to Thor's delight.

Thanos kicked Thor to the ground and proceeded to battle Captain America, who was now armed with both Mjølnir and his shield. At first, Steve Rogers proves to be a match to Thanos (possibly because of his already superhuman strength being empowered), even being able to cast powerful lightning at the Titan, but Thanos manages to dodge an attack from Captain America proceeds to choke-slam the Avenger to the ground. Thanos then removed his damaged helmet and attacked Rogers with his sword, managing to cut him across the leg while swinging the blade. Gaining control, Thanos caught an attack from Rogers and knocked Mjølnir out of his hands. Thanos then picked up his sword and swung at Rogers, who blocked the attack with his shield, although his shield was damaged during this. Thanos then began to swing savagely at Rogers' shield, severely damaging and break it after multiple swings. Thanos then sent Rogers flying with a final sword swing.

With the three Avengers defeated, Thanos expressed in his seething rage that he will personally enjoy razing Earth and wiping out all of its populace in a way that he had never done in his previous conquests. Thanos then summoned his entire army, including Outriders, Sakaarans, Chitauri, and the Black Order, which emerged from his warship behind him. Despite being outnumbered and injured, Rogers rose from the ground and stood ready to face Thanos and his entire army alone until he suddenly receives a faint radio communication from Falcon, who tells him to look behind him.

Just then, a portal opened behind Rogers as Black Panther, Okoye, Shuri, and the Wakandan Army slowly arrived at the battlefield. Another portal from Titan opens to reveal Doctor Strange along with the Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man. More portals began opening as the Asgardians, the Ravagers (including Howard the Duck), and the Masters of the Mystic Arts joined the Avengers' side. Pepper Potts, now donning a blue-and-silver armor, also appeared. After everyone forms up to face Thanos and his forces once and for all, all the allied teams charged at Thanos' forces as Thanos himself motioned his army to attack before joining the fight shortly after.

While fighting a few of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, Thanos demanded to know 2014 Nebula's whereabouts, but Corbus Glaive told him that she wasn't responding on her intercom before Ebony Maw alerted him to the Nano Gauntlet's location. Thanos managed to knock the Gauntlet away from Black Panther, but as he ran towards it, he was confronted by the Scarlet Witch. The enraged woman, who remembered how Thanos murdered Vision, hatefully told him that he took everything from her. Thanos furiously responded by saying he didn't know who Scarlet Witch was, being from the past, but she told him that he would and engaged him in battle. Despite initially gaining the upper hand on her, Wanda managed to overcome him, depriving him of his double-edged sword and lifting him and using telekinesis to almost tearing him apart. During the assault, Thanos furiously ordered a missile strike (though at the cost of losing much of his forces in the process). Though the airstrike was successful in keeping Scarlet Witch and the Avengers at bay, Captain Marvel arrived from space and destroyed the Sanctuary II as Thanos watched in surprise.

Shortly after, Ant-Man and Wasp attempted to return the Infinity Stones to the past using the Quantum Realm, but Thanos himself managed to halt their efforts and attempted to retake the Gauntlet in the ensuing chaos, before being attacked again by Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man. Despite their efforts, Thanos overpowered the three before successfully taking the Iron Gauntlet, but before he could wield it, Captain Marvel stopped him and engaged the Titan in a vicious fight. Thanos managed to toss her away before finally donning the Gauntlet, causing energy to surge throughout his body. Despite the pain, Thanos attempted to snap his fingers and destroy the universe, but Captain Marvel seized and forced open his hand, stopping him from doing so. Thanos attempted to headbutt Captain Marvel, but she didn't react at all to the attack. Slowly being overpowered, Thanos pulled the Power Stone from the Gauntlet and used it to violently blast Captain Marvel away with a punch, knocking her out of the fight.

Placing the Power Stone back in the Iron Gauntlet, Thanos was briefly halted by Iron Man, who tried to prevent him from using the Gauntlet, but Thanos violently knocked Iron Man aside and donned the Gauntlet back into his hand. Having defeated all the Avengers once again, Thanos (with an evil smile) taunted them of their failure by repeating his future self's words that he is inevitable before snapping his fingers with the Gauntlet, expecting for the entire universe to be destroyed and all of its populace to be extinguished by his own will.

However, this time, to Thanos' surprise, his snap has no effect at all as the Gauntlet is missing the Stones. He shortly discovers that Iron Man actually managed to remove the Stones from the Gauntlet and transfer them to his armor in case Thanos would get his hands on the Gauntlet. Iron Man taunted back at a stunned Thanos declaring himself to be Iron Man before sacrificing himself by snapping his fingers with the Stones, causing all the Black Order and their alien armies (except for Gamora from 2014 and Nebula) to disintegrate into dust at the cost of Iron Man's life with his human body being unable to sustain the power. Watching all of his massive armies fade away into dust, Thanos is left in horror that his goals for the universe have been undone and possibly losing his children. Realizing that there is nothing he can do to prevent his impending death, Thanos solemnly sits down among the devastated battlefield, gazing at the darkened sky, and resignedly accepting his fate in despair as he is wiped away from existence, finally ending his reign of terror on the universe for good and avenging all of his victims (including half of the Zehoberei, half of the Luphomoids, half of the Xandarians, half of the Asgardians, Drax's family, the Dwarves, Loki, Heimdall, 2018 Gamora and Vision) as well as the resurrected ones who previously perished in the snap, thus resulting in the 2018 Thanos' ultimate goal to fail in vain.

With Thanos and his forces finally dead at last, the Avengers are satisfied that they have finally defeated them for good. Following Iron Man's funeral, the Avengers return the Stones (and Mjølnir) back to their original places and timelines before going their separate ways, safe in the knowledge that the universe is now at peace for now.

### Spider Man: Far From Home

Thanos' actions leave an enormous impact in the aftermath of his final defeat. As Earth begins to recover, Iron Man is revered for his sacrfice, and there is much speculation as to who will replace him as the world's next hero. The return of the Thanos' victims results in problems with identity documentation, as they returned five years after their deaths without having physically aged. Any high school student that was a victim of the Snap is subsequently forced to retake the entire school year, even if they had already completed midterms, including Peter Parker's class.

## Personality

Although considered by many to be the ultimate embodiment of cruelty, madness and destruction, Thanos was actually a more complicated and tortured soul as he became who he was due to his traumatic past, genuinely believed that he was right, and that his actions of wiping out half of all live would benefit the whole universe. Towards his enemies, Thanos can be ruthless and cruel and he is relentless as seen by his gathering of children from across the galaxy to take as his own while murdering their families so he can raise them as assassins and aid him by tirelessly searching for the Infinity Stones. Joe Russo noted, however, that Thanos' belief was delusional and self-righteous due to the fact that he would force his belief on the whole universe. Thanos proved that by not sparing even the species that he had once halved or were already dwindling, as shown with the Asgardian refugees, which resulted in them to become even more less in number and actively ignores less extremes options such as increasing and adapting the resources for everybody in the Universe. Thus, his goal of halving the universal populace was really to prove that it could have saved his people from extinction. He also called himself "generous" when he discussed the traits that Gamora inherited from him and even referred himself as the embodiment of destiny, describing his plan for the universe as "salvation" and his plans as being inevitable, which was a further sign of Thanos' delusions. Indeed, even when Thanos's past self learned that the Avengers utilized time travel (through the usage of the Quantum Realm) in order to retrieve the Infinity Stones and undo the damage that he did in the original timeline, Thanos realized that the remaining half of the universe's populace wouldn't accept the future that he envisioned whether he succeeded or not because they could never forget about the losses of their loved ones he killed, which proved that his beliefs were wrong, rather than admitting that he was wrong, Thanos instead came to the conclusion that the universe was ungrateful for his deeds and decided that he would use the Stones to destroy the entire universe and recreate it in his own image so that everyone would be grateful for his actions, becoming outright depraved and ruthless for the sake of his own ambitions as he abandoned his ideals of balance, honor, and empathy as he gloated to the Avengers that he would enjoy personally tearing the Earth apart out of spite against them for interfering with his plans.

Being possibly the most notorious warlord in the universe, Thanos was extremely arrogant as he merely smiled when The Other told him that challenging the Avengers was like courting Death. He even was unfazed when Ronan threatened to kill him with The Orb, despite knowing well that the Kree was already very powerful even without the Stone, and displayed only anger over his betrayal. Thanos also confidently smiled when he decided to collect the Infinity Stones personally. He was also extremely brave, never showing any sign of fear or cowardice, even when he knows he was about to be killed. Beside this, Thanos had an extraordinary will and mental strength, as evidenced by Mantis struggling to hypnotize him despite her ability to make Ego, another very powerful being, falling asleep almost instantly simply with a touch, with her thus pointing out that the Titan was "very strong".

Thanos was extremely unforgiving and intolerant of failures, with a loathsome nature and tendency to torturously punish any failure, that made him an exceptionally intimidating figure. The Other warned Loki that he would know a new kind of pain if he did not give them the Tesseract, something which visibly scared the God of Mischief and made him more determined than ever out of fear of Thanos' power. Even though Thor did not know about Thanos, he could still sense Thanos' easy control over Loki as being absurd due to Loki's arrogance. That side of his was shown further when Thanos furiously threatened to bathe the stairways in Ronan's blood if he failed to deliver the Orb, something which scared one of the strongest Kree into submission, and forbade Gamora from rescuing Nebula when the latter fell into a trap while on a mission in the Cloud Tombs of Praxius. He even arranged for Nebula to be painfully tortured in order to coerce Gamora into revealing the location of the Soul Stone. Even Ebony Maw, his most loyal and faithful child who have never failed him before, fears his possible "judgement" if he fails to bring the Time Stone in time and attached to the necklace of Strange to Thanos. Despite his charisma and leadership skills having allowed him to rule the Chitauri and Outriders unchallenged, Thanos showed little to no regard for his followers, as he showed absolutely no concern when Ronan killed The Other

Thanos was also manipulative and hesitant to trust: he sent Ronan to retrieve the Orb for him and did not tell him that it contained an Infinity Stone. Thanos was surprisingly patient, kept a low profile, lurked in the shadows, and made others do his work for him. However, after both of his alliances backfired, Thanos showed that he was fully capable of taking action himself, as he decided to hunt for the Infinity Stones himself. During his hunt of the Infinity Stones, Thanos was described by the Russo Brothers as becoming almost a "holy warrior" who only killed when necessary. That was shown by the fact that while Thanos did ruthlessly kill Loki for failing him and attempting to kill him, he gave him a rather merciful and quick death despite having earlier threatened him and spared Thor nothing more but a brief grin and didn't bother to show outright mock when he cruelly announced Loki's true death. While Ebony Maw stated that Thanos would like to "have his fun" with the Hulk when the Gamma Beast attacked him on the *Statesman*, the Titan remained focused when he fought and beat the Hulk. That was later displayed repeatedly when Thanos merely incapacitated his opponents when he fought on both Titan and Wakanda. He also massacred nearly all of the Dwarves in order to put their king, Eitri, in a trauma after he cut off his arms.

For all of Thanos's arrogance, he never lets this hamper his intelligence, displaying the ability to swiftly recover from unexpected and debilitating setbacks and calmly handle the situation without the usual anger over being outplayed like most villains did. Those who attempted to use his confidence against him swiftly found themselves failing, which has proven to be a saving grace for Thanos several times: Loki attempted to use Thanos' confidence that the God of Mischief was too afraid to attack him to assassinate him, only for Thanos to instantly see through it, having fully knew from the beginning what Loki would do and not counting Loki's fear as being sufficient, and hence effortlessly thwarted and killed Loki, for good. Instead of going into a rage on the heroes at Titan for reminding him of his sacrifice of Gamora, he promptly tactically broke the planet's moon to pieces and blasted it in order to separate his enemies. When Thor severely wounded him, instead of panicking and cursing at the God of Thunder, Thanos instead took advantage of Thor's desire for cruel revenge by convincingly feignning he was about to die until he mockingly revealed that Thor's blow was in the end insignificant to stop him and caught him completely off-guard, allowing him to complete his goal while leaving Thor completely helpless and finally when the Gauntlet was damaged rather than continuing to be astonished or taking too much time to mock Thor, Thanos swiftly left Earth to escape death after only giving Thor a mocking smirk when he furiously questioned what he did. Additionally, rather than arrogantly believing the Avengers would give up after his defeat of them, Thanos calculated they would persist and never give up and would target him to get the Infinity Stones to reverse his Snap and thus destroyed them, which left the Avengers utterly defeated for 5 years. However, it was shown that he wasn't always like this, as displayed by his 2014 self: Upon defeating Iron Man, rather than checking if the Infinity Gauntlet still had the Stones, Thanos instead taunted him over his failure and simply snapped only to learn that Iron Man had already obtained the Stones and used them to disintegrate Thanos and his army at the cost of his own life. Unlike last time, Thanos was so shocked he didn't try to prevent the snap even though he could have, leading to his ultimate demise.

However, Thanos once had a kinder and more benevolent side to himself in that he cared deeply for his planet and people even though he was shunned for being deformed, as he tried everything that he could to convince the governments of his planet to do what he suggested. The fact that they refused to accept his proposal and called him insane for it was what made Thanos who he was in the present with his desire to exterminate half of the population of every planet so as to save those civilizations from the same overpopulation tragedy which destroyed his home planet. That was why Thanos truly believed his cause for killing off half of everyone on all planets to be a righteous cause and saw himself a righteous soul who was doing what was necessary to save all the civilizations of the universe, so that they did not face the same tragedy as his home planet.

Despite everything he had gone through, Thanos was not without the ability to love: Despite his ruthlessly strict treatment of even his children, he has been shown to truly care for them. Though he was more than willing to kill children, the fact that he took in only children out of the inhabitants of the planet he balanced showed he had a soft side for them. The child he loved the most was Gamora, who he quickly became interested in after seeing her fight back against her captor and gently kept her from being a part of the random genocide of her people by giving her the task of balancing a blade he gave her and when her attention turned to her people's screaming, he gently reminded her to remain focused on her task. Over the years, Thanos considered Gamora his favorite daughter and was proud of her abilities, deeming her the only one worthy of having his throne and despite knowing of her hatred for him, he never stopped believing that she could one day be loyal again. He even forgave her lie of failing to find the Soul Stone and allowed her to keep the façade for years until he finally decided to hunt down the Infinity Stones himself. Thanos also admitted that he knew Gamora wanted to leave his side and yet allowed it, perhaps wanting to give Gamora her wish even if only temporarily, and despite her betrayal, he made it clear Ronan alienating of Gamora angered him. Just before he captured Gamora, Thanos offered her a chance to come willingly, outright indicating he would leave the Guardians unharmed, and when he had her captive, he treated her more like a guest than a prisoner, not restraining her and instead giving her food and remaining patient and appealing despite Gamora's anger, and rather than torturing her for the location of the Soul Stone, he instead had Nebula tortured to make Gamora tell him. He took the lead when they ventured to the Soul Stone's shrine and when they encountered the Red Skull, not knowing if he was friend or foe, he made a gesture telling her to stay back, shielding her with his own body and was utterly heartbroken when he realized he had to kill Gamora to gain the power of the Soul Stone, to the point where he shed tears and sincerely apologized, his grief and pain being sensed by Mantis despite still going through with it as he believed it was for the greater good.

Even towards his other children, Thanos did have some affection for them, as he stated that the loss of Maw was a heavy toll despite remaining calm and only being slightly somber over it and with the loss of all his children, he mournfully admitted he lost everything. Even towards Nebula, despite her betrayal, Thanos did not kill her after getting the information out of Gamora, although he outright shoved the fact that she was inferior to Gamora in his eyes in her face during their showdown and had no qualms fighting her. Likewise, before his present's death, Thanos was genuinely grateful when she admitted that he wasn't a liar and showed regret that he treated her too harshly, which drove her to tears before she mourned him. It was later shown that Thanos wasn't always so critical of her and when she promised to make him proud, the 2014 Thanos was visibly pleased and stated he knew she would. Rather than killing her for her apparent betrayal, Thanos instead took her to his ship to be treated and checked. After listening to his future self regretting his treatment of her, Thanos decided to treat Nebula better after he saw his future self express regret for his harsh treatment of her. That was demonstrated when he immediately releases the chain that Ebony Maw had around Nebula's neck and gave her the chance to prove her loyalty despite learning of her eventual betrayal.

Thanos was also shown to have an honorable and respectable side, as even though he was angry for Ronan causing him to lose Gamora and returning empty-handed, he was still willing to fulfill his end of their deal by destroying half of Xandar's population in order to nab the Power Stone. Thanos even extended that to his enemies: he spared Iron Man when Doctor Strange gave him the Time Stone. In fact, though quite manipulative, Thanos was a person who never lied, something that even Nebula confirmed. Indeed, even though The Other stated that Thanos desired to use the Tesseract to look beyond the known worlds to find greater ones that it would unveil, it was later on shown that Thanos never intended to use the Stones power for control over the universe and was quick to destroy them to avoid being tempted by their power. He proved capable of showing respect and empathy toward his opponents should they earned it. That was first seen when Star-Lord attempted to kill Gamora due to the promise that he made to her, but thanks to the Reality Stone, the ammunition was transmuted into bubbles; it was then that Thanos said that he liked Quill for his willingness to kill Gamora when the situation called for it. Thanos also praised Iron Man for his bravery and hoped the survivors of humanity would still remember him. When Scarlet Witch was forced to kill Vision in order to destroy the Mind Stone, Thanos actually sympathized for her loss, comforted her, and told her that he had experienced the same kind of sadness when he killed Gamora, but later reversed that with the Time Stone before he killed Vision and obtained the Mind Stone, much to Scarlet Witch's distraught. This side of Thanos also made him outright contemptuous of those who sought power for selfish gain and simply ruthless purposes, which he would not hide even if said individuals proved to benefit him. This was shown by how Thanos was dismissive of Maw's sycophant behavior, openly found Loki's greed to be pathetic and showed disgust over being told by Loki he would never become a god. He also made it clear he saw Ronan's personal grudge against the Xandarians as being distasteful as well as openly commenting how he found the Collector despicable for his value of possessing over all else in his illusion. He even took time to express his distaste for Thor's lust for revenge making him strike him in the chest instead of the head despite the fact he would have been dead had Thor did it.

Additionally, Thanos did not take his genocidal motives as a pretext to eliminate potential foes who could be able to exact revenge on him and did not went out of his way to kill the surviving members of the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy who had done everything they could to stop him, suggesting that in a way he respected their tenacity and chose to spare them for it. In fact, despite knowing fully well his surviving enemies would come for him to get revenge, Thanos chose to destroy the Stones even though keeping them would have allowed him to perhaps defeat his enemies and with his victory seemingly fully secured, seemingly finding their quest to kill him as being just, did not fight back against his enemies even though the Russo Brothers confirmed even in his weakened state, he could have still been able to defend himself against the Avengers and allowed himself to be at their mercy and calmly faced his fate. Even after all the depravity his 2014 self showed, he accepted his defeat with honorable dignity despite being visibly distraught by the ultimate failure of his plans.

## Lists

### Powers & Abilities

#### Powers

* **Titan Physiology**: As a mutated Titan, Thanos possess immeasurable levels of strength, reflexes, durability, regenerative healing, and endurance as well as near-immortality. He is frighteningly powerful, able to effortlessly intimidate, overpower, severely harm, and even potentially kill beings as powerful as Loki, who is almost on par with Thor, and Ronan The Accuser, who was among the strongest Kree, Thor at full power, and Hulk. He rules the Chitauri and Outrider army unchallenged. Korath has fearfully said he is the most powerful being in the universe, although Ronan was confident that he could kill Thanos with the power of the Orb. Nevertheless, Thanos displayed no sign of concern after Ronan threatened him. Gamora also blatantly told Nebula she doesn't know if killing Thanos is possible. Thanos was also shown to be fully confident in being capable of collectively harnessing the full power of all six Infinity Stones with the use of an Infinity Gauntlet, a feat that no other being has ever survived. This was proven correct when he was able to handle the use of all six after finally completing the Infinity Gauntlet.
	+ **Superhuman Longevity**: Like all Titans, Thanos himself was also nearly immortal and had existed for a very long time. It had been confirmed that Thanes was roughly over one thousand years of age by the time Tony Stark decimated him with the power of the Infinity Stones during the Battle of Earth.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Thanos holds incalculably extraordinary, godly levels of superhuman strength, to the point that he is capable of easily wielding all six Infinity Stones with the Infinity Gauntlet, a feat that no other being has survived, making him one of the strongest beings in existence, if not the strongest. Thanos could effortlessly break the highly durable containers of the Infinity Stones, as he casually crushed the Tesseract and later the Eye of Agamotto in a single hand, which was protected by an extremely powerful spell. He was also capable of effortlessly breaking out of Groot's vines and it took the combined efforts of Doctor Strange, Drax, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, and Mantis to keep him restrained, and even then, he still showed great resistance. Upon waking up, Thanos was quickly able to break out of the restraints and regain control of the Infinity Gauntlet. He also was still casually able to clench the Infinity Gauntlet when restrained by countless Eldritch Whips by Doctor Strange's replicas. Thanos is so strong that beings of lesser but still higher superhuman strength and resilience pose no threat or challenge to him, such as Black Panther, Spider-Man, and Gamora, as Thanos proves by effortlessly stopping Black Panther's full charge with a single-handed choke hold and knock him out with a punch, overpowering Spider-Man with one hand casually and being able to effortlessly break out of his web and use it to pull him to Thanos, effortlessly restraining Gamora with a single hand and later throwing her off a cliff in Vormir with little effort. He also could overpower Iron Man in his nanotech Mark L Armor with little effort, with his strength being more than sufficient to easily tear apart the armor with his bare hands, and he was able to effortlessly break Iron Man's sword in half and then stab him with it. Even when Captain America used all his strength, which was vastly augmented by his determination, he was only just barely able to hold back Thanos’ gauntlet hand and the Mad Titan proceeded to effortlessly knock the Super Soldier out with a single punch. Even beings of the highest levels of strength and resilience such as Hulk, Vision, and Thor do not pose much threat to Thanos, as Thanos effortlessly beat Hulk to a bloody pulp and Thor, with Thanos going as far as to threaten that he can easily crush Thor's head and kill him anytime he wants, and lifted Vision off the ground with one hand, who was powerless to break free, and quickly ripped the Mind Stone from Vision's extremely durable Vibranium forehead. Lacking the Infinity Gauntlet did not prevent the 2014 Thanos from being capable of overpowering Thor and Captain America in raw strength without much effort, as he was easily able to pummel Thor enough to cause him to severely bleed and bruised and steadily overwhelm him when he tried to use Stormbreaker to gut open his chest, with only Captain America's sudden mastery of Mjolnir preventing him from doing so and was firmly holding back Thor's attempts to stab him with Stormbreaker despite being electrocuted by the electricity surrounding the mighty axe and even with Mjolnir further enhancing Thor's strength and Captain America restraining him, he was still able to overpower their combined might eventually. He even broke Captain America's shield with mere brute strikes from his sword and could easily knock Mjolnir from Rogers's grasp with a single blow and lift and send him flying and before Captain America was able to use Mjolnir, Thanos rendered him near entirely powerless, easily badly incapacitating him with a single punch. Even Captain Marvel using all her cosmic power to augment her strength had to put it all to ensure Thanos could not close his fist and showed trouble overcoming him. The only time he was significantly injured was against the fully-empowered Thor wielding Stormbreaker, a weapon reputed to be the strongest of all of Asgard's weaponry, and this was while he was distracted, and even still, Thanos quickly regained control over the Infinity Gauntlet afterwards and was still strong enough to survive using it at the scale needed to wipe out half of the universe, although he did enter a catatonic state for a while due to performing such a feat while considerably injured. His strength also extends to his legs, as he was able to jump a tremendous distance to avoid Doctor Strange's rays with a single leap.
	+ **Superhuman Speed, Agility, and Reflexes**: Thanos possesses incredulously swiftness and incredibly superhuman levels of speed, agility, and reflexes, making him fully capable of easily fighting and outpacing even the swiftest of enemies, including others of far smaller size and superhuman conditioning. He was able to easily 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. While Thor managed to land a blow on Thanos after Thanos had just beaten Hulk, Thanos easily kicked the God of Thunder away before he could attack again. 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 was even able to react to the extremely agile Spider-Man's attacks, eventually getting a grip on him and pinning Spider-Man down. He was also able to effortlessly pummel Iron Man in hand-to-hand combat within seconds and break his sword and stab him before he could react and casually catch Black Panther mid-charge with a single hand and could react to the extreme speed of the bullets fired by Winter Soldier and War Machine and Okoye's thrown spear to easily blast it away. The 2014 Thanos was able to easily keep pace with and even beat Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man, with him being able to move faster than Iron Man's strongest armor could react while blocking his repulsors and casually toss aside Rogers as well as swiftly pummel and disarm Thor before he could react. He also could catch Stormbreaker faster than Thor could catch it to use against him.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Thanos has displayed an extremely strong regenerative healing factor, capable of quickly recovering from even the most severe of wounds as long as his head is not cut off. Mere moments after being damaged by Iron Man slightly, he was completely healed upon arriving on Wakanda. Even when Thor dealt a severe wound to his chest with the devastatingly powerful Stormbreaker, by the time he was *"admiring the sunset"* at an unknown place, he had completely regenerated, although the wounds of using the Infinity Stones would take a long period of time to heal and he did not manage to heal it at all until he was killed.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Thanos has incalculably extraordinary, godly levels of supernatural resilience and durability, to the point many believed he cannot be killed and with not even the best efforts of those of great power and tenacity seen capable of inflicting lasting harm on him. rendering him capable of easily handling the Infinity Stones with the Infinity Gauntlet without any strain or harm done to himself, even surviving the power of all six without harm, something that none who have attempted have ever survived. Regula gunshots understandably does absolutely no harm to him, as shown when he remained completely unfazed by shots from the Winter Soldier, with even firearms and melee weapons of among the highest caliber doing very little harm to him, with him only barely flinching after being shot by Star-Lord and slashed by Drax's knives and managing to parry Drax's knives and Doctor Strange's Eldritch Sword with his bare hands without suffering any damage. In addition, his skin and skeleton is also nearly impenetrable to both outside and inside interference, as Doctor Strange decided against trying to use a Sling Ring to kill him as it wouldn't work fast enough to prevent Thanos's snap and if Ant-Man had tried to shrink himself, enter into his anus and then expand himself to kill the Mad Titan, the tough walls of Thanos' rectum would simply crush him to death. He is also able to effortlessly endure and shrug off attacks from beings of among the highest levels of superhuman strength as if it was nothing, as he was completely uninjured by punches from Spider-Man, which barely staggered him, remained completely uninjured by full-powered blows from Iron Man's Mark L armor, with even the sharp blades of the armor only inflicting a slight cut on Thanos' face, with him going as far as to mock Iron Man for only being able to draw a little drop of blood, and he was even barely fazed and completely uninjured by blows from Hulk or a fully-empowered Thor. Indeed, Thanos' durability is great enough that it took an attack from a fully-empowered Thor wielding Stormbreaker, a weapon so powerful that it was considered the most powerful in Asgard's history, to finally wound and harm him when the blade got lodged directly in his chest and even though Thor caused Thanos visible pain by twisting the ax deeper, Thanos retained 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. Even after being in a weakened state, Thanos was once again able to survive using the Infinity Gauntlet to destroy all the Stones, although it worsened his injuries. The 2014 Thanos was able to take blows from Captain America using Mjolnir, including lightning attacks, with no injuries despite being knocked around and staggered by them. In addition, he once again shrugged off Scarlet Witch's energy attacks despite her having grown even more powerful than last time and was even able to last long enough when Scarlet Witch used her full power to try to crush him for him to order his army to fire on her. After which, he was still able to take a beating from Captain Marvel without any significant damage.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Thanos has displayed vast levels of superhuman stamina, as he proved capable of exerting himself at full capacity for tremendous periods of time even while pressured, as shown when he endured fighting repeatedly in Titan and Wakanda against the likes of the Avengers, Guardians, Black Panther, and Okoye without once showing any signs of fatigue and even after being severely injured by Thor stabbing and then twisting Stormbreaker into his chest as deep as he could, Thanos retained enough stamina to activate the Infinity Gauntlet at the scale needed to wipe out half of the universe and although he was exhausted enough to enter a catatonic state briefly, Thanos quickly recovered and was still able to warp away and only moments later had fully recovered from any exhaustion he underwent. The 2014 Thanos was able to engage in a prolonged battle for the Infinity Stones, overpowering the efforts of any hero he had faced, and in the end only being stopped by Iron Man causing his death with the Infinity Stones.
* **Supernatural Powers**: After equipping the Infinity Gauntlet into his left arm, combined with his already extraordinary physical constitution and raw power, Thanos gained the potential to safely harness the supernatural powers and dominion over all aspects of existence possessed by all six Infinity Stones should he add them to the Gauntlet, with the more stones Thanos inserts into the Gauntlet, the more power he gains. Upon acquiring all six stones, Thanos becomes nearly omnipotent and even gained the power to force living beings to just die without hesitation or resistance no matter if they were powerful or not. This was seen when even with a severe injury, he killed off half of life within the universe with just a snap of his fingers, making him the most powerful entity in the universe. It is notable that Thanos seems to completely master all the powers of the stones just after only shortly acquiring them, apparently showing he had full understanding and knowledge of the powers of the Infinity Stones, making him nearly invincible as he can easily and seamlessly switch between the powers of the stones and can even combine them.
	+ **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.
	+ **Space Manipulation**: After inserting the Space Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos acquires the stone's complete control over space. His mastery and understanding of its powers allows him to achieve a wide plethora of liberal but potent capabilities and is not limited to simply opening portals, although it remains the most useful ability that he acquired as he can 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. He could 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, funnel the kinetic force of oncoming projectile attacks to make them harmless and then gather them and redirect them, as he harmlessly funnel the kinetic energy of Iron Man's projectiles before sending it back at the hero, create force fields that can easily disintegrate bullets, as he easily destroyed multiple shots from War Machine, and even has the sufficient skill to alter the space between molecules, allowing him to make others intangible and just as easily make them solid again, as he easily phased Hulkbuster through him and stone before making him solid again to trap him. Thanos was also able to skillfully use the Stone as a powerful form of telekinesis, warping the fabric of space around objects in order to manipulate and move them with a single gesture. He was able to instantly freeze Loki mid-stab with ease, effortlessly crush the guns on War Machine's armor, knock down Falcon, and produce force fields powerful enough to repel the energy of Scarlet Witch as a means of defense. His Space Stone induced telekinesis was so strong that he was 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.
	+ **Reality Manipulation**: Upon acquiring the Reality Stone and inserting it into the 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. He has shown to have a full understanding and mastery over the Reality Stone's powers, surpassing even Malekith, capable of using it to warp reality to such a degree as to create highly elaborate physical simulations and illusions of false realities over a wide range of influence, as evidenced when Thanos was able 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, which was so convincing that the illusionary self of Thanos can be physically interacted with, with Gamora being able to fight and even kill the false Thanos. He later conjured another illusion to Doctor Strange, showing the planet Titan in its peaceful prime, in a time before it became an uninhabited wasteland. He can make himself invisible using the Reality Stone, as he first spoke to Gamora unseen before revealing himself shortly after undoing the illusion. Thanos can also use the Reality Stone to warp and transmute matter and object into anything he desires, even being able to do this to living organisms, as he effortlessly incapacitated Guardians Drax and Mantis by temporarily warping their physical bodies, splitting Drax's body into pieces and turning Mantis into still-conscious strips of flesh. While he did this by sending a beam from the Reality Stone, he can also silently do this and without needing to fire a beam, as when Star-Lord reluctantly attempted to execute his teammate and lover, Gamora, to prevent her capture by Thanos, the Titan silently transmuted his Quad Blasters to harmlessly fire bubbles, before transforming the weapon itself into bubbles, and would later do the same to Gamora's dagger on Vormir to prevent her committing suicide. Thanos can use this very effectively in combat, as evidenced when he fought in Titan and Wakanda, transmuting a field of ship wreckage into a swarm of bats to attack Iron Man. He can also manipulate the earth with the stone, spawning a cage of stone pillars to trap Black Widow and pulling the surface of Titan itself to pull Doctor Strange into his hand. Upon completing the Infinity Gauntlet, thus reaching the highest level of power the Reality Stone can exert, he became able to warp reality to such an extent that he was even able to cause the bodies of others to turn to dust at a global scale, even while severely injured, causing the victims of his genocide to disintegrate to ashes, with just a snap of his fingers.
	+ **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, with the Stone becoming one of his most versatile and often-used in combat for its destructive potential. Thanos' 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. With a single gesture from the Gauntlet, Thanos is able to manipulate and specifically unleash the Stone's power to charge objects with unstable energy, causing them to overload and violently detonate. Thanos makes common use of this ability due to its versatility and combat potential, as he is able to control the time and size of the detonation, whether instantly or slowly as Thanos used 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 used the Stone's energy and versatile destructive powers to devastating effect, violently and instantly detonating a ruined spaceship fragment that was dropped on him by Iron Man. He can even exert such powerful energy that it was even powerful enough to rip apart the surface of Titan's moon with its sheer power. Thanos can also unleash tremendously powerful blasts or waves of the Stone's explosive energy, applying powerful concussive force or outright destroying objects with its volatile power. A wild shockwave of energy was able to knock out Star-Lord, Drax and Nebula instantaneously, with all three individuals having great superhuman resilience, while a few concussive waves were enough to effortlessly repel attacks and blast away the majority of the opposing Avengers during the Battle of Wakanda. The Stone's energy could also be concentrated into direct beams of power with enough power to be capable of cleaving through structures with ease, forcing back a shielded Iron Man, and heavily damaging the Avenger's armor with a single point-blank blast. Thanos could also use the stone for more subtle applications, such as exerting the energy upon others to torture them. During the Attack on the Statesman, Thanos utilized the Stone to torture an injured Thor, pushing the Stone into his head and causing the Asgardian excruciating pain using its energy. Used together with the Space Stone, Thanos also brutally tortured Nebula with its power, by telekinetically pulling her mechanical components apart while exposing her to the energy of the Power Stone. With the Power Stone, Thanos can also negate and redirect oncoming energy attacks, as he easily prevented Black Panther from using his kinetic energy pulse and redirected it to the earth when he struck the latter to the ground.
	+ **Time Manipulation**: After inserting the Time Stone into his Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos acquires complete control over time. Quickly completely mastering the Time Stone's powers, while using it similarly to Doctor Strange's method, although he does not need Eldritch Magic and simply needs to clench the Gauntlet to activate the Time Manipulation Magic, causing the same symbol of the Eye of Agamotto to appear in the palm of his Gauntlet's hand and similarly conjuring said symbol as he uses it. His skill is shown to be far more refined than Doctor Strange's, as Thanos has the skill needed to rewind time with the level of finesse needed to truly recreate an object, even one as powerful as an Infinity Stone, while simultaneously resurrecting a being and keeping some from being affected by it, 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 also keeping the Avengers from being affected to prevent them from trying to stop him, whereas Doctor Strange could not truly recreate the stolen pages of the Book of Cagliostro with the Time Stone, although this may have been aided by the fact that the Time Stone was amplified by the Gauntlet already having 4 other Stones. At the height of the Time Stone's powers, with the Infinity Gauntlet having been completed, Thanos gains the ability to accelerate the time of living creatures at a global scale, even able to do this while badly wounded, with the victims of his genocide quickly aging and becoming decomposable brown 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. With the Soul Stone, Thanos can 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. Upon completing the Infinity Gauntlet and greatly enhancing the Soul Stone's powers as a result, Thanos gained the ability to induce death by wiping the very souls of his targets at a global scale to the point that, even with a severe injury, he still was able to use the Soul Stone in conjunction with the other Stones to successfully wipe out half of the universe, erasing the victim's souls from existence. This catastrophic event even claimed the lives of most of the Avengers and all of the Guardians of the Galaxy, with the exception of Rocket Raccoon and Nebula. The Soul Stone also can conjure dreams for Thanos to recover from exhaustion and speak with someone he cherishes, as after wiping out half of all life in the Universe, the sheer energy required to achieve such a feat 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 fulfillment of his lifelong goal and admitting to her the great cost and sacrifices made to achieve it.
	+ **Death Inducement**: This ability is Thanos' most terrifying and yet the mightiest demonstration of his true power. After completing the Gauntlet, Thanos becomes able to use the powers of the Reality, Time, and Soul Stones at such a vast scale as to wipe out half of the universe with just the snap of his fingers, successfully achieving this even after being severely wounded by Thor using Stormbreaker. The victims of the universal genocide quickly aged before turning into a brown decomposing corpse, disintegrating them and erasing them from their physical existence.

#### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Even in 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 exceptionally intelligent. Hence, due to Thanos' intellectual genius, he is among the most intelligent (if not the most intelligent) individuals in the universe. His intellect makes him incredibly lethal even without using his powers or fighting skills, as displayed 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. All the while, Thanos remained effectively anonymous, so much so that even the extremely intelligent Iron Man was completely fooled into believing that Loki had no aid during his invasion, and with Doctor Strange initially not having Thanos on his list of otherworldly threats. It was only after Thor received a vision on the Infinity Stones that he was able to figure out 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. Thanos was even clever enough to be considerably superior to Loki himself, as he easily outsmarted him 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. Thanos also easily deceived the Guardians of the Galaxy into letting their guard down, thus allowing Thanos to incapacitate them and capture Gamora. Thanos is also highly perceptive, as he is not fooled at all by Loki and easily saw through Gamora's lies that she never found the Soul Stone. It was his intelligence that allowed Thanos to prevent his arrogance from becoming his weakness, always able to quickly rebound from and overcome unexpected setbacks. However, his 2014 self lacked this trait and got killed by letting his anger at the 2018 Avengers get the best of him after they proved him wrong.
	+ **Master of Manipulation**: Thanos is an exceptionally skillful and experienced master of manipulation, quite possibly the best manipulator in the universe, as without leaving his throne, with superb manipulations of powerful beings alone, Thanos was able to cause the Battle of Xandar and Chitauri Invasion, which were among the most devastating battles ever known. He even managed to manipulate someone as intelligent as Loki, who was famous for his manipulation skills, with ease by using his distaste for Thor and Odin. Thor has said that Thanos has been playing a very intricate game for years with such efficiency that he has effectively manipulated the Avengers as pawns for his plans. Even against those who knew of his manipulative nature, Thanos's manipulation skills still proved to be capable of being effective, as shown by how he manipulated Gamora into telling him the Soul Stone's locations by using her love for Nebula to his advantage and torturing her in front of her sister and later on effortlessly manipulated Thor's desire for cruel revenge to make him believe he was killing him, doing so successfully enough to catch him completely off-guard upon revealing the truth.
	+ **Master Tactician and Strategist**: Thanos is an exceptionally accomplished strategist and tactician, with centuries of experience in using strategies, quite possibly the best master of tactical warfare currently in the universe. Thanos' mastery and experience in using strategy and tactics 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 great trouble all the while remaining anonymous. Thanos is even a far more skilled tactician than Loki, who was famous for being a crafty genius in orchestrating cunning 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 and successfully finished him off. Thanos' strategical aptitude 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' strategical sense and abilities were honed enough to be used to devastating efficiency in the midst of combat, as he efficiently employed Titan's strong gravitational pull to separate much of his opponents by breaking and launching the pieces of Titan's moon at his enemies from the atmosphere 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 situations, 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, Thanos was able to use Thor's vendetta against him to manipulate and fool him, as despite still being able to function enough to activate the completed Gauntlet, he let Thor vengefully gloat and attack him to convince him he was killing him before revealing that he will still live and can still accomplish his mission by 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. Before his death on the Garden, Thanos used the Infinity Stones' power against themselves to reduce them to atoms in order to prevent the Avengers from undoing the Snap, thereby securing his victory. The 2014 Thanos also displayed a similar aptitude for quickly forming strategies in the midst of combat, as he swiftly came up with a plan to have 2014 Nebula impersonate her future self from 2023 and infiltrate the New Avengers Facility, providing a target for the Sanctuary II. He also instantly devised a plan to subdue the Scarlet Witch after getting overpowered by her by having his armies fire at both himself and her, successfully freeing himself, used his sword to destroy Luis' van to compensate his inability to get to Captain Marvel fast enough to prevent her from escaping, and when briefly overtaken by Captain Marvel, Thanos was able to tactically remove the Power Stone from the Gauntlet to use it against her, finally besting her.
	+ **Master Leader**: Thanos is an extremely skilled leader, with a large amount of charisma despite his intimidating persona, inspiring absolute loyalty to the violent and powerful armies of Chitauri and Outriders and members of the Black Order. He is known for having easily decimated dozens of species with his powerful army, killing the Zenohebrei and Luphomoid species.
	+ **Polymath**: Thanos is also shown to be quite learned and accomplished in many subjects, such as math and science, with him thus being able to accurately predict that his people and planet was about to be devastated due to overpopulation, which he claims to be a simple calculus to him.
* **Master Martial Artist**: Thanos wielded supreme fighting prowess and millennia worth of fighting experience, easily the deadliest fighter in the universe. His style is shown to be fluid, as he first defends against his enemy before unleashing a devastating barrage of attacks. He was able to easily fight off and quickly force back both Doctor Strange using a sword made of Eldritch Magic, and Drax with his knives while his right eye was blinded by a web cotton, easily fight off and swiftly pummel Spider-Man with only one hand while his other hand was restricted by the Cloak of Levitation) and easily defeat and grievously wound Iron Man (despite Iron Man's nanotech Mark L armor and sword, which he easily disarmed and used to land the severe wound), with only Doctor Strange's intervention saving Iron Man from death. Additionally, 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, as well as effortlessly defeated and knocked out Captain America with a single blow. Most impressively, Thanos was even able to defeat and beat Hulk (the former undefeatable champion of the Grandmaster's Contest of Champions) to a bloody pulp with ease with well-coordinated attacks, something Iron Man could only do after a long battle and a moment of distraction, as well as defeat a fully-empowered Thor without much effort. It was only with a sneak attack that Thor, armed with Stormbreaker, was able to land a severe wound on Thanos, but even then the Mad Titan was able to quickly recover. The 2014 Thanos was able to easily repeatedly knock around Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man while also using his sword, with him not only easily downing Rogers and Stark unarmed but even overpowering Thor upon being disarmed of his sword when he was armed with Stormbreaker and soundly pummeling him. He was also able to surpass and ultimately defeat Captain Marvel and could overpower both Thor using both Mjolnir and his axe and Rogers ultimately. One should note, however, that he only beat Carol because he outsmarted her; not because he was the more skilled/powerful fighter.
* **Master Swordsman**: Thanos was an extremely skilled swordsman, using a double-edged sword as his main weapon, with which he was able to easily fight off the combined assault of Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man, including the latter's lasers, even when powered by Thor's lightning, before being disarmed by Thor and near-entirely pressure Captain America into the defensive and soon gain the upper hand and break his shield. He was also able to use it skillfully to deflect energy projections from Scarlet Witch and nearly managed to defeat her, pushing the sword dangerously close to her neck, forcing her to use her powers to disarm him. He can throw it with dangerous accuracy, even able to achieve a boomerang-like effect, as he accurately threw it at Thor and it quickly returned to him after he missed, hit the superhumanly fast Black Panther in mid-air and even outpaced Captain Marvel to Luis's Van.
* **Torturer**: Thanos is shown to be highly accomplished in many fields of torture, with his skills in torture being quite famous, as the Other implied Thanos can cause so much suffering to Loki that he would beg for pain itself. His mastery of torturing techniques allows him to inflict the maximum amount of damage without killing the subject, as when he tortured Nebula to make Gamora give up the location of the Soul Stone, Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to painfully pull apart Nebula's cybernetic implants, but he was casually able to avoid truly ripping the necessary implants apart in order to cause her severe pain without killing her. The torture was effective enough that Gamora fairly quickly gave in and told Thanos the location of the Soul Stone to spare Nebula from further torture.

### Minions of Thanos

#### Agents

* The Other
	+ Chitauri
		- Leviathans
		- Chitauri Gorillas
* Loki Laufeyson
* Ronan The Accuser
	+ Korath the Pursuer
	+ Sakaaran Mercenaries
* Black Order
	+ Ebony Maw
	+ Corvus Glaive
	+ Cull Obsidian
	+ Proxima Midnight
	+ Gamora
	+ Nebula
* Outriders
* Sakaaran Mercenaries

#### Position

* Emissary
	+ Alien Army
		- Monster Army
		- Monster Army
* Agent
* Agent
	+ Agent
	+ Alien Army
* Team
	+ Herald/Second-in-Command
	+ High-Ranking Member
	+ High-Ranking Member
	+ High-Ranking Member
	+ Assassin
	+ Assassin
* Alien Army
* Alien Army

#### Status

* Deceased
	+ Deceased
		- Deceased
		- Deceased
* Defected/Deceased (Defected/Alive (2012))
* Defected/Deceased
	+ Defected/Deceased
	+ Defected/Deceased
* Deceased
	+ Deceased
	+ Deceased
	+ Deceased
	+ Deceased
	+ Defected/Deceased (Defected/Alive (2014)
	+ Defected/Alive (Deceased (2014)
* Deceased
* Deceased

### Victims

#### Victims killed by Thanos

* Dwarves (except for Eitri)
* Heimdall
* Loki Laufeyson
* Gamora
* Vision

#### Snap (revived by Hulk)

* Avengers
	+ Spider-Man
	+ Scarlet Witch
	+ Falcon
	+ Winter Soldier
* Masters of the Mystic Arts
	+ Doctor Strange
	+ Wong
* S.H.I.E.L.D.
	+ Nick Fury
	+ Maria Hill
* Guardians of the Galaxy
	+ Star-Lord
	+ Drax the Destroyer
	+ Groot
	+ Mantis
* Wakanda
	+ Black Panther
	+ Shuri
	+ Dora Milaje
	+ Jabari Tribe
	+ Border Tribe
	+ Wakandan Royal Guard
* Half of the universe's population
	+ Betty Ross
	+ Thaddeus Ross
	+ Erik Selvig
	+ Jane Foster
	+ Sharon Carter
	+ Lady Sif
	+ Loki Actor
	+ Galaga Guy
	+ Laura Barton
	+ Cooper Barton
	+ Lila Barton
	+ Nathaniel Barton
	+ Ned Leeds
	+ Michelle Jones
	+ Flash Thompson
	+ Betty Brant
	+ Jason Ionello
	+ Sue Lorman
	+ Andre Wilson
	+ May Parker
	+ Isaiah Sorenson
	+ Cammie Conroy
	+ David Jerome
	+ Elijah Cortez
	+ Karen Oggerton
	+ Billy Peskers
	+ Hiro Kajimoto
	+ Erika Denton
	+ Mary Livanos
	+ Phillip Carroway
	+ Big Harv
	+ Isaiah Sorenson's Pet Cat
	+ Phillip Carroway's Wife
	+ Karen Oggerton's Patient
	+ Jenae Jazrem's Husband
	+ Theo Boskowtiz's Father
	+ Roberto da Costa
	+ Hank Pym
	+ Janet Van Dyne
	+ Wasp

#### Indirectly

* Half of the Zehoberei
	+ Gamora's family
* Half of the Luphomoids
	+ Nebula's family
* Drax's family
* Half of the Xandarians
	+ Nova Corps
		- Nova Prime Irani Rael (presumed)
		- Rhomann Dey (presumed)
		- Nova Prime's Assistant (presumed)
* Half of the Asgardians
	+ Roscoe
* Iron Man

## Quotes

### Guardians of the Galaxy

* The only matter I do not take seriously, boy, is you. Your politics bore me! Your demeanor is that of a pouting child. And apparently you alienated my favorite daughter, Gamora. I shall honor our agreement, Kree, if you bring me the Orb. But return to me again empty handed and I will bathe the star-ways with your blood.
* Bring it to me.
* Boy, I would reconsider your current course!

### Avengers: Infinity War

* I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right... yet to fail, nonetheless.
* It's frightening. Turns the legs to jelly. I ask you, to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now, it's here. Or should I say... I am.
* The Tesseract, or your brother's head.
* I assume you have a preference.
* Your optimism is misplaced, Asgardian.
* That was a mistake.
* There are two more stones on Earth. Find them, my children, and bring them to me on Titan.
* If you consider failure experience.
* "Undying?" You should choose your words more carefully.
* No resurrections this time.
* What's wrong, little one?
* What's your name?
* You're quite the fighter, Gamora. Come. Let me help you.
* Look. Pretty, isn't it? Perfectly balanced. As all things should be. Too much to one side, or the other...
* Here. You try.
* Concentrate.
* There. You've got it.
* Everyone in the galaxy knows you'd sell your own brother if you thought it would add the slightest trinket to your pathetic collection.
* I know you have the Reality Stone, Tivan. Giving it to me will spare you a great deal of suffering.
* I imagine it's like breathing to you.
* So you do understand. Not even you would surrender something so precious.
* Then you're more of a fool than I took you for. Last chance, charlatan. Where's the Stone?
* Why?
* Why you? Daughter...
* Is it sadness I sense in you, daughter? In my heart, I knew you still cared.
* But one ever knows for sure.
* Reality is often disappointing.
* That is, it was. Now... reality can be whatever I want.
* I counted on it. There's something we need to discuss, little one.
* Ah, the boyfriend.
* Oh, daughter. You expect too much from him.
* She's asked, hasn't she? Do it.
* Do it!
* I like you.
* I thought you might be hungry.
* So I've been told. Even so. I'd hoped you'd sit on it one day.
* You told me that too. Every day. For almost twenty years.
* I saved you.
* Going to bed hungry, scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I'm the one who stopped that. Do you know what's happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It's a paradise.
* A small price to pay for salvation.
* Little one, it's a simple calculus. This universe is finite, its resources, finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correcting.
* I'm the only one who knows that. At least, I'm the only one with the will to act on it.
* For a time... you had that same will... as you fought by my side. Daughter.
* And in doing so, made you the fiercest woman in the galaxy. That's why I trusted you to find the Soul Stone.
* I am disappointed. But not because you didn't find it. But because you did. And you lied.
* Some time ago, your sister snuck aboard this ship to kill me.
* And very nearly succeeded. So I brought her here. To talk.
* You're strong. Me. You're generous. Me. But I never taught you to lie. That's why you're so bad at it. Where is the Soul Stone?
* Show me.
* The stone had better be up there... for your sister's sake.
* You know us?
* Where's the Soul Stone?
* I am prepared.
* How is it you know this place so well?
* What's this?
* Tell me what it needs.
* Of what?
* No.
* I ignored my destiny once. I cannot do that again. Even for you.
* I'm sorry, little one.
* I take it the Maw is dead. This day extracts a heavy toll. Still, he accomplished his mission.
* And where do you think he brought you?
* It was.
* And it was beautiful.
* Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, and not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.
* But at random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman. And what I predicted came to pass.
* I'm a survivor.
* With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers, and they would all cease to exist. I call that... mercy.
* I finally rest... and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
* Ours?
* Insect!
* Well, well.
* It would've been a waste of parts!
* My Gamora?
* I had to.
* You're full of tricks, wizard.
* Yet you never once used your greatest weapon.
* A fake.
* Stark.
* I do. You're not the only one cursed with knowledge.
* Come on!
* All that for a drop of blood?
* You have my respect, Stark. When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive.
* I hope they remember you.
* No tricks.
* One to go.
* I understand, my child. Better than anyone.
* Today, I lost more than you can know. But now is no time to mourn. Now... is no time at all.
* You should have... You... You should have gone for the head.
* Daughter?
* Yes.
* Everything.

### Avengers: Endgame

#### 2018 Thanos

* The universe required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose, beyond temptation.
* You should be grateful.
* Gone. Reduced to atoms.
* I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done. It always will be. I am... inevitable.
* Ah, thank you, daughter. Perhaps I treated you too harshly. (last words)

#### 2014 Thanos

* Ronan's located the Power Stone. I'm dispatching you to his ship.
* His alternative is death, then. Ronan's obsession clouds his judgement.
* No, you won't.
* Ssshhh.
* Bring her to my ship.
* Run diagnostics. Show me her memory file.
* Impossible.
* Where is this other Nebula?
* Can you access her?
* Search the duplicate's memories for Infinity Stones.
* Freeze image.
* Avengers. Unruly wretches. What's that reflection? Amplify this, Maw.
* No. The same Nebula. From two different times. Set course for Morag. Scan the duplicate's memories. I want to see everything.
* Nothing. Yet. They're not trying to stop something I'm going to do in our time. They're trying to undo something I've already done in theirs.
* I found them all. I won. Tipped the cosmic scales to balance.
* It's my destiny.
* And that is destiny fulfilled.
* I know. And you'll have the chance to prove it.
* Daughter.
* So, this is the future. Well done.
* The arrogant never do.
* Go. Find the stones. Bring them to me.
* Wait.
* You could not live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me. I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive, but you've shown me... that's impossible. As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist.
* I'm thankful, because now, I know what I must do. I will shred this universe down to its last atom and then, with the stones you've collected for me, create a new one teeming with life that knows not what it has lost but only what it has been given. A grateful universe.
* They'll never know it. Because you won't be alive to tell them.
* In all my years of conquest, violence, massacre, it was never personal. But I'll tell you now, what I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying little planet, I'm gonna enjoy it. Very, very much.
* Where's Nebula?
* I don't even know who you are.
* Rain fire!
* Just do it!
* I am... inevitable. (last words)

## Trivia

* Thanos was originally much less of an openly malevolent villain than his comic book counterpart but as of *Endgame* he began to display a personality much more akin to that of the comic book Thanos, including sadism and a desire to end the universe entirely after seeing that his ideal method to fix the universe would be rejected no matter how hard he tried - thus abandoning his previous ideals of "fairness" in regards to how he killed. There are constrating differences between the present and the past Thanos :
	+ Present Thanos was honorable, sympathetic and respectful of his enemies, the past Thanos was more arrogant and disrespectful of them.
	+ 2018 Thanos relied on the Infinity Stones to fight his opponents, while the 2014 one fighted with raw skills and weapons.
* According to producer Kevin Feige, *Infinity War* would explore Thanos' plans and motives, even saying "you could go as far as to say he's the main character".
* In the comics, Thanos was the master of the Infinity Gauntlet, which he used in the eponymous series in an attempt to court Death. He has no relationships with Loki nor the Chitauri, but he is nevertheless one of the Avengers' most historical foes. When he took a break from being a conqueror, Thanos was entrusted with the Reality Gem of the Infinity Gems.
	+ In the *Amalgam Comics* imprint, Loki's counterpart, L'ok D'saad served Thanos' counterpart, Thanoseid.
* The name "Thanos" is based on the name of the mythological Greek figure Thanatos, meaning "death", a reference to his obsession with Death.
* Thanos is clearly the Bigger Bad of the *Avengers* film series, as he is the one responsible for providing Loki with the Mind Stone and an army to invade Earth in the first film, and that the Mind Stone is what gave Ultron free will to rebel against the Avengers in the second film.
* Thanos is the only villain who has interacted with every major hero in the franchise; as he was responsible for the events depicted in *The Avengers* (which featured all the major heroes of Phase One) and is the mastermind behind *Guardians of the Galaxy* before going on to proceed in meeting them all in *Infinity War*.
* In *Thor*, which was released a year before *The Avengers*, the Infinity Gauntlet makes a cameo in Odin's vault. This one was for the right hand, but the one seen in *Avengers: Age of Ultron* was for the left hand. Producer Kevin Feige confirmed after the movie's release that there were two, and the one Thanos has is not the one from *Thor*.
	+ However, in *Thor: Ragnarok*, the Infinity Gauntlet in Odin's Vault was retconned to be a fake replica by Hela, Odin's firstborn daughter when she was walking through the vault, meaning that there truly is only one Infinity Gauntlet.
* The involvement of Thanos in *Guardians of the Galaxy* was largely influenced by *The Avengers* director Joss Whedon; the early script by Nicole Perlman had Thanos appear as the Guardians' primary foe, but Whedon was convinced that he should be downsized. In addition, Whedon says that it was his idea to include him in *The Avengers*, but found him the most difficult character to write, ironically. He also helped *Guardians of the Galaxy* writer and director James Gunn cast Josh Brolin as the character.
* Josh Brolin based his portrayal of Thanos on the performance of Colonel Kurtz from *Apocalypse Now*.
* Thanos is one of the seven villains of the MCU to actually succeed in his plans, as he finally collected all of the Infinity Stones and wiped out half of the universe's populace. The other ones are Loki (who took control of Asgard in *Thor: The Dark World*), Helmut Zemo (who has managed to split the Avengers apart in revenge for his family's demise in *Captain America: Civil War*), Surtur (who has managed to destroy Asgard), Erik Killmonger (who managed to get Wakanda to distribute the Vibranium around the world to help people in *Black Panther*), Ghost (who has managed to obtain quantum energy to cure herself from a fatal disease in *Ant-Man and the Wasp*), and Mysterio (who has managed to frame Spider Man as his murderer and expose his true identity to the world in *Spider-Man: Far from Home*).
* Thanos appeared in a drawing by Thor in the non-canon web series *Team Thor*, which serves as a cross-promotion for *Thor: Ragnarok*, on a wall of pictures and information in an attempt to deduce who "the man in the purple chair" is, noting that he's "big", he's purple, and "he doesn't like standing up".
* At 29 minutes, Thanos has the most amount of screen time of any character in *Avengers: Infinity War*, beating Gamora (19 minutes), Iron Man (18 minutes), and Thor (14 minutes).
* In *Avengers: Infinity War*, Thanos massacres half of the Zenhoberi race and states they are now filled with "children that see clear skies with full bellies". However, in *Guardians of the Galaxy*, Gamora's rap sheet states she is the last remaining member of her people. When the Russo brothers were asked about this during a Q&A, they only asked in return whether you believe Gamora or Thanos, implying one of them is not telling the truth.
	+ Though it is possible that the rest of the Zenhoberi died after Thanos visited the planet.
* In 2019, to celebrate the release of *Avengers: Endgame*, Google implemented an Easter egg where, if Thanos was searched, users could click on an icon of the Infinity Gauntlet and make half of the search results vanish into dust. Clicking the Gauntlet again resulted in it using the Time Stone to bring all of the lost results back.
* Various promotional and conceptual artwork, as well as merchandises, depict Thanos with his original Infinity Gauntlet in *Avengers: Endgame*, despite not actually wearing it in said movie as it was damaged and left on Titan II.
	+ He does wear the Iron Gauntlet that was crafted by Iron Man, however, albeit for a short amount of time.
* Marvel Studios did a cross-promotion with the video game *Fortnite*, resulting in Thanos appearing as a playable character in the game. In *Avengers: Endgame*, Thor, Korg, and Miek play *Fortnite*.
* Thanos being beheaded by Thor is a reference to the recent death of Thanos in comics when Gamora beheaded Thanos in *Infinity Wars Prime #1*.
* Thanos being Iron Man's personal archenemy in the MCU lies on Thanos' original appearance as an Iron Man villain back in 1973.
* Thanos is also the derivation of a Abelisaurid dinosaur genus Thanos simonattoi described in 2018.
* Thanos shares some similarities to Ego; They are both the last of their kind from powerful beings, sought after infinite power and ready to use their own children, and to sacrifice those they loved most to achieve their goals even if it hurts them. However, Ego's goal was motivated by his narcissism by assimilating all the universe while Thanos' goal was much more altruist, driven by his desire to save the Universe from overpopulation. While Ego hides his monstrous personality behind a cheerful facade, Thanos says openly his acts are ruthless but necessary. Ego is gregarious while Thanos is more quiet. Thanos for all his faults has a sense of honor and respect for his enemies if they really impress him, while Ego saw all the other forms of life as under him, even his own son Peter being ultimately only a means to his end.
	+ Coincidentally, Thanos' 2014 plan in *Avengers: Endgame* to wipe out all life in the universe after realizing that his belief about killing only half to allow the survivors to thrive without the danger of overpopulation was wrong is fairly similar to what Ego's Expansion would have consisted of. However, the big difference is Thanos planned to rebuilt an universe teeming with independent life while Ego' potentials lifes would just be extensions of himself.
* He is the overarching antagonist of Phases One and Two, the main antagonist of Phase Three, and a posthumous antagonist of Phase Four.