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Thanos is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-artist Jim Starlin and made his first appearance in The Invincible Iron Man #55 (February 1973). The character has been adapted from the comics into various forms of media, including feature films, television series and video games. Thanos has been portrayed by actors Damion Poitier and Josh Brolin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). In the films, he is an intergalactic warlord from Titan who seeks to collect the Infinity Stones in order to wipe out half of the universe's population. In the comics, Thanos is one of the most powerful villains in the Marvel universe and is often featured as the main antagonist in stories. He is the adopted son of the Titanian Eternals Mentor and Sui-San, and is an Eternal himself, born with superhuman strength, endurance, intelligence, and the ability to manipulate cosmic energy for the purpose of creating a variety of effects. He is also a master strategist, often using Machiavellian tactics to achieve
With the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe set to begin next year with the arrival of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, there’s been a lot of speculation about what’s next when it comes next — especially in terms of the Avengers films. The next two Avengers films, Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars […]
The vast realm of Marvel’s comic-book pantheon is home to gods, demons, and cosmic entities aplenty. But standing above them all in a purple haze of pure menace is Thanos, the Mad Titan. Both in the comics and his recent world-beating cinematic escapades, Thanos is much more than just another power-hungry baddie. He’s […]
Back in June, we took a look at Captain Marvel #34, which was the last issue drawn and plotted by Jim Starlin. As we discussed in that post, Starlin abruptly quit the series after delivering only one chapter of his first post-"Thanos War" storyline, unhappy with Marvel Comics' seeming unwillingness, or inability, to give him…