Thanos
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Bronze, Comics: Thanos's scheme with a synthetic Soul Gem is stopped aboard Sanctuary II, where Adam Warlock's released power turns him to stone.
Cinematic
Thanos is a Titan warlord, exiled after proposing to halve his people to save the dying world. He conquers planets, adopts Gamora, Nebula and the Black Order, and sets out to gather the Infinity Stones. In 2018 he takes them all, sacrifices Gamora on Vormir, kills half of all life with the Snap, destroys the Stones, and retires to a farm where Thor beheads him.
Comics
Thanos is a purple-skinned Eternal with Deviant genes, born on Titan, who murdered his own mother, took to space and became a conqueror devoted to winning the favor of the death-goddess Death. He hunts the Cosmic Cube and the Infinity Gems, once halves all life with the Gauntlet, and repeatedly clashes with Adam Warlock, the Avengers and the Guardians. He dies and returns many times, and is most recently killed by Knull.
Silver Surfer (1998)
Son of the Scientist Supreme and brother of Mentor, bred to punish and avenge. He devotes himself to Lady Chaos and wages a campaign of annihilation, is turned back at Harmony by the Surfer, then gains time-warping power and is opposed by Eternity and Infinity's chosen Surfer.
Super Hero Squad Show
A Titanian with the Deviant Syndrome, enhanced by meditation and bionic implants, who hunts across the universe for all the Infinity Gems to complete his Infinity Gauntlet. The Dark Surfer takes the gauntlet once he has gathered them.
Marvel Animated Universe (2015 to 2020)
A Titan who slaughtered much of his own people and later whole worlds, including Gamora's, then adopted Gamora, Nebula and Korath as weapons. He allied with Ronan, destroyed Klyntar, hunted Warlock, and chased the Cosmic Seed from Knowhere to Spartax and then to Earth. He is buried after a defeat and later freed by a symbiote.
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
A Titan-born Eternal warlord who rules the Chitauri in the LEGO Marvel reality, seeks the Infinity Stones and raised the Black Order. He bargains with Loki over the Tesseract, partners with Ronan, Killmonger and Klaue, invades Wakanda, and with Red Skull steals the Ant-Van to recruit villains across time. The Avengers defeat him each time.
Timeline 28 events
- Bronze · Comics: Thanos seizes the Cosmic Cube from A.I.M. and becomes godlike, but the Avengers and Mar-Vell defeat him and Mar-Vell wills the universe restored; Death abandons him.
- Bronze · Comics: Thanos's scheme with a synthetic Soul Gem is stopped aboard Sanctuary II, where Adam Warlock's released power turns him to stone.
- Modern · Comics: Having gathered the six Infinity Gems into his Gauntlet, Thanos erases half of the universe's life, defeats Earth's heroes and the cosmic entities, and loses the Gauntlet to Nebula and then Adam Warlock.
- Modern · Comics: Thanos goes to Asgard with the Silver Surfer and the Infinity Watch to calm a maddened Thor and fights Odin until the truth is learned.
- Modern · Comics: Allied with Annihilus's Annihilation Wave, Thanos is killed when Drax tears out his heart as he moves to free Galactus.
- Modern · Comics: Thanos's armada bombards Titan, and he descends to kill survivors before sparing his father A'Lars.
- Modern · Comics: While the Avengers are off-world, Thanos invades Earth with the Black Order, destroys Attilan, and is trapped in amber by his son Thane at Orollan.
- Modern · Comics: Namor frees Thanos to join the Cabal, which destroys colliding Earths and razes Wakanda to use Necropolis as its base.
- Secret Wars · Comics: On Battleworld, Thanos is killed by God Emperor Doom after rallying enemies against him; the rebirth of the Multiverse restores him.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Thanos invades Earth for a supposed Cosmic Cube, kills War Machine, and is taken down by Captain Marvel and imprisoned at the Triskelion.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Gamora impales and beheads Thanos in his throne room, and he lets it happen in the belief that his death erases his dark future.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Resurrected by Hela in the body of his brother Eros, Thanos is taken to Knowhere, where a missile's black hole sucks him and Knowhere away.
- Fresh Start · Comics: After killing Zuras and becoming Prime Eternal, Thanos tries to destroy the Machine of Earth from Titanos and is killed by a fail-safe rigged by Druig.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Thanos invades Fresno to reach Death, encases her in the new Death Stone, and leaves Earth with it as the Illuminati look on.
- Fresh Start · Comics: On Gorr's homeworld, Thanos is killed by Knull with the All-Light spear.
- 2012 · Cinematic: Thanos armed Loki with the Scepter and Chitauri forces and sent him to Earth for the Tesseract, an attack that ended in the Battle of New York.
- 2012 · LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Thanos strikes a deal with Loki to take the Tesseract from Earth in exchange for a Chitauri army, and the Avengers defeat the invasion of New York.
- 2014 · Cinematic: He made a deal with Ronan the Accuser to find the Orb and ordered the Korbinite massacre, then lost the Orb after Gamora's betrayal and Ronan's defiance at Xandar.
- 2015 · Cinematic: Thanos forced the dwarves of Nidavellir to forge the Infinity Gauntlet, then massacred them and crippled Eitri.
- 2015 · LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: After Ultron is defeated, Thanos takes up the Infinity Gauntlet to do the work himself.
- 2018 · Cinematic: He attacked Xandar, took the Power Stone from the Nova Corps and killed half the Xandarians.
- 2018 · Cinematic: Thanos intercepted the Asgardian refugee ship, took the Space Stone from the Tesseract, and killed Heimdall and Loki.
- 2018 · Cinematic: He took the Reality Stone from the Collector on Knowhere and captured Gamora.
- 2018 · Cinematic: On Vormir he threw Gamora from the cliff to win the Soul Stone from the Red Skull.
- 2018 · Cinematic: On Titan he fought Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Spider-Man and the Guardians, and gained the Time Stone when Strange traded it for Stark's life.
- 2018 · Cinematic: In Wakanda he tore the Mind Stone from Vision, completed the Gauntlet, took a blow from Stormbreaker and snapped away half of all life.
- 2018 · Cinematic: Thanos retired to a farm on a remote planet and, three weeks later, used the Stones to destroy themselves.
- 2018 · Cinematic: The surviving Avengers tracked him down and Thor beheaded him with Stormbreaker.
home of
destroyed by
enemy of
Xandar, Zen-Whoberi, Thor, Loki Laufeyson, Heimdall, Valkyrie, Korg, Iron Man, Steve Rogers, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Hulk, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, War Machine (James Rhodes), Sam Wilson (Captain America), Winter Soldier, Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), Vision, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Janet van Dyne, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), T'Challa, Shuri, Okoye, Doctor Strange, Wong, Captain Marvel, Ronan the Accuser, Star-Lord, Gamora
allied with
Loki Laufeyson, Hela, Ronan the Accuser, Korath the Pursuer, Star-Lord, Adam Warlock, Galactus, Deadpool (Wade Wilson), Namor, Druig, Erik Killmonger, Ulysses Klaue, Red Skull, Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, Uatu the Watcher
parent of
Gamora, Nebula, Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, Korath the Pursuer
travels to
Zen-Whoberi, Nidavellir, Xandar, Knowhere, Vormir, Titan, Earth, The Moon, Asgard, Ego, Vanaheim, Niflheim / Hel
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