Taneleer Tivan (Collector)
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Modern, Comics: Seeks a trade for Thanos's Cosmic Cube and is sent with the Elders to the Cancerverse.
Cinematic
Taneleer Tivan, the Collector, heads the Tivan Group and keeps a vast collection of creatures and relics in his museum on Knowhere, brother of the Grandmaster. In 2013 the Asgardians left the Aether with him. In 2014 he lost his archive when Carina touched the Power Stone. In 2018 Thanos took the Aether from him on Knowhere, and in late 2025 he sold Knowhere to the Guardians.
Comics
Taneleer Tivan, an immortal Elder of the Universe from the first species to evolve. After his wife died, he began gathering artifacts and living beings from across space to preserve them against a foreseen end. He often raided Earth and clashed with the Avengers and others, was killed by Korvac in 1978 and revived in 1982, and joined the Grandmaster's schemes.
Timeline 19 events
- Silver · Comics: Captures the Wasp for his collection and flees the Avengers with the Beetle in a time machine.
- Bronze · Comics: Traps Iron Man in a bid for the Solar Sword, then returns him and the others to Earth.
- Bronze · Comics: Disguises himself as Tom Fagan in Rutland, Vermont, to abduct several Avengers.
- Bronze · Comics: Captures the Hulk with pirates and Man-Thing, but his captives rise up and escape the ship.
- Bronze · Comics: Is killed by Michael Korvac after reaching out to Earth's heroes about Korvac.
- Bronze · Comics: The Grandmaster wins a Contest of Champions and gives his own life to resurrect him.
- Modern · Comics: Joins the Elders' plan to kill Galactus.
- Modern · Comics: The Brethren he held escape his ship and crash in the Blue Area of the Moon.
- Modern · Comics: Supplies a Nega Bomb to Kree admiral Galen Kor.
- Modern · Comics: Teleports into the Baxter Building after rumors of a Skrull-human egg.
- Modern · Comics: Takes control of Ego the Living Planet and brings it near Earth until Thor stops it.
- Modern · Comics: Seeks a trade for Thanos's Cosmic Cube and is sent with the Elders to the Cancerverse.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Wins most of the ISO-Sphere in a new Contest of Champions, then loses it to Maestro.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Holds Thor and Beta Ray Bill captive while chasing a Mjolnir on the ruined City of Asgard.
- 2013 · Cinematic: Sif and Volstagg left the Aether with Tivan for safekeeping, and he began plotting to get the Power Stone.
- 2014 · Cinematic: Tivan hired Gamora to bring him the Orb and met the Guardians at his museum on Knowhere.
- 2014 · Cinematic: Carina grabbed the Power Stone and died, and the energy blast destroyed most of Tivan's archive.
- 2018 · Cinematic: Thanos came to Knowhere, took the Aether from Tivan, and despoiled the world for the Reality Stone.
- 2025 · Cinematic: In late 2025 Tivan sold the remains of Knowhere to the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Sif, Volstagg, Howard the Duck, Grandmaster, Cosmo the Spacedog
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