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Daina (paternal grandmother; deceased),
A'Lars (father; deceased),
Sui-San (mother; deceased),
Eros (brother),
Uranos (great-uncle),
Zuras (uncle; deceased),
Thena (cousin),
Sersi (cousin; estranged);
Thane (son),
Gamora (adoptive daughter),
Corvus Glaive (adopted son),
Nebula (adoptive daughter),
Ebony Maw (adopted son),
Proxima Midnight (adopted daughter),
Black Dwarf (adopted son),
Several adoptive and biological children (mostly deceased),
Thanosi (hybrid clones; mostly estranged or deceased);
Mistress Death (ex-lover),
Hela Odinsdottir (ex-lover)
History
I understand your point, brother... You might be a lot stronger or may even be mightier than what you've demonstrated toward me, but let me tell you that you have already failed to realize your greatest mistake... Deciding to put your foot in our universe. You have my blessing, scum... Now, you can be with Death, because I am and will always be the only true Mad Titan in this death-forsaken reality...
- — Thanos
- — Thanos
Early Years
Thanos of Titan was one of the last sons of A'Lars, progenitor of the second colony of Eternals on the planet Titan, and Sui-San, the last survivor of the original settlement of Eternals on Titan. Born with grey, hide-like skin and a massive body due to being born with the Deviant Syndrome, Thanos was a morose child who became obsessed with the concept of death, with his own main objective growing up was to bring stability to the universe, as he believed its massive population would inevitably use up the universe's entire supply of resources and condemn it.
As a result of this growing and festering obsession within him, he would go to great lengths where he started studying and worshiping the entity herself, after confirming that he wasn't being deluded and wasn't simply hallucinating the sacred entity after all. Through several bionic implementations and long hours of meditation, Thanos painfully but courageously augmented his Eternal strengths and powers so that his abilities surpassed those of all other Titanian Eternals.
Rise of the Mad Titan
Growing up into early adulthood despite his strange personality, Thanos still unconditionally loved his people and desperately sought to save his home planet when it became threatened by the series of imminent catastrophic events, including natural deadly phenomena, probable invasions by rivaling races and empires, and overpopulation. Learning through the manipulative teachings and concepts of death, Thanos suggested exiling or even killing half of the population of the planet in order to solve the worsening problem, to which his unorthodox idea was considered too drastic and was dismissed by his people's high council, including his own father A'Lars, which subsequently resulted in Titan becoming subsequently devastated as well as nearly uninhabitable days later.
At that moment, most of Titan's population still survived as the consequences of the predicted catastrophes, to which Thanos remained somewhat relieved for the survival to most of his people yet disappointed towards his people for completely ignoring his strongly-urged suggestion, although all of it permanently changed when the Order of the Evolutionary Ascension came to return to the now scare and undying state of Titan after a few years since they've last visited. Much to A'Lars' surprise, he found the situation unexpected, before realizing that he had made a secret deal with the leader of the Order, the deceitful Mind Master in hopes of giving away a decent of people who were willing to join their organization. As the Mind Master found out that A'Lars had failed their long-time pact, the Mind Master mercilessly ordered a genocidal act on the remaining Titanians, killing more than a hundred thousand Titanians, ignoring the pleas and cries of many lives. Another result of this brutal attack was what led the Titanians on the verge of critical condition or even extinction as a species, as not more that a hundred of Titanians were left to die out from disease, thirst, and starvation (with some already making the risky decision to abandon the planet and live somewhere else across the cosmos), leaving Thanos as one of the last living Titanians alive to this very day.
In his middle adulthood, Thanos, now known as the Dark Lord by his most loyal underlings and the Mad Titan by the galactic communities, was now a powerful, cosmic warlord who rules over a distant region of space and commands two massive armies as a part of his expanding Starfleet: the Chitauri and the Outriders. Originally, the Chitauri were the only known massive force the Titan had since his first conquests, but because of the unruly and oversimplified nature of the Chitauri hive mind, Thanos desired a more controllable, autonomous and more aggressive fighting force and began experimenting on his own genetic creations. Using his own essence of DNA as well as that of the Chitauri, the Mad Titan engineered a new race of creatures that he then dubbed the Outriders, whose purpose was to serve their master until they die.
Courting Death
After meeting the personification of Death in a hallucinatory astral realm, his main objective is to obtain the Infinity Stones for the sake of fueling his desire to achieve his ultimate goal to balance the universe is what led him to forging deals with the villains and rogue warriors, most notably the Asgardian trickster god Loki, rogue Kree warlord Ronan the Accuser, and radical Skrull Empress Veranke to each their own respective campaigns against Earth and Xandar. Both of these alliances cost Thanos much of his resources, including one of the stones, his servant the Other, and the loyalty of his two daughters, Gamora and Nebula, and also inadvertently resulted in the formation of the superhero groups the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Eventually, he lost his patience with his servants and opted to seek out the Stones personally, now all by himself, his remaining loyal children & deadliest assassins, the Black Order, and every other weapon and technology that he possessed as well as the remaining and slowly growing armies under his command.
Infinity Trilogy
The Infinity Quest
Thanos finally completing the Infinity Gauntlet, finishing the long-time Infinity Quest
For the Dark Titan, the Infinity Gauntlet was the Earthly Holy Grail, the ultimate prize to be coveted above all else. Although he had possessed only a few of the Stones back then before during his youthful cosmic expedition, he admitted to not knowing how to properly use them at the time. Allying himself with his adoptive children and recruiting his most skillful servants, the Black Order along with his planetary wide starfleet, they started their ferocious quest across the entire universe, in search of the Infinity Stones.
Each cosmic stone (Power, Time, Reality, Soul, Space, Mind) individually gives the user mastery over its dominion. Collectively, the wielder would possess the power to destroy and create universes and all beings in them. He crafted a scheme to collect the Infinity Stones from those who currently held them. In an awesome display of cunning, power, speed and manipulation he and his servants were able to find and gather all the six stones from their locations across the universe and place them on the Infinity Gauntlet.
After claiming the Power Stone from Xandar in a bloody battle against the Nova Corps, the Ravagers, and the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thanos returned to his mobile warship, and had the epiphany to revisit his barren homeworld Titan, wherein the usage of the Power Stone enabled him to deduce the location of the Time Stone after he was able to accumulate centuries worth of Titanian mythology and formulate it into a map of the lost relic within a few hours, locating it within the immortal benevolent and life-giving planet in a massive planet known as Haven, somewhere in a distant irregular galaxy. However, Thanos would discover that the planet was safeguarded by immortals Kronos and Daina, Thanos' grandparents. Having been served by warriors and prophetesses — the Gaian Sisterhood — for millennia, the lost Titanians have built a civilization under the façade of a purely green and perfectly luscious planet with never-ending life, only for Thanos to discover the truth that the planet was a nesting ground for nascent Celestials, the primordial builders of the universe, who Kronos and Daina had revealed were on the verge of extinction after millions of years.
Despite being given an opportunity to join their cause, Thanos was only enraged by their deceptions and false promises of restoring Titan if he served in the name of the Celestials and embrace his "unique" Eternal heritage, something that Daina had offered to explain Thanos' complex nature more, that he was unlike any other Eternal besides his brother along with the rest of the last living members of the "new Eternal generations." However, rather than be completely immersed and convinced by the words of his relatives, Thanos and his children instead chose to fight them for the Time Stone. The Gaian Sisterhood tried to show him the millions of futures of his quest as most would wound up ending with his failure, but it only reignited and encouraged Thanos to believe it was his destiny to "defy the odds" and complete his universal calling. While he and his children were initially overpowered by Kronos' and the Sisterhood's cosmically-enhanced powers combined with the Celestials who attacked the invaders out of self-preservation, Thanos stuns them with the Power Stone and took the time to successfully strip off the Time Stone hidden beneath the core of Haven, the entire structure of the planet eventually collapses into oblivion afterwards, having the very ultimate source that continuously amplifies the planet and its life — starving the small-sized Celestials to death as well as accelerating the aging of his once immortal grandparents and their allies into a decrepit and eventually, lifeless husk — for millions of years, get taken away from them.
The rest of the stones were next for the taking by the Mad Titan. In the following hours, Thanos took the Soul Stone from the possession of the Sovereign's messianic figure, Adam Warlock, whose innate powers rivaled the Mad Titan. Thanos the later retrieved the Reality Stone from the Collector's Museum on Knowhere, and by using the stone's power into itself, it was able to reform into a forged stone and inserted it into his Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos and his Starfleet would later abduct the wandering Silver Surfer, who was investigating Thanos' partnership with the late Veranke that sparked the Secret Invasion, to which Thanos had used this advantage to set the Surfer free after confessing his plans, unknowingly helping the Titan track down the current location of the Space Stone when the Surfer ended up going to Asgard to warn its protectors.
Thanos and his Starfleet came raining down on Asgard to claim the Space Stone, but not before they faced off against Asgard's greatest warriors and its mighty prince, Thor, as its prowess and courage to protect his home and people at the cost of his life led to Thanos deciding to spare the Asgardians, relying their fate once he had completed the stones. When the Surfer escaped Asgard mid-battle to Earth and warn its mightiest heroes of the cosmic threat, Thanos himself would later arrive in Wakanda, and the joint alliance of Earth's mightiest heroes and most dangerous villains did their best to keep him away from Vision by eradicating the Titan's mindless and rageful armies. However, Thanos' power with five Infinity Stones was proven to be unmatched, even to all of Earth's mightiest defenders, reverses the destruction of the Vision at the hands of the Scarlet Witch and removes the Mind Stone from the android's forehead, nevertheless killing him in the process.
Now in the possession of his hands, came the five relics of omnipotence: the absolute control of all aspects of time, space, power, reality, the mind, and the soul. The gaining of supreme might meant the beginning of a black nightmare for the entire universe. Now, on the edge of Armageddon and led by the mysterious and newly-emerged Adam Warlock and his Infinity Watch joins with the remainder of Earth's superheroes and super-villains to joined together in a desperate attempt to thwart this nihilistic Titan's insane plunge into galactic self-destruction. Thanos ultimately triumphed over his enemies once he finally completed the Infinity Gauntlet, using it to finally complete his goal and destroy half of the life within the universe at the snap of his fingers, which released a burst of bright light. Unbeknownst to everyone else throughout the rest of the entire universe, reality itself was about to be altered on a scale never seen before, all thanks to the success of the Mad Titan in his conquest for restoring complete balance to all life across the universe.
Even the Hell Lord Mephisto was impressed by the Titan's feat, although he would frequently haunt and taunt Thanos with that Death wasn't quite fully satisfied with his personal crusade, with the latter whispering that the surviving heroes would somehow find a way to stop him at any costs. At first, Thanos himself was self-fulfilled with his lifetime accomplishment on decimate half of the universe's population to save it from eventual collapse, planning to settle down on a distant, lively planet — bearing a resemblance to the planet Haven — with him as the only resident while he contemplates with what Mephisto had meant. However, when Thanos would find out the undying persistence and persevere spirit dwelling on some of Earth's heroes in their task to find him and use the Stones to reverse his victory, Thanos has came to a realization that those who are left would keep on resisting out of their remembrance of the fallen ones, keeping the rest of life from flourishing once again. Hence, Thanos used the Stones to warp reality in his own chaotic and demented image, completely falling into Death's temptations, who also evoked to him that it should be done out of revenge for the heroes' unending efforts to try undo his calling and accomplishment, specifically a year and five months have now passed since his now infamous Decimation.
The Infinity War
Thanos clashes the surviving heroes and villains of the universe for the fully assembled Infinity Gauntlet
However, within the span of such a tragic year, as the alliance of the surviving heroes, antiheroes, and villains on Earth never gave up on finding a way on how to reverse the Snap while they persistently tracked down the seemingly untraceable location of Thanos, right until they combined Earth's greatest magic and technology to foresee, trace, and pinpoint the highest signatures of various radiation and spikes of energy across the universe emitted by the Infinity Stones, a cosmic phenomenon that they were able to catch when Thanos had finally decided to warp all of reality in the name of Death, starting the cosmic warp in his Sanctuary.
The moment they confronted the Titan in his Sanctuary, the heroes were aided by the Cosmic Entities: Love, Hate, the Stranger, Epoch, Chaos, Order, and even Galactus himself (under the Silver Surfer's assistance), who summoned the entities as they all deemed the Titan's reality-warping powers could potentially cause instability on a multiversal level instead of reshaping it as he intended to. The opposing collective engaged into battle against Thanos and his remaining hordes of forces. However, despite the assembled forces, Thanos was able to defeat all and imprison them in a state worse than death, thanks to the sacrifice of his entire remaining Starfleet: his full divisions of Outrider, Chitauri, and Sakaaran armies, along with Ebony Maw (the only survivor of the Decimation from the Black Order besides Supergiant, who already defected to the heroes' side), all of which were wiped out (save for Maw) by his adversaries and at the cost of Thanos being severely wounded by both his enemies attacks combined with his prolonged exerted uses of the Infinity Stones' godly power slowly cooking him on the inside.
In the process, though, the mighty Thanos had grown arrogant with his state of nigh-omnipotence when he was able to counteract most of the Cosmic Entities' blasts and momentarily incapacitated them, to which he overlooked his adoptive daughter Nebula who was able to wrest the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos' hand by the second he became distracted by his own arrogance. Her first act was to undo all that has occurred, which inadvertently freed the heroes and the cosmic entities and resurrected half the universe's population, who were previously withered away into ash by the Titan's snap of Decimation. The battle resumed with Nebula's wrath towards Thanos, but in the end it was the nigh-invulnerable Adam Warlock who saved her from getting fatally wounded and finally possessed the Gauntlet, ending the conflict for the Infinity Gauntlet, for now, as the six cosmic stones are no longer in the possession of the Mad Titan.
Defeated after losing the Infinity Gauntlet against the heroes, the ultimately weakened and barely-breathing Thanos consequently faked his own death through the balanced and fateful choice of Adam Warlock himself who chose to have himself exiled and secluded at a distant planet far across the galaxy, away from everything that he had accomplished, including his allies, and everyone had been against. But despite all of this, he briefly continues to contemplate on the concept Death, although the only downside is that he can never please her nor himself for that matter, leading for Thanos to have a long period of introspection. Believing that the Titan was still capable of changing his unethical and unrighteous ways, Warlock made Thanos a member of the Infinity Watch, giving him the Reality Stone, one of the Infinity Stones which Adam Warlock and the Watch now have selflessly guarded with their lives in the name of the greater good.
The Infinity Crusade
Thanos temporarily joins the Infinity Watch against the Magus, Adam Warlock's evil self
Only a few months since the events of Infinity War, Thanos has sensed a great energy in the universe and decides to leave his farm to investigate. He soon discovered the source found in his old dimension and kingdom, the Sanctuary, revealing to be the fanatic Universal Church of Truth whose headquarters were located at the planetary-wide mobile station known as Sacrosanct. The Church's deity was the unholy Magus, Adam Warlock's evil self, and he has since returned and plans to reshape the universe in his own way based on all of life's greatest sorrow and regret, after seeing Thanos' failure during the events of Infinity War. Upon their meeting, Magus believes Thanos to be similar to himself, but after some time, Thanos has thought much and changed his priorities. He believes that neither of them are meant to possess such power. Magus then casts him out from his own dimension, leaving it at the hands and the ruling of Magus himself. Thanos realizes he will acquire assistance in his efforts to stop Magus once again. He goes to Adam Warlock and the Infinity Watch to form a heroic alliance. They traveled to Death's realm and used the Infinity Well to learn how Magus came to be and what his plans were. They soon learned of the gathering of some intergalactic heroes across the galaxy after Magus and his Church had either simultaneously attacked or brainwashed various locations across the galaxy with his massive army. Thanos realized this was no coincidence and Magus must have planned all of the events thus far.
The Magus leads them all to a dimension nearby his own, in hopes of them battling. He as lead Earth's heroes to believe Thanos and Adam Warlock are behind everything. They battle but are interrupted by Galactus, and he uses a scan to read all of their thoughts. They soon realize they are on the same side. Warlock gathers the Infinity Stones together at Thanos' request to use the power to stop the Magus. However the stones lose their power when brought together, the doing of the Living Tribunal, the cosmic caretaker and multiversal judge. Magus then abducted Warlock afterwards, and following his momentary absence, Thanos took command against the wishes of Earth's heroes. He tells them that only he can save them now. He then gets the Ultimate Nullifier from Galactus' Ship. He claims that he is not pure enough to use it and whoever does will be killed. He chooses Quasar to make the sacrifice to save the universe. He know fully understands Magus' plans and deceptions and adjusts to them. But Quasar hesitates and Magus is able to obtain the Infinity Gauntlet when it is re-powered by Eternity and the Living Tribunal.
Thanos knows he must know make his move against Magus. Knowing that the heroes remained thinking of Thanos as an untrustworthy ally, the Mad Titan decided to face the Magus on his own, while the heroes were all distracted fighting off Magus' powerful and massive army. He finds his own doppelganger, who plans to turn on the Magus. They battled each other wherein the Thanos began to weaken by his other half, only for the doppelganger to meet his fate at the hands of an enraged Drax the Destroyer, who beat the corrupted Thanos before punching a hole through his chest and removing his heart. With Drax's reluctant help, the true Thanos triumphed, despite his doppelganger having the upper advantage at first. It is here that Thanos overcomes his own self doubt and is able to absorb his dying other half, restoring his lost power and knowledge to become whole again since the aftermath of Infinity War. Thanos stood and fought Magus and managed to distract him long enough for Adam Warlock to break free of the Magus' captivity.
Thanos had planned all along for the Magus to miss one important key, the Infinity Gauntlet had a fake replica of the Reality Stone, thus he was not omnipotent. In the end, Adam Warlock and the rest of the Infinity Watch (assisted by the Guardians) as well as the Universal Church of Truth's previously brainwashed leader, the Matriarch, combined their might to completely defeat the Magus, putting him in a catatonic state after he was imprisoned inside the Soul Stone. Thanos eventually parted ways with the Infinity Watch whose stones have been given back to them. Thanos is now supposedly a changed man, being instrumental in the defeat of Magus and saving the universe in the process.
A Cosmic Fugitive
Despite his heroic recognition and remembrance among the heroes of the galaxy on helping the salvation of the universe from the hands of the imperious Magus, Thanos was still considered a intergalactic fugitive among most of the galaxies' strongest and most dangerous peace-keeping forces, most notably the Nova Corps and the Asgardian forces, now that they have found out that Thanos was still, in fact, alive, ever since Warlock faked his death since the end of Infinity War, which delivered him on the paradise planet he would refer to as the Garden. Unfazed by the unchanging state of the galaxy's view on the Mad Titan, Thanos decided to leave his farm and the planet itself, returning into wandering the cosmos to search for the lost unknown and unexplored realms of the universe, at least in the meantime. In the span of those two years, Thanos' presence was discovered and found by his charismatic and resourceful younger brother Eros through the former's situational ally Pip the Troll, who came to visit, either to try and mess or bond with him, much to Thanos' annoyance that he would eventually leave the Garden way too often.
The Black Quadrant
A fugitive Thanos as the new, notorious conqueror of the Black Quadrant
A year or two has passed by since the events of Infinity Crusade, Thanos' reunion with his recently-reunited servants, the Black Order gave him the advantage of being able to fully conquer a group of crime-ridden planets and moons located at under his own domain, with the help of the Order, without any trace or awareness from the Nova Corps or any of the Mad Titan's greatest enemy forces in the universe. Following his succeeding conquest, the Titan once again have decided to return to his role into becoming a cosmic warlord surrounding the domain that he has conquered, finally calling it the Black Quadrant. Despite being mostly a stranger to these region of space, Thanos had made himself quite secretive during his times of operations.
On his new conquest on conquering the entire region of the quadrant, Thanos was feared by most of its inhabitants, which were all consisting of the most dangerous criminals and warriors that have yet to be discovered by the larger intergalactic community. Thankfully, none of those criminals and even those criminal organizations were able to match and even take on Thanos and the Black Order, and as he has shown no mercy on his newly-discovered adversaries. In the end of it all, Thanos has shown his true power, and with it, he was able to banish, conquer, or exterminate every single warlord or syndicate who dared to challenge him and was able to banish those who were too frightened of him and his associates, out of the quadrant itself, now claiming the domain of the Black Quadrant as his, and only his, with no one else to challenge the Mad Titan.
Dancing with Death
Hela and Thanos partnered up as fearsome bringers of death, believing that their interests were aligned
It was the spring of 2023 when Thanos was ruling the Black Quadrant as the head governor of this anarcho-authoritarian state he had established with the Black Order. However, the Mad Titan felt empty and such a feeling within him was only realized when he began sensing the presence of the exiled Goddess of Death, Hela, right after mercilessly killing off a rival gang who tried to take over the Quadrant. Proving her power, Hela killed Corvus Glaive, Black Dwarf, and Proxima Midnight in front of him and immediately brought them back to life right after to prove that she was worthier than all of the Black Order as his ally. As her presence had fascinated Thanos, attracted him even, and reminded him of his motivation for collecting the Infinity Stones in the first place. Having read through his memories like an open book using dark magic, Hela promised the Mad Titan the one thing he had been secretly desiring the most but has often been keeping to himself and simply justifying his genocidal crusade for decades.
Witnessing her power as the Asgardian Goddess of Death, Thanos knew that Hela could promise him the sweet power of death within his grasp and was given a sense of hope that he could be with its living embodiment, unlike the abstract entity who had only been giving him nothing but false hope and despair for making him realize his truest and darkest desires since his youth and descent to madness. After the two had joined forces so they could rule the cosmos as agents of death and chaos, Hela ended up leading Thanos and their allies as they went to steal mystical artifacts that could potentially hasten Hela's exile on Hel and become a whole goddess once again. Eventually, their quest has led them into a battle against the Korbinite Beta Ray Bill in an attempt to use his Stormbreaker, a mystical hammer similar to Thor's Mjolnir that could summon the Bifrost and conjure her a portal out of Hel. Bill was the chosen target due to Hela taking advantage of his disheartened soul and shaken belief of being a worthy warrior after failing to stop Thanos from slaughtering his people in the past.
Unfortunately, even as they were able to beat the Korbinite to a bloody pulp, Beta Ray Bill was able to regain his worthiness over his hammer after realizing that his losses among his Korbinite people during the events of Thanos' Infinity War were not his fault and should not define him as a warrior and hero. Rather, it's his humility and perseverance to keep on protecting his people from the likes of Hela and Thanos. Now regaining his godly strength as a champion of his people, Bill bested his adversaries in combat and blasted them out of his home planet. Thanos saw Bill as a worthy opponent, he finally welcomed death in his arms as the avenging Korbinite blasts a hole through his chest with Stormbreaker's cosmic energy. Of course, the Mad Titan's death was short-lived, considering that his lover was the Goddess of Death, who led her followers in bringing him back to life.
In spite of their promising relationship as bloodthirsty partners and passionate lovers, Thanos eventually felt distraught and violated after discovering that before resurrecting him after accepting his death at the hands of Beta Ray Bill, Hela was also using his undead corpse as a vessel for her true intentions of bringing her out of her exile in Hel. This act of Hela made Thanos bitterly prefer death for all eternity rather than live as someone's puppet, let alone someone whom he had become fond of. After a battle between him and Hela's cult of sorcerers hellbent on freeing her had ignited, Thanos obliterated her most fully developed corporeal avatar out of rage before she could completely transfer her consciousness into it, disrupting Hela's second plan of controlling another body if she couldn't escape Hel with her real form. A dismayed Thanos no longer wanted to get involved with the Goddess of Death or any other powerful figure offering him a similar partnership, although Hela had nevertheless accumulated more than enough damned and departed souls from the high body count of the Mad Titan as the governor of the Black Quadrant for the past few years in her next plan to accelerate her exile, thanks to the final sacrifice of her cult, whose allegiance always lied on their deathly divine.
The Retconning
Unbeknownst to most of the galaxy's renowned heroes and villains, it was due to the excessive use of the Infinity Gauntlet during the Infinity Saga that the Modern Universe abruptly finds itself on the verge of constantly tearing itself apart, experiencing a severe case of vacuum decays, creating more cracks and fissures in space-time that are far worse than a single Fault, which only leads to the Negative Zone. It was up to the secretive alliance consisting of two Earth's "cosmic wallbreakers" Deadpool and Gamma, the Illuminati, and the intergalactic Adam Warlock's Infinity Watch to venture into the edge of the multiverse to seek knowledge and wisdom in pursuit of fixing reality back before the ensuing damages could end up accelerating the death of their universe. In the end, their goal was overall successful thanks to Deadpool's painful but fruitful maximum efforts to try and put their home universe back into its normal and stable state, but in doing so made either insignificant or even drastic changes in the history of their universe as a price they were willing to pay.
When Thanos was momentarily trapped within the light of the Faults, the Mad Titan would meet his fateful punishment under the judgement of Eternity and the Living Tribunal, as the two had initially taken the form of his late relatives (notably his parents, and grandparents Kronos and Gaina, whom he killed) respectively, due to his cosmically destructive use of the Infinity Stones in his twisted quest to balance life and death on his own hands. Before tossing him back into reality, Eternity imbued him with immortality which barred the Mad Titan from embracing and meeting Death, not until the end of the multiverse, something that Thanos had deemed impossible as it goes against his ideals to balance the universe. When the universe was finally saved from the Faults by the momentary alliance, Thanos escaped to his domain in the Black Quadrant, where he was in disarray and despondency upon realizing that he could not die, while also contemplating that maybe he deserved it because of his recklessness and slow drive into insanity, as everything he does recently feels like chasing after the wind.
The Second Fault
Around mid-2026, Thanos personally witnessed the opening of the Second Fault, sensing the realm that connected from within it was "devoid of death," and it didn't last long until he joined forces with Adam Warlock to reform the Infinity Watch, who is now joined by his younger brother Eros, with assistance from the Ravagers, Nova Corps, and Skreell Empyre (Kree-Skrull Alliance) along with the Accusers. While most of his momentary teammates were filled with grudge, Thanos was able to defend himself and prove his usefulness by convincing the heroes that they set their differences aside. Together, they aimed to close the the largest rift in the space-time continuum of the universe previously opened by Magus and the Universal Church of Truth during the Infinity Crusade, exposing this reality itself to darker alternate universes, notably the Negative Zone and its most dangerous region, the Cancerverse. The Fault expanded at a rapid rate, threatening to engulf all of reality, something that did not seem to bother the Great Old Ones, a group of extra-dimensional tentacled creatures of arcane and divine origin where life has defeated death, in which the Watch had to stop before these beings could metastasize reality itself over theirs.
The issue of the second Fault involved series of struggles and eventual success from the Watch to fend off the Great Old Ones from entering the Fault, until they were able to partially seal the rift enough that they could no longer enter and conquer their reality. When Nova and some other heroes were trapped in the Negative Zone's Cancerverse, Drax volunteered to be given cosmic yet life-threatening powers by a weakened and slowly regenerating Adam Warlock, becoming the embodiment of the Avatar of Death to enter the Fault into the Cancerverse to rescue the stranded heroes and fight the swarms of corrupted beings that intends to plague the main reality the moment the crossed the Fault. While Thanos also protested that he should be granted the powers instead, Adam that Drax had the essential vengeful spirit within him that rendered him more capable of destroying than the Mad Titan, sensing Thanos' intentions were merely his growing desperation to be with Death and the fact that the Titan's immortality from Eternity negated him from such deathly power.
While rescuing the heroes inside the Cancerverse, Thanos fought and brutally slaughtered the corrupted and nigh-immortal versions of heroes and villains with morbid enthusiasm to the extent that he would proudly call himself the "Titan of Death," alongside the fearless cosmically-imbued Drax, the real Avatar or Death, and Thanos' former subordinate turned enemy Ronan the Accuser, giving the rest of the heroes enough time to stop and seal the Fault from spreading the Cancerverse into their universe. Being the only companion Thanos had left, Drax stood his ground and channeled his fist with cosmic energy to put his archnemesis out of his misery, leaving Thanos in awe as he witnessed his higher level of power. Drax reached his greatest powers to unleash a non-deadly blast at the remaining survivors to cross the Fault into the safety of the main reality, although he let Thanos stay beside him, much to the latter's respect. Drax and Thanos fought the Many-Angled Ones mindlessly and savagely alongside one another, that was until the Mad Titan was dragged by the Great Old One Tsathoggua among other unnamed beings into the void of the Negative Zone, leaving his whereabouts unknown when the Fault was finally closed from the main reality.
Wars in the Negative Zone
Trapped within the realm for millennia, Thanos conquers the Negative Zone
When Tsathoggua and its inferior beings have tackled Thanos into the void of the Negative Zone, the bunch flew across the dark and lifeless cosmos until they would eventually crashed into the planet Baluur. Thanos was in a ravenous state that his pure rage combined with his magical abilities gave him the opportunity to crush Tsathoggua repeatedly and rip out the rest of his attackers into pieces until its movements were no longer visible. With the Great Old One finally dead, Thanos had to deal with another conundrum in the form of Lord Blastaar, the king of the very planet he was standing on.
Introducing himself as a deserter from the Positive Zone, Thanos made a pact with the planet's ruler in helping the former get him back to the main reality. However, luck ran out when the lone Mad Titan found out that Blastaar had deviously double-crossed him by secretly making a deal with his own rival Annihilus, the very being whom Thanos had made as an enemy in the previous decade, long before Thanos had initiated his Infinity Quest. The secret pact between the two rulers was made with the intention of tormenting and enslaving Thanos, having heard of his infamous reputation in the Positive Zone. Adding insult to injury, most rulers have also come to an agreement to close and lock any portal that could get Thanos back to his home.
Having no other choice but to extend his stay without getting enslaved or imprisoned in an Arthrosian cell for too long, Thanos got stranded within the Negative Zone, not realizing that he would live there for the next thousands of years. In the first hundreds of years, Thanos grew to accept his fate of residing within the zone as a never-ending nomad. Thanos was immortal, and he was alone, until he wasn't when he unintentionally founded a fellowship of outcasts across the outer regions of Baluur and galaxy, which included Burstarr — the exiled and deranged son of Blastaar — and a faction of Klyntar (symbiotes) led by a descendant of the late Carnage, which were banished from New Klyntar due to seeking conquest beyond their home galaxy.
With his new crew and having himself bond with the bloodthirsty Thanatos, Thanos founded and expanded his own Nihilist Sector, as a means to spite Annihilus. In this 1972th year at the Zone, a more empowered yet mentally-twisted Thanos has garnered enough armies and assembled more than a dozen of fleets to wage war against both the empires of Annihilus and Blastaar which also disturbed some of the Klyntarian colonies, resulting in more than trillions of casualties. Having completely lost his sanity, Thanos inevitably spiraled into a morbid genocidal conqueror, far worse than any of his years of conquest on the main universe. In his 1991th year, Thanos ruled almost three fourths of all the empires in the Negative Zone, deciding to leave the remaining territories for his surviving enemies out of pity.
Around the 2019th year, the three most powerful yet only standing rulers alive: Annihilus, Blastaar, and the current symbiote ruler had enough of Thanos' demeaning and threatening presence that they resorted to work together on fulfilling Thanos' deal the moment he arrived in their reality, and that was to bring him home. In a fit of rage, Thanos' state of in denial led him to snap and eradicate his battalion of attackers, heavily injuring Annihilus and even killing Blastaar via decapitation. Nevertheless, the remaining members of the alliance, which included some of the symbiotes who now felt remorseful for siding with the Titan, was able to activate the portal to the Positive Zone and it took them to crash an armada of starship at Thanos to get him get to the other side of the portal before closing it in a panic-stricken yet passionate manner.
Reaching the main reality, Thanos woke up at the rocky surface of a planetoid, finding strange that the insanity he spiraled into within the Negative Zone has waned off. Eventually finding his way back to the Black Quadrant, a weary Thanos found out that he was only gone for a year, giving the Titan some sense of relief. Interestingly enough, disappointment also came to his emotions upon contemplating the truth that any godlike accomplishment that he made within the Negative Zone had never gave him any form of fulfillment nor any longing desire to be with Death, fearing that his times of collaboration with Warlock Infinity Watch may have slowly and subconsciously changed his perception of reality.
Fall of the Black Order
Eventually, after another few weeks have passed since he returned from the tormenting realm of the Negative Zone to the main reality, Thanos was still recovering spiritually and mentally inside his domain when he was unfortunately unaware of his own subordinates, the Black Order's secret agenda, led by Corvus Glaive, had planned to overthrow his newly-ruled domain as they contemplated their lives without their service to him, yet being able to keep and harness the power and influence had left behind. However, though the Order's plan might have been guaranteed into fully succeeding, they seemingly forgot of how dangerous and terrifying Thanos could be and what he can do if an individual tries to challenge him, especially if those individuals were once his followers, traitors who dares to overthrow everything that he has accomplished.
Despite two of the Order's members who never participated in Glaive's mutiny against Thanos, Supergiant and Ebony Maw, and how their warnings to the rest of the Black Order were truly convincing, the rest of the rebellious Order ignored their pleas and have decided to proceed with their schemes against their former master. During the very day the Black Order have decided to assassinate Thanos, the Mad Titan was surprised of how all of the sudden, most of his closest followers would turn against him without any reasons. As the Order finally attacked Thanos out of the blue, Thanos had no other choice but to devastating and desperately defend himself from their series of attacks, until he was finally weakened by the combined efforts of his recent traitors.
Weakened, Corvus and Midnight also have finally explained to Thanos that ever since he started growing soft during the events of the Infinity Crusade after he chose to cooperate with the Infinity Watch and the heroes of Earth, they realized that Thanos was no longer the great master they used to know and deserved, giving Glaive to come up with the idea of overthrowing Thanos as the ruler of his domain all around the universe, once they have already killed him. Furious and confused at the same time, the betrayed and almost-defeated Thanos unleashes his full rage and anger, finally gong berserk against Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Black Dwarf, without any hesitation of mercy on them.
Final Confrontation
As the final battle advances, Thanos was just close towards defeating the Order using his sheer strength, when Ebony Maw suddenly shows up to back up the rebellious Order from the powerful Titan, finally realizing that they were truly right all along, now believing that the Black Quadrant deserves better leadership and ruling than their former master, whom he believe now that he was far too weak to handle his own domain. Witnessing Maw's betrayal, Thanos' fury grows only worse, only to slowly weakened by Maw's persuading magical abilities, giving the Order an advantage to finally take down Thanos, and slit his thick throat once and for all.
Miraculously, the only remaining Black Order member who never left Thanos' side, Supergiant, was able to save her master in time, using her telepathic abilities to counteract Ebony Maw's persuasion. As Supergiant handles the rest of the Order all by herself, this gave Thanos the remaining time to escape as the main headquarters that he once have established started burning and collapsing down due to the following destruction that they've caused. Barely getting out of the ruined headquarters, Thanos slowly lies outside the burning domain he once ruled, only to see that a one survivor has arose from the flames, revealing that Corvus Glaive was not done yet with him.
A Duel to the End
Seeing his former right-hand man and lieutenant survive the destruction of the Black Quadrant, Thanos tearfully breaks down in rage, though he seemed too weakened to move himself and stand to confront Glaive, one last time. As Glaive arrogantly approach his former master and carefully aims his glaive at Thanos' head, he asked for his last words, now that he would die at his own servant's hands. Thanos chuckled, wandering why Glaive would ask him that kind of question, when Glaive was the one who is going to die in the situation.
Confused, Glaive asked what he meant, only to reveal that Thanos' techno-mystical chair has always been behind Glaive since he came to him, and with it, Thanos used the chair's powerful energy beam to blast it at Glaive in time, giving an enraged Thanos the opportunity to grab the glaive from Corvus Glaive, and using his powerful sorcery, he finally breaks the glaive in half and used the two pieces by impaling Glaive with it before finally disintegrating it.
The Annihilation Wave
Weakened without his once-powerful glaive, Thanos ridiculed Corvus Glaive one last time, telling him that even he won't get any chance into telling his last words, and as he carelessly hold his dying servant's body, he brutally tears Glaive apart, apparently killing him, once and for all, ending mutiny, but Thanos knew it was already too late. Despite the disbandment of the Black Order, they still managed to fully succeed in their primary objective, which was to tear down his newly-established kingdom from the inside.
Thanos then realized that he once gave Corvus Glaive the portal device accessing to the Negative Zone even before the events of Infinity War, and at the exact time, a portal suddenly opens in front of his ruined domain, there came the arrival of its long-time ruler, Annihilus, followed by his army which was the Annihilation Wave, consisting the entire ravenous population of the Negative Zone, ready to unleash chaos and destruction to one of their most hated enemy. Weakened but still impressed by what Glaive had done on making an unwilling agreement with Annihilus against the Mad Titan, Thanos smirked before taunting the Annihilus and his entire galactic army, telling them to "bring it on."
Rise of the Cabal
However, just as the Mad Titan was ready to face the forces of the Negative Zone all by himself, another portal opens between the battleground that interrupted the Annihilation Wave from ever coming closer towards Thanos, revealing the arrival of a new team, consisting of somewhat both familiar and unfamiliar faces to Thanos. The team reveals Maximus the Mad, Namor, Terrax the Tamer, Emil Burbank, alternate reality versions of Proxima Midnight, Queen Loki, an alternate version of his former lover Hela, and an unhinged variant of Reed Richards, introducing themselves as the Cabal.
Interrupting the waging battle that was supposedly about to start, the Cabal told Thanos that they needed his deepest help, claiming that the fate of the entire universe depended on it, now that the known creators of the universe, the Beyonders have decided to end it. This intrigued Thanos, though it made him question why would they come and ask for his help and instead, ask for the help of heroes. Namor then argued, that they did try to ask for the heroes' help, only to be turned down by forming their own league and using their own terms in trying to save the universe.
Maximus then explained that if none of them could ever help them and just listen to their suggestion, then maybe they could form a league on their own, consisting the greatest minds and the greatest warlords the universe has ever known, and by that they convinced the Mad Titan that his help is immediately necessary. Thanos finally agreed upon joining the Cabal, though leaving Annihilus and the Wave still worries him, implying that it would only waste his worthiness of being challenged as one of the most powerful beings in the universe at the very end of it.
Terrax nodded, believing that Thanos might have a point, though Thanos changed his mind by the last second, now offering Annihilus a one last offer, a peace offering, by having him come with the Cabal try and save the universe, and if they failed, he at least gets to die alongside one of his greatest adversaries. Annihilus then agreed, implying why not, it would possibly be the last time they'll be able to have an agreement on. Now joining the rest of the Cabal with Thanos, Annihilus order the entire population of the Wave to return back to the Negative Zone as soon as they possibly could, before the Cabal vanishes as they activated the portal back to the Cabal's headquarters on Earth, which was the abandoned Wakanda city of Necropolis, the former headquarters of the Illuminati.
Upon their arrival on Earth through the portal, the Cabal were a bit surprised to see that Thanos was holding a mangled and disfigured corpse of Annihilus, and in his defense, Thanos implied that Annihilus was welcomed into coming with them, not joining the Cabal itself, to which they awkwardly agreed after Thanos added that Annihilus almost killed him several times before. After the awkward situation that was going on, the immediately proceeded with their plans on saving and protecting the universe.
Little did Thanos knew, killing Annihilus only caused the entire Annihilation Wave to be stranded on the Black Quadrant, now that their only access into returning back home, Annihilus himself, has been literally destroyed and unhesitatingly killed by the Mad Titan. And at the right moment he realized this, the portal to the Negative Zone back on the Black Quadrant closes, just as when the Black Quadrant was now in the brink of catastrophe, now that it was affected by the series of an incursion event.
Time Runs Out
Eight months after the formation of the Cabal, the Cabal had found some degree of legitimacy on Earth. The world stood by and allowed the Cabal to raze Wakanda, and claim the ruins as their base of operations. The Cabal continued to protect the universe by destroying several countless colliding Earths and had even gone to the point where they savagely battled some of the most powerful cosmic beings and entities themselves across every reality they've come across, such as the Celestials, Builders, and even a few separate reality versions of the cosmic embodiments (including Entropy, Infinity, and Eternity among others).
However, Namor had eventually grown weary and disgusted with the Cabal's habit of engaging in wholesale slaughter of the colliding Earth's population, as opposed to simply planting the bomb and leaving. Namor eventually clashed with Thanos himself over leadership of the Cabal, but was no match for the Mad Titan. Even at the hands of Thanos, Namor was still sadistically spared by the Mad Titan, knowing that when Namor's "friends" would "kill" him since he coldly betrayed his Earthly allies for some cosmic criminals he barely knew to begin with.
Secret Wars
However, since they were unable to return to the Modern Reality (mainstream universe) to reluctantly help out their fellow denizens of the main reality, the Cabal has instead made their way to the second Incursion point, and escaped from a doomed planet into the third universe, the reality of Eternal Doom. Thanos and the Cabal allied with the godly tyrannical ruler known as Emperor Doom, to which they eventually worked together in order to build a vessel capable of surviving the end of all of reality, a life raft created based on duplicated designs obtained from the mainstream reality's Future Foundation. Along with the rest of the Cabal, Thanos later ends up scattered across Battleworld after the destruction of the Multiverse. While there, Thanos attempts to lead an insurrection against the Beyonders after allying himself with the resistance of heroes and villains, but was later suddenly overpowered and killed by his own ally, who was an enraged and traitorous Victor von Doom from his own reality, during the final confrontation during the Mutiny of Battleworld. Nevertheless, when the multiverse was eventually brought back from its own destruction by the shared multiversal powers of the Mister Fantastic, the Beyonder, and the Molecule Man, to which Thanos along with some of his allies were resurrected, doing so in such a way most of those who perished in the incursion events had no memory of what happened during the now-reversed heat death of the universe.
Confronting a Familiar Face
Looking Through a Broken Mirror
In his path to redemption, Thanos clashed against a far mightier and more malevolent version of himself, who sought to use the Cosmic Cube to destroy and remake their recovering reality, post-Secret Wars
During the Dark Age reality Thanos' assault on the Earth of main, modern reality with the latter's Cosmic Cube previously kept in the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four tried to defend the Earth from his reoccurring devastation and end his attack across cities beyond New York, only to realize that their outmatched by the reality-displaced Mad Titan, ending their fight with Dark Age Thanos becoming successful in gaining the powerful cube in his own grasps and starting to cause insurmountable chaos upon the world. However, not all hope is lost for Mister Fantastic, since he had just thought of an idea, an unthinkable but still useful at the same time. Using their teleportation device and time-travelling device at the same time, Reed and the rest of the four were transported to a location where they had last found their world's Thanos, which was at the Black Quadrant. After they suddenly vanished, Thanos taunted the Four for "running away, like a scared animal," but unknown to him, they had to ask for someone's very help.
While Thanos was busy terraforming Earth into New Titan, the Fantastic Four had returned once again, only this time, they managed to return only a second after their previous selves have left the scenario. Thanos taunted them as a result, asking what kind of help did they asked. In response, the Human Torch simply responded, teasing, "the one that you'll be needing," as the Thanos of this universe himself came from behind him, giving him a straight, strong punch to the face, making Thanos drop off the Cube at the hands of the Invisible Woman.
From that point on, both of the Mad Titans clashed against each other as a distraction, while both Invisible Woman and Mister Fantastic continues to find a way in fixing all of the destruction made possible by the Cube and reverse all of the damages done in order to stop the terraforming of Earth. However, with all their efforts on trying to fix the Cube using their best technology, Reed and Susan still failed, until Ben have thought of doing something that would reverse that damage done by the Mad Titan on Earth, but at the cost of possibly losing his own life if he does so. Meanwhile, during the clash of the Titans, both of the Thanos continued taunting one another as they fight, comparing and arguing on whose a more superior Titan. Thanos then told his mainstream counterpart that getting to meet him was like, "looking through a broker mirror," telling that he was never like him at all.
Ignoring the possible consequences, Ben immediately took the Cube, and before the rest of his teammates and both the Thanos could try and stop him, Ben finally took control of the Cube, and used it's never-ending power to revert Earth's state back to the way it used to be. As the effects of the Cube's destruction started to reverse, Thanos uncontrollably roars in rage and immediately gained the upper hand on his counterpart and beats him without any hesitations, after realizing that his greatest plan, had ultimately failed.
As Thanos almost beasts his mainstream counterpart to death, the four then charges towards the Titan to save their own Thanos' life and finally, confront and apprehend him, once and for all, for attempting to destroy the universe. While attacking the seemingly undefeatable Titan in order to distract him, Thanos uses his unique and incredible powers that mainly differentiates him from his counterpart. Revealing his true powers to everyone, Thanos summoned the dead in the nearest cemeteries throughout the cities, and later uses his powerful psychic powers towards the heroes, a power that not even Sue herself could've blocked. As a result, the Fantastic Four were now under Thanos' coercion, except for Johnny, who approached an unconscious Thanos and encouraged him to get up and help each other out, since only the two of them still remains.
Thankfully, just as Thanos tried to pick up the Cosmic Cube so he could resume his universal conquest, his counterpart suddenly wakes up with his eyes fully glowing and immediately rises up with more than enough rage, thanks to Johnny's help, to keep him awake and more powerful than he was weakened before. Thanos then confronted his reality-displaced counterpart, shouting his name before he could've pick the Cube up. However, Thanos unexpectedly requested an offer to his counterpart, an offer that he would be able to help him conquer the universe, not just by himself, but with his help. Still not convinced with the idea of his offer, the mainstream counterpart unexpectedly used his own powers towards Johnny, who never expected his betrayal, disintegrating him in the process, which apparently killed him.
Clash of the Mad Titans
Now that Thanos was fully convinced to partner up with his counterpart, they allied themselves up as they both held the Cube together, combining both their might to make the Cube a lot more powerful so they could use it on taking over the universe. The mainstream Thanos then laughs for unknown reasons, confusing his counterpart. Thanos then just laughs with him even though he had no idea what was he thinking then, which made the mainstream Thanos question him whether he got "the joke," or not.
Thanos asked him what was the joke, and in response, Thanos answered that the joke was the one they were holding the whole time, revealing to be a decoy of the Cosmic Cube, which only emitted a bright light as an effect. The real Cube was revealed to be in Johnny's possession, who was still alive since the one whom Thanos had disintegrated was a hologram. The mainstream Thanos then headbutts his counterpart, making him lose control of mind-controlling the rest of the Fantastic Four.
Realizing that they almost lost to the Mad Titan, all of them combined forces, using all their powers to distract him in order for Reed to get to the Cube and finally encased it with a power-dampening container, keeping it away from both Titans. Even though the Cube is now under the safest hands of the four, Thanos still stood a lot stronger, reaching his full potential as he uses most of his most destructive powers and abilities towards them, and unfortunately, despite all of their efforts, the heroes lost once again, only leaving him with his counterpart.
Duel to the Death
Since only two of them still remains conscious, both the Titans clashed, and never hesitated to kill each other after his counterpart's betrayal. As they have fought for the prize of claiming the Cube for themselves, Thanos' motivations were driven out by power and hunger of conquering this universe, however, his counterpart's motivations were not for his own self-ambitions and egoistic plans, proving that he's truly changed since Infinity War, and promised to take the Cub in order to restore back the universe and Earth back into its normal state, because all his life, all Thanos ever wanted to do is to keep the fate of the universe in balance.
Motivated into saving the fate of the universe once more, the mainstream Thanos triumphantly won against his past-resembling, reality-displaced counterpart. As he held the Cosmic Cube, a defeated and weakened Thanos then continues to taunt his counterpart, telling him that all of his was just a lie to convince the others that he truly had no interest on attempting on creating another universal war, because he knew that deep down in Thanos' mind, he would still use it for his own benefits of courting Death once more.
But before Thanos could've continue and try to manipulate him into using the Cube for himself, his head was mercilessly and ruthlessly stomped by the mainstream counterpart's boot without hesitation at all, brutally crushing his thick skull, which finally killed him once and for all, unintentionally reuniting his fallen counterpart to Death herself. But despite his death, Thanos rethinks his decisions on using the universal tool, believing that his counterpart had a point, that using the Cube to destroy the universe once more would make him be reunited with Mistress Death again.
Finding Eternal Purpose
A few months have passed since he reluctantly assisted the Fantastic Four in confronting and defeating his reality-displaced counterpart, Thanos was on the verge of breaking down knowing that the very immortality which Eternity had cursed to him was still in effect even in the aftermath of Secret Wars. Not to mention, Thanos would deem continuing his life of intergalactic crime and conquest as unfulfilling since the universe was finally restored to a state of balance and harmony, such condition no longer deemed the Infinity Watch the need to operate.
However, when the lonesome Thanos thought of the worst ways of punishing himself with far worse alternatives for death, the Titan would reconcile with his younger brother Eros, their older cousin Thena, and Thanos' son Thane (meeting him for the first time), who came to him with an offer to rejoin the the last members of their people — the Eternals — by helping them rebuild and reunite their civilization across the reborn universe by starting with Titan, wherein the planet's outer core is the location of the Exclusion, which contains an advanced machine of ancient Celestial technology that enables any Eternal to be reborn after succumbing to any means of unnatural death. Furthermore, once finally reactivated, the Exclusion could restore every abandoned Celestial colony in other moons or planets across the galaxy through bioforming and/or terraforming, either restoring the life that was once lost (including Titan itself) or giving them one without harming the life that already exists there.
In order to reactivate the Exclusion, the Eternals and their allies, the Olympians (notably Hercules), needed Thanos' help for him to activate the Exclusion. It was due to the fact that despite having Deviant genes, Thanos was one of last living members of the Eternals' final generation, beings who still possess the purest genes that could only be found in the natural born Titanians, unlike the rest of the original Eternals who have technorganic physiology due to them being "programmed" and genetically-engineered by the late Celestials millions of years in the past. However, the cosmic immortality bestowed upon Thanos by Eternity rendered his cybernetic augmentations useless since the year it was imbued to him, completely dissolved by his accelerated healing factor. This also gave Thanos the realization to which his late grandparents, Kronos and Daina, had been meaning to tell him of his unique lineage as a Titanian Eternal a decade ago, to which Thanos himself could hold the key to restoring the Eternal people, although the very Eternals Thanos had allied himself with would reassure the Titan that his grandparents were zealots of the Celestials, whose methods were extreme and would've proven to be catastrophic to the rest of universe if he didn't stop them in Haven.
Giving himself a purpose even if it could end up killing him by some miracle, Thanos joined the mission of the Eternals and in the span of months battling or negotiating different factions with who wanted to rule Titan as their own home ever since it was abandoned. The Eternals allied themselves with factions who wanted to save Titan and restore life and hope to lost or impoverished planets. Forming an alliance with the likes of even the Imperial Guard, they battled their hostile colonizers, led by the pact of the embittered Deviant Ghaur and the unhinged Eternal conqueror Uranos (Thanos estranged uncle), for the fate of the Eternal people. In the final battle, the clashing was proven to be brutal and fatal for the Eternals that while Thanos couldn't technically die, his enemies figured out ways of paralyzing or dismembering him that couldn't accomplish their mission. Hence, in the final moments of the battle, they risked and most would sacrifice their lives to get Thanos into Titan's core back in one piece via the Uni-Mind, which momentarily powered up a weakened Thanos.
Much to some of the Eternals' lingering doubts at first, they knew Thanos could've betrayed them at any moment, but surprisingly enough, he didn't. Despite being beat down over and over again, Thanos never gave in to any temptation and for once, he wanted to save life without being motivated by his morbid concept and obsession with death. Activating the Exclusion, the once fallen Eternals were reborn to finish the fight with Thanos, living another day to develop and safeguard the restored Celestial colonies throughout the galaxy. Having been optimistically told by his cousin Thena that this involvement with the rest of their people was quite a noble and redeeming act, Thanos was granted the blessing to have the Black Quadrant, Thanos' sector of planets previously devoid of nature, be terraformed by the Exclusion into the latest Eternal colony teeming with life more than death.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Mutant Titanian Physiology: By far the strongest and most powerful Titanian Eternal, Thanos is a superhuman mutant whose massive, heavy-bodied form was born with the capacity to synthesize cosmic energy for certain personal uses. Thanos has increased his powers through bionic amplification (although no longer effective), mystical enhancement, and as a result of being deemed immortal by Eternity itself as punishment.
He was deemed a Category 1: "Life Ender" by the official classification of the Nova Corps, to have an "universal" threat level and to have been a one-time Reality Ender, and was seemingly a Cosmic-level threat, being sent by the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to the core cell of a galactic gulag at some point in his life after the cosmic events of the infamous Infinity Trilogy, something Thanos himself was the main mastermind behind of in the first place.
- Superhuman Intelligence
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Stamina
- Nigh Invulnerability
- Accelerated Healing Factor
- Advanced Longevity
- Curse of Immortality
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Energy Manipulation & Control
- Matter Manipulation & Control
- Mystic Capabilities
- Telepathy
- Resurrection
- Flight
- Teleportation
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Abilities
- Super-Genius Intelligence
- Exceptional Scientist
- Innovative Engineer
- Pragmatic Philosopher
- Master of Deception
- Master Tactician
- Skilled Unnamed Combatant
- Profound Mystical Knowledge
- Experienced Swordsman
Strength level
Class 100+
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Synthetic Drones
- The Specter Blueprints
- Symbiote Extremists (former symbiotes)
- Time Probe (formerly)
- Cosmic Cube (formerly)
- Infinity Gauntlet (formerly)
- Power Stone (formerly)
- Space Stone (formerly)
- Reality Stone (formerly)
- Soul Stone (formerly)
- Time Stone (formerly)
- Mind Stone (formerly)
Transportation:
- Space Throne
- Sanctuary
- Dreadnaught
- Demeter
Weapons:
- Loki's Specter (formerly; destroyed)
- The First Specter (formerly; destroyed)
- Double-Edged Sword
- Stasis Rifle
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Fantastic Four Vol 1 36
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Thanos (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Thanos (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Thanos (Earth-61615)
Discover and Discuss
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Links and References
- None.