Fictional Character Biography: Cosmic Cube and Infinity Gems

Fictional character biography
Thanos was born on Saturn's moon Titan as the son of Eternals A'lars and Sui-San; his brother
is Eros of Titan. Thanos carries the Deviants gene, and as such, shares the physical appearance of
the Eternals' cousin race. Shocked by his appearance and the belief that he would destroy all life in
the universe, Sui-San attempted to kill him, but she was stopped by A'lars. During his school years,
Thanos was a pacifist[11] and would only play with his brother Eros and pets. By adolescence, Thanos
had become fascinated with nihilism and death, worshipping and eventually falling in love with the
physical embodiment of death, Mistress Death.[12] As an adult, Thanos augmented his physical
strength and powers through his superior scientific knowledge. He also attempted to create a new
life for himself by siring many children as well as becoming a pirate. He finds no fulfillment in either
until he is visited again by Mistress Death, for whom he murders his offspring and his pirate
captain.[13]
Cosmic Cube and Infinity Gems

Wishing to impress Mistress Death, Thanos gathers an army of villainous aliens and begins a
nuclear bombardment of Titan that kills millions of his race.[14] Seeking universal power in the form of
the Cosmic Cube, Thanos travels to Earth. Prior to landing, his vessel destroys a nearby car as a
family witnesses his arrival.[15] Unbeknownst to Thanos, two of the family members in the vehicle
survive: the father's spirit is preserved by the Titanian cosmic entity Kronos and is given a new form
as Drax the Destroyer while the daughter is found by Thanos's father, Mentor, and is raised to
become the heroine Moondragon. Thanos eventually locates the Cube, and also attracts the
attention of Mistress Death. Willing the Cube to make him omnipotent, Thanos then discards the
Cube. He imprisons Kronos and taunts Kree hero Captain Marvel, who, with the aid of superhero
team the Avengers and ISAAC (a super-computer based on Titan), is eventually able to defeat
Thanos by destroying the Cube.[16]
Thanos later comes to the aid of Adam Warlock in a war against the Magus and his religious empire.
During the process, he ends up adopting Gamora in order to use her as his assassin and kill Adam
Warlock before becoming Magus.[17][18] During this alliance Thanos cultivates a plan to reunite with
Mistress Death, and secretly siphons off the energies of Warlock's Soul Gem, combining these with
the power of the other Infinity Gems to create a weapon capable of destroying a star. Warlock
summons the Avengers and Captain Marvel to stop Thanos, although the plan is foiled when Thanos
kills Warlock. The Titan regroups and captures the heroes, who are freed by Spider-Man and
the Thing. Thanos is finally stopped by Warlock, whose spirit emerges from the Soul Gem and turns
the Titan to stone.[14][19] Thanos's spirit eventually reappears to accompany a dying Captain Marvel's
soul into the realm of Death.[20]
The Infinity saga

Thanos is eventually resurrected,[21] and collects the Infinity Gems once again.[22] He uses the gems
to create the Infinity Gauntlet, making himself omnipotent, and erases half the living things in the
universe to prove his love to Death.[23] This act and several other acts are soon undone by Nebula
and Adam Warlock.[24] Warlock reveals that Thanos has always allowed himself to be defeated
because the Titan secretly knows he is not worthy of ultimate power. Thanos joins Warlock as part of
the Infinity Watch and helps him to defeat first his evil[25] and then good[26] personas, and cure Thor of
"warrior Madness".[27]
Other adventures
Thanos later recruits a team of Earth-bound super-villains and puts them under the field leadership
of Geatar in a mission to capture an ancient robot containing the obscure knowledge of a universal
library and extract its data.[28] Thanos uses information from the robot to plot against and
battle Tyrant, the first creation of Galactus turned destroyer.[29] When trapped in an alternate
dimension, Thanos employs the aid of the brother of Ka-Zar, Parnival Plunder[30] and later
the Hulk[31] to escape, although both attempts are unsuccessful. Thanos is eventually freed and
comes into conflict with Thor, aligning himself with Mangog in a scheme to obtain powerful mystical
and cosmic talismans which will allow him to destroy all life in the universe,[32] and during their battles
Thanos decimates the planet Rigel-3.[33]
Thanos then uses the heroes Thor and Genis-Vell (Captain Marvel's son) against the death god
Walker, who attempts to woo Mistress Death and then destroy the entity after being
rejected.[34] Thanos then devises a plan to become the All-Father of a new pantheon of gods created
by himself. Thanos, however, finds himself opposed by the Avengers' former member Mantis and
her son Quoi, who apparently is destined to be the Celestial Messiah. Thanos abandons this plan
after having to unite with Mistress Death to destroy the "Rot", a cosmic aberration in deep space
caused by Thanos's incessant love for Death.[35] Thanos also once conducted extensive research on
genetics, studying many of the universe's heroes and villains before Cloning them, and gene-spliced
his own DNA into the subjects. Although he later abandons the project, five clones survive, being
versions of Professor X, Iron Man, Gladiator, Doctor Strange, and Galactus respectively. A sixth and
unnamed version of Thanos also appears, and it is revealed the incarnations of Thanos encountered
in the past by Thor and Ka-Zar were actually clones. The true Thanos – with the aid of Adam
Warlock, Gamora, Pip the Troll, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, and Dr. Strange – destroys the
remaining clones.[36]
When the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten uses a source of cosmic power, the Heart of the
Universe, to seize power in present-day Earth (killing most of Earth's heroes in the process), Thanos
uses a time-travel stratagem to defeat him. Thanos then uses the Heart of the Universe to reverse
Akhenaten's actions and was also compelled to correct a flaw in the universe, for which Mistress
Death kisses him, and speaks to him for the first time. Changed by the experience, Thanos advises
confidant Adam Warlock he will no longer seek universal conquest.[37]
Thanos decides to atone for the destruction of Rigel-3, and agrees to aid a colony of Rigellians in
evacuating their planet before Galactus can consume it. During the course of this mission Thanos
learns Galactus is collecting the Infinity Gems in an effort to end his unyielding hunger. Thanos later
learns Galactus is being manipulated into releasing a multiversal threat called Hunger, which feeds
on entire universes. Despite opposition from Thanos, Galactus unwittingly frees the entity, and when
its intentions are revealed, the pair team up and attempt to destroy it.[38]
En route to the Kyln, an intergalactic prison, Thanos meets Death for the first time since re-building
existence with the Heart of the Universe. Death claims to be worth wooing, but says Thanos must
offer something other than death. At the Kyln Thanos encounters Peter Quill, who has retired himself
from the role of Star-Lord, and the Strontian warrior Gladiator of the Shi'ar Empire, who are both
prisoners, as well as the Beyonder, who has been rendered amnesiac by its choice to assume
a humanoid female form. Thanos battles the Beyonder, causing its mind to shut down and leaving its
power trapped within a comatose physical form. Thanos then instructs the Kyln officers to keep the
Beyonder on life support indefinitely in order to prevent the entity from being reborn.[39] The
destruction frees Thanos and his fellow inmates, and he finds himself accompanied by the chaos-
mite Skreet in his plans to leave the remains of the prison. He discovers, however, that the
destruction wrought by the battle with the Beyonder has freed the last prisoner brought in by Peter
Quill before he gave up the title of Star-Lord: the Fallen One, revealed to be the true first Herald of
Galactus, who had been held in a container deep in the Kyln. Thanos defeats the former Herald and
places him under complete mental control.[40] He later appears in Wisconsin attempting to charge a
weapon called the Pyramatrix with the life force of everyone on Earth until he is defeated by Squirrel
Girl. After the battle, Uatu the Watcher appears and confirms to Squirrel Girl that she defeated the
real Thanos, not a clone or copy.[41]

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