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Fictional Character Biography: Cosmic Cube and Infinity Gems
Fictional Character Biography: Cosmic Cube and Infinity Gems
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]
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]