Thanos (MCU)

"Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe. But this... does put a smile on my face."

- Thanos Thanos is the major antagonist of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series of movies, the perpetrator of the New York invasion which caused The Avengers to first band together to fight threats to the Earth.

He is an intergalactic warlord, who invades entire planets before grouping together half of its population and killing them, seeing the act as "balancing the universe", due to the problems of overpopulation that plagued his original planet, Titan. Some time before the events of The Avengers, Thanos began a quest to obtain the six infinity stones, objects of primordial power created during the Big Bang. This began with his acquisition of the Mind Stone, which he lended to Loki in order to lead an invasion of Earth to obtain the Space Stone, otherwise known as the Tesseract.

After he had forced the dwarvish smiths who had constructed Thor's hammer to create a gauntlet that would allow him to wield the stones, he began to actively seek them out, obtaining the Power Stone from Xandar, and the Space stone from the Asgardian refugees.

After this, he and his minions proceeded to directly invade Earth, where the Mind and Time stones were held in the custody of Vision and Steven Strange respectively. Thanos himself went to obtain the Reality and Soul stones through capturing Nebular and Gamora, as well as destroying the residence of the Collector.

While the heroes of Earth fought Thanos extensively, the titan eventually took them out one by one, obtaining each of the remaining Infinity Stones before finally achieving the ability to erase half the life in the universe "with the snap of [his] fingers".

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