Thanos

Thanos is a fictional character and recurring antagonist of the Marvel Comics franchise.

Trivia

 * Thanos was ranked number 47 on IGN's top 100 comic book villains of all time, 22nd on Wizard's Top 100 greatest villains list and number 21 on Complex's 25 Greatest Comic Book Villains list.
 * The only being, other than Lady Death, who Thanos respects and considers a friend is Adam Warlock despite the many times he helped the heroes of Earth fighting him.
 * Although Thanos was inspired by Darkseid, the similarities between the two characters are only on a superficial level as Thanos is not really interested in enslaving the universe like Darkseid, but he's mostly motivated by his desire of being loved by Lady Death.
 * Jim Stalin stated that Darkseid "inspired Thanos' look, but not his character".
 * Thanos fought Darkseid in an episode of ScrewAttack!'s DEATH BATTLE and lost.
 * it is common that fans of the character think that nobody but Jim Starlin himself has ever done Thanos justice yet. Part of this reason stems from other writers ignoring or forgetting much of the Character Development Thanos as undergone over the years and writing him like how he acted during his early 1970's appearances where he stole artifacts to kill and conquer the universe, which was over 40 years ago, as well as having him rely more on brute force rather than using his vast intellect. Jim Starlin shared this opinon and have always been very protective of his character in fact he wrote Infinity Abyss in 2002 who resolted around clones of Thanos creating chaos in the universe: he made the story so that he could retconned every time that Thanos was written out of character as the work of a clone of him. Similarly, he wrote Infinity Relativity and Infinity Finale after been disappointed with Thanos' writing by Brian Michael Bendis and Dan Abnett in his absence.
 * Jim Starlin originally conceived of Thanos of Titan during college psychology classes.
 * The name "Thanos" is based on the name of the mythological Greek figure Thanatos, meaning "death", a reference to his love for Death.
 * He created a series of clones called Thanosi using both science and mysticism.
 * Al Ewing adressed Thanos' use by Brian Bendis as a throwaway Starter Villain in Civil War II by having Thanos explain in The Ultimates that he let himself be easily defeated by Captain Marvel's team in order to be brought in their HQ.
 * His brother Eros used to be a member of the Avengers under the codename Starfox.