But if Thanos has a couple of Infinity Stones of his own in tow by the time he faces Strange, he’ll hardly be a threat.īut what of the Soul Stone, hidden for so long? A glowing orange needle in a cosmic haystack? Perhaps Thanos has an inkling of where this most elusive stone is, too. True, Doctor Strange used the stone to fine effect against Dormammu, a galactic demi-demon after Thanos’ own dark heart. Hardly seems possible that Vision and the rest could stop him, but they might muster enough strength to pester.Īnd then there’s the green Time Stone, lodged in the Eye of Agamotto. The Mind Stone could be trickier, given that it’s in the forehead of Vision, one of the Avengers’ most powerful, most enigmatic, heroes. Thanos will have to visit and see how he-and it-are doing. But the Collector’s museum of the odd and arcane suffered its own cataclysm not so long ago. The red Reality Stone was last in the possession of the Collector, a mysterious being who gathers the treasures and detritus of the galaxy like an extraterrestrial hoarder. Thanos suspects it might’ve survived, thanks to Loki, Thor’s brother.

The blue Space Stone, also called the Tesseract, was last seen in Asgard-Thor’s home world-before it was destroyed. That stone alone would be enough to lay waste to civilizations, to planets, to whole systems. The first of these Infinity Stones is in his possession already- the purple Power Stone, taken from the same planet that the Guardians of the Galaxy saved not so long ago.

Just half.Īll he needs is six stones, seeds of power sown when the universe was first born. Thanos doesn’t want to annihilate all life in the universe, after all. Thanos’ name recalls Thanatos, the Greek personification of death.

He is the coming storm, the creeping death, the threat of apocalypse and Armageddon, oblivion and omega. For nearly the whole of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, as our superheroes did their hero things, Thanos has lurked in the story’s borders, watching, waiting, biding his time.īut now, his time has come. When the Guardians of the Galaxy saved a faraway planet from annihilation, he watched. When the Avengers beat back an alien invasion, he watched.

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