Thanos is LITERALLY known for one story and that story is his entire gimmick. There is nothing else to his character.
Thanos Quest?
>Muh Lady Death and Infinity Gems
Infinity Gauntlet?
>”Muh Lady Death and Infinity Gems!”
Infinity?
>”Muh Infinity Gems!”
Thanos Rising?
>”Muh Lady Death!”
Except Starlin's Warlock is better than all of those and was before the gems.
You fucking casual.
Thanoscopter
Casuals love anything Marvel right now, thanks to WB, they have damm near ruined the DC brand for casuals. Disney/Marvel have the general audience by the balls right now and everything they touch turns to gold.
They dont need to know dick about Thanos, the movie will make a billion easily, regardless if its good or bad.
This.
Casuals pretend he is an amazing character because he is Marvel, therefore amazing.
I do like how he gets bored and introspective about being a supervillain.
He's a simple but fun enemy like Anti Monitor
>Anti Monitor
He's garbage, nothing interesting about him. He's just a gigantic physical threat to the heroes.
so you mean like doomsday steppenwolf and darksied right?
>gimme ure gemz lol
Dude, he was shunned by his society for being a social shut in and deformed beyond belief. He just wants his waifu to like him. He's literally /ourguy/.
Because they stress he's the strongest villain, so they believe he's the best, just like how they think Deadpool is the pinnacle of comedy.
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It doesn't matter if he only has one story as long as that one story is good (or believed to be good).
No one finishes The Return of the King and says 'Frodo doesn't have any other stories? Laaaaaaame'
Unlike you, a true freethinker.
Because most marvel fans today just became fans when the shitty disney movies cameout.
Shit bait.
casuals dont read comics, mcu movies is all they know. they dont give a shit. They made mandarin into a fucking joke, you think they care?
I don't know which version is more powerful?
But Infinity wasn't muh infinity gems, it was "muh son." Also, what about the first Thanos War?
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hes pretty lame, but so are most of the marvel villains
>Infinity?
>>”Muh Infinity Gems!”
All the gems but the time stone were destroyed at this point, and looking for the one gem came secondary to finding Thane.
>He's just a gigantic physical threat to the heroes.
It's cape comics, don't like it try a different genre.
But, he is actually a cool character user, he is not a villian because evil, but because he loves Death, and thats interesting at least for me, he doesn't care for power, and yet he obtains unlimited power almost in every storyline he is involved in. The first time I read abot Thanos was on Marvel: The End, and I thought it was great, then I discovered The Infinity Gauntlet, and got more into Marvel Cosmic.
He might not be among the greatest characters, but you can't pretent that he is bad either, or tell people that they are casuals for showing interest on Thanos.
Because he isn't the generic villain who is evil because reasons like darkseid.
>Thanos
>wants to kill people so senpai will notice him
>Darkseid
>wants to kill people to solve autistic metaphysical equation
A billion says the imbecile,
it's gonna make 2.2B+
>using muh to generalize everything because you have no arguement
Kill yourself
youre right
literally no one thinks he's 'amazing'. They just think he's cool. anyone with any knowledge of comics knows he's not even that powerful without the gauntlet. you're looking for shit to bitch about, but this is Sup Forums so I guess that's par for the course.
but hes not "cool" either. Casuals eat this marvel shit up no matter what
I did read the comics that were out in the 70's and 80's, and I'm with the OP in one respect. Thanos is kind of a crap villain.
But one of the things the movies give us is the chance to see a lackluster character surprise us with being remarkably cool.
I will always be completely struck that Marvel took a hero like Captain America of all things, a character that seemed doomed to never work successfully in any medium other than a comic book (I mean shit, just LOOK at him objectively) and made him completely awesome.
you do realize not everyone shares the same opinions as you, right? that's not how life works.
you do realize you sound like a cunt when you talk this way right? yeah no shit casual
casuals will eat anything marvel feeds them.
No, darkseid doesn't. Kys idiot. He does because he is evil.
Does everyone forget that Thanos was in MvC2, he was already a huge figure in Marvel for awhile
Fucking Marrow was in that game. Is she a huge figure, too?
Well Marrow was in the animated series as part of the main cast and she was actually popular back then so... yeah?
>why do people like Marvel, why cant they like DC instead!
>company wars
jobnos wait galaucjob
Is anyone saying he's a good character? People are excited because he's a huge threat, not being the movie will be Shakespear.
Doomsday has a surname now?
because of that one videogame by capcom
No, they don't and Marvel Studios doesn't. If they can appeal to the thousands of hardcore comics fans along the way to appealing to the millions of people who have never opened a comic book, that's icing on the cake. If they have to choose, they'll take the millions of "normies/casuals" over you guys any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
It amazes me to see you guys stomp your feet over this... only an idiot would make a movie that costs hundred of millions of dollars but is designed to appeal only to less than 1% of the population.
By the way, even in the comics, the Mandarin's premise has always been a bit... well... cheesy. Here's this guy who found 10 power rings in an alien spaceship, each possessed by a different dead warrior, who goes around using them to fight Iron Man... Do you really want a super faithful translation of that to the big screen? I thought the MCU handled Mandarin just fine. It's not like Iron Man has the best rogues gallery ever... mostly they're all variations on Stane or Justin Hammer.
>MUH
>MUH
>MUH
>MUH SHARONA
Well, stupid fuckboys are going to anyway, because they want to appear "superior".
Why does Sup Forums pretend to know comic books?
nerdbait posts like these are a waste of space
I wouldn't say I find him to be the most amazing character, but I do find him the most RELATABLE. If you've been ridiculed and shunned by society so much that they've turned their backs on you, then yeah, you're going to embrace nihilism. No one cares about you, so why should you care about them?
Plus I find Mistress Death to be rather cute. I don't like some of the more recent iterations of her design though. Just give me a mysterious woman in a purple, self-concealing robe. Not whatever Neil Gaiman teen ripoff they're doing right now. Mistress Death is pure.
He was good in Annihilation
THIS summarizes everything about Comicbook movie "fans".
>They dont need to know dick about Thanos, the movie will make a billion easily
Disney can only hope that's the case, considering the production cost is alsready one billion.
Twilight, 50 Shades & Transformers do the same thing. That's really not impressive or saying anything.
>The Virgin Titan
-Offers the universe to a woman who cucks him a human
-Gives immortality to his wife's lover,so he can never see her
-Defeats himself once he gets all the gems
-Betrayed by his own son
-Gets put on his place by a blue guy with a hammer
-All his "daughters" hates him
-Wears faggy gloves to "increase his powers"
-Tried to be a nice guy after a existential crisis,doesn't have strong ideals
-Darkseid wannabe
>The Chad Dark God
-Wants to put order in the multiverse with the Anti-Life Equation,never backed down with his ideas
-Has at least 5 children with 5 different bitches
-Actully a cool dad
-Even when his sons tries to kill him,this just puts a smile on his face
-His planet is a constant reminder to his enemies to not fuck with him
-So powerfull that his mere presence can destroy the multiverse
-His uncle is weaker then him and works for him
-Killed his own mother for killing his favorite bitch
-Can kill any one in the multiverse just by looking at the horizon
-Once he used the "Infinity Gauntlet",worthless piece of shit to him
-OG
A lifelong habit of compensating through vitriol likely left a lot of people unable to engage any media without promptly affecting a show of dismissive contempt towards whatever's generally well received or currently popular, so each argument provides new, indirect ways of ego salve.
The excuse this is Sup Forums, doesn't hold since anyone who was here 2007 and earlier, coincidentally before superhero movies really took off, will know we were at our throats often enough but were still mostly capable of holding a conversation beyond suspiciously shallow critiques designed for a rise and little else. It was once those familiar only with Sup Forums as the hatemachine or through Sup Forums when they arrived, that the latter part diminished. The majority user base now appear capable only of a communication formed from memes, buzzwords and shitposting.
Because the MCU is cancer
Because the mouse said so. Casuals think what the mouse tell them to think
>thread full of people who don't read comics whining about people who don't read comics
Sup Forums in a nutshell
The only thing worse than a normie acting like they've known about Thanos is someone on Sup Forums spouting shit that proved they know even LESS about the character than a normie.
holy shit
>I thought the MCU handled Mandarin just fine.
Shut the fuck up.
Unfortunately this.
I'm sure you'd have preferred the Fu Manchu looking motherfucker with his alien power rings, but that shit would have looked even sillier than what we got.
Yeah instead was literally autistic busnessman being evil for literally no reason at all
>He does because he is evil.
Wrong! He wants to solve the Anti-Life Equation so that he can turn the universe into a reflection of soul so that he may presumably know true horror.
Thanos just wants a skeleroatie to notice him.
The equation is almost always presented as a means to an end of dominating more people. It's not that interesting of a motivation when you get down to it.
Because he's had some great stories where he was a layered, tragic figure, who did what he did out of misplaced obsession and "love".
He's the MC of two great epics, the qualities of which gave him a reputation as an interesting character. It'd be foolish to see him as an interesting though imo. he doesn't shine as a villain, but as the MC of his own stories.
As a straight up villain, he's serviceable. he can be a fun brawlish yet clever villain for the avengers to fight, and that works fine.
It's the difference between Infinity Gauntlet/War and Infinity (the recent event). In the first two he's the tragic MC. In the third he's a villain.
As for his reputation amongts Casuals, they just buy into the hype because Marvel has made them think he's a big deal, through years of build up fueled by "everything you need to know about" videos and articles, but also the passion of fans of the comics like me who explain why we love him, all the while knowing little of it is gonna translate into the movie.
If anything, I expect his stock value to fall like a soufflé once the movie is out and everyone goes "but he's just generic../I expected better!"
I have never seen a single MCU product, but I think he's cool based on reading Jim Starlin's work with him
I remember being so hyped for Man of Steel, and by the trailer it looked like like TDK trilogy so I managed to convince my friends to go see it with me. I thought this was going to be an amazing first impression of Superman. They absolutely hated it, worst movie ever, Superman a boring character compared to Batman etc etc. Goddammit WB and Snyder. GOD DAMMIT.
>-Has at least 5 children with 5 different bitches
Thanos had far more
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Weird. My friends at the time said it was a good movie, made superman "relatable" and was dark because "that's how real life is, you know".
I'm not friends with them anymore. Not because of that, but now that i think about it I'm actually better off.
>If anything, I expect his stock value to fall like a soufflé once the movie is out and everyone goes "but he's just generic../I expected better!"
He's going to be the first comic book movie villain to achieve victory by the end of a full-length movie. The 4th film will be the broken heroes crawling out of the rubble to try and band together and win back the day.
That alone makes Thanos unique in the history of comic book movie-making. Every other villain has had his ass neatly handed to him by the end of the film.
Obviously if you're right, his stock will remain up. I hope so in fact.
My prediction is mostly based on the fact that it's a big budget movie with loads riding on it.
The best i'm expecting is he loses by the end and has to leave, but he plans to come back or some shit.
This.
People will be going back to see it because "Holy shit, this grape ape looking mother fucker kicked the Avenger's asses. Can't wait for the next Marvel movie!"
I'm particularly hoping they do the "farmer Thanos" ending to the whole thing. A main villain who doesn't get killed or incarcerated... and basically ends the whole thing wiser than when he started. Sign me up.
Ultron made 200 millions less than avengers.
youre right
But not for bitches who lust for his dick.
But Surtur won
Just because a concept is simple (such as a villain obsessed with wooing his waifu) by no means makes it a bad concept. Thanos is interesting in the comics because his whole existence is ironically poetic. If there's one thing I learned in college it's that in writing (creative or otherwise) brevity can be key. Let the readers fill in some of the blanks with their own imagination.
He's menacing and mysterious- any audience can enjoy that.
>He's going to be the first comic book movie villain to achieve victory by the end of a full-length movie
But Lex won in BvS.
This is not true. Casuals hate Twilight, 50 Shades, and Transformers. Sure there are quite a few dopes who love all three, but Marvel is LOVED by the entire "geek culture" even though it is mostly trash. Just look at the reviews of hack youtube critics. They always shit on Transformers but praise marvel. Marvel is treated like the cinematic work of the century.
Superman is revealed to be only "mostly dead" at the very end of the film.
You need to see a doctor about your salt levels man.
His body was dead but his cells was still fuctional,so he could be ressurected but he was still dead.
He also proved his point by the end of BvS and in JL.
>imagine living in timeline where marvel is considered epic, big sucessful franchise without a single bad movie
>imagine living in timeline where Thanos will be remembered while nobody gives a single shit about Darkseid
>imagine living in timeline where Batman and Superman is less loved than Antman and Black Panther
>imagine living in timeline where DC is considered utter trash by everyone no matter how better their work were before in cinema and better in comics and games right now
Good job, WB. GOOD FUCKING JOB, YOU HACKS
You are 50
The end of BvS has Superman's coffin rattling, so it's implied he's returning to life, no matter how they try to continue it in JL.
>He also proved his point by the end of BvS and in JL
Was his point that Earth was imperiled by hostile outside forces that Earthlings cannot hope to stop and need Superman for protection?
>I remember being so hyped for Man of Steel
>DC is considered utter trash by everyone no matter how better their work were before in cinema
The pre-DCEU cinema stuff is wildly uneven, with spectacularly bad bombs for every top quality film. WB had a .500 batting average at best before Snyder shat the bed.
>with spectacularly bad bomb
Who cares? The moment of pre-DCEU were Nolan with his good-great DC movies. Watchman which is underrated but considired good by "geeks". So pre-DCEU DC were fucking great and marvel looked like quipshit compared to Nolan (still is tho) Now DCEU is a fucking joke and Infinity war will be remembered as "greatest" capeshit movie all time, all thanks to WB.
Nolan batman is boring
Superman III
Superman IV: Quest for Peace
Supergirl
Batman Forever
Batman and Robin
Steel
Catwoman
Superman Returns
Jonah Hex
Green Lantern
Even giving Snyder's Watchmen bomb a pass, that's an impressive pile of failed Superhero films from a single studio.
>muh deepness
Kys darkseid s reason are stupid.
>>imagine living in timeline where marvel is
>Timeline
>Time
Remember how DC were famous back then when normies knew about Superman,Batman and the JL(mostly because of the animated series) and only knew about Spiderman,Hulk and the X-Men for Marvel? Just let time do it's job user.
>so it's implied he's returning to life, no matter how they try to continue it in JL.
Not sure if the "Mother Box ressurection" was Zack's original plan,but what we got is that even if kryptonians die they are still active for a while(maybe months),but we don't know this works or if the Codex changed something in Superman.
>Was his point that Earth was imperiled by hostile outside forces that Earthlings cannot hope to stop and need Superman for protection?
In BvS was to show that Superman wasn't a god that people thought he was,now in JL people sees him more as a hero rather then a god(ironically,he is the one calling Superman a "God").
Are they worse than "I will destroy half of the universe because I want a girlfriend"?
>WB stared making movies with the Nolanverse, nothing else counts!
>Watchmen failed at theaters, but only geeks who agree with me matter!
Your problem is that you just won't set the goalposts down for even a minute.
Box office matters until it doesn't
Critical review matters until it doesn't
Audience reception (second weekend sales, not Pajeet write ins) matters until it doesn't
There's no metric for quality you will accept, in your relentless quest to shit undeservedly on the MCU. Turning on Snyder, your hero up until this winter, doesn't give you any cred, by the way.