THANOS CURSED DEADPOOL TO NEVER DIE — JUST TO KEEP HIM AWAY FROM DEATH!
Deadpool (1997 series), the T-Ray resurrection arc: acting through T-Ray, a jealous Thanos has Deadpool revived and cursed with immortality so Wade can never join Death, the one being they both love.
READ THE FULL FACT →THANOS FAKED HIS DEATH, DITCHED HIS ARMOR ON A SCARECROW — AND RETIRED TO FARM IN SECRET!
Infinity Gauntlet #6 (1991), by Jim Starlin, George Pérez & Ron Lim: Thanos fakes his death, and Adam Warlock reveals him farming in secret on a remote world, his armor dressing a scarecrow, asking only to be left alone.
READ THE FULL FACT →THANOS CLONED HIMSELF WITH GALACTUS DNA — AND BUILT AN OMEGA HE HAD TO HELP KILL!
Infinity Abyss #1–6 (2002), by Jim Starlin: rogue Thanosi clones run amok; the mightiest, Omega, was grown from Thanos's DNA fused with Galactus's, forcing Thanos to ally with Adam Warlock, Doctor Strange and others to destroy his own creations.
READ THE FULL FACT →THANOS HUNTED DOWN AND KILLED HIS OWN CHILDREN ACROSS THE GALAXY — AS A GIFT TO DEATH!
Thanos Rising #4 (2013) & Infinity #1–4 (2013), with Thane revealed in New Avengers Vol. 3 #10: Thanos murders the children he fathered as a pirate as a gift to Death, then demands a tribute of heads aged 16–22 to flush out his hidden Inhuman son, Thane.
READ THE FULL FACT →THANOS'S OWN MOTHER TRIED TO KILL HIM AT BIRTH — AND HE LATER DISSECTED HER TO FIND OUT WHY!
Thanos Rising #1 (2013), by Jason Aaron & Simone Bianchi: Sui-San tries to kill her newborn son at first sight and is institutionalized; the teenage Thanos later vivisects her on a dissecting table, hunting for the defect she saw in him.
READ THE FULL FACT →THANOS ONCE HUNTED A COSMIC CUBE IN A BRIGHT YELLOW HELICOPTER WITH HIS NAME ON IT!
Spidey Super Stories #39 (1979), by Nick Sullivan, Michael Siporin, Jim Salicrup & Win Mortimer: in Marvel's comic for beginning readers, Thanos chases Hellcat's Cosmic Cube in the three-panel debut of the Thanos-Copter — later revived in Deadpool Vol. 5 #45 (2015) and as a wreck in Loki Episode 5 (2021), and publicly disowned by creator Jim Starlin.
READ THE FULL FACT →SQUIRREL GIRL BEAT THANOS OFF-PANEL — AND THE WATCHER CONFIRMED IT WAS THE REAL ONE!
GLX-Mas Special #1 (published December 2005), with the clone asterisk from She-Hulk #12–13 (2006): the fight is never shown, Uatu confirms "the one, true Thanos, and not a robot, clone, or simulacrum" — and a later Slott story quietly dents that guarantee without ever retconning it.
READ THE FULL FACT →THANOS WAS ORIGINALLY A SKINNY METRON RIP-OFF, NOT DARKSEID!
Iron Man #55 (1973), plotted and drawn by Jim Starlin with script by Mike Friedrich. Starlin's first Thanos drawings were a skinny figure modeled on Metron, Kirby's knowledge-seeking New God — until editor Roy Thomas ordered him to "beef him up" into Darkseid's silhouette. Thanos kept the floating chair, which became his Space Thrones.
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