Thanos Fact — October 25, 2026

Today's Fact

Verified against multiple independent sources. Issue numbers cited below.

THANOS CLONED HIMSELF WITH GALACTUS DNA — AND BUILT AN OMEGA HE HAD TO HELP KILL!

The Featured Fact

Thanos once ran a cloning program on himself — and graded the results as failures. In Infinity Abyss #1–6 (2002), written and drawn by Jim Starlin, the Mad Titan discovers that a set of his own clones, the Thanosi, have gone rogue. They were grown from his DNA as test subjects and sparring partners, then written off as defective copies unworthy of the original.

The worst of the batch was Omega, a hulking hybrid built by splicing Thanos’s genetic material with DNA taken from Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds. Omega inherited a hunger on a planetary scale and a plan to feed it, which put a Thanos-Galactus hybrid at the top of the universe’s most-wanted list.

The embarrassment peaked when Thanos had to team up with his enemies to clean up his own laboratory: he recruited Adam Warlock, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel and Moondragon to hunt the Thanosi down, and Omega was destroyed in the final confrontation — by a coalition assembled by the very man who had commissioned his creation.

Why It's Obscure

The Mad Titan’s most humbling project review: the copies were his, the mess was his, and the cleanup crew had to be borrowed from the heroes’ side of the aisle.

2002

The program. Starlin’s Infinity Abyss reveals the Thanosi — clones Thanos grew, tested, and discarded as inferior drafts of himself. Quality control was never the problem; loyalty was.

OMEGA

The hybrid. Omega fused Titanian and Galactus genetics into a single organism with a world-eater’s appetite. Even Thanos agreed this prototype should never have left the lab.

THE TEAM-UP

Enemies as exterminators. Warlock, Strange, Spider-Man, Genis-Vell and Moondragon did the hunting, because the clones knew their maker too well for him to handle alone. He outsourced his own undoing.

Gallery

Art of the character — no AI imagery, nothing mislabeled.

Comic panel explaining Omega was made from Galactus DNA in Infinity Abyss — **Made From Galactus**An Infinity Abyss panel spells out Omega’s recipe: a Thanosi body built with the Devourer’s DNA inside it.

Thanos comic art from the Infinity era — **The Original**Thanos himself — the template every Thanosi was copied from, and the critic none of them could satisfy.

Galactus, Devourer of Worlds, comic art — **The Other Donor**Galactus, whose genetic material gave Omega his planet-sized hunger.

Sources

Every claim above is verified against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Omega (Thanosi) — Marvel DatabaseDocuments Omega as a Thanos clone enhanced with Galactus DNA and his destruction during the Infinity Abyss conflict.
Respect the Thanosi — Comic VinePanel-by-panel record of the Thanosi clones from Infinity Abyss, including the statement that Omega was made from Galactus’s DNA in issue #6.