
Roy took one look at the guy in the Metron-like chair and said: "Beef him up! If you're going to steal one of the New Gods, at least rip off Darkseid, the really good one!" Publication history I had all these different gods and things I wanted to do, which became Thanos and the Titans. In my first Thanos drawings, if he looked like anybody, it was Metron. You'd think that Thanos was inspired by Darkseid, but that was not the case when I showed up. I came up with some things that were inspired by that.

Kirby had done the New Gods, which I thought was terrific. Starlin has admitted the character's look was influenced by Jack Kirby's Darkseid: and later on I liked beefing him up so much that he continued to grow in size. Thanos was a much thinner character and Roy suggested beefing him up, so he's beefed up quite a bit from his original sketches . I felt that this may be my only chance ever to do a character, not having the confidence that my career was going to last anything longer than a few weeks. So I came up to Marvel, and editor Roy Thomas asked if I wanted to do an issue of Iron Man. military service and getting work in comics, and there was a psych class and I came up with Thanos, (inspired by Sigmund Freud's concept of human Death drive, or Thanatos), but I'm not sure how he fit into it, just anger management probably. Writer-artist Jim Starlin conceived of Thanos of Titan during college psychology classes.
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the character was first played by Damion Poitier in the film The Avengers (2012) and then by Josh Brolin in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and the first season of the animated series What If.? (2021).

Although these events were later undone, the storyline has remained one of the most popular published by Marvel.ĭebuting in the Bronze Age of comic books, the character has appeared in almost five decades of Marvel publications, as well as many media adaptations, including animated television series and video games.

Perhaps the character's best-known storyline is The Infinity Gauntlet (1991), the culmination of several story arcs that see him gather the six Infinity Gems and use them to kill half of the universe's population, including many of its heroes, to woo Mistress Death, the living embodiment of death in the Marvel Universe. Thanos is usually portrayed as a villain, although many stories depict him as believing his actions to be justified. In creating Thanos, Starlin drew inspiration from Jack Kirby's New Gods series for DC Comics, particularly the character of Darkseid. He has clashed with many heroes including the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, the Eternals, and the X-Men. An Eternal– Deviant warlord from the moon Titan, Thanos is regarded as one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. Created by writer-artist Jim Starlin, the character first appeared in The Invincible Iron Man #55 ( cover date February 1973). Thanos is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
