Infinity War "I Will Bathe The Starways In Your Blood!" The Thanos / Josh Brolin Thread - Part 1

[StarLord]

''Can someone help me get these fruit pastilles off my glove?''

 

[Wildcard]

"Point me to the baguettes."

 

[Levsky]

So, someone released Infinity War characters bios and it doesn't say much about most of them with an exception of Thanos. It sheds some light on his motivations. Apparently he's "consumed with saving the universe from itself" what sounds intriguing.

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

We already kinda knew that was his goal. It's just "Balancing the universe" reworded. The thing we don't know is what drives him to do it. We'll probably have to wait for the movie for that.

 

[Panacea]

It won't be Death.

 

[ironwez20]

It won't be Death.

Yea it will

 

[Wildcard]

So, someone released Infinity War characters bios and it doesn't say much about most of them with an exception of Thanos. It sheds some light on his motivations. Apparently he's "consumed with saving the universe from itself" what sounds intriguing.

It is, which makes me wonder how they're going to fit the whole Death aspect into it and if they'll use Hela for it. I really hope they do.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[ernesth100]

I feel like they poured literally all the effort into making the CGI for Thanos realistic. The raw detail on his model is amazing every time. Simply for that fact Ik the backstory of the character is going to be stellar.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

The detail is AMAZING!!! Makes me even more excited to see what The Black Order will look like.

 

[StarLord]

Is this the first actual rendered image of Thanos? Not counting the trailers, obviously.

Seems like all the promos before have been art style or based off the concept poster from SDCC last year.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Awesome! I wonder are they scars on his face? Not on his chin but around the cheek and eye area. If so who the hell gave those scars!

 

[Mjölnir]

Damn, Thanos looks amazing!

Awesome! I wonder are they scars on his face? Not on his chin but around the cheek and eye area. If so who the hell gave those scars!

They have more of a resemblance of scars than his jaw, but at the same time they look too symmetrical to be a likely wound.

 

[davetbeau]

He's definitely purple!

The details in that moon throw shot is amazing.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Damn, Thanos looks amazing!



They have more of a resemblance of scars than his jaw, but at the same time they look too symmetrical to be a likely wound.

Yeah it makes wonder. If they are scars it must have been someone quite powerful who did them.

 

[Levsky]

This piece about Thanos from EW article gives us the most details about his plans in the movie. I put it in spoiler tags just in case.

Spoiler

So, some things must end. And the idea of clearing away some to make way for others is the plan of the villain — Thanos, a godlike galactic warlord played via performance capture by Josh Brolin. Ever since the first Avengers film featured his smirking purple face as a post-credit surprise, he has been built up throughout this series as the ultimate tyrant.

“He’s from a planet called Titan that’s no longer inhabited because of things that he thought he could help prevent, and he was not allowed to do that,” Feige says. “What he feared most happened, and the planet and everybody on it basically went extinct. He vowed not to let that happen again. He thinks he sees the universe going down the tubes. He thinks he sees life expanding outward unchecked. That will bring ruin, he believes, to the universe and to that life.”

The Mad Titan

Since Thanos is a glass-half-full guy, he sees his mission as saving half the universe. But to do that, he wants to kill off the other half.

“That’s either genius or horrific, depending on your point of view, and most of our point of views say it’s pretty horrific,” Feige says.

 

[Panacea]

This piece about Thanos from EW article gives us the most details about his plans in the movie. I put it in spoiler tags just in case.

Spoiler

So, some things must end. And the idea of clearing away some to make way for others is the plan of the villain — Thanos, a godlike galactic warlord played via performance capture by Josh Brolin. Ever since the first Avengers film featured his smirking purple face as a post-credit surprise, he has been built up throughout this series as the ultimate tyrant.

“He’s from a planet called Titan that’s no longer inhabited because of things that he thought he could help prevent, and he was not allowed to do that,” Feige says. “What he feared most happened, and the planet and everybody on it basically went extinct. He vowed not to let that happen again. He thinks he sees the universe going down the tubes. He thinks he sees life expanding outward unchecked. That will bring ruin, he believes, to the universe and to that life.”

The Mad Titan

Since Thanos is a glass-half-full guy, he sees his mission as saving half the universe. But to do that, he wants to kill off the other half.

“That’s either genius or horrific, depending on your point of view, and most of our point of views say it’s pretty horrific,” Feige says.

He doesn't sound anything remotely like the character from the comics. It seems like we should stop expecting a faithful adaptation and get ready for a largely re-imagined Thanos.

 

[Iceman]

Thanos looks solid, not much hint that he's a CGI creation.

 

[KINGTHANOS]

He doesn't sound anything remotely like the character from the comics. It seems like we should stop expecting a faithful adaptation and get ready for a largely re-imagined Thanos.

Guess you didn't really understand the character from the comics then..

In IG, he literally wants to wipe out 1/2 of existence because the Death/Life balance is off could cause extinction. Yes, these are Mistress Death's goals, but it's still in line with Thanos. Comics Thanos always sees himself as the hero for his cause as well.

Additionally, Thanos Rising tells a story of Thanos' being raised and treated like a monster and wanting to kill a lot of his race as a result. Maybe, in the film, they treat him this way and suggests killing half of the planet to preserve it, and this is the final straw that causes Titan to banish Thanos. Thanos returns to see his planet extinct after one of his typical philosophical journeys and makes this decision.

It's still a vague background. I'm willing to bet there's more to this, and Starlin wouldn't heap all that praise if he didn't mean it. That guy doesn't sugarcoat **** all.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

Even after everything we have heard today it still sounds like Thanos is very much an ambiguous villain. They have two whole movies to go in depth with his character, so they obviously wouldn't be giving anything major away this early, and I am betting there will be even more to explore with him in Avengers 4.

 

[Panacea]

Guess you didn't really understand the character from the comics then..

He couldn't care less about his people in the comics. He experimented on them as a child and then murdered them all as an adult. He only wanted to wipe out half the universe to gain the affections of Death. He would have done anything to achieve that, including dooming the universe too if need be. He didn't have a benevolent bone in his body.

 

[Levsky]

Let's keep in mind that Feige isn't the kind of guy who would easily reveal all movie's secrets in one behind the scenes interview. I'm 100% sure that there is much more to Thanos' motivations and backstory than this excerpt tells us. I don't claim that Death will be a part of it but Feige uses many vague words which could be meant to hide some aspects of the story from us. For instance he never specifies what kind of threat Thanos saw for his planet that the rest of his species ignored and how he wanted to prevent it from extinction. We don't know also why killing off half of the universe would be a solution in Thanos' point of view. I believe we won't know these details of his thinking until we see the movie. And who knows? Maybe those all ideas and plans which he has for the universe come from his madness caused by Death being a creation of his twisted mind and she suggests him all of this?

 

[Lord]

I will be disapointed if they don't use his motivations of seeking Death's atention. That trait is one of his defining aspects and what helps him separate from other similar villains.

 

[Aximili86]

Man, what's with that "wants to avenge Titan/prevent another Titan" stuff? Been a long time since I've read it, but didn't Thanos basically show up on Titan and gleefully wreck **** up and mercilessly slaughter everyone in the books?

So yeah, a change to say the least. I'm cool with it so long as he's not made genuinely "benevolent from a certain point of view", there'd better not be some "worse person" out there he's trying to settle a score with or whatever.