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

[Chesterfield]

You can understand why Thanos is pulling the crap he's pulling. Just look at her. You just know that's a box worth ticking.t:

 

[SpocksBrain]

"you could ALMOST go so far as to say he is the main character"

Almost : very nearly but not exactly or entirely

 

[Panacea]

You can understand why Thanos is pulling the crap he's pulling. Just look at her. You just know that's a box worth ticking.t:

Given the story details that have emerged about Thor: Ragnarok, I find it difficult to believe that Thanos' plans have had anything to do with Hela.

 

[Zant]

Given the story details that have emerged about Thor: Ragnarok, I find it difficult to believe that Thanos' plans have had anything to do with Hela.

I agree. I don't want Hela to be some love interest to the villain. I still maintain they will ignore the love sick Thanos stuff in this film. I think people should be prepared for that change.

 

[terry78]

Thanos in the books was just nuts. That is the main reason he did what he did. This Thanos has more of a "the universe needs to change with all this chaos going on, needs to be remade." That is what they said in some interview a while back I think.

 

[harryoscop]

I agree. I don't want Hela to be some love interest to the villain. I still maintain they will ignore the love sick Thanos stuff in this film. I think people should be prepared for that change.

But why? Why do you think they have to turn Thanos into a run-of-the-mill, generic "I want to cleanse the universe & remake it to my liking' villain that we've already seen at least twenty times in these movies?

 

[Zant]

But why? Why do you think they have to turn Thanos into a run-of-the-mill, generic "I want to cleanse the universe & remake it to my liking' villain that we've already seen at least twenty times in these movies?

That's a good question. Its up to the writers, not to make it as generic as it sounds. I am just going by what the Russos have said and my gut feeling.

Marvel sometimes, let fans know well in advance when they are about to make some big changes, just like Captain Marvel's origin change and Joss let us know that Hank Pym is not the creator of Ultron early.

 

[Finarfiniel]

I'm in total agreement with those that say that taking away Thanos' obsession with Death removes the most interesting thing about the character and the one thing that really sets him apart from other villains in these kind of movies. I'm still convinced that they will keep that aspect of the plot and his personality (heavily hinted to in the 'To challenge them is to court Death' line in TA) but will change the story so far in that he's in love with Hela (The Queen of Death) rather than Death herself. The plot release of Thor: Ragnarok and the reveal of Hela's whole aesthetic as being a very dark and gothic looking beautiful badass queen just convinces me even more. It's interesting that she has 'accidentally' been released from her prison now, it could be revealed than Thanos had a hand in her escape, what with the known connection between him and Loki.

I don't think it's at all accidental that the main villain in a movie that has been called the big lead in to IW is a beautiful female villain that is heavily associated with the concept of death, that has been done deliberately IMO.

Plus, look how good they look together:

Evil OTP. t:

 

[harryoscop]

I'm in total agreement with those that say that taking away Thanos' obsession with Death removes the most interesting thing about the character and the one thing that really sets him apart from other villains in these kind of movies. I'm still convinced that they will keep that aspect of the plot and his personality (heavily hinted to in the 'To challenge them is to court Death' line in TA) but will change the story so far in that he's in love with Hela (The Queen of Death) rather than Death herself. The plot release of Thor: Ragnarok and the reveal of Hela's whole aesthetic as being a very dark and gothic looking beautiful badass queen just convinces me even more. It's interesting that she has 'accidentally' been released from her prison now, it could be revealed than Thanos had a hand in her escape, what with the known connection between him and Loki.

I don't think it's at all accidental that the main villain in a movie that has been called the big lead in to IW is a beautiful female villain that is heavily associated with the concept of death, that has been done deliberately IMO.

Plus, look how good they look together:

Evil OTP. t:

& they do.

 

[MbJ]

Terry Notary will be playing Thanos' "right hand man" in the movie.

 

[Wildcard]

But why? Why do you think they have to turn Thanos into a run-of-the-mill, generic "I want to cleanse the universe & remake it to my liking' villain that we've already seen at least twenty times in these movies?

That's why I'm still not entirely sure they're going to get rid of that. If they do, all of Feige's talk of treating Thanos like the supervillain we know him to be was b.s.

 

[KINGTHANOS]

Terry Notary will be playing Thanos' "right hand man" in the movie.

****. He said he's "working with Brolin and 3 other actors". And his role is entirely mo-cap. I think this heavily hints at the Black Order.

He's probably playing Ebony Maw.

 

[Relugus]

I think the four most likely to appear Black Order members are Black Dwarf (vs Hulk), Supergiant (vs Wanda), Proxima Midnight (vs Thor), and Ebony Maw.

 

[MbJ]

Ebony Maw would be a succinct way to deal with Doctor Strange.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Terry Notary will be playing Thanos' "right hand man" in the movie.

Corvus Glaive then surely?

 

[Saitou Hajime]

Terry Notary will be playing Thanos' "right hand man" in the movie.

If I'm lucky, they just mean that floating sphere robot Thanos used to have, but since I'm probably not, it'll probably be one of those lame Black Order guys.

 

[MbJ]

The actor talks about getting to indulge in his dark side and be a real villain so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's not a floating sphere robot. Unless it's GLADOS

You can understand why Thanos is pulling the crap he's pulling. Just look at her. You just know that's a box worth ticking.t:

I'm sure destroying the universe for Cate Blanchett's love is something many could relate to.

 

[GeckoMoria]

Boy, some of you are gonna be really disappointed when it's revealed she is not Death. You have already bought the idea despite Marvel or anyone involved even hinting at it.

 

[MbJ]

I don't see anyone saying she's death. They're saying Hela is taking Death's role in the story.

 

[GeckoMoria]

So you have convinced yourselves she is taking someone place and she is gonna appear in Infinity War? Going by what evidence? What exactly indicates she won't just be the ragnarok villain?

 

[Finarfiniel]

Boy, some of you are gonna be really disappointed when it's revealed she is not Death.

Wow, I didn't realise you worked for Marvel Studios, GeckoMoria. Can you please give us some more inside information, oh great and knowledgable one?

As MbJ has already said, no one here is saying that she's Death, we're speculating that Hela is going to take Death's role in the MCU. The rumour was first posted by Geek.Com over a year ago who also in the same article claimed they had some inside information about the storyline of Ragnarok. They correctly said that Hela would destroy Mjolnir and cast Thor out to a gladiator planet months before the offical Ragnarok synopsis was released confirming both of those things to be true, so there is some precedent there. Also, Kevin Feige has been directly asked whether Hela is taking Death's role in IW and he said "Anything is possible. But knowledge of the comics can be both beneficial to fans anticipating things, and also misleading. So you'll have to see." He was pretty non-committal about it which is to be expected because he's not going to spoil something like that, but at the same time he hasn't shot the theory down either. I think his comment about things maybe not being the same as they are in the comics is quite telling tbh, almost like a little hint. Plus, it's hardly like Marvel have never composited characters or swapped one character out for another in the MCU before, they've actually done it a lot.

Finally, and perhaps the biggest point for me is that it seems an utter waste of valuable screen time to introduce a beautiful death themed woman in Ragnarok and then only two installments later introduce a whole other beautiful death themed woman that, quite frankly, could end up looking pretty similar from a visual standpoint. That's just really confusing for the general audience and it's also just bad storytelling. It makes so much more sense to use a character like Hela that the audience will already be acquainted with, it cuts out the need for yet more exposition in a movie like IW that will already be heaving at the seams from how many characters it has to juggle.

And you k'now, it's Cate Blanchett. Doesn't it make sense that Marvel would want to use one of the most respected actresses on the planet to play such a pivotal role in their biggest MCU tentpole movie to date?

At the end of the day, no one really knows whether Death (or another iteration of the character) is even going to be in this movie at all. We're all just having fun speculating, isn't that the point of threads like this? There's no need to be a bit of a dick about it and act like you know better than others, when you really don't.

 

[GeckoMoria]

Did you just call me a dick? I just aksed him a couple of questions to see where the confidence on her being death's replacements comes from. I also theorized that people would be really disappointed since most people here seem to take this as fact and have all those expectations.

Ease the name-calling buddy. I don't appreciate it. This is me asking nicely...

 

[Finarfiniel]

Did you just call me a dick? I just aksed him a couple of questions to see where the confidence on her being death's replacements comes from. I also theorized that people would be really disappointed since most people here seem to take this as fact and have all those expectations.

Ease the name-calling buddy. I don't appreciate it. This is me asking nicely...

I'm not saying you are a dick, just that your post and the way it was worded was a little dickish. It didn't sound like 'theorizing' to me, more like you was directly saying that your view was correct and anyone who thought differently was wrong, which let's be real here, you don't know any more than I or anyone else here does. Unless you are a Marvel Studios insider that is, and if so, then I humbly apologise... and please share some real info.

 

[Mike Murdock]

****. He said he's "working with Brolin and 3 other actors". And his role is entirely mo-cap. I think this heavily hints at the Black Order.

He's probably playing Ebony Maw.

The Cull Obsidian makes a lot of sense in a movie like this. Any time you have a team movie, you should have more than one person for them to fight. And very specific characters will be a change of pace from mindless drones the last two Avengers films.

 

[Panacea]

I don't see anyone saying she's death. They're saying Hela is taking Death's role in the story.

It doesn't make much sense though, given what we now know about Thor: Ragnarok.