Age of Ultron Josh Brolin Is Thanos, The Mad Titan

[The Endless]

Because he knows that if he wants to get his hands dirty, he could get them himself.

I think he just enjoys playing the game and corrupting others and getting them to cause pain on his behalf.

 

[hoy-small-fry]

But once you've been beaten by Darcy you've got to question your choice of proxy

 

[The Endless]

lol yea. Hopefully there is a scene somewhere in the future where Thanos mind ****s Darcy until she becomes a vegetable.

 

[Herolee10]

lol; wait, refresh my memory...how did Darcy beat Thanos?

 

[The Endless]

I don't actually know... lol. I just have a hatred for her as a character and i'd like to see her removed from these films in a horrifying way.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

What I don't get is how he can still be calm when all 3 of his attempts to get an Infinity Stone have failed miserably. Heck, he got beaten by Darcy in one case

It's all part of the plan.

 

[TheVision]

Darcy sees THANOS: Eww your complexion is terrible

 

[ctsketch]

What I don't get is how he can still be calm when all 3 of his attempts to get an Infinity Stone have failed miserably. Heck, he got beaten by Darcy in one case

How did he get beated by Darcy?

 

[hoy-small-fry]

She helped to secure the Aether. I'm being very liberal with Thanos' involvement for comedic effect

 

[BoredGuy]

Was it just me, or did Thanos show a little twinge of FEAR when Ronan took the gem for himself??

It was strange, seeing him look worried, Thanos should always be extremely confident, even when he's outmatched

 

[hoy-small-fry]

He did sort of recoil a bit, but he's well aware of the destruction power of that thing. He doesn't actually have anything yet remember

 

[TheWallCrawler]

Did anyone else think that Thanos was kinda bland? I'm really not convinced that Josh Brolin can handle this part

 

[Ultron]

I didn't care for his shade of purple, I liked it darker like in Avengers. Other than that...I thought it was pretty cool, if I really want to nit-pick I guess he could have been a little more intimidating

 

[cherokeesam]

She helped to secure the Aether. I'm being very liberal with Thanos' involvement for comedic effect

Darcy outwitted *Malekith,* not Thanos.

But yeah, the way the Infinity Stones stories are evolving do *not* paint Thanos in a flattering light. Either he's an incompetent buffoon who keeps sending incompetent proxies to gather the Stones (and epic-fail in every instance), or else he's a manipulative genius who's deliberately letting yahoos like Loki and Ronan fail so that he can steer the Stones towards a place of his choosing before making his final bid to assemble the Gauntlet.

But let's face it: if Thanos was the omniscient mastermind supervillain that we know/want him to be, he wouldn't be having to rely on incompetent heroes and villains to find/gather them for him. A list, so far, of people who have acquired/used an Infinity Stone before Thanos ever did:

Norwegian monks
Arnim Zola
Red Skull
Howard Stark
Nick Fury
SHIELD scientists
Loki
Erik Selvig
Hawkeye
Black Widow
Jane Foster
Malekith
Sif
Volstagg
Thor
Taneleer Tivan
Carina
Ronan the Accuser
Star-Lord
Gamora
Drax
Rocket Raccoon

and possibly:
Baron von Strucker
Adam Warlock

Inconsistent writing is kinda de-mystifying the power of the Stones and Thanos in the long run.

 

[hoy-small-fry]

Yeah, it's taking away Thanos' tyrant edge by having everyone but him be in possession of an infinity stone. I get that he's using proxies to move them around, but come on, he's not got any yet

 

[Just_Human]

Well he doesnt have the Infinity Gauntlet yet

It's locked in Asgaard

 

[hoy-small-fry]

To summarise, he's doing a poor job. [blackout]And he lost his spokesman[/blackout]

 

[TheWallCrawler]

I didn't care for his shade of purple, I liked it darker like in Avengers. Other than that...I thought it was pretty cool, if I really want to nit-pick I guess he could have been a little more intimidating

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I mean, yeah he doesn't have the infinity stones and so on, but there's so much talk of him having done grandious bad guy things like taking down civilications and being the strongest being in the universe, so infinity stones or not, he should be pissing your pants-intimidating. or at least a little, something more potent than what we got

 

[Ghostcrow13]

I don't think you can say he wasn't intimidating when he was in one scene, unless you were expecting him to just blow up a planet in his scene just to show he is a badass.

 

[ctsketch]

and in the one scene he was in he had Ronan cowering for a second.

 

[The Endless]

I thought his restraint kinda made him intimidating. It's like all this is beneath him and nothing but a irritation.

Here's Ronan, a guy who is probably one of the most powerful beings we've seen in these movies thus far, and Thanos is treating him like a "pouting child" whose quest to destroy an entire planet is mere childs play.

I do think Thanos needs to have a bigger, more imposing role in phase 3 though.

 

[hoy-small-fry]

"I will bathe the starways in your blood" is the most intimidating thing I've ever heard in a cinema. Then he turned around and was happy go lucky sky blue

 

[cherokeesam]

To summarise, he's doing a poor job. [blackout]And he lost his spokesman[/blackout]

Yeah, that *should* have got some sort of reaction out of Thanos. Not that he was soft-hearted or sentimental; it was just a question of courtesy/respect....to paraphrase Dr. Strangelove, you don't kill somebody in the war room.

 

[The Endless]

I don't think Thanos has a shortage of sycophants to take the Others place.

 

[Ghostcrow13]

His change of colour was strange when he looked awesome in A1, not that he didn't look really good in GOTG I just preferred A1s colour, it must be assumed though that Whedon had direct input into the colour as well.

He definitely needs more involvement in phase 3 he should be at least the main villain in one film before A3.

And more post-credit appearances in a few others.