
However, all three betray him: Gamora joins the Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan decides to keep the Power Stone for himself and renounces his alliance with Thanos, and Nebula sides with Ronan when he vows to kill Thanos after destroying Xandar. In 2014, Thanos locates the Power Stone and sends Ronan, Gamora, and Nebula to retrieve it. Following Loki's defeat by the Avengers and the loss of the Mind Stone, the Other reports on the failed attack on Earth to Thanos. In 2012, Thanos directs the Other to form an alliance with Loki, and provides him with the Mind Stone scepter and the Chitauri army to subjugate Earth in exchange for the retrieval of the Space Stone within the Tesseract.

The first one he obtains, at some time before 2012, is the Mind Stone, which he places in a scepter. Eventually Thanos learns of the six Infinity Stones and, realizing he could use them to wipe out half the life in the universe in an instant, makes it his mission to collect them. Thanos gives special attention to Gamora, whom he considers his favorite. He occasionally adopts orphan children from planets he invades, including Gamora, Nebula, Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Midnight. Thanos also takes control of various armies, including the Chitauri, the Sakaarans, and the Outriders, and forges alliances with the Other and Ronan the Accuser. He becomes greatly feared for his power and influence. To realize his plan, he takes command of a warship, the Sanctuary II, and embarks on a campaign of conquest involving the mass killing of half the population of planets. Thanos concludes that other planets would eventually suffer the same fate as Titan, and believes that it is his destiny to eliminate half of the universe's population so that the survivors may thrive. Over time, Thanos' prediction comes to pass, and he witnesses the death of his people until he and Eros are the only surviving members of the Titan race. However, his people reject his solution as pure madness and cast him out. Eventually Thanos comes to realize that the growth of Titan's population will inevitably result in its downfall due to a lack of resources, and so he proposes to kill half of the planet's population at random. Thanos was born approximately 1,000 years ago on the planet Titan to A'Lars, along with his brother Eros. The fictional biography below includes events that happened to Thanos from more than one Earth-616 timeline, as well as events that happened to him from multiple other universes. Thanos' story in the MCU takes place in the Earth-616 universe. After his appearance in Infinity War, he became a key figure in popular culture and memes, making appearances in a variety of other media. Thanos is often credited as one of the MCU's best villains, as well as one of the greatest film villains of all time. The character has been well-received by critics and fans alike, with Brolin winning multiple awards for his performance. A new facial capture application called Masquerade was created for Infinity War and Endgame using machine learning. Thanos' appearance changed drastically over the course of his appearances as advances in CGI and motion capture technology allowed for better capture of Brolin's facial features.
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Several versions of Thanos from alternate realities in the MCU multiverse also appear in Endgame, the Disney+ animated series What If.? (2021–present), and the Phase Four film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). Thanos is a key figure in the 23 films that make up the MCU's Infinity Saga, having appeared in five of its films, most notably Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Five years later, an alternate version of Thanos from 2014 time travels to 2023 to battle the Avengers once again, but is killed by Tony Stark. After destroying the stones and escaping to the Garden, he is eventually killed by Thor. With the help of his adopted children, Thanos fights against the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and their allies, in the Infinity War, succeeds in assembling the Stones, and disintegrates half of all life in the universe in an event that is known as the Blip. To do this, he sets out to obtain the six Infinity Stones, cosmic gems with the power to achieve his goal. Thanos is depicted as an alien warlord from the doomed planet Titan with a universe-spanning agenda to wipe out half of all life to stabilize overpopulation and prevent what he views as life's inevitable extinction.

Thanos is a fictional character portrayed primarily by Josh Brolin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Marvel Comics supervillain of the same name.
