OHHH THE HYPE IS REAL!
Are you ready to watch the ‘grandest superhero movie crossover’? If not, then buckle up because a crash course is what you need!
The Avengers: Infinity War is the third sequel in the Avengers series wherein Earth’s mightiest heroes are assembled together to defend and protect the entire universe, specially, well obviously, the Earth. The Marvel Cinematic Universe started it in 2008 where the first Iron Man movie starring Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) debuted. During the post credit scenes, A familiar Jedi with an eye patch named Nick Fury told Stark about the Avenger initiative and several years later, (poof!) the Avenger squad will now be facing their strongest enemy yet, the Mad Titan himself, also known as Thanos.
Speaking of--- WHO OR WHAT IS THANOS?? He’s not just a ‘so-so’ villain that appeared outta nowhere and caused a devastating but awesome trailer for the movie. All of the “Earth’s mightiest heroes” together with their new recruits have assembled just to stop him from destroying the universe, so you can already guess that he’s one heck of a MONSTER.
Here are 5 cool facts about Thanos based on the CURRENT STORY LINE of the MCU.
Thanos came from a colony of being called Eternals living on Titan, one of Saturn’s satellite. He was also born in the most unideal way possible; it is recorded that his race and his own mother attempted to kill him because of his appearance and looking like their enemy upon giving birth to him, which will be elaborated after this. (Phew, it should all have had ended here.)
The comics stated that he was born with a genetic disorder called “Deviant Syndrome,” a condition in which an Eternal bear a resemblance to their enemy referred to as The Deviants---aaand it all makes sense now why he looks kinda crepy. However, like all the Eternals, Thanos is an immortal being with – an augmented Eternal powers making him above among his race.
Like what I said beforehand, Thanos is the strongest of his kind, or-- should I say he is one of the strongest in the entire universe. Besides his natural powers, he even wanted more and more and infinite of those, he’s constantly having meditation and bionic power augmentations. He’s so relentless, to the extent that he blew up his own planet, With. His. Mother. On. It. That’s woah, daunting.
The infinity stones are immensely powerful gems that came from one of the most powerful being who killed himself. Each stone contains individual powers of their own which a mere human being or a common creature cannot withstand alone, unless they’re Thanos. In the movie trailers and teasers, it was seen that Thanos easily controls the stones with his bare hands.
From the trailer of the movie, we had a very short glimpse of Loki with four terrifying (and strange-looking) creatures. These individuals are members of the Black Order, Thanos’ super elite alien squad that are so powerful and formidable even for the Avengers. And although the trailer only showed four, Thanos’ actually has five generals: Maw, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, and Cull Obsidian (Oh, and Supergiant, too. Too bad she’s not revealed in the trailer.) The Mad Titan is set to gather the infinity stones and he didn’t forget to invite his squad!
Now that we deeply know who the enemy is, I guess there's no more left to do than crash the cinema and scream out loud---- AVENGERS! ASSEMBLE!
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[Source] (https://www.cbr.com/avengers-infinity-war-social-media-reactions-thanos-mvp/)
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[Source] (https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/who-is-marvels-thanos-learn-about-the-infinity-war-villain-now.html/?a=viewall)
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