Issue 8 – Thanos

The Avengers: Infinity War special – THANOS! Anthony compares Infinity Gauntlet to Beauty & the Beast, Dr. Issues talks God’s Debris, and the most far out couch skit yet!

SHOW NOTES:

• Introduction
• Background (07:48)
  • Created by Jim Starlin in Iron Man #53 (1973), originally an Iron Man villain
  • Moved on to become adversary of Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
  • Killed by Adam Warlock, but resurrected by Mistress Death
  • Thanos Quest – On the search for Soul Gems (later renamed Infinity Gems) to please Death, who is his obsession (12:18)
  • Infinity Gauntlet – Acquisition of ultimate power over all facets of reality, defeated by own hubris and Nebula
  • Infinity Gauntlet = Beauty and the Beast (17:15)
  • Infinity War – Allies with Warlock and Avengers against Magus and his own doppleganger
  • Infinity Crusade – Once again allies with Warlock, this time against Goddess
  • Infinity Abyss – Created five clones/experiments, but they attack him and he is forced to destroy them
  • Annihilation – Allies with Annihilus until he realizes Annihilus wants to destroy universe, gets killed by Drax
  • Thanos Imperative – Becomes the new avatar of Death, fights Guardians of the Galaxy, and is imprisoned within the Cancerverse by Nova (Richard Rider)
  • Thanos Rising – a backstory prequel that explains his mother tried to kill him at birth, his obsession with Death, and ultimately him killing his mother
  • Infinity – Thanos has a son who is half-Inhuman (Thane), goes all Creeping Death on Inhuman boys between 16 and 22
  • Secret Wars – Killed by God Emperor Doom
  • Civil War II – Resurrected by Galactus, discovers he is dying, and kills his father Mentor after he is unable to provide a cure
• Issues (35:49)
  • Obsession with Death – done out of love
  • Isolation (42:48)
  • Petulance (43:26)
  • Destructive relationship with family (45:23)
  • Nihilism (48:25)
  • Greed and ego (51:32)
  • Betrayed by subconsciousness – unworthy of power (54:42)
• Treatment (60:39)
  • In-universe – dare God to do better
    • Dr. Issues discusses God’s Debris (61:04)
    • Anthony mentions “The Egg” (65:10)
  • Out-of-universe (66:51) – Existential therapy
    • Understand the connections between people (72:15)
• Thanos on the Couch (79:20)
• Ending – Next week’s episode – LOKI! (84:48)

Special links:

• “The Egg” – Mentioned by Anthony at 65:10
• God’s Debris – Mentioned by Dr. Issues at 61:04

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