Thanos (MCU) Respect Thread
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Respect Thanos, The Mad Titan
Biography
Thanos was born to Alars, a member of the Titans, a race of powerful, god-like beings that evolved on a planet with which they shared their name. Thanos was born misshapen, bearing a physical mutation that left him marked as an anomaly amongst his people and therefore left him an outcast. Despite his status, Thanos unconditionally loved his people.
- MCU Wiki
Infinity Gauntlet
Power Stone
The Orb is in my possession, as I promised.
- Ronan The Accuser.
Infinity War:
Sets fire to the Asgardian Ship, the ship soon explodes after.
Tortures Nebula by pulling her body apart.
Breaks a huge metal piece of debris into hundreds of pieces, after having it dropped on him.
Harnesses fire from a huge explosion and directs it back at Iron Man.
Knocks out Drax, Star-Lord and Nebula with a single Power Stone Blast.
Destroys the surface of a moon.
Throws Captain America aside without any real effort.
Blasts Bucky with a Power Stone blast.
Endgame:
Space Stone
The universe, lies within your grasp.
- Ebony Maw
Infinity War:
Uses the Space Stone to hold Loki in a position, and stop Loki from stabbing him.
Can create portals to any place in the universe.
Phases The Hulkbuster through him and into a wall.
Blocks a Hex Blast from Scarlet Witch by forming a Mini Shield.
Reality Stone
Now... Reality can be whatever I want.
- Thanos
Infinity War:
Changes the appearance of Titan to show Dr Strange how it looked in it's prime.
Seperates Drax into Block pieces of himself.
Turns Mantis into flat strings.
Turns Star-Lord's Blaster into bubbles, after turning the blast into bubbles.
Turns hundreds of pieces of metal debris into hundreds of Bats.
Soul Stone
In order to take the Stone, you must lose that which you love.
- Red Skull
Infinity War:
Time Stone
Now is no time to mourn. Now is no time at all.
- Thanos
Infinity War:
Reverses Time to bring Vision back to life, so he can obtain the Mind Stone.
Base Thanos
Strength
Infinity War:
Overpowers The Incredible Hulk, who's been established repeatedly as a physically stronger character than Thor, and even himself can flip Chitauri Leviathans, rock the huge Surtur and hold up part of Avengers HQ with a single arm.
Crushes the Tesseract in his palm.
Beats down the Hulk in a few hits, not once has Hulk been defeated so easily, despite facing foes like Thor, Hulkbuster, Fenris and so on.
Rips the Cloak of Levitation off his arm, also the Cloak was ordered to not let Thanos close his fist.
Snaps Loki's neck with one hand.
Crushes Vision's forehead to get the Mind Stone out, it's worth noting that Vision is made of a mix of Organic Tissue and Vibranium.
Endgame:
Knocks out Thor by kicking him through a boulder after 5 hits and 2 slams prior, should be noted that Thor took a total of around 25 hits against Hulk in the Ragnarok Gladiator Battle, and was still conscious and well.
Contends with Captain Marvel's Strength with a single arm, while on the losing end, it's more notable than one would expect considering that he didn't use both arms, just for some scaling, we've seen Carol stop Kree Missiles with strength alone.
Overpowers Thor who we've seen support the weight of gigantic metal rings in order to restart the forge.
Overpowers Scarlet Witch, who was capable of lifting and tossing huge metal spaceships.
Destroys Captain America's Shield with his Blade, a showing that no one has ever come close to.
Punches Captain America through a boulder, shattering it.
Durability
Infinity War:
Tanks a ruined ship being dropped on him.
Is hit by Nebula's Speeding Ship, gets right back up.
Tanks punches from The Incredible Hulk, 2.
Tanks his own Power Stone Explosion.
Tanks Thor's lightning and instantly gets back up after being hit by it.
Endgame:
Tanks hits from Captain Marvel.
Tanks Captain Marvel's Blasts and a bullrush.
Taking attacks from Mjolnir - 1, 2, 3.
Shrugs off a blast from Iron Woman, Shuri & Wasp at the same time.
Speed
Infinity War:
Blocks a Beam from Iron Man's Repulsors, which are considerably faster than arrows.
Blocks Wanda's Hex Blast.
Catches Spider-Man and slams him down.
Stops Loki's Blade with the Space Stone.
Scaling:
We've seen Thanos go toe to toe against extremely fast beings even if his own speed feats are limited, and speed has never been a clear issue, which is why I've made this section.
Thanos has beat down the Hulk and is stated as a physical superior, especially impressive considering Hulk can catch RPG missiles.
We've seen Thanos keep up with Captain America, a Super Soldier with enhanced speed, capable of dodging a 90m/s grenade launcher round from behind and a 230m/s one from the front, from around 8 meters away.
Continuing from that, we've seen him keep up with Thor too, who has blocked multiple Chitauri Blasts, blocked a beam from the Scepter, which crossed large distances very quickly, and blocked beams from The Destroyer, which were also travelling to him almost instantly.
And finally, we've seen him keep up with Iron Man too, and even the older Iron Man suits were capable of dodging missiles and tank shots.
Now what's most impressive, is that Thanos doesn't just beat them down individually, he also had the upper hand whilst engaging the main Trinity simultaneously.
Combat Skill
Infinity War:
Casually takes down the Hulk, without allowing him any breathing space, while Hulk may not seem so impressive when it comes to pure combat skill, he had just spent 2 years prior to this as a Gladiator on Sakaar, he's super fast, and can keep up with more skilled opponents like Thor using his speed and brute strength.
It should also be noted that Thanos is responsible for the making of some of the most fierce and most skilled warriors in the universe, such as Gamora, Nebula and Proxima Midnight, who we've seen single handedly take out multiple prison guards, and take down Black Widow.
It was stated that regardless of his possession of Infinity Stones, he would beat the "living daylights" out of the group on Titan.
Endgame:
Is able to gain the upper hand against Captain America, once he gets his Blade.
Holds the upper hand in a 3v1 against Cap, Thor and Stark.
While at the reach and size disadvantage, the trio are still incredibly competent, and the former two highly skilled, we've seen Thor take down multiple armed Asgardian Warriors no sweat and we've seen Cap take down an elevator full of some of the worlds "best trained professionals".
I just mentioned the size disparity between them, a feat I think that's worth noting, is the gladiator fight in Ragnarok, where despite Hulk's size, Thor is still able to surpass it with his agility, landing numerous consecutive strikes.
Is a clear superior to Thor, even when totally unarmed, considerably impressive given the Asgardian Feat just mentioned, should also be noted that a single Asgardian is capable of this.
Despite being ambushed, and having one hand occupied holding the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos is still able to catch a punch from Captain Marvel and use her momentum to toss her away momentarily. Which is considerably impressive because...
- Carol undergone training from the Kree Commander Yon-Rogg, in order to fight well and control her abilities as a Kree Warrior.
- Her combat ability is shown well when she takes out 9 Skrulls, despite being surrounded and having her hands bound.