Thanos and The Infinity Gauntlet

We all know about Thanos as one of the most powerful and strongest villains in the Marvel universe. However, when we study Thanos from his comic book roots we can shed some light upon the earlier life of Thanos and how he emerged to be known as the ‘MAD TITAN’. Thanos has killed many innocent beings and presented superior strength over anyone who came across his way to the Gauntlet. But before leaving towards a killing spree in the thirst of gauntlet what was Thanos like in the childhood and his teenager life. 

He was born on the Saturn moon ‘TITAN’ and belonged to a group of people called the Titanians who were the eternal beings. Titanians shared similar characteristics but the birth of Thanos came as a shock to everyone as the doctors saw it as a release of a demon. Initially doctors wanted to run some tests to diagnose why Thanos looked so different from others but his mother Sui-San refused to do so and accepted her son as a blessing and viewed him as a high strength individual who will never see the face of failure. During early stages of life Thanos stood as a unique being comparative to other kids of his age due to his physical appearance. He spent most of his childhood learning about the environment and his surroundings and became the Smartest kid in school. To mould and gel among other kids Thanos frequently attempted to learn about his genetics so that he could make other kids understand him better. Thanos took the matter to his father but was always ignored to be answered anything related to his appearance. As he became more popular in the school, he was admired by a mysterious girl who took quite interest in him. One day at school Thanos had to bisect a dead creature but it made him leave the lab and vomit. The same girl approached him and comforted him by telling that bisecting dead creatures would be easier if he does it more often. Thanos was not happy to hear that as he claimed he would not do that again ever even if it came in his way of becoming a great scientist like his father. The girl then told him that it is quite normal to feel like this and he should clear his head take some time and a great way to do is by visiting a forbidden cave. Thanos took her advice visited the cave along with his friends but much to their surprise the cave started rumbling and rocks stared to fell upon them. As a result, Thanos was trapped in the cave deserted from his friends for 3 days as he kept digging to reach the outer layers to find a way out. When thanos managed to escape, he found his friends dead bodies eaten by giant lizards that showed no interest in him due to his unattractive mutation. Finally, Thanos reached back to his civilization where everyone developed a theory that these killings were in fact done by Thanos himself as his inner demon has evolved instantly. Soon Thanos got deserted by his friends and people and only person who would still talk to him was that mysterious girl. She encouraged Thanos that if he really wanted to avenge his friends death, he should revisit the cave and kill all the creatures there. Along with that girl Thanos went back to the cave and attacked all creatures there with a knife as the girl witnessed the whole scenario from a distance. After a few years Thanos had completely rid himself of his fear and was successfully bisecting bodies and passed all his lab tests. Soon enough he discovered knowledge at school was not enough for him, so he decided to create his own secret lab where he studied living organisms. Up till this time Thanos considered himself as a valuable scientist looking for answers to the questions of his unprecedented existence. Considering his experiments, he started killing people of titan and the reinforcement of the mysterious girl led Thanos to believe that he actually enjoyed those killings and the experiments are just an excuse. In his maturity Thanos realized his true potential and continued his conflicted path of gaining ultimate power. He also killed his mother confessing the evil inside him and all the killings he had done on Titan. Eventually Thanos fell for that girl and proposed her but was welcomed by a slap from her. She told him how coward all these years he was of not accepting his true identity and that he is not worthy of love. 

But Thanos’s love for her pushed him beyond the limits to impress her as she was manipulating him to follow her own sadistic agenda. That mysterious girl was in fact the demonstration of death and she was the one to plant the idea of infinity gauntlet in his mind after which he started another journey to gain the power of stones to impress his girl. This whole journey is than presented in marvellous manner by Marvel studios in their series of films called the Infinity Saga.

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