ENDGAME WAS NOT THE ENDGAME

If you read the comic books, "Thanos Quest" and "Infinity Gauntlet", you'd know Thanos loves two things: Lady Death, and the power of the gauntlet itself. Click on the image and find out how you can purchase the reprints. The movie would have been 100x better had they actually followed the script, it was, and probably always will be the best written series in Marvel history. 

In the movie, "Avengers: Infinity War" you saw the power of the red Infinity stone, "Reality." Thanos used it a couple of times, once to show how his home planet, Titan, looked prior to being destroyed, and another to fake his own death scene with Gamora. If you recall, he wasn't actually dead, manipulated matter by turning the Guardians into other materials, and Star-Lord's weapon into a bubble gun. Yes, Thanos has the power of God to control everything in the multiverse. However, there is one entity he cannot control, "The One Above All" which is the Marvel universe's equivalent to the actual God of all of the universe, which Thanos does not meet. 

The death scene is important for two reasons: 1. He has faked his own injury or death a couple of times in the movies, and in the comic books. 2. Thanos is a drama queen, he loves to play around with his victims. 

THANOS FAKES HIS OWN DEATH PART 2

In the comic book, Thanos faked his own death to escape ultimate punishment for his crimes once the gauntlet was removed from his grasp. He activated a nuclear bomb, was hit into space by Thor, detonated, and "died" once again. A character, Adam Warlock, took control of the gauntlet and found Thanos of course. He was located doing what he has repeatedly said he would do, rest. The bottom image, Thanos says, "I should have known I couldn't fool YOU." Yes, Thanos's favorite past-time, fooling people. His obsession with Lady Death, to try to woo her affections makes Thanos a morbid fan of death, and in fact, the purpose of using the gauntlet to kill half the population was an attempt to impress her. So, Thanos likes to play around with the concept of death, even his own, which he knows is impossible. 

Another illustration of Thanos pretending to die and toying with his victims is in Silver Surfer 50, which is another very good cross-over issue in which Thanos battles the mighty Silver Surfer not only physically, but psychologically, as Thanos uses the Soul stone to try to cripple S.S. over his past mistakes, regrets. Thanos pretends to die, then taunts S.S. saying he COULD revive himself, but saw no point in it. S.S. uses his cosmic powers to reduce him to cosmic ash. Again, another dramatic death scene for Thanos. 

Toying with his victims

Thanos loves to play games. He loves the challenge. Check out his abilities even without the gauntlet, read and scroll to the bottom to see his stats. 

As you can see, he is nearly unstoppable to the run-of-the-mill super-hero and Thanos likes the fight. As Ebony Maw said when a member of the Black Order tried to intervene between Thanos and the Hulk, "Let him have his fun." Thanos likes the fight, and knows he can easily win, which he does over and over. 

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THANOS DID NOT DESTROY THE STONES

In Endgame, Thanos has the power to manipulate time and reality, and in the fantasy world, he can be in all places at once through time and space. He clearly can see what the Avengers are plotting, changes reality to satisfy their desires, pretends to die after destroying the stones, then allows himself to die again on the battlefield. None of it is real. The world of fantasy, when you have time travel, everything is reversible. No one actually "dies-dies." The stones can bring people back, Lady Death can reverse it, or the cosmic beings can. Even Silver Surfer can, as he saved Sue Storm from death in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

Thanos LOVES having the ultimate power

To know this character and to see that he "used the stones to destroy the stones" is simply laughable. All the effort he went through to find them, taunt his enemies, be the center of attention, get involved in countless fights, to simply hide away, destroy the stones and make himself mortal again to be vulnerable to justice? Not at all plausible. Read the comic books, he's lying, dying, and fooling people once again as a trickster worse than Loki. 

So as you are sitting on the beach contemplating how you move on from "I love you 3000", it's not the Endgame. It's not the end in the comic books, it's not really the end in the movie, and Marvel is likely not going to walk away from several billion dollars in future profits, especially knowing how long they stretched this story out slightly over a decade in the print version. 

Check back later for more updates. If you haven't read the comic book series, "Thanos Quest" "Infinity Gauntlet" "Infinity War" "Infinity Crusade" "Infinity Abyss" and "The End" then you have something to look forward to, as you are in for about a month of reading that will satisfy your itch for more Thanos. 

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