Apr 25, 2018
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)
- In-universe - dare God to do better
- 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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