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Thanos’ Modified Origin Story In Infinity War Actually Makes You Want To Sympathize For Him


Marvel might be marketing Thanos as the biggest bad in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Avengers: Infinity War is painting the Mad Titan in a more sympathetic light than in the film's source material.

Though the goals of Thanos in Marvel comics and Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are more less the same, Infinity War gives the Mad Titan a more human side. While Marvel comic book readers see Thanos as the cause for the destruction of his home planet, Titan, in the MCU, the villain actually tries to save his planet but fails.

He's from a planet called Titan that's no longer inhabited because of things that he thought he could help prevent, and he was not allowed to do that," Feige explains in an interview with CBR. "What he feared most happened, and the planet and everybody on it basically went extinct. He vowed not to let that happen again. He thinks he sees the universe going down the tubes. He thinks he sees life expanding outward unchecked. That will bring ruin, he believes, to the universe and to that life."

Marvel might have had issues developing its villains before, but the studio's gotten better at painting the motivations of its baddies, starting off with Spider-Man: Homecoming's Vulture and Black Panther's Erik Killmonger. Now it looks like the studio's trying to do the same with Thanos – which isn't a surprise considering the fact that Infinity War is supposed to be part of the culmination of the MCU.

Avengers: Infinity War premieres April 27.

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