With the anticipation of Avengers: Infinity War lurking closer and closer with every passing Marvel movie coming out, I thought I would do a review of Thanos Quest, the prelude to the Infinity Gauntlet event and then Infinity Gauntlet. 1st the colors of the gems:
Red: Power
Blue: Mind
Orange: Time
Green: Soul
Purple: Space
Yellow: Reality
In the comics Thanos was killed by the Avengers and thought to be gone forever. But while the Silver Surfer was roaming the universe with his new found freedom he had a vision that Thanos was resurrected by Mistress Death. Mistress Death felt that the Universe was filling up with intelligent life an it needed to be cut in half. She felt Thanos, being the powerful being he was and how well he dealt out death, was the perfect candidate for the job. Once risen Thanos went to the Infinity Well to find his inspiration for the task given to him. The well gave him the knowledge of the Soul Gems (The name of the stones before Thanos renamed them). He asked Mistress Death's permission to find the gems. Death gave him her blessing and Thanos went on his quest.
First he went to the In-Betweener "convincing" him that he was a servant of Death but did not care for his master. He bargained that if he freed him from his prison (that the cosmic beings Chaos and Order put him in) he would become his servant. The In-Betweener playing along with Thanos' own game accepted his offer and tried to smite Thanos, but only in the prison did Chaos and Order allow the In-Betweener to keep his power. So Thanos struck him and took the Soul gem leaving the In-Betweener to be punished again by Chaos and Order.
He then made his way to Tamarata, a planet in constant battle between five different warring federations for strategic value. On this planet The Champion resides because there is always a fight he can show off his might. Thanos challenges him to a fight for the planet. Thanos aggravates Champion more and more to the point he destroys the planet. The Champion boasts that he has won but Thanos points out that he didn't really seeing as he destroyed the "prize" they were fighting for in the first place. The Champion demands that Thanos take him to another planet but Thanos said he would do no such thing unless he gave him his Soul Gem. Champion agrees to the terms but not in the way Champion thought. Thanos drags Champion to a habital planet and lets him go and Champion plummets to the planets surface.
The Time Gem is the next Soul stone Thanos goes to retrieve. The gem is wielded by a Cosmic entity known as the Gardner. All the Gardner seeks is a garden of immense beauty. Thanos confronts the Gardner with the compliment that he has never seen such beauty in all his travels. The Gardner was puzzled by his statement and Thanos in former him that though he loves death he can still appreciate beauty. Thanos told the Gardner that he was there for his Soul Stone. The Gardner did not give up the gem without a fight. Thanos overcomes the Gardner with the Power Gem and takes the Time Gem from Gardner's brow.
(Side tracking here, Talking about why I really like Thanos)
Thanos takes time to admire the Garden as it begins to deteriorate. He looks at the Gardner and says "Unfortunately, without the Gem's aid, the Garden's beauty won't last. For that I am truly sorry, and I hope. . .That you will understand my regret, even though you can not hear my words." When we see Thanos first getting the Soul and Power Gem he is immediately thinking and plotting on how to get what he needs. But with the Gardner, he walks and has a conversation with the Gardner. After admiring the Garden that the Gardner has carefully grown. Thanos tries to convince the Gardner to submit the stone so the Garden would have a chance of surviving. Though the Gardner refused Thanos did everything to get the stone. Even after getting his prize and bringing death to someone, he is not happy about it and mourns shortly of what the Universe has lost.
(End)
The next person Thanos has on his list is the Collector, holder of the Reality gem. Thanos calls him knowing that the Collector has been keeping tabs on him. So Thanos proposes that he brings something as a trade for his gem. So Thanos warps to find The Runner who holds the Space gem. When he arrives at his destination he is puzzled that The Runner is no where to be found he looks around and suddenly The Runner destroys his chair. Thanos acts slightly frightened and cowardice. The Runner demands that Thanos reveal to him what he is planning and why he needs the gems for it. So Thanos reveals his plan and the true nature of the Infinity gems and his mission from Mistress Death. So The Runner gets cocky and says that once he takes out Thanos he will go after the gems and be the only one who knows their true nature. Then Thanos takes his chance and uses the Time gem to age him millions of years and take the Space Gem. After taking it he makes The Runner an infant. He then uses the Space gem to teleport to the Collector's Vault. Thanos offers The Runner as trade for the gem he obtains. The Collector agrees to make the trade on the condition that Thanos not interfere with him raising The Runner and Thanos agrees. As Thanos leaves Thanos tells the Collector that the Spell of Infancy is only temporary and The Runner returns to his current age.
The last and final person on Thanos' list is The Grandmaster with the Mind stone. When Thanos went to The Grandmaster, he greeted him and Thanos asked what the game would be. The Grandmaster first told Thanos that the gem they are competing for is in a matrix generator that has seven force fields, if even one of them is breached or his vital signs were to drastically change, the matrix would immediately transport the gem to a location and self-destruct to he couldn't track the location through its system. They sit down at what looks like a chess table and put on head sets. Thanos then finds himself in a suit of armor equipped with weapons. The game: last one standing wins. The two cosmic beings exchange blows until Thanos, from what seems, to gain the upper hand and win, fires his weapon and is encased in a silicon based fungus. The Grandmaster admits cheating and doing it because he to began to understand the real power of the gems. But the silicon covered Thanos falls and breaks to reveal a robot Thanos. The real Thanos, outside of the game, breaks the bored and leaves the Grandmater's mind lost. Thanos takes the stone and completes his collection that will aid his mission to destroy half of the universe's sentient life. He warps back to Mistress Death to inform that his quest is over and that She would know that all he was done and will do is out of the love he has for her. Now that he has this new found power he requests that he sit next his love as an equal. Her servants inform Thanos that she grants Thanos his wish. He sits on his thrown and and says that they will live in eternal bliss together.
Her servant replies that she says that is that is what Thanos wishes then that is how it shall be. Thanos storms off his throne demanding that he be spoken to by her, he claims to be an equal to her and should be treated as such. The servant once more speaks for Death saying that with Thanos' new found power that he is her superior and that addressing his directly would be disrespectful. In a rage Thanos destroys the servant and walks away. He tells himself that he could make her speak to him directly but that wouldn't do any good. He again stops to look into the Infinity Well. He ponders how a being such as himself who is a master schemer and deceiver could have miscalculated the outcome. And also realizes that his new found Godhood is a hollow victory without his Mistress.
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