‘Avengers: Infinity War’: Everything you need to know about Thanos and the Infinity Stones to watch the Marvel movie
From Avengers to Zoe Saldana, we’ve got you covered for this year’s biggest superhero spectacular
There have been all sorts of magical weaponry, cool powers and memorable superheroes in the last decade of Marvel movies. But it’s six mythical gems and one obsessive cosmic villain that will tie everything together in the upcoming movie Avengers: Infinity War.
Infinity War boasts more good guys than have ever been in a Marvel Cinematic Universe project before, including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jnr), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the Guardians of the Galaxy, led by Star Lord (Chris Pratt) and Gamora (Zoe Saldana).
They’re all going to have to be at their best to beat Thanos (Josh Brolin), a dude wielding a legendary metal glove called the Infinity Gauntlet that holds the all-powerful Infinity Stones: Space, Power, Reality, Time, Mind and Soul.
We get it – that’s a lot to take in, especially if the only cool glove you’ve ever known is Michael Jackson’s silver number and all you’ve seen of this massive narrative is Black Panther. Here’s what you need to know about the Avengers’ biggest foe to date and those six twinkly baubles he’s hunting.
Look out for Thanos, aka the Mad Titan
The supervillain first showed his face in the end credits of the first Avengers film: He had tasked trickster god (and Thor’s brother) Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to take an alien army to Earth to obtain the Tesseract, a mystical cube containing the Space stone. Loki, however, failed – thanks to the titular Avengers.
Then, in Guardians of the Galaxy, he assigned Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) to snag a mysterious Orb – which ended up being the container for the Power stone – but Thanos was thwarted again, this time by the Guardians, a group of criminals and bounty hunters who find a common purpose by beating up even badder guys.
Now he’s irked enough to get the job done himself: with his Black Order henchmen in tow, Thanos comes to our world to collect the stones and place them in his golden gauntlet, which will give him the power to rule the universe – and wipe out one half of its population, to boot.