#titan consumed

[thanosfarm]

Look at what I’ve found! I did this little thing months ago and forgot I had put it inside Thanos novel 😅

[farlinns]

OK the titan consumed novel is pretty interesting. Thanos’s friend one day took him to a club where he met a girl that left a big impact on him because she kissed him. This is very funny 😂 Like all he wanted was a sense of belonging and this girl gave him that instead of being afraid of him or hating him (what most people on titan did because of his deviant genes and his skin color purple, which was a symbol of death on titan). And later when he came to Gamora’s planet, when she touched his hand, he felt warm. For decades people who touched him were trying to kill him, but gamora was not. It seems to me that thanos wanted to be loved. He wanted a sense of belonging and trust. This is pretty interesting. He wasn’t arrogant (at least in his early years despite being the most intelligent one on titan). He was just a kid discriminated and isolated by his people. It strikes me his mind and will is so strong in infinity war.

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Titan Consumed: GAMORA AND NEBULA

Sixth post about MCU official Thanos novel (with spoilers). This annex is about Thanos, Gamora and Nebula, in my opinion the most interesting part of the book.

 During the fourth chapter (SOUL) Thanos attacks Zehoberei with his army and joins the Chitauri at the surface of the planet. His encounter with Gamora occurs almost in the same way that is showed in IW. The novel expands Thanos’ thoughts about Gamora: he is pretty impressed about the girl’s behaviour, exposing herself in order to protect her mother. To Thanos’ eyes, Gamora has the potential to become his right hand and potential successor with the precise training. Quickly, Thanos starts to call her “his child”.

Gamora isn’t idiot. Even if she is very young, she knows the difference between being “saved” and “spared”. She asks Thanos why was the fate of her people inevitable, why have Thanos to kill half of them and why was her pardoned. The answers seem somewhat strange, but she ends accepting them.

Gamora starts training with the Chitauri, fighting them every day and learning how to use some weapons. Thanos attends personally her wounds after each session. Little by little, Thanos’ assistance, power and determination starts to increase Gamora’s trust. And soon he decides that Gamora needs a sibling.

The Black Order brings orphans from many places, hoping one of them will be accepted by Thanos. In the end, Thanos pay attention to a little, hairless, purple-tingled blue girl that could almost be his real child. He chooses her because that reason, even she is too skinny and physically inferior to Gamora.

During the first days both girls become friends and get along very well. Then Thanos realizes they are thinking on each other as an “ally”, and he can’t allow that.  So, he starts to manipulate them to be always in conflict, always fighting, always confronted. Gamora always best Nebula, yet she never tries to kill her. And Nebula “never lost, but never came close to winning, either”. Cha warns Thanos about the girls he is raising, about the inevitable hate they are going to develop for him. But this is precisely Thanos’ objective: he “allows them to hate him because it makes them think they still have choices and free will”; “while children may hate their parents, they rarely raise a hand to them”, as his own experience taught him. Thanos is brainwashing the two girls in order to make them loyal and dependent of him.

Nebula is always happy to see her Father paying attention to her. Gamora is more stoic. One day Thanos decides that Nebula needs more motivation to fight Gamora, and Gamora needs a proper opponent. He starts by jamming his thumb into Nebula’s left eye and command Cha to get a new, enhanced eye for her. After that, he ask Gamora if she thinks that he is cruel, planning to kill her if she lies; Gamora answer “yes”.

Gamora and Nebula’s life continues that way. They grow up and “could not stand to be together, could not abide being apart”, “their emotions had become twisted parodies of love, hate and devotion. They yearned to kill Thanos, to kill each other, perhaps even to kill themselves, and yet their desire to prove their own superiority overrode those urges”. One night Gamora tries to kill Thanos while he is sleeping, but she doubts and Thanos awakes. Even he insists her to do it, she doesn’t dare. Next day Thanos punish her for her fault; “In his own way, he loved the girls, but he did not entirely trust them”.

One day, while the three of them are on their way to Lorespeaker planet, Gamora asks Thanos about Cha’s murder. She wasn’t supposed to know that such thing happened, but she and Nebula have worked this out together. Apparently, it’s the first time both girls work together, somehow -Cha was the only adult nice to them-.

Finally, when Thanos is under Lorespeaker mind control, Gamora and Nebula shows up in the last second and save him, yet Gamora is the only one praised. Thanos is surprised -the girls were told to wait on the ship, yet they decided to go down to the planet. When the girls admit they were worried because they never have been so much time without him Thanos thinks: “the brainwashing is complete”.  

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So, the plot and the more important details (imo) of the novel are covered. I will probably write my opinion about it eventually. As always, corrections, additions, opinions or whatever are welcomed 😊

[thanosfarm]

Titan Consumed Part 4: SOUL

Fourth post about MCU official Thanos novel (with spoilers)

 With the Chitauri army Thanos starts to massacre as many planets in collapsing risk as he can, but in the end this isn’t enough to reach his goal. During this chapter Thanos adopts Gamora and Nebula, but I will not write about this now because it deserves its own entry.

Thanos starts by speaking to the rulers of the risked planets about theirs problem and how to solve them. After the rulers’ refusal, he proceeds to kill the (already doomed) whole population and then pillage the planets resources, in order to convince the next target to accept the euthanasia plan. After devastating too many planets without the wanted results, he changes the plan: he is going to kill half of the population of the chosen planets and resolve the problem by force.

During this time he has found some people that support his ideas and have join the crew, naming themselves “the Children of Thanos”. But most importantly, in the first planet saved by the “killing-half-of-the-population” method, Thanos finds Gamora, and later, he searches for a sister for her: Nebula. The role of his daughters is to become his vanguard and continue his work if he dies.

But after years of proceeding by killing half of the populations, Thanos realizes the problem he is trying to solve isn’t as simple as it seems: the Universe itself will reach his maximum capacity eventually because its inhabitants out of control and excessive expansion. So he needs a way to save it, and his mind goes back to the Infinity Stone. After some investigation, he discovers that many years ago His Lordship was seeking not for the Stone itself, but for someone who has information about it: the Lorespeaker.

Cha, who all this time has been with Thanos convinced they are working for a great good despite all the murdering, isn’t capable of accept the new plan. It’s too much even for him and accuses Thanos to have become into His Lordship. So Thanos, well aware that this moment was inevitable, kill his friend with his bare hands, breaking his neck.

After that, Thanos order the rest of the crew and the army to go back to the Chitauri new home, and he, Gamora and Nebula go to the empty region of the space His Lordship was going across desperately, searching the Lorespeaker.

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IMPORTANT NOTES

Thanos becomes more and more cruel and radical after each planet he tries to “save”. At first he doesn’t understand why no one accepts his advice and solution. Eventually he reaches the conclusion he is the only one with the capacity and the will to do such thing (“Why don’t they want to live!”.

Thanos says to Gamora that if he hasn’t the great responsibility to save worlds, he will be happy doing something like farming.

The dagger Thanos give Gamora in Zehoberei was found by Proxima Midnight in a primitive world. She had given it to Thanos as a gift.  

It is revealed what Gwinth tells Thanos in dreams: “You cannot save everyone”, and she being Death or not, Thanos thinks “Life needs me on its side”. Thanos objective is almost the opposite of his comic counterpart. Also “his quest was more important than his own life”. And in a moment he thinks “How fortunate that Titan died”; this is his ultimate justification to his actions. I’m not sure if this match with IW Thanos or not.

Killing Cha is the first sacrifice Thanos make on his quest, and “he hoped it would be the last”.

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Questions, opinions, thoughts, corrections….?

[thanosfarm]

Titan Consumed Part 2: SPACE

Second post about MCU official Thanos novel (with spoilers)

 The second part of the novel is about Thanos’s first months as an exiled. This is a part for first times: first time actually saving lives, first time taking them, and first time been close to death.

Thanos is captured at space by the Golden Berth, a bit rusty, beat-up ship that is like an isolated country, ruled by the tyrant “His Lordship”. Thanos is forced to be part of the crew, working on the most denial and dirty tasks for the sake of ship’s integrity. Still, he is determined to find a way to escape and save Titan. At this moment he starts to dream with Gwinth almost every night, she looks dead and apparently tells him “save everyone”.

His Lorship is an old, bad-tempered, sick man, who seems to have one foot in the grave. He ruled a planet centuries ago and was exiled. Now he’s searching for something to retake the planet back: an object in the hands of the Asgardians capable of change reality. But he is guiding the Golden Berth across an empty region of space, without course or plan. To make it worst His Lordship’s heart is connected to the Golden Berth, so if he dies, the ship will be destroyed.

With the help of Cha Rhaigor, a sort of pacifist being, who actually becomes Thanos’s friend, Kebby, His Lordship’s maiden, and Demla, a member of the crew, Thanos decides to kill His Lordship in order to save the Golden Berth population. He achieves his goal. It is the first time he kills somebody using his bare hands. Then he takes the people to a safe place on Xandar space.

After he convinces himself that the Golden Berth population aren’t his people, Thanos leaves Xandar with Cha and Kebbi. His goal is to reach Asgard and stole the artefact His Lordship was looking for. They end in an Asgardian outpost, where Thanos tortures the guard in order to get more information about the object. But the only thing he gets is its name: Aether, or the Infinity Stone. Soon the three of them are involved in a violent battle in another ship, the Blood Edda, with more Asgardians. Kebbie dies, Cha passes out and Thanos reach the victory nearly dead.

Thanos awakes in an unknown place, being healed. Cha, who also survived and it’s decided to follow Thanos to save Titan, tells him they were saved by the Chitauri.

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IMPORTANT NOTES

Thanos names every ship he commands as “Sanctuary”.

Cha Rhaigor is a pacifist and mystic that is convinceded that Thanos was chosen by the Universe to do a good and great thing. He firmly believes in Thanos cause. Though all the mystic annoying talk, Cha is a good and loyal friend.

Thanos is determined to “rescue his people from their own blindness and ego” and “force them to see the error of their ways and listen to him”. Basically Thanos being Thanos: solving problems with the non-ethical methods.

A set phrase: “For Eternity’s sake”. Eternity is one of the cosmic entities of Marvel Universe.

Even he is not aware, His Lordship’s teach Thanos a couple of lessons. The most important one is that people only will fight for you if you provide food, shelter, transportation and “a cause”.

When Thanos decides to kill His Lordship he accepts that sometimes, all he wants is ”to put his hands around a throat. And squeeze”. Thanos really likes to choke people. Nice. (Notice that even he has no choice but to kill His Lordship, he choose to do it in such a personal and gruesome way).

In order to kill His Lordship Thanos has to deal with an annoying subordinate who can hurt people telepathically. To intercept the signal Thanos makes a helmet that is exactly like the one he wears in the comics.

Torturing the Asgardian guard is the first time Thanos kills somebody for a personal goal: “he simply was doing what needed to be done if he was to save the people of Titan”.

When Thanos passes out, barely alive, after the battle with the Asgardians he dreams with dead Gwinth, and this time she says “Not yet. Not yet”. Thanos always interprets Gwinth dreams as a product of his subconscious, but they clearly can be understood as Death talking to him.  

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This was the longest part, I did my best to resume it. Questions, opinions, thoughts or corrections are welcomed.

[thanosfarm]

Titan Consumed Part 5: POWER

Fifth post about MCU official Thanos novel (with spoilers) and the last one resuming the book.

Thanos and the girls reach the moon where Lorespeaker lives, and Thanos goes down to meet him. The Lorespeaker is an hermit, who went away of population because his “cosmic awareness” that let him to keep and remember all information known or spoked by people in a radius of some parsecs from there. He possess an estrange sceptre and lives with some old technology.

Lorespeaker accepts to give Thanos information about the Infinity Stones if he shares with him an important memory. So Thanos tells him about what he thinks is the most important moment of his past, Gwinth:  after meeting her he got the motivation to gain his deserved place in the Universe, first trying to be appreciated by his people saving them, eventually leading him to save the Universe itself.

After that, Lorespeaker tells Thanos about the Infinity Stones. He speaks about planet Morag, where is the Power Stone, and about the Celestials, makers of the Stones. Impatiently, Thanos hurry him to reach the Reality Stone, so Lorespeaker resumes Time Stone and Space Stone location and tell him something about Reality Stone lore. But then he reveals the location of the Mind Stone: exactly at his side, in his sceptre, and that he’s been using it against Thanos from the beginning. The Stone is the truly source of his power.

Thanos is forced to do things totally controlled by the Stone, such as cut himself in the face and in the arms, because Lorespeaker wants to test the real power he has. But then Thanos manage to defeat the Stone domination, with the help of Gamora and Nebula, killing Lorespeaker in the end.

Thanos has finally one Infinity Stone, but at the same time is very aware that only one Stone isn’t enough to help him in his task; one Stone is very powerful, but it can be defeated. So he needs all of them. And now he knows where to find most of them.

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IMPORTANT NOTES

During the way to Lorespeaker’s home, Thanos develops the basis to create the Outriders by mixing Chitauri DNA and genetic samples from other species. “Thanos wanted soldiers he could preprogram from birth”.

In the comics the “cosmic awareness” is the power to sense anything that is happening in the universe and “affects the user”. In GoG2 Ego brings back the MCU version of this ability in Quill.

Lorespeaker tells Thanos about Power Stone location, the planet Morag. This doesn’t fit with Endgame past Thanos who, during his first appearance, just has get that information. In any case, according with Lorespeaker words, Morag civilization was destroyed by a global climate change. The temple that keeps the Stone is accessible one time every three hundred years.

Lorespeaker also tells that the Celestials (like Ego in MCU) where the beings who transform the original six singularities into the current Stones, in order to use its power.

Lorespeaker force Thanos to cut himself in the face and in the arms, so I suppose this is the origin of the marks or scars he has.    

At the end of the book Thanos gets over his past motivations and his dreams with Gwinth.”He was no longer Thanos of Titan or Warldord Thanos. He was simply Thanos. Saviour of the Universe”.

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Questions, opinions, thoughts, corrections….?

Next post will be about Thanos, Gamora and Nebula relationship.

[thanosfarm]

MCU Thanos backstory: “Titan consumed”

As I haven’t see much info about the official Marvel novel about Thanos past, I think that may be interesting write about it. Even it is a non-canonical story, the events fits perfectly with Infinity War, so the author by sure got the script and some indications from Marvel in order to write it. In my opinion is a good backstory and the only reason to not make it canon is for the sake of future movies that may will have contradictory elements with it.

The book is a pretty light novel and I think some parts or ideas could be more developed. But for a general idea, is perfect. So I’m going to resume it and comment about some interesting points. As the book is divided in six parts, each of them named after an Infinity Stone, I’m going to do six entries.

First part is “REALITY”, and I’ll post it as soon as I can.

If you have any question about it, feel free to ask :)

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Titan Consumed Part 1: REALITY

Here is the first post about MCU official Thanos novel (with spoilers)

This part is about Thanos’ life in Titan. His mother, Sui-San, disappeared from his life after his birth. Thanos lives with his father, A’Lars, High Mentor of Titan. A’lars is a distant and cold father, that rarely praises the incredibly intellect of his son, but at the same time is obvious that this quality is the only thing he likes of him.

They live on the Eternal City, the biggest, almost perfect and extremely overpopulated city on Titan. Thanos is pretty sure he is the only strange and imperfect thing on it because of his mutation. Older people try to avoid Thanos so he rarely goes off his home. He has only one friend, a boy called Sintaa. When they are 10 years old, Sintaa tells Thanos that Sui-San is in a hospital. As A’Lars always have refused to tell him what happened to Sui-San, Thanos goes there and try to enter by force. All ends in a violent fight with the doctor.

Thanos spend the next ten years mostly at home, studying and learning very fast, and he starts to suspect that there is a bad thing on the city, and it isn’t him. He confirms he isn’t such a weirdo when he knows a girl who actually likes him. Her name is Gwinth, and Thanos likes her too. After they share a kiss, Thanos resolves to find his real place at Titan.

The first step is to know what happened to his mother, so he returns to the hospital, and this time he reaches her. But Sui-San is completely mad; she shouts, calling him “demon” and “Death”. Thanos leaves in shock and try to find other way to be part of the city by discovering what is happening to it. But he came to a terrible conclusion: Titan is doomed because it’s overpopulation.

When he tells Gwinth about the problem, she encourages him to do whatever it takes to save them. So Thanos, that only found one solution to the problem, alert the people of the Eternal City about it and explain his plan: half of the population must die. He proposes himself as one of the martyrs. Panic spreads, there are a great number of victims of the chaos and Thanos is marked as the responsible. Sintaa and Gwinth are very disgusted with him, and A’Lars, with the support of the population, exiled Thanos. Thanos never truly understood why they reacted in such way.

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IMPORTANT NOTES

It’s important to note that the way people treated Thanos isn’t the reason for him being such a bastard: people are afraid of what is different, like him, so he accept that behaviour. His real problem is that he has no empathy and confuses cruelty with mercy (and sometimes he can’t avoid using brute strength to resolve problems, though at first this shames him).

This part of the story is based vaguely on the comic book limited series Thanos Rising. A’Lars being a distant father (though this is exaggerated at the novel), Sui-San becoming mad at Thanos birth, Thanos having actual friends instead of his looks and rejecting his owns violence instinct are elements of the Aaron script. Gwinth also reminds Death at that series, encouraging Thanos to do something bad; in this case, however, Gwinth is just a girl and she ignores Thanos’ true plans.

There is a reference to Thanos Wins, the second part of 2016 Thanos solo series: Gwinth tells Thanos he doesn’t look like someone called Dione. Dione is, at that script, the name Sui-San was going to give Thanos at first.

A common element for the most Thanos backstories: Sui-San is an incredibly beautiful woman.

In this part is one of the fundamental lines of the book: “(Thanos) loved Titan, even if Titan hated him”. This is a very important aspect of Thanos character, because he really (REALLY) believes he is doing the correct thing. [SPOILERS] The moment he decides to be one of the martyrs fits pretty well with the Garden sequence in Endgame: he accepts his death as part of the price.

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Probably there are more interesting things but this post is already too long. Tell me if you want to know more about something in particular, or just share opinions or whatever.