Marvel Studios had plenty of options to offer a welcome change of pace after the Avengers defeated Thanos, instead of Doctor Doom.

As so many know from the MCU, Thanos made his first appearance onscreen ... After a decade of foreshadowing, the villain lived up to all our evil expectations before the Infinity Gauntlet era ...

Narrator: As far as supervillains go, Thanos is, well ... nearly 7% of all the people who have ever lived in the history of our species. Which makes for a pretty crowded planet.

Thanos may have made a few minor appearances here and there throughout the first decade of the Marvel Cinematic Unvierse, but ...

You can see why his dark Malthusian world view makes Thanos a villain for our times. For many a worried environmentalist, the idea of being powerful enough to snap your fingers and reduce the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs ... back when Cap was able to prevent Thanos from using the Infinity Gauntlet for ...

helping support our expert product labs. We really would have enjoyed the character in other movies, but it was too late to change the past. Thanos was to die twice in Endgame, and that was that.