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If you’ve seen Avengers Infinity War, you’ll know a fair bit about the Infinity Gauntlet.
And if you haven’t seen it, don’t worry; this video will have no spoilers!
Huzzah!
But there are a bunch of villains who have used the gauntlet outside of the MCU, so let’s
talk about them!
If you finish this and want more, check out our video on the top 10 superheroes from the
future next!
But first, get ready, it’s time for the Top 10 Supervillains who Wielded the Infinity
Gauntlet!
Number 10: Nebula.
If you’re on top of the comic version of the Infinity stories, you’ll know that Nebula
was the one to get the gauntlet off of Thanos.
After using the gauntlet to leave his body and become one with the universe, a near-death
Nebula grabbed the gauntlet from his arm, taking away his power...
And then tried to use it to take over the universe herself.
Classy.
Luckily, Adam Warlock rekt her and locked her up.
Good job bud.
Number 9: Norman Osborne.
Yeahhhh this one’s kind of a cheat because it’s from a What If comic, but what the
hell, canon or not he wielded the gauntlet.
In the one-off What If Infinity Dark Reign, we saw a version of events where Norman Osborne
got his hands on the complete Infinity Gauntlet during Dark Reign.
And he killed a bunch of dudes.
And turned himself into the Goblin King.
And forced Peter Parker to relive Gwen Stacy’s death over and over again.
It was rough.
But then he killed his dad and faded away Back to the Future style, so that’s good
at least.
Number 8: Thanos.
That’s right, Thanos.
Did you just double check that this doesn’t contradict the title?
Me too.
But this list is talking about all the supervillains who have wielded the Infinity Gauntlet, and
Thanos certainly fits that criteria.
Is this mainly because it was hard to fill the list?
Yes it is.
But it still counts.
Because he’s used it a bunch, in comics, shows, and yes, the Infinity War movie.
And if we’re talking Thanos, we must talk about the totally, famous, not at all tacked
on…
Number 7: Thermos.
Yep, it’s time for the joke entry.
The Thanos of the Humorverse is named Thermos, and he looks ridiculous.
But what's even more ridiculous is his version of the infinity gauntlet.
Which is called the Infinity Mitten.
And it's really dumb not just because the name sounds ridiculous, but also... who the
hell calls a baseball mitt a mitten?
Nobody, that's who!
And yes, I know some people might get all technical and go “But that’s not the GAUNTLET
it’s the MITTEN nyehhhhh” but like… it’s close enough.
Shush.
Number 6: Dark Surfer.
While the surfer was a good guy through season 1 of The Super Hero Squad, he eventually became
corrupted by the infinity sword.
He steals the infinity gauntlet from Thanos, and goes off becoming Dark Surfer.
He uses the gauntlet to split up into 6 different coloured versions of himself to fight his
six previous teammates, and is eventually defeated.
Which, while cool, was a pretty silly strategy considering how damn powerful the gauntlet
can be.
Number 5: Darkseid.
This is a great story.
JLA/Avengers was a crossover event that saw the Marvel and DC universes dueling against
each other.
This involved powerful items from each universe being hidden for the members of the other
universe.
And Darkseid, who actually inspired the idea for Thanos, managed to get his hands on the
Infinity Gauntlet.
Only problem?
The gems don't work in the DC universe.
Nerd.
Number 4: Ultron.
This one’s definitely a stretch, but I think it kinda counts.
In Avengers Assemble, the cartoon show, Thanos managed to get the gauntlet together, but
was defeated.
However, Ultron managed to take over the robot Arsenal’s body, which had just absorbed
the power of the stones and gauntlet.
Here he wasn’t necessarily WIELDING the gauntlet, he kinda… became it.
Which is pretty neat, but now I’m picturing Thanos shoving his hand up Ultron and it’s
not a pretty picture.
Number 3: Ultimate Hulk.
We all know that the Hulk can be a bit unpredictable and violent at times.
But the Hulk of the Ultimate universe, Earth 1610, was way worse.
And stronger.
And grey.
Anyway, the Ultimate Universe actually had 8 infinity gems, with two infinity gauntlets.
And when Kang released Bruce Banner from his cell at SHIELD, Hulk ended up fighting against
the Ultimates with the help of two freaking infinity gauntlets.
Thankfully, they were missing some stones, or else it would have been REALLY bad, but
he was still scary as hell.
Number 2: The Magus.
As you may know if you’ve been watching our stuff for a while, The Magus is the evil
version of Adam Warlock, the powerful artificially-created hero.
Through a combination of powerful items like cosmic containment units, as well as brilliantly-executed
lies and deceits, he managed to get his hands on, or rather, hand in, the gauntlet, which
he managed to make functional again.
He was defeated in the end by the surprisingly cohesive team of Adam Warlock and Thanos,
who managed to summon a combination of Eternity and Infinity, and took the Magus into the
soul gem.
Number 1: Doctor Doom.
After Doom decided to help the Fantastic 4 for the good of the universe, and sacrificed
himself to save the day, he woke up and found two Infinity Gauntlets from other universes.
Just begging to be taken.
Along with a bunch of Dooms who had been lobotomized.
So he decided to create a parliament of Doom, and later used one of the gauntlets to revitalize
its home universe.
And Doom became the God of it.
Gnarly.
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