Thanos, like any well written villain, has his flaws.
He's a total narcissist.
He's got an inflated ego.
A superiority complex minus his crippling self-doubt.
And of course, he's got a wee bit of a temper.
So, needless to say, he isn't the easiest character in the Marvel universe to get along
with, regardless of whether we're talking the comics or the MCU.
So today, we're taking a look at a few characters, superheroes in particular, who have grinded
the mad titan's gears over the years, with our list of the top 10 superheroes that annoy
Thanos.
10 Squirrel Girl Squirrel Girl is an underrated hero who in
contemporary times has become an increasingly beloved fan favourite.
She has quite the track record too.
She's defeated Doctor Doom.
She's 'defeated' Galactus.
Not too shabby for a girl who can communicate with adorable tree loving rodents.
And she's also defeated the Mad Titan, much to his dismay.
How exactly that happened, we'll never really know; it happens entirely off panel, with
the Watcher confirming what went down while Thanos lays on the ground, knocked out.
Surely that's something the big purple thing is embarrassed about.
9 Hulk While most of the numbers on our list pertain
to the comics, let's take a gander at the MCU as well.
One of the characters who annoys Thanos quite a bit in the cinematic universe is none other
than Bruce Banner's Hulk.
Just take a look at the beginning of Infinity War and you'll see why.
Thanos tosses the giant green monster around like he's a toy, annoyed that he has to beat
him down in order to finish up with the Asgardian refugee ship their on.
Then, when Hulk is teleported over to Earth, he tells everyone Thanos is coming and ruins
Thanos' chance for a surprise attack.
Yeah, I'd be pissed off at Banner too if I were in his big ol purple shoes.
8 Thor Speaking of characters in the MCU who pissed
off Thanos, Thor is definitely up there on that list.
Dude literally almost - ALMOST - killed him.
Sorry, spoiler alert, but really, you should've seen Infinity War by now.
You know clicking on a Thanos themed video ain't doing you any favours in that department.
Anywho, Thanos gets the last laugh in that situation, which really grinds thor's gears.
Needless to say, we're all hoping for a confrontation between the two in Endgame.
And you know Thanos isn't going to let his near death experience slide.
7 Thane Thane is Thanos' son.
And guess what friends?
He doesn't have the same ideologies as daddy dearest.
Guess you might know where this is going.
In the comics, Thane is an inhuman character who is revealed in the Infinity story arc.
Thanos hooked up with an Inhuman woman, knocked her up, and then she ran away after Thanos
and his army destroyed her tribe.
Thanos would search for his long lost son years later, using his Black Order to raze
planets in search of the child, which eventually led him to Earth.
Ebony Maw found him, built him a suit to contain his powers, and then tried to manipulate him
into becoming the ruler of the universe.
When Thane and Thanos do come into contact, Thane traps his father in a pocket limbo stasis.
6 Mar-Vell Mar-Vell perhaps has one of the longest histories
with Thanos on this list.
The very first iteration of Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, fought against Thanos in the 70s,
teaming up with Thanos' father Mentor and Eros in a conflict over the Cosmic Cube.
Thanos gets a hold of the cube and when his spirit leaves his body, Mar-Vell uses that
as an opportunity to shatter the Cube, ultimately undoing Thanos' actions.
Later, when Captain Marvel was killed off via cancer in 1982 in The Death of Captain
Marvel, he would have a vision of Thanos come to him, not as a foe, but as a guide into
the afterlife.
So all in all, despite being one of each other's greatest foes in the comics, the two made
amends.
But back in the day, this Kree fighter was one hell of an antagonist to the mad titan.
5 Ka-Zar In perhaps one of the strangest foes Thanos
has ever faced, Ka Zar in volume 2 of his self titled series, in issues 7 to 11 from
1998, faces off against the Mad Titan and manages to defeat him.
Alright, for context - Ka Zar, if you didn't know, is a character who first debuted in
The X-Men issue 10 back in 1965.
He's a character who appeared in pulp magazines and in Timely Comics though way before then,
with his Timely debut back in 1939.
He's essentially Tarzan meets cave man.
The two fought over top of a cavern filled with lava, and Ka-Zar dramatically kicks Thanos
into said lava after thinking about how much he loved his son, breaking free of Thanos'
grip.
All in all, it was a bit of a strange story, and thanos would constantly refer to Ka-Zar
as a savage.
4 Lockjaw Thanos' encounter with Lockjaw definitely
tops the list of the mad titan's most humiliating battles.
Once upon a time.
Lockjaw was the leader of the Pet Avengers.
The team would come across the infinity stones, and naturally, Thanos, wanting them for himself,
would attempt to take them away from this adorable group of crime fighters.
Lockjaw uses the power of the stones to kick Thanos' butt, sending the mad titan to another
dimension.
3 Drax While some of you may be familiar with Drax's
vendetta against Thanos in the MCU, those who are familiar with the comics know the
character has had quite the history with the mad titan, right down to his very creation.
Created by Jim Starlin, who also created Thanos, Drax the Destroyer first appeared in The Invincible
Iron Man issue 55 in 1973; the same issue as the Mad Titan's introduction.
Drax was a man named Arthur Douglas - a human - whose family was killed by Thanos when he
was cruising around Earth.
Thanos thinks that Arthur and his family had spotted him, so he kills them while they're
driving through a desert.
Mentor, Thanos' father, and titan God Kronos decide that a champion is needed to bring
Thanos' threat to an end, and take Arthur's spirit and put it inside a new, incredibly
powerful body - Drax.
Drax's whole purpose in life from that moment onwards is to kill Thanos.
During that first appearance he fights alongside Iron Man and the Blood Brothers, but Thanos
escapes.
Then begins a long crusade of him trying to take out Thanos while other heroes the likes
of Captain Marvel (the original Mar-Vell), the Avengers and Adam Warlock go after the
mad titan; all of whom are seemingly more equipped to do so.
Needles to say, Drax has been a major nuisance to Thanos, on screen and in the panels.
2 Adam Warlock Out of all the heroes in the comics, Adam
Warlock is the one whose pissed Thanos off the most.
He's thwarted Thanos' plans with the Infinity Gems MULTIPLE times.
The two are practically arch nemeses, with Warlock having faced a handful of defeats
by the mad titan himself.
In the Infinity Gauntlet comic, which Infinity War is loosely based off of, Warlock is the
one who ends up defeated Thanos with his master plan.
And, on top of all that, Warlock is also the one who confronts Thanos and calls him out
for being the self doubting insecure little b*tch that he is!
Warlock is all like, I've been inside the soul stone, I know you better than you know
yourself, I know you believe you're not worthy.
And Thanos is all like, ugh yeah man you're right, and is so humiliated by it that he
actually helps Warlock stop Nebula in the comics by getting the Infinity Gauntlet back
from her.
While Warlock has yet to pop up in the MCU, if Thanos isn't flat out killed in Avengers
Endgame, it'd be fascinating to watch these two interact with one another on the big screen
in the future.
1 Deadpool Arguably, given their history together, and
the fact that Warlock has thwarted the Mad titan multiple times, you might think that
he'd get the number one spot on this list.
But that instead goes to the man who has taken the one thing from Thanos that he's truly
ever loved; Death.
Yes, that's right, the entity Death.
The entity who, in the comics, motivates and manipulates him to do all of the terrible
things he does.
Death wants the universe balanced, and Thanos does that with the infinity gems.
Death has also been quite absent from the MCU, with strong speculation that she won't
be making an appearance in Endgame despite Thanos' deep rooted history with her in the
comics.
Anywho, back on track here - once upon a time, Deadpool competed against Thanos for Death's
affections, and won.
Death had the hots for Deadpool.
So Thanos cursed Deadpool with immortality so he could never truly have Death as his
own.
Talk about jealousy issues.
Death still ignores Thanos even with Wade Wilson out of the way.
And if you've read Infinity Gauntlet, you know how extra Thanos gets over Death.
He literally used the gems to create a brand new side chick (who looks just like him) to
try to piss Death off, which didn't work either.
So imagine his disdain when she's all over Deadpool and not him.
The two had a hilarious limited series together called Deadpool vs Thanos where all of that
went down.
There we have it friends!
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