Latino Review, who get things right more often than not when it comes to the world of movies and breaking secrets before anyone else, has been playing their game with Marvel Studios from the start. Of course, at the top of their minds is The Avengers, the big get-the-whole-band-together film coming in May of 2012.
They correctly predicted back in March of this year that Loki would be a villain in the team movie, a point proven in the Joss Whedon-directed after-credits scene of Thor. At that same time, they posited that Loki would be the impetus bringing in the rumored Skrulls to the mix. Now, they have another major villain they assure readers will be in the film. See who after the jump, with the obligatory “potential spoilers ahead.”
THANOS, the mad Titan and avatar of Death, says Latino Review, is the next villain to join the mix.
Now I’m not going to spoil how he is in the movie, but trust me when we tell you that he is in there.
If you think about it, it is also kind of obvious.
Now, there have been nods to Thanos already. Last year, Marvel brought along props from their Studios to Comic-Con International: San Diego, including the Infinity Gauntlet:
The power glove was seen in the Asgardian Vault in Thor alongside other cosmic and mystical artifacts.
But how would Thanos fit into a story that is presumably already crammed? If you have Loki, the Cosmic Cube, then you bring in Skrulls, and Thanos; all of a sudden you have a 100% Alien movie (remember Asgardians are aliens in this world). It would seem to lose a lot of the grounding of Iron Man, still their most popular franchise, and the presumably more-grounded Captain America coming this summer.
Still, it would be cool to see this hulking figure in the film; it just seems like it might be a bit too much to handle for one movie. What do you think? Would Thanos be a good fit in The Avengers live action film?
May 27th, 2011 at 10:09 am
Where was the Infinity Gauntlet in Thor? All I saw in the trophy room was a green glowing box and a glowing orange box beside the box the Frost Giants wanted. Screen shot of the Gauntlet in Thor would be great.
May 27th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Nevermind saw it when The Destroyer killed the Frost Giants
May 27th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Loki, Skrulls AND Thanos? I hope this is wrong.
May 27th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Might as well throw in Galactus, Eternity and The Living Tribunal.
Oh, and Mantis ’cause she’s got boobs.
May 27th, 2011 at 10:36 am
I read a lot of comics. Not a ton, but a pretty good amount. Granted, more of them are on the DC side which is where a lot of my comic knowledge lie… but more than your average person’s knowledge about the Marvel Universe. I know Loki, I know the Skrulls and Kree, but I dont’ know Thanos. My point? Getting away from the basics and introducing too many of these outer-worldly storylines would be bad for this movie and the entire franchise. I’d be more happy with a basic, more underlying antagonist such as the Manderin being the master manipulator. The franchise started with Iron Man, so I’d say have it all go back to him. Obviously you need Loki and the Red Skull in there too… but I’ve always been least interested in the comic stories that bring the big alien races and wars to characters like Spider-Man and Captain America.
May 27th, 2011 at 10:46 am
I can see how Thanos would appeal to Joss Whedon’s sensibilities. It’s easy to imagine Thanos as one of Buffy’s Big Bads…
May 27th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Dang there is going to be a lot of characters in the Avengers film. Hawkeye is suppose to be in it also. Loki and Thanos seem like a bad team up. Not as bad as say Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy but still not a natural fit. And Skrulls of course. Captain America, Nick Fury, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, Thanos, Loki, Skrulls, and more could be overload.
May 27th, 2011 at 10:49 am
Hes probably in the after credits scene setting up avengers 2 or something, seems like too much villiany to pack into one movie and still have time to explore the hero characters in any depth.
May 27th, 2011 at 11:24 am
With that jaw, Thanos is probably going to be a Skrull. Which is not cool.
May 27th, 2011 at 11:39 am
I’m thinking the idea if this is done true is that Loki trick and manipulates Thanos into attacking Earth using the infinite gauntlet. To add more fuel to the fire, the Skrull meanwhile are used as canon fodder foot soldiers to Thanos’ army of minions. The movie will probably end with Thando realizing he’s been played by Loki and they turn against each other or something.
May 27th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Loki could also just fill in for Mephisto.
May 27th, 2011 at 11:57 am
It seems like a stretch to have the Infinity Gauntlet and the [INSERT AFTER-CREDITS THOR SPOILER HERE] in the same movie, but who knows?
May 27th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
I would wrather it were just him and Loki, save the Skrulls. They need one whole movie to themselves.
May 27th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Where is this article from? “after the jump”? Is this site just stealing from other places now? just curious.
If Joss is directing and hawt Thor is in it, they can fight Spinerette for all i care…it’ll be great.
May 27th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Don’t care. I trust Joss Whedon.
May 27th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Of course they steal stories. They’ve done it for years.
May 27th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
I could also see the benefits of a fast start. There’s something to be said for not having the movie spend too much time on getting these characters to team up and instead getting right into the stuff where they’re a functioning team. In which case a five or ten minute sequence in which we rapidly see them facing off against a bevy of threats would be a good way of getting, about 1/3 of the way through the movie, from “we’ve teamed these guys up and seen them on their first mission” to “now they’re good at this and we can drop something really scary on them.”
May 27th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Hey what if that’s not the infinity gauntlet. I remember the old 90′s Iron Man cartoon and it could be like the gauntlet that the Mandarin wore (instead of his rings).
May 27th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I figure Thanos isn’t going to get much screen time. I’m hoping that his appearance is limited to a flashback showing the creation of the Cube, and crediting Thanos with it’s creation or the last attempt to use it. That wouldn’t be strictly how the comics did it, of course, but then a lot of this film is less than slavishly devoted to the original stories.
May 27th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
wait i was mistaken, i remembered that cartoon incorrectly as my friend just pointed it out to me
May 27th, 2011 at 1:04 pm
I doubt it. 1. Thanos takes way too much set up. 2. He’s way over the Avengers’ heads. He’s cosmic level threat. He blinked them all out of existance in the Infinity Gauntlet. I think it will be Skrulls. Thanos is just too much.
May 27th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I’d say save it for AVENGERS 2
May 27th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
…save it for AVENGERS 2 “please”.
May 27th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
I like the explanation of what the gauntlet is on IGN, which is wrong, the Gauntlet is a friggin’ glove, Thanos’ glove, He didnt hunt down a magic glove to put them in, he used the thing he was wearing at the time. Pissed me off when Bendis did the same thing in Illuminati 2, which also got the glove thing wrong and the fact that the Living Tribunal ruled that the gems could never be used again in unison, so that eliminated the gauntlet from play, even taking into account the one time use during Infinity War when the Reality Gem was a fake.
May 27th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Yeah, that’s too much. A fight with the Hulk and a Skrull invasion (ala Ultimates VOl 1) is all the juice you really need.. Everything else becomes an unwatchable mess of overkill like Pirates of the Caribbean 3..
May 27th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
i think thanos and the kree-skull war might be overkill at this point and should be saved for sequel. i want to see th adapt the utimates.
May 27th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
It appears some people forget Thanos was originally…an iron man villain, and easy to include.
May 27th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Thanos is far too much and far too complicated to throw into the Avengers movie. They need to follow the KISS method: Keep It Simple, Stupid. The movie should mostly be about the heroes coming together and butting heads. It doesn’t need an overload of villains and widgets and gizmos and doodads!
May 27th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
First, Thanos with the skrulls kind of makes sense since he’s half-skrull to begin with but I agree with ian, reserve him for a sequel. He’s the Avengers ultimate villain.
May 27th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Actually.
This could make sense. Maybe even work.
If the Infinity Gauntlet is in Asgard, that gives Odin an excuse to send Thor back to Earth (That dickbag stole our glove. Get it back, kiddo). And what could be cooler than having the wielder of the Infinity Gauntlet fight against [Thor after-credits scene spoiler]?
Do I think it will work? On the fence. But it could be friggin AWESOME.
May 27th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Surely Korvac – actually an Avengers villain as opposed to a big cosmic villain who appeared in a crossover – is the “Avengers’ ultimate villain.”
May 27th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Guys.
Ultron is the Avengers’ ultimate villain.
May 27th, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Actually, it would be ironic for thanos to be a skrull because in ultimate ff, he was leader of the kree. I really dont mind him being the leader of either because it makes it more connected. but the eternals woud be a good way to bring in hercules.
May 27th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
I think it would be a mistake to fit Thanos in this. I think as a cameo to explain the Cosmic Cube like someone already said, yeah. Not only that it could set up a future Silver Surfer movie if Marvel desires to extend their brands into one shared universe once the FF rights go to Disney. I’m thinking do the traditional Loki/Hulk thing in the first. Kang the Conqueror in the second (introduce Ultron and the Vision) and then Ultron as the big bad of the third. By then I don’t see Downey Jr. sticking around. You could throw in the Skrulls in there somewhere, but honestly I don’t know what Marvel’s fascination is with them these days. It over complicates everything. I am so sick of Skrulls and Kree and all that for a long while. Actually Mar-Vell is awesome but I digress.
May 27th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Oh yeah and Antman and the Wasp please.
May 27th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
What does Herc have to do with the Eternals?
May 27th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
its way to much for a 1st movie. unless they plan on making this a 2part movie.
May 27th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
If they bring all these characters in the movie. The only way they can make it perfect is to treat it like lord of the rings. I think the Avengers should be treated that way. Something vast and textured. This would be incredible if done right. Make it into three parts. Introduce new characters along teh way, and retire ones as teh movie goes on. Only then will all these characters work. If not we’ll see Spiderman 3 or Batman and Robin. And no one wants to go back there.
May 27th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Skrulls is a terrible idea. I have NEVER really been interested in them and think they would be very uninteresting in the movie. Loki sure… Tom Hiddleston was great in Thor. And Thanos being teased for a sequel sure, but Skrulls… who cares? Secret Invasion was so boring I could hardly believe it
May 28th, 2011 at 2:15 am
-pt.1 intro: The Avengers in battle with Loki.
-pt.2 flashback: Assembly of the Avengers
-pt.3 main: Thanos and Skrull Invasion of earth.
2,5 hr movie and Whedon is the man…
May 28th, 2011 at 5:16 am
I don’t want to see the Skrulls OR Thanos in the first Avengers move.
May 28th, 2011 at 6:10 am
If they could use Namor, that could be a real treat. After finding Captain America on Ice… Avengers Assemble, awesome sub-aquatic cities, atlantean armies and big bad sea monsters, with the Prince of Atlantis on top.
May 28th, 2011 at 9:11 am
Of course, the Eye of Agomatto was also in the trophy room and no one’s saying Dormammu will be in the Avengers movie…
May 28th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Because it wasn’t The Eye of Agamotto, it was The Warlock’s Eye.
I think Loki will bring the Skrulls with the Cube as a way to defeat the Avengers. They will find a way to open a portal to Asgard, bring back Thor, defeat the Skrulls and, as a last resort, Loki will ask for a warrior capable of destroy Thor, and Thanos will appear.
May 28th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Wow Carmichael…I really dig that! I’ve been trying to think how this would all work out but i think you may be right! I would totally watch that! I hope you’re right actually!
May 29th, 2011 at 12:10 am
All I really want to see in the first Avengers movie is Loki tricking the Hulk since that is what happened in the origin story…
May 29th, 2011 at 12:15 am
Thanos was revealed to be half-skrull in Universe X Hugo, so the Thanos as a skrull thing would have precedence although Universe X was an alternate reality story it still sets the precedent for a skrully Thanos
May 29th, 2011 at 6:03 am
@Joey West:
That’s the dumbest excuse I have heard yet. Thanos is an Eternal gone bad. Why can’t Marvel ever stay true to its source material?!
May 29th, 2011 at 8:49 am
@vinnie boombats
there was a issue in the incredible hercules series where two eternals named ikarus and mercury mistook him for another eternal named heracles so i was thinking it would be a good idea just to combine the two in order to set him up better. the thing is with marvel and dc, you would want to streamline things to make it seem better connected and less arbitrarily put together.
for example, i would change beta ray bill’s place of origin to one of the nine realms, preferably the one with the fire demons. that would work out better because it would give him a better connection to thor because it could a tale of him trying to prove his worth by fostering better relations with the other realms and creatures. he teams up with bil to take down surtur who is a asgard-hating tyrant and for bill’s bravery odin grants him stormbreaker,
May 29th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
In the begining of the Avengers, I could see how the The Hulk is the catalyst character that brings Captain America, Thor and Iron Man together because Nick Fury tells them this is that great danger that no single one of them can fight. SHIELDs involvment brngs in Hawkeye and Black Widow whom we’ve already seen. Once they get The Hulk in control, its revealed that Loki made The Hulk crazy using the Cosmic Cube which then would make him and the other race of aliens, the Skrulls, the enemy for the last part of the Avengers movie. Then at the end you could have a set up for The Avengers 2 against Thanos or you can just have have the some of the other heros guest star in Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and Captain America 2 to take down Thanos.
May 29th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
I don’t want to see Namor, Thanos, Skrulls, Dr. Strange or any of that stuff in the Avengers. Outside on their own? Sure. As part of the Silver Surfer movie or an FF remake by Disney or who the fuck knows. But not in the Avengers.
We need to see Loki. The Wrecking Crew. The Masters of Evil (Call them something else). KANG THE F-ING CONQUEREROR!!! ULTRON!!! Any of that. THAT is the AVENGERS.
I don’t know why they need to F with that concept and shove all this space shit down our throats. Don’t overdue it. Stick to the source material, it is GREAT.
May 30th, 2011 at 1:22 am
I don’t think they will cram the movie with that much story lines. Remember that this is planned to be a series of 3 or more movies. The first of course will deal with one central plot: The coming together of the Avengers. I think they will deal with something local at this one mostly. Then all the others will be hinted like maybe a secret invasion with Thanos watching and bidding his time and maybe even pulling the strings behind a Kree-Skrull war. I don’t think the writers are that stupid to plunge the story directly into a cosmic setting. I also think that if the Nick Fury movie goes through it would be about a secret invasion directly tying it to the next Avenger movie.
May 30th, 2011 at 8:52 am
Avengers 1 – Actually, they could probably pretty easily adapt Ultimates Volume 1 into the first Avengers movie with some minor tweaking (probably leave out the whole wife beating thing)…You could have LOKI manipulate the Hulk, either through mischief or mind control, causing the Hulk to go on a rampage and the Ultimates have to take him down SHIELD’s and the AVENGERS reputation is severely damaged when it is revealed that SHIELD was harbouring a fugitive. Simutaneously, you have the Skrulls (I mean Chitauri – Who worked as Nazi’s/Hyrdra for movie purposes) working in unison with Loki to take over the US. The film culminates with the big battle and the redemption of the Hulk.
Easter Eggs – Hank and Janet Pym (working on Giant Man formula and/or Ultron)
May 30th, 2011 at 8:54 am
I think including Thanos is wayyy too much. The guy needs more room to grow and develop. They run the risk of Spider-Man 3, shoehorning too many villains into one movie…I agree with what was said before, KEEP IT SIMPLE. Save Thanos and Ultron for later. I want to see Tony Stark and Thor on screen sharing some drinks though…
May 30th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Cast Kevin Grievoux for the part. The physique, the voice, it’s all here.
May 30th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
NO NO NO no more aliens it really sucked in FF2 movie I liked it and all but it really was tooo much to take in. Loki is enough to bring the team together but nothing else
May 30th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
The cynic in me says Thanos might be in it to screw DC over from using DARKSEID, who Thanos was based on!
May 31st, 2011 at 7:08 am
Yes Joss Whedon, please include a giant purple alien who sports pointy golden shoulder pad and who loves to accessorize with fabulous over-the-top jewelery.
May 31st, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Loki and Hulk’d be pretty cool