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The Avengers (Spoilers inside...read at your own risk)
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:47 am
by Bud Lee
I had some questions about the movie that I didn’t want to ask in the movie thread because I didn’t want to spoil the film for people who want to see it…hence this thread.
Does anyone know who the new bad guy is? I figure it has to be someone Thor related because of the Loki connection.
Re: The Avengers (Spoilers inside...read at your own risk)
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:07 am
by UOducksTK1
I read that DC would be upset because the new marvel bad guy is just like DC's darkseid.
Apparently the new guy's name is Thanos? I'm not a comic junky, but I remember reading this a couple days ago. People correct me if I'm off.
Re: The Avengers (Spoilers inside...read at your own risk)
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:13 am
by Bud Lee
I've read somewhere it was him too...he has been around for thirty years in marvel comics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanos
here is a piece of that site...
Starlin has admitted the character is influenced by Jack Kirby's Darkseid:
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Kirby had done the New Gods, which I thought was terrific. He was over at DC at the time. I came up with some things that were inspired by that. You'd think that Thanos was inspired by Darkseid, but that was not the case when I showed up. In my first Thanos drawings, if he looked like anybody, it was Metron. I had all these different gods and things I wanted to do, which became Thanos and the Titans. Roy took one look at the guy in the Metron-like chair and said : "Beef him up! If you're going to steal one of the New Gods, at least rip off Darkseid, the really good one!"[3]