#THANOS MINIONS NAMES MOVIE#

Supergiant’s role in Infinity was mainly to attack the X-Men, and her powers of mind control overlap with Ebony Maw’s. Jonathan Hickman, Jim Cheung/Marvel Comicsįor Avengers: Infinity War, the roster has been reduced to four, and one member has gotten a name change: Black Dwarf now goes by Cull Obsidian, while Supergiant has been cut completely. Bottom (left to right): Proxima Midnight, Black Dwarf, Ebony Maw and Supergiant. They all also sport suitably ominous, spacey names: Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, Supergiant and Black Dwarf. The five members of his Black Order refer to one another as siblings and spouses, and serve as Thanos’ vanguards, generals and agents during Infinity. In the comics, the Black Order subscribes to Thanos’ almost religious obsession with Death herself, who, in the Marvelverse, is personified as a powerful interdimensional being.

#THANOS MINIONS NAMES MOVIE#

Instead, the film will be introducing movie audiences to the Black Order on the big screen. Infinity’s plot is much more about Thanos attacking our planet because of his long-lost Inhuman son than collecting the Infinity Stones, so it doesn’t look like much of its story will be used in Avengers: Infinity War. Thanos’ anti-Avengers squad was introduced in Marvel Comics’ 2013 Infinity event (written by Jonathan Hickman), in which Thanos launched a full-scale invasion of Earth while most of the Avengers were off-planet dealing with a different intergalactic threat. What’s a mad Titan to do?Įnter the Black Order. Earth is lousy with superpowered people, many with the power to practically (and some, literally) rewrite existence (looking at you, Scarlet Witch). Yet he even he knows that one does not simply walk into Mordor invade the Earth.

Thanos is one of the biggest badasses of the Marvel universe.

Thanos minions names