The embodiment of Death is a figment of his imagination but not his love and desire to cause Death. He loves what Death is, the feeling of it's presence around him. I don't get how you couldn't like Thanos Rising. He's still an evil Shakespearean monster.
yes, he's still a shakespearean monster, but unless this story is true until he founds "the real deal" this whole thing is a massive retcon.....like 35 years long retcon. Death in the marvel comics is an actual being. Every Marvel Universe aspect have a cosmic being to rapresent it, they call them Cosmic Abstracts.
the quartet Eternity/Infinity + Death/Oblivion are the 4 major players (rappresenting time, space, death and nonexistence) and they are pretty real. If Thanos is nuts and he has never met the real Death, then every single Marvel hero is nut the same cause Death was present, in one way or another, in many cosmic crossovers
I haven't read it, but my guess is because it just makes him nuts, basically. I mean, obviously you could say he was nuts anyway, but at least she was a real goal of his. Now he is no different than any other egomaniacal genocidal tyrant. Actually blending Love and Death together like that made him unique in a way. I was disappointed when I heard it because it sounds like just another cop-out. I mean, if Eternity and whomever else is real, why can't Death be?
If they had been setting it up all these years with exactly this goal in mind, it might be different, but you know that was never the intent, and thus it feels like yet another ham-fisted retcon to ruin another awesome character. They could have left Death completely out of the Avengers movies and they would still probably be awesome movies, but why ruin the comics this way? Only a tiny percentage of the moviegoers even read comics.
on this i disagree. Death as a "real being" is present in many literature works. Even some movies have it rapresented in some movies (like Ingrid Bergman's Seventh Seal for example). The "grim reaper" is not that unknown to the general public
with this i dont mean she must be a prominent character of course. But let her be there. Hinting her presence
i imagine this scene when we see the room become cold with ice forming on the walls, plants dieng and everyone but Thanos feeling like choking. Then Thanos kneel and we just barely see her. We hear her steps, have a glimp of her tunic, we know she's there but she isnt actually shown. Thanos asks for orders or approval for his actions and in the end, all we see of her is a hand caressing his cheek. First a female hand, then it becomes a skeleton hand. Thanos say something like "i understand. i'll do your will" and she's gone. Everyone around him start recovering, traumatized by the experience
Hell, it would be cool if they made the public guess if he's crazy until that very scene
Are they saying Death isn't a Cosmic entity in Marvel anymore or just that Thanos never met the real deal?
that's what Thanos Rising tells us. At least until the point he obliterate Titan
I haven't read Marvel comics in years and years but I seem to remember other characters interacting/reacting to her directly in Infinity Gauntlet...
How strange that they would decide to do that.
that's what i say. It's a massive retcon that involve dozens of important character
Saying that he's crazy isn't that big a deal, anyways. They don't call him The Mad Titan for no reason.
he always was crazy in the sense that he's a murderous, egomaniac monster, not a schizophrenic
