Series: POP! Marvel
Company: Funko
Year: 2015
“The Universe will now
be set right. Made over to fit my unique view of what should be. Let Nihilism
reign supreme!”
Thanos, Infinity
Gauntlet
One of the coolest cameos in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy was Josh Brolin as Thanos. Though the film
didn’t really touch on his backstory in any great detail, Thanos is one of THE
big bads in the Marvel (comics) universe and his appearance bodes big things
for the future of the Cinematic Universe.
My experience of Thanos is primarily through the Infinity Gauntlet miniseries, from
back in the early 1990s. George Perez and Ron Lim did a fantastic job on the
artwork, and though the story shows its age in a few ways these days, it’s
still a fun read. There’s a lot going on, but basically Thanos gets hold of a
glove which gives him god-like power and then uses it to wipe out half the life
in the universe, solely to impress his paramour – who is the female
personification of Death. Naturally this doesn’t go over very well with the
remaining heroes and they team up to stop Thanos from causing any more mayhem. In
between there’s a good deal of pontificating on the nature of power, nihilism
and love, all while floating in space. It’s pretty pretentious, but when comics
go this route it can turn out really well; Alan Moore’s run on Swamp Thing is still right up there for
me.


Paint-wise he's pretty solid. There's a few fuzzy lines around the place, but no major dramas. The only one that bugs me is on his mouth, where the white has spilled over a little. I'd suggest you check in person, but I only had one to pick from.
It’s kind of a shame that he doesn’t have an Infinity
Gaunlet, so that he could be fudged as a comic-based Thanos too – but I
strongly suspect that we’ll see this figure retooled with it in future, perhaps
when Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 is released in 2017.
In the meantime, there are two versions available – the one
pictured here, and the glow-in-the-dark variant which comes out in a couple of
months. I was originally planning to wait for the GitD one, but I had some
trade-in credit at EB Games, they had him in-store and I just went for it. I
don’t think I’ll double up like I did with Cthulhu, but who knows?
Marvel has been doing a fantastic job with its movies and it
looks likely to continue forward in the future. I’m really looking forward to
seeing more of Thanos in the future – though I doubt the battle for the
Infinity Gauntlet will take place on the same scale as in the comics, it should still be quite
epic.
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"I guess I'm pretty evil. I live under the sea and sometimes I give people bad dreams," "Oh, that's cute. I once wiped out half the life in the universe." |
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