#thanos loves death

[edithdraws]

This is a Thanos Rising 2013 by Jason Aaron hate blog every day I'm fuming over the damage he did to Thanos' backstory but ESPECIALLY Sui-San. You don't understand her like I do... Anyway this is old art from 2021(?) that I never posted because uhhh idk why lol.

#Thanos is oozing mommy issues but not the kind that Jason Aaron thinks he has. #thanos #sui-san #eros of titan #mentor #a'lars #cosmic marvel #art #I'll probably draw Sui-San with long hair in the future but her Thanos Rising bisexual bobcut is cute #desperately grasping for anything good about that book lol it's just her hair and Thanos likes to draw :) that's it throw the rest away. #I think about them so much... Sui-San being the only one who might've forgiven Thanos if she didn't die when he blew up Titan... #Sui-San's love for Thanos and how her and Mentor still failed him... Thanos seeking solace in Death... it's all so AUGHHH #Also I don't know how to draw babies I struggled so much with Eros LOL I had to just give up at some point #enjoy<3 I need to draw more...

[cleabellanov]

hi and welcome to my ted talk about the latest episodes of what if, please read through 💙(2)

The children of Odin are clearly better off without him. I mean, look at her!! (she actually reminds me of a Valkrie at a first look 🤔)

"Having your crown, you threw away your sword, forgetting that she was your own daughter"

"You cannot defend darkness with darkness. Only light." AND SHE DIDDD. I JUST LOVE HOW BADASS SHE WAS THIS EPISODE.

In this universe, Hela is not the godess of death anymore, because she doesn't value the same ideas she used to before learning the light part of life. But I wonder, since it hasn't been said in the episode, what is she the godess of now? Maybe she kept the death part, but took on life too. The godess of life and death. It comes full circle. Or perhaps, the Godess of Hope. Because, even though death comes to all, you can have hope in life.

And oh, the end. Of course that for an animated series that doesn't go a lot over 30 min/ episode, you're gonna have an open end.

Which is why I love it! Not only the path Hela undergoes, along with her transformation, is crazy and probably doesn't happen a lot of the time, but it also has huge consequences. It is very likely that in this universe, her and her team prevented the rise of Thanos, citting him from his roots. Let's raise a glass or two for s time where the avengers are alive, and Thor and Loki grow up closer together, not apart. 😌

Very important!!!☝🏻 everyone say thank you to Cate Blanchett for her service in voicing Hela once again, it wouldn't have been the same without her.

That being said, thanks for reading <3

#we love Cate Blanchett #marvel #what if #spoilers #the watcher #hela #godess of death #odin #loki #thor #brothers #queen Hela #queen frigga #odin borson #tony stark #bucky barnes #the guardians of the galaxy #the guardians of the multiverse #gamora #thanos #time stone #the ten rings #ten #shang chi #what if...hela found the ten rings

[autumnoficarus]

i can't stop listening to the 'purpose is glorious' track from this season's ost and thinking about how lovely the title and its meaning are. it's just such an amazing underlying theme in this show, and - while i do have criticisms about some of the choices made for the series finale - i really do feel the writers wholeheartedly delivered in sending that message home. for me personally, loki's ending is so gratifying and a large part of that is solely from viewing their arc's conclusion with the perspective of this theme in mind. to have spent years watching this character i hold very dear to my heart struggle to find belonging, to feel as though they matter and there is reason in their existence, finally get a chance to show - and recognize - their worth was so, so rewarding. and honestly, i think the message behind the phrasing of 'purpose is glorious' is all the more meaningful because of how loki's arc finished. yes, the outcome was bittersweet; yes, we're left knowing loki didn't get the happiness they undeniably earned after everything they'd gone through. it smarts something fierce to know their journey up until they deviated from their timeline and became a variant, as well as seen their eventual intended fate. the ache is only worsened after witnessing everything that happens within the TVA and the entirety of loki's character growth leading up to a redefining moment where they willingly choose to undergo a nightmarish amount of time in the endeavor to do the right thing. of course we want them to emerge victorious when they've struggled for so long, but that's not the point. loki's final moments are them forfeiting their right to a happy ending to preserve the stories of others because all stories matter and should inherently reserve the free will to be written; as sylvie says, loki makes their choice so their loved ones and life across the multiverse still have a chance to belong somewhere and embrace their place in the world. the take away is that even burden can be glorious. even with all the hardships of life - all the inevitable heartache, disappointment, and grief we encounter just by being alive - we have meaning in our existence. there is meaning in the trials we face, and the suffering we endure in order to overcome them. our pain gives us purpose; it gives us the ability to love, to grow from and for each other, and choose to sacrifice our happiness for the benefit of another. loki's purpose was forged in the bonds of those they met in their time at the TVA and the sense of value they gained from their companionship. their sacrifice perfectly conveys how the human capacity to love is one of cosmic greatness, which can ultimately surpass our instinctual desire to preserve one's self. we can move immovable mountains and challenge insurmountable adversity in behalf of the ones we love and their welfare. if that isn't an act deserving of glory, I don't know what is.

tldr; loki's purpose is the friends they made along the way = as the saying goes, 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'. or: our own lives have purpose because of the connections we share with others, even when we are met with great loss.

#also this just shows the depth of love loki derived from knowing mobius and how they were changed for the better because of it #how mobius' initial - and repeated - acknowledgement of their potential is what gave them the necessary tools to rewrite their destiny #when loki first watches their fate on the sacred timeline their devastation is palpable; they now know they are meant to die - #at the hands of thanos after failing to save their brother - #after losing one last time #they see their final fate and know they were never meant to win; never to reach the respect and admiration theyve been chasing all this tim #but they're given a second chance at an ending - one they can be proud of and has meaning #and they SUCCEED; they ascend and take the throne not for power or control or even glory but because of the people they care for!!!!!! #loki accepts their burden with grace for the benefit of others; they escape the harrowing demise once preordained for them - #and while they mourn what they must leave behind they are fulfilled by the triumph of saving EVERYONE this time #the parallels between their sacred timeline ending and the finale's makes me way too emotional i am not okay #i have so many thoughts about the ost guahahauffh ignore me #i am obsessed with this track specifically like i want to write even more meta abt the significance of being used during mobius' last scene #okay these tags are way too long i'm shutting up now i'll see myself out #txt: icarus foaming @ the mouth analysis #char tags: #god of stories and faking death #peepaw from outerspace #loki meta #lokius #loki s2 #loki season 2 #loki spoilers #loki series #marvel #mcu #loki #Spotify

[curiosity-killed]

at the end of all lives

[ALT ID: A digital illustration of a figure in a long red coat sitting on steps before a night sky. Their head is that of a jackal and they loosely hold a saber.]

#me drawing this: does this make all aeridians furries? #anyway have some death for fun! #moti is similar to atropos in function but also not #valeris is like thanos if thanos chose to keep his unrequited love his own problem #i.e. valeris loved moti sm he died to become its sword and now forever remains at its side :) #my art #story: tcp

[vertigoartgore]

Warlock VS. Thanos, art by Giorgio Comolo, 2016.

#thanos #adam warlock #marvel cosmic #jim starlin #marvel universe #cosmic being #golden god #mad titan #in love with death #how crazy is that #formerly known as #Him #arch nemesis #giorgio comolo #1970s #infinity Gauntlet

[piracypiranha]

Deadpool Vs. Thanos (2015) #1

#i love them #deadpool #wade wilson #mistress death #deadpool vs thanos

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

you know, I think I’d be at least slightly less upset/frustrated about character deaths in the MCU if they expanded more on the concept of the afterlife and brought that aspect more in line with the comics

because, I mean, it’s been mentioned, even portrayed, but not in a way that’s at all consistent, and at least for me, that makes some deaths feel a lot more final than others. not even “final” as in “I’m expecting the MCU to do the revolving-door thing of the comics and never keep its characters dead,” because I don’t expect that, but like--it makes a difference if you know a character’s soul continues to exist and they’re at peace, you know? especially if the alternative is, they were human and they died and now there’s just nothing?

and it’s confirmed for a few very specific aspects of the MCU. Asgard has Valhalla, implied before and now shown directly. Wakanda has the Ancestral Plane. there’s some stuff in Moon Knight that I haven’t actually seen yet but I know it’s there because of the wiki. those are all nominally based on real-world religions and gods, but in the MCU they’re actual reality whether you believe in them or not, and your cultural background seems to be the only thing dictating where you end up in the afterlife. I guess the Astral Dimension is...kind of connected to the other afterlives, but maybe also not, which is exactly the kind of thing they should develop more.

the very existence of the Soul Stone (and the fact that everyone has an astral form, I guess? but the Ancient One’s astral form fades when she dies, so does that mean astral forms don’t actually have anything to do with souls, or that human souls just poof into oblivion when they die, or just that their afterlife is completely inaccessible to the living?) is hard proof that souls exist in the MCU and everyone has one. only, there’s no indication that anybody else actually gets an afterlife, because absolutely nothing is ever mentioned, aside from human-typical stuff about resting or being reunited with dead family members or whatever. it would make sense if they did, for sure! like, it would be extremely weird if the souls in a small handful of cultures throughout the universe got to continue existing after death and literally everyone else just stopped existing as if they’d never been there in the first place. but nothing in the films indicates otherwise. every single other character who’s died might as well just be erased from existence like they’d never been, like they’d never mattered, and that just sucks, you know? at least in the comics, everybody--I’m pretty sure--went somewhere when they died, whether they stayed there or not.

which is also not to say that I think everyone in the MCU should know/believe that some kind of afterlife exists. obviously the Earth-based stuff in the MCU is more or less based on the real world, which has a ton of different beliefs about what happens after death even while none of us can ever actually know, and it would be pretty weird to make that huge of a difference between the MCU and reality. but there can also be a big difference between what the characters know and what the audience knows, or between what some characters know and others know. we could have gotten a quick shot of Tony and Natasha reuniting in some vague afterlife, for instance. (or Gamora absolutely wrecking Thanos in the afterlife, but that might be too complicated to do it quickly, and also they’re cowards and super weird about Thanos so they probably wouldn’t have done that anyway.) or a Wakandan could be explicit about the Ancestral Plane being only one afterlife of many, all connected, with everybody getting one whether they expect it or not. or one of the Masters of the Mystic Arts could say that the Astral Dimension contains a whooooole bunch of afterlives and the living can’t access them so not much is known for certain but they at least know something’s there and various people have had glimpses of dimensions or whatever that look like the afterlives described in various cultures.

...granted, I only watched Doctor Strange once, and I still haven’t seen Multiverse of Madness, Wakanda Forever, Moon Knight, or Love and Thunder, so I guess it’s possible any of these things could have happened and I forgot or just didn’t know, but the wiki doesn’t mention the kind of thing I want so I assume there wasn’t anything like that, and it bugs me.

(I don’t actually expect an Asgardian to care about any afterlife but Valhalla so I’m not surprised we didn’t get anything useful from them. ...I am annoyed Love and Thunder didn’t expand on the Valhalla bit just a little to show that Loki’s been reunited with his mom. and slightly surprised, because as joke-heavy as that movie apparently was, I wouldn’t have been surprised at all to have Loki welcome Jane to Valhalla just so she could punch him again--but more effectively this time--in a callback to TDW. the only question would be whether Taika would go for the cheap but basically nonsensical joke by leaving it there, despite Loki saving Jane’s life twice in TDW and apparently dying for Thor, and then fighting for Asgard in Ragnarok and actually dying for Thor in IW, or if he’d make it reasonable with “that’s for letting Thor think you were dead for years, asshole,” but then hugging him or something, all “that’s for...a bunch of other stuff. you’re still an asshole though.” which is something I could easily turn into a short little fic, probably, but I still prefer just going “well anyway he’s not dead because I said so.”)

#marvel cinematic universe #life after death #meta #my meta #marvel meta #thor #loki #jane foster #tony stark #natasha romanoff #t'challa #gamora #thanos #thor: the dark world #thor: love and thunder #black panther #fic ideas

[thatwhobumblesabout]

echo/maya lopez stuff in the tags because i wanna binge this show with a friend and i don't wanna spoil anything

#echo #maya lopez #marvel mcu #william lopez #wilson fisk #really like the idea that william truly loved his daughter and wanted her to be herself as much as possible #while fisk loved her for sure but only saw her as an extension of himself #yes wilson fisk is someone with empathy that watched a child get discriminated against for no real reason so he naturally beat him to death #yes maya and fisk have that in common with each other and fisk naturally wanted someone like that in his life #but william and taloa and chula and henry and skully and bonnie and biscuits loved her in a way that fisk could not #fucking love that shit for wilson fisk #it's more believable than thanos and gamora at least

[makyurini]

deadpool is so baby girl in cannon

pls don’t get me started on how much i love him because oh my god??? i could talk about him for HOURS and be kicking my feet and twirling my hair the entire time. that man deserves so much goddamn love and i just want to swaddle him and cradle him and give him so many forehead kisses and make him home cooked meals every single day and make sure he’s filled to the brim with affection and happiness

#❀.ask #❀.anon #HE’S SO— #so obviously i have a type #and it’s men who hide their angst and anger behind humor and being baby girl #until you break them down and let them be vulnerable around you <3 #between him and jason and könig and johnny i have my work cut out for me— #BUT REALLY #i think what sums deadpool’s character up so well is the fact that his body is constantly breaking itself down and healing again #because of the cancer and healing factor and what not #so he’s always ALWAYS in pain #that one panel of him curled up and sobbing ‘my skin it hurts everything hurts’ makes me tear up every fucking time #and then being cursed with immortality from thanos because he fell in love with death and thanos is like ‘nope! she’s mine’ #(depending on what interpretation you’re going with) #I JUST— #HE’S SUCH A TRAGEDY #AND ALWAYS GETS PUT AS THE COMIC RELIEF #LIKE THE DUDE HAS ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC BACKSTORIES AND LIFES EVER IN THE COMICS???? #LET ME LOVE HIM GODDAMMIT

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Mephisto also betrays his former master, and when Thanos goes to kill him, the devil is saved by lady Death herself... Thanos does not have long to mull over this turn though, before all the figures use their small remaining strength to perform one final all out assault...

#Marvel #Infinity Gauntlet #Sire Hate #Mistress Love #Kronos #Epoch #Lord Chaos #Galactus #Master Order #Stranger #Death #Mephisto #Thanos

[lilydvoratrelundar]

ok i havent seen the film yet so correct me if this is wrong but from what i’ve heard said about gorr the god butcher in thor 4 i think we’ve reached the peak of “maybe the villain has a point” when the point the villain is making is pretty much genocide. maybe you shouldn’t be trying to have them actually be saying something when the goal is to create a bomb to kill all gods in existence

#lily dot tee ex tee #marvel #thor #if reviewers are going 'but like.. is gorr wrong? like the gods suck! why are we rooting for people to stop him? because he'd kill thor too' #then uhhh you have not written a good villain i dont think #turning thanos from 'i am literally in love with death' to 'but what about the overpopulation' was weird enough. i dont like this trend #thor love and thunder #i will withhold further actual analysis until i actually watch it but like. wtf.

[616phyla]

I just read marvel universe the end and I wanted to ask if you think there's any correlation between the balance/imbalance between life and death in this story and in gotg/thanos imperative? And if so, do you think that was a deliberate choice by abnett and lanning? It's been a while since I read their stuff, so it's possible this is explicitly spelt out and I just missed it

Hi! I would say in general I think the balance between life and death (and chaos and order among other aspects) is an overarching theme of cosmic Marvel, especially Thanos/Adam related stories. I think Starlin was really interested in exploring it and some other writers continued in that tradition. I think Thanos growing to value life and it's purpose in the universe and Adam & Thanos as balancing forces is important overall. So basically yeah I think Abnett and Lanning were drawing on these themes of life and death and the like especially with the cancerverse and Avatars of Life and Death and everything, IDK if it was in particular because of The End but could be! They seem pretty well read. All join together to a nice through-line anyway.

#sorry i rambled so much to an answer that is essentially yes! #i think in general their gotg is about life vs death and guilt and responsibility and some stuff about corruption and identity #i hope you enjoyed the end also issue 6 of that makes me sooooo i love adam and thanos's conversation more than anything #Anonymous #asks

[brienneevenstar]

namor x shuri is an elite ship but i don’t support all nashuris some of you bitches are very dumb!

#fandom wank #“he didn’t kill ramonda she chose to sacrifice herself ig thanos is off the hook for Tony’s death bc he chose to sacrifice himself!! #“Shuri wasn’t kidnapped have y’all never heard of getting kidnapped at gunpoint #we all love villainhero ships until it’s time for the villain to do villainous actions I guess

[thebibliomancer]

#axe judgement day #axe death to the mutants #Starfox #Sui San #sersi #Jack of knives #in the current take on things Sui San didn’t just pop out a cursed child #she and Mentor did mad science trying to create an Eternal baby that could be added to the great machine #it was a hubris and not just two people loving each other #that’s why she feels birthing Thanos is unforgivable and why she accepts forever jail as the punishment #meanwhile Starfox has developed a guilt complex