History YMMV / TheInfinityGauntlet

*** Starlin's tendency to make Thanos a VillainSue showcases itself during the Thanos Quest story where the Mad Titan initially acquires the gems. While intended to showcase Thanos' cleverness, resourcefulness and ability to overcome the odds, most of his victories require his opponents to be firmly holding the IdiotBall or to fall victim to rectons. The Champion, for instance, was previously shown to be a skilled fighter capable of tactics, teleportation and who actually refused to rely solely on brute strength to win, while his Thanos Quest paints him as basically an unthinking berserker with no head for tactics that Thanos easily outclasses. Likewise, Thanos defeats the Runner by using the Time Gem to age him several million years, when the Runner is already several billion years old and aging him another million years wouldn't really have done anything to him. The result is less Thanos coming off as capable and more that he's lucky to be a CreatorsPet whose writer is re-writing things around him to make his victories possible.

* SignatureScene: Thanos snapping his fingers to make 50% of the universe's population disappear. As a shocking moment that sets the crisis in motion and puts Thanos' disregard for life at full display, the panel is one of the most famous scenes in all of Creator/MarvelComics and has become intimately associated with Thanos' character, especially after being replicated in the blockbuster hit ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.

* SignatureScene:
** Thanos snapping his fingers to make 50% of the universe's population disappear.
** Thanos's imprisonment of nearly all the [[CosmicEntity cosmic entities]], including Mephisto and Eternity.
** Captain America standing up to Thanos.
** For Spider-Man fans, Spidey kicking Thanos in the chin.

* CommonKnowledge: Thanos' motive in killing off half the universe is ''not'' to impress Death, despite that being the popular conception, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that since the true nature of their relationship is [[ContinuityLockout only clarified in comics outside of the main Infinity Gauntlet issues]] (Thanos Quest and preceding issues of Silver Surfer). He did it because she specifically ordered him to, because she felt the universe was overpopulated and headed for mass extinction. Further, she doesn't give him the cold shoulder because she's uninterested, but because he betrayed her trust in going after the gems rather than using the gifts she gave him to accomplish his task.

* MemeticBadass: Considering the heroes are going up against an opponent with infinite power, this was probably to be expected:
** Spider-Man, for kicking Thanos in the chin. He does this after Thanos has taken out The Hulk, She-Hulk, Namor, Scarlet Witch, Firelord, and Drax, all of whom failed to do anything to him. Spider-Man’s kick is one of the few attacks Thanos actually reacts to.
** Thor is literally the only hero who even comes close to killing Thanos.
** Captain America as usual, this time due to standing his ground in a one-on-one vs Thanos
** Wolverine has a rather memorable moment where he impales Thanos with his claws.
* MemeticLoser:
** Quasar does absolutely nothing the entire fight, until only he and Captain America are left. He attempts to give a BadassBoast only for Thanos to immediately break his Quantum Bands and kill him. NOT helping is the way he huddles on the ground and whimpers after the bands break.
** Nova similarly does nothing only to get killed the second he does anything.
** On the opposite end of the spectrum, Firelord and Drax constantly attack him only to do absolutely nothing to him.

%%* {{Narm}}: Odin's reaction to Thanos killing 50% of the Asgardians:
%%-->'''Odin:''' The Ceremonial Eyepatch of Sorrow [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry did I immediately don]].

* {{Narm}}: Odin's reaction to Thanos killing 50% of the Asgardians:
-->'''Odin:''' The Ceremonial Eyepatch of Sorrow [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry did I immediately don]].

** The story of Thanos getting ultimate power and then defeating himself, after which we learn of his subconscious desire to be defeated causing his defeats. Within this storyline, the power Thanos displayed thanks to the Infinity Gauntlet gave us some iconic moments, him easily defeating the heroes who came to face him was the [[RealityEnsues logical turn of events]], and Thanos' desire to lose proved a shocking reveal that led to him helping against the final villain of the event. But Jim Starlin would later become infamous for making Thanos an InvincibleVillain who never loses to the point where he would attempt retcon any of his defeats, while also writing new storylines where Thanos gained ultimate power before defeating himself that attempted to one up the power he gained previously.

* BrokenBase: There's a lot of disagreement on whether ''Infinity War'' and ''Infinity Crusade'' are good sequels to ''Infinity Gauntlet'' or not.

* HolyShitQuotient: It is not the BadassFingersnap Thanos does that wipes out half of all life on the universe that counts as this. That's just peanuts compared to the rest of the stuff the Infinity Gauntlet can do. It is his imprisonment of all the cosmic entities that were sent to fight him, including Eternity, who is the abstract personification of the entire universe.

* CommonKnowledge: Thanos' motive in killing off half the universe is ''not'' to impress Death, despite that being the popular conception, but youd be forgiven for thinking that since the true nature of their relationship is [[ContinuityLockout only clarified in comics outside of the main Infinity Gauntlet issues]] (Thanos Quest and preceding issues of Silver Surfer). He did it because she specifically ordered him to, because she felt the universe was overpopulated and headed for mass extinction. Further, she doesn't give him the cold shoulder because she's uninterested, but because he betrayed her trust in going after the gems rather than using the gifts she gave him to accomplish his task.

-->'''Odin:''' The Ceremonial Eyepatch of Sorrow did I immediately don.

** Thanos's imprisoment of nearly all the [[CosmicEntity cosmic entities]], including Mephisto and Eternity.

* CommonKnowledge: Thanos' motive in killing off half the universe is ''not'' to impress Death, despite that being the popular conception, but youd be forgiven for thinking that since the true nature of their relationship is only clarified in comics outside of the main Infinity Gauntlet issues (Thanos Quest and preceding issues of Silver Surfer). He did it because she specifically ordered him to, because she felt the universe was overpopulated and headed for mass extinction. Further, she doesn't give him the cold shoulder because she's uninterested, but because he betrayed her trust in going after the gems rather than using the gifts she gave him to accomplish his task.

* MemeticBadass: Considering the heroes are going up against an opponent with infinite power, this was probably to be expected

** Nova similarly does nothing only to get killed the second he does anything,

--->'''Odin:''' The Ceremonial Eyepatch of Sorrow did I immediately don.
** It's just... kinda funny and weird imagining that he has various eyepatches for his different moods or different occasions.
** Even moreso when you consider that the comics version of Odin is [[DependingOnTheWriter frequently shown to still have both eyes]]. When he says it's a ceremonial eyepatch, he means it literally, as it's just for show.

* MemeticBadass: Considering the avengers are going up against an opponent with infinite power, this was probably to be expected

** Spider-Man, for kicking Thanos in the chin. He does this after Thanos has taken out The Hulk, She-Hulk, Namor, Scarlet Witch, Firelord, And Drax, all of whom failed to do anything to him, Spider-Man’s kick is one o& the few attacks Thanos actually reacts to.

** Captain America as usual, this time due to standing his ground on a one on one vs Thanos

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: You might be surprised to know that, despite an easy-to-use concept (female version of Thanos created by him out of nothing to be his consort) Terraxia the Terrible has ''never, ever'' been revived in the Marvel universe after her somewhat anticlimactic death (suffocating in the depths of space because Thanos forgot to create her with the ability to survive there). Her only other appearance in a comic was in the ComicBook/WhatIf story where the ComicBook/SilverSurfer obtained the Gauntlet.

* NightmareFuel: The manner in which Thanos deals with some of his attackers. Wolverine's bones are turned to rubber forcing him to contort painfully, Cyclops has a seal formed around his head which slowly suffocates him, Iron Man gets decapitated by Teraxia, Thor is turned to glass and then shattered, and Nova is turned into a pile of toy blocks and also shattered when trying to save Thor.