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->''It will be enough... once you are no longer interested in asking that question. Once you are the god you were born to be. The supreme being before whom all life trembles. The destroyer who holds all of [[TitleDrop infinity]] in the palm of his hand, and isn't afraid to squeeze.''
-->-- '''Death''', ''ComicBook/ThanosRising''

Creator/MarvelComics late SummerBlockbuster and CrisisCrossover event for year 2013, written by Jonathan Hickman. Rather than one story, it actually tells two, happening at the same time, both being natural consequence of events of [[ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman Hickman's run]] on ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', as well as set up to keep fans of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' movie hyped for future film appearances of a certain OneSceneWonder. It continues some plot points dating back to ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', and despite what the name might have suggested to you, has no connection to ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' saga outside of Thanos playing a major role.

The Builders, a powerful race of god-like multidimensional beings, have invaded the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. The Avengers, in one of their strongest and largest incarnations, go to space and join forces with armies of alien empires against the threat before it reaches the Earth. To their surprise, the situation will force them into an uneasy alliance with many recent and former enemies, mainly the Skrulls, who, when they met last time, came within inches of taking over the Earth.

Speaking of Earth, without their strongest protectors, its defenses are weakened, making it easy prey for any invading forces. But in face of what's happening in space, who would bother attacking a lone planet when the invading Builders might bring about the death of everything?

ComicBook/{{Thanos}} [[OhCrap would]].

With the majority of the Avengers off-planet, it's up to ComicBook/BlackPanther, ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/BlackBolt to organize Earth's remaining superheroes against the Mad Titan and his new generals, called Cull Obsidian, but also known as The Black Order.

The primary storyline was told across the six issue ''Infinity'' mini-series, ''The Avengers'' & '' New Avengers'', all written by Hickman; and true to CrisisCrossover form, received tie-ins in various other titles, as well as being the impetus for the formation of a new ''Mighty Avengers'' team.

The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse CrisisCrossover film ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' borrows from both ''Infinity'' and ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet''.
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!!''Infinity'' Provides examples of:

* AggressiveNegotiations: [[spoiler:After liberating the skies over the Kree Homeworld Hala, the Avengers and what remains of the Galactic Council inform the Builder on Hala that they want to surrender. The Builders agree only because they want to humiliate and then crush the last major force of rebellion in the galaxy with the combined force of the Kree before going on to destroy the Earth. Cap gets them to send his best negotiator... [[PersonOfMassDestruction Thor]].]]
* AlienInvasion: Two fold; the main body of Avengers head out into space to stop one, while Thanos leads a whole different one on the planet while they are away.
* AllThereInTheManual: Most of the information about the Cull Obsidian -- that, as long his weapon is in one piece, Corvus Glaive cannot truly die, Black Dwarf's nihilism, or Ebony Maw's BadassNormal reputation -- are mentioned only on one page in the back of New Avengers #9.
* AmazonChaser:
** Quentin Quire in ''The Hunt'', where he instantly becomes enamored by a muscular girl from Wakanda.
** Also, seems to be the case with Corvus Glaive, considering his wife is [[DarkActionGirl Proxima Midnight]].
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:In issue 6, Thane encases Thanos, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive in a giant block of amber that leaves them in a state of "living death".]]
* ArcWords: "Empires collapse. Kings fall. Men perish."
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Spacesuits worn by Avengers leave their torsos completely exposed, covered only in, mostly skin-tight, costumes. This is the easiest way to slowly freeze to death in cosmic void, yet nothing happens to characters even after they walk outside the spaceships for several minutes.
** ComicBook/TheFalcon is shown using his wings in space during the fight against the Builders. It's a [[RuleOfCool cool visual]], but wings wouldn't actually help in space, since there's no air or currents to fly on.
* BadassBoast:
** From ''New Avengers '' #9
--->''I am ComicBook/BlackPanther. King of the dead. Soon to be your new master.''
** From ''Infinity'' #2
--->''I am a servant of my master, Thanos -- a destroyer of worlds, a breaker of kings. I am one of the five, Corvus Glaive."
** From ''Avengers #19''
--->'''Ex Nihila:''' What brought you to this?\\
'''[[Comicbook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]]:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Well...First there was nothing, then there was eveything]]. Then the good Lord saw fit to bring me into the world to kick the asses of those who need it most. So get ready 'cause this day or the next, it's coming.
** From ''Mighty Avengers #2''
--->Before. All was. I was. Before. Time was. I waited. I fed on the screaming souls of the Universes. I drank the spoiled milk of dead stars. I am the emptiness outside all understanding. I. AM. [[spoiler:Shuma-Gorath]]. And this world is mine.
*** And the answer from ''Mighty Avengers #3''
--->''When Humanity first looked into the night, my eyes looked back. When they learned to fear the darkness, it was me they feared. When they learned to fight for their lives and their loves and their children -- I was the first enemy. Lay your claim on a thousand thousand worlds -- THIS ONE IS MINE! FOR I AM THE TIGER!''
** From ''Avengers #22''
--->'''Falcon:''' If he calls, he calls. Hell, let 'em. I want Thanos to know we're coming to take our planet back.
** From ''Infinity #4''
--->'''Majestor:''' What follows after this?\\
'''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica:''' Now we win.
* BadassNormal: Ebony Maw, or so he appears to be. The character supposedly keeps up with the rest of the Black Order by a combination of cunning, deception and charisma, but he's such a liar he might be just pretending to not have any powers. [[spoiler:He does, his powers are somewhere between CompellingVoice, DemonicPossession and LivingShadow.]]
* BadPowersGoodPeople: [[spoiler:Thanos' son, Thane]], who wants only to be a healer, gains power to kill anyone he touches.
* BigBadEnsemble:
** Who will destroy the Earth first -- Thanos and his generals or the Builders? How about the AlternateUniverse Builders on an incurring Earth? Heck, why not throw in [[EldritchAbomination Shuma-Gorath]] too?
** In the end [[spoiler:The Builders are taken off the picture by Captain Universe & Star Brand, the alternate Builders destroy the alternate Earth, Shuma-Gorath is defeated by the Mighty Avengers, and Thanos becomes the final threat]].
* BigNo: Black Bolt gives the biggest one he can to Thanos [[spoiler:when he makes an offer in front of him concerning his son and the tributes]]. It vaporizes everyone in the room except Thanos, who survives after struggling with the blast.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While both the Builder invasion and Thanos have been stopped and removed, the Incursions are still happening with only the Illuminati knowing the danger the world is still in, Black Panther is banned from Wakanda's capital after his collaboration with Namor is revealed, Thane under Ebony Maw's mentorship is said to become even worse than any of Thanos' schemes and Blackbolt's bomb has brought forth a number of new and confused super powered individuals for the Earth to deal with and the Inhumans think he and Maximus are dead leaving both the older and the newest members of the Inhuman empire without a capital city or king. The newest [[ComicBook/{{Annihilation}} Annihilation Wave]] has been left alone to its devices on another planet added to their territory in positive space, the Shi'ar are more prepped for war than ever, ditto for the Kree...and Kl'rt the Super-Skrull [[OhCrap is crowned Emperor of the newly restored Skrull empire.]]]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Many of the new Inhumans have trouble controlling their powers. Ren's claws make it impossible to touch people without cutting them, Alice accidentally shrinks herself (and her neighbors) to subatomic size while turning her husband into a giant, and Thane [[spoiler:[[TouchOfDeath accidentally kills his entire village]]]].
* BloodKnight: Proxima Midnight, to the point that even Thanos is impressed by her love for slaughter.
* BoomerangComeback: Thor uses {{Mjolnir}}'s PrecisionGuidedBoomerang properties in an ''epic'' way during the [[spoiler:AggressiveNegotiations with a Builder. Before the negotiation, Thor sends Mjolnir away to show he's unarmed. When the Builder mocks Thor supposed surrender, Thor simply summons Mjolnir back... through the Builder's chest.]]
* BullyingADragon: In issue 4 [[spoiler:the Builder that took over Hala]] slaps Thor across the face and then proceeds to trash talk him thinking he is just another human. To no one's surprise this doesn't end well for the first party.
* CanisLatinicus: Aleph, the first letter in the Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets and for the purposes of the story the classification for the Builders' KillerRobot class of soldiers.
* CheapCostume: Ronin makes his debut in a knock-off Spider-Man suit he snagged from a costume shop. The costume even has "Spider Hero" written on the chest to [[BrandX avoid]] [[BlandNameProduct copyright]] [[LawyerFriendlyCameo infringement]].
* CharacterShilling: Infinity #5 has a sequence where a member of Shi-Ar Imperial Guard points out to Captain America that every world liberated from the Builders has taken up the Avengers banner as a sign of unity, due to the Avengers being so instrumental in turning the tide of the war. It wouldn't be so bad, if the Avengers weren't a group of 12 amongst several galactic empires.
* CListFodder: [[ComicBook/ROMSpaceKnight The Spaceknights]]. Subverted in ''Avengers #21'' when the [[spoiler:Spaceknights [[BackFromTheDead show up alive]]]].
* ContinuityNod:
** Many fans were wondering how superhero community can organize Contest of Champions, in which superpowered teenagers from various schools are sent to an island to compete against each other, after the same scenario has been played to tragic results in ''ComicBook/AvengersArena''. First issue of ''The Hunt'' explained, by two small nods, that ''Infinity'' and ''Arena'' are happening at the same time, so nobody knows about Arcade's game yet.
** The ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'' tie-in has nice one to ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'' - apparently Thanos is still bitter about what took place between him and Richard Rider in Cancerverse [[spoiler:that is, Rich punching him in the face and trapping him inside the dying dimension]], so much he sends Kaldera after Sam Alexander only because he follows the legacy of Nova Corps.
** ''Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan Team-Up'' #3 takes place between issues #1 and #2 of ''Mighty Avengers'', and features Spidey and ComicBook/LukeCage's encounter with the [[spoiler:first of the new hybrid Inhumans]].
** ''Avengers #22'' features Kl'rt questioning the Avengers' claims that the Peak, an orbital station above Earth, is as powerful as they say. Spider-Woman glibly notes that since Earth has a "persistent invasion problem," it was rebuilt to be more powerful. It's just a string of nods to ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', as the original Peak was taken out of commission by the invading Skrull forces, whose leader had assumed the form of Spider-Woman.
* TheCorrupter: Ebony Maw
** TheCorruptible: [[spoiler:Thane]]
* CurbStompBattle:
** The Builders vs The Spaceknights
** Corvus Glaive vs Wolverine
** [[spoiler:Captain Universe vs the Builder leaders]]
** Thanos hands the Avengers their asses in Issue 6, [[http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/ff/0a/25/ff0a25cbcecaa15d20a26a07e5ff6440.jpg punching the Hulk through several buildings]] and [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/10/102593/3475264-0+(37).jpg throwing Thor to the ground.]] [[spoiler:Afterwards, he gets ''his'' ass kicked by his son Thane.]]
* CycleOfRevenge: In ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', Namor ravaged Wakanda under the influence of the Phoenix. In ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', Wakanda sent a devastating retaliation strike against Atlantis. In ''Infinity'', as revenge for ''that'', [[spoiler:Namor told Proxima Midnight that the last Infinity Gem was hidden in Wakanda, where she then sent all of Thanos' planet-conquering fleet]].
* DarkActionGirl: Proxima Midnight and her daughter, Kaldera.
* DanceBattler: Ren Kimura, one of the new Inhumans, fights by using a combination of dance skills and [[RazorFloss razor-sharp ribbons]] that shoot out of her hands.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Corvus Glaive]] is unintentionally mortally wounded by [[spoiler:Proxima Midnight's death beams reflected off of Captain America's shield. Hyperion finishes him off.]]
* DeathSeeker: Not only Thanos but also his soldiers, scouts, and especially his generals.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Thane was featured in ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' before his first appearance in the comics.
* EnemyMine
** The Skrulls, Kree, Shi'Ar, and the Avengers are forced into this situation when the call goes out for all possible aid against the Builders. [[spoiler:In fifth issue of the main series, the 3 Alien races willingly join the Avengers as they attempt to take Earth back from Thanos.]]
** On Earth, Caroline Le Fay has her team of female villains acting in opposition to Thanos' forces. They even rescue several of the newly-hatched Inhuman hybrids who were targeted for extermination by the aliens. Of course, Caroline is a PragmaticVillain and has her own shady reasons for wanting the protect the Inhumans...
* EvilLuddite: Fulmina, an [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] who takes advantage of the Thanos' invasion in order to try and wipe out all the technology in New York.
* FantasticRacism: J'Son of the Spartax displays this toward the humans, which is ironic [[HumanAliens given that he himself could pass for a human]] more than anyone else on the Galactic Council and that [[Comicbook/StarLord his son]] is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]].
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Most of the issues of ''Avengers Assemble'' around the time of the arc were direct tie-ins to the story. Issue #20 is a one-off story about the ''Comicbook/UncannyAvengers'' trying to help a new Inhuman who has accidentally shrunken herself and two of her neighbors.
* FromBadToWorse: So with Thanos leading an invasion of Earth while most of its heroes are away, you wouldn't expect things to get much worse than that. Then [[EldritchAbomination Shuma-Gorrath]] appears in New York.
* GiantFootOfStomping: In ''Avengers of Assemble'' #20, Hana Rhee [[spoiler:stomps Lord Gouzar after being [[{{Sizeshifter}} grown to an enlarged size]] by Alice]].
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:At one point with the momentum of their recent successes turning against them, the Galactic Council and the Avengers agree to let Annihilus lead a new [[Comicbook/{{Annihilation}} Annihilation Wave]] to help against the Builders superior numbers.]]
* TheGrimReaper: Corvus Glaive's design (hood, cloak, scythe-like weapon) invokes this classic look.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The new Inhumans are all seemingly-normal humans that unknowingly have dormant Inhuman ancestry.
* HeroKiller:
** The Builders [[spoiler:wipe out the entire planet of Galador, long established home of the Space Knights.]]
** Corvus Glaive established himself as such when he murdered the greatest hero of a planet he was sent to collect a tribute from. And then he beat Wolverine to show he's not all talk.
* HeroicBSOD: Quentin Quire gets one in second issue of ''The Hunt'', after witnessing new character Crimson getting killed in front of him. He gets over it after some pep-talk from Wolverine, through. Seems Finesse and Demona may be getting it in next issue, when they realize the entire idea of helping students from Atlantis lead to students getting into fight with forces far too dangerous for them to handle.
* HeroicSacrifice: After realizing the error of her ways, [[spoiler:Fulmina]] apparently perishes while taking down one of Thanos' ships.
* HonorBeforeReason: Ronan [[spoiler:preferring to die with honor against Builders, than live as a coward under their heel. When the Supreme Intelligence pointed out his honor means nothing next to the survival of the Kree Empire, Ronan struck its housing with his hammer.]]
* HumansAreSpecial: A Builder asks a captive [[spoiler:Captain Marvel]] why so many great powers have taken refuge on Earth or taken human hosts, including [[spoiler:Captain Universe, the apparent progenitor of the Builders.]]
-->'''Builder:''' What makes you so special?
* HypocriticalHumor: Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan runs on this in ''Mighty Avengers''. First he mocks ComicBook/LukeCage for accepting payment for his superheroic deeds, despite getting full benefits of being on the Avengers himself. Then he freaks out when he sees Spider Hero, a guy in a cheap knock-off version of his costume, despite the fact that [[GrandTheftMe not only had he stolen the real Spider-Man's life and identity]], but ''[[KillAndReplace killed him]]'' to do it.
* ImplacableMan: Thanos manages to be this to [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Black Bolt]] and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction of all people]].
* MadeOfIron: A special case for Thanos since he manages to take multiple screams from Black Bolt up close, one of which was able to reduce the entire city of Attilan to rubble and activate the bomb that releases the Terrigen Mists. They only manage to tear apart his armor and make him bleed.
* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:Ebony Maw essentially mind rapes Dr. Strange at the start of the event and has him give up the location of Thanos' son and a lost Inhuman tribe, all while making him agree that what Stephen wants is to make Ebony Maw happy.]]
* MythologyGag: Black Bolt [[spoiler:activating a bomb that spread the Terrigen Mists over the Earth]] was exactly how [[spoiler:ComicBook/EarthX]] began, just on a small scale this time.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Thanos refers to his five servants as Cull Obsidian, which means "midnight slaughter". Even ''they'' think it sounds horribly evil and prefer to be called the Black Order.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero
** [[spoiler:J-Son, Star-Lord's father and king of Spartax basically causes the destruction of the Galactic Alliance base/refuge center 'Behemoth' by secretly trying to negotiate with the Builders. His attempt to communicate are hacked for the location which is then promptly attacked and its destruction broadcast. This broadcast causes a number of worlds to surrender including the Kree empire.]]
** [[spoiler:Namor lies to Proxima Midnight about the location of the Time Gem being in Wakanda as revenge against Black Panther. This brings down Thanos and the Black Order against the nation...and they find the Illuminati's [[EarthShatteringKaboom Anti-Matter Bombs]].]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHerod: Thanos fears being overthrown by one of his children, so he invades Earth to deal with the last one directly. This prompts Black Bolt to set into action the last phase of his master plan to spread the Terrigen Mists over Earth, while the most devious of Thanos' generals becomes curious and decides to find out what Thanos ''really'' wants.
* NonindicativeName: Black Dwarf, who actually seems physically larger than even Thanos, and Supergiant, who is a regular-sized telepath.
* NoSell
** Proxima Midnight gets several, first against a crowd of bystanders throwing bricks at her as she leads her forces and later [[spoiler:against Shuri when she throws a spear trying to kill her]].
** Almost everything thrown at Thanos in ''Infinity #6'' by Thor, Captain Marvel, Hyperion, and the Hulk.
* NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe: Superior Spider-Man defeats Fulmina by convincing her that her idealized version of the past never actually existed, and that "the good ole' days" had tons of problems like classism, bigotry, and [[TheBlackDeath plagues]].
* OffingTheOffspring: Thanos' motive for slaughtering the children of subjugated worlds.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:New Avengers #9 showed the start of a fight between Black Panther and Black Dwarf; when it cuts back, a visibly-wounded Black Dwarf and the rest of their forces are retreating with no indication how the fight got to that point.]]
* OrphanageOfFear: Supergiant's backstory.
* PreMortemOneLiner:
** [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] delivers one to [[spoiler:a dying Builder]] in issue 4.
--->[[spoiler:'''Builder:''']] You don't understand... This... this means... everything dies.\\
'''Thor:''' You first.
** Hyperion delivers one to [[spoiler:Corvus Glaive]] in issue 6.
--->[[spoiler:'''Corvus Glaive''']]: You cannot threaten someone...with what they want.\\
'''Hyperion:''' Call it a gift then.
** ''[[spoiler:Lockjaw]]'' gives one to [[spoiler:Supergiant]] in issue 6 as well after [[spoiler:teleporting her and an anti-matter bomb far away]].
--->[[spoiler:'''Lockjaw:''' Woof.]]
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The new Mighty Avengers, who were formed by gabbing whoever was around to defend New York City from Proxima Midnight. And probably the kids from ''Infinity: The Hunt'', if they will work together at all.
* RapeAsBackstory: Implied to be the origin of Thane.
-->'''Black Bolt:''' Years ago, the descendants of one of these tribes [of Inhumans] ran afoul of Thanos and his minions at the edge of known space. Dark things in dark places occurred... and an Inhuman woman returned home with the Thanos seed.
* RedShirt: From ''The Hunt'', Crimson, both literally (wears a red hoodie) and figuratively in name and ability
* TheReveal
** It eventually comes to light that [[spoiler:Thanos' entire reason for attacking Earth is that he is searching for Thane, his half-Inhuman son]].
** And then later [[spoiler:it's revealed that secret tribes of Inhumans have lived across the Earth for years, and have presumably mated with humans]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] tricks Thanos' forces into invading Wakanda -- home to thousands of innocent people and the site of the Illuminati's supply of anti-matter bombs -- just to have revenge on Black Panther, who murdered hundreds of his people as retaliation for Namor's actions in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen''.]]
* RewatchBonus: A lot of the Illuminati's arc and what the Builders said to them and [[spoiler:Captain Universe]] makes a lot more sense after reading ComicBook/TimeRunsOut.
* [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil in a Block of Amber]]: The final fate of [[spoiler:Thanos and Proxima Midnight]].
* SecretLegacy: Thousands of people who believed they were ordinary humans turn out to be Inhumans. Unfortunately, they find this out when they suddenly undergo terrigenesis.
* ShoutOut:
-->'''Blue Marvel:''' I think you're good to go, Ms. Rambeau.\\
'''Monica Rambeau:''' You just saved my life, Dr. Brashear. It's '''Monica'''. Or Spectrum. [[Music/JanetJackson If you're nasty]].
** A planet appears called "Dockrum VII", named in honor of artist David Cockrum.
** During [[spoiler:Thor's faked surrender]] in ''Infinity #4'',a Builder asks the person kneeling in front of him "[[Film/TheAvengers2012 Is this not more natural?]]"
* SoulJar: Corvus Glaive's glaive, which [[spoiler:Proxima Midnight recovers and carries with her into her FateWorseThanDeath]].
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Ebony Maw]] takes off in pursuit of Thanos' hidden objective rather than go on the search for the lost Time Gem. In the finale [[spoiler:he goads Thane into subjecting Thanos to a FateWorseThanDeath]] and then they depart on the beginning of a new career of tyranny.
* StealthInsult: When J'Son starts insulting the Avengers as "backwater apes", the Supreme Intelligence just calmly points out the Spartax military history against the Kree, then compares it to humanity's. The "backwater apes" have a much higher percentage of victories against the Kree compared to the Spartax.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Black Dwarf, who is beaten offscreen by Black Panther only to later hold his own against combined forces of four opponents -- [[spoiler:Annihilus, Gladiator, Ronan and Super Skrull]] - way above Black Panther's level each.
* TakingYouWithMe: Supergiant triggers an anti-matter bomb on Earth, intending for it to kill not only the Avengers but herself, [[spoiler:along with Thane, ''and'' Thanos]].
* ThemeNaming: Members of the Black Order are named after astronomical concepts or objects.
* TitleDrop: Not in the main series, but in Jason Aaron's prequel miniseries, ''ComicBook/ThanosRising''. It's the quote at the top of the page.
* TokenMinorityCouple: Ren Kimura, a lesbian Inhuman, almost immediately hooks up with Annabelle Riggs, a lesbian member of the [[ComicBook/TheDefenders Fearless Defenders]].
* TouchOfDeath: How Thane manifests his powers before being given a containment suit [[spoiler:by Ebony Maw]].
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: If you want to enjoy the story without early spoilers best stay away from Marvel interviews and solicitations. [[spoiler:Before the event was even released, Marvel already revealed the Inhuman royalty will become divided and its [[AppliedPhlebotinum Terrigen Mists]] would be released all over the world in the pages of Infinity, leading into the new ''Inhuman'' series.]]
** A contest Marvel organized where artists were invited to draw scenes from a ''Mighty Avengers'' script revealed that the new Ronin/Spider Hero is [[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Blade}}]]. This of course happened a full ''eight issues'' ahead of the writer's original plan.
* UnexplainedRecovery: The series doesn't explain how [[spoiler:the Spaceknights]] survived the destruction of their home planet, or how Thanos escaped the Cancerverse.
* UnholyMatrimony: As hard as it is to believe, Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight are HappilyMarried, with their creator Johnathan Hickman [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=48624#storyContinued confirming]] they married due to 'mutual affection', and not convenience.
** TinyGuyHugeGirl: According to their infoscreens in [[VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight Marvel Future Fight]], Proxima is a full head taller than Corvus, and nearly 3 times his weight.
** BattleCouple: Fought side-by-side against Hulk and then Captain America, Captain Marvel and Hyperion in the finale.
** SickeninglySweethearts: Proxima is quick to declare Corvus as the 'greatest general the Earth has ever seen', which prompts Corvus to wax poetically about how every night, he's still "[[DoubleEntendre defeated by her]]". A straightforward example is when [[BattleCouple they fought the Hulk]], they immediately call each other by pet names like "my love" and "dear midnight".
** InLoveWithYourCarnage: Considering what [[HeroKiller they do]] and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Thanos who they work for]], safe to say this is probably the basis of their relationship. Corvus has been shown to indulge his wife's [[BloodKnight love for bloodshed]] by letting her get 'first blood' in any battle she wants.
** EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When Captain America deflects two of Proxima's own black light spears into Corvus, she is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified]] when he becomes heavily injured, and Hyperion vaporizes him completely. She abandons the fight immediately to retrieve and protect her husbands' glaive (since he can [[SoulJar resurrect from it]]). She is so [[NotSoStoic distraught]] that she effectively shuts down and stops defending herself, and had to be saved by Thanos. Keep in mind, this is a character who impressed Thanos with her [[BloodKnight love of neverending slaughter]], deciding that [[HeartbrokenBadass sitting down]] and [[ActOfTrueLove holding onto her husband's weapon]] was [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness more important than the fight she was STILL a part of at the time]]. Despite the fact [[LoveMakesYouDumb she knows Corvus is immortal and that he could resurrect himself anyway.]]
* VillainousLineage: Thane always feared that he would turn out just like his father, Thanos. His worst fears are apparently realized when [[spoiler:the Terrigen mists released worldwide transform him thanks to his Inhuman heritage. His new form bears a strong resemblance to Thanos.]]
* WhamEpisode: Issue 4: [[spoiler:the Terrigen Mists are released over Earth, transforming anyone with Inhuman DNA in their bloodline into one of the Inhumans.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Star-Lord practically screams this at the Illuminati in ''What If: Infinity: Guardians of the Galaxy'' when he learns that they secretly kept an imprisoned Thanos hidden on Earth. He considers the action so reckless and short-sighted that he begrudgingly agrees with his father that Earth should be locked out from the rest of the galaxy.
* WouldHurtAChild: And in fact, wants to -- the tribute that Thanos demands of conquered worlds is the head of every child within a certain age. [[spoiler:It's a smokescreen: Thanos seeks to kill only one child -- his own]].
* TheWorfEffect:
** The Space Knights are quickly obliterated to show how powerful the Builders are.
** [[spoiler:ComicBook/CaptainUniverse, the most powerful of the current Avengers, knows exactly what is going on and the one with potentially enough pull to talk the Builders down gets put into a coma in the first issue by being on the planet the Builders just wiped out.]]
** In ''New Avengers'' #9, Corvus Glaive effortlessly [[CurbstompBattle curbstomps]] ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.
** In ''New Avengers'' #8 the freaking [[spoiler:Living Tribunal]] was found either completely messed up or dead by Iron Man and the Watcher on the moon.
** In ''Avengers'' #21, [[spoiler:Annihilus and a revived Annihilation Wave are dispersed within a few pages by the Builders]].
** In issue 6 of the main event, Thanos steamrolls all over the Avengers and is then taken out with a single gesture by his son Thane.
* WrittenByTheWinners: The Builders invoke this trope in Infinity #3 while taking on the Avengers and the remaining forces of the Galactic Council.
-->'''Builder:''' Do you know what the people will say about this day thousands of years from now? What they will say about these creatures and their valiant last stand. Nothing...Because we will not tell them.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness/ YouHaveFailedMe: Interesting case in that all of Thanos' underlings, from the lowest scouts to the Cull Obsidian, ''want'' to [[DeathSeeker die in the service of Thanos]]. When Black Dwarf fails him, [[CruelMercy Thanos exiles him]] and tells him never to return unless summoned.
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