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| 16 | [[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Villainous Organizations > [[Characters/MCUCosmicThreats Cosmic Threats]] > '''Thanos's Forces''' ([[Characters/MCUThanos Thanos]]) | [[Characters/MCURavagers Ravagers]] | [[Characters/MCUKree Kree]] ([[Characters/MCURonan Ronan]]) > ([[Characters/MCUTheHighEvolutionary The High Evolutionary]] | [[Characters/MCUEgo Ego]] | [[Characters/MCUHelaOdinsdottir Hela Odinsdottir]] | [[Characters/MCUGorr Gorr]]) -]]] |
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| 19 | !! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked. |
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| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | !Thanos's Forces |
| 24 | |
| 25 | !!Leadership |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Thanos]] |
| 28 | !!Thanos |
| 29 | ->See his [[Characters/MCUThanos page]]. |
| 30 | [[/folder]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | !!Servants |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:The Other]] |
| 35 | !!''The Other'' |
| 36 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_other_avengers_631.png]] |
| 37 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"We look beyond the Earth to greater worlds the Tesseract will unveil."'']] |
| 38 | !!!'''Species:''' Unknown |
| 39 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AlexisDenisof |
| 40 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Antonio Monroi (Latin-American Spanish dub), Arsenio Corsellas [''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''], Miguel Ayones [''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}''] (European Spanish dub), Creator/AtsukiTani (Japanese dub) |
| 41 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' |
| 42 | |
| 43 | ->''"And the humans, what can they do, but burn..."'' |
| 44 | |
| 45 | An alien who acts as the mouthpiece of Thanos. |
| 46 | ---- |
| 47 | * AssholeVictim: Gets the least sympathy of Ronan's victims, what with him willingly assisting Thanos's conquests and threatening Loki. Even Thanos doesn't seem to care that he's dead. |
| 48 | * BackForTheDead: Appears in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' in a couple of scenes, acting as a middleman between Ronan and Thanos. When Ronan goes to see Thanos in person, he grows annoyed with the Other constantly arguing with him, and kills him. |
| 49 | * BerserkButton: He doesn't take it well when people question or disrespect Thanos. |
| 50 | * BlackCloak: He wears a black robe that covers the top half of his face. |
| 51 | * BullyingADragon: Screaming at a psychopath like Ronan was never going to end well. |
| 52 | * CanonForeigner: Created for the MCU. |
| 53 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The Other is never referenced again after he's killed by Ronan in the first ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' film. He doesn't even show up when the Avengers time-travel back to the events of said movie in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', despite him not having died yet when Thanos brings his entire army to 2023. |
| 54 | * EasilyConqueredWorld: Believed Earth would be one of these, and that the entire Earth would surrender the minute the Chitauri landed without so much as a single battle. |
| 55 | -->'''Loki:''' I will lead them into glorious battle.\ |
| 56 | '''The Other:''' ''Battle?'' [[UnderestimatingBadassery Against the meager might of Earth?]]\ |
| 57 | '''Loki:''' [[SmugSnake Glorious, not lengthy.]] |
| 58 | * {{Flanderization}}: In ''The Avengers'' The Other was much more subdued compared to his mostly shrieking role in ''Guardians of the Galaxy''. His constant harping about respecting Thanos gets him killed by Ronan. Justified in that while Loki was subdued and fearful, Ronan is trying to confront Thanos and isn't intimidated. Ronan then got tired of his attempts at HamToHamCombat. The Other should have just let Thanos put Ronan in his place. |
| 59 | * HumanoidAliens: He has the same general shape as a human (and of course is played by a human actor), but the details are very different. For starters, he has two thumbs on each hand. It's not really clear if he's of the same race as the Chitauri. |
| 60 | * InformedAbility: Loki is physically intimidated by him, flinching and retreating when the Other goes to grab his face, and according to James Gunn he's actually stronger than him, or at least the scenes were meant to convey such. He has zero on-screen fights and is simply one-shotted by Ronan. |
| 61 | * InTheHood: His hood helps to further obscure his face. [[FreezeFrameBonus You get to see his surprised eye when Ronan kills him]]. |
| 62 | * JerkassHasAPoint: He's overly hostile and angry towards Ronan the Accuser while communicating with him in space and when Ronan comes to meet Thanos in person. However, everything he criticizes Ronan for is completely accurate: when Ronan whines to the Mad Titan about Gamora losing to Peter Quill and getting arrested by the Nova Corps, the Other retorts that Thanos specifically put Gamora under ''his'' leadership, and that his failure to retrieve the Orb from her is entirely his fault and no one else's. Sadly, all the Others' points are lost on someone like [[PsychopathicManchild Ronan]]'', who kills him in response. |
| 63 | * MalevolentMaskedMan: A servant of Thanos who hides half of his face. |
| 64 | * MouthOfSauron: Serves as the mouthpiece for his master. Fittingly, after he dies, Thanos starts to speak for himself. |
| 65 | * NeckSnap: Ronan kills the Other using a blast of force from his hammer, not only breaking his spine but twisting his head nearly 180°. |
| 66 | * NightmareFace: Though we only see some of it. |
| 67 | * NumberTwo: Appears at first to be working for Loki, but is quickly revealed to be the intermediary for the even more powerful Thanos. |
| 68 | * OmnicidalManiac: Something of a given for anyone who willingly serves Thanos. |
| 69 | * PaperTiger: His intimidating appearance, plus him being able to threaten Loki, makes him seemingly deadly on paper. In reality, a single blast from Ronan's Universal Weapon snaps his neck, showing that he's more bark than bite. |
| 70 | * PunyEarthlings: Has this attitude towards humans when he gives Loki the Chitauri army. When the Avengers repel the invasion, he quickly changes his tune. |
| 71 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: In ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', he only appears briefly before Ronan kills him. |
| 72 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: From the start of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', he shows annoyance over working with Loki. Though, it was ultimately up to Thanos to make that decision. He also doesn't like working with Ronan the Accuser much either, chastising him for talking to Thanos without the proper respect. This provokes Ronan into killing him. |
| 73 | * TooDumbToLive: Yelling at Ronan, the guy who has a big hammer that can break people's necks with a strong gust, was never going to end well. |
| 74 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Thanos. The Other treats Thanos with a respect that borders on reverence, gets angry when Ronan disrespects the Mad Titan, and in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', the Other is the only one of Thanos's minions who doesn't betray him. |
| 75 | * VocalEvolution: The Other's voice (and thus, Alexis Denisof's) is heavily modulated into cybernetic, EvilSoundsDeep levels in ''The Avengers'', making him a fearsome figure to watch and hear. He also uses a lower, less flamboyant tone in this film. However, once he makes his appearance in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', it's only changed so far as for him to have a slightly noticeable metallic tone, and his voice is a tad bit more falsetto due to less editing. He also yells a lot this time around. In both films, he is a good example of EvilSoundsRaspy. |
| 76 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mysteriously absent from 2014 Thanos's army in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. |
| 77 | * TheWorfEffect: James Gunn acknowledges doing this with him on the commentary for ''Guardians'', saying seeing the guy who Loki was submissive towards killed so easily was meant to drive home how dangerous Ronan was. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Allies]] |
| 81 | ->[[Characters/MCULokiLaufeyson Loki Laufeyson]] |
| 82 | ->[[Characters/MCURonan Ronan the Accuser]] |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | !!!The Children of Thanos[= / =]The Black Order |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 88 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2c9ea4bf_5010_419c_8da3_cfa3fc48582d.jpeg]] |
| 89 | [[caption-width-right:350:''Left to right: [[DarkActionGirl Proxima Midnight]], Loki, [[TheEvilGenius Ebony Maw]], [[LeanAndMean Corvus Glaive]], [[TheBrute Cull Obsidian]]. Not pictured: [[HeelFaceTurn Gamora and Nebula]].'']] |
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| 91 | An elite group of warriors composed of Thanos's adopted "children". They are based on the ComicBook/BlackOrder from the comics, especially in ''Infinity War'' where most of them make their debut. |
| 92 | ---- |
| 93 | * AdaptedOut: Supergiant of the Black Order is not a part of the MCU version of the team in ''Infinity War''. |
| 94 | * AlasPoorVillain: The deaths of their 2014 selves in ''Endgame'' are surprisingly poignant; as they turn to dust, Maw reaches out to Thanos in confusion and terror, and Proxima and Corvus die as she cradles him. |
| 95 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: Bizarrely zigzagged. All of them speak perfect English, except for Cull Obsidian. Rather strange, he was reared alongside the rest of them. |
| 96 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Gamora is green, Nebula is blue, and the ones based on the Black Order have grey skin. |
| 97 | * BackForTheDead: All of them except Nebula die during ''Infinity War'', but their 2014 selves are transported to the present (including ''another'' Nebula) in ''Endgame''. They then proceed to die all over again, this time excepting Gamora. |
| 98 | * BadassFamily: Being the adopted children of Thanos, they are bound by name and kinship. |
| 99 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: Gamora and Nebula, the two most conventionally human-looking of the siblings, are the ones who defect to the side of good. |
| 100 | * BrotherSisterTeam: They are the adopted children of Thanos who work together in completing their father's campaign. |
| 101 | * ColourfulThemeNaming: The four who debut in ''Infinity War'' are named '''Corvus''', '''Midnight''', '''Ebony''', and '''Obsidian'''. In the comics, their team is named the '''Black''' Order. |
| 102 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: The names of Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Cull Obsidian are never pronounced. Ebony Maw's name is pronounced, with Thanos referring to him as "Maw", but without the "Ebony" part. For that matter, they are never collectively referred to as "The Black Order" either. |
| 103 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: The rest of Thanos's forces are easily cut down by the Avengers, but whenever these four show up the fight becomes a great deal more difficult. |
| 104 | * DaddysGirl: Thanos's adoptive daughters seem to have a closer paternal relationship with him than the Mad Titan does with his adoptive sons; Gamora, Nebula, and Proxima all refer to Thanos as "Father" at one time or another, while Maw and Glaive only ever address him as "Sire". |
| 105 | * DarkIsEvil: They're the Black Order with the majority having gothic names themed around the color black. Simple as. |
| 106 | * DarknessVonGothickname: The four members in ''Infinity War'' have dark outfits with dark, edgy-sounding names. |
| 107 | * DeathByIrony: [[DeathByIrony/LiveActionFilms See the trope subpage for details]]. |
| 108 | * DemotedToExtra: Aside from (debatably) Ebony Maw, all of them play a smaller role in ''Endgame'' compared to ''Infinity War''. |
| 109 | * EliteFour: Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Cull Obsidian, and Ebony Maw act as Thanos's four best and strongest lieutenants in ''Infinity War'', and must be defeated in order for the heroes to have a clear shot at fighting Thanos. |
| 110 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 111 | ** Could be seen as one for the Avengers. Like the Avengers, they are a disparate group of extraordinary individuals, each of whom possesses unique abilities or skills. |
| 112 | ** As well as Gamora and Nebula, two of Thanos's other adoptees, who resent what Thanos did to them and jumped ship as soon as they got the chance. |
| 113 | * EvilGloating: All of them except for [[TheUnintelligible Cull Obsidian]] really like to stop and taunt right before dealing a killing blow. It gets them all killed. |
| 114 | * EvilIsBigger: While the turncoats Gamora and Nebula are the same height as human women, Proxima, Corvus, and Maw are taller than most humans, and Obsidian is substantially taller than Thanos. |
| 115 | * EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Played with. Though they all are loyal servants to their adoptive father, the relationships between each "family member" seem to vary. While Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight are HappilyMarried to each other, Ebony Maw is more than willing to leave his adopted brother Cull Obsidian behind just to receive all the credit for obtaining the Time Stone and is practically ''gleeful'' at the thought of murdering his adopted sister Nebula for betraying Thanos in the future. |
| 116 | * FakeUltimateMook: Despite being the elite of Thanos, Corvus and Proxima constantly have trouble defeating normal humans. In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Corvus is killed as if he were a simple Mook, by Okoye. Cull is a fair bit more formidable, but a tag team of Iron Man and Spider-Man is enough to hold him off, and Spidey even pulls a PunchCatch with him. The biggest threat among them is Ebony Maw, and it's largely due to his usage of magic which the Avengers don't have as much experience dealing with. |
| 117 | * FighterMageThief: The three males. Cull Obsidian is a hulking bruiser and OneManArmy (Fighter), Ebony Maw is a telekinetic and EvilSorcerer who reverse-engineers Pym particles (Mage) and Corvus is a StealthExpert who strikes from the shadows (Thief). |
| 118 | * FlatCharacter: Maw is the only one with more than five lines. They mostly serve the FillerVillain role for the Earth heroes. |
| 119 | * GenderEqualEnsemble: In ''Infinity War'', this is averted, but before Nebula and Gamora's defection, it was this trope. |
| 120 | * GlassCannon: Proxima, Corvus, and Ebony all have powers or weapons that can hurt heavyweights like Vision, but in a direct fight they are usually slightly stronger than a human. |
| 121 | * HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: The arrival of these terrifying warriors precedes the apocalypse Thanos will inflict with the Infinity Gauntlet. |
| 122 | * KnightOfCerebus: They are just as, if not, ''far more'' dangerous than Thanos himself is. Whenever at least just one of them shows up, then it becomes clear that the heroes are going to be in for the fight of their lives. |
| 123 | * MythologyGag: The name "Children of Thanos" was originally how the vast armies of Thanos, of various races, named themselves in the comics. |
| 124 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive don't really sound like the friendliest names, nor does The Black Order. |
| 125 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: Thanos's personal hit team. |
| 126 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the original comics, only Black Dwarf ([[AdaptationNameChange Cull Obsidian]]), Corvus Glaive, and Proxima Midnight have relations with each other ''at all'': Black Dwarf and Corvus Glaive are brothers and the latter is married to Proxima Midnight. Here, all of them are Thanos's adopted children, much like Gamora and Nebula. Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight retain their comics counterparts' [[NotBloodSiblings marriage]]. |
| 127 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Averted. They never appeared as a group before ''Infinity War'', but were subtly alluded to in the first ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' movie during the scene where Nebula nearly killed Gamora. |
| 128 | -->'''Nebula:''' Of all our siblings, I hated you least. |
| 129 | * TheRival: Each of them forms a particular animosity with one of the heroes over the course of ''Infinity War'', and with the exception of Maw, each of these heroes is the one who ultimately kills the respective Black Order member. |
| 130 | ** Corvus with Vision. Corvus is the one who cripples Vision's intangibility powers, and seems intent on being the one to remove the Mind Stone from his forehead. He also mocks Vision for being less of a "formidable machine" than he expected. |
| 131 | ** Proxima with Wanda. Both of them are [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Girlfriends]] who fight ruthlessly to keep their significant other safe. When Proxima has Wanda at her mercy in Wakanda, she coldly claims that Vision will die alone. |
| 132 | ** Cull with Banner/Hulk. Given they both take up the role of TheBigGuy on their respective teams, they end up squaring off with one another while Banner's in the Hulkbuster at Wakanda. Cull also seems worried for his father when Hulk seems to have the upper hand on him during their fight on the Statesman, only being held back by Ebony Maw. |
| 133 | ** Maw with Doctor Strange. Both of them are [[SquishyWizard Squishy Wizards]] who will do anything to accomplish their goals. Maw is both impressed and annoyed with Strange's spells and abilities and seems to take glee in the ColdBloodedTorture he inflicts to try to get the Time Stone. |
| 134 | * SatelliteCharacter: Aside from Ebony Maw, who gets a bit more characterization than the rest, all of them are defined by their loyalty to Thanos and their willingness to aid him in his quest to wipe out half the universe. WordOfGod confirmed that their purposes in the film were to keep the heroes from fighting Thanos until the end. |
| 135 | * ThemeNaming: Each member of the team is named after celestial objects that exist in space. |
| 136 | * {{Tykebomb}}: Anthony and Joe Russo confirmed that Thanos adopted and raised each of his children to become his loyal followers after he conquered their respective homeworlds. |
| 137 | * UndyingLoyalty: They are all fiercely loyal to Thanos, except Gamora and Nebula. |
| 138 | * YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: They are quite fond of reminding the heroes just how much stronger their powers are than anything humanity can throw out, whether by technology, Infinity Stone-induced enhancement or magical arts. |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
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| 141 | [[folder:Corvus Glaive]] |
| 142 | !!''Corvus Glaive'' |
| 143 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/corvusglaive.png]] |
| 144 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I thought you were formidable, machine. But you're dying, like any man."'']] |
| 145 | !!!'''Species:''' Unknown |
| 146 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelJamesShaw |
| 147 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Erick Selim (Latin-American Spanish dub) |
| 148 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' |
| 149 | |
| 150 | ->''"Give up the stone...and she lives."'' |
| 151 | |
| 152 | An alien warrior who wields a powerful atom-splitting glaive. |
| 153 | ---- |
| 154 | * AbsurdCuttingPower: His glaive is able to easily stab through Heimdall and even the previously-thought impenetrable Vibranium body of Vision, as well as negating his power to phase through objects. |
| 155 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Corvus has dueled the likes of Wolverine, the Hulk, and Hyperion, and without outside interference, has ''won'' or be on the winning side of those fights. In ''Infinity War'', he gets mortally wounded by Black Widow within seconds of her joining the fight. He also lacks the CompleteImmortality that his comic counterpart has. Even more in ''Endgame'', where he is killed as if he were a simple Mook by Okoye (who is a human without powers). |
| 156 | * AlienBlood: His blood is green, although it's only shown for a split second when he gets impaled by Vision. |
| 157 | * AllThereInTheManual: The film versions of Corvus and Proxima are said to be married like they are in the comics by their actors, but this relationship is never mentioned in the film. |
| 158 | * AllThereInTheScript: Only named in the credits. |
| 159 | * AttackReflector: His glaive can reflect energy attacks, which he uses to turn the tables on Vision after the latter starts to overpower him in their first fight. Shuri's ArmCannon meets similar results when he assaults her lab in Wakanda. |
| 160 | * BattleCouple: With Proxima Midnight. |
| 161 | * BoisterousWeakling: Despite the fact that he likes to talk a lot and humiliate his opponents, he is actually the weakest member of the group, as a form of comparison Proxima was able to fight Widow and Okoye at the same time, while Corvus lost in individual fights. |
| 162 | * ColdBloodedTorture: He seems to be quite fond of using this method particularly when he uses his Glaive on Vision's Mind Stone while Vision screams in agony. |
| 163 | * DarkIsEvil: Corvus Glaive's outfit is primarily black and he is loyal towards his adoptive father Thanos. |
| 164 | * DemotedToExtra: He's much less important than he is in the comics, where he the leader of the Black Order. |
| 165 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: The Corvus from 2014, already wounded by Okoye, dies in Proxima's arms as Thanos's army is reduced to dust. |
| 166 | * DisneyDeath: Proxima Midnight mentions that he died from his wounds. It's all an act, since he manages to infiltrate Shuri's lab and attack Vision once Scarlet Witch enters the battle. |
| 167 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''Endgame'', 2014 Corvus is shocked by and actually questions Thanos's order to have ''Sanctuary II'' open fire on the battlefield at great risk to their own forces to drive off Wanda's attack. |
| 168 | -->'''Thanos:''' ''[fighting against Wanda]'' Rain fire!\ |
| 169 | '''Corvus:''' But sire, our troops--!\ |
| 170 | '''Thanos:''' '''''JUST DO IT!''''' |
| 171 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Corvus's few lines are all said in a very deep, growling voice. |
| 172 | * {{Foil}}: To Cull Obsidian. They're both brutal warriors and men of few words, but Corvus' penchant for sneak attacks and lithe frame make for a strong contrast to Cull's "smash everything" approach and immense stature. |
| 173 | * EitherOrOffspring: Corvus is revealed to be this as the ''Infinity War'' [[AllThereInTheManual concept art book]] confirms that Corvus and Cull Obsidian are biological brothers (much like in the comic) and that their parents were [[InterspeciesRomance different species]] resulting in them looking different -- Corvus resembles their father, while Cull resembles their [[TinyGuyHugeGirl mother]]. |
| 174 | * GlassCannon: Corvus with his weapon can damage Vision, but in a direct fight he is patently weak, to the point that people like Black Widow and Okoye are able to beat him. |
| 175 | * {{Hypocrite}}: His teasing Vision for being weak is this, being that he is pathetically weak in a direct fight, to the point where Okoye and Black Widow can easily beat him. |
| 176 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: He likes to {{impale|d with extreme prejudice}} his targets sneakily InTheBack with his glaive. He perishes that way, courtesy of Vision. |
| 177 | * IdiotBall: Grabs this in the Battle of Wakanda. After all his NoNonsenseNemesis tendencies, he stops for a brief moment to gloat before killing Vision. This moment is all Captain America needs to arrive and team up with Vision to kill Corvus. |
| 178 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He's fond of doing this to others and this is how Vision ultimately kills him at the end of ''Infinity War''. He's also skewered by Okoye fairly rapidly in the final battle of ''Endgame''. |
| 179 | * InTheBack: He is killed by Vision with a stab from behind, exactly what he does to Vision when they first meet. |
| 180 | * InTheHood: Wears a [[BlackCloak dark hooded robe]] with gold trim as part of his overall look. |
| 181 | * KarmicDeath: All of his appearances consist of him stabbing Vision with his glaive, in the end Vision stabs him in the back and tosses him aside to save Cap. |
| 182 | * KickTheDog: After downing Vision in Wakanda, Corvus takes a moment to rub in the android's helplessness. |
| 183 | * LeanAndMean: He's really skinny, looking like he's got nothing but skin and bones under his robes. |
| 184 | * TheLoad: Comes across as this to Proxima Midnight, as in pretty much any of the battles where they're [[BattleCouple fighting together]], he is the only one to become mortally wounded to the point that Proxima would give up the battle to keep him safe. |
| 185 | ** In ''Infinity War'', Proxima is holding her own until Corvus gets hurt and she flies into a rage. Then she would rather focus on getting him away from danger than continue the battle. |
| 186 | ** In ''Endgame'', Corvus is stabbed by Okoye during the battle, and as Thanos and his forces get disintegrated, Proxima can be seen in the background already cradling Corvus. Considering how quickly the disintegration happens, it's implied she had already [[HeartBrokenBadass stopped fighting]] to protect him for some time. |
| 187 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: When he attacks the Vision in Scotland, Corvus doesn't even make his presence known until he's prepared to strike, impaling his victim with zero warning, and barely saying a word in the resultant fight barring a demand to surrender. When he reappears during the battle in Wakanda, he doesn't take part in the melee, instead managing to bypass the Wakandan security field, going straight for the Vision, slaughtering anyone who gets in his way, and ignoring any distractions in favor of directly attacking his target. He only stops to taunt Vision when the android appears defeated. |
| 188 | * NotBloodSiblings: With Proxima. Corvus and Proxima are a HappilyMarried couple in the comics. They have a brief moment with Proxima comforting an injured Corvus, and leaked (but cut from final film) scenes of the two that suggest they are romantically involved. As they are both known as "Children of Thanos", this trope is invoked. |
| 189 | * PowerNullifier: Getting stabbed by Corvus's weapon does ''something'' to Vision that prevents him from [[IntangibleMan phasing]] and leaves him physically weakened for much of the film. His polearm is also used to kill Heimdall and seemingly overrides the latter's Asgardian SuperToughness and HealingFactor, though he was already badly injured at the time. |
| 190 | * PsychoticSmirk: Corvus cracks a smile when he sees Thor at Thanos's mercy. |
| 191 | * TheQuietOne: He's noticeably much more quiet than any of the other Black Order members, only ever speaking a few lines over the course of ''Infinity War'' and only having two short sentences in ''Endgame''. |
| 192 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Has red pupils, like his wife. |
| 193 | * StealthExpert: Corvus Glaive has managed to ambush Vision and stab him with his glaive, crippling him for the remainder of the fight. He also seemingly infiltrates Wakanda's defense and is only caught when he approaches the chamber in which Vision is kept. |
| 194 | * SuperReflexes: Despite his size, Corvus is quick and has keen reflexes: |
| 195 | ** He deflects Vision's forehead beam back to him with his spear. |
| 196 | ** When Falcon ambushes him and Proxima with a flying dive, Corvus is the only one who manages to dodge in time despite being the one closer to Falcon. |
| 197 | ** He also deflects Falcon's missiles. |
| 198 | ** He also deflects multiple sonic blasts from Shuri at close range. |
| 199 | * SwordDrag: He does a brief one while he and Proxima advance on a cornered Wanda, ramping up the menace. |
| 200 | * TerseTalker: Corvus tends to speak no more than four words whenever he's fighting someone. |
| 201 | * TheyCallHimSword: Named after the weapon he wields, a glaive. |
| 202 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: Corvus can tower and loom over most of the human characters in the film, but is noticeably skinnier when compared to his more heavily muscled partner, Proxima. |
| 203 | * TogetherInDeath: Averted in ''Infinity War'' where he and Proxima die in separate deaths far away from each other, but played straight in ''Endgame'' with their 2014 counterparts. Proxima cradles the mortally wounded Corvus before they both disintegrate into dust by Iron Man's BadassFingersnap. |
| 204 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Corvus Glaive is named after Randall Lilly, a.k.a. Corvus, a FandomVIP who ran one of the very first Thanos fansites. |
| 205 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed, but Proxima has more conventional human features than her husband, who has a more ghoulish face. |
| 206 | * WouldHitAGirl: Proxima does most of the actual fighting with Wanda, but Corvus doesn't object to her treatment and seems perfectly willing to attack Wanda himself once he's got her cornered. He also fights and knocks out both Ayo and Shuri (who is only a teenager) during the battle in Wakanda. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Proxima Midnight]] |
| 210 | !!''Proxima Midnight'' |
| 211 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_proxima_midnight.png]] |
| 212 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Thanos will have that stone."'']] |
| 213 | !!!'''Species:''' Unknown |
| 214 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CarrieCoon (voice and mo-cap), Monique Ganderton (on-set performer) |
| 215 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Carola Vázquez (Latin-American Spanish dub) |
| 216 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Infinity War'' [[/note]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | ->''"We have blood to spare."'' |
| 219 | |
| 220 | A female warrior who serves Thanos. |
| 221 | ---- |
| 222 | * AllThereInTheManual: The film versions of Corvus and Proxima are said to be married like they are in the comics by their actors, and while it isn't explicitly established in the movie itself, Proxima's distressing concern for Corvus after Romanoff stabs him is a pretty clear indicator. |
| 223 | * AllThereInTheScript: Only named in the credits. |
| 224 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Proxima has fought toe-to-toe with Luke Cage and broke his ribs and other internal injuries while only visibly bleeding from some cuts herself. When thrown, her spear has been shown to be able to chase and catch up to Spectrum in light form, meaning it goes as fast as lightspeed, as well as possessing toxic blacklight that can depower Spectrum and the Hulk. She has also fought Captain America, the Hulk, Captain Marvel, and Hyperion at the same time, and was overwhelmingly winning the fight. In the film, she has trouble dueling Black Widow, Captain America and Falcon, her spear can be caught by Captain America even though he was unable to even deflect her spear completely in the comics; and she later dies to a thresher machine. |
| 225 | * AlienBlood: Bleeds blue blood, most prominently seen when she gets reduced to LudicrousGibs. |
| 226 | * BadassBoast: She lets loose a frightening one right before unleashing their army of outriders for the invasion of Wakanda. |
| 227 | -->'''T'Challa:''' You are in Wakanda now. Thanos will have nothing but dust, and blood.\ |
| 228 | '''Proxima Midnight:''' [[WeHaveReserves We have blood to spare]]. |
| 229 | * BadBoss: She throws the Outriders against the Wakandan force field, and later, into battle with the heroes, showing about as much concern for them as one would for meat in a grinder. |
| 230 | * BattleCouple: With Corvus Glaive. |
| 231 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: In her fight with Natasha, Scarlet Witch and Okoye, she deploys a knife blade from her wrist. |
| 232 | * DarkActionGirl: She's killed scores of people in Thanos's name. During the climactic battle in Wakanda, she takes on Natasha and Okoye (two of the most dangerous hand-to-hand fighters in the entire MCU) simultaneously and is clearly keeping the upper hand with ease until Wanda steps in. |
| 233 | * DesignatedGirlFight: The climax of the movie conspires to have her face Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, and Okoye at the exact same time. |
| 234 | * TheDragon: Seems to have taken this role after Ebony Maw's death, since she orders the release of the Outriders and gives orders to Corvus Glaive to attack Vision. |
| 235 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Chooses to take the Avengers' offer of mercy and retreats when it is clear Corvus is too injured to "get up" and continue the fight. Later, when taunted by Black Widow, Proxima threatens to take Widow's life in revenge for Corvus's. This is a ploy to make the Avengers think that Corvus has died from his injuries since he isn't fighting alongside Proxima. |
| 236 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Sports a low, chilling voice. |
| 237 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Proxima wears a shoulder pad and armor on her left arm only. |
| 238 | * FormFittingWardrobe: Her outfits are form-fitting since it's basically armor. |
| 239 | * {{Foil}}: To Ebony Maw. Like Maw, Proxima is clearly one of Thanos's higher-ranked subordinates (she's shown commanding the Outriders and giving orders to Corvus Glaive), the two of them are the most vocally loyal to Thanos, and out of the Children, she and Maw are the most talkative. However, Proxima is a warrior first and foremost, and she shows concern for Corvus; Maw, by contrast, is essentially Thanos's hype man who, while powerful, only fights when he needs to, and he bosses around and abandons Cull Obsidian, treating his adoptive sibling as little more than a minion. Proxima's skills are also entirely physical, unlike Maw's vast telekinetic abilities. |
| 240 | * FourStarBadass: She's a capable warrior who, alone among Thanos's children, is shown commanding her father's forces in combat; even Thanos's favored child, Gamora, acted alone while carrying out his will, and Ebony Maw only gave the signal for the Chitauri to massacre the Zehoberi people (Thanos's presence makes it clear that he was giving the orders). |
| 241 | * HornedHumanoid: She has horns, unlike her comics counterpart, who wears a helmet. |
| 242 | * {{Jerkass}}: What little personality we see of her shows Proxima to be a vicious and arrogant warrior who enjoys violence in service of Thanos's goals. |
| 243 | * KarmicDeath: She taunts Wanda about how she and Vision will die alone. Proxima ends up killed on the battlefield by Wanda throwing her in line of one of her army's machines while her husband Corvus is killed much later by Vision off in the forest. |
| 244 | * KickTheDog: After preventing Wanda from leaving the battlefield to protect Vision, Proxima gloats that both Vision and Wanda will die alone. Natasha and Okoye are happy to prove Proxima wrong. |
| 245 | -->'''Proxima:''' He'll die alone, as will you.\ |
| 246 | '''Natasha:''' She's not alone. |
| 247 | * LoveIsAWeakness: Proxima has been shown to be possibly the best hand-to-hand fighter of the Children of Thanos, able to take on and hold her on against multiple Avengers or heroes when needed. However, if she is [[BattleCouple fighting beside her husband Corvus]], she becomes easily enraged or distracted if anything happens to him. |
| 248 | ** In ''Infinity War'', Proxima was holding her own until Corvus becomes hurt and she flies into a rage. Then she would rather focus on getting him away from danger than continue the battle. |
| 249 | ** In ''Endgame'', Corvus is stabbed by Okoye during the battle, and as Thanos and his forces get disintegrated, Proxima can be seen in the background already cradling Corvus. Considering how quickly the disintegration happens, it's implied she had already [[HeartBrokenBadass stopped fighting]] to protect him for some time. |
| 250 | * LudicrousGibs: All that's left of her after Wanda throws her into the path of one of Thanos's tunnelling machines. |
| 251 | -->'''Natasha:''' That's really gross. |
| 252 | * MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: In comparison to Corvus. Corvus is defeated by Okoye in a few seconds, while Proxima is able to fight Black Widow and Okoye at the same time |
| 253 | * NotBloodSiblings: With Corvus. Corvus and Proxima are a HappilyMarried couple in the comics. They have a brief moment with Proxima comforting an injured Corvus, and leaked (but cut from final film) scenes of the two that suggest they are still romantically involved. As they are both known as "Children of Thanos", this trope is invoked. |
| 254 | * OhCrap: She gets a somewhat controlled one when Thor shows up in Wakanda wielding Stormbreaker. To her credit, she doesn't let it stop her from attempting to complete her objective. |
| 255 | * PragmaticAdaptation: Her helmet from the comics was altered for the film, likely to avoid comparisons to the one worn by Hela in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. Now she has organic almost ram-like horns, but these are still not nearly as large as their comics counterparts. |
| 256 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Has red pupils in the MCU, in contrast to her pure white eyes in the comics. |
| 257 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Seems to be the only female member of the team in this continuity since Supergiant was AdaptedOut. |
| 258 | * SuperStrength: Similar to her partner. She's able to match Captain America in a push match when they lock blades. She also one-handedly tosses Okoye like a ragdoll and uses only her fists to disable Black Widow armed with her electric batons. |
| 259 | * SummonToHand: She can call her spear back to herself. |
| 260 | * TogetherInDeath: Averted in ''Infinity War'' where she and Corvus die in separate deaths far away from each other but played straight in ''Endgame'' with their 2014 counterparts. Proxima cradles the mortally wounded Corvus before they both disintegrate into dust by Iron Man's BadassFingersnap] |
| 261 | * UndyingLoyalty: Out of the Children, it's Proxima who vocally vows not to fail Thanos upon being dispatched after the Mind and Time Stones, and upon arriving in Wakanda, she makes her intent clear: Thanos ''will'' have the Mind Stone, even if she needs to sacrifice her entire army to see it done. |
| 262 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed, but Proxima has more conventional human features than her husband, who has a more ghoulish face. |
| 263 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Immediately jumps in with a warcry to defend Corvus after the latter is stabbed by Black Widow and unable to defend himself. Proxima then viciously duels against both Captain America and Black Widow, up till being hit to the ground by the Falcon. Noticeably, she immediately rushes to put herself between Corvus and the Avengers even on the ground. |
| 264 | [[/folder]] |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[folder:Ebony Maw]] |
| 267 | !!''Ebony Maw'' |
| 268 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5b50c992_eb38_469e_bd9d_1a41f4785f7e.jpeg]] |
| 269 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Smile... for even in death... you have become children of Thanos."'']] |
| 270 | !!!'''Species:''' Unknown |
| 271 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TomVaughanLawlor |
| 272 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/EduardoGarza (Latin-American Spanish dub) |
| 273 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''Infinity War'' [[/note]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | ->''"In all the time I've served Thanos... I have never failed him. If I were to reach our rendezvous on Titan with the Time Stone still attached to your vaguely irritating person, there would be... judgment."'' |
| 276 | |
| 277 | A smarmy, condescending telekinetic alien whose main pleasures appear to be praising Thanos and brutally torturing his victims. |
| 278 | ---- |
| 279 | * TheAce: Implied. While torturing Doctor Strange on the way to Titan, Maw claims that he has never failed Thanos during all the times he served him. As such, his standards to please his adopted father are incredibly high. |
| 280 | * AdaptationalBadass: His comic counterpart primarily relies on his cunning and manipulations, and does not seem to have any powers beyond that. In the film, he has telekinesis that allows him to go toe-to-toe with Doctor Strange and Iron Man with minimal effort. Heck, it even makes you wonder just how comfortably he'd fare against Thanos himself. |
| 281 | * AdaptationalDumbass: While getting a power boost-up with telekinetic abilities, he lacks the manipulation skills displayed by his comic counterpart. That said he still displays a very cunning intellect and is clearly the most intelligent of Thanos's children. |
| 282 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the comics, Maw was TheStarscream and a ManipulativeBastard who sought to betray his fellow Black Order members and Thanos himself in order to take control over his empire. Here, Maw is [[TheCreon completely subservient to his adopted father]], and the only sibling he shows outright hostility to is [[TheUnfavorite Nebula]], and even then it's for the justifiable reason that he presumed she was going to betray Thanos soon in the future. |
| 283 | * AlasPoorVillain: For all his cruelty and smug arrogance, his final demise in ''Endgame'' is portrayed as rather sad, when he feebly, desperately, reaches out towards Thanos, the man he considers a father figure, in obvious confusion and terror, right before he's finally disintegrated. |
| 284 | * AllThereInTheScript: Partially named as "the Maw" in dialogue, but his full name is only in the credits. |
| 285 | * BaldOfEvil: Ebony Maw has a bald spot on his head, only having patches of grey hair here and there. |
| 286 | * BigGuyLittleGuy: The Little to Cull Obsidian's Big. |
| 287 | * BigBrotherBully: Shades of this trope are seen in ''Endgame'', where 2014 Maw smugly declares Nebula to be a traitor and uses his telekinesis to wrap her throat in chains after 2014 Thanos opens the memory banks from her future self. |
| 288 | * TheBusCameBack: Subverted, however, as the Ebony Maw seen in ''Endgame'' is not the same one who was blown out of an airlock in ''Infinity War'' to quite literally freezing to death. |
| 289 | * ColdBloodedTorture: |
| 290 | ** Does this with alien microsurgery equipment to force Doctor Strange to remove the enchantment on the Time Stone. It involves needles. Lots and lots of needles. |
| 291 | --->'''Strange:''' You'll find removing a dead man's spell... troublesome.\ |
| 292 | '''Maw:''' You'll only ''wish'' you were dead. |
| 293 | ** After 2014 Nebula is captured by the past versions of Gamora and Thanos, Ebony Maw uses the ship's technology to torture Nebula into giving up the information, and later chokes her with a chain. |
| 294 | * ColdHam: His speeches of Thanos are often heavy and carry a lot of weight, yet he does not raise his voice beyond a soft and regal tone. |
| 295 | * TheComicallySerious: He has no patience for Tony's wisecracks. |
| 296 | -->'''Maw:''' He exhausts me. |
| 297 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 298 | ** Supergiant's telekinetic powers are transferred to him, since Supergiant was AdaptedOut. |
| 299 | ** His role as Thanos's sycophantic, sadistic right-hand man is taken from Mephisto's role in the original ''Infinity Gauntlet'' storyline. Some of Maw's lines ("my humble personage bows before your grandeur"; "infinity/the universe lies within your grasp") are even quoted almost word-for-word from Mephisto. |
| 300 | * DeadpanSnarker: Makes a few dry cracks during his time on screen, such as saying Doctor Strange "must be popular with children". |
| 301 | * TheDragon: He seems to be the most powerful of the Children, and the only one that Thanos openly expresses concern about. Ironically, he's the first to die. |
| 302 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: He gets an unceremonious death by means of being sucked out of a hull breach into space while his guard is down, whereas his other allies were killed actually fighting superheroes in the Battle for Wakanda. |
| 303 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: While Thanos doesn't dwell on Maw's death as he does with Gamora's, he admits that the loss of his adoptive son adds to the heavy toll that day had already taken on him. |
| 304 | * EvilCounterpart: To Doctor Strange. Both are the [[TokenWizard Token Wizards]] (as confirmed by WordOfGod) of their respective sides with the ability to fly, have surgical skills (Maw using surgical tools as a means of torture), their lean physiologies and their [[WizardDuel contested conflict]] in ''Infinity War''. |
| 305 | * EvilGenius: Incredibly intelligent and wicked. [[AllThereInTheManual According to the creators]] of ''Endgame'', he's the one to reverse-engineer the Pym Particles along with Thanos. |
| 306 | * EvilOldFolks: Implied to be the eldest of the Children of Thanos. He looks quite old with his wrinkly face and balding, white hair. He was also present as an adult during the massacre of the Zehoberei when Gamora was still a child. |
| 307 | * EvilSorcerer: A wizard according to WordOfGod, and Thanos's cruel and sadistic underling. |
| 308 | * FacialHorror: After his death in the vacuum of space, Maw's frozen face starts visibly cracking. |
| 309 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Maw is fond of speechifying about how grateful people should be for Thanos gracing their otherwise worthless lives. "Gracing" in this case, refers to Thanos exterminating half their population. He noticeably drops the act when he's one-on-one with Doctor Strange, reverting to a chilling cold, but still mockingly civil tone of voice as he tortures his victim and demands the Time Stone. |
| 310 | * FeetFirstIntroduction: The audience is first introduced to Ebony Maw through the sight of his boots as he walks among the corpses of Asgardians, his voice reciting the gospel of Thanos at the same time. |
| 311 | * FingerOnLips: He makes an iconic "shush" gesture in the trailer, apparently in response to Doctor Strange's screams. In the movie proper, it's a mocking gesture toward Thor, just after encasing him in metal and gagging him. |
| 312 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 313 | ** To Corvus Glaive; they're both powerful minions of Thanos, dispatched to recover Infinity Stones for their master, but the different ways they go about this goal underline their differences. Maw, proving himself to be something of a showman, makes his ship as visible as possible and makes a big dramatic speech when confronted by the heroes. Corvus, on the other hand, only makes his presence known when he's ready to strike, skewering the Vision from out of nowhere, and barely saying a word except to taunt his opponents when they appear beaten. Fittingly, Maw is the first of the Black Order to die, while Glaive is the last. |
| 314 | ** To Cull Obsidian; again, they're both powerful servants of Thanos, but Maw's extremely thin frame, talkative demeanor, and reliance on his telekinetic powers set him up as a strong contrast to the hulking Cull, who barely says a word and just smashes his way through any opposition. |
| 315 | ** To Nebula; both are powerful members of Thanos's adopted family and are desperate for approval from him. However, whereas Maw is a successful sorcerer who stays loyal to Thanos through to the end and supposedly never fails him, Nebula is TheUnfavorite who always loses to her sister Gamora, and eventually betrays her adopted father out of pure hatred. |
| 316 | * ForeheadOfDoom: Has a big, bulging forehead and a very low hairline. |
| 317 | * GlassCannon: His offensive ability is unrivaled among Thanos's minions, but he's very physically fragile himself and the only member of Thanos's forces who doesn't seem to possess superhuman durability of any type (even to the relatively small degree of Proxima and Corvus), as shown when Strange cuts his face by deflecting a small stone spike at him at low velocity. On top of this, he also has poor situational awareness and gets distracted easily due to his arrogance. This is ultimately his undoing; all the heroes have to do is get him distracted for a second and then take him out with one hit before he knows what's going on -- unlike Gamora he doesn't even last a second when exposed to the vacuum of space. |
| 318 | * HammyHerald: He sure loves the sound of his own voice, giving long, elaborate speeches about the glory of Thanos several times throughout the film. The first lines spoken (aside from the distress signal) are his reciting gospel as he walks through the corpses of the Asgardians. |
| 319 | -->'''Ebony Maw:''' Hear me and rejoice! You have had the privilege of being saved by the Great Titan. You may think this is suffering. No, it is salvation. The universal scales tip toward balance because of your sacrifice. Smile... for even in death, you have become children of Thanos. |
| 320 | * InformedAbility: WordOfGod states him to be a wizard, implying that he knows some magic, despite never using any magic spells onscreen. |
| 321 | * InSeriesNickname: Iron Man calls him [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Squidward]] in the US release. In the French release, Tony calls him [[Literature/HarryPotter Voldemort]]. |
| 322 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Maw clearly relishes his HammyHerald status in the Black Order, and gloats about his own powers to both Iron Man and Dr. Strange. It's also implied that he abandoned Cull Obsidian on Earth so that he could receive all the credit for obtaining the Time Stone. |
| 323 | * {{Jerkass}}: Beneath his polite exterior is a sadistic torturer and overbearing gasbag. He also shamelessly abandons his comrade and adoptive brother Cull Obsidian the instant he has Strange in his grasp, a decision that, while pragmatic, speaks volumes about Ebony Maw's lack of camaraderie. His 2014 self in ''Endgame'' is almost gleeful in preparing to kill Nebula because she might betray Thanos in the future. |
| 324 | * KarmicDeath: He abandons Cull Obsidian and the other members of the Black Order on Earth to win Thanos's favor for himself. This lack of backup ensures he's the first of their team to die. |
| 325 | * KillItWithWater: Breaks open a fire hydrant and use the stream of water to stun Wong in the fight in New York City. |
| 326 | * LeanAndMean: He's very tall and gaunt, which is given a great deal of emphasis, as he spends a good deal of his screentime in the company of the truly colossal Cull Obsidian. |
| 327 | * LightIsNotGood: Despite the bright coloration of his appearance, Ebony Maw is a loyal subordinate of his adoptive father Thanos. |
| 328 | * MagicalGesture: Is prone to these, even if his power is telekinetic rather than arcane. He also shows some familiarity with magic, doubting that "a dead man's spell" will be of much trouble for him to deal with. |
| 329 | * {{Magitek}}: 2014 Ebony Maw used magic and helped Thanos to easily reverse engineer and mass-produce Pym Particles, thus allowing them and their enormous armies to travel to the future. |
| 330 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is Ebony Maw’s [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] a biological trait of his alien species? Or is it part of some magic he learned? |
| 331 | * MeaningfulName: "Maw" is a synonym for "mouth". One of Maw's most significant traits is his constant talking and apparent inability to shut his mouth even for pragmatic reasons. |
| 332 | * MindOverMatter: Maw has the power of telekinesis, which he masterfully uses to hold his ground against Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and Wong. With a thought, Maw can dismantle anything, shape objects in any way he sees fit, and lift them effortlessly. Interestingly, this ability seems to be mostly limited to inanimate matter, as he never uses it on his opponents themselves. The one time he uses his abilities on a person it's to stop Cull Obsidian from flying into him after getting blasted by Iron Man. |
| 333 | * MouthOfSauron: A hammy herald who spreads the decrees and gospel of his father Thanos on the worlds that they invade. |
| 334 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: While he gloats he is still really task-oriented, the moment he gets his hand on the Infinity Stone he leaves the Earth to bring it to Thanos and leave the second to the remaining members of the Black Order, as there is no point risking to lose it. |
| 335 | * TheNoseless: He has no visible nose to speak of. |
| 336 | * NotQuiteFlight: Can simulate flight by levitating atop a cyclone of rubble or simply lifting himself telekinetically. |
| 337 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: He gets creepily touchy-feely with Doctor Strange during their battle. |
| 338 | * NumberTwo: Implied to be Thanos's Right-Hand Man in terms of Military and Political Chain of Command. Though more than capable of decimating battalions on his own, Maw is seen more often commanding soldiers rather than engaging in battle himself and has enough authority to silence high-ranking generals like Cull Obsidian with but a ''word.'' Whereas his brothers and sisters are all warriors (including Thanos's favorite and most beloved child Gamora) and the blunt sledgehammers of brute-force used to ''smash'' worlds into submission, Maw is the surgical ''rapier'' of political (intimidation) and psychological (torture) finesse required to ''keep'' worlds in line. |
| 339 | * OffhandBackhand: Does this when Spider-Man chases after both Dr. Strange and him, using his powers to throw a billboard sign at him without looking. |
| 340 | * OnlyFleshIsSafe: His telekinesis only works on his own body and on inanimate objects so he can levitate himself but not other people. He has to lift Doctor Strange by levitating a slab of concrete underneath him. |
| 341 | * PetTheDog: At least from Thanos's perspective. A key part of his duties appears to be assuring the victims of Thanos's massacres that their deaths actually have meaning and the universe will be a better place thanks to their "sacrifice". He is introduced in ''Infinity War'' making such a speech to the Asgardians. |
| 342 | * PowersDoTheFighting: Unlike the rest of his "siblings", Maw does not use any weapons, using his telekinetic powers for offense, defense, and transportation while only using light gestures to command them. |
| 343 | * ProfessionalButtKisser: Just listen to that PurpleProse-ridden speech he gives when handing the Tesseract to Thanos. |
| 344 | * PsychopathicManchild: Maw's by far the most childish member of the Black Order, always making a grand spectacle of everything that he does to serve Thanos, and abandons Cull Obsidian on Earth so that he can deliver the Time Stone and win Thanos's favor for himself. |
| 345 | * {{Sadist}}: While the act does have a purpose, Maw clearly enjoys torturing Doctor Strange, and his past self is quite eager to kill Nebula when it seems that she'll eventually betray Thanos. He also mockingly shushes Thor after magically gagging him to prevent him from cursing at Thanos. |
| 346 | * ShoutOut: Peter's plan to ensure his death and defeat is directly inspired by how the Xenomorph Queen from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' was disposed of. |
| 347 | * SmugSuper: He enjoys talking up his own abilities nearly as much as his master's. Unfortunately, as Spidey demonstrates, [[GenreSavvy sci-fi knowledge]] can trump raw power. Especially when Maw is too busy stating his superiority to notice Iron Man isn't aiming at him. |
| 348 | -->'''Ebony Maw:''' ''[to Doctor Strange]'' Your powers are ''quaint.'' You must be popular with children. |
| 349 | * TheSociopath: Maw is extremely sadistic and self-important, doesn't care about his siblings, and shows no empathy to those who suffer at his hands or those of Thanos. |
| 350 | * SoftSpokenSadist: He speaks softly and regally, which can distract from how cruel and sadistic he can be, as demonstrated on Doctor Strange. |
| 351 | * SpellMyNameWithAThe: Thanos refers to him as "The Maw" when he arrives on Titan. |
| 352 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Ebony Maw gets the most lines out of the entire Black Order by far and in ''Endgame'', he is the only one to appear before the finale while the rest are BackForTheFinale. |
| 353 | * SquishyWizard: He is an incredibly effective long-ranged combatant with an almost unlimited telekinetic capacity, but he is also the least physically imposing, Tony and Peter manage to get the drop on him and take him out with [[ThrownOutTheAirlock a clever use of their environment]]. |
| 354 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He essentially replaced the Other as Thanos's lanky HammyHerald MouthOfSauron. This is driven home in ''Endgame'', when Maw effectively replaces the Other during the Guardians of the Galaxy's portion of the film. |
| 355 | * StockScream: He lets out a Wilhelm Scream when he is ThrownOutTheAirlock. |
| 356 | * SycophanticServant: As powerful and sadistic as he may be, his frail appearance, reedy voice, and effusive praise for his master characterize him as a child who's by turns coddled and abused by his father; he ''strongly'' fears Thanos's wrath should he fail to retrieve the Infinity Stone. |
| 357 | * ThrownOutTheAirlock: How Spider-Man and Iron Man kill him. |
| 358 | * TokenWizard: WordOfGod confirms that he is a wizard, and since he lets his PowersDoTheFighting while the rest of his "siblings" use weapons, he is likely to be the only magic-user among them. |
| 359 | * TortureTechnician: He is shown torturing Doctor Strange with countless long sharp needles. ''Endgame'' shows him using a machine to hold Nebula in place and manipulate her robotic limbs and machinery. |
| 360 | * UndignifiedDeath: In the midst of boasting of his power, Maw is blown out into space, letting out a WilhelmScream as it happens, and dies with an ugly expression of pain and annoyance frozen on his face. |
| 361 | * UndyingLoyalty: Unlike his comic book counterpart, Ebony Maw remains loyal to Thanos to almost religious reverence. Less so to Cull Obsidian, however, whom he readily abandons. |
| 362 | * UnskilledButStrong: Maw might be the greatest of the Children of Thanos in raw power, but in turn, he is possibly the ''least'' capable to use his power efficiently. While most of them are professional, resourceful, and strategical enough to trump stronger characters like Vision and Wanda, Maw showboats a lot, tends to underestimate his opponents, and gets often thwarted through relatively simple tactics. Possibly justified by him not being a trained warrior like them, but just a herald and scientist who happens to be a great fighter too. |
| 363 | * VillainousCheekbones: As part of his overall LeanAndMean look. |
| 364 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Of all of Thanos's children, Maw is by far the most desperate for his approval. So much so that he readily abandons his adopted brother Cull Obsidian, and downright tells Doctor Strange that he fears judgment from his father if he reaches Titan without having removed the Time Stone from him. |
| 365 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: While he is a jerk and a sadist, there's nothing in the movie that contradicts his sermons about how he believes Thanos is a force for salvation. |
| 366 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Ebony Maw has silver hair and is one of the more sadistic Children of Thanos. |
| 367 | * WizardDuel: Gets into one (or at least a psychic vs. wizard duel) with Dr. Strange and Wong in New York. |
| 368 | * WouldHitAGirl: Tortures and expresses a gleeful willingness to kill Nebula in ''Endgame''. |
| 369 | * YouKilledMyFather: Upon viewing 2018 Nebula siding against Thanos and allowing Thor to decapitate him, Ebony Maw swiftly strangles 2014 Nebula for potentially betraying their adoptive father in the future. |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | |
| 372 | [[folder:Cull Obsidian]] |
| 373 | !!''Cull Obsidian'' |
| 374 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cull_obsidian.jpg]] |
| 375 | !!!'''Species:''' Unknown |
| 376 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TerryNotary |
| 377 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Mauricio Islas Bennetts (Latin-American Spanish dub) |
| 378 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' |
| 379 | |
| 380 | A hulking brute, the strongest warrior in Thanos's army. |
| 381 | ---- |
| 382 | * AdaptationNameChange: He's known as Black Dwarf in the comics, with Cull Obsidian being another name for the Black Order itself. |
| 383 | * AllThereInTheScript: Only named in the credits. |
| 384 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: The biggest member of the Black Order, Cull Obsidian is killed in ''Endgame'' by the even bigger Giant-Man when the latter crushes him with his foot. |
| 385 | * AnArmAndALeg: Wong cuts off one of his arms with a PortalCut early in the movie. By the time he reappears, he's replaced it with a prosthetic. |
| 386 | * ArtificialLimbs: After losing his hand in battle, he has replaced it with one made of metal. |
| 387 | * BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: In the FinalBattle in ''Endgame'', he's the first of the Black Order to die. |
| 388 | * BigGuyLittleGuy: The Big to Ebony Maw's Little. |
| 389 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: Cull Obsidian has one hidden inside his gauntlet. |
| 390 | * TheBrute: He's basically the powerhouse of the Black Order, a hulking and brutish behemoth who is the physically largest character in the film (even standing a full head taller than Thanos himself). He appears to be by far Thanos's strongest minion -- while Maw is cut by a small spike thrown at him and Corvus and Proxima both back down when threatened with pistols, Obsidian can fight the ''Hulkbuster'' on even ground and smack around Nanosuit Iron Man like nothing. He is also confident about taking on the Hulk when it appears Thanos is having trouble with him. |
| 391 | * BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: A near-silent behemoth who can fight the Hulkbuster to a standstill, although interestingly his weapon is large and savage yet sophisticated. While it appears to be a brutish weapon cobbled together from scrap, it has the impressive ability to transform into a variety of forms with different uses. |
| 392 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: |
| 393 | ** In ''Infinity War'', Banner uses the Hulkbuster's dismembered arm to shoot Cull at Wakanda's forcefield and drag him along it until they both explode. |
| 394 | ** In ''Endgame'', Spider-Man web-pulls him under Giant-Man, who squashes him flat. He is also the only one of the Black Order to die before the end of the war. |
| 395 | * DoesNotSpeakCommon: In a series that plays AliensSpeakingEnglish straight with nary a HandWave in sight, Cull's sparse dialogue is in an alien language, presumably for RuleOfScary, even when Maw is addressing him in English. |
| 396 | * EliteMook: His complete lack of dialogue and screen time and unremarkable design can distract one from the fact that he's stronger than Corvus, Nebula, Gamora and Proxima. If not for the Hulkbuster (which he would have quickly beaten without Banner tricking him) and [[PhysicalGod Thor]] [[OneManArmy he very well might have been able to slaughter the entire heroic opposition in the final battle]]. Averted with his 2014 version that is killed very easily. |
| 397 | * EvilCounterpart: Very much one to the Hulk, as they both are strong beings who primarily use AttackAttackAttack as a battle strategy. He's even defeated by Bruce, using the Hulkbuster. |
| 398 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Though he rarely speaks, his voice is the deepest of any character in the film when he does. |
| 399 | * EitherOrOffspring: Cull is revealed to be this as the ''Infinity War'' [[AllThereInTheManual concept art book]] confirms that Cull and Corvus Glaive are biological brothers (much like in the comic) and that their parents were [[InterspeciesRomance different species]] resulting in them looking different -- Corvus resembles their father, while Cull resembles their [[TinyGuyHugeGirl mother]]. |
| 400 | * FashionableAsymmetry: He only wears armor on his right shoulder. |
| 401 | * HandicappedBadass: He loses his left hand to Wong's portal and replaces it with a cybernetic replacement. He's remains a force to be reckoned with. |
| 402 | * HeroKiller: He comes ''dangerously'' close to killing Iron Man in the two times they duel, and is only thwarted because Spider-Man stops him from dealing the killing blow in the nick of time on both fights. |
| 403 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: One of Cull's go-to moves is to bind his opponent's limbs together with the grappling hook part of his weapon. Luckily for Bruce Banner, the Hulkbuster suit was designed with similar capabilities, allowing Bruce to PunchCatch Cull's hand with a severed suit arm, then activate the arm's thrusters to send Cull flying into Wakanda's energy shield. |
| 404 | * HooksAndCrooks: The grappling hook part of his hook/axe hybrid. |
| 405 | * ImplacableMan: Cull shrugs off most of the heroes' attempts at stopping him, and he's only defeated initially by Wong using a portal to send him far away from the fight. |
| 406 | * TheJuggernaut: Cull is the toughest of Thanos's sons by a significant margin, knocking his opponents around with little trouble. |
| 407 | * LeeroyJenkins: Usually rushes into fights headfirst and while managing to get a few good hits, not only is he the one getting hit more but also, it usually doesn't end well for him. |
| 408 | * LightningBruiser: He's basically the Hulk if he were on the other team, and skilled with a weapon to boot. |
| 409 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He wields a deployable one during his scuffle against Iron Man to protect himself from the repulsor beams. |
| 410 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: He never stops to taunt in battle unlike the rest of his siblings. There's no point in talking mid-battle if your opponent can't understand it. |
| 411 | * OneManArmy: Effortlessly plows through lots and lots of Wakandans by himself and flattens Iron Man's newest suit, requiring Spider-Man to pull a BigDamnHeroes save. |
| 412 | * TheQuietOne: He doesn't have much to say beyond grunts and roars. |
| 413 | * RealityHasNoSubtitles: None of what he says is ever translated. |
| 414 | * SquashedFlat: In ''Endgame'', a Cull Obsidian from 2014 is killed when Giant-Man steps on him. |
| 415 | * SuperStrength: He is able to easily overpower Iron Man's new nanosuit and is getting the better of the Hulkbuster before Banner tricks him. |
| 416 | * SuperToughness: Dude is ungodly tough. Remember that new hand cannon Iron Man showed off that was capable of killing the superhuman Drax? Cull gets shot by ''six'' of them at once, shrugs it off, and starts kicking Tony's ass across New York. |
| 417 | * SwissArmyWeapon: Cull Obsidian's weapon is capable of transforming into a variety of forms, being able to turn into a pickaxe, grappling hook, hammer and even into a shield. |
| 418 | * UnexplainedRecovery: A geographical version. It isn't explained how Cull Obsidian was able to meet back up with Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight after getting stranded after a PortalCut and Ebony Maw bailing on him; plus, it's never discussed where he got a mechanical hand after he lost it in said PortalCut. |
| 419 | * TheUnintelligible: Cull Obsidian speaks an untranslated alien language, when he bothers to speak at all. And said language doesn't even sound like words, but rather like [[StarfishLanguage animalistic snorts and roars]]. |
| 420 | [[/folder]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | [[folder:Gamora]] |
| 423 | -->See her [[Characters/MCUGamora page]]. |
| 424 | [[/folder]] |
| 425 | |
| 426 | [[folder:Nebula]] |
| 427 | -->See her [[Characters/MCUNebula page]]. |
| 428 | [[/folder]] |
| 429 | |
| 430 | !!Military Forces |
| 431 | |
| 432 | [[folder:The Chitauri]] |
| 433 | !!''The Chitauri'' |
| 434 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chitauri_avengers_7624.png]] |
| 435 | !!!'''Species:''' Chitauri |
| 436 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' [[note]] In TheStinger [[/note]] | ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'' [[note]] On a newspaper with archive photography from ''The Avengers'' [[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' [[note]] As an illusion made by Wanda [[/note]] | ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''The Avengers'' [[/note]] | ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' | ''{{Series/The Defenders|2017}}'' [[note]] On a newspaper with archive photography from ''The Avengers'' [[/note]] | ''{{Series/The Punisher|2017}}'' [[note]] On a newspaper with archive photography from ''The Avengers'' [[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' [[note]] Archive footage [[/note]] | ''{{Series/Hawkeye|2021}}'' [[note]] Flashback only [[/note]] |
| 437 | |
| 438 | A mysterious race of cyborg aliens in the employment of Loki and the Other. They invade Earth in ''The Avengers'', and serve as Thanos's foot soldiers in his conquests. |
| 439 | ---- |
| 440 | * AdaptationalWimp: They lack the ability to shapeshift like they do in the comics, which makes them far less capable of carrying out invasions. |
| 441 | * AlienBlood: It's purple. |
| 442 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: As Thor notes, they exist solely to wage war and chaos. |
| 443 | * AnotherDimension: Or at least a "new universe", if Erik Selvig's comment in ''The Avengers'' is anything to go by. |
| 444 | * ArmCannon: The cannons that some of the Chitauri have (including the eponymous Film/Item47) seem to be fit around their arms to fire one-handed. They, however, do not seem to actually ''be'' the arm, since an arm falls out when Captain America chops it off of one of them. |
| 445 | * AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Their main transport is the Leviathan, a gigantic flying serpent-like creature that carries hundreds of soldiers and can fly through skyscrapers. It takes huge amounts of explosive or electrical damage to put one down. Or one [[MegatonPunch Hulk punch]] and several Stark missiles. |
| 446 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: They don't appear to have any problem flying around in space on open-topped speeders. |
| 447 | * BayonetYa: Their infantry sport them on their rifles. |
| 448 | * BizarreAlienBiology: They appear to come from a planet that uses electrical currents in a similar way to bodily fluids. This is demonstrated when Coulson's team encounters a Chitauri virus that is transferred between infected via static shock, and need the antidote to do so as well. |
| 449 | * BloodKnight: They grow restless when denied war. The tactical problems with this are summed up in a deleted scene: |
| 450 | -->'''Loki:''' Your force lacks... finesse.\ |
| 451 | '''Other:''' Our warriors are fearless! [[MartyrdomCulture They welcome a glorious death.]]\ |
| 452 | '''Loki:''' [[DeadpanSnarker That may actually be the problem.]] |
| 453 | * BoomStick: Their standard infantry blast lances seem to be staves with the ability to fire out purple blasts of energy. |
| 454 | * CanonImmigrant: While the Chitauri are ([[InNameOnly very loosely]]) based on an alien race in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Universe, [[http://www.newsarama.com/17534-the-chitauri-move-from-avengers-movie-to-comics-in-nova-4.html it's this version of them that's making the leap into the classic Marvel Universe]]. |
| 455 | * ContinuityCameo: |
| 456 | ** A Chitauri soldier makes an appearance in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' and ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', in Knowhere, trapped in a case as part of the Collector's collection. |
| 457 | ** A recovered Chitauri helmet plays a major role in one of the first episodes of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', where it turns out to contain a dormant alien virus. |
| 458 | ** Their metal is revealed in ''Series/LukeCage2016'' to have been repurposed into the Judas bullet. |
| 459 | ** Chitauri remains and numerous Chitauri equipment turns up in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', with all of Vulture's gang using it to forge their technology. Most notably are Chitauri power cells which play a key role in the film's plot. |
| 460 | ** The Chitauri appear in a flashback in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' as the army Thanos used to conquer the Zen Whoberi planet and exterminate half its population, although within the film itself they've been supplanted by the Outriders as Thanos's main Mooks. Nevertheless, they're shown to still serve him at least as deckhands for his ships. |
| 461 | ** They appear again in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', once again fighting as part of Thanos's armies on both an unnamed planet in 2014, and then again on Earth in the finale. |
| 462 | * {{Cyborg}}: They clearly have both mechanical and organic parts, and shut down when their command ship is destroyed. |
| 463 | * DecompositeCharacter: In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel comics, the Chitauri first debuted as a DarkerAndEdgier take on the Skrulls, and were later implied to be an offshoot or rogue faction of that race. In the MCU, the Skrulls and Chitauri don't appear to have any connection. |
| 464 | * DemBones: Their appearance invokes skeletons. |
| 465 | * TheDreaded: [[invoked]] Heavily implied to be this. After the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. succeed in destroying their small invasion force, the Other becomes 100% convinced that ''no-one'' can challenge Earth's might -- even his boss, the "most powerful being in the universe." [[BloodKnight Said boss]] relishes the challenge. However, in a DeletedScene for ''Endgame'' Rocket claims that the Chitauri are known as "the suckiest army in the galaxy" who can easily be defeated by blowing up the mothership. |
| 466 | * EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: A single nuclear warhead to their mothership halts the entire invasion. Though as noted by the framed newspaper in Karen Page's office, hundreds were still killed before this happened. |
| 467 | * {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s Parademons (minus the flying). Which is fitting, since their leader was originally designed as a Darkseid expy. |
| 468 | * FakeUltimateMook: Even though they are supposed to be so powerful that they can take over the world with ease, even Black Widow who is a human with no powers can kill them by the dozen. |
| 469 | * FinalBoss: While Loki is the leader of their invasion, destroying the Chitauri command ship and closing the portal they're using to invade ends the conflict in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. |
| 470 | * HumanoidAliens: Barring the freaky double-thumbs and evil-looking skull-faces. |
| 471 | * KeystoneArmy: Taking out their command ship shuts them down. |
| 472 | * MadeOfExplodium: Their space chariots blow up in a brilliant fireball when struck by anything from small grenades on a stick to repulsor shots to 7.62x51mm minigun rounds. |
| 473 | * MartyrdomCulture: As pointed out by Loki, "welcoming a glorious death" is not helpful for an army. |
| 474 | * {{Mooks}}: Not the worst ever, not the best ever, but certainly [[WeHaveReserves numerous]]. |
| 475 | * MookMobile: Their main aircraft, called "chariots" by the art book, are open-topped, unarmored, distinctly subsonic, lightly armed with only a small PlasmaCannon GrenadeLauncher, and solidly MadeOfExplodium, as well as [[ZergRush pretty common.]] They get wasted en masse by the Avengers. [[BadassNormal Hawkeye]] succeeds in shooting down several of them with nothing but a Quinjet and armed with a [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Avengers,_The_(2012)#General_Dynamics_GAU-17.2FA GAU-17/A minigun,]] prowling the skies more or less unopposed until Loki himself takes it down with a lucky shot from his scepter. |
| 476 | * NightmareFace: Vaguely birdlike under metal masks. |
| 477 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: According to a deleted scene in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', the Chitauri are actually considered to be an incredibly weak army by the galaxy's standards. In fact, even Rocket of all people knows that they can neutralized quickly if their mothership is destroyed, and scoffs at the idea that the Avengers fought them for a whopping ''three hours''. This being a deleted scene, its canonicity is in doubt, especially since the Other expresses precisely the opposite opinion in their debut film, being flabbergasted that anyone could beat them and declaring that anyone capable of such would bring certain death to any challengers. |
| 478 | * OmnicidalManiac: ''Everyone'' is fair game in their rampage across Manhattan. |
| 479 | * OutsideContextProblem: |
| 480 | ** To the Avengers. Even Thor has no idea where they're from, or who they really work for. |
| 481 | --->'''Thor:''' They're not of Asgard, nor any world known.\ |
| 482 | '''Steve:''' ''[flatly]'' An army. From outer space. |
| 483 | ** That being said, a deleted scene from ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' shows that Rocket knows about the Chitauri, and considers them "the suckiest army in the galaxy" given that they're so easily defeated by simply blowing up their mothership. |
| 484 | * OutsideGenreFoe: The human Avengers are used to fighting other humans armed with comic-book science. An army of alien cyborgs storming Manhattan? Not so much. |
| 485 | -->'''Steve:''' Stark, are you seeing this?\ |
| 486 | '''Tony:''' Seeing. Still working on believing... |
| 487 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: They only really serve as a threat for [[Film/TheAvengers2012 one movie]], but they have huge repercussions that are felt for years to come. |
| 488 | ** While the Avengers stopped their invasion, they still caused lots of human casualties and immense amounts of damage. The cleanup process is still going years afterwards. |
| 489 | ** Much of Tony Stark's behavior in the later films (such as building the Iron Legion in ''Film/IronMan3'' and Comicbook/{{Ultron}} in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'') stems from his fear that the Chitauri (or a similar extraterrestrial threat) could make another play for Earth. |
| 490 | --->'''Tony:''' A hostile alien army came charging through a hole in space -- we're standing 300 feet below it. We're the Avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the livelong day, but that up there? That's the endgame. How were you guys planning on beating that? |
| 491 | ** ''Series/Daredevil2015'': The damage from the invasion helps Wilson Fisk rise to power. |
| 492 | ** ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Hammer Industries manages to get its hands on Chitauri metal, which get fashioned into the [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Judas bullets]] that are able to harm [[ImmuneToBullets Luke Cage]]. |
| 493 | ** In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', it's revealed that the cleanup for the Chitauri Invasion is still occurring nearly 4-8 years later (the movie says 8, but only 4 years passed in the actual MCU chronology). After Adrian Toomes' cleanup crew go out of business, they use their salvaged Chitauri equipment to fashion their own technology, from the Vulture Exo-suit to the Shocker's gauntlet. One of the Chitauri energy cores also ends up detonating in the wrong place and wrong time, forcing Spider-Man to rescue his classmates. |
| 494 | * RetCanon: |
| 495 | ** When the Chitauri finally appeared in the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'', they were based more on their movie portrayal than the original ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' version. |
| 496 | ** In ''[[ComicBook/CataclysmTheUltimatesLastStand Hunger]]'', the Ultimate Universe's Chitauri's true forms are revealed to look more like the versions from the movie. |
| 497 | * SlowLaser: Three varieties. One is fired from a thin spear/rifle used by Chitauri foot soldiers. The other from a powerful ArmCannon that's carried by Chitauri [[MookLieutenant commanders]] and units riding in hovercraft. The third is a cannon semi-automatic mounted on the nose of their speeders, roughly analogous to a small GrenadeLauncher. All fire blue-colored plasma bolts. |
| 498 | * SuperStrength: Able to dig into concrete with their fingers and grapple with Captain America. |
| 499 | * SuperToughness: Able to leap from buildings onto cars hard enough to crumple their roofs. |
| 500 | * SuspiciouslySmallArmy: No more than a few hundred Chitauri are [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1947pd ever visible on-screen]] in total, even after Loki orders them to "send in the rest." Even when we get a look at their home dimension with the rest of the invasion force, we only see eight additional Leviathans, a few dozen flyers, and a mothership that is [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/loki-and-chitauri-vs-steppenwolf-and-parademons.588681/page-4#post-41651091 not particularly huge]] and couldn't possibly hold more than tens of thousands of additional troops at most. This makes their desire to conquer ''an entire planet'' with hundreds of millions of soldiers quite questionable. Possibly {{Justified}} by the Other and Loki being ill-informed of Earth's capabilities and small armies being the norm in the majority of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's civilizations; the Asgardians for instance were considered a mighty military power, and ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' depicts their entire army as numbering only a few hundred in the scene where it gets slaughtered by Hela. ''Endgame'' doubles down when it shows what's probably the ''entire'' remaining Chitauri race in the epic final battle -- and it's no more than a few thousand troops. |
| 501 | * UnskilledButStrong: To ridiculous levels. While they are decent shots, except for one getting Cap in a chokehold, they are absolutely worthless in physical combat to the point that a BadassNormal can beat them. Even Hulk's fighting is more refined. |
| 502 | * UnusualUserInterface: Their flying craft are piloted by a soldier connected to some kind of metal harness. |
| 503 | * ZergRush: They only pose a threat to a well-equipped fighting force like the Avengers through sheer overwhelming numbers and utter lack of self-preservation, a strategy that somewhat displeases Loki. |
| 504 | [[/folder]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | [[folder:Leviathans]] |
| 507 | !!''Leviathans'' |
| 508 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/51d23535_e716_43a0_a43e_c1b6ca28ad8f.jpeg]] |
| 509 | !!!'''Species:''' Leviathans |
| 510 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' [[note]] On a newspaper with archive photography from ''The Avengers'' [[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' [[note]] As an illusion made by Wanda [[/note]] | ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' [[note]] Archive footage from ''The Avengers'' [[/note]] | ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' [[note]] On a newspaper with archive photography from ''The Avengers'' [[/note]] | ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' [[note]] On a newspaper with archive photography from ''The Avengers'' [[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' [[note]] Flashback only [[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' | ''{{Series/Hawkeye|2021}}'' [[note]] Flashback only [[/note]] |
| 511 | |
| 512 | Intergalactic beasts employed as warships by the Chitauri. |
| 513 | ---- |
| 514 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: They are as big as buildings, and they are very dangerous and destructive. |
| 515 | * ContinuityCameo: |
| 516 | ** A Leviathan shows up for a few seconds, straddling the side of Thanos's ship in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' when Ronan confronts Thanos and the Other. |
| 517 | ** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', a Leviathan's corpse shows up in Strucker's secret cave. Also, Wanda's powers cause Tony Stark to have a vision of an army of Leviathans heading toward Earth. |
| 518 | ** A Leviathan briefly appears in the footage of the battle of New York shown during a scene of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. |
| 519 | ** A Leviathan's corpse - the same Leviathan killed by Thor and Hulk in 2012, who crashed into Grand Central Terminal upon defeat - is present being salvaged by Toomes's crew in the opening scene of ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', which takes place during the aftermath of the Battle of New York. |
| 520 | ** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', a Leviathan can be seen briefly during Gamora's flashback of Thanos's forces attacking her native planet. |
| 521 | ** In ''{{Series/Loki|2021}}'' Episode 5, A Leviathan corpse can be seen in the Void. |
| 522 | * FakeUltimateMook: They're the size of a navy frigate, but they're still utterly [[MookMobile mookish]]. Ant-Man and Hulk both punch one out, Iron Man explodes one from its insides with several small missiles, Thor fries several with his lightning, a dozen of them get vaporized by a ''small'' proximity nuclear detonation in a vacuum,[[note]]For context, a regular [=WWII=] era aircraft was capable of surviving (with heavy damage) a similar detonation at a range of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads#Able_target_array 500 meters]]. They were much closer (less than a hundred meters), but still, the whole event took place in space where most of the energy of the bomb would've been lost to the medium anyway.[[/note]] etc., and they never inflict a single casualty on the heroes. They also don't have any weapons aside from (in one flashback scene) small infantry-scale plasma guns mounted on their chests. |
| 523 | * LivingShip: They are employed as transport spaceships by the Chitauri, carrying soldiers within their metal shell that also doubles as their armor. They're [[https://i.gyazo.com/6398edfd49ad39dd6c635e9835887b32.png 65 meters]] [[https://i.gyazo.com/46b5b21da78aebc0fa74f2ceaaa666c7.png long]] and serpentine (scaling up a 30 meter, 150 ton blue whale, they'd be 1,840 tons without their armor and maybe ~2,400 tons with it, assuming their plate armor is proportionally as heavy as plate armor on a human). |
| 524 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Cyborg {{Space Whale}}s. |
| 525 | * NoSell: Their shells are so tough that even Iron Man's [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] fail to cause them any damage. |
| 526 | * OneHitKill: |
| 527 | ** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', one of them gets defeated by a single punch from Hulk. |
| 528 | ** The same thing happens to another Leviathan during the final battle of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', this time courtesy of Giant-Man. |
| 529 | * ReactionlessDrive: They can slowly accelerate their over two thousand ton mass through vacuum of space despite lacking any visible means of propulsion. |
| 530 | * ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Are named after the fearsome sea serpent described in many books of Literature/TheBible. |
| 531 | * SpaceWhale: Leviathans are large creatures capable of surviving in space. |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Outriders]] |
| 535 | !!''Outriders'' |
| 536 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_outriders.png]] |
| 537 | !!!'''Species:''' Outriders |
| 538 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' |
| 539 | |
| 540 | A synthetic race of genetically engineered aliens employed by Thanos as shock troops to invade Earth during his search for the Infinity Stones. |
| 541 | ---- |
| 542 | * AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, Outriders had powers like tactile telepathy, invisibility, density control, and were more intelligent as they were capable of speech and carrying out complex tasks involving stealth. These Outriders are like wild animals, only capable of attacking everything on sight and don't display any other powers. |
| 543 | * AllThereInTheScript: Only named in the credits. |
| 544 | * AttackAttackAttack: Subverted. Their initial strategy is to charge recklessly and kill anything in their path. When they tear themselves apart trying to breach Wakanda's shield, they change their tactic to circle around the shield and attack the building keeping Vision, their primary target. And when Thor proves to be too powerful for them to handle, they begin running back to their ships which implies they have a level of self-preservation, unlike the Chitauri. |
| 545 | * TheBerserker: They attack heedless of their own safety, literally cutting themselves to pieces trying to breach Wakanda's shield. |
| 546 | * ColonyDrop: Their vessels are launched as giant projectiles from the Black Order' Q-Ships and as soon as they land, they proceed to tear apart and overwhelm everything on sight. The Outriders seem capable of piloting the ships back to space, however. |
| 547 | * DogPileOfDoom: Their favorite battle tactic; they bring the Hulkbuster to the ground under their number in ''Infinity War'', and in ''Endgame'' they submerge Spider-Man despite his Iron Spider armor in "Instant Kill Mode". |
| 548 | * EliteMooks: Thanos's newest foot soldiers. Even though they don't appear to wield weapons or man vehicles like the Chitauri did, they are still far stronger, meaner, uglier, and more dangerous than their forebears, as seen when they start giving the ''Hulkbuster'' some trouble. And they are ''not'' a KeystoneArmy this time around. |
| 549 | * EyelessFace: They lack [[http://media.comicbook.com/2017/11/avengers-infinity-war-black-panther-1061673.png any visible eyes]] in their faces. |
| 550 | * GlassCannon: The Outriders are by far the most dangerous of Thanos' goons, with individual members having the strength, speed and ferocity to give Captain America, Black Panther and even ''the Hulkbuster'' a hard time, but the good guys are still able to mow through them like nothing. |
| 551 | * HumanoidAliens: They are bipeds and have a basic humanoid figure except for the extra arm set. That is where the similarities with humans end. |
| 552 | * MadeOfPlasticine: Clint effortlessly cuts one clean in half with a single lazy swing from his small, thin blade. Also, [[InstantDeathBullet single gut shots]] from Bucky's SAW have them dropping (presumably from shock) on the spot. In some ways they're actually more fragile than regular humans. |
| 553 | * MookHorrorShow: Thor with Stormbreaker gives them such a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that they attempt to run from rather than fight him. Thor destroys all of the alien ships with them. Considering that Thanos is a BadBoss, and that Thanos would kill anyone [[YouHaveFailedMe who has failed him]], it implies that they would rather die by Thanos's hand than by Thor's. |
| 554 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Each Outrider has a maw full of razor-sharp fangs. |
| 555 | -->'''Sam Wilson:''' You see the teeth on those things?! |
| 556 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: They possess at least two sets of arms. Some actually have three. |
| 557 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Even though the Chitauri wielded guns, piloted air-bikes, and had Leviathans to help, the Outriders don't need those since they are individually stronger, far more numerous, and nearly manage to overwhelm Wakanda's BadassArmy, which has the greatest technology on Earth and has never been defeated. A single Outrider manages to give a lot of trouble to Captain America, and Black Panther nearly gets torn apart by several of them, only being saved by his suit. |
| 558 | * WeHaveReserves: As Proxima Midnight attests in her boast to the heroes, they have plenty of soldiers and they are not afraid to shed their blood by the gallons to win. |
| 559 | * XenomorphXerox: Their hunched posture, fanged mouths, eyeless faces, and savage nature call the Xenomorphs to mind. |
| 560 | * ZergRush: Much like the Chitauri, they use their massive numbers to overwhelm their opponents and don't seem to employ any more advanced tactics. The final battle of ''Infinity War'' starts them with charging Wakanda's force-field en masse, and continuing to ram into it even as it shocks and kills many of them. |
| 561 | [[/folder]] |
| 562 | |
| 563 | [[folder:Sakaarans]] |
| 564 | -->See "Native Sakaarans" in [[Characters/MCUCosmic Cosmic]] page |
| 565 | [[/folder]] |
| 566 | |
| 567 | [[folder:Chitauri Gorillas]] |
| 568 | !!''Chitauri Gorillas'' |
| 569 | !!!'''Species:''' Chitauri Gorillas |
| 570 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' |
| 571 | |
| 572 | Large creatures commanded by the Chitauri. |
| 573 | ---- |
| 574 | * CanonForeigner: They have no counterpart in the comic books. |
| 575 | * {{Expy}}: Of cave trolls in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies. |
| 576 | * FacelessMooks: Their heads are covered in armor plating. |
| 577 | * FakeUltimateMook: Despite being big and intimidating, they don't appear to be armed with anything besides SuperStrength, and their ArmorIsUseless. They score no notable kills in the final battle, and at one point Falcon effortlessly kills one by stabbing it with his carbon fiber wings (''after'' knocking it over by bowling into it). It's not exactly surprising that they weren't deemed worth sending to Earth the first time around. |
| 578 | * GiantMook: They are large war beasts enslaved by the Chitauri. |
| 579 | * KillerGorilla: They are large-sized, vicious primate-like beasts literally called "Chitauri Gorillas", and they are part of [[BigBad Thanos]]'s army. |
| 580 | * KillerSpaceMonkey: A more animalistic variety. |
| 581 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Alien cyborg gorillas. |
| 582 | [[/folder]] |
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