5 Questions You May Have About Avengers: Age of Ultron

[h2]Question #2: What About Thanos?[/h2]

Thanos, in case you didn’t know, was the big purple guy we saw in the first bonus scene at the end of The Avengers. He was the guy that taught Loki the secrets of the Tesseract, and sent the Chitauri to conquer the Earth. It was presumed that Marvel was setting up Thanos as the antagonist in the next Avengers film, a presumption helped along by the Easter egg appearance of Thanos’ ultimate weapon, the Infinity Gauntlet, as one of the trinkets in Odin’s treasure room in Thor.

And while Guardians of the Galaxy is at least going to circle “the Mad Titan” with a number of the characters having an either overt or implied connection to Thanos, it now seems that Thanos himself is being saved for an epic conclusion in The Avengers 3.

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