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admonition : contain SPOILERS for Thanos # 4!Thanoswas famously defeated by the Avengers in the MCU upon the completion of the decennary - long Infinity Saga , though that should n’t intimate he ’s die forever . Obviously , there are other translation of Thanos who be in the wider multiverse ( as fans have envision inWhat If?andDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ) , but that ’s not how the sore Titan can return , as there ’s another - much more chilling - means Thanos can make an MCU rejoinder ( and it ’s entirely comic - accurate ) .

InThanos#4 by Christopher Cantwell , Luca Pizzari , and Germán Peralta , the Mad Titan is establish a lethal strike … against Death herself ! This storyline start with Thanos trying to deliver last after she ‘ trap ’ herself within the body of a homo in rules of order to experience lifespan for the first time . This disgusted Thanos , so he sought to ‘ gratis ’ his schoolma’am from the heavy prison house of her own devising . Death was not pleased . So , disillusion by his former love pursuit , Thanos lashed out at Death , and in doing so , jeopardise the entire cosmos .

As explicate by Doctor Strange and the other members of the Illuminati that were standing on the sidelines , the very struggle between Thanos and Death is enough to destroy the major planet , and even potentially the entire known universe - especially if Thanos were to lose . One might think that kill the live embodiment of Death would be the bad guinea pig scenario , but - as Doctor Strange reminded fan - Thanos ’ defeat would result in his essence immix with Death , therebyre - creating a variant of someone ( or something ) long - leave in Marvel Comics canyon : Rot .

MCU and Marvel Comics Thanos wielding Infinity Gauntlet.

In the latest Thanos serial , Marvel teases the perfect sequel to Infinity Gauntlet , one that may include a newly explored turning point of the multiverse !

Who (Or What) Is Rot? The ‘Child’ of Thanos & Mistress Death, Explained

Avengers: Celestial Questby Steve Englehart and Jorge Santamaria

When Thanos in brief conk out , his meat conflate with that of Mistress Death , and together they created their ‘ child ’ , Rot . Rot is regard both alive and numb , give thatDeath and Thanos are Rot ’s ‘ parent ’ , though it ’s not exactly sentient in a way that normal character are .

The Rot is fundamentally a living void , an shapeless blob of perpetual dark that quite literally buncombe ( or immediately disintegrates ) everything it touches . Nothing except the coalesce might of Thanos and Death can destroy Rot - not even Eternity itself , which was actually vulnerable to being consumed by Rot .

Thanos died inAvengers : Endgameafter Tony Stark used the Infinity Gauntlet to click him out of existence , and rooter saw him wrick to rubble right before their very eyes . But , what if his life-time was n’t necessarily terminate so much as his essence was immerse into expiry itself ? While that would commonly mean the same matter to most mortals , Marvel Comics ’ reminds fans that Thanos is decidedly not most mortals . When he dies , Thanos has the potential to give life to something far greater than himself , an foe that is intimately unstoppable .

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Thanoscould potentially derive back as an altered version of Rot in the MCU , allowing the greatest live - action mechanism Marvel villain the chance to make a dramatic retort without undoing or ignoring his previously establish type development - and his homecoming would be totally risible - accurate .

Thanos # 4by Marvel Comics is usable now .

Robin Curtis and Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik in Star Trek.

MCU’s Thanos with a version of him that’s merged with Death.

Rot, the child of Thanos and Death in Marvel Comics.

Thanos being turned to dust in the MCU’s Avengers: Endgame.