If you have checked out any images or footage (or checked out the leaked footage) of Avengers: Infinity War, you may have noticed one thing right away: Thanos looks very different. Gone is the classic armor that he typically don and what we have instead is a very stripped down Thanos. Less galactic warlord, and a bit more Gears of War. So what’s the deal? Well, according to Avengers: Infinity War director Joe Russo, there is a very good reason for this. Speaking to IGN, the director went into detail…
“[Thanos] has a more casual approach in this film, and it’s very philosophical for him. It’s part of his character definition. It’s a spiritual journey for him to collect the Stones, and one with which he doesn’t need armor. Once he starts acquiring the Stones, he doesn’t need armor in the same way he did when he was a war lord. It’s a very symbolic costume.”
It will definitely make the moments that Thanos uses his full power even more impressive; footage shown at Comic-Con literally showed Thanos throwing a planet. One expects to see an epic moment where he realizes he no longer needs the extra weight his armor gives him, and promptly tosses it to the ground Dragon Ball Z style.
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As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment – the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
Avengers: Infinity War opens on April 27th 2018 in the UK and May 4th 2018 in the US and will feature an all-star cast including Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Paul Bettany (Vision), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Josh Brolin (Thanos), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Benedict Wong (Wong), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Sean Gunn (Rocket, Kraglin), Vin Diesel (Groot), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Pom Klementieff (Mantis), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Benicio Del Toro (The Collector), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Winston Duke (M’Baku) and Peter Dinklage and Terry Notary in as-yet-unrevealed roles.
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chris says
That’s whats hurting a lot of these comic book movies. These stupid directors changing how the real story gos an doing it there own way. Thanos was a warlord an now your going to make him look like some every day character, Just how they ruined Apocalypse making him look like a cast member from power rangers.
tim says
shut up.
deagleninja says
No, you shut up
comicaze_comiking says
No, I shut up
Randy Randalman says
This doesn’t hurt it at all. It’s also not supposed to be a carbon copy/ripoff of the comic books. Why? Because we have that story already and know how it ends. Different things work on screen than on the page. The story the MCU has given us draws inspiration from the source material and constantly tips its hat to canon; however, this is a time to give a more general audience a new story. It’s the studio’s own take on how things could happen in a way that’s relevant to real life current events, while also offering surprises to even the most hardcore fans of the comics.
I don’t want a word-for-word plagiarism of the comics. If I want the comic version, I’ll read the ones I’ve had for decades. (Plus the costumes on the pages look stupid by comparison.)
YoRHa No.2 Type B says
… Contradicting by saying that Thanos appearence in comics are stupid? (isn’t his appearence in the movie, half-naked also look stupid, less menacing?) Fella, his armor IS like the blue and red costume of spiderman, like the shield of captain america, it’s part of what he is (a WarLord). But… thinking about that Infinity War ISN’T the final Avengers, i can accept it for what it is.
Chris says
If they followed the Thanos character as in the comics, then nothing could stop him. Especially not some Avengers. Thanos has power beyond powers.
Tex says
I wish they would have stuck with the original story and his original outfit. What made the infinity gauntlet mini series so interesting was seeing this mad titan driven to destroy the universe not for himself but hopefully for the affection of the female embodiment of Death. That the journey for him wasn’t some power trip or some spiritual journey, it was for the love of someone or something that would never give it to him. (she is more into a Ryan Reynolds type)
Randy Randalman says
Love is a spiritual journey. What outfit he wears doesn’t change the core message of the story at all (and Death will still make an appearance). The outfit is absolutely unimportant.
YoRHa No.2 Type B says
Wrong. Wearing the imposing costume would cause MUCH impact in his “Spiritual Journey” because then what he is trying to achieve will clash with what he is doing. Then the message would have been more “deep” (try to think about what i’m telling, because it has some philosophical meaning)
Red Polygon says
Purple Josh Brolin isn’t scary or even that compelling. They’re not making him alien enough. His face should be frightening. They didn’t even get the eyes – one of the most obvious and basic aspects of the character’s look – right.
I’m guessing it has to do with “gotta let the actor act!”, and we saw how well that worked with snarky, boring Dulltron.
Randy Randalman says
As opposed to completely unanimated, voice modulation Ultron from the comics? That would have been worse. It’s not like the writers are unaware of the comic book versions; they are all nerds of the fluff themselves. Some things don’t work on screen that worked on the page, and vice versa. In the film, Ultron’s motivations were believable. If he were just a boring bot voice who turned rogue, that would have been mind-numbingly awful.
Red Polygon says
I think that’s a false choice, though – it didn’t have to be one or the other. Spader was completely and utterly non-scary. The jack-o-lantern face from the comic with an emerging intelligence filtered through a more inhuman voice modulation would have been much more effective. This Ultron played more like any regular mustache-twirling human foe than an artificial intelligence. Something with hints of human characteristics coming through something inhuman would create more discomfort, a sense of being less able to be reasoned with – a sort of uncanny-valley terror.
Considering the unexceptional public reaction to AOU – especially over time – I think they had considerable room for improvement in how they presented the villain.
HappyFish says
It looks pretty stupid. They turned him from a badass to some homosexual muscle daddy. But it’s Hollywood so what do you expect. Surprised they didn’t make him a genderfluid otherkin who attacks the Avengers because they did not use the preferred pronouns of ze and zir.
Randy Randalman says
This is how he looks for part of the journey. He is also going to be in part 4.
Dako 17 says
Symbolism is great and all, but not if it makes the character look laughably unintimidating. I’m sorry, he just looks like an over weight 60 year old at comic con. Honestly, I think the hype has been building up so much for this that it’s bound to disappoint. EVERYONE is expecting the greatest movie ever made and if it’s anything less, it won’t be good enough. Can’t help but see that they left out all the comedic moments from the original trailer too. Another big mistake they might make is marketing this as an epic action drama and delivering another Marvel film filled with humor. They did that with AOU and it backfired hardcore. Let’s hope they don’t drop the ball… IDK why, I just think this won’t deliver as much as we are expecting.
Martina Ramirez says
…. SUCK without his armor and helmet
Fuck off says
These people lol
Jim says
people just need to move on who cares if he is not wearing his armour smh