Marvel Proves Thanos Could Have Been a Hero (If He’d Just Been Born on Mars)

Warning! This article contains spoilers for X-Men Red #15 Thanos is one of the most formidable villains in the entire Marvel Universe, as he’s proven to not only be capable of conquering entire worlds, but also tangling with the likes of cosmic gods. As an Eternal with an infusion of Deviant genes, Thanos is a being of immense power, though what makes him deadly is his desire to obtain forbidden knowledge, his insatiable bloodlust, and his obsession with death. While these attributes made Thanos a pariah on Titan, they would have been met with acceptance and admiration on Mars, indicating that he could have actually become a hero if he was raised on a different world in the solar system.