DOES THE AVENGERS BOAST A TEAM OF VILLAINS TOO?

Wait, we might see a live-action Thanos?! Wow...

Almost certain this has to be a post-credits scene spoiler, because otherwise...geesh, talk about a crowded movie.  Even with most of the origin stories out of the way it'd just seem like too much.

My guess is that Thanos gets introduced ala Fury in the first Iron Man, and the post-credits stingers we get moving forward will point towards Avengers 2: The Infinity Gauntlet or something of that nature.

JMaq1, The Infinity Gauntlet, would be quite...EPIC, to see on the big screen!  Of course it would have to lose some characters including...The SIlver Surfer!

Wow, I don't care if he's villain #3 or post credits...I never never NEVER thought I'd see a live action Thanos. This is awesome. Here's hoping we can maybe get to Darkseid one day in the DC Movie-verse.

And full disclosure, my last dog, a welsh corgi, I named him Thanos. Thanos rules.

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And full disclosure, my last dog, a welsh corgi, I named him Thanos. Thanos rules.

 You are officially the coolest person in the world. Congratulations!

Thanos to invade New Mexico!!

Definitely save Thanos for the sequel. If there's a villain team-up in the first movie, I'd hope for something along the lines of Loki, the Leader, and the Red Skull. Each villain has to play a distinct role, and Thanos being an intergalactic god of Death isn't all that different than Loki being an intergalactic god of Mischief.

The Infinity Gauntlet would be a nice bit of escalation for the sequel. Bring in Warlock, Captain Mar-Vell, the whole shebang.

It's kind of amazing to think we'll be seeing Thanos on screen before Darkseid. C'mon, DC, get it together!

Thanos is my single favorite Marvel character ever. I am spooging everywhere at this potential news.

Damn. On the DC front you get the whole Green Lantern Corps, Bzzzd included. On the Marvel front the Cosmic Cube, Skrulls and Thanos. These are reality breaking levels of nerdery onscreen. I really fear a mainstream backlash.

This movie is indeed starting to seem too crowded. One of the reasons I figured they were going for the Skrulls is that they're a good "faceless" (literally) villain who would provide an ample threat without stealing the show from the multiple heroes. I guess having Loki in there makes a nod to the original Avengers origin, so OK, but a whole Legion of Doom-style array of archnemeses seems like a bit much. I can't help worrying that Whedon is being pressured by Marvel to cram all those characters in. In particular, I've been consistently worried that Marvel Studios is far, far too influenced by Mark Millar's The Ultimates, which has a couple of decent ideas but, on the downside, is written by fucking Mark Millar.

It doesn't seem like they're pulling much from The Ultimates except stuff like "Sam Jackson is Nick Fury" and "Hawkeye isn't a carny."  I don't think we're going to see Ant Man slap his wife for instance.

Skrulls make good redshirt alien villains, I guess, but I'm guessing Thanos is gonna play in as the real co-villain of the movie.

Each main character already has minimum an ENTIRE MOVIE'S worth of previous character development (2 in IM's case), so they're probably figuring they can use up most of the 2.5 hour runtime on story and character interaction. For example: Thor and Iron Man don't get along (I'm guessing), and they don't have to explicitly underline WHY because they assume you've already seen their previous films. Their respective roles in the team, specifically who is the leader figure (Cap or Tony), is probably gonna be as deep as we'll get (aside from the obligatory Thor/Loki drama); as well as Tony coming to grips with the more cosmic and magical aspects of the MU.

I'm just pissed they didn't bring back William Hurt for at least a cameo. I want the link to TIH be cemented, despite Banner's recasting.

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It doesn't seem like they're pulling much from The Ultimates except stuff like "Sam Jackson is Nick Fury" and "Hawkeye isn't a carny."  I don't think we're going to see Ant Man slap his wife for instance.

Hope not. But they also seem to be deriving the look of Thor and WWII-era Cap from Ultimates, and I'll be interested to see if they get rid of the classic goblinish Skrulls in favour of the amorpheous shape-shifters of the Ultimates.

I consider myself a Marvel fan but have always had travel telling their all powerful objects apart from each other. Don't both the Cosmic Cube and the Infinity Gauntlet basically let the user do the same thing?Alter reality at will? We know we are getting the Cube, but wouldn't the Avengers fighting over another all powerful object in a future sequel be kind of redundant? Or have I misinterpreted what the Gauntlet can do?  

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I consider myself a Marvel fan but have always had travel telling their all powerful objects apart from each other. Don't both the Cosmic Cube and the Infinity Gauntlet basically let the user do the same thing?Alter reality at will? We know we are getting the Cube, but wouldn't the Avengers fighting over another all powerful object in a future sequel be kind of redundant? Or have I misinterpreted what the Gauntlet can do?  

Marvel probably would have felt silly calling the Infinity Gauntlet a "super cosmic cube", and the 'Heart of the Universe' a "super duper cosmic cube", but I would say that's more or less all there is to it.  Gotta keep coming up with new reasons to have multi-character crossovers afterall.

Technically the Cosmic Cube has reality altering powers, while the Infinity Gauntlet gives you complete mastery over the aspects of the universe. It basically makes you God. It's infinitely more powerful than a Cosmic Cube and once you get it you have to be a colossally sized moron to get defeated. Which going by the comics Thanos apparently is.