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THANOS--OMNIPOTENCE

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Biography

The fearsome Mad Titan, Thanos, was born on the moon of Saturn by the same name. He is genetically a member of the race of Eternals, although a mutation in his DNA causes him to more closely resemble the Eternals’ cousin race, the Deviants.

As a child, Thanos was curiously pacifistic, although a chance encounter with Mistress Death in his adolescence gave him a warped sense of nihilism and love for the universal entity herself. In fact, he was so in love with death that he murdered his own family in an attempt to get her to notice him. It failed.

Desperate to win Death over, Thanos embarked on a terrible mission. He destroyed his home of Titan, sought out the Cosmic Cube, assembled the Infinity Gems--all for naught. Death still rebuked him.

While ravaging the universe in pursuit of the Infinity Gems, Thanos easily acquired them all save one. That last Gem, the Soul Gem, belonged to Adam Warlock. Thanos was reluctant to strike against Warlock for fear of losing his own soul.

It soon became apparent that Warlock had a temporally removed counterpart known as the Magus, whose galaxy-wide empire would undoubtedly oppose Thanos and his schemes were they to become known. But Thanos, in possession of five of the six Infinity Gems, warped around the timestream and set up numerous events, that the Magus might one day be undone. One such event was adopting Gamora and raising her as Thanos’ personal assassin. Another was allying with Adam Warlock directly. Thanos hoped to create a separate universe where Warlock never became the Magus. Eventually he did succeed, and in this new universe he stole the Soul Gem from under (above?) Warlock’s nose.

Besides Adam Warlock and Gamora, Thanos has threatened, fought, and defeated a panoply of Marvel’s strongest, such as Captain Marvel, most all of the Avengers, Nova, and the Silver Surfer. During Annihilation Wave, he allied himself with Annihilus out of curiosity for the effects such a radical shift in the universal cycle would have.

So with all that in mind, why should Thanos be playable? I am not, honestly, overall interested in discussing why he could or should be--these fan-kits preclude each character being playable in the first place, so this is not really the time or place for yet another discussion. I will say this, though.

Thanos has been shown in the past to make deals with heroes and work alongside them if he earnestly believes that it will benefit him more. This was most notably the case with Adam Warlock and Gamora. In other words, he’ll fight with, not against, the Avengers if he thinks he’s coming out on top. And since whomever is revealed as the final boss of the fourth raid will have to be more threatening to the heroes (and the players by proxy) than Thanos himself, it makes sense to me at least that he would seek...help, let’s call it.

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Stats

• Durability: 3 --> 6
• Strength: 4 --> 6
• Fighting: 3 --> 4
• Speed: 2
• Energy: 4 --> 6
• Intelligence: 3 --> 6

Synergies

• Level 25: +3% Health
• Level 50: +3% Brutal Damage

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Cosmic Destroyer [melee-centric: 7]

Umbrage [Melee]: Level 1
Fuel your galactic ire with a series of fierce punches and kicks, periodically weaving in a burst of cosmic energy. You are a more fearsome hand-to-hand combatant than you might look.

• Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• 30% chance to deal Energy Damage: X ~ Y
• Generate 5% of your maximum Rage when you hit
• Generate an additional 3% of your maximum Rage when you hit with the Energy Damage portion of this attack
• Attack Speed: X

Titan Charge [Melee, Movement]: Level 1
Leap forward, taking your foolish enemies by surprise. Their puny attacks are nothing compared to the unbridled might of Thanos.

• Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Physical Damage: X ~ Y in an Area
• Reflects projectiles while moving

Titan Stomp [Melee, Ranged]: Level 4
Even unaided by the Infinity Gems, your strength is great indeed. With but a single stomp, you can create a barrier of impenetrable rock to impede your nemeses.

• Melee Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Ranged Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Stops enemy projectiles and blocks enemy pathing
• Damage Reduction: 95%
• Health: 50% of your Health
• Duration: 8s
• Cooldown: 4s

Atrocity [Melee]: Level 14
Your victory is assured. Take heart and devastate your foes with a series of savage punches and kicks.

• Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Brutal Strike Chance: +2% for every 10% Rage
• Brutal Strike Damage: +2% for every 10% Rage
• While above 80% Rage, these bonuses become 5% each
• Attack Speed: X

Grim Reprisal [Melee, Area]: Level 16
Plant yourself, then retaliate your enemies’ ineffectual attacks with overwhelming force.

• Channel Time: 1.5s
• Physical Damage: 150% of all damage taken while channelling
• Take 50% less damage while this power is channelling

Titan Crusher [Melee]: Level 22
Let your rage momentarily take over as you deliver a single overhand punch. Its sheer brutality leaves bystanders breathless--and therefore ripe for the culling.

• Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• This power always critically hits
• Terrify Duration: 2s (4s when you defeat an enemy with this power, unaffected by Power Duration)
• Cooldown: 8s (reset when you defeat an enemy with this power)

The Black Order [Summon]: Level 37
Summon your second-in-command, Corvus Glaive, and your parasitic psychic, Supergiant, to conquest beside you.

• Corvus Glaive Stats
• Menacing Reap Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Halberd Rend Physical Damage: X ~ Y per hit (4 hits)
• Health: 110% of your Health
• Damage Reduction: 75%
• Supergiant Stats
• Mindbreaker Mental Damage: X ~ Y
• Mental Parasite Mental Damage: X four times per second for 4s
• Health: 100% of your Health
• Damage Reduction: 80%

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Titanic Fury [fragments of Gem powers: 9]

Break Time [Ranged, Area]: Level 1
Plague an area with an anomalous vortex in space-time. The Time Gem can curse just as well as it can illuminate.

• Energy Damage: X twice per second for 8s (unaffected by Power Duration)
• Slow: -60% move/attack speed (persists for 4s after leaving area of effect)
• Weaken: Enemy deals 10% less damage for 8s
• Cooldown: 4s

Soul Strike [Ranged]: Level 2
It is no trouble at all to utilize the Soul Gem and overwhelm some callous cretin’s mind. Those who are particularly weak-willed may find themselves compelled to serve you.

• Can only target Normal or Elite non-summoned biological enemies
• Mental Damage: X ~ Y
• Enslave the target if they are below 40% Health after taking damage from this power
• Dominated Minion’s Stats:
• Base Damage: +X%
• Base Health: +X%
• Move Speed: +X%
• Regenerate 10% maximum Health per second
• If defeated, automatically revives after 20s

Starquake [Melee, Area]: Level 6
Use the Space Gem to teleport your body into the air, crushing these ingrates underfoot.

• Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Knockdown Duration: 1.2s
• Damage: +25% against enemies not targeting you
• Can be activated three times before going on cooldown
• Cooldown: 8s (12s if used three times)

Titan Warp [Movement, Area]: Level 10
Tap into the Reality Gem to teleport yourself some distance away in pursuit of some grand conquest.

• Energy Damage: X ~ Y (this effect has a 4s cooldown)

Deviant Syndrome [Passive]: Level 12
You are a mutant in your own right, which drove you to augment your body even as your mind sought the heady, nihilistic stench of Death.

• Passive Effect:
• Damage Reduction: +8%
• Defense Rating: +X
• Total Defense Rating: +30%
• Deflect Rating: +X
• Total Deflect Rating: +20%
• Tenacity: +X
• Maximum Health: +X
• For every 10% of your maximum Rage, this power’s passive affixes, except for the bonus to Health, increase by 0.75 times this power’s ranks times your current Rage, up to a maximum of (7.5 * rank * maximum Rage)
• Active Effect:
• Crowd Control Immunity Duration: 1.5s
• Cooldown: 15s

Cosmic Smash [Melee]: Level 18
By using the Power Gem to increase your own speed, you are able to deliver a single awe-inspiring punch while moving at several hundred miles per hour. The aftershocks you leave behind are an added threat.

• Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Execute: +50% damage if target is below 50% Health
• Aftershock Energy Damage: X twice per second for 8s
• Vulnerability: Enemy takes 10% more damage for 8s
• Cosmic Smash’s Vulnerability applies to all hit targets
• Cooldown: 8s

Absolution [Ranged, Area]: Level 26
As possessor of the Mind Gem, you are capable of incredible psionic strength. Use a small fragment of that strength to strip your foes’ minds bare, leaving them breathless with mental misery.

• Mental Damage: X ~ Y
• Mental Damage: X twice per second for 4s (8s if only one target is hit)
• Rampage: +25% damage for every enemy hit (up to 8 enemies); +250% damage if only one target is hit
• Cooldown: 8s (12s if only one target is hit)

Death Sphere [Signature, Ranged, Area]: Level 30
Clap your gauntleted hands together to produce a blood-red sphere of highly concentrated energy.

• Gauntlet Clap Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Sphere Energy Damage: X ~ Y per hit
• Explosion Energy Damage: X ~ Y
• Sphere pulls enemies into itself
• Power Synergy:
• +1% damage/point in Dawn of Infinity
• Cooldown: 40s

Incursion [Area]: Level 47
Did you think the Reality Gem was capable only of parlor tricks and simple acts of teleportation?! Harness its true power by spawning a localized Incursion, bringing one reality crashing down on another.

• Impact Energy Damage: X ~ Y
• Debris Physical Damage: X ~ Y
• Terror Mental Damage: X ~ Y
• Stun Duration: 2s (irresistible)
• Take 80% less damage while this power is channelling
• Channel Time: 3s
• Cooldown: 80s