Thanos, Silver Surfer

      On Titan, one of Saturn's moons, live a sect of the superpowered offshoots of humanity known as Eternals. Eternals have incredibly long lifespans; the oldest known Eternal is over a million years old. The ruler of Titan is Alars, known to all as Mentor due to his sagacity and wise council. Alars has two sons. The younger, Eros, is a happy-go-lucky handsome man, who has visited Earth many times and has even joined the superpowered team The Avengers on occasion, under the name Starfox. The elder son is named Thanos. Not only does he possess all the normal cosmic powers of an Eternal, but he is a mutant Eternal, granting him extra power that has made him the most powerful Eternal of all time. As a side-effect of his mutation, his skin is purple, and his countenance is rugged and stony. Never has there been a deadlier threat to all existence. Sometime many years ago, in a voyage through space, Thanos met and fell in love with the physical embodiment of Death. Yes. That Death. She who escorts you to the other world (this should give you an idea of just how nuts he is). Thanos vowed to gain her love. After a few attempts to destroy Earth, which were repulsed by The Avengers, he got his hands on a method to destroy all the stars in the universe. He vowed to extinguish them all to prove his love for Death. After extinguishing several dozen, Thanos's archnemesis Adam Warlock reached the Avengers and warned them, just as Thanos arrived to blow up Earth's own sun. The Avengers--plus Captain Mar-Vell, Spider-Man and the Thing--attacked him and his armada of space pirates. However, it looked like Thanos would still win the day. Defeating the Thing and Thor (Norse God of Thunder and one of the Avengers' founders) in combat, he prepared to destroy the sun, when Adam Warlock grabbed him and launched a suicide attack that killed the both of them. That was all the universe would hear of Thanos for several years. But eventually, Death resurrected Thanos and gave him the task of killing half the population of the universe. To do so, Thanos assembled the Infinity Gauntlet, comprised of the six Infinity Gems. With the Gauntlet, Thanos became the most powerful being in the universe; even moreso than Death herself. Fortunately, Adam Warlock had found a ways to resurrect himself as well. After Thanos had fulfilled his task, as well as slain most of Earth's heroes and imprisoned a contigent of the mightiest cosmic beings--including Death, who had feared Thanos and eventually attacked him--Warlock implemented a plan and stole the Gauntlet, revived all the dead that Thanos had killed, and then gave the Infinity Gems to chosen guardians. Thanos and Warlock would both be involved in two later cosmic crises known as the Infinity War and the Infinity Crusade; in both, Thanos reluctantly found himself working on the side of the angels. But it was not long before he resumed his evil ways. Thanos is currently roaming the stars, seeking a new purpose in life now that Death has forbidden him from her realm--making him immortal--and still trying to conquer all. Strangely enough, Thanos has shown signs of compassion. For instance, he once took an orphaned girl and raised her as his own daughter. She would become Gamora, deadliest woman in the universe, a hero and--ironically--lover to Adam Warlock.