Originally Posted by
Panic
You said "When he died he didn't just fade away, his story continued with a confrontation with the self-appointed figure of Death that is Thanos." Which is factually wrong, because Marvel didn't die and then confront Thanos after his death as you said, he slid into a coma, THEN Thanos shows up and they fight; it's made very clear that Mar-Vell is still alive at that point, in fact that rather is the point of their confrontation. You can actually read this confrontation with Thanos as "real", though occurring on the metaphysical plane, or simply as being all in Mar-Vell's dying brain, at least in the context of this story - later on of course Marvel goes all-in for the afterlife and it's no longer ambiguous. And yes, Thanos does act as a psychopomp in this story, no argument there; but the way you said it, with your capitalisation of the "D" of death ("figure of Death that is Thanos") makes it sound like you are referring to Thanos as literally embodying death in this story which he doesn't.