Originally Posted by
GreenScar1990
Yet another incredible issue of an amazing story arch! I mean, WOW, this issue was awesome on so many levels. I firmly believe that Cates will go down as one of the all-time best writers of Thanos. These last two issues have been nothing short of epic! Now, let us get on to the story.
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The issue begins with Thanos birth on Titan, with his mother Sui-San. It is revealed that Sui-San went insane not solely by looking upon him, but when she said the name "Thanos", a name that she did not intend to be his real chosen name, when she looked into his eyes and gazed in the eyes of a universal constant, Death.
The upcoming double-page spread reveals bits of Thanos history: wielding the Infinity Gauntlet; confronting Galactus and strangling Mephisto in Infinity Gauntlet; his rivalry with Adam Warlock; battling Odin on Asgard; being attacked by Drax during the Annihilation event; being imprisoned in living death by Thane; etc.
The next double page spread shows King Thanos, whose power has grown immense over the years, killing and/or defeating a variety of formidable adversaries: the X-Men; the Avengers; the Shi'ar Imperial Guard; the Guardians of the Galaxy; Old King Thor and the Maestro Hulk.
On a desolate Earth, King Thanos stands over the bodies of numerous powerful beings: The Watcher; Infinity; Love & Hate; Franklin Richards and Galactus; the Living Tribunal.
King Thanos is confronted by the seemingly last ones to challenge his might, the Celestials. After handily killing Black Bolt with a blade, King Thanos unleashed a burst of raw power so tremendous that it handily annihilates the Celestials.
From the bones of the Celestials Thanos builds his tower, using the helmet encased skull of Galactus as his throne. It is here where we last left off on the previous issue where our current day Thanos confronts King Thanos.
Thanos attacks King Thanos, declaring him to be a pretender and demands that KT fight him. King Thanos states that he did not bring him to the future to fight, to which Thanos retorts that he should not have brought him here. Cosmic Ghost Rider steps in, trying to dissuade Thanos from fighting King Thanos, only for Thanos to grab him and nearly kill him before King Thanos says something that briefly stops Thanos from killing Cosmic Ghost Rider:
"NO! Please! Please... I need your help."
This enrages Thanos, who knocks King Thanos clear out of his tower to land a vast distance away on the planet. However, King Thanos is more amused than anything else, uttering "Magnificent" before Thanos resumes to land and attack. Thanos berates King Thanos, proclaiming that by begging KT is no king and no Thanos.
Then, King Thanos utterly and effortlessly one-shots Thanos with a powerful blast of cosmic energies from his hand that sends the Mad Titan soaring off into the distance. It is then our young, current day Thanos realizes that this truly is older, far more powerful self, which is then only further indicated when King Thanos speaks Thanos' true name, the one his mother Sui-San had chosen for him before she went insane. A name she had spoken to only to Thanos on the day she died.
"Dione."
It is then that Thanos decides to align himself with King Thanos. He inquires what KT needs his help with. King Thanos says he has lost someone, and he needs his younger self to get them back. Thanos inquires who it is, which KT retorts with "Who do you think?".
And in the landscape, standing within a Nile of blood, is a massive statue of Mistress Death.