AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Concept Art Charts Thanos' Journey From A Teenager To A Villainous Adult

In this officially revealed Avengers: Infinity War concept art, we get to see how Josh Brolin's Thanos was supposed to progress from being a teenager to an adult in the movie's flashbacks. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Nov 27, 2019 01:11 AM EST

Filed Under: Avengers: Endgame

It's no secret that Avengers: Infinity War was supposed to explore Thanos' past, as we learned that he was ostracised as a youth due to his deformed appearance before later pleading with his fellow Titans to cull half the population in order to save the planet from its inevitable destruction.

Now, Marvel Studios Head of Visual Development Ryan Meindering has shared some amazing concept art revealing the Mad Titan's progression from a young adult to a full-blown villain.

It would have been a lot of fun to see Thanos' history explored in this way, but none of his backstory ultimately made it past the scripting stages and he instead explained what happened during interactions with characters like Gamora and Doctor Strange. Needless to say, it would have been amazing to witness the villain as a young man and not just as the MCU's most formidable bad guy.

Check out the artwork in the Instagram post below:

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Thanos age progression! This was done when we were going to show more of his backstory in the film. The ages are meant to be how old the audience would see him, not how old he actually is. So much fun working on this guy for the Russo Brothers! #thanos

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Nov 25, 2019 at 10:04am PST

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15 Comments

MosquitoFarmer - 11/27/2019, 2:07 AM

Bet you Thanos was that weird kid.

geekhut - 11/29/2019, 11:03 AM

@BountyCipher - Truth is stranger than fiction

SonOfAGif - 11/27/2019, 2:25 AM

Throw some wings on this one and make him Annihilus:

Kumkani - 11/27/2019, 2:26 AM

We were robbed.

heisei24 - 11/27/2019, 2:41 AM

Feralwookiee - 11/27/2019, 3:46 AM

Teenage Thanos must've been a mega edgelord. "Life is like, totally overrated man!"

Feralwookiee - 11/27/2019, 3:58 AM

@BountyCipher - Oh, of course comic's Thanos wants more than just to "bang" Death (thinks about the logistics of boning a skeleton, then moves on). His desire to prove something to Lady Death, to court her honor is interesting imo, although, I'm not sure how that would've played out in a film.

GhostDog - 11/27/2019, 5:35 AM

When I was a boy...

GhostDog - 11/27/2019, 6:03 AM

@BountyCipher - “ I've done things I'm not proud of. I've hurt worlds, and I'm going to hurt more. It's impossible to avoid for what I'm trying to do. But I take no pleasure in it... in cruelty. But this universe isn't a caterpillar. It doesn't spin a cocoon and wake up a butterfly. A universe crumbles and fades. It needs to die before it can be reborn.”

jmorin - 11/27/2019, 6:05 AM

Good. Glad it wasn't in the movie. We don't want to see our villains as kids.

Omegacron - 11/27/2019, 6:54 AM

Probably best they left it out. The Internet is a harsh judge - we'd probably have memes poking fun at "Baby Thanos".

RubyRhod - 11/27/2019, 9:03 AM

We need a Baby Thanos merchandise for Christmas

benjithegreat - 11/28/2019, 10:18 PM

How old is he supposed to be in the movies?

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