More Power Than The Infinity Gauntlet: Infinity Conflict Full Story | Comics Explained

make sure you guys hit the subscribe button if you guys are enjoying the content that we're throwing out and make sure you guys to the like button if you enjoy the video and yeah let's begin what's going on guys this is Rob and a lot of you guys have requested that I make a video on astral regulator Thanos specifically like the like a beyond Omega level video and honestly I didn't know who that like I don't know what version of fan O's that was because if I'm being honest with you guys I have not really followed jim Starlin infinity saga after the events of like infinity crusade right like I finished that and I was kind of like okay cool I'm kind of done and that was that was basically it I know he's written a lot right like infinity siblings and and infinity revelations and infinity relativity and all that I know he's done all that and we'll go back and cover those things because some of those stories are cool others are not but I think it'd be kind of cool to just sort of have the whole infinity series on my channel so we'll probably cover like relativity your revelations or something like that after this but you know I I sat down and I was like okay what in the heck is astral Regulator Thanos and I looked it up and I was like okay so like I have to cover this story because this story's kind of nuts right now here's the funny thing about it as I understand it this is what the Thanos wins story was originally intended to be by jim Starlin right he was the one who wanted to write it that when Donnie Cates wrote that story jim Starlin wanted to be the one to create it because jim Starlin was the one that did so much with the character of phantom so the result of this is that as we know Santos twins was a story that was written you know by Donnie Cates and so eventually Marvel ended up releasing this and if I'm being honest with you guys there's good things about this story and things that I wasn't really huge on but it was the same thing with Thanos winds right there were things that I loved about it things I didn't really that I wasn't too big on it I think if both of these stories were combined it would be amazing it would be absolutely ridiculously good because of all the things that go down here right for the ways this kicks off is we initially pick up with Thanos meeting with Adam warlock now this comes hot off the heels of Infinity Gauntlet is really where this little segment of this story comes from in this sense that those of you guys who followed my series on infinity called and infinity war and if you didn't you'll find both those down in the description Infinity Gauntlet of course as most of you guys know is a story where Thanos discovered and then started using the Infinity Gauntlet and seize control of the universe and then ultimately lost it to nebula and infinity war or really the the aftermath kind of a segue between the two so it was more of a I guess like a prelude to as part of warlock in the infinity watch going into infinity war itself The Living Tribunal basically decreed that Adam warlock had to disperse the stones right the stones would no longer work in unison the gauntlet itself wouldn't work anymore and warlock had to basically find people who are capable of wheeling the stones but not using them in order to keep them protected by in order to make sure that nobody could reassemble them together again would seem like a moot point because even if they were simple nobody could use them but people could still use the the individual stones hence the reason for the infinity watch and so during that time we ended up learning in infinity war that Thanos was in possession of the reality stone and we didn't initially know that we didn't know who who warlock gave the reality stone to but in this this little segment here it says on to kind of fill in that little bit of a gap because during infinity war it was like and then Thanos gothy and got the reality stone and that was basically it and this is designed to kind of fill in the gaps and essentially say that the Thanos was the one who was most suitable to wield it right because only Thanos could really comprehend the power of the reality stone and be able to maintain that kind of discipline right because with this stone in your possession even your most subconscious desires become reality you could fall asleep and dream of like The Grudge and then like she manifests because of the reality stone and then kills right so like any number of those things could happen if Thanos is really the only guy who could maintain it and so what this does is it picks up you know kind of right now in the modern day and what it does is it kind of gives us this idea that Adam warlock feels as though something's off in the universe right something just not quite right there's some kind of imminent danger coming now this is part and parcel to the powers of Adam warlock in the sense that he really is very much a sort of you know Jesus s character in Marvel right he dies and he's reborn over and over and over again he could never truly be killed he'll always end up coming back in some form of fashion at the same time he also kind of has this cosmic awareness and through his experience with the soul stone is also sort of part and parcel to the universe now how deep reaching this goes in exactly what this means on like a definitive concrete level Jim Starla's never really explained right it's almost like the the white phoenix of the crown and like her role in the multiverse why she just fixed his things that are broken whatever in the hell that means and so with Adam warlock a lot of it's kind of the same way it's pretty ambiguous and it really just would've allows Marvel and jim Starlin to kind of have a blank slate in terms of what they want to do with his character and and so on and so forth but ultimately he ends up basically traveling alongside pip Patrol to go see Thanos right this is a really cool moment here because with pip the troll of course he's a long-standing member of the infinity watch a long-standing friend of warlock the two of them have been together for quite some time but traveling and seeing Santos is really one of the first acts of world for a couple reasons right the first thing is something seems off and Thanos might know something but the other part of this is the two of them have a very lengthy relationship they've been on again off again allies more so than that there's a huge amount of respect between the two and so as Adam warlock begins talking to Thanos and saying like you know there's some kind of dramatic change that's coming there's a kind of approaching darkness it's a cool moment because Thanos kind of chimes in and basically says yes you know there is a kind of darkness approaching and he kills Adam warlock he's like I am that darkness and right off the bat Thanos destroys Adam warlock like literally incinerate his entire body if the troll teleports the hell out he's like man this is wild Pierce and like bails and then Thanos is just like take the body and dispose of it done and so like from there you pick up on the planet Chandalar two weeks later Chandalar of course being the home of the Shiar Empire with Adam warlock basically re-emerging after this two-week period then the question is what in the heck is going on right like why did Thanos kill me now Adam warlock doesn't immediately suspect the thanasis is of some kind of like terrible horrible nefarious plot he believes he's doing some pretty shady stuff but he really wants to get more to the bottom of things and to figure out what's happening the problem with this is that once pip the troll locates Thanos and then teleports him and Adam warlock to it Adam warlock gets blown up by a missile he immediately gets destroyed by a missile and the response of a nose is like like when he's talking to his Black Order it's like you know yes you know Adam warlock will come back but all we have to do is kill him three times after that it won't matter and so what he ends up doing is basically traveling to this particular location this this particular artifact looking for a kind of puzzle of sorts and the reason why really kind of ties into infinity siblings in the sense of what you had in that story is you had a future version of Thanos that basically ended up meeting with his younger self and what does this future version of Fanus is doing is basically guiding younger Thanos to some kind of end goal but he never actually told him what the end goal was there was just you have to do these things that were to get to this point where I'm at and so if a nose isn't a lot of waste blindly following the orders of his future self under the idea that one he knows himself so he trusts himself into there's gonna be some kind of grand payoff or something along the way so the result of this is that once Thanos basically accesses this particular artifact and learns of this kind of map of sorts you know this particular location that it's sending him to of course he gets back aboard his ship and then ultimately we end up picking up with Star Fox now Star Fox or eros is the brother of Thanos a lot of you guys probably know that by now the two of them have a very very lengthy history infinity siblings really push that history in that relationship to the extreme but it's one of these things where it's kind of like okay eros has a couple a couple tools at his disposal the first one is that he basically utilized the time-traveling technology of Kang the Conqueror and the reason why was during the events of infinity siblings King came to the realization that somewhere along the line Pharaoh's dies and when that happens he ultimately ends up dragging the entirety of the multiverse down with the death of Thanos triggers a cascading effect that brings everything to an end prematurely so the idea was that Thanos has to live and so I came to conquer basically orchestrated all these different events to who to ensure that right so kind of a spoiler for a video that we're gonna cover later on but the long and short of this is that eros hidden stolen some of the technology of King in order to ensure that ships something happen where Thanos engaged in some kind of nefarious plot that eros can go back in time and correct it the other part of this is that a device has basically been created this exceedingly small there's also based on the technology of khang that can be used to essentially track Thanos right because eros does not have that inherent ability the next thing that really happens here is a new form of manifestation from Adam warlock usually Adam warlocks body always kind of enters the cocoon state and Adam warlock comes back what is up happening here is that some guy ends up falling off a cliff and that person is then suddenly in case in a cocoon and then after a two-week period Adam warlock re-emerges right so basically this random being was Rima T realized into Adam warlock and then Adam warlock returned this is not normal it doesn't usually happen and there is in fact a force behind everything pulling the strings when it comes to Adam walk there's a reason why all this is happening with him and so what it does from here is it basically picks up with with eros you know ultimately tracking down Thanos and it's kind of this cool little little moment here because Thanos of course is looking for eros under the guise that his future self informed him that eros would become very important with regards to the various goals that they want to achieve and so while Thanos cannot kill eros what he has to do is essentially find him and then keep him contained so that he can be used at a future point in time what that use is going to be and the role that eros is going to play of course we'll find out at some point you know wound up finding out in this story but you know from there of course eros communicating with Isaac Isaac of course being the computer of Titan the one that basically kind of governs the whole society and so on ends up using this tracking device puts it on fan outs and then makes himself intangible now the way it is that eros does this is by manipulating time and it's a little bit of a weird thing when it comes to the notion of phasing in and out of reality typically speaking the way this works is that Marvel kind of seems to adopt this mentality of like things travel in like one second chunks right so like if you were one second ahead of me I wouldn't be able to see you but if you're a fraction of a second ahead of me that it means that like you're kind of this intangible being that I cannot truly see but you kind of exist in that same moment I mean because that fraction of time is so astronomically small right so I thought that really makes any sense you know but it's it's one of those one of those weird things right like imagine the time it takes you to turn your head around and that's really what this is equivalent to right like it takes you you know if you if you were to snap your head back you know it would take you maybe like one-and-a-half seconds to do but like in that one and a half second period you've also got exceedingly shorter amounts of time fractions of a second and what Marvel's doing here really what jim Starlin is doing here is introducing this idea that you're his ability to manipulate time is such that it's not putting him seconds ahead of Thanos is putting him fractions of a second ahead of Thanos which means he's essentially in the same moment that Thanos is in but because he's kind of out of phase meaning he's fractions of a second ahead Thanos cannot really see them right it's one of these weird things right like how can you interact with something that doesn't know you're there when you're technically not there it's weird and it's really finicky I understand if you're totally baffled and totally confused it's just one of those plot points and Marvel traits in order to achieve a certain goal and so what is up happening here is of course Adam warlock and pip end up tracking down Thanos and once they arrived a nose has already left the area with and of course they end up arriving in meeting with eros and this is a very welcome Ally given the history between these characters the fact that eros has consistently worked to thwart the schemes of Thanos right so there are allies in that regard and bringing to bear this information that eros has put a tracking device on Thanos in order to locate him and he also has the ability to manipulate time is a cool little thing because it means it's basically they're out if they choose or have the opportunity to use it the other part of this is that as they're talking Adam warlock gets hit with a missile again it just comes out of nowhere it just hits him and then Adam warlock is of course destroyed right that's the end of that now pip the troll is up teleporting away but basically is one of these things were Pippin and Indira's have this conversation of hey like we have our chance to to basically combine our information and to figure out what this bigger picture is right it's kind of like the Illuminati effect that using their information that they become greater than the sum of their parts and so from there you end up seeing nanos more or less being teleported away and encountering his future self now this future version of Thanos is amazing looking right like he looks like eternity with the face of mistress death like I don't know it's kind of wild like having him look this way it looks kind of crazy but he looks like a cosmic entity and so the question is how did phantos achieve this level of power and the way in which he gets to that point is actually pretty solid because what this does is it basically leads to Thanos and his future self having this conversation now his future self is again pretty ambiguous here again it's that conversation eros is going to be important you can't kill him you have to capture him you have to hold on to them so on and so forth but you also have a tracking device on you right it's like make sure you get rid of that so eros cannot find you that kind of a thing ultimately because eros is aligned with hip and because pip has the ability to track Santos no matter where he is doesn't really matter at all but what we end up having here is is basically future Thanos and what passes for present-day Thanos concluding their conversation and then you end up having eros and hip Patrol of course teleport to Thanos as location and when they get there this planet the planet Zela I think is what it is the last time eros was here during the events of infinity siblings the places are very lush and welcome environment right it was beautiful it was like a giant rainforest very tropical and gorgeous something seems to have happened here that laid waste to the entire location and so when the question is like have you teleported us to the wrong place the response is no like this entire place has basically been totally annihilated or totally destroyed and what you have here is that this location has been transformed into the realm of mistress death that's what this is now right it's the realm of death which is really kind of weird because mistress death does not occupy a physical plane here's what really exists on any one particular physical planet but you can't get on a spaceship and fly to the realm of mistress death she exists as an other dimensional entity she literally exists in the afterlife right so I mean I guess you could you could get on a ship and fly to the afterlife if the ship explodes you're like flies into a star and you die then sure you can get to the half your life but you can't physically go there I mean I guess you can if you can manipulate dimensional barriers like Doctor Strange or somebody like that or like fan OHS but what it does is it switches back over to Thanos and him basically just sort of sitting in space and we're curva slave and the outriders don't really know why he's there they don't really know what's going on like like what they're waiting for Thanos his response is I've been informed that at this point there's gonna be an object or a device passing through here and my job is to take it and so it's kind of like okay like we'll see how this goes which is kind of wild and ultimately it ends up being a comet that flies through there now if annals of course ends up traveling to the comet by himself and this is an interesting thing because it's not just any regular comet the more important thing to come out of this is it that Oh States whatever this object is and he basically says its power of a magnitude exceeding that of the infinity gems right so whatever this object is it's way beyond the power of the Infinity stone which really of course interests that us because he's always been on a quest to attain absolute power the problem with this is that the device hidden inside or the object hidden inside this cut of this comet is not something that can just be arbitrarily attained right I mean you know it's not light you know it was created and then just dropped off on earth somewhere and like it's just been sitting in a convenience store it can't be one of those things where just anybody can get their hands on it but there's all kinds of power protecting it you know like this kind of cosmic energy source and so Thanos of course starts ripping it apart starts pulling it away and in the process he himself begins undergoing disintegration his body starts breaking down the power is really more than his physical form can handle which really speaks volumes to how much power we're talking about here because the kind of energy that's needed to physically damage Thanos is astronomical really what happens here is once he breaks through to the core of this comet and he secures this object for himself then what it appears to be is this kind of orb of sorts now we'll find out exactly what this is and what is what is able to do but from there vanna's when he kind of muses and asked the question you know like I'm not really even sure what this is for myself of course his future version just kind of seems to appear to Thanos and it says it's both a promise and a mystery take this thing and use it and I promise all your questions will be answered and so what it does is it leads to Thanos showing up to the realm of mistress death and of course as soon as he arrives here danos is told you cannot be here and that's the way it usually is right Thanos has been banned from the realm of mistress death for quite some time he's not really welcome here and the thing about him showing up is he's really kind of musing and saying like for all the people who tell me that I cannot come here which of you is going to stop me right how many times have I come in here and mistress death says I can't be here and then she sends some force after me and then I totally destroy it who's gonna stop me or you guys gonna stop me and Thanos of course annihilates all the Hinch men and the various people that are there to prevent him from stay the realm of mistress death they're all completely destroyed and then Thanos begins speaking directly to death herself and says how many times have you spurned my advances how many times have I made my affections known to you and you've rejected me how many times does that happen well nevertheless if I cannot possess then I shall become and using this object Thanos transfers the energy into mistress death pulls her into himself eradicate Smith's death entirely and danos himself becomes the new death in the last video we basically kind of had this idea where you essentially had like future Thanos right and phantos in this future looked like eternity but whatever it was it happened to him he seemingly became this like omnipotent sort of character the idea behind this is that that modern-day Thanos is more or less being guided by future Thanos so we'll kind of get an answer to that question a sort of explanation as to what's going on but with eros the brother of pharaohs and pit patrol trying to figure out what Thanos is doing and then in turn trying to find a way to defeat him they've essentially just been following him throughout what he's been doing right so the idea was that Thanos and essentially managed to find some way to acquire a particular artifact a particular device called the the astral regulator or the cosmic regulator and then destroyed mistress death and really like absorbed her essence into himself and then became a new death basically meaning that Thanos now controls the realm of the afterlife and so where he essentially teleports away eros and pip the troll follow him they don't know exactly where he's going the best they can do is just kind of jump forward through time using their device taken by Kang the Conqueror and then just try to understand what it is it's happening right so this is really just guess and check and so what they do is jump a year into the future and when they arrive here in the future Galactus ship hit basically just kind of crash-landed into this realm and when they start inspecting they start looking around they basically come to the realization that Thanos has been exceedingly busy that not only to Thanos destroy and absorb Galactus Thanos has also absorbed the Infinity stones he's absorbed master order lord chaos the stranger saiyr hate mistress love he basically absorbed all the cosmic entities into himself and he's been busy now all this happened off panel I'm not really skipping over anything we literally go from one page to this page he's basically just been absorbing all the cosmic entities into himself but the reality of where eurosam pip the troll are is that it's just kind of like all right so there's not a whole lot we can do here but like in the present moment right now there's nothing we can do to defeat Thanos like we're have to find a way to go back in time and to basically keep this from happening now here's here's the cool thing before you bounce gemstone emplaced I'm exceedingly smart in this story he does it in a really really cool way and that's one of the things that a lot of writers kind of run into one of the problems they run into Bendis ran into that problem when it came to Matthew Molloy different writers run into time travel with different problems and more often than not it's usually invoked as a means to end a story jim Starlin passes that and basically copes with it in spectacular fashion but the cool thing about this is that Adam warlock you know where you end up having pip Patrol and and and eros who basically kind of jumped forward to continue their journey and figuring out what the end game of Thanos is Adam warlock is resurrected and one of the things that we had talked about in the last video is it Adam warlock coming back the way that he did was kind of abnormal it didn't always happen that way then he always kind of had a particularly like a cocoon would manifest somewhere and Adam warlock would start to regenerate inside of it and then ultimately he would come out he'd make its presence known and whatever story was going on that required him to be in that event what was going on here were things like there was a reservation process that wasn't normal right and so what this meant was that Adam warlock didn't know entirely what was going on and so when he basically hops back up and really kind of asked the question what's going on with these changes in my resurrection process he's met by the arrival of the Living Tribunal and the Living Tribunal basically says I'm the one behind all this like I'm the reason why you're resurrecting the way that you are now one of the funny things about this is that when when Adam warlock starts asking questions like okay what's going on like like you know why am I here that kind of a thing The Living Tribunal says like we're outside of reality but like you are outside of the norm now there's a very particular meaning to that and we will find out what that meaning is later on in this video but the two of them get in a very in-depth discussion and the reason why is because of course you have letting Tribunal kind of like is this multiversal overseer right so even if the Living Tribunal can be destroyed his job is to watch the multiverse and to safeguard it as best he can and so there's nothing that takes place inside of a universe across the entirety of the multiverse at the Liddy tribunal doesn't know about whether or not he can stop it is a whole different argument but he's always aware of everything that's happening right so multiversal awareness it's part and parcel to his role but of course Adam warlock also addresses the idea that letting tribunal this version is basically an alternate reality version of Adam warlock those are guys who recall that in the aftermath of Jonathon Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers and Secret Wars when the Liddy tribunal and all the cosmic entities were destroyed jim Starlin wrote an infinity comic that was a tie-in to it all more or less it was kind of a loose event but the notion was uh the one above all needed a new Living Tribunal since the beyonders destroy the previous one and so Adam warlock from an alternate reality was made into the New Living Tribunal so that's just kind of a quick 30 second or a minute explanation but as to the astral regulator and as to how it is danos has this level of power this all basically comes through an explanation from the Living Tribunal and this is a really really cool concept introduced by by jim Starlin it's actually built on something else right so for the longest time when it came to the multiverse in Marvel Jim sterling had introduced different things like the custodian of the multiverse and so on and so forth but the idea here is that we of course have an infinite number of universes out there the question that we always sort of asked here is what keeps one universe from crossing over into another what Jim Starling gives us here is the astral regulator and what he says is that in every single universe that exists out there there is an astral regulator right every universe exists for every possibility but the let me try beetle chimes in and says the astral regulators are basically there to ensure that no universe crosses over into another this is in fact Jim starlings adaptation of DC source wall that's more or less what this is right the ideas of the source wall that every universe has its own source wall then the multiverse has its own source wall and these are literal barriers around universes and around the multiverse that are designed to prevent universes from crossing over in other universes and multiverses from crossing over into other multiverses jim Starlin is essentially taking that idea and rolling it over and basically saying the astral regulator is designed for the purpose of ensuring that no universe crosses over into another but it's a very complex network right and so essentially Thanos taking it has kind of destabilized things and again we'll talk more about that here in a little bit but what the Living Tribunal tells Adam warlock is Thanos is working towards the notion of not conquering the universe as we saw him do in Infinity Gauntlet it's not like that where he's getting the Infinity stones slapping him on a glove and then basically replacing eternity that also is going for something much much grander Thanos is trying to become the entirety of reality and that's why future Thanos looks the way he does he looks like eternity because that future version of Thanos seemingly has achieved that level of power he is all that is he's all in existence and so the results of this is is is you basically have the tribunal tasking Adam warlock with the idea of being the person that's going to essentially find a way to defeat Thanos now in truth a lot of people could probably undertake this role but jim Starlin chose adam warlock because the entirety of the infinity line of store is going from Infinity Gauntlet all the way up to this story and in really infinity ending ties into the idea that there's just something unique and special about Thanos and Adam warlock now again Adam warlock outside the norm will kind of cover that here in a little bit but they are indeed holy unique characters they are indeed characters where for the most part yes they exist in different realities but they stand away from everybody else where they stand separate from everybody else insofar as how they come here to like all the doctor Strange's and all the cyclopses and all the Captain America's and all the spider-man's and all the Wolverines and and Phoenix forces and so on and so forth and so what this does is it basically leads to this idea that Adam warlock has to do something in order to defeat Thanos and so he's kind of tasked by the tribunal says he's really the only one that can seemingly pull this off now pick him back up with eros and pip Patrol they kind of do this jumping around the universe right they end up jumping into the future a little bit further and they hop skip and around the universe they go by earth they go by all these different places the space station or the celestial head of nowhere the planet of more the planet of spartax the brood world a scroll outpost Rigel all these different places they've all been destroyed by Thanos right like all life has been totally eradicated by Thanos like even down to the microscopic level nothing exists there anymore and so what this does is it picks up with a living tribunal meeting with the one above all now we never get to see this in Marvel Comics we never really see what happens when the Living Tribunal meets with the one above all that usually never ever ever happens and in fact as far as I'm aware this is the first time in Marvel Comics we've actually gotten to see the two of them converse in this capacity usually it's the letting tribunals saying something like I represent a power that's beyond everything or whatever it is you know he's just super Opie beyond beyond Omega Lovelace what he is but the one above all basically tells the Living Tribunal what's going on in this one universe threatens all of creation right it threatens all things in existence what's happened here is threatening everything now one of the cool things that goes on is the one above all's face shifts he changes from one one race to another to another to another as it was kind of a cool theme to kind of see this melding and switch changing that well the one above all is not a finite construct right like he's just kind of this representation of everything that exists out there and what the one above all says is this astral regulator is designed to regulate the entirety of the multiverse that it's not as small beans as a living tribunal thought it was right the limit tribunal looked at this and said okay so basically Thanos taking the astral regulator creates a cosmic imbalance and my job is to enforce that and because he's kind of outside the norm and he has a level of power and so on and so forth Adam warlock you go take care of it what the one above all says is no you fail to grasp the complexity of this man this is super important because it hits at this idea that despite all of his vaunted power the Living Tribunal is not an immutable all-knowing force right like he's basically screwed up here it's really what it is right he misjudged he misunderstood the complexity in how extreme the situation is what the one above all says is the Astro regulator of each universe yes they exist their purpose is to keep a universe from crossing over with another but the truth of this is that they're all tied into a network so what's basically gone on here is Thanos was playing a giant game of Jenga and he's starting to pull out the wrong pieces and it's only a matter of time before this whole thing comes crashing down by taking this Astro regulator and pulling it away from his role and then repurposing it for the for the reason of giving himself omnipotence he's upset the multiversal balance right the balance of all existence not only that what he's doing can actually happen he could become the entirety of reality itself in essence the one above all now views Thanos as a credible threat and that's what's so crazy about this right Thanos is at a level of power now for the one above all is legitimately concerned and at the end of the day it all comes down to Adam warlock to be the one to pull it off so that's why all these things are really sort of crazy here that's why it's so chaotic it's because what we do is we basically jump to you know present day Thanos for lack of a better word whose absorbed all these cosmic entities meeting with his future self right the one that is essentially merged with all of reality and the whole reason behind this is the fact that future Thanos is is fearful the fact that somebody will figure out what he's doing and basically stop his younger self and that's the cool thing here right this is Jim saw playing it smart with reality that we would look at this and we would say okay so if present-day Thanos is talking to his future self and his future self becomes a connected to all of reality he becomes everything in existence presumably you know transcending the one of The Living Tribunal in all that that like why would he concern himself with like making sure his younger self gets there and the reason why is because anybody could screw it up at any point in time it's one thing to achieve that role but the reality of what Thanos has learned with regards to the multiverse is the fact that there's an infinite number of realities out there and anything can happen somebody can pop up they can be at the right place at the right time and so it's essentially guiding himself right making sure that like the things that could get in his way don't get in his way right that just because he ended up in this future you know and and became this beam doesn't mean that it's guaranteed right like if for example he was supposed to kill Adam warlock at a particular point in time and he didn't everything gets thrown off and any number of things can cause that to happen right any number of things can can get in there and so what you do is you pick up basically with eros and with with pit patrol kind of coming to this conclusion is it's sort of a red herring here the way jim Starlin plays it because it's like okay so like they're gonna go back in time they're gonna kill Thanos so he's a baby and basically stop the future okay so like this is like and there are some writers out there who would say and this is how we in the story guys thanks for watching you know jim Starlin does this and before euros can pull it off Adam warlock pops up and says if you do that nothing will happen it's not going to work because what's going to happen here is things are gonna be worse and this is really jim Starlin tying in to everything he's done with regards to Adam warlock and Thanos in the entire infinity series right the relationship between the two and when jim Starlin was riding the old adam warlock comics the relationship between adam warlock and Thanos was that Thanos had actually come to the aid of Adam warlock and helping Adam defeat his own future evil counterpart The Magus you know Magus is attempt to basically gain the the Infinity Gauntlet for himself during the events of infinity war Thanos being part of warlock in the infinity watch and basically having the reality stone and then giving a false stone to the Magus is what led to Magnus's defeat at the end of the whole thing right he had an affinity gauntlet but he wasn't all-powerful because he didn't have all the Infinity stones what Adam says here is that if eros kills Thanos as a baby then it means at each one of those pivotal moments throughout the entirety of the universe when Thanos helps him defeat the Magus when Thanos gives the Magus a false reality stone when each one of those things takes place did it won't happen and the future that's going to come out of that is going to be a future where the Magus will dominate all of reality and put the kind of things that Thanos did during Infinity Gauntlet and infinity war and infinity Crusade and the any siblings the only kind of stuff it'll put all that to shame and so of course eros basically backs off his actions and destroying Santos as a baby and they essentially teleport back to the modern day or 2018 at the time this is being done to the base of where eros is operating at and when the question is what do we do here you know if this plan of killing Santos is a baby is not gonna work then what plan do you have and Adam warlock says this and he kills he kills eros hip Patrol begins to freak out but the response of Adam warlock is according to the Living Tribunal this is the only thing that's going to work and so what we do is we basically jump back to the future with with Thanos who's essentially absorbed all these various cosmic entities and this this you know what we'll call them like primitive nanos more or less in comparison to his like ultra powerful future counterpart but primitive Thanos is met by the arrival of eternity and he was told by his future version eternity and infinity are really a couple of the last stops that you have before this entire thing is is taking care of right before it's all done and so what this does is it leads to a conflict between the two now the cool thing about this and I love how jim Starlin plays on this danos this is not his first time up to bat he's done this dance he's played this game he understands the significance of eternity and infinity the power that they wield but Thanos is not concerned about either of them because the power he possesses in the form of the astral regulator is way beyond the power of infinity and eternity and so where they show up here and they basically start using their various abilities to try to destroy Thanos we jump back to eros and eros of course having been killed in the modern day ends up travelling to the realm of mistress death because at the time that he died Thanos had not killed and absorbed mistress death yet and so what it meant is that basically being their mistress death is aware of the plot that Thanos has in his attempt to like basically show up on her doorstep and kill her at some future point in time which kind of makes sense being a cosmic entity that understands the notions of like life and death and things like that it makes sense that she would be aware of that and so with that being the case she believes eros is there as a spy and so in order to resolve the situation she banishes Eros from her realm that action right there is what saves all things in existence like that action right there is why eros is so important and that's why Adam warlock killed him is because that one thing is going to essentially be this saving grace really sorry sumit is but transitioning back to Thanos facing off against eternity and infinity the reality is they're really more pomp and circumstance here than anything anything else they're blowing a bunch of hot air there for all their talk of like you're going to fall we're going to destroy you all that kind of stuff it's really just more pride than anything else in the face of the Astro regulator and the power that it represents in the face of all these vaunted abilities that he has infinity and eternity fault and it's kind of crazy because the conflict between the two of them basically spans like all things in existence right it expands all of time and space across the universe itself all time across the universe like everything across the entirety of the universe it's felt by them from the universe's very beginnings all the way to its very end the point at which it dies like this is what we're talking about here this is the kind of level of power that we're discussing because that's what these characters represent infinity represents time and eternity reveries in space and so to fight them it's to fight all of time and space and so that's why these these conflicts between these beings literally have shockwaves across the entirety of the universe's history and the space the universe occupies it's like be able to witness an explosion all at the same time right so like there's like an atomic bomb that goes off or some kind of explosion doesn't matter what it is but like you see it and then a person from 500 years ago sees the exact same explosion and a person in a thousand years sees the exact same explosion some kind of an event across all time in space I know it's super meta and I know it seems kind of kind of crazy and a little mind-bending but that's what we're talking about when we're talking about cosmic entities but regardless of how hard they fight and regardless of what tricks they pull up their sleeve in the sense of infinity manipulating time and trying to like age Thanos and try to destroy Thanos and the collapse of his physical form all that kind of stuff none of it works and the two of them are absorbed into themselves and when that happens Thanos is confronted with the with a living tribunal and the liberty tribunal basically appears here and says this cannot be allowed to stand this amount of power that you have what you've done is created an incredible imbalance in the universe itself more so than that you threaten the entirety of the multiverse there's nothing to negotiate here there's nothing for us to talk about you Thanos are going to have to fall and so what we do is we jump back to eros and so eros resurrecting basically coming back from the dead having been banished from mistress death this is what the Living Tribunal was referring to you by being outside the norm that Adam warlock can never die Adam warlock will live forever he will always resurrect no matter how you kill him no matter what means it is if his physical body is destroyed somebody somewhere will be walking and like they'll die they'll just kill over from a heart attack or they'll be hit by a bus and they'll be used as a method by which Adam warlock returns Thanos has been banished from the realm of mistress death he was banished from her realm long before this story took place right he was banned he can never ever die like now eros is the exact same way they exist outside the norm because they're immutable forces now right they're not really on par with cosmic entities and so far he's like they're all powerful it's not really that way it's simply the natural order of things which is things are born and things die and then there's them they're outside the norm they're outside the natural order and so that's the reason why why eros is so important here is because with him and Adam warlock working together presumably they should be able to defeat Thanos and so following this we pick up basically with this massive destruction you know they're this massive explosion seemingly in the entirety of this system and the defeat of the Living Tribunal and that's why this is important is because when you think of a fight between the Living Tribunal and you think of the living tribunals destruction most likely you think of Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers because that's really the only time that we ever saw that happening like the only time we saw before that was during Marvel the end and it was really more of fan of absorbing all of reality into himself and then recreating it again usually when you think of like an extremely powerful being like The Living Tribunal being destroyed you think of like this massive explosion of energy that would just shatter the entirety of the multiverse it's like it's like it's like grabbing a brick and just throwing it into a into a glass house right it's just it's gonna shatter the entire thing like it's gonna it's gonna destroy some part of the glass house and the rest of its gonna collapse under its own weight well that's kind of how you you has seen that situation to be the way this plays out though is again it's basically just this idea of fan oohs absorbing the Living Tribunal into himself but that's where Thanos is now at this moment right now Thanos has absorbed the Linnaean Tribunal into himself or at least that seems to be the case now things are gonna be explained a little bit more at a future point in time but like fan knows basically jumps in with his future counterpart like starts talking to him and and essentially his future counterpart says you are now where I am right like we are now where we're supposed to be you have achieved the level of power I've wanted you to achieve we are now one and literally they merge into a singular being right now this is just Jim starlings way of rectifying the times through the future version of Thanos got modern-day Thanos to this level of power and the two of them are now occupying the same space at the same time the truth is that they're a singular being right they're the same person both cannot exist at the same time and so they basically become this singular person and when that happens fano says now the real game begins now I fan owes whom essentially the sum total of all of reality will go forward and I will face off against the one above all but with that being said guys we're gonna bring this video to an end if you are new here two comments explain and make sure you guys at the sub button to become part of the Rob core if you guys enjoyed this video make sure you drop a link and I will catch you all later peace [Music] [Music]

Channel: Comics Explained

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Length: 37min 18sec (2238 seconds)

Published: Fri May 22 2020