# Poll for people who've seen Avengers \*SPOILERS\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897 "2012-05-24T00:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/21 "2012-05-24T14:18:25Z")
Since I could only pick one option I picked “yes”, but it was actually a combination of “yes” and “it was spoilered for me” I had read it in previous threads, but if I didn’t read it I would have recognized him anyway because Thanos is tied with Venom as my favorite characters of all time ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/22 "2012-05-24T14:39:10Z")
Okay, I didn’t know who either of the people in that scene were playing, though some of the Browncoats I were watching with were oohing and ahhing and going “Alexis!” 😉 And that wasn’t the ending stinger. That was a penultimate credits scene. The ending stinger was the shawarma place. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/23 "2012-05-24T14:58:37Z")
> [@Wolverine](#): > > Thanos doesn’t care about the fate of the universe. It’s fine where it is, but it could also be gone tomorrow. What he cares about is impressing and wooing Death, [a female embodiment in the Marvel Universe](http://marvel.com/universe/Death_(embodiment)). Unfortunately, she is not very clear on what she wants (death to all or a balance). Thanos is very powerful but not omnipotent. By collecting certain gems and assembling them in a special gauntlet, he can become omnipotent and theoretically worthy of Death. Spoiler Nitpick Death would refuse to speak directly to Thanos, because he was so far beneath him he was unworthy When he was wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, he became so powerful that she wouldn’t speak to him because he was so superior to her that it was her that became unworthy ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/24 "2012-05-24T15:26:16Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Nah, I guess not. I thought it was the Super-Skrull. I also thought “skrull” when I saw him. I’d completely forgotten about Thanos from my early comic-collecting days. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/25 "2012-05-24T16:40:58Z")
I gathered that it was someone associated with Death from the smile in response to “courting death”, but my comics-fu wasn’t strong enough to piece together exactly whom. And a minor nitpick: He won’t be the villain of the next movie; he’ll be the villain in the next Avengers movie. There are sequels for the individual characters in the pipeline, too, which will presumably have lesser villains. It’s only when you get someone that’s a threat to the whole planet that you see all of the Avengers assemble. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/26 "2012-05-24T16:50:20Z")
I assumed it was the Marvel version of Darkseid. I learned his name when I got home and Googled. Anecdotally, people around me who were not that comic book-versed but had seen the movies thought it the Red Skull. It did look a little like him but I knew it was someone else. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/27 "2012-05-24T17:00:17Z")
I knew at “…court Death”-the chins and the grin were just the icing on the cake. ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/28 "2012-05-24T18:00:10Z")
I didn’t know until by comic book geek wife filled me in. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/29 "2012-05-24T18:33:58Z")
Ah. Thanks, everyone. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/30 "2012-05-24T18:44:43Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > Spoiler Nitpick > > Death would refuse to speak directly to Thanos, because he was so far beneath him he was unworthy When he was wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, he became so powerful that she wouldn’t speak to him because he was so superior to her that it was her that became unworthy Pfft! Women, huh? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/31 "2012-05-24T18:46:11Z")
Re: the OP, yes, right away. “Oooh, Thanos! Awesome!” ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/32 "2012-05-24T18:46:47Z")
Had I not been reading spoilers, I would not have known who he was. Even if I had known his name I still would not have understood who he was and what the importance of courting death was. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/33 "2012-05-24T18:47:32Z")
I actually said, out loud, “Thanos!” when I saw it in the theater. I had a minor geekgasm. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/34 "2012-05-24T18:47:42Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And a minor nitpick: He won’t be the villain of the next movie; he’ll be the villain in the next Avengers movie. There are sequels for the individual characters in the pipeline, too, which will presumably have lesser villains. It’s only when you get someone that’s a threat to the whole planet that you see all of the Avengers assemble. Its going to be hard to make individual films for each character now. Say Captain America for instance, how can they have a genuine threat for him to face that will create any sort sort of tension, while at the same time that threat not being dangerous enough that he wouldn’t ask his new friend Ironman to help him out? I don’t envy those scriptwriters at all. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/35 "2012-05-24T18:53:09Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Its going to be hard to make individual films for each character now. Say Captain America for instance, how can they have a genuine threat for him to face that will create any sort sort of tension, while at the same time that threat not being dangerous enough that he wouldn’t ask his new friend Ironman to help him out? > > I don’t envy those scriptwriters at all. Well, the comic book writers have managed it for the last 40 years, so it shouldn’t be that hard ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/36 "2012-05-24T18:53:41Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Since I could only pick one option I picked “yes”, but it was actually a combination of “yes” and “it was spoilered for me” > > I had read it in previous threads, but if I didn’t read it I would have recognized him anyway because Thanos is tied with Venom as my favorite characters of all time I was also spoilered by reading the threads here. I probably would have figured it out or I may have been stuck sitting there thinking “Wait, I know I’ve seen him… who is that guy?” ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/37 "2012-05-24T19:02:03Z")
I didn’t know, but my fiance did. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/38 "2012-05-24T19:18:19Z")
You’ve found a good woman. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/39 "2012-05-24T19:29:15Z")
psst. she’s got a fiance, not a fiancée. And, yes, I recognized Thanos. Who I didn’t recognize were the _Skrulls_. Chitauri _who_? (edit: yes, I know they’re Ultimate stuff) ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897/40 "2012-05-24T20:18:55Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > psst. she’s got a fiance, not a fiancée. I disbelieve in you and your strange Frenchish verbiage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-people-whove-seen-avengers-spoilers/622897.md?page=3)