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Thanos might be the biggest, most powerful, and most brutally effective bad guy to ever hit the MCU, working from behind the scenes and into the spotlight to devastate the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and more. In the comics, though, he's been a major player since he made his first appearance in 1973, and villains don't stick around that long without taking their share of defeats. If they didn't, after all, there wouldn't be much of a Marvel Universe left to tell stories about.

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But while Thanos has done better than most would-be world-beaters over the past 40 years, experiencing more temporary setbacks than truly taking the L in his quest for the Infinity Stones, there are still plenty of characters who haven't just beaten Thanos, they've brutally destroyed him in one way or another. From the cosmic-powered heavy hitters to the most unexpected fighters of all, here are the heroes and villains who have handed Thanos his most crushing defeats.

The Mighty Thor

Since he's arguably the single most powerful member of the Avengers, you'd probably expect that Thor would have the best chance of surviving a one-on-one conflict with Thanos. In 2000's Thor #25, though, Thor doesn't just survive. He beats Thanos with a hammer until the Mad Titan can't stand up.

It's the culmination of a story where Thanos briefly gave up on the Infinity Stones and set his sights on a trio of cosmically powerful artifacts with equally ominous names: the Chalice of Ruin, the Map of All-Ending, and the Illumination Stone. After a quest that involved both the villainous monster Mangog and Firelord, a former herald of Galactus, Thanos not only had the items, but had Thor defeated and completely at his mercy ... for a few minutes at least. It turned out that was just Round 1, a distraction to give Thor's dad the time to invest a few more magic items with the full force of the Odinpower, ramping up Thor's already considerable strength to a truly world-shattering level.

On the one hand, there's an element of this story that basically just comes down to characters matching up increasingly overpowered trinkets, like a game of Yu-Gi-Oh that determines the fate of the universe. On the other hand, after three solid decades of Thanos reigning as one of the most threatening villains in the entire Marvel Universe, it is incredibly satisfying to watch Thor strap on a bunch of magic power-ups and then deliver what might be the single most savage beating in his own long history. Considering Thor once hit an enemy so hard that he broke every bone in his own body, that's saying something.

Nebula

Most of the original Infinity Gauntlet story is devoted to Thanos completely wrecking Marvel's greatest heroes, so it's easy to forget that in the story's last issue, he's not the character everyone else is worried about. He even teams up with the heroes to stop someone else who gets her hands on the Infinity Gauntlet and becomes an even scarier threat than he was: Nebula.

Needless to say, this is entirely his own fault. In an act of unparalleled cruelty, Thanos used the power of the Infinity Gauntlet to not only kill Nebula, but reanimate her rotting corpse, keeping her balanced at the very edge of death with 'limbs twisted, flesh charred and cracked, and nearly mindless.' Unfortunately for him, the key word there is 'nearly,' and there was more than enough consciousness left in Nebula to hold a pretty serious grudge. When Thanos embraced his omnipotence and projected his mind into absolute control over the universe, the mind she had left was more than enough to realize that while Thanos was beyond his physical body, the object that was letting him do all this was very physical, and sitting right there on his unattended left hand.

With that, Nebula grabbed the Infinity Gauntlet, and while she did take her turn at dominating the universe and fighting all the good guys, her first action was to send Thanos into the depths of space to drift, endlessly ruminating on his failures.

The Magus

The Infinity War comic from 1992 is very different from the 2018 film of the same name. For starters, the villain isn't Thanos, it's the Magus — an evil alternate future version of Adam Warlock who wants to dominate the cosmos with the help of the Infinity Stones. Since Thanos is the universe's foremost expert on the Stones, the Magus recruits a duplicate of the Mad Titan to be his henchman and unleashes evil Halloween monster duplicates of all the other Marvel heroes while he's at it. In other words, it's a story where Adam Warlock and Thanos have to team up to stop Adam Warlock and Thanos while the Avengers fight the Avengers.

If that sounds like a lot, it's because it is, and nobody embodies that more than the Magus himself. Not only can we tell that he's evil because he wants to kill the entire universe and not just half, there are several scenes where he establishes himself as a massive threat by brutally dominating his hench-Thanos, cowing him into servitude.

Sure, it's not quite the genuine article, but only a year after Thanos was the big villain of Infinity Gauntlet, it's close enough to make the Magus and his army of demonic superheroes seem like a pretty big deal.

Gamora

The original Infinity War comic was the story that dared to ask the question of what was scarier than one Thanos, and it came up with the pretty obvious answer: two Thanoses. Thanii? Whatever. While one served as a henchman for the Magus, the other — the real one — found himself having to team up with his former enemies in order to stop someone else from doing exactly what he'd tried to do a year earlier. That meant joining up with Adam Warlock's team, the Infinity Watch. That was a problem, though, since that team included Drax and Gamora, both of whom wanted Thanos dead.

In Warlock and the Infinity Watch #8, a quiet moment during the big crossover led Thanos and Gamora to decide that they should probably blow off some steam by attempting to murder each other. What followed was half sparring match, half all-out life-or-death brawl, with all pretense of testing each other's skills thrown out the window when the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy started beating her adoptive father bloody. While Thanos was more powerful, Gamora was faster, and put a quick and brutal end to the fight with a bone-shattering nerve strike directly to his throat, leaving Thanos paralyzed.

Of course, that 'paralysis' was merely a feint to lure her in — Gamora said herself that if she'd gotten within reach to finish the job, he would've used his superior power to end the fight. At the same time, she was the one who realized it was a trick, and while he was stronger, her speed meant that he never touched her while she landed blows that would've killed a lesser foe. The fight ended with the two characters gaining a little more respect for each other, and Thanos knowing full well that Gamora was more than his equal in combat.

Star-Lord

Imagine you're in love with the very concept of death, to the point where you're willing to kill half the universe on the off chance that she doesn't already have enough dead people to deal with from, you know, the entirety of history. Now imagine that when you die and are finally united with Death, a group of outer-space cultists bring you back to life, pulling you away from the skeletal arms of your beloved. If your first thought was 'I would probably be pretty angry about that,' then you're starting to get a good idea of how pissed off Thanos was when that exact thing happened to him back in 2010. And once he was through with the cultists, the Guardians of the Galaxy were his next targets.

While Drax and Gamora found themselves unable to take out the Extremely Mad Titan — even with Gamora's sword, the appropriately named Godslayer — the team had a secret weapon: a reality-altering, all-powerful Cosmic Cube. Unfortunately, the one that Peter Quill had his hands on was cracked, and was limited to one final use before it crumbled to dust. To make matters worse, he'd already used that last shot in a battle against the Magus. Comics being comics, though, Star-Lord eventually realized that previous fight was actually an illusion, meaning he still had that final cosmic bullet after all.

Here's the weird part, though: Since he was resurrected from the dead and immediately went on a rampage, the hulked-out Thanos spent the entirety of his fight with the Guardians completely naked. When Thanos got blasted, it was on a page that was drawn to look like Star-Lord was unleashing the full force of the Cosmic Cube directly at his powerfully purple junk. No wonder that dude came back wanting to murder the entire universe.

Gladiator

In pro wrestling terms, the Shi'ar Imperial Guard are what you'd call 'enhancement talent.' They look tough, they have cool powers, and there are a bunch of them — pretty fitting, since they were originally a take on DC's nearly endless Legion of Super-Heroes — but for the most part, they exist to be just enough of a threat that we can all be impressed when they're beaten. Whether it's the good guys just barely getting the win or a villain beating them up to show that they're the real threat, they have a job to do, and they do it well. There are, however, rare occasions when they do get a win, and none of them have been as brutally decisive as this one.

To be fair, the fight happened during a time when Thanos was dying thanks to a flaw in his otherwise impervious physiology. When he heads to a world within the Shi'ar Empire to murder his own father, the Imperial Guard decides it's time to take advantage and bring him down once and for all. For a while, the lesser members of the Guard — characters like Smasher, Oracle, and Fang — are able to hold their own, until Thanos gets tired of dealing with them and starts fighting back, hard. But then, the Guard calls in the big gun: Gladiator.

If you're not familiar with him, Gladiator is the Guard's answer to Superman, with the interesting twist that instead of Kryptonite, his greatest weakness is self-doubt. He can do anything he believes that he can do, and in 2016's Thanos #2, he clearly believes that he can take Thanos down with one single, world-shattering punch.

Literally everyone

If Thanos gets his hands on a Cosmic Cube, one of the unfathomable artifacts floating around the Marvel Universe that gives its bearer the ability reshape reality to their every whim, that's bad. If he becomes one with the Cube, transforming himself into a being of pure omnipotence, that's worse. If he then uses that power to send a combined roster of the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy into the alternate dimension known as the Cancerverse, where Lovecraftian horrors have created a corrupted version of life that can never truly die? That's about as bad as it gets. But as usual, 'about as bad as it gets' is right when the heroes start to turn everything around, which is what happens in Avengers Assemble #8.

In this case, the good news is that Thanos' version isn't a true Cosmic Cube, and instead is a synthetic version created by the United States government, which we can all agree is maybe not the best use of taxpayer money. The heroes are rescued by the Elders of the Universe, who still hate Thanos thanks to that time he killed them all back in 1991, who also arm them with weapons that can separate Thanos from the synthetic Cube.

Thanos is powerful, but as we've already seen, when he doesn't have grandiose accessories like the Infinity Gauntlet, a single opponent can occasionally take him down. Here, when he's suddenly depowered and faced with every member of the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, two Hulks, and Captain Britain for some reason? He gets such a bone-crushing beatdown that you actually start to feel bad for the guy.

Captain America

This one's more of a moral victory, but bear with us for a second. In Infinity Gauntlet #4, Thanos absolutely demolishes the Marvel superheroes. Spider-Man's head is bashed in with a rock, Thor is turned to glass and shattered, Cyclops suffocates with an airtight crystal box around his head, Wolverine's adamantium bones are turned to rubber, Quasar's hands get blown off in an explosion, and Iron Man gets decapitated by Terraxia, a sexy lady version of the Mad Titan that Thanos made himself, because what else are you going to do when you can suddenly create whatever you want?

At the end of it, the only one left is Captain America, who calmly walks up to Thanos, looks him straight in the eyes, and tells him that while Thanos might kill his enemies, he's never going to truly win — 'as long as one man stands against you, Thanos, you'll never be able to claim victory.' It's a great moment, and it's only made better when Cap says he's willing to die for those sentiments, which unfortunately happens about two and a half pages later.

Here's the thing, though: At the end of the story, Adam Warlock and Thanos have a conversation about how, since he was truly all-powerful when he had the Gauntlet, Thanos could only truly be defeated by his own knowledge that he was never truly worthy to wield that power. In other words, Captain America was right and Thanos knew it, and that was what led to his downfall.

Deadpool

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You know how Thanos is in love with Death, but she always spurns his advances? Well, part of the reason for that is she's got a little thing going on with a Canadian side piece: Wade Wilson, better known as Deadpool. See, while Deadpool's healing factor repairs his body every time, his tendency to get shot in the face means he actually dies, and his brief trips to the afterlife have gotten him into a long-distance relationship with Death.

Needless to say, Thanos does not enjoy being in the Friend Who Sometimes Murders Half The Universe Zone. When Death was kidnapped, preventing anyone in the universe from actually dying, Deadpool and Thanos were forced to team up, with Thanos reluctantly agreeing that Deadpool was the only one she was willing to communicate with. In the end, though, it was all a plot to let the whole universe be destroyed, leading to a once-and-for-all breakup between Death and 'Pool when he turned on Thanos to prevent it.

Deadpool was, obviously, pretty outmatched, but as usual, an obscure piece of the Marvel Universe came to his aid: the Uni-Power, a sort of cosmic self-preservation reflex the universe employs when it's threatened that can turn anyone into a superhero called Captain Universe. As 'Captain Uni-Pool,' he was able to make short work of Thanos, literally disintegrating him in the space between dimensions ... for a while, anyway.

Some random kid from the '70s

Spidey Super Stories was a collaboration between Marvel and The Electric Company, a 1970s educational show for kids — and folks, it got weird. In their efforts to make goofy, cartoonish Spider-Man stories for kids, Marvel published stuff like 'Star Jaws,' in which Dr. Doom built a space station big enough to swallow the Earth and then fought Spider-Man and Moondragon with a lightsaber. It's great.

The issue with Thanos might be the most bizarre of the bunch. If you've ever seen that panel of Thanos flying around in a helicopter with his own name written on the side, that's where it comes from: Spidey Super Stories #39. For most of the story, Spider-Man and the Cat — Patsy Walker's codename in this issue because apparently you couldn't call someone 'Hellcat' in a comic for babies — are trying to keep Thanos from getting his hands on a Cosmic Cube. They fail pretty miserably, mostly because Thanos uses the all-powerful cube to ... uh ... summon a dog? Like, a normal dog. Maybe slightly larger than average. They're not exactly great superheroes, but to be fair, he's also not a great villain here either.

In fact, he's so bad that when he creates an earthquake to deal with the heroes, he winds up falling over himself. He drops the Cube, and it's picked up not by Spidey not by Heck-cat, but by a young skateboard enthusiast named Speedy who commands the grass to tie Thanos up while they wait for the cops. With that, the Mad Titan, the Ultimate Nihilist, the man who only worships Death itself, is handcuffed and taken to jail. Thanos has had some brutal losses in the past, but getting perp-walked because of a 7-year-old is the kind of brutal own that you just don't come back from.

In the newest offering within the multiverse of Marvel films, the Avengers superhero team is up against its biggest challenge yet: saving life, across all the galaxies, as we know it. When the cosmically powerful villain Thanos succeeded in attaining the infinity stones at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, he eradicated half of all life in the universe with the snap of a finger.

Like 18th-century scholar Thomas Malthus, Thanos believed that the amount of life in the universe was unsustainable and would eventually destroy itself by consuming all resources. In 1798, the philosopher wrote an essay claiming that populations grow much faster than their food sources, and if growth remained unchecked it would eventually lead to societal collapse. Malthus’ opposition to improving the lives of the poor (who he feared then might have more children) provides a clear template for Thanos’ motivations.

Malthus’ theories were proven wrong, as humans have managed to scale food production along with population. Today, many scientists worry about the effects of population growth on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, though the variables involved are numerous and researchers are still studying the potential impacts.

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Even if the remaining heroes triumph and reverse Thanos’ devastating action in Avengers: Endgame, as they are (spoiler!) likely to do in their fight against the Mad Titan, the question remains: What would the ecological wreckage from such an extinction event actually look like on Earth?

Smithsonian.com spoke to a group of scientists to learn what would really happen to our planet if a mad supervillain were able to wipe out half the life here with the snap of his fingers.

A Broken Heart… and an Upset Stomach?

In addition to all the humans and animals that would meet their untimely ends, Thanos’ reality-altering snap would destroy some of the smallest lifeforms that are a fundamental part of human health—our own gut microbes. How would humans fare if we suddenly lost half of the microbes that keep us healthy?

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“[The microbiome] is a complex ecosystem of organisms that includes bacteria, but also viruses as well as fungi,” says Zuri Sullivan, an immunologist at Yale University. This microscopic ecosystem serves three main functions. First, it helps the host digest food by breaking down complex molecules. “Humans have a pretty limited ability to digest complex plant material, so we rely on these commensal bacteria in our microbiome to break down complex carbohydrates that we get from eating plants,” Sullivan says.

Our microbiomes also help teach our immune systems to differentiate between dangerous and harmless bacteria. The immune system has to learn when it should mount an all-out attack on deadly pathogens, and when it should refrain from overreacting to benign molecules, which is what happens when a person has an allergic reaction. And finally, the microbiome helps defend us directly against pathogens as well.

While these are all vital functions for human health, microbiologist Nicholas Lesniak at the University of Michigan doesn’t think Thanos would instantly make everyone sick with his snap. “We’re talking about halving, and we’re talking about billions of cells, so going from two billion cells to one billion cells,” he says. “But then they have a doubling time of hours, so in a matter of hours we’ve already overcome that hit.” While some of us might get an upset stomach for a bit, our microbiomes are pretty good at bouncing back.

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Insecticidal Maniac

On a slightly bigger scale, the next major concern would be insects. Although a trailer for Avengers: Endgame opened with Thanos retired to life as a farmer, he might not even be able to farm without half of the world’s pollinating insects.

“It would be very chaotic, and I don’t even know how you would snap your fingers in an ecologically sustainable way,” says entomologist May Berenbaum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “You would have problems with all the ecosystem services that insects are responsible for, including removing dead bodies or pollination services.”

Pollination is a key role of insects, and declines in pollinator species are a major concern around the world. The loss of these bugs has downstreameffects for fruit growers and honey aficionados alike. But insects are also important cleanup crews, dealing with materials like corpses or dung that other animals can’t break down.

“There’s a whole community of dung-feeding insects, and when this community is absent, then you end up knee deep in dung,” Berenbaum says.

A situation like this actually happened to Australia in the 1890s. Colonists brought non-marsupial mammals like sheep to the continent, and the local dung beetles couldn’t digest their different poop. The accumulation of feces and accompanying flies caused a massive problem until a Hungarian ecologist named George Bornemissza recognized the cause and started importing dung beetles that could process the waste. Thanos’ snap could cause a similar situation worldwide.

Where Thanos Would Have the Most Impact

For the bigger species of the world, such as large mammals and other carnivores, Thanos’s snap could prove most devastating. With half the world’s life gone, small animals like rats could come to inherit the Earth while larger species simply die out. In the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, for example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago and helped snuff out the dinosaurs, some 75 percent of all species were lost, but small, rodent-like mammals managed to survive and adapt.

University of Pennsylvania paleobiologist Lauren Sallan, who studies mass extinctions, says that because larger species tend to have fewer offspring and breed more slowly, they would fare poorly after the snap. “After a mass extinction, what I’ve found in the past is that it’s the smaller species that tend to breed fast are the source of future diversity,” Sallan says.

Of course, it would take a long time for even small animals to bounce back. According to Sallan, it takes between 20 to 30 million years to recover from a mass extinction. “It’s all because the ecosystems are kind of churning over and everything is shaking out according to what the individual groups are doing and how they’re responding to these new conditions,” she says. In the immediate aftermath, Sallan thinks a 50 percent loss of life would probably lead to most ecosystems collapsing entirely.

In a multiverse wherein the remaining Avengers can’t reverse Thanos’s destruction, the universe likely wouldn’t recover for millions of years. But on the bright side, Sallan says “I think humans would figure out a way to [survive], provided that not all of the ecosystems collapse.”