Avengers: Endgame - 11 Big Questions After The Super Bowl Spot

6. Where's Thanos?

Avengers Endgame Thanos Armour
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After wiping out half the universe, the Mad Titan is now conspicuous by his absence. Thanos appeared only briefly in the first trailer for Avengers: Endgame, with the character continuing his life of rest and reward following the execution of his plan, and hasn't been seen since. There's not even really been any mention of him.

And yet, as Josh Brolin was quick to remind people, the Avengers do still have to face Thanos. They can't avenge anything without facing him again, and given he has such a big part to play - and was a huge part of the marketing campaign for the first movie - it's interesting that he's hardly been featured at all here. The trailers are supposedly only going to feature scenes from the first act, which would seemingly mean that Thanos isn't really going to come back into things until much later in the film, a la Voldemort in The Deathly Hallows Part 1.

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