Avengers: Endgame - Every Major Character's Best Moment

20. Thanos Loses His Head

After Infinity War was effectively a Thanos-centric movie, Endgame is basically the total opposite, giving him a relatively small role and keeping him off-screen for long stretches of its mid-section.

It's fair to say that Thanos doesn't get many truly memorable moments in Endgame, but his introductory scene certainly perked audiences up.

Shortly after the events of the snap, Thanos is living out his life as a lowly farmer when he's attacked by the Avengers, with Thor slicing his Infinity Gauntlet-wearing arm clean off.

However, Thanos explains that he destroyed the Infinity Stones to stop himself or anyone else from using them again, prompting an infuriated Thor to decapitate him with one clean swipe of Stormbreaker.

Though we all knew Thanos would be coming back in some form later in the movie, that the 2018 iteration of Thanos was defeated so early on was a brilliant case of expectations being subverted in a clever way.