It made an appearance in an issue of Deadpool and received its own Mattel Hot Wheels toy in 2018, but for the most part, it has gained popularity for the countless memes that laugh at its expense. The Thanos Copter was rarely seen again ever since. Had the Mad Titan arrived on the Sanctuary II with an entire army of Outriders, the story would likely have switched tones and Spidey and Hellcat wouldn't have lived to tell the tale. Since the story is just a straightforward adventure designed for Spider-Man and Hellcat to win within a single issue, the Thanos-Copter was presumably created as a fun way to introduce Thanos.
Spider-Man also gets involved in the chase for the cube and the whole storyline ends on an even more embarrassing note for Thanos when he's arrested by regular cops. It falls into an alley, where a kid finds it and uses the cube's power to conjure an ice cream.
This now-infamous vehicle was piloted by the Mad Titan during the story "The Cat And The Cosmic Cube." In it, Thanos uses the bright yellow helicopter - which is also emblazoned with his name - in order to claim the cube, only for Hellcat to kick it out of his hand. Related: Loki's Titans Tease Could Mean The TVA Arrested Thanos' Brother It took an entire army of superheroes to defeat him in Avengers: Endgame, so it's fair to say one of the more embarrassing moments from his comic book appearances came from the 1979 comic Spidey Super Stories #39, where he used his minuscule Thanos-Copter to try and steal the Cosmic Cube, a.k.a.
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He quickly became the deadliest bad guy of the entire series and one of the only villains to succeed in defeating the Avengers. It's almost difficult to imagine a time when Thanos wasn't a major part of the MCU, but it was only when the character appeared in the post-credit stinger for The Avengers that the Mad Titan truly become the puppet master villain of the entire cinematic universe.ĭespite being properly introduced back in Guardians Of The Galaxy, Thanos didn't really make his presence felt until Avengers: Infinity War. Here's the comic book origin of the Thanos-Copter, the Mad Titan's infamous vehicle that can be seen as a blink-and-you-miss-it easter egg in Loki episode 5.