When we first see Thanos in “Infinity War,” he has simply destroyed the Asgardian ship carrying the final remaining survivors of the planet’s destruction from “Thor: Ragnarok” as he looked for the Space Stone — which Loki had stolen from Odin’s vault. In one impactful opening scene, the Mad Titan simply overpowers Thor and even defeats Hulk in a fistfight due to the Power Stone.
We do not see how Thanos obtained the Power Stone, which was final seen on Xandar on the finish of the primary “Guardians of the Galaxy,” nevertheless it appears primarily based on Jim Starlin’s feedback that we may have seen a moderately prolonged and epic battle whereby Thanos would get the stone (presumably after destroying a lot of the planet).
This shouldn’t be the primary time we hear of deleted scenes centered round Thanos. “Infinity War” screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely initially envisioned the movie as partly a Thanos origin story, and several scenes with flashbacks to Thanos’ youth were written earlier than getting finally reduce.
A film framed across the villain, maybe one with Thanos narrating the story a la “GoodFellas” might be fascinating, certain, however that is already one mighty lengthy movie, and so as to add one other 45 minutes to what’s basically simply one other one among 5 McGuffins would have been extreme.