‘Avengers: Infinity War’ directors reveal ‘the most frightening thing’ about villain Thanos In an interview with Newsweek, “Avengers: Infinity War” directors Joe and Anthony Russo reveal “the most frightening thing” about villain Thanos. They call him “understandable” and say that the audience might find themselves empathizing with him. This calls to mind the “Black Panther” villain, Killmonger, who was praised for being Avengers: Infinity War’s big bad Thanos is getting his own origin story The Marvel Cinematic Universe is following in Star Wars’ footsteps with a novelized expansion of its on-screen universe. Barry Lyga’s new novel, Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War: Thanos—Titan Consumed, will give Avengers villain Thanos his own origin story when it hits shelves November 20th. Thanos has long been teased as the Avengers Infinity War Full Movie Everything to Know About Marvel’s Infinity Stones Before You See Avengers: Infinity War Warning: This post contains spoilers for all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. The Avengers chase after the Tesseract, the Guardians of the Galaxy steal an orb, Thor tries to capture Aether.