Death appeared before Frank to confirm that his actions had nonetheless instilled the baby Thanos with the bloodlust that would make him her agent.

Realizing the consequences of his intervention in his life, Frank killed the future Thanos and returned his baby self to the past, erasing the alternate timeline. The future Thanos showed Frank the authoritarian world he had built on his example, including a past version of himself living with his wife Maria. They were subsequently greeted by Thanos' future self, who sported the same clothes Frank used as the Punisher. The Guardians of the Galaxy of said timeline tried to change their future to the best by killing Thanos, but Frank (and, later on, baby Thanos) killed them all. With the Watcher bearing witness, an angry Frank vowed to raise Thanos on his own, consequently creating a timeline where Thanos grew up to become something worse. Knowing Galactus was to devour Markus-Centauri at that point in time, Frank traveled to the planet to try and convince the Devourer of Worlds into helping him, but he refused to do so after accessing Frank's memories. Upon using his Penance Stare on baby Thanos, Frank realized he wasn't evil yet and decided to take him under his wing instead as to change his future. Frank chose to be sent back in the time to the day Thanos was born so he could kill him before he grew up to become a monster. Seeing that Frank didn't want to be there, Odin returned his powers to him and offered to send him to any time and place he wanted. Baby Thanos Must Die įrank was retrieved from his dead timeline by a Odin of an alternate reality and rewarded with Valhalla, but he didn't fit in with the rest of its inhabitants. After the Fallen One used Mjolnir to smash the Rider to bits, the time-displaced Thanos realized his older self's true motivations and went on to prevent this future from ever happening. Unbeknownst to the Rider, King Thanos didn't need his younger self to kill the Fallen One he needed him to kill himself in order to finally be by Death's side. Īt the behest of King Thanos, the Rider used the Time Stone to drag a younger Thanos to the future so he could help his older self in winning the love of Death by killing the Fallen One, the one being who managed to elude him. The undying Rider was offered by Thanos the chance to see more evil than he could punish in a thousand lifetimes, and thus became his servant. Their story lasted centuries, but came to an end once they finally confronted Thanos, who beheaded Galactus as he approached to battle. Together they roamed the cosmos on a quest to halt Thanos' systematic annihilation of every living being in existence, which led them to become legends. When a badly injured Galactus arrived on Earth seeking help against Thanos, unaware that the population of Earth had already been killed by him, the Ghost Rider offered the dead planet to him in exchange for the chance of punishing the Mad Titan as his herald an offer that the Great Devourer accepted. After even Mephisto fell silent to his calls, he began to lose his mind. The Ghost Rider spent the next countless years alone, roaming endlessly and undying with no one to kill or love. When he returned to Earth, however, Thanos was already gone and everything on the planet was dead. Willing to give anything in order to punish Thanos for slaughtering his planet, the Punisher signed a demonic deal with Mephisto and became the latest Ghost Rider. Thanos Wins ĭuring the heroes of Earth's last stand against Thanos, the Punisher was hit in the head by the debris of a building the Hulk was thrown into and died, his soul being subsequently sent to Hell. This Frank Castle's earlier life seemingly mirrors that of the Frank Castle of the Prime Marvel Universe.

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