Synopsis
We've skipped forward more years in Thanos' early life. Now his single pirate ship has expanded to a fleet which travels from world to world committing genocide. Along the way the Mad Titan has given himself energy projection powers.
On the latest world a survivor tries to kill him but of course fails. He asks why he did this and Thanos replies that it was to win the love of his mystery consort. He advises the bereaved alien to go see the woman in his bedroom on the ship and ask her if the carnage is finally enough. The alien obeys but all he's sees on the bed is a dead female of another species. He reports back to Thanos that the woman said nothing because she's dead. But the Titan kills him before the last word is uttered and says that she said nothing because it's not over. And he sees his 'consort' welcoming him back into the ship.
Back on Titan Mentor is still (years afterwards) mourning at the grave of his wife Sui-San. He still refuses to believe their son Thanos killed her. A'Lars' ascended father Kronos appears to him to once again try to persuade him of the truth and to do something about the butchery his son is committing. He predicts that 1 day Thanos will return to destroy this moon of Saturn, and Mentor must be ready to kill him. If A'Lars won't do something then Kronos *will*.
The mystery woman finds Thanos in his lab creating a large throne (possibly the 1 he teleports around on in later days). She taunts him when he asks how many he must kill before she will be his. She replies that it will be when he no longer needs to ask that question, when he is a god who has the universe in his hands. The Titan objects that he is already a god who can have anything he wants. She counters that he is still afraid of *himself* and the moon of his birth.
The angry Titan calls his guards to throw her in a cell. But they don't know who he's talking about. She laughs at him because he hadn't realised that only *he* can see her. She tells him his men think he's mad for talking to himself, and for taking corpses into his bedchamber and begging them to touch him. She's never told him her name but now she reveals herself as Death, the only thing he's ever loved and the only being who could love him back.
Shocked he blasts her skeletal form but she only asks him for a kiss. He rampages through the ship killing his own men until he reaches the combustion chamber. A loyal follower tries to stop him throwing himself in, but is burned up by the proximity. But then Thanos discovers the 1 thing he can't kill - himself.
Returning to skeletal Death he accuses her of turning him into a monster. She replies that he was born a monster which is why his mother tried to kill him at birth. Death only helped him to realise his destiny. Thanos prepares his fleet to ravage Titan.