Marvel vs Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes by: RAW64life@aol.com Character FAQ/Move List for Thanos Version 1.3 I. Introduction II. Version History III. Legend IV. Character Information -Biography -Outfits V. Rating VI. Moves -Special Moves -Hyper Combos / Supers -Assists -Combos VII. Coming Soon VIII. Credits IX. Legal Stuff -------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction -------------------------------------------------------------- Well, this is my first FAQ and I really don't know how to begin it so Im going to begin by saying that I don't know how to begin it. Anyway, over the past couple of months I've become a complete Marvel vs Capcom 2 maniac. I've searched far and wide for any news what so ever on Marvel vs Capcom 2. I've seen a million screen shots, about 30 movies, a few wallpapers (I have an awesome one on my comp now) and have read as many previews and reviews and other stuff. I've even read all the other character FAQ's on this site before I even thought of making my own. But I just felt I needed to contribute to the greatness of M vs C 2. So I'm doing it through GameFAQ's with a character FAQ. Now the next thing I needed to decide is who? My favorite guys in the game are the mutated freaks so I looked down the list and Thanos was my pick, 1, because he's never been mentioned in anything I've read on M vs C 2 and 2, because he's awesome. Anyway..... -------------------------------------------------------------- II. Version History -------------------------------------------------------------- 4/20/00 - 1.0 - Everything is new 4/21/00 - 1.1 - Spell checked it - Updated Moves section - Updated Credits section 4/22/00 - 1.2 - Fixed a few things here and there 5/5/00 - 1.3 - Added Rating Section - Updated Legal Stuff section - Updated Table of Contents - Updated Character Information section -------------------------------------------------------------- III. Legend -------------------------------------------------------------- My legend is a bit different from most other FAQ's but I find it a lot easier. Some other FAQ's that I read and printed out had the legend take up an entire page so I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. I don't use QCF, QCB, etc. for down forward moves. I doubt anyone is actually goona press down, take a 1 second pause and then press forward and a punch/kick. Up - Up Down - Down Forward - Forward Backward - Backward (air) - can be done in air Punch - Any Punch PP - Both Punches LP - Low Punch HP - High Punch Kick - Any Kick KK - Both Kicks LK - Low Kick HK - High Kick A1 - Assist 1 A2 - Assist 2 On to the character info............. -------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Character Information -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- Biography ----------------------------- Real Name - Thanos Alias - None Birthdate - ??/??/?? Height - 6 foot 7 Weight - 985 lbs. Hair - None Eyes - Red Outfit - Titan Uniform Fighting Style - Dragon Ball Z (It's the best way I could describe it) Blood Type - ??? Strength - 9 (opinion) Defense - 7.5 (opinion) Power - 9 (opinion) Speed - 7.5 (opinion) Recovery - 7.5 (opinion) Comboability - 8 (opinion) Overall - 8.5 (opinion) Known Allies: The Controller, the Super Skrull, The Blood Brothers, Adam Warlock, Death, Terrax Known Major Enemies: Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock, The Avengers, Silver Surfer First Appearance - Iron Man #55 (Comic) Previous vs Appearances - Marvel Super Heroes Brief History - Thanos is an Eternal, a race of almost immortal beings who lived on the moon of Saturn called Titan. Thanos' father saw his evil intentions of taking over and exiled him from this planet. Years later Thanos came back with his henchmen and took over Titan which led to him attempting to take over the universe. Using his psionic and cosmic destructive abilities he almost did take over the universe which he captured all six Infinity Gems but was stopped (that's the storyline of Marvel Super Heroes). Thanos still remains a threat to many including Warlock and Silver Surfer but yet has he fulfilled his dream. ----------------------------- Outfits ----------------------------- LP - Light Blue Costume / Orange Shoulder Pads, etc. HP - Light Blue Costume / Peach Shoulder Pads, etc. LK - Blue Costume / Yellow Shoulder Pads, etc. HK - Blue Costume / Red Shoulder Pads, etc. A1 - Purple Costume / Orange Shoulder Pads, etc. A2 - Purple Costume / Red Shoulder Pads, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- V. Rating -------------------------------------------------------------- This is pretty much a review of Thanos. I will go through the six deciding factors that make up a character (offense, defense, power, speed, recovery and comboability) and give them each a score from 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest) followed by an overall score. Offense - 9 - Definitely an offense based character. With an arsenal of heavy duty power and super moves and the fact that he's a boss of a previous Capcom versus game makes him almost all offense. His Titan Crush could use some work, his Death Sphere is good and pretty much all his supers are packed with pain for the opposition. But don't get power hungry because sometimes defense makes the man and if your all offense and no defense, your most likely to lose. Defense - 7.5 - Average. The reason I gave him such a high score (for him, it's a high score) is because although his blocking ability alone is bad he still naturally takes less damage than most fighters. Sometimes when Thanos is being comboed to death you can actually notice that he's not taking as much damage as you can expect. With guys like Kobun, one punch kills him almost automatically. His moves also have decent recovery time, but people usually cant take full advantage and do an 848 hit combo. Power - 9 - Just in case there's any confusion over power and offense, power is the strength and damage done by the moves and offense is the arsenal of moves you have (Ex: Spider-Man and Wolverine have good offense but not so great power). Anyway, the reason I typed that last sentence is because Thanos' offense is mainly due to his power moves which cancel out the first sentence. So if you want a detailed explanation, read the offense part, and if you don't want to read the offense part, exactly (I know it's not funny but I wanted to make this part 9 lines long). Speed - 7.5 - Although Thanos is a huge force to be reckoned with in terms of power and offense, Thanos' speed is surprisingly good considering he's mainly an offense based character. A great advantage in his speed is that he has an infinite dash. Tap Forward once and than quickly tap and hold forward again and he will run as long as you want him to which is a huge plus. In conclusion, although left in the dust by the likes of Spider-Man and Wolverine, Thanos is pretty much the fastest power-house in the game. Recovery - 7.5 - For the most part average. His special moves have almost no recovery time but his hyper combos are a different story. His Gauntlet Space and Gauntlet Power has an average recovery time by his Gauntlet Soul and Gauntlet Reality have a pretty big recovery and if evaded can lead to something not good. In conclusion, Thanos has average recovery and gets a 7.5. Comboability - 8 - Pretty combo friendly in my opinion. Pretty much all of his supers are great combo finishers and all of his regular moves are great assists if you're trying link your own supers. Even though all his supers are great combo finishers, some of them are great for just linking combos in general like his Gauntlet Power and his Gauntlet Soul. In conclusion, Thanos is a great combo ender and an average combo linker and takes home an 8. Not really a combo person. Overall - 8.5 - In a final conclusion, Thanos is for the most part above average. His power and offense obviously doesn't need any work due to his powerful moves and previously being a game end-boss, his defense is average, his speed is average but good in a sense that his supposed to be offense based and his recovery and comboability is average. Thanos gets an 8.5. (If you got an 85 on a test, wouldn't you be happy?) -------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Moves -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- Special Moves ----------------------------- Titan Crush - Down, Forward, Punch (air) - Thanos simply raises his hand up follow by a quick three punches. Can't really get a 10 line explanation out of this one. Nothing fancy at all really. Death Sphere - Down, Forward, Kick - Ok so it doesn't cause that much death but it's still a cool name and an effective way to start a real mean combo. Thanos winds up for a punch but instead traps the opponent in sort of a bubble things rendering him helpless for the next 3 seconds or so. Great for combo starters. ----------------------------- Hyper Combos / Supers ----------------------------- Gauntlet Power - Down, Forward, PP - Thanos raises his fist up high as he charges up. The four little orbs circle around his fist signaling for a Dragon Ball Z-like move. He then, in a punching motion, throws a huge fireball taking up three quarters of the screen at the opponent. Unblockable if in the middle of a combo otherwise pretty easy to block. Takes a good 25% percent off your average opponent. Gauntlet Soul - Down, Back, KK - Like his other super setups, he raises his fist up high with 4 tiny orbs surrounding his fist. Then the screen flashes and a picture of his mug pops up taking up half the screen. Then a lighting like beam shoots out of his fist and chases the opponent. If he misses, the beam will try to hit the opponent for a couple of seconds and then stop but if it connects it zaps the opponent and takes a good 20% off the average fighter. Gauntlet Reality - Down, Back, PP - Thanos as usual raises his clutched fist high in the air cleverly hiding his super charge. Then the orbs float around and Thanos' freakish face pops up. Then two huge slabs of rock surround the opponent and smash against each other, crushing the opponent. Pretty easy to dodge but does about 30% damage on the average fighter. All power moves for this guy. Gauntlet Space - Down, Forward, KK - You have a pretty good idea by now of what happens at the beginning of the super. Anyway, after the starting sequence two meteor showers fall out of a huge portal opened up by Thanos on the top of the screen. The first one falls by him (no it doesn't hurt him) and the second one falls over the enemy. Can do anywhere from 1 to 20% damage. ----------------------------- Assists ----------------------------- Alpha - Death Sphere / Gauntlet Power (see above) Beta - Titan Crush / Gauntlet Reality (see above) Gamma - ?/Nothing / Gauntlet Space (see above) ----------------------------- Combos ----------------------------- Infinite Combo - HK, Death Sphere, HK, Death Sphere, HK, Death Sphere, HK, Death Sphere, HK, Death Sphere, HK, Death Sphere, HK, Death Sphere,...... - You get the point. You can do some serious damage to your opponent and your hand if you can pull this one off. It really gets annoying because the damage you do to your opponent decreases as you juggle him/her and is a real thumb killer but it's a cheap way to beat your opponents best guy when your in a real jam. As for how the combo looks it's simply a kick to the face followed by the Death Sphere followed by a kick to the face followed by the Death Sphere followed by a kick to the face followed by the Death Sphere followed by...... Wine Killer - HK, Death Sphere, repeat until tired or opponent says "stop being cheap", Titan Crush, Gauntlet Power - Ok, the name is cheezy as hell but it lives up to it's name. 90% of the time you do the infinite \ combo you either get a "cheapo" from your fellow humanoid or a soar thumb. So if you have this situation, don't just stop, give 'em a few shots before you go. Simply give him the 'ol Titan Crush and a Gauntlet Power to go. As for how it looks, multiple kick to the face Death Sphere combinations followed by a few quick punches to the face and a huge fireball. Triple Super - Jump Forward, LK, HK, LP, Ducking LK, Gauntlet Power, Gauntlet Power, Gauntlet Soul - Thanos leaps into action with a series of kicks and punches followed by two devastating Gauntlet Powers and a Gauntlet Soul to go. Takes a good 75% health off of the average Joe and will usually result in your opponent being stupified by an awesome combo that's not totally cheap. In the combo above, if you were playing against another person and tried to do it, he would eventually punch you in the face or swat your controller / joystick away and take full advantage of your broken hands. As for how it looks, a usual punch-kick combo with two huge balls and a lighting bolt coming out of Thanos' clutched fist. Anything Combo - Jump Forward, LK, HK, LP, LP + LK (air combo start), anything - The reason I put anything is there is about 20 combinations of combos you can use beginning with everything before "anything". Try to create your own devastating combos or add this to the start of your combo to make it even more effective. Mix and match, slab and slurp, grab and glurp (sorry I had to say that) do anything, but my advice is not to try stuff on the taller guys because it most likely wont work on smaller guys. As for how it looks it's all up to you. -------------------------------------------------------------- VII. Coming Soon -------------------------------------------------------------- - More combos (if necessary. If you have a combo send it in and I will give you full credit) - Vs. Computer FAQ - More Character FAQs/Move lists -------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Credits -------------------------------------------------------------- - MadManCafe, IGNDC, Segadojo, GamingAge, Fighters.net and Shoryuken.com for providing me with the most up to date Marvel Vs Capcom 2 news, reviews, combo movies, previews, FAQ's, move lists and codes - GameFAQs for making one hell of a site - Capcom for making one hell of a game - Mike Z for the combos - Silver Surfer Website (http://marvelite.prohosting.com/surfer) for the character information - Me for writing this character FAQ -------------------------------------------------------------- XI. Legal Stuff -------------------------------------------------------------- - This document Copyright John Pantozzi (RAW64life) 2000 - If you don't find this FAQ on one of the following sites, it's illegal: - http://www.gamefaqs.com - http://www.fighters.net - http;//www.gamewinners.com -------------------------------------------------------------- Questions, comments, submissions, hate mail, anything? Send it in. 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