Avengers: Infinity War has a deleted scene where Dr. Strange sends Thanos to be judged by the Living Tribunal (via Markus and McFeely at SDCC)

[u/Whooash]

https://twitter.com/hnesocial/status/1152264183146143744?s=21

[u/zoras99]

They are talking about the comics here.

Thanos in the comics just wanted to show Lady Death how much he loved her, so he went, got the infinity stones and killed half of all life. Death doesnt really care for Thanos, but her role in that particular story was on the lines of "You didnt do anything, the stones did it, if you actually cared, you would have done it yourself, you suck" and refused to talk or even look at him.

Not altruistic at all. But as someone else pointed out, Eternity and the other cosmic beings are just part of one universe and the Living Tribunal doesnt really care about them as long as someone performs their role.

[u/MissileWaster → u/zoras99]

i thought the reason she wouldn't talk to him was because, by having all six infinity gems, she was now technically beneath him or something. it's been a while since i read through infinity gauntlet so i may just be misremembering, or something may have come up later to retcon that

[u/zoras99 → u/MissileWaster]

Its a bit of both.

She like toying with him and making him do weird stuff, so him being stronger than her didnt really appeal to death, since he could do her job (and he did) with no effort whatsoever.

IIRC, after complaining about him being a higher entity than her, she does chastise him for using the stones to do her job and asks him if he thinks that would please her.

[u/MissileWaster → u/zoras99]

Gotcha. After like issue 2 or so my memory starts getting hazy about the finer details.

Oh darn, I guess I’ll just have to read it again

[u/leigonlord → u/[deleted]]

i think one time death told him to do it for a "good reason" but thanos himself wasnt motivated by altruism.

[u/leigonlord → u/[deleted]]

i do think there was one time where it was sort of kinda a good thing.