This was the discarded scene of Avengers Infinity War: 45 minutes of Thanos looking for the infinity stone

Deleted and outtake scenes from Marvel movies are starting to seem like a movie genre unto themselves. Since the cinematographic universe of the House of Ideas is more and more convoluted, there are so many characters and their films are so long, with the content of the stories that does make the cut, we already have more than enough. But deleted scenes—those that were discarded in the final cut—are a separate reality in the Marvelite multiverse. The reasons for the disappearance of these sequences can be very varied, but there is usually one constant: it was almost always a good idea to remove them from the film. The last case of these discarded scenes that, if included in the plot that we saw in theaters, would have weighed down the pace to exhaustion, stars Thanos, the last great Marvel villain before Kang the Conquerorwho, apparently, was about to have a scene in Avengers: Infinity War in which he spent 45 minutes searching for an infinity gem.

This was the discarded scene of Thanos in Infinity War

The tip-off was given by the creator of the character himself, the titan of comics Jim Starlin, who revealed in an interview in Near Mint Condition that the space villain, at first, was to star in a three-quarter-hour sequence that would have shown his journey to Xandar to retrieve the first of the Infinity Stones.

If you remember, you will remember that Avengers: Infinity War It begins with Thanos attacking Thor, Loki, and Hulk with the Power Stone already in his claws. According to Jim Starlin, in that very long deleted sequence we would have seen how Thanos went to Xandar, decimated the planet and took the gem. However, according to the writer and cartoonist, Joe Russo sent him a email about a month before the movie was set to open, alerting him that they had cut that piece of Thanos’ story. According to Starlin, “they didn’t want to spend the money on the special effects or make the movie as long as the second one was.” [Vengadores: Endgame]”.