Thanos Reveals A Huge Change To Death In The Marvel Universe

In “Thanos” #3, the titular villain comes face-to-face with a terrified Roberta and attempts to convince her she’s really Death. Despite the Illuminati’s efforts to stop Thanos, he kills Roberta in a car crash as she tries to flee, causing her true form to be revealed. The story flashes back to the Realm of Death, the home of the cosmic entity. It’s there that Christine Collins, the mother of the original Roberta, who passed away despite her young age, reaches out with the help of Life, Death’s sister, asking for her daughter to be brought back to life. Death refuses, but when Christine blasts her for not understanding pain or the value of life, it sparks the cosmic entity’s curiosity.

Death visits the Illuminati, where she shares with the group that she wants to experience human life and death. In exchange for keeping her safe as Roberta, Death tells the Illuminati she will reveal information regarding the extinction and ultimate destruction of their world, which she says is happening sooner than anyone thinks.

Using Doctor Strange as a catalyst to take over Roberta’s body, Death takes the place of the recently deceased young woman. For a time, Death lives in Fresno as Roberta. In her new life, she has no clue about her past existence as Death until she dies at Thanos’ hand. Realizing he is responsible for stealing her one chance at existing as a living being, Death, permanently changed by her experience, loses control and attacks Thanos.

In “Thanos” #3, the titular villain comes face-to-face with a terrified Roberta and attempts to convince her she’s really Death. Despite the Illuminati’s efforts to stop Thanos, he kills Roberta in a car crash as she tries to flee, causing her true form to be revealed. The story flashes back to the Realm of Death, the home of the cosmic entity. It’s there that Christine Collins, the mother of the original Roberta, who passed away despite her young age, reaches out with the help of Life, Death’s sister, asking for her daughter to be brought back to life. Death refuses, but when Christine blasts her for not understanding pain or the value of life, it sparks the cosmic entity’s curiosity.

Death visits the Illuminati, where she shares with the group that she wants to experience human life and death. In exchange for keeping her safe as Roberta, Death tells the Illuminati she will reveal information regarding the extinction and ultimate destruction of their world, which she says is happening sooner than anyone thinks.

Using Doctor Strange as a catalyst to take over Roberta’s body, Death takes the place of the recently deceased young woman. For a time, Death lives in Fresno as Roberta. In her new life, she has no clue about her past existence as Death until she dies at Thanos’ hand. Realizing he is responsible for stealing her one chance at existing as a living being, Death, permanently changed by her experience, loses control and attacks Thanos.