Although he couldn’t get rid of the full force of the Infinity Stones until the end of Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos made clever use of the gems he had in the film. In Titan, he fought Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Star-Lord, Drax, Mantis and Nebula, and the villain was able to dominate them all.
During this fight, Thanos used the stones for some of the rocks Iron Man had thrown at him in bats, which he then flew to the Armored Avenger.
It was a brief moment and we were never allowed to see these creatures in detail. However, thanks to conceptual artist Jerad S. Marantz, we can now see all the paintings needed to create them. They are undoubtedly scary, and it’s a shame they haven’t had a little more screen time in the film.
“I had to make some revisions to this guy,” the artist explains, “and I was surprised that you couldn’t see them in the film, although it happens often. At first, those [creatures] were going to be much more prominent. “In the end, it turns out that Marvel Studios and the Russo brothers felt they didn’t want to play a pivotal role.