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== Infinity War ==
The sequel of the ''Infinity Gauntlet'' saga. During Adam Warlock's brief period of power, he [[Retcon|subconsciously expelled both good and evil from himself]] to be ruled by logic alone. His evil side becomes a new incarnation of Warlock's evil persona, the Magus, who creates evil doppelgangers of Earth's superheroes and, like Thanos before him, tried to assemble the Infinity Gauntlet. While the ''Infinity Gauntlet'' began with Thanos assembling the gauntlet and was all about how he used it, this series was about the Magus's quest to assemble it. {{spoiler|He never succeeded, although for a while he and the reader were tricked into thinking that he had}}.
== Infinity Crusade ==
The antagonist of this miniseries was the Goddess, the good part of Warlock, created at the same time as the Magus. She tries to use the power of Cosmic Cubes and [[Cult|Cultlike]] [[More Than Mind Control]] to subvert Earth's more idealistic heroes to serve her against the rest to establish a [[Utopia Justifies the Means|Utopia by any means necessary]]. Defeating her required the help of [[Enemy Mine|Mephisto]].
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* [[Achilles' Heel]]: ''Gauntlet'' established that Thanos's weakness is chronic self-defeatism.
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Infinity Gauntlet.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The mother of all Gambits happens in the first series, where Adam Warlock manipulates most of earths most powerful heroes, a whole host of universal entities, and sacrifices nearly all of them just to get Thanos to raise his hand at a specific moment.
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Thanos' battle with the heroes of Earth is one of the few times [[Captain America (comics)]]'s shield has been broken, something normally impossible. The ending sets it right again.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: The heroes who serve under the control of the Goddess in ''Crusade''.
* [[Crisis Crossover]]
* [[Deal
* [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?]]: The Magus' [[Batman Gambit]] in ''Infinity War'' involved the manipulation of some of the [[Marvel Universe]]'s most powerful cosmic beings, from Galactus up to Eternity and even the Living Tribunal. And the Magus himself was outmaneuvered by Adam Warlock and Thanos.
** Speaking of Thanos, {{spoiler|he literally scammed Mephisto at the end of Infinity Crusade. "You wanted a cosmic cube but didn't specify it had to be functioning..."}}
*** This leads to a [[Badass Boast]] from Thanos: {{spoiler|"Even devils must be careful when making a deal with Thanos of Titan."}}
* [[Dismantled MacGuffin]]: The Gauntlet. Complicating matters is the fact that the Gems ''want'' to be together, and possessing two or three makes the others much easier to find.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: [[Doctor Doom]] helps the heroes against Thanos.
* [[Enemy Without]]: Magus in ''War'' and goddess in ''Crusade'' (the latter being a rare example of a good-aligned version of the trope).
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* [[A God Am I]]: Controlling all of the Infinity Gems grants the wielder omnipotence. In fact, '''Infinity Gauntlet''' begins with Mephisto explaining to Thanos just how this trope applies to him.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Thanos}}
* [[Hoist
* [[Knight Templar]]: Goddess, who is more than willing to destroy all of existence so that she can remake it without evil.
* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Much of the action in ''Crusade'' was hero-on-hero. In part because, thanks to mind control, many of the world's villains have surrendered to heroes and are awaiting trial peacefully.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Despite being decked out in light and wanting to eliminate all evil in existence, the Goddess? Yep. Definitely not good.
* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Adam Warlock goes through a [[Journey to
* [[No Man Should Have This Power]]: The ending.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Thanos.
* [[Out
* [[Red Skies Crossover]]: During The Infinity War, some Marvel series included brief appearances of the heroes' doppelgangers, but nothing else related to the main plot.
* [[The Starscream]]: Thanos' doppelganger to the Magus.
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