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Ebony Maw was a member of the Black Order and an adoptive son of Thanos.
Biography[]
Leaving His Universe[]
Learning of Another Universe[]
- "There's another consciousness sharing her network. Another Nebula."
"Impossible."
"This duplicate carries a time stamp, from nine years in the future." - ―Ebony Maw and Thanos[src]
In 2014, Maw was tasked by Thanos to examine Nebula after she had overloaded due to sharing the same cerebral network with her alternate self, who had traveled to their universe. Maw quickly remarked that Nebula's files were entangled, with memories that were not hers.
Maw orderly checks Nebula's memory files
Maw concluded that there was another Nebula in their universe, and discovered that she was from nine years into the future in her universe. Maw revealed that Nebula's alternate self was on Morag. Thanos then asked Maw to access the duplicate's memories and search them for the locations of the Infinity Stones. When the memories began to play, Thanos ordered Maw to freeze an image, revealing Nebula and the Avengers planning the Time Heist.
Maw continues to play Nebula's files
Demanding to see everything in the duplicate's mind, Thanos had Maw continue to play the memories, eventually reaching the day the Avengers confronted Thanos' alternate self after he had succeeded in uniting the six Infinity Stones. As Thanos revealed in the fact that he was destined to succeed, Maw remarked that this was his future. However, the memory then showed Thanos' death at the hands of Thor.
Maw attempts to kill Nebula for her betrayal
Maw insisted to Thanos that his daughter was a traitor and fashioned a chain around her neck to kill her, as Nebula desperately confessed it wasn't her. Thanos decided to spare her, hoping to find another use for her. Thanos captured Nebula's counterpart and decided to go to that counterpart's universe.[3] Maw helped Thanos to reverse-engineer and mass-produce Pym Particles, thus allowing Thanos to bring Maw and his enormous armies into the Quantum Realm to travel to the main universe.[4]
Battle of Earth[]
Maw arrives to another universe
- "Where's Nebula?"
"She's not responding."
"Sire!" - ―Thanos, Corvus Glaive, and Ebony Maw[src]
Soon after their arrival in the main universe, Thanos summoned Maw and his armies down from the Sanctuary II. Maw stood on the ruins of the Avengers Compound alongside the Black Order and soon charged into battle.
Maw attempts to steal the Nano Gauntlet
Maw fought in the battle but paused upon seeing Clint Barton with the Nano Gauntlet, complete with all six Infinity Stones. Maw alerted Thanos to Barton's presence and instructed a horde of Outriders to charge him. However, Barton was saved by T'Challa, who took the Gauntlet. Maw then intervened and telekinetically restrained T'Challa from the concrete above ground, and nearly took the Gauntlet from him, only for Peter Parker to take it from his reach, much to his anger.
Maw disintegrating into dust
The battle ended when Tony Stark used the Stones to wipe Thanos and his army out of existence. As a result, Maw disintegrated into dust.[3]
Legacy[]
DNA Transferred to Super-Skrulls[]
Ebony Maw's DNA included in the Harvest
During the Battle of Earth, Ebony Maw had been wounded, causing him to spill his blood on the battlefield. His blood was collected after the battle by Nick Fury's secret Skrull unit and placed into a vial known as the Harvest alongside other enhanced DNA samples.
Maw's power used by Super-Skrull Gravik
The Harvest vial was administered by Super-Skrulls Gravik and G'iah, granting them access to Ebony Maw's physiology along with his telekinetic abilities.[5][6]
Personality[]
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This version of Maw retained most of his original mainstream counterpart's traits and behavior. This includes his total and complete loyalty to his father Thanos, and him sharing the Dark Lord's fanatical and twisted beliefs about the Black Order's benevolent goals of saving the universe from overpopulation by wiping out half of the creatures by collecting the Infinity Stones. However, this incarnation of Maw had one trait which made him slightly different than his canonical main universe version. While Maw was completely and utterly loyal and faithful to his father, but he still admitted that the Dark Lord was able to make mistakes. While he never contradicted and argued with Thanos, but he still warned his father about possible mistakes that the Mad Titan made, such as blindly trusting and believing his daughters Gamora and Nebula, who betrayed the original Thanos and facilitated the victory of the Avengers in their primary timeline. All of these proved that Maw was a skilled and masterful advisor, who often gave his master a useful advices in his genocidal campaign, because his warnings about Nebula were partially correct, albeit Maw was still mistaken, because he confused their Nebula with her alternate self.
Maw was pragmatic and skilled in his career as Black Order's top general and Thanos's second-in-command, showing great courage and expertise in leadership over the Mad Titan's armies and could easily calculate the movements of Thanos's enemies, such as his correct predictions about Avengers's plans. He was also a skilled fighter, who was masterful in his telekinetic abilities and never showed any cowardice at any point of their war with Avengers. In fact, the only time when Maw was scared when Stark snapped his fingers and wiped out all of Thanos's legions. Maw was horrified at his own demise, albeit it was still an understandable reaction at his inevitable demise, which he couldn't prevent in any way.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Telekinesis: Maw was able to move and otherwise manipulate inanimate objects to his will to an immense degree. During the Battle of Earth, Maw used his powers to attempt to get the Nano Gauntlet from Black Panther. This also caused a tornado of rubble around him to rise as well, and he was able to use more rubble to form a rock fist around Black Panther in order to get the Nano Gauntlet.
- Levitation: Maw could use his telekinesis to levitate, occasionally using this skill as a means of transportation.
- Magic: Maw is adept in magic. He used this ability to help Thanos reverse-engineer and mass-produce Pym Particles, thus allowing Thanos to bring the Black Order and his enormous armies to the future in order to get all six Infinity Stones.[4]
Abilities[]
- Expert Tactician: Although Maw was not as skilled in tactics as his adoptive father, he still decided to kill Nebula in order to prevent her from betraying her, which Maw learned she would commit in the future.
Relationships[]
Family[]
Allies[] |
Enemies[] |
Appearances[]
In chronological order:
Avengers: Endgame- Avengers: Endgame (alternate universe)
- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | Episode 1.09: Whose Show is This? (footage; alternate universe)
- Look Out for the Little Guy! (mentioned; alternate universe)
- Secret Invasion | Episode 1.06: Home (mentioned; alternate universe)
Trivia[]
- Ebony Maw is the only member of the Black Order whose 2014 and 2018 versions were killed by the same person (Iron Man).
Behind the Scenes[]
- The fight between Ebony Maw and Black Panther during the Battle of Earth sequence in Avengers: Endgame was originally longer but it was cut.[7]
References[]
- ↑ Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline
- ↑ Marvel Studios Canada on X - October 17, 2023
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Avengers: Endgame
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Joe Russo's Q&A about the plot of Avengers: Endgame in China
- ↑ Secret Invasion: 1.05: Harvest
- ↑ Secret Invasion: 1.06: Home
- ↑ ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Final Battle Oral History: How the Biggest Scene in Comic Book Movie History Came Together
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