By now you should have already seen the last trailer for Avengers: Infinity War and seen Loki standing with the Black Order, and maybe some of you (and me) had not recognized these characters or known much about them, but being as ever helpful as i am, i have collated what i have learned together for you, though some stories may not be relevant i have focused on the info that could have been used as a template for Infinity Wars. Enjoy...
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Outriders
Tactile telepathy
Invisibility
Density Control
Flight
Physical Disruption
Free Comic Book Day Vol 2013 Infinity
(May, 2013)
Overview
The Outriders are a race of genetically engineered creatures with the purpose of serving a master until there deaths.
Thanos uses his army of Outriders to locate planets he can invade. Upon finding a new world, an Outrider would at first gather Intel before reporting this information to Corvus Glaive (General and child of Thanos), who then arrives at the planet with Thanos and the Black Order demanding a tribute of a warrior before their world is destroyed.
Clearly the Outriders are Thanos' army in Infinity War, see the GIF above, and though Thanos has the Chitauri (featured in Avengers: Assemble and in the Gamora flashback in the trailer) Thanos appears to favor the Outriders, maybe due to Chitauri defeat to the Avengers under Loki's command, and with the ability to think for themselves the Outriders are definitely more formidable.
_________________________________________________________________________Ebony Maw
Overview
Ebony Maw is a member of the Black Order, (generals to Thanos' army). Being a master manipulator and strategist elevated him above the other members.
Comic History
When Thanos targets Earth as his next planet to destroy, he sends the Black Order ahead and sends Ebony Maw to deal with Doctor Strange. Using his abilities Maw took control of Doctor Strange, forcing him to summon Shuma-Gorath (an inter dimensional demon), Maw also maintained the control forcing Doctor Strange to serve as a double agent.
Maw used Strange to locate the son of Thanos who was hiding in an Inhuman town in Greenland. Maw released Strange when he had no further use for him with no memory of the encounter.
Black Bolt detonates a Terrigen Bomb unleashing the Terrigen Mists all over the Earth, forcing Thanos' son, Thane, into Terrigenesis.
Thanes powers appeared causing him to destroy the entire town. Pretending to help Thane, Maw captures and contains him then manipulates him into defeating Thanos
Powers & Abilities
Master manipulator.
Possession of peoples minds using Mind Webs
Expert tacticion
Genius
Teleportation
First Appearance
New Avengers Vol 3 #8
(September, 2013)
From the trailers it looks like Maw will take on Doctor Strange similarly to how this was done in the Comic books, though as there has been no mention of Thane we can guess that Maw is torturing Strange for the Time Stone stored in the Eye of Agamotto, the blades that he uses on Strange appear to be the same as those used by Kaecilius in the Doctor Strange movie. whether Maw leaves Strange under his control remains to be seen.
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Proxima Midnight
Proxima Midnight is one of the best fighters in Thanos's army and wife to Corvus Glaive.
Comic History
During the invasion of Earth, Proxima Midnight was sent to Atlantis to retrieve an infinity Gem that was under the protection of Namor.
Deciding to first land in New York with her soldiers to destroy the city and the earth in a bid to impress her master. her attack brought her into a fight with Cage and The Mighty Avengers
While the battle with a weakened Avengers Midnight managed to incapacitate the group Leader, and then proceeding to pummel Lucas into the ground but was driven off by a combination of Cage and the will of the people of New York. Just as Thanos began watching on, incurring his disappointment.
Returning to her mission Midnight discovers Atlantis in rubble and Namor defeated, Proxima found that Namor didn't have the gem offering to spare him and Atlantis in exchange for the location of the gem. Namor told her that the gem was in Wakanda.
After her fellow Black Order member Black Dwarf failed to destroy the city, Proxima, Corvus Glaive and Thanos head for Wakanda, breaching their city wall. They figured out the gem was in the Necropolis but When Ebony Maw locates Thanos' son, Thane, the Black Order departed.
When the Avengers arrived in Greenland to stop Thanos, Proxima Midnight was trapped with her master by Thane in an amber like structure, leaving them in a state of "living death." The two were then taken back to the Necropolis in Wakanda.
Powers and Abilities
Nigh Invulnerability
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Speed
Superhuman Endurance
Master Combatant
Proxima Midnight is armed with a Spear which Thanos created by trapping a sun in distorted space-time, It can increase of decrease its mass, the lance also carries an incredibly lethal toxin to its target.
New Avengers Vol 3 #8
(September, 2013)
Proxima Midnight's involvement in the movie is pretty much still shrouded in mystery, she appears to attack Captain American and Black Widow alongside her husband but to what context this is, is still unknown
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Corvus Glaive
Overview
Corvus Glaive is the husband to Proxima Midnight and his brother Black Dwarf. One of his roles was to force the planets marked for destruction by Thanos to offer a tribute of their defeat in the shape of a Child of Thanos.
Comic History
When Thanos targeted Earth, Corvus Glaive arrived to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, in search of Thane, Thanos' son but left when he realized Thane was not there
When Thane was found, the Black Order moved to that location in order for Thanos to murder his son but Corvus Glaive was destroyed by Hyperion when the Avengers arrived to stop Thanos.
Thanos and Proxima Midnight were frozen in an amber construct, in a state of living death by Thane, and they remained imprisoned in the Necropolis along with Corvus' glaive, which was all that was left.
Corvus could not truly die as long as his blade remains in one piece, and he began to slowly reanimate in the Necropolis.
Powers
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Speed
Superhuman Durability
Superhuman Endurance
Immortality: As long as his glaive remains intact intact
Master Strategist and Tactician
Corvus is armed with a glaive capable of splitting atoms, sharp enough to cut through anything including the Hulk's skin
Free Comic Book Day Vol 2013 Infinity
Avengers #680
(May, 2013)
Being the leader of the Order, we can imagine that Corvus will have more to do and from the trailer this appears to be the case as he is clearly the general sent to retrieve the mind stone from The Vision
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Cull Obsidian aka Black Dwarf
Black Dwarf
Overview
Black Dwarf is a member of The Black Order, being the strength of Thanos' army.
When Thanos targeted Earth he sent Black Dwarf to Wakanda where he and his found huge resistance and forcing him to retreat. For failing, Thanos expelled him from the Black Order.
Taking pity, Thanos gave him one more chance to prove himself, by sending him to protect The Peak from being reclaimed by the Avengers. During the battle, Black Dwarf was killed by Ronan the Accuser with a severe blow to the head from his hammer.
PowersSuperhuman Strength
Superhuman Density
Superhuman Durability: Black Dwarf's skin is unbreakable.
New Avengers Vol 3 #8
(September, 2013)
Apart from standing around a lot Cull Obsidian appears not to do much in the trailer, but hopefully like the comic book, Obsidian will lead the Outriders against Wakanda and as he is effectively a space Hulk, fingers crossed we will get a showdown with the Jade Giant!
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