The Mad Titan’s origin story will be told, but not during Avengers: Infinity War.

Leading up to release, directors Joe and Anthony Russo confirmed plans to trim Thanos’ backstory on the belief that it interfered with the sequel’s pacing. And that’s despite the fact that they consider Josh Brolin’s über-villain to be the main character of Infinity War – the film largely revolves around his quest to acquire all six Infinity Stones, after all.

But before he became known as Marvel’s Mad Titan, Thanos was born on a doomed world (Titan), where he was cast out by his people “for his genius, physical deviancy, and pragmatic but monstrous ideas.”

That’s a line pulled from the synopsis of Thanos: Titan Consumed, the McU’s first canon novel that’s due for release in November. Penned by Barry Lyga, the tie-in book is described as so:

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