Yup. He's a god and been around a long time. The lore around him would have spread far and wide across many worlds.
overlordbabyj2025-09-22 05:40
Lore, sure. Hard facts? Probably not many outside of the Nine Realms.
If we're talking about the most well-*known*, it's got to be Thanos.
altiuscitiusfortius2025-09-22 05:56
Thor is more well known than Odin in non comic book real world pop culture
DeferredFuture2025-09-22 07:12
It seems the Guardians had no idea of Thor’s existence, which would point to Odin not being known by them as well because if they did, why wouldn’t they know about Thor, the prince/king of Asgard.
pnkxz2025-09-23 00:32
Can you name the politicians most likely to succeed Putin, Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping?
Diortheking2025-09-22 07:48
The collector and grandmaster should both be millions years old. it’s them
VaishakhD2025-09-22 05:33
Thanos definitely post infinity war
Nimcompoop19802025-09-22 07:04
Post Infinity War there were half as many people to know who he was and the majority of those who were left were probably just like WTF? It's not like they knew what happened or who had done it, just that half the people disappeared.
VaishakhD2025-09-22 07:06
Well even people who disappeared will be told about Thanos after coming back, making him the most infamous being in the whole universe.
Tipop2025-09-22 07:14
Told by who? Most of the universe has no idea what caused the Snap.
Kaos39742025-09-22 07:41
The Guardians could tell just one person in the galaxy, and it would spread like wildfire. Then you have people like Odin and Thor who could tell other realms.
RowdydidWrong2025-09-22 07:48
"Thanos was right" was graffiti we have seen in the MCU
ubutterscotchpine2025-09-22 14:55
I just finished commenting that Kate’s aunt also had a mug that said this in her apartment.
Tipop2025-09-22 15:44
… on Earth.
RowdydidWrong2025-09-22 16:15
That is fair it was an earth centric conflict. Though we do know several races know about earth and several places knew about the infinity stones.
Stormik2025-09-22 07:51
That may be true for some backwater planets with no space traffic.
Word gets around though. Even pre-snap Thanos was already on his conquest and was slaughtering half the population on some planets. He also "decimated" Xandar. That's kinda big news and would spread quite fast across the universe. In contrast, the Guardians who are pretty space-savvy didn't know who Thor is so it's pretty safe to assume they didn't know Odin either. Seems like Asgardians are well known only in the Nine Realms.
Tipop2025-09-22 15:44
I wasn’t arguing in favor of Thor being more well-known, I was just saying that the MAJORITY of the universe are not space-traveling alien life forms. People in distant galaxies would still have no idea what caused it.
BaronCoop2025-09-22 16:28
Can you even imagine just hanging out on your world and all of a sudden half of everyone just disappears and then five years later comes back??? If you didn’t have the context of Thanos you would have no idea what the hell happened, possibly for centuries or ever.
VaishakhD2025-09-22 16:30
Thanos was well known genocidal tyrant. Pretty sure if a planet has access to space travel, which seems to be almost every planet other than Earth, Thanos might be a pretty well known entity.
Redwolf90902025-09-22 22:54
Image their a species that only lives for a months or something, so they come back generations later.
DuckyHornet2025-09-23 02:54
Oh god, the Ocampa from Voyager. They only live seven years. Imagine your parents get dusted when you're just becoming an adult and when they return you're a geriatric
chiefbrody622025-09-24 06:52
It would be like a very extreme version of The Leftovers
HulkVahkiin080242025-09-22 20:34
>People in distant galaxies would still have no idea what caused it.
Based on?
Tipop2025-09-22 20:40
Based on “How would they?” Are we assuming there’s some intra-galactic news service that informs every planet about what happened? Even the non-spacefaring civilizations?
elizabnthe2025-09-22 07:51
It's kind of a big deal. There would be a push to know what caused it. Which results in the obvious answer - Thanos which can be provided by anyone that does know already. And a lot of people knew of Thanos's plans and actions.
Like anyone with some degree of space travel isn't sitting around going "I guess we just loss half of all people. That's weird but expected". They'd want to *know*.
So Thanos has to be known by more people than anyone else. Because I think anyone with again space travel knows Thanos.
ubutterscotchpine2025-09-22 14:55
You clearly didn’t watch Hawkeye. Kate’s aunt had a mug that said ‘Thanos was right’ implying that, yes, everyone does know about Thanos lol.
Tipop2025-09-22 15:41
Yes, because Earth is the Universe.
Let’s try to imagine for a moment that half of Earth vanishes… but the source was not in Africa, but some distant world in a different galaxy (i.e. not even in the Milky Way.) Do you think Kate’s aunt would still have that mug?
Southern_Agent60962025-09-23 08:10
Maybe. The MCU appears to have both "normal" sci-fi FTL travel AND warp gates that are immeasurably faster and connect much larger distances than our primitive ape brain can comprehend. Most of the known universe has been surveyed and colonized to the extent that backwater worlds like Earth are more an exception than rule. For example both the Kree and Skrull Empires are familiar with Earth and Terrans to an extent (there's jokes) despite both groups originating outside of this galaxy entirely.
There's also cultures like the Asgardians, space gods with technology that can essentially send you anywhere with little delays who don't have any "prime directive" that prohibits them from interfering with natives.
(Also most life in the universe is pretty homogeneous and homogeneously distributed due to billions of years of Celestial cultivation)
There's a sort of multi-galactic default monoculture that Earth is sheltered from.
Some of Thanos's followers are victims that he has abused and brainwashed but some are just edgelord fanbois who post memes about him on the Mojo show comments sections.
Vengexncee2025-09-23 07:25
Probably an actually stupid question but did the general public know what he looked like? From my memory he only showed up in Wakanda and it’s not like the battle was streamed on the news. I’d be pissed off if half the universe got wiped and I couldn’t see what the being that did it looked like
adamwhitemusic2025-09-23 08:11
Wakanda and Stark built recording tech into their suits and tech so all it would take is one person who saw him to release the image. And the was assuredly an investigation where the surviving avengers would have to speak to various world governments, and that footage would have surely been subpoenaed and released to the public.
Citizen_Kong2025-09-24 10:56
Probably pre-Infinity War too, he slaughtered half of hundreds of worlds before even starting to go after the gems. He was definitely known to the Nova corps.
losername72025-09-26 18:05
And the Kree and Skrulls.
masterofreality20012025-10-04 04:20
Thanos on the most wanted list of the entire universe
ConsistentReward32172025-09-22 05:37
Odin..
mkdurfee2025-09-22 05:38
Gotta be Thanos. Had the biggest impact on the wider universe and that was before he even got all the stones
Bubba_licious862025-09-22 05:46
He waited until Odin died tho..
mkdurfee2025-09-22 05:49
Yeah but the whole universe already feared him for for wiping out half of civilization everywhere he went. That was all well before he collected and used the stones
DeferredFuture2025-09-22 07:15
Is that confirmed anywhere?
Bubba_licious862025-09-22 07:37
If you're asking if its 'cannon' I don't know and honestly don't care if it is because thats what happened. I think everyone agrees that Ragnarok happens right before Infinity war. Odin dies at the beginning of Ragnarok at which time Thanos goes and destroys Xandar and gets the power stone. By the time Ragnarok ends, Thanos catches up to Thors ship, armed with the power stone, looking to get the space stone. I believe it was mentioned that Thanos knew where at least a couple of the stones were before Infinity War so why didn't he start his plan sooner? (He also gave Loki a scepter with the mind stone inside of it.) Like I said I don't know if the implication is cannon but if it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck.. The All-Father of the 9 realms wouldn't have let half of all life he watches over be extinguished. Thats just how I interpreted the facts tho.
DeferredFuture2025-09-22 07:49
It would be a convincing argument if we had seen Odin do anything power wise in the MCU. All of his crazy feats are essentially assumptions. I’m sure he was insanely powerful back then, but in the present day MCU? He just sat there and yelled a lot. His biggest feat is stripping Thor of his power and that is a Thor-specific feat, it couldn’t be replicated on Thanos.
It seems more likely that Thanos jumped on the opportunity of Asgard being destroyed, rather than him personally knowing of Odin and waiting for his death. If he truly cared about Odin enough to keep up on him, he would’ve visited Asgard after Loki banished him to Earth with no powers.
andiwd2025-09-22 11:03
Odin seems more like a nuclear weapon than anything. His existence is enough of a deterrent. Look at the start of Thor where his appearance in his panoply of war is enough to get an entire army of frost giants to stand down. His presence is enough to get Thor (admittedly a loud mouth and a braggart at this point) to think that they could defeat the entire army.
It is also implied that he is doing something off screen, (whether it's his presence or negotiation etc we don't know) as when Loki was pretending to be Odin and sitting around watching theatre all day things apparently get worse in the nine realms.
SirBananaOrngeCumber2025-09-23 02:49
Also we’ve seen how powerful Hela is, after just coming back from prison, she’s already immortal and can beat an entire army and even Thor and the Hulk are no match for her.
And she was no match for Odin even in the absolute hight of her power. That tells us that Odin is leagues higher and definitely more then able to defend his realms against Thanos
Firmspy2025-09-22 05:54
Here me out - on Earth we had heard about Odin, before we even knew who Thanos was. That to me says that Odin (who has probably been alive longer than Thanos) would have had a much greater opportunity across the entire universe to make his presence known, and for legend and myths to circulate.
DeferredFuture2025-09-22 07:15
That’s only because Odin was directly involved in the nine realms. The Asgardians coming to earth directly inspired their myths.
There’s no confirmation Odin did anything outside of the nine realms, which are just essentially nine “planets” that are light years apart linked together through yggdrasil, or a “wormhole”.
The universe is so much bigger than just nine planets
chiefbrody622025-09-24 06:55
The Guardians had no idea who he was
Firmspy2025-09-24 07:32
Because he was unconcious and they didn't introduce themselves.
"My name is Thor"
Quill: Like, THE Thor?!
Quill is from Earth and up to speed with the mythic gods.
Vampus08152025-09-24 15:42
Midgard is one of the nine realms. Hela specifically said he stopped at 9 worlds.
MissingLink1012025-09-22 17:19
I kinda wonder how much the wider Universe (outside of those planets/places that housed the stones) even knew what happened with the blip though, which would have possibly been even more terrifying.
deadlyghost1232025-09-22 05:41
Thanos has to be on the history books for every planet
Pretend-Meaning-15362025-09-22 05:57
I’d say Thor not only mythological wise but also people have seen him as a superhero a bunch of times
vinnybawbaw2025-09-22 06:01
Thor was basically folklore before the events of the first movie/the Avengers. He was made a celebrity when he joined the Avengers.
Pretend-Meaning-15362025-09-22 06:02
So was Odin thor's been public now for 15 years give or take
vinnybawbaw2025-09-22 06:08
Yeah, so I would say, Thor, Odin, Captain Marvel, Thanos (for obvious reasons). High Evolutionary was experimenting on his own planet, and Knowhere/Sakaar are kinda secret.
ssjskwash2025-09-22 14:35
This is all on earth though. None of the Guardians knew who he was even though someone like Rocket had heard of nidavellir
CarcosaRorschach2025-09-22 06:10
Trevor Moore by far.
onepostandbye2025-09-22 06:48
Trevor Slattery maybe
TH3_DESTROY3R2025-09-22 06:49
Dirk Diggler
Least_Rain80272025-09-22 07:00
Thanos and Thor. Thor is one of the first Avengers. His hammer literally caused hundreds of people to go to New Mexico(?). Thanos literally wiped out half of civilization.
The only mention of Odin in history books would be that he is Thor's dad and he died.
Kang probably not so much considering that only the Ant Man characters and the TVA have seen him.
The Collector would probably be mentioned as once having an Infinity Stone in his possession. the Grand Master would probably just be known as a Roman emperor wannabe.
Captain Marvel is where it gets tricky because she was mostly only seen by the Avengers, Maria, and Monica. BUT she had to have been seen more because she has such a huge fan base as seen in Ms Marvel.
Several-Summer-55592025-09-22 08:17
You do know its not just Earth its the whole universe
Ok-disaster20222025-09-22 07:44
Thanos. It's been a long time since Asgard was offensive and a major actor in the galaxy, and even then they seemed to focus their conquest to the nine realms, which I still dont understand how it connects. the Asgardians didn't really interact with the Kree Skrull war for example.
SirBananaOrngeCumber2025-09-23 02:54
Based off clues throughout the movies, I believe Asgard was one of the earlier races to develop extreme technology. They start conquering planets, then after they conquer 8 planets, Hela starts getting more wild while Odin starts calming down, so he banished her, and then just rules over the 9 Realms, connected by wormholes and Yggdrasil, and not caring about wars of other planets, but they’re still powerful enough that neither Kree nor Skrull even attempt to battle them, and the Nova Corp leave them to their own devices.
AndreZB20002025-09-22 10:06
Thanos. Even if Odin has been a myth for centuries, im sure theres people who dont know about him, but EVERYONE must know about Thanos.
Razor_3DS2025-09-22 11:17
Thor mainly because of Norse Mythology.
puffyanus2025-09-22 14:26
I’d argue The Collector, over Thanos
Odin and Thor? Not so much outside the nine realms.
Captain marvel? Doesn’t make it to different galaxies
Grand master here and there but mostly sakarr.
The Collector collected/bought things/people from literally across galaxies. If you had something worth anything his name would be given.
Imo 🤷🏻♂️
canadagooses622025-09-24 17:07
This is the only right answer.
Dell0c02025-09-22 16:12
This sort of needed scope is where Marvel fails in revealing in the films.
Kinhammer2025-09-22 18:18
Gotta be Star Lord!
TelephoneCertain53442025-09-22 20:37
I would say either Thanos because of his huge impact or Odin because he was around the longest.
EMlYASHlROU2025-09-22 21:01
Easily Thanos post infinity war. Literally every sentient being in the universe would have been aware of him, if not by name, then at least by his actions
Suavecito702025-09-22 21:31
Tony after avengers. What if showed that even people in the galaxy knew about them winning
Fatturdsmella2025-09-22 21:35
odin for sure
thismothafcka2025-09-22 22:19
Thanos is the only one of these that has actually been seen within the actual Multiverse.
MikelDP2025-09-22 23:30
Thanos... At least half the universe knows about him...
ItsAProdigalReturn2025-09-23 01:01
Originally I'd say Odin. Now I'd say Thanos.
Yolodoubledown2025-09-23 02:59
Thanos, with Odin as a close second.
Wild_Story85392025-09-23 05:39
Thor sure 😎 always
Wialyatedris2025-09-23 10:40
The funniest thing is that Hulk is probably in the top 10 such characters, considering that after Harlem, almost the entire planet knew about him, and then he was champion in the Sakaar arena, plus he killed Fenrir, saving the Asgardians, and gave Surtur a slap. I mean, he clearly should have become a hero of Asgard after that, plus if the Grandmaster is a famous figure, then a lot of people would have known about his strongest fighter.
zreichgut2025-09-23 21:32
Madisynn
Defiant_Wheel48882025-09-25 17:19
ODIN
THOR
THANOS
ELDER OF UNIVERSE.
Other two I think they famous as
Annilator and animal modifer so yeah some animal world or world like groot and animals known this 4th slide guy and captain marvel is known after she destroyed the computer of kree.
CassiniForge2025-09-26 00:04
I’m surprised no one said High Evolutionary. While I think Thanos was more than likely more known for his conquests, I feel there *could* be an argument for HE given his work through OrgoCorp. His whole public PR was all about his intergalactic bioengineering company.
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If we're talking about the most well-*known*, it's got to be Thanos.
Word gets around though. Even pre-snap Thanos was already on his conquest and was slaughtering half the population on some planets. He also "decimated" Xandar. That's kinda big news and would spread quite fast across the universe. In contrast, the Guardians who are pretty space-savvy didn't know who Thor is so it's pretty safe to assume they didn't know Odin either. Seems like Asgardians are well known only in the Nine Realms.
Based on?
Like anyone with some degree of space travel isn't sitting around going "I guess we just loss half of all people. That's weird but expected". They'd want to *know*.
So Thanos has to be known by more people than anyone else. Because I think anyone with again space travel knows Thanos.
Let’s try to imagine for a moment that half of Earth vanishes… but the source was not in Africa, but some distant world in a different galaxy (i.e. not even in the Milky Way.) Do you think Kate’s aunt would still have that mug?
There's also cultures like the Asgardians, space gods with technology that can essentially send you anywhere with little delays who don't have any "prime directive" that prohibits them from interfering with natives.
(Also most life in the universe is pretty homogeneous and homogeneously distributed due to billions of years of Celestial cultivation)
There's a sort of multi-galactic default monoculture that Earth is sheltered from.
Some of Thanos's followers are victims that he has abused and brainwashed but some are just edgelord fanbois who post memes about him on the Mojo show comments sections.
It seems more likely that Thanos jumped on the opportunity of Asgard being destroyed, rather than him personally knowing of Odin and waiting for his death. If he truly cared about Odin enough to keep up on him, he would’ve visited Asgard after Loki banished him to Earth with no powers.
It is also implied that he is doing something off screen, (whether it's his presence or negotiation etc we don't know) as when Loki was pretending to be Odin and sitting around watching theatre all day things apparently get worse in the nine realms.
And she was no match for Odin even in the absolute hight of her power. That tells us that Odin is leagues higher and definitely more then able to defend his realms against Thanos
There’s no confirmation Odin did anything outside of the nine realms, which are just essentially nine “planets” that are light years apart linked together through yggdrasil, or a “wormhole”.
The universe is so much bigger than just nine planets
"My name is Thor"
Quill: Like, THE Thor?!
Quill is from Earth and up to speed with the mythic gods.
The only mention of Odin in history books would be that he is Thor's dad and he died.
Kang probably not so much considering that only the Ant Man characters and the TVA have seen him.
The Collector would probably be mentioned as once having an Infinity Stone in his possession. the Grand Master would probably just be known as a Roman emperor wannabe.
Captain Marvel is where it gets tricky because she was mostly only seen by the Avengers, Maria, and Monica. BUT she had to have been seen more because she has such a huge fan base as seen in Ms Marvel.
Odin and Thor? Not so much outside the nine realms.
Captain marvel? Doesn’t make it to different galaxies
Grand master here and there but mostly sakarr.
The Collector collected/bought things/people from literally across galaxies. If you had something worth anything his name would be given.
Imo 🤷🏻♂️
THOR
THANOS
ELDER OF UNIVERSE.
Other two I think they famous as
Annilator and animal modifer so yeah some animal world or world like groot and animals known this 4th slide guy and captain marvel is known after she destroyed the computer of kree.