Was Xander destroyed or just the Nova corps?

I'm asking as Supernovas seem more out of the question now if the Xander people were just killed off. Which would be out of character for Thanos, as the only Planet he seems to kill fully was his own people, which he explains why, unless I'm forgetting something. Seems weird he would change that up, for Xandar would make sense if Thor meant the Government and Corp were the half-killed then. I know Nova and his son are more obscure, but idk it would be cool to see them. Hopefully starting with Jesse as he isn't a popular character as Spider-Man, Ant-Man, etc, so it would be important to set up Jesse, then to his children for Young Avengers or whatever teen groups there are.

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PhuckSJWs2025-09-27 10:16

it just says he "decimated" xandar. not that he destroyed it.

so likely he killed 50% of the population as well, same as he did all other planets/groups. he just did Xandar in person.

MsAndrea2025-09-27 11:51

Decimated would be killing one in ten, so he let them off lightly, presumably because they fought back.

PhuckSJWs2025-09-27 11:57

while you are historically correct, I am pretty sure they were not using it with that particular meaning. they were using it as the more broadly used in present day to mean significant/severe/widespread.

bucketofsteam2025-09-27 13:36

A few means 7, but when ppl use it in speech it just means a short while or a little of. Not literally 7.

Same case here.

MsAndrea2025-09-27 15:57

No it doesn't, a few is a small number but more than two.

thatonemoze2025-09-27 17:12

7 is very small compared to 100

MsAndrea2025-09-27 17:39

7 can certainly be a few, but a few was never specifically 7.

bucketofsteam2025-09-27 19:59

Okay change my comment to "a couple" then.

Which means two but when ppl ask for a couple of chips or minutes they don't mean exactly 2.

MsAndrea2025-09-28 00:52

Colloquially sometimes a couple means just a small number, just like decimation means destroying a large proportion of something. These things I'll grant you. We sometimes say things about numbers facetiously, or because we don't know what a word means, or through hyperbole, or understatement.

Thr fact remains that when someone says they were decimated, it would be wrong to assume that they meant completely destroyed, when they could have literally meant decimated, and that interpretation makes more sense. The fact that all the marvel fans on this sub apparently are so illiterate they didn't know what it meant is not indicative of the meaning of the writer.

If you have a reason to believe Thanos destroyed Xandar and all the Xandarians, state it, but if your evidence is the fact that someone said something that does not mean that, fuck off and stop trying to justify it.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Instruction_Holiday2025-09-27 13:25

They kinda frame it weird with what was said. But I appreciate the answer

Tyrannosapien2025-09-27 18:28

How do they frame it weird? "Decimated" doesn't mean "destroyed". Based on the literal meaning, the word "decimated" is good shorthand for describing Thanos' behavior (murdering every 2nd being) to those who don't know about him. From what you wrote, it sounds more like you just misunderstood the word or the dialogue. Really no big deal, so to answer your question literally he did neither. Thanos was just his regular self on Xandar.

StarKnight6972025-09-27 21:26

If we’re being pedantic, decimating means ‘one in ten’. Really, he was… halfimating? duomating? bimating?

Goatfellon2025-09-28 17:05

A fact I like to share that i assume you already know but ima share it anyways:

>In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'destruction of a tenth'[1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort. The discipline was used by senior commanders in the Roman army to punish units or large groups guilty of capital offences, such as cowardice, mutiny, desertion, and insubordination, and for pacification of rebellious legions.

GenGaara252025-09-28 22:10

Which I've always found dumb. If his plan was to use the gauntlet to wipe out half of life anyway, then every place he already been to and killed half of ends up getting halved again. Leaving them with a quarter of their original population. He's such a meanie.

OkMention99882025-10-02 03:39

The whole Thanos thing was stupid to begin with.

Dude's been sacking worlds for decades, if not centuries, and the rest of the galaxy just shakes their heads.

Wtygrrr2025-09-27 15:39

I’m pretty sure he survived until the end, though he did lose an eye.

beardiac2025-09-27 16:11

I've got a feeling...

YourInMySwamp2025-09-27 16:02

Perhaps he knew the Nova Corps would fight against his effort to collect the rest of the stones, so he killed them all. But really we just don’t know for certain.

FX1142025-09-27 17:06

He was in a war with them, not doing his regular purge. So he's going to kill as many as is necessary, not just cull them down to half.

And he didn't kill his people, they died of natural causes, and he blames the fact that they didn't follow his plan.

Muzza252025-09-27 21:19

Wonder if he went easy on them in the snap to keep it fair/balanced after killing so many

christopher13932025-09-27 17:59

Before he got all the stones, Thanos would get his army to kill half the planet. This was shown with the flashback showing when he met Gamora. He literally had the population split into two groups and his army executed one of the groups.

So my guess is his army overwhelmed the Nova Corps until they either surrendered or enough were killed that the remainder could no longer fight. Then I believe he had half the planet wiped out like he did with other planets.

As insane as Thanos was, he was consistent and didn’t want to kill more than he felt he had too. He made it very clear that the best solution in his mind was wiping out half the population of each planet totally indiscriminately. He didn’t enjoy or even want to it, he just felt it was necessary. He saw it as his great burden.

I think he did his best to ensure that planets surrendered quickly so he didn’t have to kill more than he had to. He would overwhelm them with sheer force, but he doesn’t seem to involve civilians in the fights. Like with the Asgardians, he allowed the citizens to flee their ship. His ship was massive, there is no way the escape ship could have gotten away if he didn’t want them to. He just focused on the ones who were fighting him, and left the moment he got the Space Stone.

This was also clear when he arrived in Wakanda for the Mind Stone. He was rushed by many Avengers and didn’t try to kill any of them, he just knocked them out of the way or restricted them somehow. He had 5 stones, he could have killed any of them by just closing his fist.

Even Wanda, he wouldn’t kill her and even seemed to sympathise for her pain. He truly believed in his own twisted way that what he was doing was for the best and I do believe that he thinks he has utmost respect for life, and will do what he can to ensure no more deaths that what he saw as necessary would happen.

So i imagine he overwhelmed the Nova Corps until they surrendered, then killed half the population of Xander and left. I imagine there is still a lot of surviving corps members. Whichever ones survived the attack, plus any who were off world at the time.

chiefbrody622025-09-28 02:00

I hope John C Reilly's character and their family survived.

Jarita122025-09-27 18:18

I am just rewatching Buffy and got confused for a second.... :D

Instruction_Holiday2025-09-27 18:53

Autocorrected lol

Jarita122025-09-27 19:36

Yeah reddit won't let you amend the thread name for some reason

BackgroundEngineer112025-09-27 18:36

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Someone hurt Xander?

ProjectNo40902025-09-27 19:17

Well he would have had to brute force his way through the Nova Corp fleet then he had to wage a ground war to get into whatever vault the power stone was in. We saw what his lone battleship could do in Endgame, and we saw what his ground troops could do in Infinity War. We also know how dedicated and unwavering the Nova Corp was in GOTG1. The harder they fought the harder Thanos would hit. He would have unleashed his sakaaran army and brutes loose on population centers to spread the nova Corp thin. There would have been orbital bombardments After Thanos got the stone I can imagine him punishing the planet using the power stone.

Wolventec2025-09-27 19:45

the new marvel zombies show which takes place after thanos got the stone from the xander showed the nova corps still exists

gestalto2025-09-28 19:09

In an alternate universe...so not really applicable.

Wolventec2025-09-28 20:37

that universe only deviated at the end of ant man 2 though

gestalto2025-09-29 00:22

Debatable as to the exact timeframe. Could go either way though, so fair enough.

Wolventec2025-09-29 00:31

zombies was a continuation of the what if show in which the watcher told us the it the[ deviation took place 2 weeks before infinity war ](https://youtu.be/V2fIBIL-QxU?si=wtFB67AxyioKAWXN&t=162)and everything with asgard and thanos was the same as the original timeline before hulk arrived back at earth

Dangerous_Teaching622025-09-29 09:23

The genuine only difference is stated to be that Hanks wife got infected in the quantum realm. That's the specific diverging event. It most definitely doesn't have a ripple effect that's bigger.

Theres one small possibility that Nova Corps are only alive because they were reacting to a quarantine so they left instead of fighting. However, Valkyrie confirms that it takes weeks for signals coming from Earth to reach the Nova Corps. Theyd have to have found out sooner than thanos' attack.

Signal_Expression7302025-09-28 23:28

I always assumed Thanos didn't kill them all

TelenorTheGNP2025-09-30 18:18

I'm a little behind on Marvel Zombies, but >!the doodad that Kamala is protecting has something to do with the Nova corps and it makes me think the Annihilation Wave isn't totally out of the picture.!<

Grayx_28872025-10-04 09:02

Thanos only attacked the planet just to obtain the Power Stone. They never said anything about him destroying the planet. So, I say it's possible that a few Nova Corpsmen survived, but I am not sure how people of Xandar have escaped with their lives.