Ebony Maw

Ebony Maw began his life as a servant of Thanos in the elite team of killers named the Butcher Squadron. Like all the other pirates, soldiers and mercenaries Thanos gathered to form his crew, Maw and the Butcher Squadron lived in the space station Zero Sanctuary. In his time there, Maw started observing Thanos in order to better understand him. He noticed that the Mad Titan gave them orders whenever someone of his crew mysteriously disappeared, correctly guessing Thanos was behind it.

After the Butcher Squadron slaughtered the Zen-Whoberis to prevent the Magus from converting them into members of his Universal Church of Truth,[3] Thanos took the only remaining member of their species, a girl named Gamora, as a prisoner. Seeing as the girl was somehow important to Thanos, Maw planned to let her out of her cell in the hopes that he could ingratiate her to the Butcher Squadron, but she ran away. He then convinced the other members of the Butcher Squadron to help him find her so he could return her to Thanos. That way, Maw intended to show Thanos that his own underlings could take his new obsession away from him, which would in turn make the Mad Titan look vulnerable in front of the rest of his crew. However, Thanos found her first and killed one of their own, Infesti Macera, for their negligence.

When the other servants of Thanos began to question him, Maw took advantage of the situation to influence them into helping him kidnap Gamora, planning to use her to get what the Butcher Squadron wanted from Thanos: Zero Sanctuary. That plan didn't work out, however, as Gamora was able to defeat her captors and return to the space station safely. Not knowing the Butcher Squadron was behind Gamora's kidnapping, Thanos ordered them to take her captors to the brig while she accompanied them. Seemingly taking Gamora for a baby, the Black Squadron talked about their plan of taking over Zero Sanctuary right in front of her, prompting her to go after Thanos to tell him all about it. They tried to intercept her before she could do so, even going as far as to start a full-scale mutiny on Zero Sanctuary, but failed. Instead of dealing with the situation at hand, Thanos abandoned the space station in order to confront the Magus, leaving Gamora surrounded by enemies.

After Gamora fought her way out of Zero Sanctuary, resulting in the apparent death of Ballista Grim, Maw and Proxima Midnight discovered Thanos' plan to launch it on the Universal Church of Truth's fleet and fled. Months after the destruction of Zero Sanctuary, Maw and Midnight met with Thanos aboard Sanctuary I, where the Mad Titan congratulated them for getting the jump on him and turned them into the first members of his Black Order.

Ebony Maw is known as a Whisperer and is a master of seduction and manipulation. He is able to infect the mind with mind webs, leaving behind a spider-like possession in the mind. Once there, it can gain secrets and control minds into doing his bidding. He is also a shrewd tactical genius who can weave a slew of impressive strategy's to ensure his need to handle things physically are unnecessary, enabling him to use others for the brunt of his dirty work instead.

Ebony Maw is not one for physical confrontations. He equips himself with a powerful forcefield and teleportation technology.

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