re: Why would Ebony Maw submit to Thanos

It was answered earlier in the thread, you just aren’t listening.

Ignore the fake comic book world for a momment where characters have whatever power or capability their writers want them to, and it varies from arc to arc.

Ask yourself and research why Genghis Khan rose to power and kept it.


I’m sure he had subordinates that were his martial superior.

I’m not saying Thano’s route is similar to his. Just that insisting that it’s some kind of plot hole, EVEN IF Maw can take him easily, is highly ignorant.

It’s never hinted that Maw is being held against his will at this point. He might be the subject of Stockholm syndrome from his youth but Maw fully signs up to what Thanos is doing, and working with him rather than in place of him is a better way to reach those goals.