AGATHON

Official Name: Agathon

Nature: Alternate Reality (Reality-71223; see comments) extraterrestrial planet, unidentified star system, unidentified galaxy 

Environment: At least formerly possessed a life-sustaining biosphere or not

Gravity: Unrevealed (likely comparable to if not significantly greater than Earth's)

Atmosphere: Presumably an unspecified combination of gases (mostly nitrogen and oxygen)

Natural Satellites: Unrevealed

Artificial Satellites: Unrevealed

Natives: Presumably the Agathonian race (apparently exterminated);
    any other fauna and flora unrevealed

Population: The Agathonians were reported exterminated;
    their previous population is unrevealed

Capital City: Unrevealed

Government: None;
    former government unrevealed

Languages: None;
    former language(s) of the Agathonians is unrevealed

Monetary Unit: None;
    former monetary unit(s) of the Agathonians is unrevealed

National Defense: None;
    it is unrevealed whether the Agathonians were divided into nations

Major Resources: Unrevealed

Planetary Defense: None;
    former defense(s) of the Agathonians is unrevealed

Places of Interest: Unrevealed;
    formerly the oldest castle in "the galaxy"

Prominent Residents: Unrevealed;
    formerly the Agathonians

Visitors: Thanos

First Appearance: Thanos: Death Sentence (January, 2017)

History:
(Thanos: Death Sentence (fb) - BTS) - Agathon was home to the Agathonian race and to the oldest castle in its galaxy, built of stone blocks weighing a half of a ton apiece.

(Thanos: Death Sentence (fb) - BTS) - Seeking to create a monument to his beloved manifestation of Death, the Infinity Gauntlet-possessing Thanos traveled to Agathon to claim as its building blocks the stone blocks of the oldest castle in the galaxy.

    The Agathonians presumably resisted Thanos to no avail.

    Via the virtually unlimited power of the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos exterminated the Agathonians across the planet, leaving one of them bleeding and dying to watch helplessly as Thanos hauled away the stones one by one.

    Using the stones from Agathon's castle, Thanos built with his own hands his immense Shrine to Death, floating in space, three stories high and a quarter mile wide.

    Frozen jewels shone from immense stone columns.

    Enormous gargoyles stared down from the turrets.

    Twin carved faces -- a huge skull and a beautiful young woman (the two faces of death, the destroyer and the comforter; age and youth; horror and beauty) -- flanked the thick wooden door that stood atop s stairway of worn slate.

    Smaller skulls spilled from every window and ran up and down the walls, creeping across the stone facade like ivy.

Comments: Shrine of Death created by Jim Starlin;
    Agathon and Agathonians created by Stuart Moore.

    Agathon and the Agathonians are discussed in a single paragraph on pg. 50, in which Thanos re-visits the now somewhat dilapidated Shrine.

    While Thanos apparently exterminated the Agathonians, it is unrevealed whether he destroyed Agathon or just left it riddled with the corpses of the Agathonians.

    Additionally, while many stories take place over the span of a city and report the slaughter of an entire race, the Infinity Gauntlet-possessing Thanos was more the capable of slaying all of the Agathonians and even every living thing on the planet, if he so chose.

    Further, that power would also have allowed Thanos to simultaneously or subsequently slay any Agathonians who were off-planet at the time.

    In Reality-616, Nebula stole the Infinity Gauntlet and reversed all of his actions for the last 24 hours (including exterminating half of the universe's population), but apparently in Reality-71223, it was Thanos' paternal grandfather, Kronos, who stripped him of his power.

    Although only mentioned in a Reality-71223 story, no other origin for the Shrine-616 exist; I think it is highly likely that Thanos-616 acquired the stones from Agathon.

    This is an image of the Shrine-616, which may vary somewhat in appearance from the Shrine-71223. ----------->

    This profile was completed 06/24/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary 's celebratory event to represent the characters and stories from novels.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Agathon and the Agathonians have no known connections to:

• AGGAMON - ruler of Purple Dimension, Lords of the Netherworld--Strange Tales I#119/2
• other "Agathon" characters, groups, items, events, races or places....
  

images: (without ads)
No images exist of Agathon or the Agathonians
Infinity Gauntlet I#1, pg. 21-22 (shrine to Death)

Appearances:
Thanos: Death Sentence (January, 2017) - Stuart Moore (writer), Jacket art by Simone Bianchi; interior art by Simone Bianchi, Riccardo Pieruccini and Humberto Ramos

First posted: 09/27/2026
Last updated: 06/24/2026

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