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Character Taneleer Tivan
The Collector
A curator on Knowhere who will pay for anything unique and keep it in a case.
- Status
- Alive
- Species
- Elder of the universe
- First in print
- The Avengers #28 (1966)
- On screen
- 4 entries
Who they are
Taneleer Tivan runs a museum inside a severed Celestial head, staffed by servants he also collects, and he is the first character in the franchise to explain the Infinity Stones properly. His interest in the Aether and the Orb is professional; his handling of both is negligent in a way that has consequences for other people.
Connections
Guards
- The Reality Stone
Object · from thor the dark world · until avengers infinity war
Accepted it for safekeeping, on the grounds that keeping two stones together is unwise.
Based at
- Knowhere
Place
Appearances
Canonical timeline · 4 entries
Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.
After New York
2013-
Thor: The Dark World2013 · Cameo
Sif and Volstagg deliver the Aether to him in the tag — "one down, five to go."
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Guardians of the Galaxy2014 · Supporting
Buys the Orb, gets the lecture in, and loses most of his collection to an assistant with a grievance.
The Snap
2018
Outside time
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What If...?2021 · Supporting · 0/26 ep
The armoured hoarder T’Challa’s Star-Lord robs blind in the second episode.
Beyond the screen1 from the comics · click to open
From the comics
One of the Elders of the Universe
In the comics Tivan is one of a handful of beings who survived the previous universe and filled the time with an obsession each — the Grandmaster games, the Gardener plants, the Collector everything. He began collecting because he foresaw a cosmic threat and wanted a seed bank; the museum is, in his telling, an ark.
The Avengers #28 (1966), Stan Lee and Don Heck; expanded through Marvel Two-in-One and Thanos Quest