Corvus Glaive (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Corvus Glaive is one of the secondary antagonists of the 2018 Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War. He is a member of the Black Order (alongside Proxima Midnight, Cull Obsidian & Ebony Maw) and an adopted son of Thanos who intends to help him in his quest to search and collect the Infinity Stones.

He was portrayed by Michael James Shaw.

Role
Glaive was first seen raiding the Asgardians' ship following the destruction of Asgard by the deceased Surtur. Along with his father and siblings, he slaughtered the Asgardians to their deaths just as Thanos forced Loki to surrender the Space Stone (the Tesseract). It is also revealed that Glaive was involved of his father's attack on the planet Xandar to gain possession of the Power Stone (the Orb), which he used to destroy Xandar. After Thanos kills Loki, Glaive escaped with his family as Thanos uses the Orb to destroy the Asgardians' ship, leaving a helpless Thor to drift in space.

With two of the Infinity Stones in place, Thanos sends Proxima and Glaive to Earth, where they spot Vision and Scarlet Witch in Scotland. Aware that Vision has the Mind Stone as it is lodged in his forehead, both Proxima and Glaive attempt to ambush the two. However, the arrival of Captain America, Black Widow and Falcon forced the two to escape back into space. The Avengers then send Vision out to Wakanda, in hopes that they could use its technology to safely remove the Mind Stone and destroy it with Scarlet Witch's powers.

After collecting the Reality Stone (the Aether) from the Collector, the Soul Stone from Red Skull, and the Time Stone (the Eye of Agamotto) from Doctor Strange, Thanos sends Proxima, Glaive and Obsidian to Wakanda, ordering them to lead a massive army of Outriders to attack the country and obtain the Mind Stone at all costs. This forces several Avengers and Wakandan warriors to fight back against the massive army. During the battle, Glaive infiltrated into the Wakandan palace after defeating Shuri and Ayo before engaging into a fight against Captain America. However, Vision took Glaive's weapon and kills Glaive by stabbing him from behind, killing him, just as soon as the rest of his siblings and the Outriders end up being killed as well (thanks to the arrival of a returning Thor, Rocket Racoon, and Groot).

Despite the massive losses, an arriving Thanos managed to obtain the Mind Stone after killing Vision and used all of the Infinity Stones to wipe out half of the universe's populace (including several Avengers and Guardians), much to the heroes' distraught.