--- title: Google Thanos for an Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg description: Google created an Avengers: End Game Easter Egg good for fans who don't want spoilers. canonical: https://time.com/5578708/google-avengers-egg/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-26T17:54:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:47.266Z og:title: Google Thanos for an Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg og:description: This Easter Egg is good for fans who don't want spoilers og:url: https://time.com/5578708/google-avengers-egg/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde437808b7788aa4/69892ed6656a3f25ccbd4435/thanos-marvel-avengers-infinity-war.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2256 og:image:height: 1269 og:image:alt: Thanos og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Thanos for an Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg twitter:description: This Easter Egg is good for fans who don't want spoilers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde437808b7788aa4/69892ed6656a3f25ccbd4435/thanos-marvel-avengers-infinity-war.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Can Google Thanos for an _Avengers: End Game_ Easter Egg > Sponsored content. 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Certain types of [_Avengers_](http://time.com/5577454/avengers-endgame-deaths/) fans have been avoiding the web and social media for weeks to avoid [spoilers](http://time.com/5576547/avengers-age-of-ultron-endgame-spoiler/) for the franchise’s latest installment _The Avengers: End Game_. Other types of fans, are crawling the web for any hint of their favorite superheroes fate or any secret Easter eggs left by [Marvel](http://time.com/5167535/upcoming-marvel-movies/) and its parent company, Disney. Either type of fan should go ahead and Google “Thanos” on the search engine. If you go to Google’s search window and type in the name of the super-villain “Thanos” who may have disappeared half of the planet’s population in a bid to balance the universe. Once that’s done, click on the golden glove that appears on the right side of the screen. Despite the lack of IRL Infinity Stones, as [_9to5Google_](https://9to5google.com/2019/04/24/thanos-google-easter-egg-avengers-endgame/) and others have noted, the glove will snap and then half the search results will turn to dust while sound effects waft out of your speakers. Luckily the process is reversible, by simply clicking the glove once again and triggering the Time Stone that puts everything back to normal. As Danny Sullivan, Google’s public liaison of search, [said on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/1121610749795692549), “It was just a thing we thought would be fun, because it’s nice to have a little fun in life.” He’s right! It’s the perfect little bit of entertainment for fans who want to get in on _The Avengers: Endgame_ action, without spoiling themselves for the film. > [](https://twitter.com/CyrusShepard/status/1121577264104128513) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5578708/google-avengers-egg/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5578708/google-avengers-egg/"},"headline":"You Can Google Thanos for an Avengers: End Game Easter Egg","datePublished":"2019-04-26T17:54:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:47.266Z","description":"Google created an Avengers: End Game Easter Egg good for fans who don't want spoilers.","url":"https://time.com/5578708/google-avengers-egg/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde437808b7788aa4/69892ed6656a3f25ccbd4435/thanos-marvel-avengers-infinity-war.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde437808b7788aa4/69892ed6656a3f25ccbd4435/thanos-marvel-avengers-infinity-war.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Thanos","caption":"Thanos Avengers","creditText":"Marvel Studios","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5578708/google-avengers-egg/","name":"You Can Google Thanos for an Avengers: End Game Easter Egg"}}]}] ```