Proxima Midnight

Name	Proxima Midnight
Portrayed by	Monique Ganderton Carrie Coon
Movie	Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame
Cause of death	Crushed by Thresher machine (Infinity War) Killed by Iron Man; disintegrated by the power of the Infinity Stones (Endgame)

Proxima Midnight was a villainous character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. She was a member of the Black Order, a group of powerful aliens adopted by the warlord Thanos. She was a highly skilled warrior and assassin and was also married to fellow Black Order member Corvus Glaive. She was portrayed by Carrie Coon and on-set by Monique Ganderton.

History

Avengers: Infinity War

Midnight and the other members of the Black Order joined Thanos as he sought out the Infinity Stones across the universe. After acquiring the Power Stone on Xandar and decimating its population, they would intercept the Statesman, a starship ferrying Asgardian refugees to Earth. There, Thanos obtained the Space Stone and wiped out half of the Asgardians. Knowing that two of the Stones were on Earth, he sent his adoptive children there to obtain them.

Midnight and Glaive would travel to Edinburgh, Scotland in order to obtain the Mind Stone, which was in the possession of the android Vision. The pair ambushed Vision and Wanda Maximoff in the empty city streets in the middle of the night, but the former Avengers did not make retrieving the Stone an easy task. As the fight progressed, Vision and Wanda received unexpected reinforcements as Captain America, Black Widow and Falcon arrived on the scene, forcing Midnight and Glaive to withdraw.

When the Avengers took Vision to Wakanda to have the Mind Stone safely removed from his head, Midnight, Glaive and Cull Obsidian would later lead an Outrider assault on the small, hidden nation. During the battle, Midnight fought against Black Widow and Okoye and overpowered them. Just as she was about to deliver a killing blow to Black Widow, Scarlet Witch suddenly entered the fray and used her telekinesis to pick up Midnight and throw her into the path of one of the Black Order's Thresher machines. Midnight was caught in the Thresher's wheel and ground to pulp. The only gore shown on-screen was a tiny spattering of blue blood across Black Widow's face.

Avengers: Endgame

Five years following the Decimation, the heroes who survived Thanos' Snap devised a means of safely travelling back in time in order to obtain the Infinity Stones and undo the effects of the Snap. The way this worked was that the past timelines that the Avengers travelled to were actually alternate timelines accessed via the Quantum Realm, thus whatever they did in those timelines would have no effect on their present. When Nebula and War Machine travelled back to an alternate 2014, a link was established between the 2023 Nebula and the 2014 Nebula. This allowed Thanos to learn about how his future counterpart had succeeded in his plan to cleanse the universe and how the Avengers were attempting to undo his victory.

Thanos, Midnight and the Black Order would find a means of following 2023 Nebula back through the Quantum Realm and into her timeline where they fought against the Avengers for the Infinity Stones. This time, however, the heroes were victorious: Iron Man was able to use the Stones to eradicate Thanos and his entire army, but at the cost of his own life.