How BIg Of A Role Will Thanos Have In The MCU Before Infinity Wars?

Don't expect to see Thanos before the Phase Three capstone films Avengers: Infinity War 1 & 2.  At least, that's how I'm understanding it to mean from a couple of interviews that Josh Brolin has given while on tour promoting his new movie Hail Caesar!.  From what he's said, he and Marvel haven't even sat down to talk about what his role in the films will be.  But let's face it, from the title alone, we know that he'll be the central big baddie Mad Titan that takes on the entire MCU.  Should he appear in any of the upcoming films for the MCU before that though?  I don't think so, and here's why.

In each of the Marvel movies that have been released, the good guy always wins at the end.  If he keeps showing up before the Infinity Wars movies, and gets thwarted in his attempts to get the stones each time, it will diminish his perception as being the most powerful being in the universe.  To be honest, I loved his first appearance at the end of the credits of the first Avengers film, it was a great tease.  His role in Guardians of the Galaxy left me scratching my head, though, and here's why.  If you were the most powerful person in the universe, and you were attempting to obtain the Infinity Stones so you control all manner of life, death, time, and space, would you really farm this task out to someone else to get for you?  Wouldn't you want to do it yourself so the power of these stones didn't fall into someone else's hands?  You know, like it did with Ronan in Guardians of the Galaxy?  Yes, I know that at the end of the second Avengers film, Age of Ultron, he says something along the lines of, "I guess I'll have to do it myself," but shouldn't he have wanted to do it that way in the first place?  The only thing that it showed me was that he could have powerful people do his bidding for him, but it really made me question how smart of a move that was, and in doing so, question how smart he really is. 

Of course, this is just my opinion on how Marvel should use him going forward before unleashing him on the universe in Avengers: Infinity War 1 & 2, but doesn't this make sense?  How do you think they should use him going forward?  Would you like to see more of him in the upcoming movies, or have them hold off until Infinity War comes out?  Leave your thoughts in the comments section below and let me know what you think.

Avengers: Infinity War 1 & 2 comes out May 4, 2018 and May 3, 2019 respectively.