Give it to me straight comic bros. Is gauntlet-less Thanos supposed to be this overpowered?
I can kind of brush off the "single drop of blood" shit because he had most the infinity stones but in endgame he's bare knuckled and brushing off plasma blasts, lightning bolts and godly hammers like they're fricking mosquito bites.
Thanos is an odd type of character. He's sort of like Black Hand, a fairly low level character who got a MASSIVE power boost in one story and maintained the reputation of being frighteningly powerful. Yes, he's an Eternal but he wasn't much of a big threat prior to the Infinity Gauntlet any more than Black Hand was prior to Blackest Night. Darkseid on the other hand has been a ruling-class god from his very inception.
For those who don't know, Jack Kirby had originally intended to continue the plot in the Thor comics up through Ragnarok where the Old Gods (the Aesir) would be killed off and replaced by the New Gods. Since that hadn't happened yet when he left Marvel and went to DC, he introduced his ideas for those New Gods as DC villains. They also had some interesting extra traits that have since been forgotten by DC's writers, such as being outside the normal flow of time and a multiversal singularity meaning that not only were there no alternate-reality versions of the New Gods they were immune to reality-reboot retcons and would still remember the old universe even after events like Crisis On Infinte Earths or Flashpoint. This made them, as a group, a bit more interesting than Thanos who is a normal member of a normal universe in Marvel and thus has multiversal duplicates and is contained to the reality in which he was born.
On the other hand, Darkseid's place as an out-of-timeline absolute that was the antithesis to High Father and the other New Gods locked him into more or less a single story. He opposed the New Gods, eventually learned of the Anti-Life Equation, and obsessively sought that out to fulfill his rather two-dimensional aspirations while Thanos had a lot of room for character development via the Infinity Watch and later stories. But then the MCU nerfed his personality by altering his motives to the nonsensical "50%" plan which would have cut the resources along with the population, making it pointless.
Darkseid is kinda boring. What makes him interesting is how other characters react to a tyrant they can't just punch there way through. I have very mixed on feelings on Thanos.
For me it's Darkseid. His evil is in character due to his upbringing and worldview. Thanos is just way too cheesy about being evil especially when he tries to spin it as necessary. Darkseid is like a black kid from the ghetto who does thug shit cause that's all he knows while Thanos is a black kid from the suburbs who does stupid shit he saw in a music video and cause you a colonizer if you try to stop him.
I mean Darkseid is missing most of his pectoral mucles so it's unlikely he even has a full range of motion, plus there's a strong risk he doesn't even have a ribcage at the top there, dude's missing his sternum for sure
that's instant death if he gets hit in the chest, he'll go down faster than a power rangers putty
Outside Jim Starling Saga and some 00s story I don't remember a good Thanos story in comics
Even with some meh stories released, I remember more nuEarth 2's being btfo by Darkside than any nuThanos shit writen by Aaron
Purple Man
are we letting Thanos have the infinity gauntlet or no?
Character wise or homosexual power scale?
Both
>Character wise
Thanos for the most part. Outside of Superman cartoon, Darkseid is pretty boring
>Power wise
Thanos with infinity gauntlet on home field>Darkseid. Darkseid otherwise.
Thanos in first case, Darkseid by far in the second case
I thought this was a dad bod contest
Give it to me straight comic bros. Is gauntlet-less Thanos supposed to be this overpowered?
I can kind of brush off the "single drop of blood" shit because he had most the infinity stones but in endgame he's bare knuckled and brushing off plasma blasts, lightning bolts and godly hammers like they're fricking mosquito bites.
The same as Omega-less Darkseid, very powerful coming homies, but they job to Thor/Superman
Damn that Darkseid looks like dogshit.
Darkseid
>one-shotted by Ares
Thanos
>shrugged off a full body tackle by the Hulk
This is not up for debate.
Thanos is an odd type of character. He's sort of like Black Hand, a fairly low level character who got a MASSIVE power boost in one story and maintained the reputation of being frighteningly powerful. Yes, he's an Eternal but he wasn't much of a big threat prior to the Infinity Gauntlet any more than Black Hand was prior to Blackest Night. Darkseid on the other hand has been a ruling-class god from his very inception.
For those who don't know, Jack Kirby had originally intended to continue the plot in the Thor comics up through Ragnarok where the Old Gods (the Aesir) would be killed off and replaced by the New Gods. Since that hadn't happened yet when he left Marvel and went to DC, he introduced his ideas for those New Gods as DC villains. They also had some interesting extra traits that have since been forgotten by DC's writers, such as being outside the normal flow of time and a multiversal singularity meaning that not only were there no alternate-reality versions of the New Gods they were immune to reality-reboot retcons and would still remember the old universe even after events like Crisis On Infinte Earths or Flashpoint. This made them, as a group, a bit more interesting than Thanos who is a normal member of a normal universe in Marvel and thus has multiversal duplicates and is contained to the reality in which he was born.
On the other hand, Darkseid's place as an out-of-timeline absolute that was the antithesis to High Father and the other New Gods locked him into more or less a single story. He opposed the New Gods, eventually learned of the Anti-Life Equation, and obsessively sought that out to fulfill his rather two-dimensional aspirations while Thanos had a lot of room for character development via the Infinity Watch and later stories. But then the MCU nerfed his personality by altering his motives to the nonsensical "50%" plan which would have cut the resources along with the population, making it pointless.
I know almost nothing about darkseid
They are both nerds. One is obssesed with equations and the other one collects stones/minerals.
Darkseid is kinda boring. What makes him interesting is how other characters react to a tyrant they can't just punch there way through. I have very mixed on feelings on Thanos.
For me it's Darkseid. His evil is in character due to his upbringing and worldview. Thanos is just way too cheesy about being evil especially when he tries to spin it as necessary. Darkseid is like a black kid from the ghetto who does thug shit cause that's all he knows while Thanos is a black kid from the suburbs who does stupid shit he saw in a music video and cause you a colonizer if you try to stop him.
Thanos with Infinity Gauntlet > Scarlet Witch > Captain Marvel >= Superman > Darkseid >= Thanos without gauntlet.
I mean Darkseid is missing most of his pectoral mucles so it's unlikely he even has a full range of motion, plus there's a strong risk he doesn't even have a ribcage at the top there, dude's missing his sternum for sure
that's instant death if he gets hit in the chest, he'll go down faster than a power rangers putty
Outside Jim Starling Saga and some 00s story I don't remember a good Thanos story in comics
Even with some meh stories released, I remember more nuEarth 2's being btfo by Darkside than any nuThanos shit writen by Aaron
the israelites
Whos on the left?