Talk:Thanos VS Darkseid/@comment-29742618-20181210004615

I may as well weigh in on this:

Honestly speaking, Thanos pretty much takes this fight 6 - 7.5/10.

Thanos and Darkseid are both equal in temrs of strength, smarts, durability, and leadership. So this really comes down to equipme-nt and powers.

Darkseid has the Anti-Life Equation. No doubt a powerful tool to bring his foes to heel. But this is Thanos we're talking about. The guy is so stubborn, he literally denied his alternate future self his death purely because he saw how weak and frail he became in the future. His indomitable will is apparant when he ventured into the God Quarry, a place where literal gods are trapped in a world that caters to their desires no matter how false the world may be, where he pretty much went on a journey of self-discovery to find himself, and he came out rewarded with the powers of the Quarry. He's had experience with wily and clever opponents, even for the likes of Loki, the trickster god, and Mephisto, literally the devil himself.

The Anti-Life Equation is a handy tool no doubt, but it has little to no effect on the likes of Thanos. And even then if that somehow works, Thanos has the Mind Stone to protect himself from the effects and the Soul Stone to retreat to, to escape it.

Don't get me started on Thanos' physical abilities; the guy bodies people like Thor, Hulk, Gladiator, and the Silver Surfer like it's tuesday. And we all know how strong they are.

What's really important is that Darkseid's omega beams are the only way to truley kill Thanos... if it weren't for the fact that the omega effect actually reduced you to nothing. The beams once killed a clone version of Batman, and all that was left was his skeleton. That really isn't enough to put Thanos down.

What makes Thanos so powerful, is the fact that after he was bodied by Doom who had the powers of the Beyonders during the incursions, his soul was left in the "Outside". A place beyond the farthest reaches of the known universe where it's so destructive that not even Galactus, a cosmic entity, could survive long enough there. And when Galactus tore open a portal back to the universe, Thanos' soul followed back and he somehow got his body back.

Thanos literally survived nonexistence. Think about that.

Oh and please stop saying that "True Darkseid" is canon and that HOTU Thanos isn't. Death Battle uses characters at their most powerful. IT would be pretty unfair to give Darkseid this form and not Thanos as well.