Talk:Darkseid vs. Thanos/@comment-31428748-20170302095102

I'll admit it. I'm a DC fan first and foremost. However, Thanos is my #1 favorite Marvel character—  not just favorite Marvel villain, but favorite Marvel character overall. In fact, I own every story from every issue that Thanos has ever appeared in! Therefore, I believe this makes me as well positioned as anyone to speak as the authority on this subject.

It's not impossible for Darkseid to defeat an Infinity Gauntlet powered Thanos. He does have a path to victory. There are, in fact, two different ways Darkseid can win.

1. When Marvel did the Infinity Gauntlet storyline in 1991 they also did a 2 issue prequel titled The Thanos Quest; which followed Thanos's path of acquiring the infinity gems. In both this story & Infinity Gauntlet, it states that the gems can only work together as a combined entity with the Power gem supplying the power/energy to the other 5 gems. Darkseid would have Mother Box analyze Thanos & his IG, and feed him the intel he needs to defeat Thanos. Darkseid would only have to either crush/shatter the Power gem, or yank it out of the glove and teleport it away. With the IG now neutralized, Darkseid can now go back to beating Thanos on a level playing field.

2. Infinity Gauntlet, the Infinity Crusade, and the Infinity Revelation storylines all stated that the wielder of the IG is constantly under extreme duress from the overwhelming sensory overload it produces. Again, using Mother Boxes, Darkseid could have his god supercomputers crank up the energy output of each gem to overwhelm Thanos and render him catatonic.

P.S: Darkseid has a secret weapon of his own that he can use to match the power of the Infinity Gauntlet, and it isn't the Anti Life Equation. It's something called the Soul Fire Matrix. The Soul Fire Matrix channels every bit of the Source energy into Darkseid. With the Soul Fire, Darkseid literally becomes everything in existence— the embodiment of time, reality, dimensions, etc. The Soul Fire Matrix essentially makes Darkseid God. Not "a god"; not a "New God"; but God itself.