It doesnt need to have killed him. What I'm saying is what has affected him, because those few guys I've named are the only ones who've even made him back up a step, and they're some of the universes baddest.
It's not that Thanos "could" take out Surfer... He has. Many times. Surfer unloaded as much power cosmic as he could put into a blast directly into Thanos's face. He just kinda laughed. Surfer beats Superman pretty easily... The ability to control and project any type of radiation that he wants and all that.
Darkseid HAS gotten a lot weaker. Your list of heroes is flawed, since Supes is pretty much the only guy he faces. While Thanos has fought... pretty much everyone there is to fight in the MU.
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If you are in afight and someone takes a snap shot of you getting punched and shows it to people, it won't matter how little damage the punch actually did to you it will look to onlookers like you were getting your ass whupped.
That is the case with this two pics you have. Why don't your show the entire fight, whre Thanos manhandles them?Why don't you show Thanos taking out the Champion? Why don't you show Thanos beating down Hulk and Drax the destroyer simultaneoulsy?
The two pics you show only show that you come into this fight with an axe to grind against Thanos. The fact remains that against the most powerful heros in his universe Thanos takes them down more often than not. Darksied dosen't do any thing more sinster than walking around with his hands behind his back, and when a fight finaly breaks out, agianst a poweful oppononent, he folds up like oragami.
Well, Darkseid is an omnipresent force, earthlings lifetimes go by in moments to him.. he has no need for battling heros unless they come to him. The fact is, only 4 of the strongest baddes in either universe have hit Darkseid with everything they had and he barely staggered. Meanwhile you see Thanos getting knocked around galaxies like a ***** and chopped by Wolverine and taken down and handcuffed by humans and walked to jail.
What difference does it make if you get knocked around, if your opponet can't beat you? Darksied wasn't "staggered", he got beat by Superman twice, Doomsday beat the piss out of him till he had to call on Superman to save him. When has Thanos ever folded up agianst a foe? Never. Even when he is fighting against someone more powerful than him, like tyrant or Odin, he just kept coming. In what Canon has Wolverine ever chopped him up? Never. Wolverine stabbed him straight in the chest and he didn't even blink. Never seen him get handcuffed and walked off to jail, but don't tell me that you think he can be held by handcuffs, I know you posses enough independance of thought to know BS when you see it.
He beat Silver Surfer to death wiht his bear hands, then brought him bakc to life just to prove a point, and the srfer could hang with any of those 4 and beat at least 3 of them.