Originally posted by Allankles
Off the top of my head SS, Fallen One, Thor. He's used some kind of shield defense against all three. The main point though is that these so called top tiers have:-
a) great durability against energy attacks - you'd have to show Thanos demonstrating the energetic output to dispatch characters of this level of durability with ease.
b) superior speed and reflexes, you'd have to show Thanos (without his shields) showing the capability to counter the speed of characters with the cqc speed of Superman, BA, CM, even Orion.He has no energy attacks potent enough to dispatch these guys in one or two hits, after all, these are characters that have withstood disintegration beams, tesseracts opening in their brains, novas, solar system attacks, Orion can erect his own energy shields even. Basically while he's tuffer than any single top tier here, he's not powerful enough to breeze past them with any kind of ease.
You seriously underestimate these guys if you think Thanos will just knock their heads together or back hand them, this would be a real fight. If they're putting all their effort into the struggle (using their speed) he won't even touch them more often than not.
I honestly think you haven't read much Thanos at all.
He took a FULL BLAST from Surfer (his words) straight to the face and smiled and asked if he's done? He used NO shields. He took several blows from a PG Thor WITHOUT his shields and still smiled and sent thor crashing thor the floor. No shileds there and this was from an amped thor which is beyond ANY top tier.
Thanos in his weakest form TWO shot Thor with ease. That is before his upgrades he did that. Pre Upgrade... he ONE SHOT Warlock with ease.. who again is a top tier.. a top tier who also happened to have the soul gem at the time. Those are just TWO instances where he one or two shot top tiers WITH EASE and even killed one. Who me ANY top tier including superman ONE shot killing a top tier.. oooo that's right you won't find it. Yet you go.. thanos hasn't shown the firepower to put down top tiers quickly.. WTF. Need I also remind you of him putting down SS and almost killing hiim with a few punches. Blasting Galactus... who I might add has more durability than any top tier by miles... blasted him miles across the moon. Thor using a Godblast didn't even budge him. How about breaking out of quasar's construct with ease... Thor, Drax, Hulk and countless heroes were all trying to break out of it. Thanos laughs at them all and smiles and promptly ONE SHOTS it with ease. He certainly has the firepower to put down top tiers quickly and you really need to read more Thanos.
Can't react to speed... We've referened the FallenOne situation... which was reacting to a trans-lightster bull-rush with ease. We have him reacting to the maker point blank blast with ease. Same with reacting to thor's hammer shots with ease and stopping them mid-flight. We also have him teleporting out of the way of SS blasting him on two seperate occasions with ease. Surfer fires... Thanos dodges the blasts by teleportation. Point is, he can and has reacted to fast attacks from Top Tiers.