Originally posted by The Sorrow
Hell no he doesn't. He is ALWAYS shown as insignificant to Thanos, his blasts are nothing, iirc he tried to rush Thanos from light years away and Thanos dodged it plus he can teleport. If the writers wanted to show Surfer being able to best Thanos they would have done so already, he has tried to kill the Titan on more than one occasion and failed EVERY time.
To be fair, Surfer's always shown as being an
idiot against Thanos.
1) he horrendously underestimates him. Blasts him with "full power" and monologues thinking that's all it should take.
2) presents a good and steady target for him to hit, even though he should know that Thanos packs a wallop that is best avoided in a direct confrontation.
3) forgets that he can go intangible and make solid constructs out of thin air, which would work both as defence and as a means of slowing and positioning Thanos.
4) forgets he can operate at multiples of the speed of light.
If Surfer did open up the kind of black holes he has, on panel, then Thanos would be in dire trouble. As, again on panel, Thanos had to move cautiously around so as to avoid one of Surfer's black holes.
Also Thanos has been busted up by such things before, iirc.
It's not in character for Surfer to fight to his utmost abilities, but if he did, he would definitely win a few against Thanos. no doubt about that.