Originally posted by abhilegend
Which was a plan of TOAA IIRC. ALE was never meant to be given to darkseid.
Thanos got the IG much faster than Darkseid got the ALE. Neither were hand outs. My point is that Thanos went about becoming the most feared, and nearly the most powerful being in his universe. If Darkseid were in the Marvel Universe, he may have been able to have replicated Thanos' achievements, but who is to say that if Thanos was not in the DC Universe, that he wouldn't have gotten his hands on the ALE faster?
I'm just going by which guy rose to the head of the class the fastest.
Originally posted by Stoic
Thanos takes this. he claimed the HOTU much faster than Darkseid got the ALE.
Like Legend said, it was all part of TOAA, because TOAA was too lazy to get his fat ass up.
Darkseid in DOTNG was able to hide his schemes from the Source itself.
Hid is whole planet from the Anti-Monitor in COIE.
Showed his devious mind when where showed how he corrupted Dessad.
Like i said, Thanos has yet to do anything that Dakseid hasn't done yet.
In one story, don't remember all the details, i believe it was Darkseid with his cunning that made the Olympians and there Egyptians counter parts to split themselves.
Darkseid.
I mean, he chased off pretty much every notable pantheon in the DCU and had a couple of his elite shit in the throne room of Olympus, he was the last New god standing after the source offed them all, and he almost collapsed the DCU by falling on it. He has my vote for the most dangerous. Then there's also the fact that he can potentially erase you from continuity with his eyes.
Second is thanos. With prep and a plot device, he can pwn cosmic entities. While this doesn't make him the most dangerous on the list given, the stuff that he can do is pretty intimidating. Mostly because of his planning ability. One of the things that stops him from being at the top of my list is the fact that he will never truly win. Not because the good guy always wins, but because he's self-defeating. He's always right at the brink, and then kind of just screws himself imo.
Prime is last, but not least. He can potentially retcon an entire universe (multiverse?) with a well-placed punch. He can also do this to individuals (see beast boy in the teen titans tie-in to IC). He can also maul teams on the regular without much effort, but he hasn't honed his abilities. And he only has one reality shattering feat that actually affected the entire DCU as a whole. So while this is extremely impressive, I think that he would need to learn how to harness his more ambiguous abilities in order to become "dangerous" on the level of say....Darkseid. To the individual or group of individuals, he's pretty dangerous though.
Thanos not only taught Galactus a being older then the universe a lesson but also scolded Galactus as well. He back handed In-Betweener he took on marvels most power heros with just the power gem. He back handed Drax and Hulk at the sametime and beat Silver Surfer to death. He also turned down Death.