Has Thanos surpassed Darkseid?

[WhichDrWhowins]

I will say most of the general public still don't know who Thanos is, and they don't know Darkseid at all... they can tell you Batman is rich and has a car and lives as Bruce Wayne and has a psycho enemy called Joker. They can tell you Superman is Clark Kent and has a girl friend Lois or Spider-Man is Peter Parker or Wolverine has claws and is named Logan Luke Skywalker's father is Vader but that's it, their knowledge of comic scifi nerd lore is very, very limited. They might even know the mythology and story of Star Trek and Harry Potter more than Marvel or DC

At this stage the general public might be connecting the dots with some alien guy who turns up in end credits and looks like red skull / hellboy ?

- can whup Superman by himself
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WRONG

he's a stupid jobber
https://static.comicvine.com/uploads...-darkseid1.jpg

https://static.comicvine.com/uploads...1635-27320.jpg

Classic Darkseid had menace and power, the new guy plays the role of Worf in TNG some random villain comes along beats the crap out of him and says look how tough I am I beat up Darkseid

Or has his presence been teased and I missed it?

He had a good showing in the toons and kinda appeared in Smallville but Clark one shot him with a speed blitz .. there is also the Omega Beam branded into Earth in Batman's BvS vision



his appearance didn't get noticed by the public, the show had zero impact on pop culture whatsoever

Thanos is this cosmic chess player and warrior built up by Death herself to challenge other Gods across the Galaxy and super powerful Gods like Hela, Zeus, Odin etc


the whole 'Death' connection is of importance

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Lady_Death_(Marvel)

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Death_(Earth-616)

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/death/4005-12620/