10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Thanos
9. He’s A Darkseid Ripoff
A lot of people out there have tried to throw some serious shade Marvel's way by saying that the infamous Mad Titan is just a carbon copy of one the most powerful villains in DC's universe. Darkseid is the bad guy whom everyone assumes Thanos ripped off.
This allegation is understandable for a few reasons. Put the two next to each other, and they both look like someone nobody wants to meet in a dark alley. They both have an unhealthy fetish for destruction and death. Exacerbating things somewhat is the fact that Darkseid was created in 1970, while Thanos showed up three years later, giving some credibility to this controversial theory.
But the truth is Darkseid wasn't the inspiration for the popular Marvel evildoer. It was another big-time baddie for DC comics that provided the foundation for the one who would commit the Decimation.
Metron, who is sometimes called the God of Knowledge, was the real inspiration for Thanos. Metron sits in a Throne and watches over the happenings of the universe the same way the Mad Titan does. When Thanos creator Jim Stalin made the Metron-esque design, it didn't look threatening enough, so some Darkseid was thrown in, which inevitably did the trick.