re: Surprise character possibly confirmed for Avengers: Infinity War

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Thanos would have to get really lucky to beat him without the gauntlet, but could maybe still do it

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When you read the assorted powers of the mega powerful heroes and villains it always becomes a bit ridiculous.

Anyway, the way he was portrayed in the comics left me with the feeling that he was more powerful than the Surfer, but not Galactus, without the gauntlet. And more powerful than Galactus with the gauntlet.

I guess a third generation eternal mutant (if that's indeed what category he falls into) versus a herald of galactus kinda seems rapidly hard to view as much of anything other than a cheat mode versus a cheat mode: Thanos without the guantlet has time travel, indestructibility, mega-genius intellect, yada yada yada. Hela comes to him for help when she wishes to claim Hel.

Discussing the powers of comic book beings rapidly does make me feel a bit silly these days though. I partly feel like Thanos has to be more powerful just because he's generally a bad guy and one of the baddest of the bad in the universe.