Which makes it all the more shocking to learn that Thanos was designed as Marvel's answer to a completely different DC Comics character. After all, it's hard to ignore any creative inspirations when your greatest competition is the legendary Jack Kirby. In the same interview, Starlin explains that Thanos was just one piece of his much larger cosmology. I had all these different gods and things I wanted to do, which became Thanos and the Titans. If you're going to steal one of the New Gods, at least rip off Darkseid, the really good one!"