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[Marvel/DC] Would Batman have been able to get away with a move similar to the "Hellspore Manoeuvre" he used on Darkseid on someone like Thanos?
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Probably not, because Darkseid and Thanos are surprisingly different in goals and methods, despite their constant comparisons.

Darkseid wants **control**. All subjects of Apokolips worship and fear him. He uses various techniques for control over others, such as torture, manipulation, fear, hypnosis etc. He has brainwashed the likes of Superman and Supergirl to fight for him before. And all the while, his ultimate goal is the anti-life equation, which is the ultimate form of control over other sentient beings.

Thanos wants **destruction**. He has no planet of loyal subjects, he *destroyed it*. While he often manipulates others into doing his bidding (Gamora, Ronan, Loki, The Chitauri), his control over them is a tool, rather than the goal. His ultimate goal is the Infinity Gauntlet, which gives him the power to destroy other sentient beings, across the universe, all at once.

Darkseid is a god of evil, but Thanos is *mad*. Darkseid wants to control things, which almost always means leaving *most* of those things intact in some form. Thanos does not, and ultimately desires to kill *everything*.

So when Batman threatens to destroy Apokolips, Darkseid would lose control over his home planet, along with a great deal his assets, his war machine, his army. This is too much for Darkseid to lose, and the gambit works.

Were Batman to try this on Thanos it would fail. There is only one thing in the universe that Thanos feels he cannot do without. And not even Batman can destroy an Infinity Stone, let alone all of them.

TLDR; No, Thanos would call his bluff.