I'm a fan of Stalin's Seventies stories, but considering Jack Kirby specifically did not bring Darkseid, Highfather, Lightray or Metron to Marvel, Starlin's knock-offs, which debuted just after the New Gods books got the axe, carry a whiff of scab work I have thought impossible in work-for-hire comics.

I haven't kept track of the character since the early Nineties, but what I liked about Thanos's initial incarnation was how he was distinctly perverse and crazy, yet functionally a petty gangster with a very large army. Darkseid (Kirby's at least) wouldn't have bothered with the Cosmic Cube at all, and using it to "become one with the universe" would have been a ludicrously small-time outlet for his ambitions; meanwhile in the actual story Thanos used his omnipotence to give his father the middle finger and help with fistfights. And can anyone imagine Darkseid lowering himself to flying around the universe, personally blowing stars one by one? That's the kind of thing he sentences "lowlies" to.

Darkseid is a god. Thanos is a goon.

I'm not going to hold my breath for Ava Duvernay to get it right, but there's potential for a true-to-Kirby Darkseid in a movie.