DC's most feared villain Darkseid wielding Marvel's Infinity Stones is usually the stuff that comic fans can only dream of, but a story from the early-2000s actually made it happen - and the moment was very anti-climatic. In The Avengers/JLA crossover, Darkseid ended up with the Infinity Gauntlet but ultimately threw it and the Infinity Stones aside because of their one weakness: they don't work in the DC Universe... at all.

Avengers/JLA was Marvel Comics and DC Comics' last official crossover. The story was extremely ambitious as it brought together both universes' most powerful heroes (and villains) as they battled one another to save their respective realities. The series saw some amazing moments come to the page, including Superman wielding Mjolnir, and a host of heroes including Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man, fighting the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Green Lantern. Ultimately, both heroes from the Marvel and DC Universe were tasked with finding twelve powerful items that were scattered across each other's realities - with the winner's universe not being destroyed (spoiler alert: neither of them were).

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In Avengers/JLA #2 by Kurt Busiek, George Perez, Tom Smith, and Comicraft, a handful of Marvel and DC heroes find themselves on Apokolips and are greeted by an Infinity Gauntlet-wielding Darkseid. Hawkeye notes that he looks "worse than Thanos," and could reorder time, reality, and space to his whim. As the heroes question how they are going to take down Darkseid, he tells them that while he feels the "matrices of power" within the Infinity Stones, that they don't do anything for him.

Darkseid Infinity Gauntlet

In a shocking scene, Darkseid slips off the Infinity Gauntlet, which has all six Infinity Stones attached to it, and tosses it to the heroes, calling the object "a waste of my time." Quicksilver quickly catches the Gauntlet before it can fall into the fiery pits of Apokolips and as Thanos is about to attack, the heroes teleport to Marvel's Savage Land just in the nick of time.

Darkseid did in fact wield the Infinity Gauntlet in the DC Universe, but it might as well have been an oven mitt because it did not come with the powers it would have if he had it in Marvel's reality. Both the Marvel and DC heroes on the New Gods' planet were lucky it had no effect - otherwise, Darkseid would have both the powers of the Infinity Stone and his own abilities such as his Omega Beams. It would have been game over for the rest of the DC Universe, and that's without even factoring if he ultimately acquired the Anti-Life Equation. Still, to see Darkseid toss the Infinity Stones like they were nothing made for a pretty shocking moment.

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