@darklord_apoc: sorry for the incredibly late reply. Darkseid is far more evil than Thanos.
It's good to note that Thanos Rising isn't really a good depiction of the Starlin version of Thanos. The origin story Starlin gave him was almost exactly the same save the actual emotion behind the story itself. In Starlin's version, he didn't torture and kill people for fun. In fact, where Thanos Rising has him kill his mother on a lab table, Starlin's story told us that she died in the assault on Titan, which made him sad as his mother was one of the only people on Titan he would have tried to save/ cared for.
Thanos Rising isn't bad, but I share the same opinion with a lot of older Thanos fans when I say it definitely didn't properly capture his character. It also changed some minor points from the original origin story.
So if you actually follow Starlin's arc with the character, you come to see that he was never pure evil in the first place. He was only killing for the love of Mistress Death. He is insane, yes, but not evil. Heck, he even helped Captain Marvel pass into the afterlife before his redemption after the Infinity Gauntlet event.
Darkseid on the other hand is completely evil with almost no redeeming qualities. While he never kills without a cause, he is the perfect example of Lawful Evil. While beings like Trigon and Nekron are more chaotic evil. His end goal is to subjugate all sentience under his will and force them to live and die for him. He is cruel, merciless and sadistic to the fullest extent. There is a good reason they call him "The God of Evil".
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