A DC Comics variation of theAvengerstook downSupermanby using a strategy that fan believeAnt - Mancould use to killThanos . Prior to the release ofAvengers : Endgame , a pop fan theory online say thatAnt - Man could defeat the Mad Titanby shrink down , go in his body and then growing , effectively blowing him up . While that particular possibility include the gross detail that Ant - Man would enter through Thanos ' rearward end , the DC story plays out in a much less distasteful way . A version of the Wasp gains access to Superman through his ear canal , incapacitating him long enough for a version of Thor to take him out with an axe .

The account take place inSuperman / Batman # 21by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness . The payoff is the second part of the storyline " With a Vengeance ! " which centers around   a game betweenMr . Mxyzptlk and Joker(who has steal the reality - warping powers of Bat - Mite ) .   As part of their plot the tricksters create an alternate world based off the Marvel Universe , complete with a version of the Avengers known as the Maximums . They then send evil version of Batman and Superman to fight the Maximums , which results in the end of Skyscraper ( this human race ’s variant of Giant Man ) . Bent on retaliation , the Maximums travel to the real Batman and Superman ’s world and defend the champion , mistaking them for the evil versions .

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The battle between the Maximums and the World ’s fine duo leads to a one - on - one showdown betweenSuperman   and Viking , a medley of Thorwho is the Word of Frost Giants and carries an axe cut up from black ice . Viking ’s axe is redoubtable and   can even cut through Superman ’s skin . While he fights the Man of Steel , the Hornet ( a pastiche of the Wasp ) fly ball into Clark ’s ear epithelial duct and begins to expand . While Superman is distract by the bother of an expanding Hornet pressing against his brain , Viking lands a withering coke with his axe , knocking Superman unconscious .

The idea that Ant - Man could kill Thanos through his butt became insanely pop on the net in the atomic number 82 - up the stopping point of theInfinity Saga . Known as the " Thanus " hypothesis , it get enough attention to garner responses from the film ’s writer , directors and Josh Brolin .   deplorably it did not come to pass , with the Avengers resorting to the more complicated methods of fourth dimension travel and assembling an army to take down Thanos . However , gross point aside , the   scheme   is a sound one . character like Superman and Thanos are famous for having nigh - unbreakable skin , but their insides are far more vulnerable . As has been seen in the past times with heroes like the Hulk and the X - man , attacking a enemy from the inside out is an in force and unexpected maneuver .

Hornet ’s flak on Superman is specially smart because she does not examine to grow to her largest sizing and induce Superman to explode . If she had decide to push it , Superman ’s body might have been too strongand crushed her . But by using teamwork , she can disquiet him long enough for Viking to incapacitate him for commodity . If theAvengershad usedAnt - Manand Thor in a like mode againstThanos , perhaps they could have beat him just as easily as the Maximums beatSuperman .

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