# Justice League cartoon to adapt, "For The Man Who Has Everything"

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**Created:** [May 16, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-cartoon-to-adapt-for-the-man-who-has-everything/245496 "2004-05-16T23:31:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-cartoon-to-adapt-for-the-man-who-has-everything/245496/41 "2004-05-20T00:47:47Z")

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> [@DocCathode](#):
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> **Jeff Lodoen**
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> Mongul is not Thanos. Darkseid is Thanos. Darkseid and Thanos both worship death and search for a weapon that will inflict casualties on a galactic scale Mongul does not worship death or see murder as an end in itself. He wants to rule an empire and be worshipped.

I wasn’t comparing their motivations. Jim Starlin created Thanos, Mongul and the Lord Papal. They all look very similar but colored purple, yellow and white.

Mongul seems the least fleshed out of the three.

I had this annual back then. Didn’t “get” Moore at the time.

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