The TRUTH Behind DC's Most Infamous Villain

Come on, I have to be getting closer to the solution, take the only one, wait, no, that's it. I finally have it and the answer it all comes down to is no, no, that can't be right. I must have done a Confuse this impressive work with a flawed singularity that naively seeks answers to questions its primitive mind can barely comprehend get out of my head I know what you are the same could be said of every creature of creation and the deepest corners of his being I am the hole at the center of all things the first offspring of Morningstar the revelation beast that consumes mind and soul alike when you scream in your dreams it is Darkseid you see hello I am Tyler this is the imaginary shaft and guys, I understand the term God is overused these days especially when it comes to

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s, I mean it can refer to aliens, ghosts, scientific experiments, power levels, awesome magic users, it doesn't really matter just because you can do some Things the average man can't.

He's supposed to treat you like a deity and without a standard classification gods get their asses kicked all the time. It's pretty far from the majesty, horror and wonder of explaining a reality-changing phenomenon that you can't understand or control, but it's also at least part of the reason some people are convinced that the Big Bad of the DC Universe, resident of the dark side, could just be a lot of talk. I mean, have you ever heard one of his speeches? Darkseid is the new God Darkseid is, above all, Darkseid is the tiger force at the center of all things Superman is kicking Darkseid in the teeth for the eleventh time in a row, please all you Conqueror wannabes sing along anthem, simply calling himself a god isn't enough to make him a true threat (at least that's what I thought), but after years of reading DC Comics and al

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half a century of this power-mad cosmic threat to the Justice League, I started to notice some interesting details about the nature of Darkseid's existence, a collection of out-of-place quirks that alone could probably be dismissed as a few eccentric writers, poor executive management, the natural inconsistency of comics, but together they began to forming a pattern, a pattern that the wind followed led me down such a deep rabbit hole.

I'm not kidding, I've never seen anything like it. Throughout the comics, a closer look at Darkseid begins to reveal a labyrinth of unsolved mysteries, plots about avatars, and true forms that consume online fan sites. The writer interviews characters, vaguely hinting that there is more to him than meets the eye. Strange facts about his history that seem to appear. and disappear at random and a single undeniable

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about the root cause of every conflict that has ever plagued the DC Universe. If I'm right about what I found, then that dark cloud of mystery that hangs out of focus beyond Darkseid contains such a heartbreaking secret. drunk with evil and power that redefines the modern idea of ​​a god and I'm not exaggerating, so what do I mean?

If you just casually read comics, Matt more randomly to follow your favorite stories, there's a good chance you would. never sees anything wrong with Darkseid, he is the tyrannical dictator of a dystopian nightmare world called apocalypse, constantly seeking power, often finds himself in conflict with the neighboring planet New Genesis, he exchanged children with their leader at one point as a kind of usual peace offering. Since both armies and their commanders are roughly equivalent in power, the problem is that everyone recognizes that this treaty is just a formality. The moment Darkseid finds a power source that can tip the scales, he will tip them and then the rest of the universe soon after. enter into the anti-life equation some kind of vaguely understood formula that once completed can force people to submit to Darkseid for mysterious reasons unknown even to him.

Key parts of the equation keep showing up on Earth, so Darkseid developed a habit of invading the planet Justice. League developed a habit of stopping it and you have comics, aliens, heroes, universal genocide and math. Honestly, it's a pretty standard setup. There's a whole backstory about how Darkseid and his species increased his power after the old gods died, turning them into the new gods, but like. I mentioned before that the word God is a bit overstated these days. You're totally justified in seeing him as just a really powerful alien with typical super

villain

delusions of grandeur, but he's not, and seeing him that way does a disservice to the secret lore hidden beneath.

The dark side story I'm willing to bet will surprise and fascinate you even if you think you already know what I'm going to talk about, but to understand all of that we first have to take a trip back in time to when it all began. The 1970s were a good decade, the first home video game released at Disney World became commonplace in the US. The president wasn't a criminal or anything and comic book legend Jack the King Kirby left Marvel Comics to work for DC for those of you not familiar with the name, this was really big at the time Jack Kirby was and is one of the greatest. names in all comics, world-renowned co-creator of the Marvel Universe, artist and conspirator of Stan Lee's writing and editing, so his presence at DC was a game-changer and, as you might have guessed, Darkseid was his next big idea. that Jack wanted to create. a group of DC characters with cosmic significance a type of modern myth that combines religion and mysticism with science fiction, modern culture and advanced technology.

Looking at some of his early character work, we can see the scattered pieces of some stories that he never had the chance to finish, for example, according to a divine prophecy, the conflict between the apocalypse and the new Genesis was supposed to finally end in a brutal fight to the death between Darkseid and his son Orion, remember the one that changed him to his archenemy and a momentary offer. for peace, yeah, smart move, big guy, the anti-life equation was constantly mocked, but relatively little concrete information was provided about it. The New Gods were also specifically set outside the multiverse, aside from DC's usual adventures in a realm beyond time and space.

Only Jack worked on it and his planets were of such enormous size that later authors would claim they dwarfed galaxies. If you took the Earth and threw it into New Genesis, it would barely displace the waters of a small lake, but perhaps the

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important plot point to note is exactly how powerful Jack intended these characters to be, for example, this guy . Magn is relatively inconsequential as far as I can tell, only appearing in four stories, one was a reprint and he was dead in the other two, but he can casually hit with the combined force of 100 galaxies flying at your face, this sort of thing was standard for the new ones, they were actual larger than life characters, it might be quite common for alien races to be depicted as stronger, faster and smarter than the average human, but these guys took it to the next level and Darkseid rose by on top of almost all of them fast enough to surprise Superman having the upper hand in combat and occasionally moving so fast that Clark couldn't.

Even seeing him, remember these are not ordinary eyes, we were talking about Darkseid can cross the entire universe in seconds, at worst he moves, fights and reacts at about the same speed when he needs to and can think even faster . Darkseid is a super genius teacher. Inventor battle strategist and tactician with millennia of war and combat experience and training, it is difficult to find a defeat of his that did not turn out to be part of his plan. He has outsmarted DC's finest on more than a few occasions. He has unlocked the secrets of the mind. machines built with matter and soul that play with celestial bodies as pawns.

Later stories would show Darkseid trying to enter the fountain in an attempt to gain ultimate power, if you've never heard of the fountain before it's basically this infinite sea of ​​energy that transcends all things and has created every reality from the beginning. Throughout time, no one has been able to find a way to bypass the pan-dimensional barrier that protects them at the edge of existence, unless they were a hair's breadth away from being omnipotent or the source wanted them within a set of darkness. -as an aside, but of course, most notable of all is that Jack Kirby's original version of Darkseid could go toe-to-toe with Superman and win, sometimes this was back when Superman was known for piercing sentient universes that bothered him and could knock him down.

The fortresses that sat comfortably in the center of the Big Bang raced to the edge of the multiverse in minutes and produced enough energy to collapse dozens of timelines doing their best, but Darkseid Darkseid was a challenge just to show you what I'm talking about. There was a story that focused on Darkseid's awakening from his supposed final defeat after nearly 1,000 years of lying dormant. Needless to say, his power had diminished quite a bit during that time, so he set out to recharge his batteries by stealing three of the most powerful weapons in the universe and draining drei, when that didn't satisfy him, he straight up got into a fight with two different super villains. known for endangering entire timelines, he stole all their power and yet he eventually realized that he was much weaker than Before the 1000 year olds captured this overwhelming strength of his was due in part to a special cosmic force. unique to Darkseid known as the Omega Effect, more on that later, but it was also partly because he was simply a new god.

Jack Kirby made him one of the toughest in the DC multiverse and it was clearly no coincidence that a veteran in the field created a group of characters capable of challenging even the strongest superheroes, but that's exactly where the problem began, moving forward some. Years before the company-wide comic event called Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC executives had grown tired of everyone being confused about which characters they belonged to and where in their massive shared multiverse backstories they were. Convoluted continuity errors were popping up everywhere Superman had too many powers for any sane person to remember them all and potential customers were starting to feel intimidated.

I mean, I can't even enjoy a good Batman comic without knowing how he's doing with Commissioner Gordon at the time he requires reading that dr. fate crossover from several years ago that can only be properly understood if I know Batman's depth to becoming a suicidal wizard on Earth, and the multiversal cosmology established since Flash 123 Superman meets He-Man or that time Hitler summoned the Captain Marvel across the multiverse to help. Its defeat, British DC needed a reboot, a big reboot across all of its titles that would place every last intellectual property in a single universe with a coherent timeline starting from the beginning, so in 1985 all the stories that were running concluded a little early for readers. to confront the diabolical anti-monitor, a devastating new threat to the multiverse bent on the destruction of absolutely everything by the Omni Seidel, a threat so great that every hero and villain throughout all of DC history would have to band together to save existence itself and they did it.

The crossover of a lifetime ended in many deaths, many changes, and an infinite number of universes completely erased from the cosmos, except one, the universe that would come to be known as DC's one definitive reality, but what does it all have to do with it? ? with Darkseid, I remember earlier when I explained that the apocalypse and New Genesis exist outside of the traditional multiverse, by all accounts, they have not been affected at all by this massive reality-spanning crisis; In fact, leading series like Orion's Solo Run and Dark Side War would paint the New Gods. participation as somewhat passive observers of the whole thing, they could remember the multiverse and everything that happened in it, but they didn't do much to prevent its destruction or to remind everyone that infinite universes once existed in everyone else's minds. , there was simply never a multiverse after the anti-monitor was defeated and reality returned to normal, the memories of those affected by the crisis simply changed with it, there had only ever been one universe unless you were a new God who saw how everything collapsed from a safe.

Truly observant readers from a distance might even remember a brief line of dialogue near the climax of the crisis that implied that the new gods had somehow managed to hide their extra-universal planets from the world.anti-monitor during his rampage, so you can call me Mike the TV because company -hard reset or not, no matter how you look at this issue, the new gods had no reason to be affected by the crisis, which makes the next part really strange . Superman fighting Darkseid after 85. Superman might have been the most affected by the reboot which took a colossal fall in power after the crisis changed reality, he went from toppling universes and timelines to toppling mountains and although he eventually would begin to move up the ladder, there's not much point in seeing him evenly fight Darkseid, it's so soon after a fall like that, especially if this dark side is confirmed to be the same person who fought the much stronger form of Superman, it gets stranger.

Later, the events of DC would bring back the multiverse through alternate timelines, possible futures, new ways to manipulate space, etc. and sometimes Darkseid would appear in those realities before a different Darkseid, someone with thoughts, experiences, and even looks completely separate from the original, while every official statement from DC continued to claim that only one Darkseid existed and that he was sitting outside the multiverse, Many comics made reference to this fact, but sometimes the apocalypse and its dictators seem to be somewhere in deep space. These apparent contradictions were not unique to him, but they also affected the rest of the New Gods so chaotically that one day they could easily create entire universes in their hands and then must paint themselves yellow if they want to defeat the Green Lantern Corps in this story.

The dark side can survive a bomb meant to destroy existence itself without a scratch and this doomsday nearly bludgeons it to death with a few hits. These problems disappeared. for about 23 years and as far as I can tell it was all completely unintentional, some writers obviously didn't realize that Darkseid and his species weren't meant to be rebooted like almost everyone else, as evidenced by DC's endless attempts to Retcon the issue o Darkseid was much weaker than he was supposed to be in the last comic, maybe that's because he wasn't actually Darkseid, it was one of his henchmen in disguise or maybe he was an avatar, a clone he created under his own power to do his dirty work for him, the New Gods actually went through so many different rewrites and retcons that DC made fun of it, but none of these answers seemed to solve all the problems, these two for example only focused on Darkseid and they completely forgot. that all the other new gods were suffering from the exact same plot hole and that's fine, even if we assume that each new god sends avatars to run errands for them while only existing in one form outside of the multiverse, how do you explain the stories in the ones that the apocalypse simply? overthrow Darkseid or the dark sides have been dead for years and there's a power vacuum where New Genesis burns to ashes, the planets use avatars too and whatever happened to that divine prophecy Jack Kirby talked about, the characters They always acted like the battle between Darkseid and Orion was meant to happen and neither of them could die until it finally happened.

How does that fit into all of this? Why can the dark side sometimes bend reality's grip? Life and death seem like deleted timelines when those powers come in handy. More often the new gods were occasionally. treated as necessary aspects of existence that could summon encounters with other celestial forces, but were also treated as ordinary aliens just as often, what does it all mean? There were too many questions and even in the world of comics mysteries like this. They have an expiration date, they can only exist for so long, and they only get so complicated before they attract the attention of someone willing to give fans all the pieces they need to finally finish the puzzle imaginary friends, this is Final Crisis, our last stop honestly Quite a complicated journey to understand just one bad guy.

Sure there were some detours along the way, but I think you'll find that each one of them was necessary to discover the full picture of exactly what's happening here because you see a lot of things. of the things that happen in Final Crisis was billed as a celebration of DC's contradictions and an attempt to tie them all together to make more sense. The New Gods, of course, were the main focus of the entire event, especially Darkseid and, in my opinion. Head writer Grant Morrison does a great job of making everything clear for us, but it requires some concentration and a lot of research.

Anyway, he's a sneaky guy. The story more or less opens on the aftermath of Darkseid finally getting the full answer. life equation we learned through dialogue that he used his newfound power to wage war against New Genesis, but the results ended up being more catastrophic than even he could have predicted. Almost all of the gods died in the fight that ultimately led to our long-awaited cosmic showdown between Darkseid and Orion, but just when dear old dad was on the ropes, an invisible sniper entered the battle out of nowhere, killing Orion with a bullet. toxic radion for the new domain.

Orion's faded body fell to earth landing in Metropolis and with the last drill. obstacle to his empire taking over Darkseid, slowly but surely he began his latest and greatest attempt at multiversal conquest, yeah what a way to start off an ending right, full disclosure, the comic itself isn't as linear as it probably is I have just understood. There are a lot of details that aren't revealed until later in the narrative and there were a fairly noticeable amount of problems with scheduling and communication between many writers and higher-ups, so the tie-ins to this book don't always fit the product quite well. ending, whether exactly what counts as canon and where each fits into the timeline, is clear enough if you read the whole thing, but just understand that what you're hearing is a condensed version of the story, so the story begins.

League of Justice. Investigating exactly how Ryan died and who managed to kill him as Darkseid's prophets begin to prepare for their imminent invasion, essentially building small armies and setting up underground brainwashing facilities, the first real sign that something has gone wrong is likely when a worshiper of Darkseid actually manages to capture and kill Martian Manhunter, a founding member of the Justice League, it was a really shocking scene for many readers, Manhunter was one of DC's most powerful righteous heroes killed as a background character with a spear of fire through his chest and a host of smiling supervillains and it didn't stop there either for the entire first half of this series, we basically see every one of DC's heavy hitters systematically taken off the dark sides table unholy arrival Batman gets beaten and kidnapped by an agent of the apocalypse Wonder A woman becomes patient zero by a deadly artificial virus.

Both Flashes become trapped in a race in time against death itself. One Green Lantern is nearly killed while another is tried for attempted murder and even Superman is confined to the hospital when a group of villains bomb. The Daily Planet put Lois Lane in critical condition—she was so bad that Superman was barely keeping her alive with a constant stream of infrared vision—but while the heroes recovered from their sudden change up the food chain, a lot of strange things were happening in the world. background. - We keep getting evidence that Darkseid and his minions were already invading Earth in some way, as if they were jumping into the bodies of ordinary mortals, and we were parading them around like puppets, it's a strange idea, for sure, but once which Metropolis detective Dan Turpin is beginning to claim he can. he senses someone in his head, it becomes clear that there is more to the New Gods than we have ever considered.

It turns out that most of the main hero-shaming masterminds are actually disciples of Darkseid, the resurrected God of War, and possess different personas, Brett Morrison explained in a supplement. material that this was all the work of Darkseid and the early comics established that he could recreate his followers only from memory, but in reality they are not complete incarnations of the new gods, but rather aspects of the dark sides that will occur. shape. Darkseid himself is the only New God who actually tries. to manifest on earth and he is doing it through Dan Turpin, he tried to do it through a mafia boss but he couldn't fully incarnate because the process requires corrupting a noble soul and once Dan finally gives in a space opens up , the sky begins to rain.

Bloodtime crumbles around the dark sides of the new body like a cheap sheet of tinfoil and the entire multiverse begins to spiral into oblivion into a massive singularity that is Darkseid, so what does it all mean? Believe it or not, it's not total nonsense and actually answers more. questions he poses, starting with the bullet that killed a jogger. See, during the Justice League's investigation, they found the bullet not far from where Orion's body had landed, which makes sense, if you were shot in space, you'd just keep moving along the bullets. path until you landed somewhere or acted on another force, Newton's first law, but what doesn't make sense is that the bullet they found had been buried in the concrete for at least 50 years, which basically means one of three things, or someone else.

He fired a hyper-advanced, unrelated God-killing bullet at this exact same location over fifty years ago. Two Orions were killed fifty or three years ago. The bullet had somehow traveled through time. Batman had gathered extraordinary amounts of information on the New Gods like any good detective. should go with option three, positing that a divine weapon could shoot something in the future, launch its projectile backwards through the present, kill Orion a few days ago, and hold the bullet for 50 years until its momentum runs out, but that would require the new For the gods to exist in a form of reality greater than ours, they would literally need a higher dimensional weapon and non-linear perception of time, but here's the big twist: I was right: it's a magic bullet, literally a multi-purpose god-killing projectile that can be loaded and fired over and over again with any weapon ever invented bullet essence the new gods are incredibly powerful living ideas of the Platonic archetypal type of world now imagine a divine bullet fired backwards into the time to end up embedded 50 years deep in the concrete past We live in a very simple world, the first dimension is length, the second dimension is width, the third dimension is depth and the fourth dimension is time, but there is when you realize that Darkseid has always existed in a very specific way beyond time, beyond space, all the new gods have time. warps in his presence weeks crushing in space today begins to collapse Darkseid comes from a world beyond our simple four dimensions a higher reality that is speculated to exist in theoretical physics through string theory and all its variants and in this story Grant Morrison finally recognizes that treating the new gods are as they should be when taken to the logical conclusion from here where they no longer exist.

Orion can't see me as all the time becomes once it's time for him to attack, he takes the person who saved the dark side in the battle against Orion. It was Darkseid himself, but the fight damaged him so severely that he fell into the multiverse, so he's collapsing the same way a two-dimensional universe would collapse if you fell through a plane of existence. Every other time we've seen Darkseid he's just been a 3D fragment of his infinitely larger hole which explains the inconsistencies the changes in power level all the meaningless abilities how there can only be one of him when it seems like infinite was destiny of Ryan fall and the final battle split like light through a prism and an infinite number of deaths and along the way it hurt you irreparably wasn't it a rotting corpse of a God crawling into the sewer to die?

The

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is that the true full Darkseid, the one who lives beyond space and time, is heavier. and more powerful than the entire multiverse, so after being outmatched in battle before being finished off for good, he positioned his fall to land on top of it all, one last spit in the face to the infinite realities of the heroes who would never allow him having control he wanted them to know that he could have destroyed them at any moment and that he had used the anti-life equation to finally rule existence for a brief moment before collapsing everything intoan endless pit at the center of creation erasing absolutely everything below. with his dying breath and this description is consistent with Grant Morrison's work in case any of you were wondering.

I'm not speculating here, he's made it very clear through a dozen interviews that Darkseid and the New Gods come from a higher dimension and we do. I've just experienced his projections into our reality, in fact there are even hints of this in all of Final Crisis's references to string theory, quantum mechanics, and higher dimensional concepts as Darkseid breaks into the material world. It's an idea Grant likes to play with a lot. in comics, a recurring theme, so to speak, in the most Estonian cosmology, existing in a higher dimension grants you divine authority over the lower dimensions, almost omnipotence, you have more than volume, you have hypervolume, you have more than mass, you have hypermass, you are infinitely more powerful. that the creatures in the dimensions below you because they exist in relation to the gods like the drawings exist in relation to humans and the DC multiverse map reflects this by explicitly placing Darkseid and the new gods several dimensional layers above our average comic book universe, they're like Lovecraftian. gestalt entities that transcend and intersect our reality at countless points, but having said all that, this still doesn't address everything, what exactly it means to be a new god, what kind of abilities are granted to these immense pan-dimensional deities and how they do it. interact with our world, what about all those times our three-dimensional heroes actually traveled to the apocalypse?

Are they all the same place? What does it mean for the DC multiverse and how can anyone in the Justice League even hope to defeat someone with infinitely more powerful tendencies? that all of existence combined yes, you thought I was done talking about Darkseid. I haven't even started, we've only just begun to scratch the surface of exactly what he is, why he is, and how he completely changes everything you thought you knew about DC. Comics, but by the time we're done I'll have successfully traced every last act of cruelty in the multiverse to this twisted cosmic terror and possibly an even greater threat lurking behind the scenes, but all that and more we'll have to figure out.

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