Darkseid (DC Comics) Character Review
Darkseid (pronounced DARK-side) is a fictional Character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (November 1970) and was created by writer-artist Jack Kirby.
Darkseid is one of the most powerful and evil characters in the DC Universe. Debuting in the Bronze Age of Comic Books, he has appeared in four decades of DC Comics publications, featuring prominently in the New Gods titles and limited series as the arch nemesis of the New Gods and Superman (and by extension the Justice League). The character has also been associated with DC Comics merchandise including animated television series, toys, trading cards, and video games. More about Darkseid (DC Comics) Character Review - keep on reading !!
Darkseid was ranked number 6 on IGN's top 100 comic book villains of all time.
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Fictional Character Biography
The son of King Yuga Khan and Queen Heggra, Prince Uxas, second in line to the throne of Apokolips, plotted to seize power over the planet. When his brother, Drax (Infinity-Man),
attempted to claim the fabled Omega Force, Uxas murdered him and took
the power for himself; transforming him into a rock-like creature, and
taking a new name: Darkseid. At some point, he fell in love with an Apokoliptian scientist named Suli, with whom he had a son, Kalibak; however, Suli was poisoned by Desaad
on Heggra's behalf, who believed that Suli was corrupting her son.
Following Suli's death, Darkseid's heart grew even colder, and he had
Desaad poison Heggra, finally becoming the supreme monarch of Apokolips. Darkseid had briefly been forced by his mother to marry Tigra, with whom he also had a son. After murdering his mother, Darkseid had Tigra eliminated and their son, Orion, was switched with the Highfather's son, Scott Free (Mister Miracle), so as to keep peace.
The destructive war with the rival planet, New Genesis, was stopped only with a diplomatic exchange of the sons of Highfather
and Darkseid. Darkseid's second born son was surrendered to Highfather,
while Darkseid received Scott Free, who later became the master escape
artist Mister Miracle (Scott Free).
This eventually turned out to be a setback for Darkseid, with his
biological son growing up to value and defend the ideals of New Genesis
in opposition to his father. The prophecy foretold that Darkseid would
meet his final defeat at the hands of his son in a cataclysmic battle in
the fiery Armageddon of Apokolips.
Seeing other gods as a threat, Darkseid invaded the island of Themyscira
in order to discover the secret location of the Olympian gods, planning
to overthrow the Olympians and steal their power. Refusing to aid
Darkseid in his mad quest, the Amazons battled his parademon troops, causing half of the Amazon population's death. Wonder Woman
was able to gain her revenge against Darkseid for killing so many of
her sisters by placing a portion of her own soul into Darkseid. This
supposedly weakened the god's power as he lost a portion of his dark
edge.
Darkseid's goal was to eliminate all free will from the universe and reshape it into his own image. To this end, he sought to unravel the mysterious Anti-Life Equation,
which gives its user complete control over the thoughts and emotions of
all living beings in the universe. Darkseid had tried on several other
occasions to achieve dominance of the universe through other methods,
most notably through his minion Glorious Godfrey, who could control people's minds with his voice. He had a special interest in Earth,
as he believed humans possess collectively within their minds most, if
not all, fragments of the Anti-Life Equation. Darkseid intended to probe
the minds of every human in order to piece together the Equation. This
has caused him to clash with many superheroes of the DC Universe, notably, Superman. Darkseid worked behind the scenes, using superpowered minions in his schemes to overthrow Earth, including working through Intergang,
a crime syndicate which employs Apokoliptian technology and later
morphed into a religious cult that worships Darkseid as the god of Evil.
The Great Darkness Saga - One thousand years in the future, Darkseid has been absent for centuries
and is almost completely forgotten. He returns and comes into conflict
with that era's champions, the Legion of Super-Heroes. After using both scientific and magical methods to enhance his power, Darkseid transposes the planets Apokolips and Daxam—which places Daxam under a yellow sun and gives each of its inhabitants Kryptonian-like superpowers
equal to those of Superman. Placing the Daxamites under his mental
thrall, he uses them in a massive attempt to conquer the known universe.
However, he is eventually defeated by the Legion and many of its
allies.
Seven Soldiers and "Boss Dark Side", In Grant Morrison's 2005 Mister Miracle limited series, it was revealed that Darkseid had finally discovered the Anti-Life Equation, which he then used to destroy the Fourth World altogether. The New Gods fled to Earth, where they hid. Highfather and his followers were now a group of homeless people. Metron used a wheelchair, the Black Racer was an old white man in a wheelchair, Desaad was an evil psychiatrist, Granny Goodness was a pimp (or "madam") for the Female Furies,
and Darkseid himself was now an evil gang leader who is referred to
only as "Boss Dark Side". It is revealed that Darkseid actually gave the
Sheeda North America in return for Aurakles, Earth's first superhero. This was, in turn, purely in order for Darkseid to get Shilo Norman, whom he considers the "Avatar of Freedom", in his clutches so that he could eventually destroy the New Gods.
Final Crisis - As prophesied, Orion
returns to Earth via Boom Tube for his final battle with Darkseid.
During the massive fight, Orion ultimately kills him by ripping his
heart out, creating a firepit of Apokolips from Darkseid's chest cavity
(in reference to the prophecy of their final battle). As Darkseid dies, a
battered, wounded Orion walks away from the battlefield having "won"
the battle against his father once and for all. However, Darkseid's life
essence endured even the death of his body and fell back in time, where
he was reborn as "Boss Dark Side", aided by his resurrected minions and
the supervillain Libra.
Now, once again bound to the form of a human, "Boss Dark Side" began to appear in a number of titles in the run up to Final Crisis. In Flash (vol. 2), he led an army of fanatics, their will broken by the "spoken form" of the Anti-Life Equation, to kidnap the Tornado Twins. In Birds of Prey, he runs his Dark Side Club where superhumans fight to the death, brainwashed by drugs produced by Bernadeth. In Teen Titans #59, it was revealed that he had employed the Terror Titans to capture the Teen Titans and use them in his club fights.
In Final Crisis, Darkseid has begun to take over Earth and corrupt the Multiverse with the aid of his herald Libra, a reborn supervillain and antichrist-like figure who soon converts much of the Secret Society of Super Villains to his cause with the aid of the Crime Bible and the Holy Lance.
Darkseid is also joined by the souls of his fellow evil New Gods, who,
like Darkseid, now possess either modified human bodies or the bodies of
other superpowered beings, such as Mary Marvel.
Darkseid also arranges for detective Dan Turpin
to be lured into the Dark Side Club, where Turpin is turned into
Darkseid's "final host", as his Boss Dark Side body has begun to mummify
due to Darkseid's foul astral presence. With his legion of followers
and allies aiding him as he undergoes his latest "rebirth", Darkseid
successfully conquers the Earth with the unleashing of the Anti-Life
Equation onto mankind. However, the rebirthing process is still far from
complete as Dan Turpin's mind and soul, while corrupted by Darkseid's
essence, still remains in firm control over his body. However, at the
same moment Shilo Norman, the "Embodiment of Freedom" is shot by S.H.A.D.E.
operatives, thus signaling the "Victory of Evil". Darkseid wins control
over Turpin's body, now twisted in a close copy of his Apokoliptan
former appearance, and wearing an updated version of his battle armor.
Darkseid then gains the fullest of his power, his "fall" having the
effect of compressing and crumpling space-time around Earth.
After escaping from captivity, Batman
shoots Darkseid with the same radion bullet that killed Orion, while
Darkseid simultaneously hits Batman with the Omega Sanction, sending
back in time and then "infecting" Batman with Omega energy that will
cause him to jump forward in time, with disastrous results when he
reaches the present. Darkseid is mortally wounded, but not before his
Omega Sanction teleports Batman into prehistoric times. Remains believed
to be Batman's (later revealed to be the last of the many Batman clones
that Darkseid created) are found by Superman, who confronts Darkseid.
As Darkseid mocks his old enemy for failing to defend Earth, it emerges
that in Darkseid's fall through the multiverse, he created a doomsday
singularity that now threatens all of existence. When Superman attempts
to physically assault him, Darkseid reveals that he now exists inside
the bodies of all those who fell to the power of the Anti-Life Equation
and that killing Darkseid will kill humanity. Darkseid then reloads the
gun that was used to shoot him, to kill Orion by way of firing the
bullet backwards in time (a move Superman deems to be suicide due to the
paradoxical nature of his actions: the bullet used to kill Orion is
ultimately fired at him by Batman and is now poisoning him to death).
Before Darkseid can use the Omega Effect to kill Superman, Barry Allen and Wally West
lead the Black Racer to Darkseid and contact with him frees Turpin from
Darkseid's control. Wonder Woman (having been freed from possession by
one of Darkseid's minions) then uses her lasso of truth to bind
Darkseid's spirit form, effectively freeing humanity from the Anti-Life
Equation and being controlled by Darkseid. In his final effort,
Darkseid's disembodied essence appears and tries to seize the Miracle Machine
Superman has created; however, Superman uses counter-vibrations to
destroy him. Furthermore, the last piece of Darkseid's plan fails when
Batman, thanks to the actions of the new Batman (Dick Grayson), Red
Robin (Tim Drake), Robin (Damian Wayne) and the Justice League, is able
to return safely to the present, consuming the Omega Energy in his body
without damaging the time-stream further, thus becoming the second
individual, along with Mister Miracle, to escape the Omega Sanction.
Doctor Impossible later manipulates the Crime Syndicate of America into helping him resurrect Darkseid via a machine that draws energy from the Multiverse itself. The resurrection backfires, and instead creates a new being known as the Omega Man.
Powers and Abilities (Darkseid)
Darkseid is among the most powerful of the New Gods. His main power,
the Omega Beam, is a form of energy that he fires from his eyes as
either a concussive force or disintegrating energy, capable of
transmuting or erasing living objects and organisms from existence as
well as resurrecting them, depending on the dark lord's will. These
beams stem from a cosmic energy source called the "Omega Effect."
Darkseid has pinpoint control and his unerring aim allows the beam to
travel in straight lines, bend, or curve around corners and can pass
through matter and energy. He can teleport himself or others through
time and space. Darkseid can also shoot energy blasts from his hands. His Omega
Sanction traps the organism in a series of alternate realities, each one
worse than the previous. During the Final Crisis, Darkseid used his
Omega Beams to grant power to Mary Marvel, with her powers then being
based on Anti-Life rather than magic.
Darkseid is a being whose strength and invulnerability can only be challenged by the likes of Superman, Doomsday, and Orion. He can also move with great speed, as he has been able to catch Superman off guard, and he is known to be able to react in nanoseconds. He also can increase his physical size. Darkseid has the powers of telepathy and telekinesis and can create psionic avatars. As Darkseid is a god he is also immortal, having lived for several hundred thousand years.
Despite his extraordinary physical power, Darkseid rarely engages
himself personally in confrontations, as he prefers to use his
superhuman intellect and genius to manipulate or control others to his
ends. Darkseid has displayed his godly abilities by sensing the death of his son Orion and fluctuations of the energy of the "godwave". Darkseid commands all the military and technological resources of Apokolips.
In Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Darkseid has also shown the powers of flight.
In the TV show Smallville,
he is almost omnipotent and can bring forth and manipulate the darkness
within a person's heart, allowing him to turn any that are not "pure"
to the path of evil. He has also displayed the ability to take possession of other living beings (that have darkness in their hearts) as well as shape-shifting.
In Other Media (Film/Movie)
- Darkseid is the main antagonist in the direct-to-video animated film Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. He is voiced by actor Andre Braugher. In the film, when he learns about Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)'s presence on Earth, he manages to control her mind and attempts to make her the new captain of his furies after Barda's defection. He had hopes of using her to kill Superman once and for all, but fails and later attacks both kryptonians at the Kent Farm. In the end, he is pummeled by Superman and sent by Supergirl, using a boom tube, to another part of space, where he ends up frozen.
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