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autisticsupervillain · 6 months ago

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It's Complete Monster Throwdown!

The show where we take two Pure Evil Monsters and make them kill each other!

This Week's Monsters...

Darkseid vs YHVH!

Conditions:

True Form Darkseid vs True Self YHVH.

Scenario:

YHVH wants to enslave the DC Multiverse. Darkseid called dibs.

Analysis: Darkseid

There came a time when the Old Gods died. When their existence culminated in bloody, glorious battle that split their world in half, leaving two halves of a planetary corpse to drift apart through space. These two halves would become the utopian New Genesis and the tyrannical Apokolips.

Uxas was born as the Prince of this new rotting world, until he absorbed the power of the infinite Omega Force and was transformed forever. What emerged was far worse than any tyrant, more than a villain and more that just a god. What Uxas became could only be described as Tyranny itself, fascism incarnate, the antithesis to life, hope, and free will. The thing that emerged was the greatest villain of the entire DC Multiverse, the ultimate evil known only as Darkseid.

Darkseid is at eternal war with the rest of existence, vying to claim every throne the DC Multiverse can offer him and erase all free will into his own. From his nemesis on New Genesis, Highfather, to the Justice League on Earth, every hero in every timeline on every planet and across every reboot knows amd fears the name Darkseid.

As the literal, physical embodiment of Evil and Fascism, Darkseid is a reality altering Juggernaut. He has continually fought and defeated the entire Justice League at once, altered matter to turn people into babies and back again, telepathically dominated entire planets full of people with Superman's powers, and telekinetically created storms with ease. Though Darkseid hardly bothers with any of that when he can simply blast you with his homing eye lasers, his Omega Beams.

Erase someone from existence? Omega Beams! Teleport someone to a different planet? Omega Beams! Send someone across time and space? Omega Beams! Get it now or eternal suffering in the slave pits of Apokolips for you! It has been explained that Darkseid's Omega Beams comes from the reality erasing Omega Force absorbed within him, erasing people into "less than nothing" before recreating them when and where Darkseid wishes as a means of teleporting you across time and space. He can erase you down to less than nothing and bring you back at will.

That's not even scratching the surface. For as much as Darkseid resembles a typical supervillain, a close examination of his powers shows he's moreso a reality breaking eldritch monstrosity. He can alter time at will, stopping and fast forwarding it, open Boom Tubes, holes on space time, with a thought, and come back from the dead in an instant simply because he's necessary for reality to keep existing. Even lesser Avatars of himself or just his weaker son Desaad pretending to be him, have performed physics breaking feats. Like that time Desaad pretending to be Darkseid punched a crack in reality in the realm of Order and Chaos.

Darkseid has shown to be an acausal being, unaffected by alterations to space time across the entire multiverse. He was unaffected by the Anti-Moniter devouring reality and Superboy Prime punching shockwaves in time, even as they reset and retconned entire timelines. Darkseid has even fought the Anti-Monitor before and has absorbed the powers of Gods so thoroughly that they've been driven mad and reduced to mindless babbling. Darkseid has consumed universes, manipulated the Source Wall itself, and speed blitzed beings like Flash and Superman, who can outrun time itself.

Darkseid can, and will, make you regret having ever been born, before showing the mercy of killing you. If you're lucky. Ir he could simply banish you to the Omega Sanctum, so you can experience death without end, each on torturously, infinitely worse than the last.

All of this is because Darkseid is something... more than just the tyrant of Apokolips. More than even just a God. Darkseid is tyranny itself across the entire multiverse, transcending reality completely.

Darkseid resides within the Sphere of the Gods, an abstract, dimensionless realm where ideas, thoughts, and dreams become reality and sentient concepts reign supreme over all reality. To vastly simplify, the main DC Multiverse contains infinite spacial dimensions within itself. This is infinitely transcended by the Bleed, which is infinitely transcended by the Speed Force, which is infinitely transcended by the Green, which is infinitely transcended by the Sphere of the Gods. Five layers of infinity.

Hell. Even by the standards of the Gods who reside at that layer, Darkseid is immeasurably powerful.

During final crisis, Darkseid was dying from exposure to Radion, an element that kills abstract concepts, and so as a final "fuck you" decided to fall on top of reality, dragging everything into a black hole where all is Darkseid. He enslaved mankind, even those completely immune to mind control like Wonder Woman, with the Anti-Life Equation, erasing free will completely. loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth ÷ mockery ÷ condemnation ÷ misunderstanding × guilt × shame × failure × judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=dark side. Life under fascism, under tyranny, under evil, under Darkseid is the complete antithesis of life as a concept.

To end this madness, the Justice League threw everything they had at him. Batman shot him with a Radion Bullet, the Flash lead the concept of Death itself right to Darkseid do it could claim his soul, and finally, Superman sang a song of Hope to shatter Darkseid's soul completely.

Even all this, in rapid succession, did not work. Darkseid's fragmented essance was sealed away, from which he managed to continue to create Avatars and Eminations, terrorizing reality even still. Darkseid has come back by putting his fractured true form back together, possessing people and devouring their souls from the inside out, simply willing himself back to life as a necessary part of reality, and creating new bodies for himself on a whim. Even sealed away within the Source Wall, beyond existence itself, Darkseid reigned in Avatars and eventually returned by manipulating Superman to free him.

Simply put, Darkseid cannot be stopped. Only fought. Only slowed. Because he's more than a simple enemy.

Darkseid is every nightmare you've ever had. He's every bad thought in your head. Every selfish impulse. Every act of cruelty. Every life taken, thing stolen, prejudice spread, and pinch of hate felt is Darkseid. Darkseid is bigotry and ignorance and fascism on a scale that simply transcends you or I. Every genocide, every war crime, every drop of bloodshed...

That is what Darkseid is.

Analysis: YHVH

The name of God. The most sacred word. The name you cannot speak. It is one of the seven sacred names of God in the Old Testament and speaking it can cause miracles to happen. To throw that name around lightly is Blasphemy. And greater Blasphemy can there be than taking that name as a badge, wearing it as a mask, and using it to justify atrocities.

The God of Law will claim that name is His. He will claim every sacred name as His. He will wear the mask of God and justify every atrocity in its name. But, deep down, in His darkest moments, when faced by Heroes He wishes to destroy with no one else around... the demon that calls Himself YHVH will admit that that is not really His name.

He is not God. And He knows it. The God of Law is simply fascism wearing the asthetics of Christianity, Judaism, and monotheistic culture as a mask, having gutted them of all culture and history to justify his atrocities.

Shin Megami Tensei's multiverse was created by humans. They observed reality, came to conclusions about its nature, and thus, that nature became true. Reality was given shape by the power of Human Observation. But, before that, humanity was created by God. The actual God. The Great Reason, or the Axiom. All Gods of all mythologies are just fragments of this one being, shaped into unique beings by the human power of Observation.

The God of Law preaches to be this being, but even he knows that is a lie. He us merely a fragment of the real deal. So, he uses God's name as a way to steal prayer. A loophole to put himself above all other gods and religions and make himself the Supreme Being. With his power now absolute, the God of Law cursed all Gods who wouldn't submit into being nothing more than lowly demons, turning Gods like Baal into demons like Beelzebub. Those that did submit, like Thor, were Christianized into his servants as enforcers of Law. Thor himself was Law's chosen pawn to manipulate mankind inti nuclear war so that the God of Law could rebuild civilization in his own name.

If you aren't getting it yet, the God of Law is, both in universe and out, the physical manifest of Abrahamic Myth as used as a justification for human atrocities. Thor as a servant of Law calls back to how heavily Christianized our records of Norse Mythology are and how much of the original myths were destroyed in its wake. The demonization of Baal calls back to the persecution of other religions under the justification of their Gods being Demons. The God of Law wears the skin of God, but with none of the actual philosophical teachings or understanding underneath.

In other words, even in universe, this guy is the ultimate embodiment of blasphemy.

Now, the only threat left to the Law faction was humanity itself. So, the God of Law sought to destroy the free will of mankind or wipe humanity out completely as need be so that humans could never observe him as anything less than omnipotent.

To that end, the God of Law is easily one of the most powerful and devastating threats in the entire SMT setting. His nature as a Demon, an abstract being only given form when a human observes him, makes all conventional laws of physics and causality completely irrelevant. Just as myths change over time and discard their prior continuity, the Gods can change on a dime according to the perceptions of mankind. He can distort space and time, create and destroy entire universes, and give life to countless angels with every breath he takes. He can seal gods away into physical mortal forms, turn humans into angels, will you into centuries of sleep, and destroy the free will of nearly every human in the world with just his song.

Among the God of Law's most devastating abilities are his Almighty attacks. A special, non-elemental effect that completely ignores any and all resistances you might have against his powers. The artifacts like the Omnipotent Orb, which warps reality as to make you immune to all forms of damage, do nothing to stop these attacks.

The God of Law typically opperates through the use of Avatars, so as to prevent exposure to pesky human Observation. These entities include Kagutsuchi, a universe destroyer who controls the flow of all human souls across all of creation. He is used to destroy worlds and make the survivors brutally war amongst themselves to create the next reality, with the hope of convincing them to create a universe with no free will in the next cycle. Or Yaldabaoth, the administrator of the Collective Unconscious whose mere presence was controlling everyone in Tokyo.

The God of Law can erase you from existence and reduce you to primordial clumps of information, curse you into a lesser demonic mockery of your real self, and banish you to the depths of Hell. He is practically unstoppable and unkillable. He has come back from his true form being ripped to shreds and reduced to nothing but mere Avatars, fought against physical embodiments of Death, and been teamed up against by eight different Godslayers at once.

Even when finally robbed of all divinity by the humans he so desperately sought to lord over, the God of Law would eventually return, effectively returning him from being erased from existence. For as long fascism and tyranny wore the skin of other cultures to justify its brutality, he would always return to enslave mankind.

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Throwdown Breakdown:

Well, this is a special occasion, folks. These two quite easily mark the most powerful and evil beings that have ever set foot on this vs show. And they are very evenly matched.

In terms of raw trading of abilities, both of these guys can honestly take a lot of what the other throws at them. While the God of Law can mess with Darkseid's concept, Darkseid has endured and come back from concept killing attacks before, while the God of Law has come back from being erased from existence completely. Existence erasure, soul manipulation, universal destruction, space and time alteration, they've both seen and done it before. As these two battle above reality in the realm of abstract concepts, their avatars would war across timelines, destroying and enslaving entire universes against each others.

So, how do we break the tie? It's time to play our favorite game....

My infinity is bigger than yours!!

We've already put Darkseid at five layers into Outerversal, so how does Mr. Blasphemy stack up?

Atziluth, the dimensionless, archetypal world where the true forms gods dwell as nothing but abstract thoughts has three Sefirot layers within it. That's three right there. The Expanse above that contains the entirety of the Tree of Life, including Atziluth as it's highest layer. And the God of Law himself transcends that, having created all of it.

That's.... five layers. Same as Darkseid.

....huh.

This is a genuine headscratcher. Existence erasure? Both can do it and both can survive it. Mind control that completely erases free will? Both have it and both basically embody that very concept. Time manipulation? Both are beyond cause and effect and are unaffected by retroactive time fuckery. Possession? Both can do it, worst case they just switch bodies. Almighty attacks? Darkseid absorbs the energy and copies the ability. Observation? Why would Darkseid think a lowly mortal human could help him kill a God? Omega Sanction? Banishment? Both of these characters are omnipresent, where could you banish them to? Darkseid is all of the evil in the world and the God of Law is one with everything because humanity believes he's one with everything thereby making it true. If the God of Law were to nerf Darkseid into a mere demon, rather than a God, Darkseid would just absorb some of the God of Law's power and bring himself back up to an equal level. That's how he became Darkseid in the first place.

These two are damn near the same character just channeled in different ways. The God of Law is fascism dressed up with scripture and jargon, while Darkseid is fascism without the mask.

This would be another of SMT's forever wars, a stalemate only broken when whatever protagonist comes along and picks a side. Darkseid would be another subfaction of law, waring with the God of Law for control, while the Justice League adds "mechanical angels" to its "villain of the month list".

Everything that these two can throw at each other, every atrocity that they have committed, and every death to their name is something that their opponent simply is.

So, where does it end? When everyone is dead.

Darkseid does not need the life beneath him to keep existing. The God of Change does. So, the answer is simple. Let their war destroy reality.

Let the blood flow. Let it drown the schools and rot the ground beneath it. Let the Darkness destroy worlds until every light in creation dies. Darkseid would simply let their bloodshed play out, allow the God of Law destroy countless of his own worlds to keep them from Darkseid's hands, and wait to see who is left standing.

When the multiverse runs empty and Law starved without worshippers to give him form, Darkseid will laugh throughout the void. The God of Law will fade away, reabsorbed into the Axiom, and the real God will create the world anew.

That's fine. Another multiverse for Darkseid to rule. Another multiverse to burn.

This Throwdown's Winner is...