#armaghetto

[kirbydots]

I've been reading Mister Miracle with a friend who's never read it before, and every so often they have to pause at something on Apokolips and go "what a completely hinged thing for a place to have."

[thebrimstonelab]

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[deacblues]

Johnny’s odyssey from Fantastic Four issues 49 and 50. It’s just so fucking awesome! I’ve been enthralled by it for like the past week. The spaceship on the second page is cool, undeniably so, but its really the entire rest of the comic that draws me in. Johnny’s willingness to risk everything for his friends, the incredible cosmic journey he goes on which is just so fucking interesting! Like, okay. Me and a friend talked a bit about how cool the “barriers known as un-life” are. Like, first of all, they’re just shaped cool, I love the concentric, connecting circles and bands of energy cascading all around the torch in the center. I love that they’re called “un-life”, which makes me think that was definitely a name Kirby came up with (thinking of “armaghetto” and “anti-life” from The Fourth World). And, I love how it’s just something that exists, and it doesn’t need an explanation! It’s just un-life. You don’t need to know what it does, Marvel doesn’t have to spend two paragraphs explaining the science behind un-life in some big guide to the Marvel universe, you just know that it’s powerful and that you can’t, cannot touch it. The name is just powerful. There’s also that incredible, just in-fucking-credible panel of Johnny getting blasted by the Watcher’s cosmic energies! I love that the Kirby Krackle isn’t so uniform. Everyone is always making perfect dots when they draw Kirby Krackle, or incorporating it in places where it’s unnecessary. Everyone makes it look fake, but here, Kirby makes it raw. It’s not a rule to follow, just a guideline. Jack Kirby fucking kills! No, eviscerates Johnny Storm right in front of our eyes! We see his silent screams of agony ripple across the panel in blood red and jet black! Before he is reborn in a faraway, foreign place which we cannot understand. And neither can Johnny! His mind has been completely rewired, and as he lies limp and in shock, he finally understands Galactus, just for a moment. “We’re like ants.. just ants.. ants!!” I posted these panels on Twitter but I didn’t have the space to say why I liked them. Now I do! And it’s awesome.

[docgold13]

365 DC Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

August 25th - Mister Miracle

Scott Free is a New God of the planet New Genesis and the son of Izaya Highfather, the ruler of New Genesis, and his wife, Avia. The gods of New Genesis and Apocalypse had been at war with each other for millennium and at long last a peace treaty was established to stem the bloodshed. As a part of this pact, the two leaders, Highfather of New Genesis and Darkseid of Apocalypse ,traded their toddler-aged sons. 

Orion, the son of Darkseid, was given to Highfather to be raised in the peaceful confines of Supertown, whereas Scott was offered to Darkseid, to be raised in the Terror Orphanages of the Armaghetto. Darkseid put Scott in the care of his cruel lieutenant, Granny Goodness, with the express direction that she break the lad’s spirit and transform the delicate youth into a fierce, blood-thirsty Hunger Dog. And yet, as hard as Granny tried, Scott persevered and held onto his sense of hope and belief in the goodness of life and the universe. 

In his adolescence, Scott became part of a small band of pupils who were tutored in secret by the Apokolips Resistance leader known as Himon. It was at one of these meetings that Scott met Big Barda of The Female Furies who would later become his wife. With Barda’s aide, Scott was eventual able to escape Apocalypse and he fled to planet earth. 

On earth, Scott met the famous circus escape artist, Thaddeus Brown, whose stage name was Mister Miracle. Some time thereafter, Brown was murdered by a rival and Scott sought out the killer and brought him to justice. Scott took on Brown’s mantle as Mister Miracle, utilizing his skills to become a world renown escape artist and performer. 

Barda later joined him on earth and some time thereafter the two became members of The Justice League. Scott and Barda married and now live in Brooklyn with their infant son, Jacob. The hero first appeared in the pages of Mister Miracle #1 (1971).

[multiverseforger]

Prince Uxas, the son of King Yuga Khan and Queen Heggra and the second in line to the throne of Apokolips, plotted to seize control over the planet from his older brother, Drax.[6] When Drax attempted to claim the fabled Omega Force, Uxas murdered him and claimed its power for himself. His skin turned to stone, Uxas rechristened himself as Darkseid.[7][8][9][10] At some point, he fell in love with an Apokoliptian scientist and sorceress named Suli, with whom he had a son, Kalibak. However, Heggra ordered Desaad to poison Suli out of the belief that she was corrupting her son.

Following Suli's death, Darkseid's heart grew even colder and his disdain for his mother intensified when she forced him to marry a woman named Tigra, with whom he had another son, Orion. Seeking vengeance against Heggra for killing the one he loved, Darkseid ordered Desaad to poison her so he could finally become the supreme monarch of Apokolips. Darkseid then tried to force Tigra to eliminate Orion, but the latter was ultimately traded with Highfather's son, Scott Free, as part of a peace treaty between the warring planets of Apokolips and New Genesis.[11] This trade eventually became a setback for Darkseid, with Orion growing up to value and defend the ideals of New Genesis as a powerful champion in opposition to his father. The prophecy foretold that Darkseid would meet his final defeat at the hands of Orion in a cataclysmic battle in the fiery Armaghetto of Apokolips. Likewise, Darkseid and his training minion, Granny Goodness, were unable to break Scott Free's spirit after a long, torturous upbringing and Free ultimately managed to escape Apokolips, taking with him the mightiest of the Female Furies, Big Barda, as his wife. Free, now known as the superhero Mister Miracle, and Barda began living on Earth, and Darkseid used this "betrayal" as a pretext to declare the treaty with New Genesis abrogated so the planets could resume their conflict.

Seeing other deities as a threat, Darkseid invaded the island of Themyscira in order to discover the secret location of the Olympian deities, 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.[12][13][14] 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.[15][16]

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, most notably the Kryptonian 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.

[thecomicsnexus]

SUPERMAN #3 / THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #426 / ACTION COMICS #586 MARCH 1987 BY JOHN BYRNE, MARV WOLFMAN, JERRY ORDWAY, TERRY AUSTIN, DICK GIORDANO AND TOM ZIUKO

Superman is abducted by Darkseid and is forced to become the champion of the oppressed in Apokolips’ Armaghetto.

SCORE: 8

Of all the Legends tie-ins, this one was the most creative, and the most obvious. Legends is a story that involves Darkseid, yet, he is mostly absent from it. This is the first time someone finds out Darkseid was involved, so you should definitely put this tie-in in you “Legends stack”.

As for the story, I will go over it in the spoilers section. I am not very fond of it. I always found it a bit boring (and this was one my first Superman stories I ever read).

But a lot of significant things happen in it. First of all, it makes Hunger Dogs canon. Then it kind of makes most of the Kirby stories canon, since both Superman and Darkseid know each other and Superman knows a lot about Apokolips and New Genesis. But of course, not everything of those stories can be canon (as Jimmy Olsen is not quite there yet).

Spoilers after the break...

So the whole plot is Darkseid playing games with people. This is not interesting to me, but this story CONFIRMS that Glorious Godfrey is manipulating people through his powers. (Still, I am not sure what makes some people immune).

The art on this story is amazing, and I highly recommend the digital version. Nothing against paper, but the printing technology doesn’t reflect the majesty of Austin and Ordway’s inks.

[mrseeingdevice]

“Come visit New Jersey! See the scenic views of the garden state! Hail Darkseid in the Armaghettos, or perhaps just enjoy getting your throat stomped in at the Female Fury Barracks, yes, New Jersey has a little something for everyone!”

[thedcdunce]

Metron

“My knowledge is my power! Time and space are the kingdoms I rule! I am Metron and I am very angry!” - Metron

Real Name: Victor Fries

Aliases:

Mister Zero

Doctor Zero

Gender: Male

Height: 6′ 1″

Weight: 190 lbs (86 kg)

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Black

Race: New God

Powers:

New God Physiology

Abilities:

Genius Level Intellect

Weaknesses:

Vulnerability to Radion

Equipment:

Motherbox

Mobius Chair

Universe:

Earth-One

New Earth

Base of Operations: 

Supertown

New Genesis

Citizenship: Genesisian

Marital Status: Divorced (Desdemona; wife)

Occupation: Scientist

First Appearance: New Gods #1 (March, 1971)

Appearance of Death: Death of the New Gods #7 (May, 2008)

Powers

New God Physiology

Immortality

Abilities

Genius Level Intellect: Metron was a scientific genius armed with incalculable depths of knowledge, facts, and information that he has gathered over a lifetime.

Gadgetry: Metron has invented technological wonders too numerous to mention.

Weaknesses

Vulnerability to Radion: Metron and all of the New Gods are vulnerable to a substance called Radion. Its source is unknown and its effects are toxic only in sustained amounts or after explosive exposure. The average New God can be slain by an application of Radion from a Radion blaster or bomb. More advanced beings such as Metron, protected by their mother box, armor and sheer toughness, have been known to take two hits and survive. Radion, must be hard to come by, because if it was not, Darkseid would obviously equip more of his troops with it. Perhaps it requires the mysterious Element X to create it.

Equipment

Motherbox

Mobius Chair: The Mobius Chair is a vehicle of Metron's invention which allowed him to travel through time, space, and other dimensions at will. The Mobius Chair was equipped with tractor beams powerful enough to pull a planet from its orbit.

History

Metron is the supreme explorer, scientist, and inventor of the New Gods. His mission is the unraveling of the mysteries of the universe. His origin is mysterious, though he is not a native of New Genesis or Apokolips, but comes from another place altogether. Although he allies himself with the New Gods, he is truly neither good nor evil. His main reason for helping the New Gods in battling Darkseid of Apokolips is fear of being made subject to Darkseid's tyrannical rule. This would surely hinder Metron in his search for knowledge.

Metron first met Darkseid centuries ago, before Darkseid was ruler of Apokolips. Metron was fascinated by the "X-Element," a strange material that possessed teleportation abilities, which was invented by Himon, a scientist of Apokolips. Darkseid offered the element to Metron if he would use it to create devices with which Darkseid could invade New Genesis. Metron's curiosity superseded any moral considerations, and as a result he was partially responsible for the ensuing war between New Genesis and Apokolips. Metron joined the New Gods after the warring planets had negotiated a pact of peace, sharing with them a teleportation device known as the “Boom Tube” as an act of peace. Metron befriended young Orion and Lightray, the heirs apparent of New Genesis, and when Darkseid finally did break the peace pact he revealed the details of Darkseid's plan to Orion. In that time, Metron had a young apprentice named Esak.

Cosmic Odyssey

Metron then went back to his research, interfering only rarely in the affairs of the New Gods. During one journey through another dimension, Metron discovered the Anti-Life, an extra-dimensional creature of infinite power. The sight of the creature temporarily damaged Metron's mind and he lapsed into a comatose state. The Anti-Life sent a portion of its energy into Earth's dimension, and it took the combined might of the New God's and Darkseid's forces to banish it forever, but not before countless lives were lost. Recovering from his coma, Metron continued to wander the universe, oblivious to the carnage his quest for knowledge has often unleashed. Such matters are beneath his concern, he exists only to discover ultimate truth.

Panic in the Sky

Metron sensed a tragic event unfolding in the universe, and investigating he discovered that Warworld had destroyed the planet Almerac. He sensed Brainiac's presence, and the madman's plan to invade Earth. Metron sent a warning to Lightray and Orion, but Brainiac removed Metron from the Mobius Chair and imprisoned him. Metron's warning allows Superman to assemble an army of superheroes to defend Earth. When Metron was freed and reunited with his Mobius Chair, he shows a rare sign of emotion…anger. Metron assisted in Brainiac's defeat, and later imprisoned him on New Genesis, despite an outcry from several heroes.

JLA

Metron eventually takes on an apprentice, a future robot analogue of Hourman. Eventually, the Source Wall revealed to Metron and Takion that Mageddon, a doomsday weapon of the Old Gods, was set to reawaken and attack Earth. They agreed to have Orion and Big Barda join the JLA in order to combat this threat to the universe.

Seven Soldiers

War breaks out in the Fourth World, with Darkseid successfully obtaining the Anti-Life Equation. Eventually, all of the New Gods perish, with their immortal souls falling to Earth, and landing in the bodies of mortal humans. The New Gods now inhabit the bodies of homeless people, while Darkseid is now a crime boss. Metron takes the form of an epileptic man in a wheelchair.

Metron contacts the current Mister Miracle, Shilo Norman, as he attempts to escape an artificially-generated black hole. Inside the black hole's event horizon, Metron thrusts Shilo into a fictional reality, where he is pitted against the forces of Darkseid.

In the warped reality, Metron and the reincarnation of the Black Racer test Shilo's skills by pitting him against malevolent cars in the "Drive by Derby of Armaghetto." Shilo eventually triumphs, emerging from the simulation immune to the Anti-Life Equation as well as Darkseid's Omega Sanction. Metron appears before him and explains that he has survived his initiation into the New Gods. He then asks Mister Miracle to go further, return to the world and save everyone.

Final Crisis

In prehistoric times, Metron visits the early human Anthro, giving him fire, as well as a "circuit" that would be used millions of years later to combat the Anti-Life Equation.

In the present day, Darkseid's minions release the equation, enslaving the population of Earth. A wheelchair-bound Metron is thrown into a cell along with others who are immune to the Equation, including Nix Uotan and a "mysterious anthropoid". Metron is seen fiddling with a Rubik's cube. The anthropoid mentions that no man alive has ever completed a maximally-scrambled Rubik's Cube in less that 18 moves. Once the guards return to deal with the prisoners, Metron completes his Rubik's Cube in 17 moves, causing it to "ping". Light floods the chamber, returning Metron and Nix to their full power.

Metron tells Nix Uotan to observe the inauguration of the "Fifth World"; the age of men as gods. Metron leaves a warning: If the humans breach the Bleed wall, they will face a greater "threat" than Darkseid.

He leaves his Mobius Chair behind; allowing Superman to use it's power source, Element X, to activate the Miracle Machine in order to defeat Mandrakk.

Fun Facts

Metron's physiology is extremely similar to that of a New God however he isn't from the Fourth World.

[lightdancer1]

An excerpt from the upcoming chapter of Changes Within Changes:

"Here you are then, Uxas son of Yugha Khan. A weapon suited to a God that is King of Gods. Foehammer the World-Cracker."

Uxas looked at the warhammer in his hands, the haft longer than a grown man was tall, the head marked with a gleaming light that left visible traces in the world of strange light that did not quite move as light ought.

"It will meet my services perfectly."

His gaze returned to the light, there was something....strange about it. As if a part of the power of the Black Racer had-

"How did you do this?"

The Jotunness's clawed finger tapped at her jawline, molten fangs shining in a face that rippled orange with heat.

"A master of the art hardly reveals secrets, King of Apokolips."

He looked to his right and left. "I could order Breeda and Heggra to take you captive."

At that her hand moved to her own blade and she drew it slightly. The New Gods stepped back, the very smell of the blade redolent of the realm of the Racer in a more visceral and terrible sense than anything save Radion.

"You make a very strong counterargument, Yeneli of Muspelheim. I will not ask questions, simply commission more weapons. I suspect fruitful pursuit of this in the future."

The fires dimmed, leaving only a molten smile and coalfire eyes in a face of darkness where orange heat showed the motion of cheeks and lips into a smile.

"And I shall be making a very big fortune."

She then turned to her right where none dared stand and with a motion of her hand carved two glyphs into the air in Armaghetto. Fire rippled into being in the shape of a door, one to which she strode with calmness as if she had not dared to stride within his realm in that very same fashion.

One of his father's accursed advisors remained weeping, holding his arm severed by the door forming as she strode through it wistling an old tune.

"Do you truly trust her, my lord?"

It was Heggra who asked him, the woman who'd poisoned the mother of his newborn son.

His red eyes turned to her.

"I am not a fool, Heggra. No, I do not trust her. Even for her kind she has a bad reputation."

He lightly moved the hammer, marveling in its skill and in the light it left.

"I do trust her weapons and the look on Izaya's face when I unleash this."

[frasier-crane-style]

New Krypton

I’m skipping over Final Crisis because it’s long, incomprehensible, and self-indulgent. I don’t mind Grant Morrison doing his thing, but he should either have an editor who can make his work legible without annotations (seriously! annotations!) or he should be writing non-canon or small-corner-of-the-DCU works instead of massive, universe-shaking events. Also, his take on the New Gods is borderline embarrassing. Darkseid and Orion have their prophesized duel in the streets of Armaghetto off-screen. The other New Gods are barely in it, and when they are, they’re possessing human bodies. That is some Smallville bullshit, people.

The new big Superman event is New Krypton, a return to the era of all the Superbooks blending together to tell one continuous story (albeit with different focuses). Having established Zod and Chris Kent in Last Son, and Brainiac and the Bottle City of Kandor in Brainiac, the Kandorians are freed and construct their own planet on the opposite side of the sun. Clark leaves the Earth to become ‘Commander El’ on NK and keep an eye on the new military leadership, General Zod, while newbie Mon-El takes over as Metropolis’s protector. As well, an aged-up Christ Kent and one of Kara’s friends become the new Nightwing and Flamebird (at the time, Dick was Batman, before Bruce came back and went all Baby Boomer on him). 

You might say this event occupies a ‘sour spot’. It goes on and on and on before getting to the point, with Samuel Lane racking up more and more atrocities and General Zod being obviously evil until, in a surprise twist, he turns out to be obviously evil. It’s just too complicated and expansive, with everyone from the Golden Guardian to Jimmy Olsen to Captain Atom to Adam Strange to the LSH to JEMM showing up and having a little storyline, many of them just serving as henchmen to Lane. 

And yet, part of the reason it doesn’t work is that they rush an ending and return to the status quo instead of letting this situation play out. It’s like they were told they could plot it as lazily and slowly as they wanted, then abruptly they only had a month to wrap everything up.

Add to that how, oddly, a lot of the Superfamily stalwarts barely make a showing. Jimmy gets a ‘reporter’ storyline, but Lois is barely in it, despite her father and sister being some of the primary villains (and neither her nor Jimmy actually end up exposing any of Sam Lane’s misdeeds, making for a real shaggy dog of a tale). Steel spends a lot of the storyline in a coma--they hint at a grudge match between him and Atlas, but it ends up being just one panel in the climax. And Power Girl doesn’t show up at all. Odd for someone who’s been so unsure about her place in the world and desperate for connections. You’d think she’d want to check out (a version of) her people returning, or at least that she’d be affected by the worldwide ban on Kryptonians. Maybe she was dead at the time. Occupational hazard when you��re a superhero, of course.

I think the biggest demerit is that of the villains, Sam Lane and Zod, both are practically evil for the sake of evil, provoking a war for little to no reason. Lane is a frothing-at-the-mouth-xenophobe who will kill innocent people on his own side to frame Krypton, making you wonder how someone could be so bone-dumb stupid as to want a war with 100,000 Supermen (even if you kill all but two, those two Kryptonians could pretty much fuck Earth irrevocably, right? So, guess what happens...). And Zod is, of course, Zod. He started out a child abuser in Last Son and he never really sheds that. So what we end up with is a political thriller where two of the major players are mustache-twirling whackjobs. I can’t help but think how much stronger the story would be if they were a little more nuanced, had a little more shades of gray. Maybe Sam Lane could be paranoid, but he only wants a strong defense in case of attack, and he’s manipulated by Lex Luthor (who we can all buy as a frothing at the mouth xenophobe). Maybe Zod really does just want Krypton to co-exist peacefully, but provocation from Earth leads to him flying off the handle and going into a downward spiral. They can still be bad guys who do bad things, they just don’t have to be complete psychopaths for the story to work. 

Honestly, though, I think this is a case where Supergirl could make a good go of adapting a storyline that isn’t (solely) Superman’s. A two-hour movie really couldn’t fully explore an arc like this, but a TV show could do justice to the good of the storyline and maybe make a silk purse out of some distinctly hoggish body parts.  

As for consequences, we have the Grounded story arc, which has been well-covered elsewhere, but I’ll do my damnedest with it. Famously, it has pretty much nothing to do with New Krypton, the near-genocide of Superman’s people, or any of that, with a woman instead blaming Superman for her husband’s cancer, of all things, and Clark deciding in response to walk across America, of all things. And getting really pissy when people point out that’s a pretty stupid waste of his time. Maybe it’d work better if it were just Clark going on a road trip. Flying into a town, changing clothes, staying there a few days, getting to know people--that is the point of his Clark Kent identity, right? It seems like walking across the US to get in touch with ‘the real America’ (just watch NASCAR and get a MySpace page, ya rube) would A. result in a lot of wasted time as he walks across empty space. B. Have him meeting people as Superman who are too starstruck by his celebrity to really connect with him or give him any insight into their lives. 

We also have, as compensation for helping General Lane, Lex Luthor being pardoned by the government and getting Lexcorp back (pretty sure that second one isn’t constitutional). I could only with the bitterest of irony declare that to be a ‘change to the status quo.’

[officialmadizm-blog]

Channel Live is an American hip hop duo based out of East Orange, New Jersey. The duo composed of Hakim Green and Vincent "Tuffy" Morgan, which recorded for Capitol Records and Flavor Unit Records. Discovered by KRS-One, the duo released its debut album, Station Identification, in 1995. It spawned the group's biggest hit, "Mad Izm," which peaked at 54 on the Billboard Hot 100. The B Side of the "Mad Izm" 12inch was the underground classic "Reprogram" which were both produced by KRS-One. The group continued to make appearances throughout the 1990s, including on KRS-One's self-titled album and on the Blade soundtrack. In 2000 the group released a second album titled Armaghetto on Flavor Unit, which was followed by a third album in 2006 titled Secret Science Rap. #hiphop #classichiphop #hiphopculture #vinyl #vinylcollection #goldenera #dope #realhiphop #lyricist #dj #djs #deejay #hiphopshirts #shirts #diggininthecrates #rap #music #beatmakers #producers #stacksrundeep #stacksunltd #ChannelLive #MadIzm #Reprogram #FlavorUnit

[stacks-unlimited]

Channel Live is an American hip hop duo based out of East Orange, New Jersey. The duo composed of Hakim Green and Vincent "Tuffy" Morgan, which recorded for Capitol Records and Flavor Unit Records. Discovered by KRS-One, the duo released its debut album, Station Identification, in 1995. It spawned the group's biggest hit, "Mad Izm," which peaked at 54 on the Billboard Hot 100. The B Side of the "Mad Izm" 12inch was the underground classic "Reprogram" which were both produced by KRS-One. The group continued to make appearances throughout the 1990s, including on KRS-One's self-titled album and on the Blade soundtrack. In 2000 the group released a second album titled Armaghetto on Flavor Unit, which was followed by a third album in 2006 titled Secret Science Rap. #hiphop #classichiphop #hiphopculture #vinyl #vinylcollection #goldenera #dope #realhiphop #lyricist #dj #djs #deejay #hiphopshirts #shirts #diggininthecrates #rap #music #beatmakers #producers #stacksrundeep #stacksunltd #ChannelLive #MadIzm #Reprogram #FlavorUnit

[thebrimstonelab]

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[whosnoname]

(OG Win(winder polynice))

[docgold13]

365 DC Comics Paper Cut-Out Villains - One Villain, Every Day, All Year…

November 29th - Virman Vundabar


A New God of the planet Apocalypse, Vundabar was one of the many poor retches that Granny Goodness plucked out of the Armaghetto to raise in her orphanage. Although not as physically imposing as Granny’s other pupils, the lad excelled at strategic thinking and scientific prowess. Granny renamed him ‘Virman Vundabar’ after his keen interest in the Prussian Military History of Earth. As Vundabar’s skills in military planning improved he was promoted into Darkseid’s Elite as a strategic advisor to The Parademon Army. Vundabar has battled Mister Miracle and has additionally gone up against the earthly heroes Superman, The Justice League and Hawk and Dove. Virman Vundabar first appeared in the pages of Mister Miracle #5 (1971).

[multiverseforger]

Prince Uxas, the son of King Yuga Khan and Queen Heggra and the second in line to the throne of Apokolips, plotted to seize control over the planet from his older brother, Drax.[6] When Drax attempted to claim the fabled Omega Force, Uxas murdered him and claimed its power for himself. His skin turned to stone, Uxas rechristened himself as Darkseid.[7][8][9][10] At some point, he fell in love with an Apokoliptian scientist and sorceress named Suli, with whom he had a son, Kalibak. However, Heggra ordered Desaad to poison Suli out of the belief that she was corrupting her son.

Following Suli's death, Darkseid's heart grew even colder and his disdain for his mother intensified when she forced him to marry a woman named Tigra, with whom he had another son, Orion. Seeking vengeance against Heggra for killing the one he loved, Darkseid ordered Desaad to poison her so he could finally became the supreme monarch of Apokolips. Darkseid then tried to force Tigra to eliminate Orion, but the latter was ultimately traded with Highfather's son, Scott Free, as part of a peace treaty between the warring planets of Apokolips and New Genesis.[11] This trade eventually became a setback for Darkseid, with Orion growing up to value and defend the ideals of New Genesis as a powerful champion in opposition to his father. The prophecy foretold that Darkseid would meet his final defeat at the hands of Orion in a cataclysmic battle in the fiery Armaghetto of Apokolips. Likewise, Darkseid and his training minion, Granny Goodness, were unable to break Scott Free's spirit after a long, torturous upbringing and Free ultimately managed to escape Apokolips, taking with him the mightiest of the Female Furies, Big Barda, as his wife. Free, now known as the superhero Mister Miracle, and Barda began living on Earth, and Darkseid used this "betrayal" as a pretext to declare the treaty with New Genesis abrogated so the planets could resume their conflict.

Seeing other deities as a threat, Darkseid invaded the island of Themyscira in order to discover the secret location of the Olympian deities, 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.[12][13][14] 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.[15][16]

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, most notably the Kryptonian 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 SagaEdit

Main article: 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.[17][18][19][20][21][22]

The Seven Soldiers and "Boss Dark Side"Edit

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.[23] 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 CrisisEdit

Main article: 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, which created 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.

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) #240, 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 #118, 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 signalling 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 Beam, 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 making 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.[24]

The New 52Edit



Darkseid on the cover of Justice League vol 2 #23.1 (November 2013). Art by Ivan Reis, and Joe Prado.

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Darkseid's name is first invoked by a Parademon in Justice League #1.[25] He is later mentioned again in Justice League #2,[26] and in Justice League #3 Darkseid makes his first appearance in the series, seen in a vision by Victor Stone after he is injured by an exploding Mother Box.[27] In the final pages of Justice League #4, Darkseid himself appears.[28] In Justice League #5, the League confronts him but they are overpowered by him, when he severely hurts Superman with his Omega Beams and breaks Green Lantern's arm.[29] Finally, in Justice League #6, Darkseid is driven out when Cyborg activates the invaders' Mother Boxes and Superman forces him through a boom tube. The incidents that occur in these issues make Darkseid the very first foe the newly formed League faces as a team. The issue also reveals DeSaad and Steppenwolf, referring to Darkseid's daughter and their ceaseless search for her across countless worlds.[30] Darkseid's daughter escapes containment in Justice League of America's Vibe #7 after the dampeners on her cage are temporarily disabled.[31]

In the New 52 continuity, there is only one set of New Gods across the 52 Multiverse. So as Darkseid invades Prime Earth in Justice League, he sends his lieutenant Steppenwolf to do the same, with greater success, on Earth 2, resulting in the deaths of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, and stranding Helena Wayne and Kara Zor-L on Prime Earth. Five years later, Darkseid once again invades Earth 2, which never fully recovered from his armies' earlier assault, and it is revealed that he and Highfather of New Genesis struck a deal allowing him the unchallenged right to invade Earth 2.

In Darkseid #1, his background story was revealed. Formerly a farmer named Uxas, he hated the deities of his world. So he traveled up to their mountain while they slept and tricked them all into fighting each other. As they were all weakened from the war, he killed them one by one with his scythe (similar to Kronos of Greek mythology) and stole their power, before destroying his world and creating Apokolips.

In Justice League: The Darkseid War (after the retirement of the "New 52" imprint), Darkseid comes into conflict with the Anti-Monitor. Darkseid's daughter Grail leads the Anti-Monitor, who is revealed to be a scientist named Mobius, to Darkseid for the former to kill the latter. Mobius believes that with the death of Darkseid, he will be free from being the Anti-Monitor. After an intense battle, the Anti-Monitor fuses the Black Racer with Flash and sends it after Darkseid. Using the fused Flash and his own powers, he kills Darkseid. With Darkseid dead, the universe is unbalanced as it has lost its God of Evil. Later, Lex Luthor would be merged with the Omega Sanction, becoming the new ruler of Apokolips.

After killing the Anti-Monitor using an Anti-Life Equation-powered Steve Trevor, Grail would later resurrect Darkseid through the newborn child of Superwoman. The child has the same powers as his father Mazahs, with the ability to steal the powers of others. Stealing the new "God" abilities of the Justice League, Grail fuses them with the child and brings Darkseid back to life. However, he is under her complete control. Grail later attempts to redeem herself by seemingly killing Darkseid with the Anti-Life Equation. However, it is later revealed that she reincarnated him back as a baby with the intention of teaching him differently.

DC RebirthEdit

Darkseid (as a baby) appears in DC Universe: Rebirth #1 where Grail tells him of Wonder Woman's long lost brother, Jason.

Baby Darkseid reappears in Dark Nights: Metal where it is shown that Batman stole him from Grail and intends to use the Omega Beams to send himself back in time. This never comes to fruition and Darkseid is either returned to or retrieved by Grail.[32]

Sometime afterwards, Darkseid matured into a toddler, and using telepathy, demanded that he needed to feast on Old Gods to return to his former self. After killing A.R.G.U.S. agents that were hunting them down, Darkseid and Grail began hunting down and taking the life force of Zeus' demi-god children, killing several including Perseus and Hercules, and growing into the size of a child. After recruiting Jason and luring Wonder Woman to him, Darkseid ages once again into a young man. He fights Wonder Woman himself and as he starts to drain her life force, he is betrayed by Jason. When Zeus appears and transforms into his true form, Darkseid fights the Olympian God, destroying their surroundings in their brawl. When they take a Boom Tube to Manila, Philippines, Zeus grabs onto Darkseid and unleashes bolts of lightning on him. However, Darkseid reveals that he planned for this and that his true target was Zeus himself, and he begins to drain and kill him, restoring Darkseid back to his original self. When the rest of the Justice League arrive, Darkseid decides it is best not to fight them as he does not want to risk revealing his greater plans, and promptly leaves through a Boom Tube with Grail