| Comics | Pre-Flashpoint • Post-Flashpoint |
|---|---|
| Movies | Animated Movies • DCEU |
| Shows | DCAU • Smallville • Justice League Action |
| Games | Injustice • Lego DC |
| “ | The most powerful beings of this Earth... CRUSHED and HELPLESS at my feet. And once this planet is consumed...I'll send my forces out to slaughter any ragtag survivors who slipped through my grasp. Such is the annihilation that is Darkseid! | „ |
Summary
Darkseid is one of the most powerful New Gods and the tyrannical ruler of Apokolips, an archetypal world beyond the boundaries of time and space. His everlasting goal is the utter domination and enslavement of all life in creation, when all is ordered according to his will.
Darkseid was formerly known as Uxas, brother of Drax and son of Yuga Khan and Queen Heggra, the former rulers of Apokolips. Drax attempted to gain control over the Omega Effect, an infinite source of energy residing in the Infinity Pit, that would grant immense power to whoever used it, but at the last second Uxas betrayed his brother and took the Omega powers for himself, becoming Darkseid. Darkseid sired one son with his beloved, the sorceress Suli, but she was killed by his mother so he could be forced to marry the wife of her choosing, Tigra. When Suli died, so did Darkseid's soul, and he sired a single son by Tigra before having her imprisoned in solitude while he focused on ruling, having had his mother assassinated. That son, Orion, would be destined to kill Darkseid in a final duel to the death.
Darkseid manufactured war against Apokolips' rival world, New Genesis, but was later convinced by Metron to agree to a temporary peace treaty. He swapped sons with Highfather of New Genesis, trading Orion for the child who would later become known as Scott Free. Darkseid would continue plotting to gain complete control over creation, researching ways to harness the power of the Anti-Life Equation and the Source.
It was later clarified that Darkseid and the other New Gods are not simply alien beings from an extradimensional realm, they are living ideas from a higher, archetypal realm; every storyline except for Final Crisis simply deals with emanations of the higher-dimensional deities touching the lower-dimensional multiverse. During the events of Final Crisis, Darkseid's Godhead was shattered into fragments, and the Post-Flashpoint emanation of Darkseid is one of those fragments.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 4-B | 2-C
Key: Post-Flashpoint Emanation | Darkseid War
Name: Darkseid (Formerly Uxas)
Origin: DC Comics
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: New God, Ruler of Apokolips
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Extrasensory Perception (Has 18 divine senses; Sensed Constantine's mind from another dimension despite his cloaking spells), Immortality (Type 1), Self-Sustenance (Types 1 and 2: As shown here), Flight, Energy Projection (Can fire Omega Beams from his eyes and energy blasts from his hands), Homing Attack (Omega Beams track their target), Telepathy (Invaded Constantine's mind), Portal Creation and Dimensional Travel (Can summon boom tubes; Physically pushed through a dimensional barrier Constantine had trouble crossing), BFR (Boom tubes can be used to banish targets), Summoning (Can use boom tubes to access the forces of Apokolips), Regeneration (Low-Mid - Regenerated his destroyed eyes), Size Manipulation (Can grow immensely large), Energy Absorption (Gained power by absorbing the powers of Old Gods), Life Manipulation (Absorbed life force from Wonder Woman and returned to adulthood by absorbing all of Zeus' life force), Gravity Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation (Can generate a gravitational pull so strong that space is twisted and time is stretched, so days pass with each second; Physically opened a hole in space), Technology Manipulation (Began taking control of Mr. Terrific's boom spheres with his will), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1 - Captured the Black Racer and learned to summon and direct it), Illusion Creation (Disguised himself as an alien medic), Dream Manipulation (Invaded Grail's dreams), Resistance to Disease Manipulation (New God physiology makes them immune to disease), Spatial Manipulation (No-sold the spatial rending caused by boom spheres and survived the collapse of a boom tube around him which caused fractures in the universal fabric, though he needed to recuperate in the Mobius Chamber afterward), Antimatter Manipulation (Unaffected by the matter-destroying properties of antimatter), Electricity Manipulation (Was unaffected by Zeus' lightning)
Attack Potency: Solar System level (Stomped Hal Jordan without difficulty. His Omega Beams knocked out Superman in one hit) | Low Multiverse level (Comparable to the Anti-Monitor)
Speed: At least FTL (Comparable to Wonder Woman and Flash) | At least FTL (Should be faster than before)
Lifting Strength: Class Y (Comparable to Superman) | At least Class Y
Striking Strength: Solar System level (Overpowered Superman) | Low Multiverse level
Durability: Solar System level (Tanked his own Omega Beams alongside the boom spheres' spatial rending. Hal Jordan's constructs shattered on him) | Low Multiverse level
Stamina: Superhuman, possibly Infinite (Can fight for seven days straight. His power source, the Omega Effect, is described as infinite)
Range: Low Multiversal (Detected and invaded Constantine's mind across dimensions)
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (He has countless years of experience in strategy, military tactics, governing, and scientific pursuit. He easily convinced a Martian Survivor to be his Fury of Death and birth his Deathspawn, Manipulated the Old Gods into a fatal war to gain power, created the Post Flashpoint version of Boomtubes to follow Kaiyo across realities, and is implied to have created Apokolips itself with much of its technology.
Standard Equipment: None (varies depending on the circumstances). Darkseid usually creates technology for the purpose at hand - for example, he created a capture device that stole a piece of the Anti-Life Entity's power. Due to his ability to summon boom tubes at will, Darkseid has instant access to all of Apokolips' technology and armies, should he need them.
Optional Equipment: The Anti-Life Equation
Weaknesses: Darkseid is vulnerable to radion, a lethal substance to New Gods. It should be noted, however, that powerful New Gods like Kalibak are able to easily survive normal radion shots. When Darkseid was shot and weakened by the radion bullet he was already dying.
In order to fully incarnate in a lower dimension by possessing a human body, a noble soul must be corrupted, otherwise the process is not fully successful.
- Fought against Earth-2 Alan Scott, who had absorbed every Parliament in addition to the Green and unlocked the "potential of the multiverse...the true power of the green"
- [After power-up] Fought against the Anti-Monitor, which threatened to unravel history
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Omega Effect: The Post-Flashpoint emanation of Darkseid gained his Omega powers by absorbing the energies of dead Old Gods, although that origin story is somewhat contradicted by the one Highfather tells. The Omega Effect is said to be infinite, and granted Darkseid a variety of powerful abilities.
- Omega Beams: Darkseid can fire extremely fast, homing beams of energy from his eyes. It is important to note that the Post-Flashpoint emanation of Darkseid has not demonstrated the same versatility with Omega Beams that the Pre-Flashpoint emanation did, and they seem to simply be powerful energy attacks.
- Energy Shockwaves: Darkseid can create shockwaves of energy by raising his hands.
- Spacetime Warping: Darkseid can generate a gravitational pull so intense that space twists and time is pulled, so that those inside live days between seconds.
Boom Tubes: Darkseid can activate boom tubes at any time, which allow him to teleport through space and across dimensions.
Telepathy: Darkseid is able to force his mind into others' from across dimensional gaps.
Notes:
- Before making any changes to this page, please read and follow the Power-scaling Rules for Marvel and DC Comics.
- The Post-Flashpoint emanation of Darkseid was stated to be a fragment of Godhead Darkseid that resulted from his death in Final Crisis. The Post-Flashpoint emanations of New Gods have very different histories, power-sets, and power levels than the Pre-Flashpoint emanations.
- Prior to the events of Darkseid War, Darkseid obtained a powerup of unknown origins. Due to this, do not attempt to use Darkseid to scale other Post-Flashpoint 4-B characters to the Anti-Monitor.
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