Darkseid (Pre-Flashpoint)

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“	I like you, Glorious Godfrey! You're a shallow, precious child-- The revelationist-- Happy with the sweeping sound of words! But I am the revelation! The tiger-force at the core of all things! When you cry out in your dreams-- it is Darkseid that you see!	„
	~ Darkseid

“	New Genesis is a stinking cosmic sewer! I have fouled Paradise beyond repair and broken in the mire the shining cities of the Gods! I have won! Is this vanity? Then I will remake the entire universe in the image of my soul, Desaad. And when at last I turn to look upon the eternal desolation I have wrought...I will see Darkseid, as in a mirror....and know what fear is.	„
	~ Darkseid

“	I. Am. The. New. God. All is one in Darkseid. This mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices. When I make a fist to crush your resistance, it is with three billion hands. When I stare into your eyes and shatter your dreams, and break your heart, it is with six billion eyes! Nothing like Darkseid has ever come among you; nothing will again. I will take you to a hell without exit or end. And there I will murder your souls! And make you crawl and beg! And die! Die! DIE FOR DARKSEID!	„
	~ 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 another realm but living ideas from an archetypal realm; every storyline except for Final Crisis simply deals with emanations of the deities touching the 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: 2-C | Low 1-C

Key: Pre-Flashpoint Emanation | Godhead

Name: Darkseid, formerly Uxas

Origin: DC Comics

Gender: Male

Age: Between 15,000 and 245,000

Classification: New God, Abstract Embodiment of Tyranny

Powers and Abilities:

• Base
• Godhead

• Abilities
• Resistances

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Martial Arts (Comparable to Orion in martial skill),
• Immortality (Type 1, 4, 8, 9; After truly dying, Darkseid resurrected himself from Orion's body Returned to life after being destroyed by the Spectre, as he is necessary for existence The true Darkseid exists in a higher plane than the multiverse),
• Self-Sustenance (Type 1),
• Flight (Has shown the ability to fly),
• Extrasensory Perception (Was easily able to sense a sentry creeping up on him Can see invisible beings and detect souls),
• Portal Creation, Dimensional Travel (Can open boom tubes at will, through willpower)
• Intangibility, Homing Attack (Omega Beams can seek out their target, as they did with superman Can pass through physical barriers),
• Existence Erasure, Durability Negation (Omega Beams can erase their target from existence, making it so they never were),
• Invisibility (Can make his Omega beams appear invisbile to the naked eye),
• BFR (The Omega beams are capable of teleporting people Can also utilize boom tubes to teleport people),
• Energy Manipulation, Matter Manipulation (Dissipated Wildfire's energy form in quanta. Can fire energy blasts tuned to his target's molecular structure to inflict the most damage),
• Petrification (Turned Slo-bo to stone),
• Transmutation (Changed Miracle Mister Soap to mud Can easily break the fusion of different beings),
• Soul Manipulation (Shattered souls using the Omega Effect),
• Absorption (Can absorb energy on a planetary scale),
• Forcefield Creation (Is cloaked by a barrier that can protect him from external injury Can create Omega-energy barriers),
• Teleportation (Can use Omega Beams to teleport himself as well as others),
• Non-Physical Interaction (Pulled Professor Stein out of the Firestorm Matrix Used Omega Beams to knock back Secret, who was intangible),
• Life Manipulation (Used Omega Beams to trap Cyborg Superman's life force in a metal sphere; Animated a giant statue while trapped in the Source Wall),
• Resurrection (Casually resurrected one of the humans that can comprehend the Anti-Life equation Raised a massive army of Parademons from the dead Resurrected one of the furries Resurrected Desaad after disintegrating him),
• Paralysis Inducement, Information Analysis (Paralyzed Infinity Man and probed for his weakness),
• Aura (Darkseid is described as giving off an aura),
• Statistics Amplification (Can enhance physical attacks by cloaking himself in energy),
• Healing (Healed Orion from losing half his body),
• Duplication (Can create avatars from his energy while his main body is busy such as when he was trapped in the Source Wall),
• Astral Projection (Can create images of his head that he can project his Omega Beams through),
• Power Bestowal (Imbued a baby with some of his power to create Validus Granted some of his Omega Effect to Bedlam),
• Power Nullification (Removed Bouncing Boy's power),
• Magic (Can manipulate magic energy, shown when he contained Black Mary Marvel's power),
• Size Manipulation (Can adjust his size at will),
• Spatial Manipulation (Warped the path of Vykin's boom tube by will His punch cracked the fabric of the dimension he was in),
• Time Manipulation (Bent time using the Omega Effect to accelerate the growth of Desaad's new body),
• Time Stop (Froze Godwave Ares by hardening both time and space around him),
• Time Travel (Orion stated he can easily move through time),
• Creation (Used his energy to create the opposite of Takion, Stayne),
• Telekinesis (Restrained Superman and Infinity Man in the air),
• Telepathy, Mind Manipulation (Simultaneously controlled three billion Pre-Crisis Daxamites. Is easily able to probe people's minds to steal information),
• Empathic Manipulation (Reversed the effects of a feeling-altering soap),
• Pain Manipulation (Can use the Omega Effect to cause pain, such as with Pre-Crisis Supergirl),
• Biological Manipulation (Deformed Dream Girl and short-circuited the League's brain impulses),
• Corruption (His clone servants were corrupted by his power),
• Deconstruction (Incinerated Kalibak's flesh by touching him),
• Weather Manipulation (Created a tornado and storm that was meant to ruin Scott and Barda’s wedding),
• Summoning (Can summon forces from Apokolips as well as summon distant targets using Omega Beams),
• Technology Manipulation (His Omega powers can tamper with advanced technology),
• Death Manipulation (His killing gloves grant him the ability kill almost instantly),
• Social Influencing (After Amazing Grace had made superman forget how to use his powers, Darkseid gave Superman his powers back However, it turns out that Superman regaining his powers was not actually caused by Darkseid, but rather, his speech just made him regain the will to fight.)

• Resistance to Existence Erasure (Since his body is able to contain the Omega Force, it is, naturally, able to resist it as well. no-sold Lex Luthor's weapon that rips apart existence), Sealing (Removed bindings created by the Alpha Effect), Temperature Manipulation (Was able to withstand Superman’s heat vision), Telepathy (Resisted being telepathically scanned; Martian Manhunter stated New Gods are hard to touch telepathically), Mind Manipulation (The strongest minds were ravaged just from seeing the Omega Effect, while Darkseid was able to immerse himself in and absorb all of it), Empathic Manipulation (Was immune to Bekka's love inducement), Fear Manipulation (Was immune to Desaad's fear-inducing machine), Possession (Stated that Eclipso's possession wouldn't work on him), Electricity Manipulation (Black Mary Marvel's magic lightning had no effect on him), Ice Manipulation (Was unaffected by Superman's freeze breath)

All previous abilities to a much greater degree, plus:

• Abstract Existence (Type 1: New Gods are living ideas from a platonic, archetypal world),
• Self-Sustenance,
• Incorporeality, Large Size (Type 9 - Fell across the entire multiverse),
• Reality Warping (His presence on Earth caused life to turn darker, time to become distorted, and the sky to rain blood),
• Black Hole Creation (Created a personal singularity where all was one with him darkseid sits at the center of this singularity in a place described by the Flash as the furthest he'll ever go),
• Creation (Can recreate other New Gods as emanations of his will),
• Possession (Incarnated on Earth by possessing the body of Dan Turpin, a process that involved eating his consciousness from within as well as eating his soul),
• Pocket Reality Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, and Death Manipulation (The Omega Sanction allows him to trap his target in a never-ending series of created realities in which they are fated to die in more and more horrible ways)
• Possible Law Manipulation, Soul Manipulation via technology (The "emanations" of Darkseid posses technology that can re-write the world's laws and manipulate souls)

Attack Potency: Low Multiverse level (While significantly weakened, he defeated both Mordru and Time Trapper (Controller) and absorbed energy from all of the Sorcerer's World, and was still weaker than normal. Highfather stated he was capable of destroying Takion who also admitted Darkseid was more powerful than he was. Has been show to be somewhat comparable to Post-Crisis Superman, though he generally loses. Is as powerful as Infinite-Man, who's power could be used to destroy the Universe, including the timestream, and stalemated the Time Trapper, which is consistent with statements of the Time Trapper being comparable to Darkseid. Significantly superior to average New Gods, who can create Universes) | Low Complex Multiverse level (Exists in the Sphere of the Gods, an archetypal and platonic world, as a living idea, with all evil in the Multiverse consolidating into him as its focal point. With his power, Darkseid, encompassed the flimsy white fabric behind reality where unfold universal creation and destruction and where Psycho Pirate watches reality. Killed the Quintessence using his Omega Beams)

Speed: Massively FTL+ (52 quintillion times - Flew to the edge of the universe in moments, on more than one occasion. Capable of blitzing Post-Crisis Superman) | Unknown, Multilocation with the Anti-Life Equation (Under the influence of the Anti-Life Equation, everyone was an extension of Darkseid's will, all one with Darkseid)

Lifting Strength: At least Multi-Stellar, possibly higher himself (At least comparable to Pre-Crisis Superman), as low as Stellar when operating through avatars (Comparable to Post-Crisis Superman) | Immeasurable

Striking Strength: Low Multiverse level (Comparable to Post-Crisis Superman) | Low Complex Multiverse level

Durability: Low Multiverse level (Should be comparable to his own power, as he survived his own Omega Beams. Took no damage from a heavily amped Pre-Crisis Superboy and Supergirl. Orion would require every bit of his strength to kill Darkseid) | Low Complex Multiverse level (Should be comparable to his own power)

Stamina: Superhuman (Can fight for long periods of time, even in realms like the Source where the concept of time ceases to have meaning. However, Darkseid has expended his entire store of Omega energy before, becoming tired and needing rest) | Infinite (Non-corporeal abstract being)

Range: Low Multiversal (The range of his power extends from his own universe into the mortal one) | At least Low Complex Multiversal (Capable of affecting the entire Orrery)

Intelligence: Supergenius (Has countless years of experience in strategy, military tactics, governing, and scientific pursuit. He regularly draws chess matches against Eclipso, a cosmic entity and former embodiment of God's Wrath, and built a spaceship larger than the state of New York. Darkseid is responsible for some of the most advanced scientific breakthroughs in the DCU, creating technology capable of penetrating the Source, accessing the realm of Anti-Life, stealing part of the Anti-Life Entity's power, combining and manipulating fragments of the Anti-Life Equation, and turning Mars into a copy of Apokolips. His mind is also extremely adaptable, capable of comprehending the warped dimension of Olympus without any effort, while Superman was completely bewildered by it. The Pre-Flashpoint emanation of Darkseid even remembers events from erased timelines)

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 | The Anti-Life Equation

Weaknesses: Darkseid is vulnerable to radion, a lethal substance to New GodsIt 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. Moreover, in order to fully incarnate in a lower plane of reality by possessing a human body, a noble soul must be corrupted, otherwise the process is not fully successful.

Feats:

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• Base
• Godhead

• Used his energy to create Stayne, a being that proved to be a perfect match against Takion, and possessed all his powers

• His anger scared the Lords of Chaos

• Disintegrated Agogg, a being capable of easily overwhelming base Orion

• Played around with John Stewart and his Darkstar team for exercise (Darkstars are the equals of Green Lanterns)

• Wiped Vundabar from existence

• Darkseid is so powerful that time collapses when he's removed from his proper place in the timestream

• Absorbed energy from Excalibur and stated he could accidentally destroy his servants that way - said servants were comparable to Pre-Crisis Kryptonians. He also absorbed energy from the Wand of Mentachem and Orb of Orthanax, as well as from Mordru, the Time Trapper (Controller), and the entire Sorcerers' World

• While weakened, controlled 3,000,000,000 Daxamites at once

• While weakened, used Omega Beams to swap Daxam and Apokolips (which resided in the mortal universe at the time)

• While weakened, no-sold Pre-Crisis Mon-El's attack before beating him instantly

• While weakened, completely stomped the Legion with a myriad of abilities

• Omega Beams easily caught Lightray and sent him hurtling through infinity

• Omega Beams were able to cause the Spectre (Hal Jordan) pain before he began powering through them

• Did not even move when Mantis blasted him with the full power of a Green Lantern ring

• Slew other pantheons of gods and stole their power

• Darkseid's consciousness remained active and able to channel power despite his body having been destroyed/trapped in limbo

• Won the war in heaven against New Genesis

• [While dying] Broke the Orrery of Worlds across all of time and nearly dragged all its contents into a Multiversal singularity (that was explicitly Darkseid's own singularity, not something that happened to already be there) that was one with Darkseid

• [While dying] Created an endless number of realities to torture Shilo Norman

• [While dying] Charged Batman with enough Omega radiation to destroy time

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

• Pre-Flashpoint Emanation
• Godhead

Omega Effect: Uxas was reborn as Darkseid when he absorbed the full power of the Omega Effect from the Infinity Pit. Thanks to the Omega energies he gained incredible power and a wide array of abilities.

• Omega Beams: Darkseid's signature technique involves firing a thin, red energy beam from each eye. These beams, also known as "Finder Beams", are extremely fast and home in on their target, passing through physical barriers if needed. Once contact is made, they can either erase the target from existence, a technique called the total wipeout, or transport them through time and space according to Darkseid's will. He can also use them to recreate dead beings, or paralyze his target while probing their weakness.

• Omega Sanction: Also known as the Life Trap, the Omega Sanction can take two completely different forms depending on Darkseid's intent. The first simply sends his target back in time, forcing them to live out their life in the past. The second, stated by Grant Morrison to happen when Darkseid decides on being crueler than normal, was only displayed by Godhead Darkseid. It traps the victim in a never-ending series of horrible realities that force them to live out worse and worse lives, until their soul breaks.

• Energy Absorption: Darkseid is an immensely powerful energy absorber, capable of completely draining the energies of powerful beings like Mordru and all of Sorcerers' World to help restore his own power. His absorption is so powerful that he ordered his servants to get away from him lest they be killed, and some of his servants were capable of taking on Pre-Crisis Kryptonians and Daxamites.

Boom Tubes: Darkseid can summon boom tubes at will, as well as control the paths of others' boom tubes. These portals can transport their user throughout space and between dimensions. They automatically adjust the size of their user to be suitable for their destination, which is why Darkseid appears human-sized rather than star-sized when travelling to the mortal universe.

Telepathy: Darkseid has incredibly powerful telepathic abilities. He can forcefully drain information out of his target's mind as well as control others with his will. While in a weakened state during the Great Darkness Saga, he controlled three billion Daxamites at once.

Avatars: Darkseid can create duplicate bodies from portions of his energy that can function autonomously. They are significantly weaker than his real body but otherwise seem to retain his intellect and abilities.

As all instances of Darkseid seen in lower realms are tiny facets of Darkseid's true being, it stands to reason that Godhead Darkseid possesses all of the abilities demonstrated by them but to a much greater degree. Furthermore, he also possessed the Anti-Life Equation, using it to dominate much of Earth's populace in the moments before everything would be destroyed.

• Omega Beams: A single use of the Omega Beams, used when Darkseid was dying and possessing the body of a cancer-ridden Dan Turpin, contained enough energy to destroy time itself.

• Omega Sanction: The version of the Sanction used by the True Darkseid is infinitely more powerful and cruel than the Sanction demonstrated by his Pre-Flashpoint emanation. Rather than displacing its target through time it traps them in a never-ending succession of dark realities that inflict endless suffering upon the prisoner.

• Possession: Darkseid can incarnate in the mortal universe by possessing the body of a mortal. However, to truly incarnate he needs to corrupt the body of a good soul, which was why his first attempt at incarnating via a mob boss was a failure.

Anti-Life Equation: Using the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid was able to assume total control over everyone who had been exposed to the broadcasted equation, effectively gaining three billion new bodies at once. The victims were completely subsumed by Darkseid's will, speaking with his voice and moving according to his desire.

Notes:

• Before making any changes to this page, please read and follow the Power-scaling Rules for Marvel and DC Comics.

• Grant Morrison has referred to The Death of the New Gods as canon but clarified that the depictions of Orion vs. Darkseid in both that story and in Countdown were "apocryphal attempts to describe an indescribable cosmic event". In addition, other aspects of the story, such as the Source being split in two, were retconned by Morrison. Due to this, do not attempt to scale Darkseid to the Source.

• During the Great Darkness Saga, despite regaining much of his power by absorbing multiple sources of energy, Darkseid ultimately realized that he was still weaker than he was before his millennia-long dormancy.

• "Avatar" is a term specifically referring to an ability demonstrated by Pre-Flashpoint Darkseid and Highfather, and it was never stated that the lesser versions of Darkseid were specifically created by him to interact with lower planes of reality. The term used by Grant Morrison to refer to these lower aspects of the New Gods is "emanation".

• Like other New Gods, the Pre-Flashpoint emanation of Darkseid was unaffected by Crisis on Infinite Earths, as the Fourth World universe was not destroyed and recreated.

Gallery

Pre-Flashpoint Darkseid drawn by Jack Kirby

Pre-Flashpoint Darkseid during the Great Darkness Saga

Godhead Darkseid possessing Dan Turpin during Final Crisis

Notable Matchups

Notable Victories:

Notable Losses:

Inconclusive Matches:

The Outsider (Dishonored) Outsider's Profile (Fight took place in Earth-1, starting distance was 5km, 2-C versions were used and speed was equalized)

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