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'''Darius Dax''', full name '''Darius Christian Dax''' ([[1916]] - [[1968]]) was the arch-enemy of [[Supreme]]. An evil genius, his scientific terrors challenged the hero from his time as [[Kid Supreme]] through the [[:Categort:1960s|1960s]]. Raised in [[Littlehaven]], Dax had been jealous since adolescence of Kid Supreme's power, which overshadowed even his own massive intellect. Dax's schemes led him to ally at times with other villains like [[Jack-a-Dandy]], enemy of [[Professor Night]], and the time-travelling [[League of Infamy]].

However, Dax's misdeeds caught up with him, as he discovered in [[1967]] that his exposure to [[Supremium|supremium]] as a teenager caused him to contract lymphatic cancer. With about a year to live, he transferred his memories into thousands of tiny computers- [[Smart Dust|smart dust]]- and encoded them into a book, given as a gift to [[Jordan, Judy|Judy Jordan]]. When Jordan read the book, the smart dust erased Judy's personality and memories and installed Dax's own over the course of a week.

At the time, Supreme had disappeared into space, so Dax/Judy waited years for Supreme to return, building the android [[Hilda (Awesome)|Hilda]] and pretending to carry Jordan's life forward in the meantime. When Supreme returned in the [[:Category:1990s|1990s]], Dax/Judy began his plan. Using Hilda, he infiltrated Supreme's [[Citadel Supreme]], destroying its defending [[Suprematons]] and trapping Supreme himself in the [[Hell of Mirrors]]. Dax then used the Citadel to threaten [[Omegapolis]], and transferred himself from Judy's aged body to that of the powerful [[Android|android]] [[Magno]]. However, Hilda was destroyed by the [[Allies]] and despite Magno's power, Dax found himself outmatched. So, he absorbed Supreme's sample of violet supremium, transforming into the original [[Supremium Man]]. However, his supremium-laced self was drawn to the only other sample, which last existed in [[1958]] Littlehaven, and he disappeared back into time.

Like Supreme had been, he was rescued from oblivion by his deleted variant selves in [[Daxia]], who transported his normalized self back to normal reality so that he could plot anew. 

==Comments==
In an unpublished story, Dax would have led his Daxia-dwelling variants in an assault on Omegapolis and the [[Supremacy]].

Darius Dax is an obvious homage to [[Luthor, Lex|Lex Luthor]], particularly the pre-[[Crisis on Infinite Earths|Crisis]] [[Earth-1]] and [[Earth-2]] versions.

==See also==
*[[Grizlok, Zachariah]]

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