Darkseid
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He was with his brother during a friendly gathering with warriors from New Genesis led by [[Highfather|Izaya]] who had a friendly match with Uxas's brother Drax. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2) | He was with his brother during a friendly gathering with warriors from New Genesis led by [[Highfather|Izaya]] who had a friendly match with Uxas's brother Drax. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2) | ||
| − | + | One day, a young Darkseid came to encounter an Apokoliptian native named [[Sleez]] who became his servant, aid and even served as a councillor. Together, they learnt much from one another and about the hidden face of humanity. Sleez was shown the pathways to realm where his power burnt bright and the two engaged in petty cruelties. However, in time, petty cruelties began to amuse Darkseid less and less causing Sleez to fall out of favor with his master. According to Sleez, he stated that he was deemed too disgusting for Apokolips and had been driven from his native world by Darkseid. This eventually culminated in Darkseid unleashing his Omega Beams on Sleez and banishing him from his world. (Action Comics v1 #592) | |
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| + | Around 245,000 years ago, Apokolips looked to court the planet '''Bylan 5''' in order to gain access to its resources within its chemical mines deposits. For this, it was decided that the youth Darkseid was to wed the planet's princess where he went as part of a delegation that included his comrade '''Master Mayhem''' and his uncle Steppenwolf. They were present when a vessel crashed on the world and unleashed a [[Doomsday (DC)|powerful monster]] who went on a rampage on the planet and began massacring its inhabitants. To prevent further damage, the Apokoliptians attempted to intervene but this saw Master Mayhem being brutally murdered before them. Darkseid himself then battled the creature where he looked to defeat it with his own bare bands. The devastation created from their fight created a chemical change reaction that rendered the planet to be too toxic for any further use. This led to Steppenwolf ordering a retreat via a Boom Tube with Darkseid reluctantly agreeing to do so as he reasoned that his foe would remain to die on the planet. Being unable to best his foe, it was decided that the entire incident would remain a carefully guarded secret between Darkseid and his uncle. (Doomsday Annual v1 #1) | ||
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| + | Seeking to topple his uncle Steppenwolf, Darkseid managed to convince his uncle to hunt New Gods on New Genesis for sport. He accompanied the general during the attack where Steppenwolf incidentally killed '''Avia''' the wife of Izaya who was the ruler of the planet. In the attack, Izaya himself was killed but Darkseid had secretly resurrected him in order to trigger a war between Apokolips and New Genesis. (New Gods v1 #7) | ||
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===Final Crisis=== | ===Final Crisis=== | ||
| − | [[File:FinalCrisisV1-4Textless.jpg|thumb|left|200px| | + | [[File:FinalCrisisV1-4Textless.jpg|thumb|left|200px|God of Evil in Final Crisis v1 #4.]] |
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| + | Darkseid's rebirth and fall from the heavens was warping time and space around Earth. The planet and all the people under the influence of the equation were becoming extensions of his mind. Earth became a doomsday singularity, with time accelerating within Darkseid's sphere of influence and bringing the other Earths of the multiverse into the same reality. (Final Crisis v1 #5) | ||
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During his game with Solomon, he revealed that he was unconcerned at Brother Eye assimilating Apokolips as the world was set to explode which would have destroyed the rogue artificial intelligence. (Countdown v1 #9) | During his game with Solomon, he revealed that he was unconcerned at Brother Eye assimilating Apokolips as the world was set to explode which would have destroyed the rogue artificial intelligence. (Countdown v1 #9) | ||
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| + | As Darkseid's forces fought the heroes outside Command-D, Batman managed to escape imprisonment. Darkseid was aware Batman was in his throne room and urged him to embrace Anti-Life. However, Batman had the Radion bullet that Darkseid used to kill Orion, and was willing to use a gun to stop him. Darkseid fired his Omega Beams at Batman, but the Dark Knight fired and the Radion bullet hit Darkseid. The bullet wounded him, but despite this, the Omega Beams hit Batman, leaving only a rotting corpse that was later found by Superman. (Final Crisis v1 #6) | ||
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| + | Superman came to confront Darkseid who mocked the Kryptonian by saying that the hero had abandoned Earth for a moment allowing Darkseid to win thus becoming everyone and everything whilst the Man of Steel was enemy of all that lived. However, Superman inadvertently distracted Darkseid long enough for Barry Allen and Wally West to lead the Black Racer to Darkseid. In the final stages of Radion poisoning, the Black Racer took Darkseid thus freeing others from the Anti-Life Equation. Wonder Woman used the Lasso of Truth to bound Darkseid's body, breaking the Anti-Life Equation's hold over the people of Earth. Building a [[Miracle Machine]], Superman was able to undo the damage that Darkseid's presence had done. Before he could activate it, Darkseid's essence made one final attempt to claim the Miracle Machine, which he called a 'cargo cult mother box'. Superman though knew that Darkseid's essence was vibrating at a frequency similar to the multiverse, and could be stopped with a counter frequency. Using all of his strength, Superman sang a note at high volume, shattering Darkseid's essence. Finally, the New Gods of New Genesis, resurrected in the new 'fifth world', where they planned to remake their world. (Final Crisis v1 #7) | ||
[[Doctor Impossible]] sought to revive his master Darkseid and manipulated the [[Crime Syndicate of America]] in order to accomplish this task. After gathering the necessary equipment, he betrayed his allies but it instead created a new menace known as the [[Omega Man (DC)|Omega Man]]. (Justice League of America v2 #50) | [[Doctor Impossible]] sought to revive his master Darkseid and manipulated the [[Crime Syndicate of America]] in order to accomplish this task. After gathering the necessary equipment, he betrayed his allies but it instead created a new menace known as the [[Omega Man (DC)|Omega Man]]. (Justice League of America v2 #50) | ||
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[[File:JusticeLeagueV2-6SolicitTextless.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Invading Earth in Justice League v2 #6.]] | [[File:JusticeLeagueV2-6SolicitTextless.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Invading Earth in Justice League v2 #6.]] | ||
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. | Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. | ||
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| + | At some point, the trickster [[Kaiyo (DC)|Kaiyo]] came to draw Darkseid's ire when she entered his throne room and laughed. This led to the master of Apokolips looking to capture her leading to Kaiyo escaping into the Multiverse. (Justice League v2 #23.1) | ||
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| + | Darkseid was driven out when Cyborg activated the invaders' Mother Boxes and Superman forces him through a boom tube. The incidents that occurred made Darkseid the very first foe the newly formed League faces as a team. (Justice League v2 #6) | ||
With Epoch gone, Arla Hax bowed in servitude to Darkseid as she was a spy in his service and agreed to help him use the Revision Mechanism. Both Dex-Starr and Space Ranger Suzi Starr seemingly agreed to serve him rather than be killed. Darkseid then went about re-ordering the timeline according to his designs starting with restoring Apokolips and placing it back within the Sphere of the Gods. From there, he intended to create copies of it across the Multiverse and thus rule the entire cosmos. (Justice League Odyssey v1 #24) | With Epoch gone, Arla Hax bowed in servitude to Darkseid as she was a spy in his service and agreed to help him use the Revision Mechanism. Both Dex-Starr and Space Ranger Suzi Starr seemingly agreed to serve him rather than be killed. Darkseid then went about re-ordering the timeline according to his designs starting with restoring Apokolips and placing it back within the Sphere of the Gods. From there, he intended to create copies of it across the Multiverse and thus rule the entire cosmos. (Justice League Odyssey v1 #24) | ||
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
===Personality and attributes=== | ===Personality and attributes=== | ||
| + | [[File:DarkNightsDeathMetalV1-4TextlessDarkseid.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Lord of Apokolips in Dark Nights: Death Metal v1 #4.]] | ||
Originally, he was known as '''Uxas''' until he took his godname of Darkseid. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2) The name Darkseid was chosen from the most feared of all the names in the ancient lorebooks that was a name no one had dared take in all the millennia of the New Gods existence. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #5) | Originally, he was known as '''Uxas''' until he took his godname of Darkseid. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2) The name Darkseid was chosen from the most feared of all the names in the ancient lorebooks that was a name no one had dared take in all the millennia of the New Gods existence. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #5) | ||
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He was shown to had been terrified of his father Yuga Khan. (New Gods v3 #19) | He was shown to had been terrified of his father Yuga Khan. (New Gods v3 #19) | ||
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| + | It was noted that Darkseid first experienced fear as he watched the beast Doomsday kill his friend Mayhem. (Doomsday Annual v1 #1) | ||
Heggra had shown only cruelty, coldness and constant mockery to Uxas that included condemning him to a loveless marriage. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #5) | Heggra had shown only cruelty, coldness and constant mockery to Uxas that included condemning him to a loveless marriage. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #5) | ||
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Darkseid's uncle was his mother's brother '''Steppenwolf''' who said that he did not like his nephew. Steppenwolf had said before that his nephew was clever, cunning and a plotter much like his mother Heggra. (New Gods v1 #7) | Darkseid's uncle was his mother's brother '''Steppenwolf''' who said that he did not like his nephew. Steppenwolf had said before that his nephew was clever, cunning and a plotter much like his mother Heggra. (New Gods v1 #7) | ||
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| + | In his youth, he came to love the lady '''Suli''' who became his wife and she came to bore him a child named '''Kalibak'''. (New Gods v1 #11) | ||
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| + | He was later forced to wed '''Tigra''' where she bore him another son who was named '''Orion'''. (New Gods v1 #11) | ||
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| + | As a result of the pact, he came to adopt the son of Highfather as his own with '''Scot Free''' being raised on Apokolips as a result. (New Gods v1 #7) | ||
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| + | According to one account, Darkseid came to conquer an unknown world and spent time amongst its female natives with one of them becoming pregnant with his son who was named '''Grayven'''. (Green Lantern v3 #75) | ||
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| + | The Amazon '''Myrina''' came to bear a child of Darkseid with this being a daughter who was named '''Grail'''. (Justice League v2 #42) | ||
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| + | In his youth, he was noted to had been close friends with another Apokoliptian named '''Master Mayhem'''. (Doomsday Annual v1 #1) | ||
===Powers and abilities=== | ===Powers and abilities=== | ||
Revision as of 09:56, 4 July 2022
Darkseid is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Uxas was a male member of the race of New Gods from the dark world of Apokolips. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2) He was the son of the dark god Yuga Khan who ruled their planet. (New Gods v3 #17) With his mother being Heggra who ruled as the mother-queen of Apokolips. (New Gods v1 #7) He was shown having an older brother by the name of Drax. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2)
He was with his brother during a friendly gathering with warriors from New Genesis led by Izaya who had a friendly match with Uxas's brother Drax. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2)
One day, a young Darkseid came to encounter an Apokoliptian native named Sleez who became his servant, aid and even served as a councillor. Together, they learnt much from one another and about the hidden face of humanity. Sleez was shown the pathways to realm where his power burnt bright and the two engaged in petty cruelties. However, in time, petty cruelties began to amuse Darkseid less and less causing Sleez to fall out of favor with his master. According to Sleez, he stated that he was deemed too disgusting for Apokolips and had been driven from his native world by Darkseid. This eventually culminated in Darkseid unleashing his Omega Beams on Sleez and banishing him from his world. (Action Comics v1 #592)
Around 245,000 years ago, Apokolips looked to court the planet Bylan 5 in order to gain access to its resources within its chemical mines deposits. For this, it was decided that the youth Darkseid was to wed the planet's princess where he went as part of a delegation that included his comrade Master Mayhem and his uncle Steppenwolf. They were present when a vessel crashed on the world and unleashed a powerful monster who went on a rampage on the planet and began massacring its inhabitants. To prevent further damage, the Apokoliptians attempted to intervene but this saw Master Mayhem being brutally murdered before them. Darkseid himself then battled the creature where he looked to defeat it with his own bare bands. The devastation created from their fight created a chemical change reaction that rendered the planet to be too toxic for any further use. This led to Steppenwolf ordering a retreat via a Boom Tube with Darkseid reluctantly agreeing to do so as he reasoned that his foe would remain to die on the planet. Being unable to best his foe, it was decided that the entire incident would remain a carefully guarded secret between Darkseid and his uncle. (Doomsday Annual v1 #1)
Seeking to topple his uncle Steppenwolf, Darkseid managed to convince his uncle to hunt New Gods on New Genesis for sport. He accompanied the general during the attack where Steppenwolf incidentally killed Avia the wife of Izaya who was the ruler of the planet. In the attack, Izaya himself was killed but Darkseid had secretly resurrected him in order to trigger a war between Apokolips and New Genesis. (New Gods v1 #7)
Modern
He dispatched his forces to capture Kara Zor-El and had her brainwashed to serve him with Darkseid sending her to fight Superman when her cousin came to rescue her. Darkseid was forced to abandon this plan when Batman threatened to detonate Apokolip's armory of Hellspores that would have destroyed the planet with Darkseid disavowing Kara Zor-El and promising never to make another move against her. (Superman/Batman v1 #12)
Final Crisis
Darkseid's rebirth and fall from the heavens was warping time and space around Earth. The planet and all the people under the influence of the equation were becoming extensions of his mind. Earth became a doomsday singularity, with time accelerating within Darkseid's sphere of influence and bringing the other Earths of the multiverse into the same reality. (Final Crisis v1 #5)
During his game with Solomon, he revealed that he was unconcerned at Brother Eye assimilating Apokolips as the world was set to explode which would have destroyed the rogue artificial intelligence. (Countdown v1 #9)
As Darkseid's forces fought the heroes outside Command-D, Batman managed to escape imprisonment. Darkseid was aware Batman was in his throne room and urged him to embrace Anti-Life. However, Batman had the Radion bullet that Darkseid used to kill Orion, and was willing to use a gun to stop him. Darkseid fired his Omega Beams at Batman, but the Dark Knight fired and the Radion bullet hit Darkseid. The bullet wounded him, but despite this, the Omega Beams hit Batman, leaving only a rotting corpse that was later found by Superman. (Final Crisis v1 #6)
Superman came to confront Darkseid who mocked the Kryptonian by saying that the hero had abandoned Earth for a moment allowing Darkseid to win thus becoming everyone and everything whilst the Man of Steel was enemy of all that lived. However, Superman inadvertently distracted Darkseid long enough for Barry Allen and Wally West to lead the Black Racer to Darkseid. In the final stages of Radion poisoning, the Black Racer took Darkseid thus freeing others from the Anti-Life Equation. Wonder Woman used the Lasso of Truth to bound Darkseid's body, breaking the Anti-Life Equation's hold over the people of Earth. Building a Miracle Machine, Superman was able to undo the damage that Darkseid's presence had done. Before he could activate it, Darkseid's essence made one final attempt to claim the Miracle Machine, which he called a 'cargo cult mother box'. Superman though knew that Darkseid's essence was vibrating at a frequency similar to the multiverse, and could be stopped with a counter frequency. Using all of his strength, Superman sang a note at high volume, shattering Darkseid's essence. Finally, the New Gods of New Genesis, resurrected in the new 'fifth world', where they planned to remake their world. (Final Crisis v1 #7)
Doctor Impossible sought to revive his master Darkseid and manipulated the Crime Syndicate of America in order to accomplish this task. After gathering the necessary equipment, he betrayed his allies but it instead created a new menace known as the Omega Man. (Justice League of America v2 #50)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
At some point, the trickster Kaiyo came to draw Darkseid's ire when she entered his throne room and laughed. This led to the master of Apokolips looking to capture her leading to Kaiyo escaping into the Multiverse. (Justice League v2 #23.1)
Darkseid was driven out when Cyborg activated the invaders' Mother Boxes and Superman forces him through a boom tube. The incidents that occurred made Darkseid the very first foe the newly formed League faces as a team. (Justice League v2 #6)
With Epoch gone, Arla Hax bowed in servitude to Darkseid as she was a spy in his service and agreed to help him use the Revision Mechanism. Both Dex-Starr and Space Ranger Suzi Starr seemingly agreed to serve him rather than be killed. Darkseid then went about re-ordering the timeline according to his designs starting with restoring Apokolips and placing it back within the Sphere of the Gods. From there, he intended to create copies of it across the Multiverse and thus rule the entire cosmos. (Justice League Odyssey v1 #24)
After Perpetua's defeat, the Multiverse was reborn and turned into a vast infinite frontier of alternate worlds spanning it. In this time, the Quintessence sought to contain various threats to Earth-Omega with among them being Darkseid. However, the New God came to pull together the various aspects of himself into a single form that was his strongest state which he used to break free. He then used his shadows to eliminate the Quintessence as he prepared to enact his own plans against the new Multiverse. (Infinite Frontier v1 #0)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Originally, he was known as Uxas until he took his godname of Darkseid. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2) The name Darkseid was chosen from the most feared of all the names in the ancient lorebooks that was a name no one had dared take in all the millennia of the New Gods existence. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #5)
Uxas had claimed that he did not war for the sake of conflict but rather enjoyed the many arts of war. In fact, he enjoyed the planning and the manipulations involved in such events. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #4) In fact, he he preferred to watch rather than involve himself directly in a fight. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2) As a strategist, he was noted to calculate the outcome of any event. (Superman/Batman v1 #12) He was willing to destroy everything as he claimed that his vision extended beyond the known realities. Darkseid had said that all things must end but stated that they would end on his terms. (Countdown v1 #9)
He was shown to had been terrified of his father Yuga Khan. (New Gods v3 #19)
It was noted that Darkseid first experienced fear as he watched the beast Doomsday kill his friend Mayhem. (Doomsday Annual v1 #1)
Heggra had shown only cruelty, coldness and constant mockery to Uxas that included condemning him to a loveless marriage. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #5)
He had an older brother by the name of Drax. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #2) Uxas had a long desire to step out from his shadow and in fact murdered him in order to attain power. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #4)
Darkseid's uncle was his mother's brother Steppenwolf who said that he did not like his nephew. Steppenwolf had said before that his nephew was clever, cunning and a plotter much like his mother Heggra. (New Gods v1 #7)
In his youth, he came to love the lady Suli who became his wife and she came to bore him a child named Kalibak. (New Gods v1 #11)
He was later forced to wed Tigra where she bore him another son who was named Orion. (New Gods v1 #11)
As a result of the pact, he came to adopt the son of Highfather as his own with Scot Free being raised on Apokolips as a result. (New Gods v1 #7)
According to one account, Darkseid came to conquer an unknown world and spent time amongst its female natives with one of them becoming pregnant with his son who was named Grayven. (Green Lantern v3 #75)
The Amazon Myrina came to bear a child of Darkseid with this being a daughter who was named Grail. (Justice League v2 #42)
In his youth, he was noted to had been close friends with another Apokoliptian named Master Mayhem. (Doomsday Annual v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
His body had absorbed the full power of the Omega Effect with the force existing as a part of him. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #5) The power of the Omega Force was said to ravage the strongest of minds. (Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1 #4)
He was able to project an avatar of himself into reality that was separate from the true location of his physical form. This was not a clone but rather an extrusion that consisted of a small part of his nearly infinite energy. This talent was used when Darkseid had to divide his focus on multiple fronts but it was not something he preferred to do as these avatars were much weaker than his true form and could even be beaten in battle by strong opponents. (New Gods v4 #15)
Darkseid was capable of absorbing the power of gods and use it to empower himself. (Wonder Woman v5 #37)
Notes
- Darkseid was created by Jack Kirby where he made a cameo appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen v1 #134 (November, 1970) before making a full appearance Forever People v1 #1 (February, 1971).
Alternate Versions
- In Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Blackest Night v1 #1 (2019), an alternate reality was shown to exist within the Dark Multiverse showed a universe where the Black Lantern Corps dominated the cosmos. This saw the New Gods largely slain and converted into Black Lanterns with Darkseid being among their number. The undead Darkeid stated that Nekron represented true anti-life and sought to aid his master in the elimination of the living in the universe.
In other media
Television
- In Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, Darkseid appeared in the setting of the 1984 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Frank Welker.
- In The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, Darkseid appeared in the setting of the 1985 animated television series where he was voiced again by actor Frank Welker.
- In DC Animated Universe, Darkseid made multiple appearances in the shared continuity setting:
- In Superman: The Animated Series, Darkseid appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Michael Ironside.
- In Justice League, Darkseid appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced again by actor Michael Ironside.
- In Justice League Unlimited, Darkseid appeared in the animated television series where he was once more voiced by actor Michael Ironside.
- In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Darkseid appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Michael-Leon Wooley.
- In Young Justice, Darkseid appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Michael-Leon.
- In Justice League Action, Darkseid appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Jonathan Adams
- In Harley Quinn, Darkseid appeared in the animated television series in the episode "Inner ParaDemons" where he was voiced again by actor Michael Ironside.
Films
- In Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Darkseid appeared in the direct-to-video animated film where he was voiced by actor Andre Braugher.
- In Justice League: War, Darkseid appeared as the main antagonist of the animated film where he was voiced by actor Steve Blum.
- In Reign of the Supermen, Darkseid appeared in the animated film where he was voiced by actor Tony Todd.
- In Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Darkseid appeared in the animated film where he was voiced once again by actor Tony Todd.
Video games
- In Superman, Darkseid appeared in the 1999 video game where he was voiced by actor Michael Ironside.
- In Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, Darkseid appeared in the setting of the video game where he was voiced by actor Kevin Michael Richardson.
- In Justice League Heroes, Darkseid appeared in the setting of the video game where he was voiced by actor David Sobolov.
- In Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Darkseid appeared in the setting of the fighting video game where he was voiced by actor Perry Brown.
- In Injustice 2, Darkseid appeared in the fighting video game as a DLC character where he was voiced once more by actor Michael-Leon Wooley.
Appearances
- Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen v1: (1970)
- Forever People v1:
- New Gods v1:
- New Gods v3:
- Jack Kirby's Fourth World v1: (1997)
- Justice League v1:
- Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey v1:
- Justice League v2:
- Wonder Woman:
- Justice League Odyssey v1:
- Infinite Frontier v1: (2021)
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