Darkseid
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)
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
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)
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.
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)
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)
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)
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 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 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:
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