Darkseid (DC Animated Movie Universe)

*I am entropy. I am death. I... am... **Darkseid**.*
—****Darkseid****[src]

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**Darkseid**, born **Uxas** was a tyrant native to the planet Apokolips, and wanted to rule all of existence. He became the nemesis of the Justice League in his quest for ultimate power.

## HistoryEdit

### *Justice League: War*

He conquers world after world after each one has run out of resources, and he has the natives turned into Parademons for his army. Attempting to invade the Earth, Darkseid and his forces begin terraforming the planet.

After Barry Allen corrected the timeline by tackling his younger self in The Speed Force, alteration in time allowed Darkseid to detect his universe and Earth. He opened Boom Tubes just above the planet and had his minions secretly plant Mother Boxes in several locations around the Earth, including Metropolis, Central City, Keystone City, and Gotham City. Two of his minions died protecting the Mother Boxes' secret from The Flash, Batman, Green Lantern and Superman.

On Apokolips, Darkseid questioned Desaad as to what he had to report from their agents on Earth. Darkseid was notified by Desaad that heroes were springing up everywhere on Earth, and as such, they were losing their element of surprise. After Desaad suggested that Darkseid move his timetable for invading Earth, Darkseid agreed, commencing the invasion.

He later arrived in downtown Metropolis along with an army of Parademons. Darkseid easily destroyed several Air Force jets, and afterward swatted aside Green Lantern, who was the first to try to battle him. He soon defeated each and every hero, targeting both Superman and The Flash with his Omega Beams. Darkseid then created an Omega Beam that destroyed most of the area in Metropolis. Darkseid saw the Flash and Superman standing and fired two Omega Beams at the heroes. The Flash manages to dodge his blast but Superman was hit and knocked unconscious and taken hostage by the Parademon army.

While Batman went to get Superman, the other heroes banded together to fight Darkseid and during the battle, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Shazam blinded Darkseid.

Darkseid then proceeded to destroy downtown Metropolis until a plan was formed, with Wonder Woman taking out one of his eyes with her sword, and the Flash and Shazam taking out the other. Darkseid was soon engaged by all of the heroes who attempted to push him into a Boom Tube back to Apokolips. Despite being blinded, Darkseid still fought the heroes until Cyborg activated a Mother Box that sent the Parademon army across the world back to Apokolips except for Darkseid who stood his ground. Shazam tried to get Darkseid through the portal, but Darkseid pummeled Shazam and tried to crush him, but was stopped by Wonder Woman and the Flash. Superman and Batman arrived and the heroes worked together to fight Darkseid. Together, the heroes defeated Darkseid and sent him back to Apokolips. Although Darkseid was able to resist for a while, he was successfully pushed into the portal with a final punch by Superman. With all of the Mother Boxes deactivated, the heroes were reassured that Darkseid and his minions wouldn't be coming back any time soon in the end. Darkseid killed the King of Atlantis and Orm appears in Atlantean ship carrying the dead body of his father and king. He believes that the surface dwellers on Earth are responsible, calling it an act of war from the surface, for which he swears revenge but unaware that it was Darkseid.

### *The Death of Superman*

Some time prior to Doomsday's creation, Darkseid had fully recovered from his injuries, and decided to employ strategic warfare against the Justice League rather than directly attacking them like last time, having learned his lesson from underestimating them. He created Doomsday and indoctrinated the beast into despising Superman before placing it inside an asteroid projected onto Earth via a Boom Tube. Doomsday's asteroid shell accidentally collided with the Excalibur space shuttle and a result Henshaw and his crew were killed.

### *Reign of the Supermen*

Taking an interest in Henshaw and his disappointment for Superman's failure in saving him and his wife, Darkseid used his power to bring Henshaw back to life before transferring his essence into a Cyborg body and deployed him to earth under the guise of a false savior who was meant to deceive the people and even the Justice League into a false sense of security by making them believe he is their new Superman and protector.

Darkseid manage to help Henshaw by staging an attack on Earth which ended up with the Justice League being teleported to an unknown and hostile distant region of space. When Lex Luthor and Lois Lane intercepted a communication link between Cyborg Superman and Darkseid, they discovered that Darkseid believe he has already won and decided to patiently wait to casually invade because this time the Justice League have been disposed of.

When Darkseid finally realized that Superman has survived from his encounter with Doomsday, a surprised, yet ecstatic Darkseid immediately ordered Henshaw to open a Boom Tube so that Darkseid may personally kill the Man of Steel. After Henshaw state that killing Superman is his desire, Darkseid used his power to force Henshaw to open a Boom Tube. However, due to Lois Lane's manipulation and mockery of Henshaw's desire to kill Superman, Henshaw ripped out the implant in his head and closed the Boom Tube, angering Darkseid.

### *Justice League Dark: Apokolips War*

While the Justice League briefs over their planned attack on Darkseid and Apokolips, Darkseid, unbeknownst to the League, is listening in on the briefing via Cyborg's Apokolyptian technology, becoming aware of their plan. Upon the Justice League's arrival at Apokolips, Darkseid is one step ahead of their entire plan, sending his army of Paradooms, genetic hybrids of Parademons and Doomsday, to attack them. With the overwhelming might of the Paradooms, as well as Darkseid himself, the Justice League is completely decimated. Darkseid uses his Omega Beams to bifurcate Aquaman, killing him. Then he rips Cyborg's arms off after the latter helps Shazam escape, while the Paradooms overwhelm the rest of the League. With the Justice League defeated, Darkseid chooses to spare some of them, notably Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Cyborg, Lex Luthor, Martian Manhunter, Mera, and Hawkman, and killing off those he had no plans for. Darkseid laces Superman's body with liquid Kryptonite to leave him in a de-powered state, straps Batman to a Mobius chair to torture him, forces Flash to endlessly run on a treadmill to serve as a power generator, forces Cyborg to subjugate into Apokolips itself and brainwashes him to become subservient, and brainwashing Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Hawkman, Mera, and later Starfire (after the Paradooms' invasion on Earth killing the Teen Titans) to become his Furies while equipping their torn bodies with cybernetic parts.

Two years later, Darkseid has gained almost complete control over Earth, as well as most of the space sector. Darkseid has brainwashed Batman into becoming his right-hand man, leaving most of his duties in Batman's hands. In order to thwart any remaining resistance, Darkseid departs for Oa to destroy the remainders of the Green Lantern Corps. Lex Luthor, acting as a New God representative, works as a liaison between Earth and Apokolips, and Darkseid tasks Batman with giving him orders as well as keeping an eye on him. On Oa, the remaining Green Lanterns are left utterly helpless by Darkseid's might, as they are easily killed off while Oa is destroyed. Batman reports to Darkseid about Lex Luthor's betrayal, who orders him to send the Paradooms to Earth, and to send a portion of Earth's magma to Oa to decimate it, killing off John Stewart, the last remaining Green Lantern in the process. With Oa destroyed and no one left to oppose him, Darkseid returns to Apokolips.

Darkseid reappears to confront the resistance force, consisting of Superman (wearing Lex Luthor's Kryptonite battle armor), Raven, Damian Wayne, and John Constantine, after they invade Apokolips. Darkskeid watches as Batman fights his son, ordering him to finish him off. However, the resistance force manages to break Batman free of his programming, and Batman retaliates by throwing Damian's sword into Darkseid's right eye and telling him to go to hell, damaging the Dread Lord's eyelid. Outraged, Darkseid fires his Omega Beams, but Damian steps in the way of the attack, mortally wounding him. When Raven loses control of Trigon and Trigon assumes Superman's body as a host, Trigon turns his attention to Darkseid and the two fight as Darkseid is pushed back by Trigon's might.

After the death of Lois Lane on Earth, Superman regains control of his body and regains his powers (Trigon had burned out the liquid Kryptonite when he assumed control) and Darkseid fights Superman in an equal battle. When Superman appears to be pushed back, he is saved when Trigon (given a physical form by Constantine and Raven) takes over the battle, eager to take down Darkseid and claim his position at the top of the universe. While Darkseid is barely able to defend himself against Trigon, he becomes aware of Cyborg's plan to transport him and Trigon into a black void and tries to escape, but Trigon drags him into the void, leaving them along with the Paradooms and Cyborg, still fused with Apokolips, trapped forever.

## Physical appearance

In his appearance, Darkseid has a tall, muscular, dark gray cracked rock-like body with red eyes. He wears a dark blue helmet with goldenrod accents on the chin, ears, and forehead. He wears a dark blue breastplate with goldenrod accents that has shoulder plates of the same color with a circular red chest piece in the middle and wears a dark blue under suit. On his forearms, he wears dark blue bracers with goldenrod accents and black edges on the hands. The hand pieces also have goldenrod Omega symbols. He also wears a black belt with goldenrod accents with a red Omega symbol in the middle. He also wears dark blue faulds on his hips. On his legs, he wears dark blue kneepads with goldenrod accents connected to dark blue boots.

## Personality

Throughout his existence, Darkseid proved himself to be nothing more than an embodiment of ruthlessness, cruelty, depravity, chaos, megalomania, hunger for power, sadism, mercilessness, and pure evil. As an intergalactic warlord and demonic ruler of Apokolips, Darkseid was entirely devoid of feelings such as compassion and empathy. He held absolutely no remorse for all the atrocities he committed during his conquests as he destroyed entire civilizations and planets and eradicated countless species of innocent lifeforms. He cared for no-one other than himself, viewing all other beings as beneath him; being completely inferior compared to his power. He displayed this sentiment to not only his enemies but also his allies as well. Darkseid has no care for his servants regardless of their loyalty to him, viewing them only as slaves that he is more than willing to sacrifice if they no longer prove useful to him. His only true desire is to rule over universe. His conquests were also unnecessarily violent which leaving billions, if not trillions, of innocents massacred throughout the universe. The sheer scale of these massacres was so great they clearly horrified many professional members of the Justice League, who were no strangers to death. Even John Constantine, a hero who was known for his slightly apathetic attitude to others and their troubles, was visibly disturbed and horrified by Darkseid’s cruelty.

Darkseid generally holds an emotionless demeanor, being utterly calm and stoic even in the midst of battle and rarely sheds this demeanor. He also lacks any form of humor, being serious in all situations. However, underneath his emotionless face lies a mind that is filled with cruelty. Darkseid is a sadist who takes great enjoyment in suffering of others. Watching others suffer in agony is one of the few cases in which he breaks his stoic demeanor and smiles. His sadism extends to not only physical torture but psychological abuse as well. This was shown when he spared Superman’s life after the failed attack on Apokolips. Instead of killing him, Darkseid stripped Superman of all his powers and then sent him back to Earth after Darkseid’s forces laid it to waste, as a way to forever torture Superman with guilt and shame over his failure and the consequences of his actions.

Darkseid is also extremely arrogant and egotistical. He constantly underestimates his enemies, deeming them all as inferior and of no threat to him or his plans. This arrogance stems from his inflated ego, as he views himself as the greatest and most powerful being in the universe and incapable of being defeated. This arrogance is what lead to his defeat at the hands of the Justice League. Due to his ego, Darkseid is unwilling to accept that there is any other being who is more powerful than him. When battling against Trigon, Darkseid broke his calm demeanor entirely and expressed intense rage and denial over the fact that the demon was stronger and defeating him in battle.

Darkseid has proven himself to be extremely intelligent. As a warlord, Darkseid is adept to strategic military warfare, spending millennia conquering planets with ease. After his first attempt to conquer Earth failed, he realized he had to take the planet through more strategic means rather than brute force like last time. In doing so, he proved himself to be a master-manipulator, as he orchestrated a number of different and complex events that nearly resulted in his second invasion succeeding. He also showed keen strategy in his defeat of the Justice League during their invasion of Apokolips. It is also heavily implied that Darkseid possesses vast scientific and technical knowledge, as it heavily implicated that he crafted most, if not all, of Apokolips’ technology himself and was the one who genetically finished the creation of the Paradooms and Doomsday.

Despite his arrogance and ego, Darkseid is capable of subtly acknowledging others for their power and skills, though in very twisted ways. In his own way, he acknowledged Batman as a key strategist and gifted thinker, which is why he brainwashed him into becoming his chief servant. He also seemed to treat Batman and Henshaw, fairly well during their servitude to him, being not at all abusive and rather cordial. He also saw most of the surviving Justice League members as capable and skilled warriors which is why he converted them into cyborg-minions rather than killing them. And for a brief moment he acknowledged Superman’s strength when he got the upper-hand against him in their fight. However, his respect for their skills is usually followed by an assertion of his own power, as he openly regarded Batman and Henshaw as servants and slaves and was going to claim that Superman’s “strength of a lost love” was nothing compared to the power he wielded. Another result of his megalomania is that Darkseid is incapable of experiencing fear, even in his final moments. When his immenent death was coming he did try to run from it and did yell and scream as he met his end, but this was out of anger and denial that he could have been defeated rather than actual fear of death.

Contrary to most tyrants, who have delusions of grandeur and belief they are in the right, Darkseid is completely aware of how evil he is and seems to take pride in it. He also seems to take pride in his inability to feel empathy or remorse, deeming such things as love, compassion, and friendships as “emotional nonsense." Because of this, he constantly belittles those who do possess such feelings, regarding them as nothing more than beings bound by weaknesses. Despite his inability to feel such emotions, he does possess a full understanding of how they work which he uses as a means of physiologically torturing his enemies, as seen when he forced Batman to anger Damian by degrading him and proclaiming that he never loved his son.

## Powers and AbilitiesEdit

### Powers

* **New God Physiology**
	+ **Superhuman Strength**
	+ **Superhuman Speed**
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**
	+ **Invulnerability**
	+ **Immortality**
	+ **Regeneration**
	+ **Flight**
* **Omega Effect**

### Abilities

* **Genius Level Intellect**
	+ **Tactical Analysis**
* **Intimidation**
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)**

## NotesEdit

* Darkseid was voiced by Steve Blum in *Justice League: War* and later by Tony Todd in *Reign of the Supermen* and *Justice League Dark: Apokolips War*.
	+ His voice in *Justice League: War* was initially distorted, making him sound more demonic and inhuman. His voice in later appearances, however, had a far more wackier tone.

## Related

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* Quotations by or about Darkseid (DC Animated Movie Universe)
* Character Gallery: Darkseid (DC Animated Movie Universe)

### Footnotes

1. ↑ Corson, Heath (writer) & Oliva, Jay (director) (February 4, 2014). *Justice League: War*.

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