Darkseid (DC Comics)

## Summmary

**Darkseid** is the tyrannical ruler of Apokolips, a sadistic, aggressive and merciless tyrant who has invaded and conquered countless worlds throughout the universe. As the God of Tyranny, Darkseid seeks to enslave all things to his will using the Anti-Life Equation.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** At least **2-C**, likely **2-A** | **1-A**

**Name:** Darkseid, Uxas

**Origin:** DC Comics

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** Billions of years. Inapplicable (True Form)

**Classification:** New God, Abstract Embodiment of Tyranny

#### **Abilities:**

* Avatar
* Resistance
* True Form
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant (Comparable to Orion in martial skill), Immortality (Type 1. 4 and 9. When gods die, they return to the Source, but sometimes have the power to escape it and return to life), Regeneration (Low-Mid - Regenerated his destroyed eyes), Self-Sustenance, Flight, Extrasensory Perception (Can see invisible beings and detect souls. Has 18 divine senses; Sensed Constantine's mind from another dimension despite his cloaking spells), Portal Creation and Dimensional Travel (Can open boom tubes at will), Dream Manipulation (Invaded Grail's dreams), Intangibility and Homing Attack (Omega Beams seek out their target and can pass through physical barriers), Existence Erasure and Durability Negation (Omega Beams can erase their target from existence, making it so they never were), BFR via boom tubes and the Omega Effect (Can banish others by opening boom tubes on them or by teleporting them through space and time with his Omega Beams), Energy Projection (Can fire Omega Beams from his eyes and energy blasts from his hands), Energy Manipulation and 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), Soul Manipulation (Shattered souls using the Omega Effect), Energy Absorption (Can absorb energy on a planetary scale), Forcefield Creation (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), Absorption (Absorbed life force from Wonder Woman and returned to adulthood by absorbing all of Zeus' life force), Resurrection (Raised a massive army of Parademons from the dead; Resurrected Desaad after disintegrating him), Paralysis Inducement and Information Analysis (Paralyzed Infinity Man and probed for his weakness), Aura and Statistics Amplification (Can enhance physical attacks by cloaking himself in energy), Supernatural Willpower, 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), Gravity Manipulation and Space-Time Manipulation (Can generate a gravitational pull so strong that space is twisted and time is stretched, so days pass with each second; Physically opened a hole in space), Size Manipulation and Large Size (Can grow immensely large), 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), Illusion Creation (Made illusions for Superman and Wonder Woman to fight; they were fooled until Darkseid gave himself away), Cosmic Awareness (Darkseid can perceive and understand the workings of the universe on a cosmic level. He states he is able to see beyond the known realities), Conceptual Manipulation ( Captured the Black Racer and learned to summon and direct it), Telekinesis (Restrained Superman and Infinity Man in the air), Telepathy (Can drain information from minds and read them in an instant), Mind Manipulation (Simultaneously controlled three billion Pre-Crisis Daxamites), 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), Heat Manipulation (Incinerated Kalibak's flesh by touching him), Weather Manipulation (Created a tornado and storm), 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)

Existence Erasure (Stated that his body resists the effects of his Omega power and no-sold Lex Luthor's weapon that rips apart existence), Sealing (Removed bindings created by the Alpha Effect), 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. Was unaffected by Zeus' lightning), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations (Can fly in space unharmed), Disease Manipulation (New God physiology makes them immune to disease), Spatial Manipulation (No-sold the spatial rending caused by boom spheres and survived the collapse of a boom tube around him which caused fractures in the universal fabric, though he needed to recuperate in the Mobius Chamber afterward), Antimatter Manipulation (Unaffected by the matter-destroying properties of antimatter)

All previous abilities to a much greater degree, plus Abstract Existence (New Gods are living ideas from a platonic, archetypal world), Incorporeality, Beyond-Dimensional Existence, Large Size, 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), Avatar Creation, 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)

**Attack Potency:** At least **Universe level+**, likely **Multiverse level+** (Contributed 1/5th of the power to destroy a universe. Possesses enough power to destroy and consume universes. Significantly superior to average New Gods, who can create Universes. Equal to Infinite-Man, who's power could be used to destroy the Universe, including the timestream) | **Outerverse level+** (The New Gods are incredibly powerful living ideas from a kind of platonic, archetypal world)

**Speed:** **Massively FTL+** likely **Immeasurable** (Flew to the edge of the universe in moments, on more than one occasion. Capable of blitzing Post-Crisis Superman. Orion stated he can easily move through time) | **Irrelevant**

**Striking Strength:** At least **Universal+**, likely **Multiversal+** | **Outerversal+**

**Durability:** At least **Universe level+**, likely **Multiverse level+** | **Outerverse level+**

**Stamina:** Extremely High, possibly infinite (Can fight for seven days straight. His power source, the Omega Effect, is described as infinite) | Irrelevant

**Range:** At least Universal+, likely Multiversal+ | Outerversal+

**Standard Equipment:** The Anti-Life Equation

**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

**Weaknesses:** Like all New Gods, is vulnerable to a substance called Radion

**Key: Avatar** | **True Form**