| “ | I am many things, Kal-El - but here, I am God.
— Darkseid
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Summary
Darkseid is the ruler of the planet Apokolips and an enemy of Superman. He is a New God who seeks to find the Anti-Life equation to conquer the universe and destroy all free will.
Powers and Stats
Tier: Varies. Usually at least 2-C | Varies, Usually High 3-A | 2-A | 1-A
Key: Pre-Crisis Avatars | Post-Crisis Avatars | Darkseid War | True Self
Name: Darkseid
Origin: DC Comics
Gender: Male
Age: Hundreds of Thousands of Years
Classification: Deity (specifically a New God), God of Evil, Ruler of Apokalips, Wielder of the Omega Force
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Superhuman Intelligence, Martial Arts (Showcased here), Life Support (Types 1, 2, and 3.), Immortality (Types 1, 3, 4 and 9; Darkseid’s true form exists on a higher plane and his true selve can ressurect his avatars), Energy Manipulation, Energy Projection, Void Manipulation with Omega Beams, Durability Negation with Omega Beams, Matter Manipulation, Telepathy, Mind Control, Illusion Creation, Teleportation, Time Manipulation (Can BFR people to either the past or future. time travel), Life Manipulation, Resurrection (can revive himself and other people), Regeneration (Low-Godly), Flight, Size Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (can remove souls from body), BFR (Can banish people with boom tubes. Can also do this via Omega Beams, sending them across space or even time itself), Transmutation (Can turn people into mud), Existence Erasure (The Omega Beams can erase beings from reality), Non-Physical Interaction (Interacted with the incoporeal aspects of Firestorm. Destroyed Secret ,who is an intangible soul without physicality), Aura (Capable of emanating an explosive aura), 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), Spatial Manipulation (Warped the path of Vykin's boom tube by will; His punch cracked the fabric of the dimension he was in), Time Travel (Orion stated he can easily move through time), Creation (Used his energy to create the opposite of Takion, Stayne; Can recreate his followers from inanimate objects), Telekinesis (Restrained Superman and Infinity Man in the air), Telepathy (Can drain information from minds and read them in an instant), 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)
Resistance to 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), Ice Manipulation (Was unaffected by Superman's freeze breath), Ice Manipulation and Radiation Manipulation (Can fly in space unharmed)
All previous abilities + Immortality (Types 1, 3, 4, 5 and 9), Reality Warping, Non-Corporeal, Conceptual Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation with the Anti-Life Equation, Abstract Existence (The New Gods are powerful living ideas from a platonic and archetypal world. Darkseid is the God of and represents the concepts of evil and tyranny), Pocket Reality Manipulation, Fate Manipulation and Death Manipulation (Through the Omega Sanction, Darkseid was able to trap Shilo Norman in a never-ending series of created realities), Large Size (Type 10; His true body is much bigger than the multiverse, to the extend where his fall caused it's collapse ), Black Hole Creation (Created a singularity and was becoming one himself), 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)
Attack Potency: Varies. Usually at least Multi-Universe level (Constantly depicted as a threat to Pre-Crisis Superman) | Varies. Usually High Universe level (Most avatars of Darkseid are capable of equally fight Post-Crisis Superman. The absolute strongest Avatars of Darkseid were capable of fighting against two Doctor Fates at once; Doctor Fate was able to to keep a universe from collapsing with help of Spectre, acted as 1/5 of a power that matched the Anti-Life Entity and destroyed a universe.) | Multiverse level+ (Was able to fight and nearly defeat Anti-Monitor.) | Outerverse level (Darkseid's true form exists in the Sphere of the Gods. The Sphere of the Gods exists outside and above the material world and contains the Underworld, which is an endless nothing of a dimension without dimensions.)
Speed: Varies. Usually Massively FTL+ (Capable to keep up with Pre-Crisis Superman) | Varies. Usually Massively FTL (Capable to keep up with Post-Crisis Superman), up to Massively FTL+ (Capable to keep up with two Doctor Fate at once the helmet was able to outrace the Big Bang) | Likely Massively FTL+ (Capable to keep up with Anti-Monitor) | Irrelevant (Darkseid's true form exists in the Sphere of the Gods. The Sphere of the Gods exists outside and above the material world and contains the Underworld, which is an endless nothing of a dimension without dimensions.)
Lifting Strength: Varies. Usually Stellar | Varies. Usually Infinite, up to much higher | Immeasurable | Irrelevant
Striking Strength: Varies. Usually Multi-Universal | Varies. Usually High Universal | At least Multiversal+ | Outerversal
Durability: Varies. Usually at least Multi-Universe level | Varies. Usually High Universe level | Multiverse level+ | Outerverse level (Darkseid's true form exists in the Sphere of the Gods. The Sphere of the Gods exists outside and above the material world and contains the Underworld, which is an endless nothing of a dimension without dimensions.)
Stamina: Virtually Limitless (Don't need to eat, sleep and drink) | Likely Limitless
Range: Standard Melee with physical strikes, Stellar to Multiversal+ with strongest attacks (depend by which version)
Standard Equipment: Boom tubes normally, has acquired non-standard power-ups, such as Soulfire and the Anti-Life Equation at different times.
Intelligence: Supergenius
Weaknesses: Darkseid is vulnerable to Radion (A lethal substance to New Gods), he is often overconfident (So he does not use his powers to their fullest extent), his Avatars would never be as strong as his True Self.
Note: This profile will not include Darkseid with Anti-Life Equation or Soulfire Darkseid.
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