Darkseid (Superman/Batman)

Darkseid
Appeared in	Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
Status	Unknown
Actor	Andre Braugher

Darkseid is the ruler of Apokolips and an extremely deadly adversary of Superman, and Batman to a lesser extent. He's also interested in Kara Zor-El, Supergirl, as a protege.

Biography

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

When it comes to his attention that Supergirl could be a powerful ally under his control. On Earth, he summons thousands of Doomsday clones, but kidnaps her while they're distracted. The duo decide to go to Apokolips and managed to get him into a bargain where he won't make a move against her. When the cousins arrive in Smallville, Darkseid uses his omega beams to torture him, but Kara takes the blast, knocking her out. Enraged, Superman tries to defeat Darkseid but is easily overpowered and nearly killed by one casual punch that sends him to the sun. Supergirl is easily overpowered as well, they finally manage to distract him and send him to a part of space where he's frozen.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Super Strength: Darkseid is an extremely powerful god hailing from planet Apokolips, who possesses an extreme degree of colossal super-strength. As shown numerous times throughout the series, Darkseid can maintain constant physical action with Kryptonians, as evidenced with Superman and Supergirl, as well as such, he can easily overpower Supergirl and Superman at the same time, proving that his strength surpasses theirs.
• Flight: Darkseid can fly completely in any direction, it is powered by Darkseid's telekinesis rather than gravity.
• Invulnerability: Darkseid is extremely resistant to all forms of physical, mental, as well as emotional and spiritual harm. He handles the full blast of heat vision by putting his hand around Superman's eyes. This blast took out thousands of Doomsday, but only made Darkseid smile. Darkseid took powerful blows from both Superman and Supergirl. Supergirl blasted him with his own omega beams and threw every punch she had and that failed to even scratch Darkseid. He even gets his own omega beams blasted on him. It has been shown that he can be injured to some extent as when Superman went full out on Darkseid, he had a nosebleed as a result.
• Immortality: As a god of Apokolips, Darkseid can live almost indefinitely, as he is immune to aging, withering, or degrading.
• Accelerated Healing Factor:  In the incredibly rare instance that Darkseid does get hurt, he can heal from any wound from minor to fatal instantaneously. He can heal from matter in an instant, making beating him physically truly impossible.
• Omega Beams: Darkseid, at a mere though, can emit pulses of red energy from his eyes, as well as such, its potential proves catastrophic and devastating, often causing explosions and bursts of blinding light, the beam strong enough to caused Superman to bleed. This is impressive as Superman is virtually invulnerable. He used it at; such speed that the he send Superman to the atmosphere in a few seconds or less. After Superman put a huge rock on him, Darkseid created a beam that send Superman flying, destroy the rock and shocking the ground .
• Super Agility: Darkseid is immeasurably agile, after being uppercutted by Supergirl, Darkseid did a perfectly balanced flip over 50 feet with no effort, even though he is nearly nine feet tall.
• Super Speed: Although rarely displayed, Darkseid can move much faster than Kryptonians, he can, react and maneuver faster than the healthiest and strongest human athlete who partakes in daily exercise.
• Mind Control: Darkseid took over the mind of Supergirl with complete ease.
• Telekinesis
• Telepathy

Abilities

• Genius-Level Intellect: Darkseid has a very strategic mind, and demonstrated this when he captured Kara and turned her against Superman.
• Advanced Hand-To-Hand Combatant/Martial Artist: He faced Superman and Supergirl in combat, and easily overpowered them for the entirety of the fight.
• Indomitable Will:

Weaknesses

• Faithful To His Word: Darkseid promised to not kill Supergirl at any costs, only letting her pound on him to test her skills. This lead him to only forcing her into unconsciousness with an omega beam. It also lead to him being hit with his own omega beams instead of killing her. Due to sparing her, Darkseid was tricked by Supergirl.
• His Blindness To Intellects: Darkseid has been in situations he forgets to cover due to his arrogance. Instead of taking out his five enemies, he let them go on their way to save Apokolips.

Relationships

• Superman - Nemesis.
• Supergirl - Former protege turned enemy.
• Batman - Enemy.
• Wonder Woman - Enemy.
• Big Barda - Former protege turned enemy.
• Granny Goodness - Servant.
• Gilotina - Leader of his honor guard.
• Lashina - Member of his honor guard.
• Stompa - Member of his honor guard.
• Mad Harriet - Member of his honor guard.

Appearances/Voice Actors

• Animation (1 film)
  • Superman/Batman: Apocalypse - Andre Braugher

Behind the scenes

To be added

Trivia

• This is one of the most powerful animated version of Darkseid.

Gallery

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

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See Also

• Darkseid