I've noticed many users on this site underestimate, this epic version of Darkseid, a 10% Jobber, 90% Badass. Hopefully this respect thread will grant Uxas the respect he deserves.

His New 52 Origins:

As a mud grubber on his home world, Uxas despised the Old Gods. Feeling they cared little about him and his people. Enraged by another Old God rampaging through his village, Uxas traveled up the sacred mountatin were the Old Gods slept. As they slept, Uxas whispered into the ears of all the Old Gods, causing them to turn on one another. They clashed and as they were weakened by battle, Uxas killed them one by one. Absorbing their great power, Uxas was transformed into Darkseid. His appearance was altered and outwardly he showed a rocky and greyish appearance. Armor began to wrap around his body covering his body and head. His beard was covered and he no longer had brown hair.

Meanwhile, Darkseid's brother, Izaya, begged the Sky Father to return Avia, his now dead wife to him. Instead, the God granted Izaya his power. Izaya was granted the power because of his faith and took the name Highfather.The brother in laws competed in a battle that would design the fate of their world.

Darkseid was filled with such contempt that the planet was destroyed during battle with Highfather. The battle broke the world apart and two worlds existed. When Darkseid overcame his brother, he controlled Apokolips, a hellish world where he is king and Highfather ruled New Genesis. Eons passed and an individual named Kaiyo, the Chaos Bringer, a teleporter had laughed at parademons fighting amongst themselves. This angered the ruler of Apokolips, he attempted to kill Kayio. But she had an unknown ability to jump to different dimensions.

Darkseid followed, and what he found was other worlds to conquer that he didn't even know existed. Darkseid went on to conquer many worlds in the pursuit of Kaiyo. He conquers and vanquishes many of these planets including Earth-2 and Earth-3. One in particular, Earth-Prime where Darkseid has trouble defeating this Justice League. After being defeated, Darkseid waits patiently for his next attack.

More recently Darkseid has accidentally been revived from a stasis like prison on Apokolips by Miracle Man. He has been fighting the heroes of Earth-2 while waiting for Apokolips to devour planet Earth. Apokolips is revealed to be a God planet that needs to feed on other planets. At the end of Earth-2 and Worlds End Darkseid fought Flash, Aquawoman, Powergirl, Val-Zod, Dr. Fate, Batman, Red Tornado(Louis Lane) and other heroes. They proved innefective against the powerhouse of evil. Darkseid seemed to barely even try and yet he was beating the team down with ease. Powergirl went for Darkseids eyes and seemed to cause Darkseid some pain, but Darkseid quickly put her down too. He is then quickly shown to have regenerated the wounds to his eye right before Alan Scott arrives with the power of all the Green from the Multiverse. Along with all the power of all of the Green, Earth-2's council decide to make Alan their avatar as well. So he gained the power of the red, grey, white, blue, etc and he still could not defeat Darkseid. As the fight continues on he notes that he feels weaker due to Earth-2 being severely weakened and on the brink of being consumed by Apokolips. He seemingly makes his last act as Green Lantern an honorable one. He somehow uses his abilities to recharge Powergirl, Val-Zod and the other heroes.

Darkseid will be seen in the Darkseid Wars in June, 2015 where he will face off against the Anti-monitor with Earth-0 and our Justice League heroes caught in the middle.

Now Moving on, to his best accomplishments in The New 52 Multiverse :

Strength:

• First scan - Killed thousands of Supermen versions across the New 52 Multiverse which is a pretty cool feat although it happen off panel.
• Second scan - Knocks out the Justice league including Superman, Diana and Hal Jordan with an AoE attack whilst holding back. This, however, happened during the very inception of the New 52 JLA story arc.
• Third scan - His strength is one of the many factors that makes the badass he is today, he's shown to open holes in reality using his bare hands, an insane feat right off the bat.

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Striking force/Durability

The First Scan: Shows us three of Darkseid's most splendid accomplishment's :

• Busted an earth-sized planet (actually it should much larger) by his omega beams. In conjunction of the scan you can simply see that he totally disintegrated the entire planet with a simple blast of his Omega beam's.
• He proceeded to annihilate another planet (old world) by just punching the High father which is a very monumental striking force and strength feat considering he can both one shot planets using his OB and strength/striking force.
• The said performance as well proves that Darkseid durability exceed planetary level by far. The explosion didn't seem to damage him at all, he was completely fine in the next panel. Not to mention he also survived his own Omega beams with no injuries being used by a plot McGuffin to attempt to KO him

The Second Scan : Another planet busting feat. He annihilated an alternate earth with a fraction of his Omega beams.

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Bonus: Remember when the league defeated Darkseid using Boom-tubes (plot) ? He actually survived a dimension collapsing on him

And the interesting part is that it caused a universal damage yet he was fine after that incidence confirmed during JLA #51

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Battles:

Versus Earth's two justice league (well that's how I Call 'em :p) - Scans are taken from Earth 2: World's end #24-25

Darkseid first encounter with Earth's 2 top powerhouses aka Kara (Power Girl) and Val zod - he trashed Val like he was nothing but had a PIS-dancing with Power girl, she seemed to be a lot more durable than Val and strong, she tanked Darkseid omega beams three times one panel (to the chest to the face..), eye beams that are fully capable of demolishing entire planets. Not to mention she actually managed to blind Darkseid's right eye under plot writing. (Sorry, I missed a panel between the last panel and 4th panel):

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The other remaining hero's of Earth's 2 including Jay Garrick (Flash - who's insanely fast) and Dr Fate pops up from nowhere to help the Kryptonians to overwhelm Darkseid but their efforts were pointless, Darkseid stomped them including the Kara and Val at the end, and then he comforts Alan Scott w/the multiversal green.

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Kara comes back (issue 26) with red tornado (Lois lane - Earth 2), and PIS-dance with Darkseid once again, she was able to outrun Darkseid's OB which means her flight speed is faster than Flash speed if that's relevant thing to say.

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Bonus: Just for the sake of mentioning, his Omega beams are faster than Flash Speed. Darkseid also displays telepathic ability with dimensional+ range.

Versus Alan Scott w/Multiversal Green:

The multiversal Green granted Alan the power of all earths that exist within' the multiverse itself (Earth-2: world's end issue #25) and bear in mind, infinite of universes exist within' the new 52 multiverse not just 52 universes (the local multiverse) and each cosmos has his own earth:

Alan later confirmed that he had the power of multiple earths, numbers were never specified, even with the power of those earths he couldn't take down Darkseid by his own confession however he was utterly stomped in his first encounter with Uxas despite of his pointless efforts to catch Darkseid off guard and hoping to defeat him and ending the crisis early regardless of that, he was starting to get weakened in the last panel due to obvious reasons:

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He came back after being depleted more powerful than ever, amplified with the power of the combined potency of the avatars of earth including the multiversal green:

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And then gives Darkseid a beating by going all out so its relevant to say that Alan was empowered when he preformed this particular feat, nonetheless it's still impressive for both entities:

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Here's how powerful Alan got due to the amp he felt the the true potential of the multiverse, the power of every each earth that exist within' the multiverse so yeah he was pretty damn powerful when he gave Darkseid a little beating.

But guess what ? Darkseid was not blacked out, all Scott did is just making a mad god more indignant, he showed up in the next two panels and back handed Val-Zod and then proceed to blast the rest of the Earth-2 remaining heroes including an experienced Alan Scott w/MG not to mention Darkseid succeeded to convert Earth-2 into the new Apokalipse. A side note, based on the said performance Darkseid durability should completely bypass multi-planetary level.

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Versus Anti Monitor (JLA #43-44)

During the Darkseid story arc, Uxas went toe to toe against a cosmic being who existed before the dawn of creation unknown as Anti-Monitor who's real name is Mobius, they seemed pretty equal in term of literally everything until both started pulling off the cheap moves however Darkseid missed to kill the Anti Monitor by summoning the Black racer which was a fatal mistake that resulted his death. However Anti Monitor got pissed off and used the ALE (Darkseid's weakness) to bind the black racer to the Flash and then slaughtered Uxas.

Many users here considers Anti-Monitor weak as hell due to the lack of feats which is wrong. Mobius is still universal atleast due to being fused by the ALE, something that grants the user near infinite powers aka nigh Omnipotence as confirmed here. For more details you can check this thread right here (post 205).

Conclusion :

We know that Darkseid is the most powerful menace threatening the Multiverse in The New 52 besides The Anti monitor. The tyrannical leader of the planet Apokolips is also called the Dark God whereas Anti Monitor is called Mobius/The Anti God however he's being of massive power only interested in acquiring the means to end any and all life in the universe and a very well known superman villain and enemy regardless Darkseid has shown to be immensely powerful in the new 52 timeline. Not like his Pre-52 counter part who's a jobber. To be honest I'd put him on Thanos Level and up even near skyfather level.

With all that being said, Darkseid is a very potent new god, he's a being with massive power, a legit team buster able to one shot Superman like beings, going toe to toe with a universal entity (AM w/ALE), able to demolish entire planets with a single omega beam and physical strength with a great durability he's able to endure and resist unimaginable pain (His battle with the enchained Alan Scott) so hopefully this thread will gain him the respect he deserve.

That's it Folks. Enjoy reading. Thread updated.

Very detailed and easy to follow. Nice.

Darkseid is a beast again.

Thank you :)

I will point out that the new backstory is, probably on purpose, at odds with Highfather's backstory that he gives in Godhead. It's because this is just the Prime Earth/Earth 2 shard of Darkseid. Multiversity revealed that the main Darkseid, broken during Final Crisis, is seeking to come out and get his shards again. There is seemingly no war in heaven right now, so that may be the reason this shard is stronger, the majority of it isn't off fighting an interdimensional war for all of existence with its counterpart the Highfather.

Other than that, I like your thread. I did one on another site, love Darkseid as a villain :)

Well done. This shows how badass Darkseid truly is.

I just saw Highfather's summary as being just that - a highly simplified history of the New Gods beginning with their godhood. Could be wrong though, it's been a while since I read Godhead

@reactor: It talks about the gods dying and the new ones rising up, seemingly on the same planet. Darkseid's backstory had Highfather and Darkseid as the only two survivors.

Plus, it was established in both Multiversity and Darkseid War that the New Gods are unaffected by Crises and that the current ones running around are shards of the main consciousnesses.

Err... maybe he was retelling thing poetically? Idk, I'm trying to reconcile both histories. We know from Darkseid's tale that Highfather did indeed begin creating at some point after the Old Gods were all slain. Also stands to reason they created the rest of the New Gods, since everyone else died. Maybe when Highfather talked about the new gods rising up, he was including himself and Darkseid in that, since they were technically the first of the new.

Ugh, I'm just bullsh!tting right now, nevermind lol! I'll go with the Multiversity thing

@reactor: I mean, I just reconcile them as saying the shards have slightly different things going for them. Remember the whole thing in Final Crisis with the gods being likened unto Platonic concepts, more real and outside everything that are basically seeen by how people interpret them? That's how I reconcile everything, the New Gods (and gods in general, since I believe the shard thing should apply to all DC deities) different backstories that pop up every once in a while.

People like you are the real detectives here. Piecing together everything to show just what a character truly is...

I like it better than Reddits Darkseid thread. And that one is an amalgamation of all era of Darkseid.

Cool.

@ulquiorra23: This is Darkseid respect thread, not someone who was rejected by his author in order to draw some hentai.

Stairs still solo

Don't you consider that Sphere of God where Apocolypse is there is far bigger than Orrely of the world which contain infinite number of local multiverse?

The scan with anti-monitor and metron is actually darkseid's daughter attacking metron from behind. Not anti-monitor beating metron. Otherwise looks accurate, I'll read through once more.

@tonychu:never mind him, he tried to convince vampire hunter D is strong enough to fight dark schneider, threw a tantrum at everyone involved, when no one accepted it.. and now doing.. this.

And people still say Thanos would stomp him.

All hail Darkseid

Very impressive, nice

Thanks Guys :)

nice

Well done.

Thanks Folks.

People still say goku would beat this guy...

This darkseid is just like beerus ! lol notice how he one shot planet's rather easily with a simple blast using the O-B right after that he was stated to be Universal destroyer... exact same thing & statement's as beerus lol

@thebestofthebest: Once they bust universe bust maybe there could be Cav there!

Well there is some ABC logic fan's on this site lol

@thebestofthebest: DBZ needs ABC logic.

Sometimes it's irrelevant

@thebestofthebest: yeah like with 99% of comic feats.

@chazz85:

Darksied is too slow imo

@le0nhart: Yes but darksiede maybe to durable and beerus can't dodge the beams.

Maybe ... but this is not a battle guys.

@thebestofthebest: Ik.

I'm not going to debate with you here, no need to ruin the respect thread

@le0nhart: yeah agreed.

A neatly organised and coherent respect thread for Darkseid, this might be even better than the Reddit respect thread for Darkseid. There are a few things I feel like noting though.

His New 52 Origins:

Darkseid's origins are kind of confusing at this point. On the one hand, there's the Villain's Month origin where Darkseid was a lowly farmer on a planet ruled by gods so he turned them against each other and took their power. Which gives Darkseid his casual planet busting feats. On the other hand, Godhead implied that the classic Jack Kirby origin still existed to some degree where Apokolips and New Genesis were two opposing planets born from the same planet's ashes and cursed to wage war on one another indefinitely. It's hard to tell which origin is actually legit thanks to the confusing mess of the New 52 continuity.

• The Second Scan : Another very impressive feat. He Annihilated an alternate earth with a fraction of his Omega beams while stomping superman

This isn't exactly the right interpretation of what happened here. Earth 2 Superman didn't fall at the hands of Darkseid, he got taken out by a gang of Parademons blowing themselves up to 'kill' Superman in Earth 2 #1.

Darkseid must have come across Superman after he got KOed by the Parademons.

• The Second Scan: Darkseid one shotting the JLA Including superman with an AoE attack while holding back. That was the every inception of the New 52.

Again this doesn't match with the subsequent context. Superman was first up from Darkseid's attack after his AOE blast looking no worse for wear.

Note, That Anti Monitor has been confirmed that he is the COIE AM him self but at standard level's meaning universal+ regardless here is one of his accomplishment that put him on Universal+ level :

You're half right in pointing out this is the same version from COIE but I don't think your interpretation of his power level is accurate. The Anti Monitor is not at universal level yet in the slightest, your evidence doesn't match up with what is demonstrated on the Anti Monitor's part either. It's implied he destroyed Earth 3's Krypton and all that is actually shown that he devours one planet at a time like a cheap knock off of Galactus. Unlike his prior COIE power levels where he consumed entire universes much more quickly. Moreover, Anti Monitor was brought back earlier for Sinestro Corps War as the Corps unofficial 'Guardian' and he was much weaker than his COIE version. The Guardians were actually capable of damaging him and he was severely harmed by a galaxy busting attack when he wasn't affected by attacks like that at his previous power level. I still believe Anti Monitor has been brought down to Darkseid's power level rather than Darkseid being amped up to Anti Monitor's level.

So we do need to wait and see how Darkseid's fight with the Anti Monitor goes but this fact needs to be remembered, they're not fighting on some random alien planet, they're fighting on DCU Earth. And unless The Darkseid War has a massive plot twist, I don't think we'll be seeing continent level, let alone planetary displays of power from Darkseid or the Anti Monitor. People are hyped about it but keeping the fight on Earth limits the destruction, and therefore the feats that these colossal villains can actually do.

Darkseid has shown to be immensely powerful in the new 52 timeline. Not like his Pre-52 counter part who's a jobber. To be honest I'd put him on Thanos Level and up.

It was inevitable that we'd get a Thanos comparison but I don't think it's entirely warranted just yet. Pre New 52 Darkseid was a physical jobber compared to Thanos, but he had feats of hax versatility such as matter and molecular manipulation on a casual city sized scale, teleportation with his Omega Beams, mind control, creating avatars and more. Whilst New 52 Darkseid can fight Thanos more evenly physically, he lacks his Pre New 52 incarnation's versatility which Thanos has in abundance. Neither are a true match for Thanos IMO, combining their feats makes for a fairer fight the way I see it. Otherwise, Darkseid isn't quite on Thanos' level overall in either version.

Great respect thread but any version of Darkseid would beat Thanos, if Thanos doesn't have any external help like a cosmic cube or Infinity Gauntlet.

Thanos was bleeding from a scream from Black Bolt, Darkseid literally tanked multiversal attacks.

There's no comparison.

Not to mention Thanos, in his own series no less, was bleeding from a random mundane axe, from some random space barbarian.

Thanos on his own is nowhere near as powerful overall as the true Darkseid.

@lvenger: That Superman inthe villains month issue wasn't supposed to be Earth 2 Superman. Darkseid has a room full of dead Supermen that's he's collecting for some reason, and that one was the first added to his collection.

@the_imperator: If that's true, that's actually a good thing in my view, but that looks like Earth 2 Superman right down to the costume design. He was even fighting Ultra Humanite, an Earth 2 villain in one panel.

@lvenger: I don't see what your point regarding DS one shotting the entire league. They all got knocked out it seems

Unless Darkseid literally spent eons traveling between attacking Earth 2 and then Earth 0, which is a possibility, that's not Earth 2 Superman. Although it could be, since linearity doesn't necessarily exist in the God Sphere.

Unless I'm completely remembering that scene wrong and that one occured after Kaiyo said Darkseid spent eons traveling the multiverse to kill Supermen.

Superb respect thread. Well done.

@jayc1324: But Superman got back up really quickly, and then got one shotted for real by Darkseid's Omega Beams.

@lvenger: Yeah but in the scan you see Aquaman and Superman laying down, they seem to be KO'd. Also, Flash asks if anyone is awake yet, which makes it sound like they were knocked out, even if for a short time.

@the_imperator: But this was before Convergence brought back the infinite multiverse, how could Darkseid have killed so many Supermen?

@lvenger: Because the writers didn't care that there were only 52 universes. Pretty much no one did. World's End mentioned infinite universes, Rama Kushna mentioned infinite dimensions to Deadman, etc. The easiest explanation is that Hypertime was always a thing, there are just 52 linch pins that hold the multiverse together.

@the_imperator: So even before Convergence, the multiverse was infinite according to some statements? Great, another reason why the DCnU continuity was more cluttered than a child's closet.