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It is one of the most powerfull entity to ever have appeared in DC Comics but at the same time , it's also rarely seen in the vs boards most likely due to its brief appearence . Hopefully that will change after this thread .


A short summary of how it had been discovered by a highly advanced race long before dinosaurs walked the earth :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale007.jpg

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"The Anti-Life's energies could not be harnessed by mere mortals"

"Hundreds of star systems fell victim It appeared that the end of the Universe was at hand"


Metron is comatose after seeing the Anti-Life Entity and Darkseid wants to obtain the data he has gathered in his journey :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale001.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale002.jpg


A little more elaboration to Metron's journey to find the Anti-Life :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale003.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale004.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale005.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale006.jpg


"The Universe's darkest secret about to be revealed to me"

"The Anti-Life is a sentient being , intelligent and aware of its own existence . It's alive !"

"I can feel the limitless power that is the entity I now see what a God truly is . I've never felt so insignificant . Next to this deity , I am nothing"

Metron is in shock when seeing the entity , realizing its power . He is in tears .



To be continued ..

Darkseid describes Etrigan's power source as being :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale013.jpg

"The limitless source of pure nature"


He wants to tap into Etrigan's source of power :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale014.jpg



Him and Etrigan come face to face with the Anti-Life Entity :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale015.jpg

"Call it death . Call it Anti-Life . It is beyond imagining . It is the complete unknown . It is feat ."

Darkseid merges his power with that of Etrigan and tries to attack the Anti-Life Entity :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale016.jpg

"For Etrigan , reality becomes a black void as he is transformed into a conduit to the well of primal mystic forces"

"Darkseid laughs as he feels this might mingle with his own Black Strength"


He is effortsley defeated by it and plans to steal a fraction of his power which he says will fulfill all his desires :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale017.jpg

"The Anti-Life exerts but a fraction of its might and regains its freedom"

"This terror is far more powerfull than even I dared dream"

"Even a small percentege of this Nightmare's power will fulfill all my heart's desires"


Dr Fate arrives and along with Highfater , Etrigan , Darkseid and Orion forms a "Cinque of Cosmic Powers" each of them being connected to a difference elemental source . Using this he tries to attack the Anti-Life Entity .

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale018.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale019.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale020.jpg

"I control this union , being a creature of intellectual magic"

"Highfather adds to the pentagram with his connection to the Source . As does Orion with his connection to the same "

"Etrigan augments our might by tapping into Primal Mystical Forces beyond my calling"

"And lastly there is Darkseid , an acolyte of the Anti-Life itself , enabling us to turn some of our nemesis's might against it"

"How long can we , with our near-infinite might stand , against the truly infinite"


Even being near-Omnipotent to the point where he almost went mad due to the sheer might of the power he wielded , Fate knows he will fall before Anti-Life's power . Even when the entity was caught unprapared for the attack , they still couldn't defeat it .

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale021.jpg

"But even in the grip of near-madness caused by the heady feel of almost omnipotent might , Dr Fate realizes that even the cinque of power will eventually fall beneath Anti-Life's awsome forces"

"Fate has caught the entity unprepared for such an assault . But the advantage is still a fleeting one . Death and annihilation are still only a heart-beat away"


Realizing the he can't defeat the entity , Fate decides isolate it from the main reality and in order to do so he would have to destroy the whole dimension , which he does :

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale022.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/Ale023.jpg

"A reality dies"


And this is the last we see of the Anti-Life Entity .

I figured this would be an important tid-bit to put here....

It would seem that the ALE from "Cosmic Odyssey", is indisputably canonical:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3759/cosmicodyssey1lv2.th.jpg

Anyhow,
The most recent incarnation of the ALE has come in the form of Scott Free...

Here is Scott first realizing he could tap the ALE, in the wake of Barda's death:

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3391/ale1in7.jpg
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5999/ale2ly9.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7069/ale0ml3.jpg


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Scott shows Darkseid that he now has full control of the ALE -- Darkseid is astounded:

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1008/ale3sp2.jpg
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/7646/ale4ho0.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3276/ale5ga6.jpg
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4939/ale6tn6.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7522/ale7ed5.jpg


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Scott uses the ALE to reawaken a handful of dead New Gods, and has them reveal their last visions:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9692/ale8xz6.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/483/ale9gn3.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8111/ale10et3.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6037/ale11fd1.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4435/ale12hy8.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9378/ale13lk2.jpg
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8314/ale14cm0.jpg

The Anti-Life Equation, :

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff191/Galan_photos/th_ale1.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff191/Galan_photos/th_ale2.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff191/Galan_photos/th_ale3.jpg


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'Dark Side' uses the ALE to transform the most powerful New Gods, into little more than street bums:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff191/Galan_photos/th_newgodsale1.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff191/Galan_photos/th_newgodsale2.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff191/Galan_photos/th_newgodsale3.jpg

The Anti-Life Entity is apparently the Dark Side of the Source. It was created when the 3 most powerfull Old Gods attacked the Source which cause it to split into Ying and Yang..

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/MetronAle1.jpg
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Originally posted by Erik-Lensherr
The Anti-Life Entity is apparently the Dark Side of the Source. It was created when the 3 most powerfull Old Gods attacked the Source which cause it to split into Ying and Yang..

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/MetronAle1.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/Erik_Magnus_Lensherr/MetronAle2.jpg
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This means that the Cinque of power is a hell of a lot more powerful than most give credit for.

Originally posted by Exiled Presence
This means that the Cinque of power is a hell of a lot more powerful than most give credit for.

Well, it is stated as being near-omnipotent to the point where Dr Fate nearly went mad due to the sheer power he wielded, so .. yeah

So the Anti-life entity and the equation are one and the same. Especially since Scott is going batshit crazy from it. Plus, given how he looked in the last panel, he even looks like the ALE.

Mr. Miracle , destroys the Source Wall, in turn releasing the 'true' ALE:

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6009/ale1wo9.th.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7812/ale2gs5.th.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6681/ale3qv8.th.jpg


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The Source and ALE merge into a singular being...

This new amalgam then kills Scott Free, and Metron, before confronting Darkseid on Apokolips:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7504/ale4lh0.th.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4701/ale5ae9.th.jpg http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6494/ale6zx6.th.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8892/ale7xz6.th.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7326/ale8si2.th.jpg

May as well post the whole fight...


Mr. Miracle /w/ ALE vs. Infinity Man, :

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/9559/ale1ff8.th.jpg http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5031/ale2pq9.th.jpg http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4016/ale3yi2.th.jpg http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9273/ale4th2.th.jpg http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/4269/ale5dm3.th.jpg http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/4315/ale6ph8.th.jpg http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8536/ale7pz5.th.jpg

The ALE/Source amalgam vs. Darkseid, (empowered by the cumulative New God energy):

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj172/galan007_pics/ds1-1.jpg
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj172/galan007_pics/ds2-1.jpg
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We find that the ALE/Source was responsible for the 'return' of Orion:

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj172/galan007_pics/ds12.jpg
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj172/galan007_pics/ds13.jpg