Finally..Death of the New Gods #3 [SPOILER - highlight to read]:
-Darkseid beats Superman using his Shadow Demons almost killing him until Scott Free saved him.
-DS also uses his partial Anti-Life Equation and freezes Orin in his tracks
-Scott Free with the full equation [after humbling DS] cannot force DS to tell him what he knows about this New God crisis due to his knowledge about the equation.
Unleashes the "Trumpets of Doom" from the Garden of Hope in the center of Apokolips that destroy a huge rock and release a Promethean Giant there that he had enslaved (for an idea of the scale, the giant could hold Earth in the palm of its hand):
Threatens Orion with a curse. Even with the ALE, Orion apparently believes it, since he tries to make Darkseid kill himself instead of killing him personally:
The “grunts” of Darkseid’s war machine are invariably the Parademons. Their numbers seem…well, infinite, and I know of no instance of Darkseid “running out” of them. How powerful are they? It really depends, but punches from one or two are enough to cause Superman to grunt, at least…
Now, not only can Darkseid create and grow these warrior machines at will, but they can’t die; not unless he himself allows it. This allows for an inexhaustible army of powerful cavalry to face what will inevitably be Thanos’ horde of space pirates and bandits, all of whom are space able, with powerful energy weapons and strength capable of making Byrne Superman grunt.
Forces of Darkseid that he DOES allow to die, however, are his Suicide Jockies. Insanely loyal, totally unafraid of death, their entire existence is simply about killing themselves to kill a foe. And their death explosions are powerful enough to kill even powerful gods like Tigra. These guys further demonstrate the incredible mental brainwashing Darkseid puts his forces through.
Darkseid is one of the best planners in the DC Multiverse, manipulating gods and mortals and everything in between.
The list of his accomplishments is legion, of course, orchestrating his own resurrection, conquering Olympus and very nearly doing the same to Paradise Island, orchestrating the Legends event, bringing on the destruction of all of time…but I’ll just go into a few.
Darkseid, as young Uxas, orchestrates the split between the Roman and Greek Gods, weakening their power base for centuries.
A young Darkseid engineers the Great War between Apokolips and New Genesis, manipulating his uncle Steppenwolf into killing Avia, and then faking the death of Izaya so that the first techno-cosmic war can be born, and Darkseid can take the thrown (with help from Desaad).
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He also later agrees to the pact so that he might once more build up his forces, but all the while plans to torture Scott Free until he escapes, so that he might resume his activities.
Darkseid discovers the nature of the Godwave, and gets to planning how it might work for HIM.
A quick rundown of a number of his schemes – orchestrating his own death at the hands of Orion IN the source to cause universal chaos (and nearly universal destruction, which he could take advantage of).
So too did he orchestrate the corruption of Orion by faking his own deaths in the battle in the Fire Pits, giving Orion the leadership of Apokolips. His plan worked TOO well, as Orion gained control of the Anti-Life Equation and nearly subjugated the universe with it. (No scans)
Darkseid manipulates pretty much all the significant events of Countdown and the DCU at this point, so subtly that they have no idea that they are being manipulated into exactly the position he wants them to be in. He guides the quest of Karate Kid/Una/Buddy Blank/Firestorm, he manipulates the Challengers of the Multiverse (Bob the Moniter, Kyle Rayner, Jason Todd, Donna Troy), he dictates the Journey of Jimmy Olsen and the lives of Holly Robinson and Joker’s sidekick, Harley Quinn (while setting up a new Amazon army). He also orchestrated Amazon’s Attacks, and Salvation Run.
Darkseid manipulates Metron into creating the Matter Threshold device for Apokolips exclusively (as well as other weapons, according to v2) in exchange for the X-Element, even pointing out that Metron would one day betray them (as he eventually did, of course, by helping New Genesis as well).
Moreover, Darkseid orchestrated the Legends event, outlawing heroes on the planet earth and spreading distrust across the globe, destroying the confidence of Billy Batson, creating a new foe for Firestorm (The Parasite) and all in all nearly delivering a devastating blow to earth and to the universe (No scans).
Darkseid destroys Paradise Island, killing thousands of some of the best trained warriors in the universe, certainly on the planet
Darkseid’s forces (Female Furies + Parademons) conquers and enslaves a large number of Green Martians. This reveals that even the Parademons are immune to MOST mind attacks, save when the remaining Martians pooled their power, and that the true New Gods (the elite) were immune even to that…
Darkseid takes over the planet earth, causing Superman to kill himself and subjecting everything. He likewise turns New Genesis into a “stinking, cosmic sewer” and spreads his influence over the very fabric of the universe to such a degree that it must be destroyed and remade.
Martian Manhunter and crew vs Darkseid’s forces… “It was a battle we could not win, but winning was not the point”. This group included the Spectre, the Uncle Sam evolution (Patriot, I believe it was called…creating during the Ostrander Spectre series), and a Dr. Fate.
Now this version of Brimstone is ultimately defeated by exploiting a chink in Brimstone’s armor – the magnetic field that holds his body together modulates at certain frequencies, and a weapon is developed that can go through this. Deadshot destroys the techno-seed and done.
(The remainder of this post is Desaad's opinion of the seed from his match.)
Okay, so we’ve established that Brimstone is a pretty powerful construct, capable of taking on Firestorm (multiple incarnations) and the Detroit League AND a Legion of Superhero member pretty well (A version has also had a bad showing against Martian Manhunter, 1v1, but all characters have bad showings, right?)
We also know that, as a programmed construct, it is insanely loyal to Darkseid, believing Darkseid to be the end-all-be-all. Basically, unswayably loyal to Darkseid.
Finally, we know that Brimstone, in point of fact, does not rely on any resources from Darkseid. He has sent out multiple “techno-seeds”, and has done so for frivolous things like showing earth that he still thinks of it from time to time. Instead, they draw their power from whatever sources of tremendous heat they incubate in, be it a nuclear reactor, the sun, or an active volcano.
So the question becomes…what is the limit to Darkseid’s production of these things? And the answer seems to be…as many stars as there are in the sky.
Imagine Darkseid producing countless techno-seeds over the course of the year. It would take minimal loss of resources – just the creation of the techno seed, not the production of the power – and it will allow him to have an army of top tier soldiers fiercely loyal to him, marching to the beat of his drum. Over the course of the year, he might create thousands and thousands of these techno-seeds, sending them all across the universe to stars not surrounded by inhabited worlds (just for ease of use, I mean…why get into needless skirmishes when a war is a’brewin’?).
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