Originally posted by starking
My point was clear. Time effecting events do not effect ones power. Saying one power is changed by such an event is just speculation, and speculation<logic. Of course Darkseid's older self would be smarter. What are you expecting him to be dumber? It was made clear that current Darkseid's power was greater then before the Gds. My therory is the best way of determining, whats what, and whats not for Darkseid's Gds showings.
Here think about it this way. Let's say that Marty Mcfly goes 10 years into the future where his future self has just beaten a super genius in chess. Then Marty kicks his future version's ass in a game of tic tack toe. Does that mean that the Marty from the past can beat the super genius in chess just because he beat his future version in a game that requires no where near as much overall intelligence? No. See, TKing that planet and controlling millions of Daxamite's are MENTAL feats. "Future" DS was current DS's superior mentally even if his younger version was superior physically. That means that those feats are INVALID.
If the character hasn't done it personally, then it doesn't matter what an "alternate future" version is capable of(that's why What If's and the like aren't viable evidence for mainstream characters).