Originally posted by Galan007
FAIL:
It happens.
He wasn't in the first picture though, so it's obvious he used stealth to get there, look weak and Darkseid to underestimate him, only too kick ass afterwards.
Originally posted by Galan007
Spoiler tag it. 😊
Spoiler:
Mr Miracle: A fallen Devil-God is dragging us down with him into a deep, dark hole in time, with no light, no hope and no escape. (Final Crisis #5)Darkseid: I will take you to a hell without exit or end. And there I will murder your souls. (Final Crisis #5)
Alfred: [...]It began with the murder of a God. [...] The whereabouts of Batman remain unknown. And yet .. I can see him now, in the grip of implacable forces, innumerable foes. Somewhere without hope. In a place where all seems lost. And I know this .. the enemy will look away for just a moment, underestimating him for that single fraction of a second too long. And no matter how dark the night .. the will be no hiding place for Evil. (Also, notice how Alfred is slowly closing the lights in the cave, until the place where Batman practically lived becomes complete darkness. Grant supposdley wants to confuse readers by making it seem as if this lines are taking place before Batman meets his final fate, but once you think about it, it becomes obvious that it's happening after Final Crisis #6) (Batman #683)
I'm thinking Batman confronts Darkseid/the New Gods in Final Crisis #6 and ends up saving everybody but by sacrificing himself and falling with them in hell. In the end, Batman will end up in that hell Darkseid wants to drag everybody in.
Originally posted by WhiteWitchKing
So how does this work out now for the DC's cosmos? Is the Monitor also the Presence or Source? And if Mandrakk is the evil Monitor, where does the Anti-Monitor fit in all this? I'm confused.By the way, I'm disappointed with Secret Files. There was barely an explanation of Darkside's death, just rehashed material. Mainly the story was about Libra, average but not what the solicit for this book made it out to be: an telling of the war in heaven and Darkseid's fall.
No the Monitor is not them, the Monitor was born on a lifeless moon of Oa to be the opposite of the Anti-Monitor, like a ying/yang in the material world. I do agree they stretched the truth about DS's fall and it got more interesting at the end of the book and retconned the Anti Life Entity, and more info on the Dark Monitor.
FC 5 confirmed everything the New Gods fans have been saying about their true stature. It proves what Metron said in Rock of Ages. That sometimes they win, sometimes Darkseid wins, and the universe is remade in accordance. And also those little comments about the boom tube altering size, twisted universes, stature dwarfing worlds, etc.
Spoiler:
But this time Darkseid won the war in heaven for good. Darkseid's fall into our multiverxe from the 4th world, created a Doomsday singularity that's dragging the entire multiverse into, to quote John Stewart "We're falling into some kind of hell where everything is Darkseid!" Darkseid's mere presence in our multiverse is collapsing space/time, hence the time dilation and distortions. Just by his fall, he is crushing the multiverse itself. And btw, Granny mentioned that Darkseid's will was strong enough to dominate the CPB. And given that the Guardians engaged "Krona Protocol" (which is obviously something they came up with after Parallax 😂 ) I'd say they believed her. She gored a Guardian as well, another feather in their cap. Anybody else get the feeling that Nix Uotan is symbolic of the creative impulse of the writers? Last thing: Secret Origins. Either Darkseid retrieved Libra after all this time, or Libra's been there since the PC days. Either way, Darkseid's plans go all the way back to the PC era. Earth is the 5th World.
