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Kwisatz Haderach
Originally posted by UKR
This thing about New Gods being universal-level beings (let alone on the average) or Darkseid dragging down the universe sounds like hyperbolic nonsense. Fanboyism, in fact. If any of it were true then everything that every happened in the entire history of the New Gods wouldn't have. I'm pretty sure I've seen Orion come up even with Superman and Darkseid have trouble with the Man of Steel even in the 80s - 90s when he hadn't yet become Jobberseid. DS failed to kill Doomsday and if that's the case then he's no universe-buster. Maybe not even a planet-buster. I don't remember any New God destroying galaxies, let alone universes. In fact I remember that S'ivaa (sp), a Promethean Giant, had trouble with Superman and Orion put together. Where you got the idea that a 5 year old New God can beat up Superman or that any, let alone all, New Gods are universal-level (or higher), I have no idea. I thought that this would be a good fight because even if Darkseid isn't really skyfather-level, his power however is dwarfed by Yuga's, so I figured that Yuga might be a good fight for Galactus.
Let's not get carried away. The New Gods live in the fourth world within their own universe all the other worlds in the multiverse are like peons to them when they are in their true forms.
When a character uses a boom tube to arrive in their universe the technology of the device amplifies there size and power that's the only reason Supes could do anything to S'Ivaa as he had been amplified both in size and in power by the boom tube.
The New Gods are very powerful but also seemingly vulnerable. The reason why DS influence is mutliversal in FC is because New Genesis and the fourth world are no longer there to shield the rest of the universe from Darkseid.
He has come down from the Fourth World in the fullness of his power and his presence is warping the fabric of reality in the DC multiverse. The Fourth World housed the New Gods, without it the multiverse feels the effects.
Their depictions have not always been the same. Just like Galactus appears weak in some stories and stronger in others.
These are comics, not science, chill out.