Originally posted by quanchi112
I did read it. He was staked by a gl stake.
If you read FC as you say you did, you surely know that Rox Ogama didn't die because of a GL stake; by saying such a thing you are mystifying the whole story.
The concept of Mandrakk vanished because Superman wished an happy ending with the MM (a massively multiversal Deus ex Machina object): because of that happy ending, than the Monitors realized they were corrupting existence (DC) and that the "germs' world" could have been better without them.
In fact, as long as the Hyper-Gods Monitors exist and keep on making contact with creation (DC), the inner duality of good and evil which corrupted Primal Monitor's mind eons before is still there, and thus the concept of Mandrakk (evil) is still there.
Mandrakk, as a concept, is something nobody/nothing from DC can take down (see Spectre and Radiant dead, and I repeat myself, a very powerful Spectre), and the only way to destroy it was to wish a happy ending on a multiversal scale, because Mandrakk was the ending of all stories on a multiversal scale (DC).
So, with that wish from the MM, even Nix Uotan pops up, as the Judge of All Evil. Nix Uotan, a Monitor who lived with and between the germs and who, as son of Rox Ogama, is exactly the opposite of the father: he indeed chose to protect the stories of the Orrery (opposite of Ogama who, contrariwise, by drinking from the bitter cup of Mandrakk, accepted to devour them), and realized that there was no better way to protect them than leaving them alone, given the inner dualism and thus even negative essence of Monitors.
So, Nix Uotan shows up as opposite of the concept of Mandrakk, and with him there's a multiversity "gang" of entities from all creation, reflecting the fact that the whole multiverse can watch over itself and its power is much greater than the Monitros used to believe; it's at this point that the happy ending realizes itself: a happy ending of the story is given over the ending of all stories (Mandrakk) and the events of whole DC multiverse can go on without no more Monitors interfering with them.
At this point the concept of Mandrakk is defeated, and that was when some Supermen from various universes "eye-lasered" him and the GL staked him.
After that, Nix Uotan returned to Monitors's sphere, and here we see the whole race of Monitors realising it was right for them to disappear (and thus we have the Final Crisis of the Monitors race), in order to protect the germ's world (which is DC) and let it develop freely: so, finally, at this point, we see the Primal Monitor, the white page, the Overvoid which engulfs the whole Monitors' sphere, erasing them from existence bringing all back at the condition it has been eons ago, before the "ill contact" of PM's probe with creation.
Only Nix Uotan story is left, and we see him waking with uman (thus germ) form: he will be the only, chosen left contact of the Primal Monitor with life and stories (DC).
So, if you really believe that it was just a pair of GLs beating Mandrakk Rox Ogama, you are clearly, dramatically missing the main meaning of the whole FC book.
PS: finally, once again, remeber that Rox Ogama was just a mere, insignificant, minuscule avatar of the original Mandrakk, Dax Novu, the part of Primal Monitor itself, the probe which mapped creation eons before and, basically, the very origin of the concepts of good (TR) and evil (Mandrakk Dax Novu) seen from a Primal Monitor's prospective.
Originally posted by CatL18
Thank you for your posting.
I will read Final Crisis soon.
You're welcome.