Depends what you mean by "was it". Obviously Darkseid wasn't emitting an infinite gravitational pull from his person - but his presence in the mainstream reality is what was causing the multiverse to get flushed down the cosmic toilet.
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Except that Abraxas was aware of what he was doing and was intentionally doing such, and Darkseid....was falling after having his heart ripped out by his son.
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Thank you. I also concede, that DS's "refusal to die" was partly the ALE. But the grip on the multiverse was his own power. It was more like the problem was getting him weakened enough to make him let go of the multiverse. He was already dying, the ALE was helping him stave off that death. His sheer power not including the ALE however, necessitated using several plot devices to make him finally crash into the black hole and finish dying. The ALE was part of that death grip, but Darkseid must be considered abstract in that form even without the ALE.
I'm not bothering with Kandy, since I consider him beneath my notice.
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Part of him died to the Black Racer. But the fact that he survived the singularity and just fell through, warping the space within into his own personal hell dimension is crazy.
* Recently they killed his body, trapped his soul and made his consciousness explode. Bets are open on how long it takes for him to come back.
Except we know Darkseid will be back again. As the "Martian Manhunter: One Million" one-shot displays, Darky is still very much alive well into the future. It's only when he battles MM and surrenders to the being of the Source that he finally meets his end.
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The "One Million" series takes place in the very distant future. So, theoretically speaking, everything that was going to happen regarding the characters involved.... Should have already happened.