Yeah, the Raker showing is nothing. No one who reads that scene with any kind of judgment thinks that Raker was actually a threat to Darkseid. Hell, DS was smiling the whole time because he didn't take Raker and his shovel seriously.
As for DD and Orion, they're both superior to Mongul anyway.
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“Where the longleaf pines are whispering
to him who loved them so.
Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
-A Grave Epitaph in Santa Rosa County, Florida; I wish I could remember the man's name.
him beating on powergirl, val zod, the flash, green lantern (who was amped by the Parliament of earth and all of the multiverse's earths), batman, and Dr fate at the same time. Him beating on the JL, beating on the anti monitor, beating down batman in his hellbat suit, owning big barda, Mr miracle, and Mr terrific at the same time. Mongul losing to superman, mongul's losing to superman and batman, mongul being a loser in general, etc.
so what context am I ignoring and lying about? He was beating the jla of earth 2 with his bare hands for a while and tanking their attacks, he was beating on the earth 1 JL solo after having his eyes stabbed out (so he wasn't using the omega beams), he and the anti monitor both used energy blasts and we're pretty much even in h2h, batman outright admitted that he couldn't beat seid and he was also getting his armor peeled off and casually broken like darkseid was opening a can of tuna, he was casually owning barda, miracle, and terrific (who had t-spheres that were specifically made for killing gods). Mongul was getting beaten on by superman, and he is a loser.