Darkseid
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Real Identity: Uxas
Affiliation(s): Apokolips
Appearances: Apocalypse
Powers/Skills: The Omega Effect, Enhanced Strength, Impenetrable Skin, Manipulation, and Strategy
Voiced By: Andre Braugher
Uxas was born to Yuga Khan and Heggra and younger brother to Drax. After Yuga Khan was imprisoned in the Source Wall for his attempt to breach it and attain omnipotence, Heggra took over as ruler of their planet Apokolips. However, Uxas engineered his mother's assassination. He also connected to the Omega Realm instead of Drax, rightful ruler of Apokolips, was empowered, killed Drax, and took the godname of Darkseid. He received the power of the Omega Effect, a devastating laser beam projected from his eyes that can instantly vaporize almost any organic material. As Darkseid, he assumed control and instigated a war with the rival planet of New Genesis. After years of stalemate, a diplomatic exchange was arranged. Both side's rulers would exchange their sons. Darkseid's second son, Orion was given. Highfather, leader of New Genesis, exchanged his son.
An outsider would view his rule as a dictatorship operating on a virtual slave state but Darkseid maintains several roles to his subjects; master, god and executioner. Darkseid went about unchecked searching for the solution to the Anti-Life Equation. With it, he could control and dominate all of the free will in the universe. Darkseid could then eliminate chaos and recreate the universe in his own image, a system of order. Centuries later, Earth became the object of his attention. Earth was rumored to be the legendary Fifth World where the planet's inhabitants collectively held fragments of the Anti-Life Equation in their subconscious minds. Darkseid plans to piece together the Equation through each human being.
After hearing of Kara Zor-El's arrival on Earth, Darkseid ordered his subject, Granny Goodness, to bring her to Apokolips to become his new honor guard captain. Vowing to show Zor-El untapped power she'd never have known, Darkseid subjected the Kryptonian to brainwashing. When Superman entered his palace, Darkseid ordered Zor-El to destroy him. However, Superman defeated her and Batman reprogrammed his Hellspore doomsday weapons. Impressed by Batman's ruthlessness, Darkseid agreed to foreswear Zor-El. He decided it was the perfect time to kill Superman once and for all and boomed to Smallville on Earth. Zor-El reconfigured Darkseid's Mother Box and boomed him to outer space. Darkseid instantly froze up and drifted helplessly.