Darkseid Has Returned In His True And Most Powerful Form

Warning: contains spoilers for Infinite Frontier #0!

Of all the major events from DC’s Infinite Frontier #0, by far the most significant was the rebirth of Darkseid – DC’s villain supreme, and now a threat not just to Earth, or even DC’s mainstream reality, but the entirety of the Omniverse. While the issue begins with Darkseid imprisoned on Earth Omega, the conclusion sees him slay godly heroes the Quintessence and declare his new purpose in DC’s remade reality: to be the end of everything.

Dark Nights: Death Metal saw Wonder Woman ascend to a higher plane, bargaining for the powerful, interdimensional Hands to rebuild reality. Inspired by her heroism, they agreed, creating a new Omniverse of countless interconnected realities and infinite potential. But with that potential came a dark new threat – one Wonder Woman spends Infinite Frontier #0 trying to track down.

Sadly, Diana’s mission is a failure. Having scoured the new Infinite Frontier for the promised threat and come up empty, she rejects her new place among the godlike Quintessence in order to rejoin her friends and allies. But no sooner is Wonder Woman gone than the Quintessence admit they already tracked down the threat she fears – a reborn Darkseid, who they believe they can keep imprisoned for the good of all living things. Sadly, they’re wrong, and Darkseid uses his terrifying new powers to slaughter his keepers and begin his plans to bring a final reckoning to this new Omniverse.

The New God Darkseid has always been a wildly powerful character, but never as dangerous as his newest form. This version of Darkseid is a “unified” being – someone whose many alternate forms from different realities have merged. In Darkseid’s case, not only does this make him more directly powerful than ever before – something he confirms when he says, “my power exceeds what it was before the First Crisis” – but it gives him in-depth knowledge of his many losses and victories in all his alternate forms.

This is a Darkseid who remembers exactly how he was defeated (if only barely) in the events of Final Crisis, but also a Darkseid who recall how releasing the Anti-Life Equation in DCeased backfired, and how he was tricked and killed in Mister Miracle. In short, Infinite Frontier #0 takes an all-powerful god of evil, amps his power up beyond anything fans have seen before, then equips him with the knowledge of every way he’s ever won and lost in every previous reality. It’s hard to say what’s more dangerous about this new Darkseid: the things he can now do, or the things he now knows.

Previously a mastermind capable of dispatching everyone from Superman to the Greek God Zeus with ease, Darkseid is now a being who exists outside of any one reality, becoming the first Omniversal threat of the Infinite Frontier era. The only thing going for Earth’s heroes is that Darkseid’s ambitions are greater than ever – meaning he likely won’t act immediately – and that the heroes of the Totality are aware of Earth Omega, and so may be able to figure out DC’s arch-villain is back and worse than ever when they choose to investigate. The issue ends with a promise that the narrative will continue in July’s Infinite Frontier #1, and fans can expect Darkseid to return with enough power to make whole realities tremble.

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Robert Wood
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Robert Wood is a comics editor for Screen Rant and the author of ‘The False Elephant (and 99 Other Unreasonably Short Stories).’ He received his Master’s in English Literature from Lancaster University, and now happily spends his days applying it to Daredevil and the Hulk.

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