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Probably. In-story, he took some evil energy with him. Which he tried to counterbalance with Good from Batman of all people, as well as Chaos from Etrigan to remake the world. We end up with a massive dream sequence where everything starts good but ends up going horribly wrong. Might have wanted a better source of Good.
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Bloodly posted:Maybe it's some inner fanboyism, but... That's totally Original Kirby Darkseid. He'll freak out some random grandpa and laugh his rear end off about it.   (both from "Forever People" #4, I think)
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Mar 20, 2015 04:21
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I gotta say, Darkseid is great when he's written as just a regular rear end in a top hat who just so happens to wield the powers of uncreation and can unravel someone at an atomic level out of boredom. But instead he torments a guy in a wheelchair by moving the item he wants in a grocery store to a higher shelf, and scares the poo poo out of children at Disneyland because the juxtaposition of a literal avatar of destruction standing in line for the teacups ride amuses him.
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Mar 20, 2015 04:54
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John Dyne posted:I gotta say, Darkseid is great when he's written as just a regular rear end in a top hat who just so happens to wield the powers of uncreation and can unravel someone at an atomic level out of boredom. Isn't that taking place in what is essentially an open air torture chamber disguised as a theme park owned and operated by Darkseid, and only the children can see it for what it is?
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Mar 20, 2015 05:25
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Unlucky7 posted:Isn't that taking place in what is essentially an open air torture chamber disguised as a theme park owned and operated by Darkseid, and only the children can see it for what it is? The Master "Scrambler" will distort this image into a "Funny Panel!"*  * for certain values of "funny"
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Mister Mind posted:Fine.
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Mar 20, 2015 06:30
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achillesforever6 posted:Its kind of weird hearing Darkside being snarky and doubly weird when you hear it with the Michael Ironside voice Could be Frank Welker's Dr. Claw voice (which he also used for Darkseid on the Superfriends). John Dyne posted:I gotta say, Darkseid is great when he's written as just a regular rear end in a top hat who just so happens to wield the powers of uncreation and can unravel someone at an atomic level out of boredom. It'd be amusing, I think, to have an issue or two where Darkseid just walks across America. Just walks. Not a single thing the superheroes can bust him for (and some argument to keep them from simply kicking him out of the country, possibly 'if he's here, we can watch him'). Light conversation with the citizenry. Purchasing coffee at a roadside stand. Spend the night at a motel. And all the while the collective law enforcement and vigilante community is going 'what is he up to what is he up to'
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Mar 20, 2015 08:18
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Darkseid is the kind of dude that the mere existence of makes it hard for me to believe the DC universe can exist in a recognizable shape compared to our own. There's a guy out there who's basically the Space Devil, is theoretically powerful enough to mop the floor with every hero on earth, and he's pretty publicly known. You'd think that'd impact society a little. I mean you can make the same argument for a character like Galactus, but his stories actually do have people flipping their poo poo and re-evaluating their worldview when confronted with his existence.
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Lurdiak posted:Darkseid is the kind of dude that the mere existence of makes it hard for me to believe the DC universe can exist in a recognizable shape compared to our own. There's a guy out there who's basically the Space Devil, is theoretically powerful enough to mop the floor with every hero on earth, and he's pretty publicly known. You'd think that'd impact society a little. There are thousands of atomic bombs (that we know of) currently trained on major cities around the world. Their launch and safeguards are out-dated at best. Laboratories around the world are creating the next plague with the sole purpose of using it against other nations. People know this. And yet, you don't see people losing their poo poo about it. We humans have an incredible capability to not care about stuff that doesn't immediately affect us and/or isn't easily visible.
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Lurdiak posted:Darkseid is the kind of dude that the mere existence of makes it hard for me to believe the DC universe can exist in a recognizable shape compared to our own. There's a guy out there who's basically the Space Devil, is theoretically powerful enough to mop the floor with every hero on earth, and he's pretty publicly known. You'd think that'd impact society a little. Darkseid isn't thought of as the ever-present Space Devil because 1) his attacks on Earth are few and far between in a society that's pretty much in danger of extinction every week, and 2) he's got an entire planet full of 'willing' servants whom I honestly think are willing because they're the most selfless characters in the DC Universe. Darkseid would be blowing up planets by the dozens *daily* if he didn't have billions of slaves willing to suffer his evil whimsy. He's spoiled. I also think it's a vastly under-explored phenomena that's only been touched upon by that "Luthor" GN a while back...in a world with metahumans, why even *bother* being human? It makes you wonder if there's honestly just a cabal of telepaths in both DC and Marvel's respective universes that pull a Maxwell Lord on the entire population pretty much every day to keep them from just swan diving off the nearest skyscraper rather than wait for the world-ending catastrophe of that particular week. And yeah, also the human capacity for pulling a Lego Movie and having "everything is awesome" playing in their heads. =/
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Lurdiak posted:Darkseid is the kind of dude that the mere existence of makes it hard for me to believe the DC universe can exist in a recognizable shape compared to our own. There's a guy out there who's basically the Space Devil, is theoretically powerful enough to mop the floor with every hero on earth, and he's pretty publicly known. You'd think that'd impact society a little. It also helps that the New Gods exist and are trying to hold him in check.
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Mar 20, 2015 10:17
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Lurdiak posted:Darkseid is the kind of dude that the mere existence of makes it hard for me to believe the DC universe can exist in a recognizable shape compared to our own. There's a guy out there who's basically the Space Devil, is theoretically powerful enough to mop the floor with every hero on earth, and he's pretty publicly known. You'd think that'd impact society a little. However, they also have Superman, who can sometimes be Space Jesus.
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Speaking of Apokolips and all things related, evidently when Parademons talk, they sound like this: Source: Azrael #34, supposedly. I wonder if that's Apokoliptian for "I'm gonna become someone's new avatar."
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Mar 20, 2015 10:39
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This one time Anarky and Batzrael met up. If they'd happened to both be on Apokolips, it would have been the most 90s thing ever.
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FredMSloniker posted:It'd be amusing, I think, to have an issue or two where Darkseid just walks across America. Just walks. Not a single thing the superheroes can bust him for (and some argument to keep them from simply kicking him out of the country, possibly 'if he's here, we can watch him'). Light conversation with the citizenry. Purchasing coffee at a roadside stand. Spend the night at a motel. And all the while the collective law enforcement and vigilante community is going 'what is he up to what is he up to' I can imagine something like that one scene in the gas station with the old attendant from No Country For Old Men, except Darkseid is just being uncomfortably pleasant instead of terrifyingly unsettling.
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Mar 20, 2015 12:03
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Jerusalem posted:I can imagine something like that one scene in the gas station with the old attendant from No Country For Old Men, except Darkseid is just being uncomfortably pleasant instead of terrifyingly unsettling. For Darkseid uncomfortably pleasant is terrifyingly unsettling. That said I would totally read a 'Darkseid American Road Trip' mini series or single issue.
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Mar 20, 2015 14:10
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bobkatt013 posted:That was the first piece of furniture that we ever saw him sit on Nice helmet on your elite guard, Darkseid. Was your usual armor designer in another castle?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Darkseid isn't thought of as the ever-present Space Devil because 1) his attacks on Earth are few and far between in a society that's pretty much in danger of extinction every week I think this is a major point; Darkseid doing large-scale attacks on Earth didn't happen until long after Kirby stopped working on the Fourth World stuff. At most there were the Justifiers and that carnival. I think when Darkseid was brought back for the "Super Powers" line was the first time there was an actual attack.
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Someone post the rest of Loki's subtitled adventures.
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Lurdiak posted:Darkseid is the kind of dude that the mere existence of makes it hard for me to believe the DC universe can exist in a recognizable shape compared to our own. There's a guy out there who's basically the Space Devil, is theoretically powerful enough to mop the floor with every hero on earth, and he's pretty publicly known. You'd think that'd impact society a little. I know there are plenty of books about how regular people deal with living in superhero universes like Marvels and Frontline, but has anyone ever done a book where the entire populace is living in a constant nightmare state? If the poo poo that happens in the Marvel/DC universe happened here people would lose their minds 24/7 and live in a constant state of terror.
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zoux posted:I know there are plenty of books about how regular people deal with living in superhero universes like Marvels and Frontline, but has anyone ever done a book where the entire populace is living in a constant nightmare state? If the poo poo that happens in the Marvel/DC universe happened here people would lose their minds 24/7 and live in a constant state of terror. Civil War was probably the closest, or the whole Mutant Registration Act/Sentinals 'for your own protection'/Concentration Camps progression, for America at least. If superhumans showed up in America, they'd be nationalized (de facto or de jure) or they'd be Gitmo'd. America has a long history of both.
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Mar 20, 2015 16:48
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TheCenturion posted:Civil War was probably the closest, or the whole Mutant Registration Act/Sentinals 'for your own protection'/Concentration Camps progression, for America at least. Believe that was the premise of the tabletop RPG Brave New World.
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zoux posted:I know there are plenty of books about how regular people deal with living in superhero universes like Marvels and Frontline, but has anyone ever done a book where the entire populace is living in a constant nightmare state? If the poo poo that happens in the Marvel/DC universe happened here people would lose their minds 24/7 and live in a constant state of terror. We ARE living in a constant nightmare state of purposely induced fear, thanks to 9/11 and the power it afforded the government and MIC. If the poo poo that happened in the Marvel or DC universes happened in real life, we'd be just completely blase about it. "Oh, the Statue of Liberty was melted into slag...again? Yawn."
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:Believe that was the premise of the tabletop RPG Brave New World. Ray Winninger's Underground is another classic of the genre. Edit: And  the whole series is available on DTRPG.
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Mar 20, 2015 19:51
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The Midniter posted:We ARE living in a constant nightmare state of purposely induced fear, thanks to 9/11 and the power it afforded the government and MIC. If the poo poo that happened in the Marvel or DC universes happened in real life, we'd be just completely blase about it. "Oh, the Statue of Liberty was melted into slag...again? Yawn." Bro if Dormammu was stalking the earth eating souls and Galactus was an annual problem death by bleeding ulcer would be the number one cause of mortality.
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Ghostlight posted:Pop culture references are bullshit Oh goddamnit how in the gently caress did I miss that?
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TheCenturion posted:Civil War was probably the closest, or the whole Mutant Registration Act/Sentinals 'for your own protection'/Concentration Camps progression, for America at least. Honestly the thing that makes me the most mad about sentinels is because robots are cool but noooo now Mutants are gonna hate every Robot just because a few of them are single minded killing machines, made so because a few mutants are single minded killing machines. It's a vicious cycle of mutant on robot racism. zoux posted:Bro if Dormammu was stalking the earth eating souls and Galactus was an annual problem death by bleeding ulcer would be the number one cause of mortality. That's not stress, that's the alien parasites.
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Kwyndig posted:For Darkseid uncomfortably pleasant is terrifyingly unsettling. That said I would totally read a 'Darkseid American Road Trip' mini series or single issue. I feel like someone should edit that Superman run where he did just that, but replace all instances of Superman with Darkseid.
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zoux posted:Bro if Dormammu was stalking the earth eating souls and Galactus was an annual problem death by bleeding ulcer would be the number one cause of mortality.  Ulcers aren't caused by stress, but by a specific set of bacterial infections. The guy who discovered this won the Nobel prize for it several decades ago.
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:I feel like someone should edit that Superman run where he did just that, but replace all instances of Superman with Darkseid. Instead of 'good common American folk' I'd imagine Darkseid seeking out people to speak with like David Duke, Lyndon LaRouche, and Cliven Bundy. "You've been a nuisance to men of power for decades, Mr. LaRouche. You're living proof to the testament of anti-life, as you basically are against everything everyone logical is *for*, and thus you have lived well into your nineties. Bravo, sir." BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Discendo Vox posted:
And he proved it by swallowing a culture of the bacteria and getting an ulcer from it.
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I've posted this before, but Darkseid and Thanos carpooling: http://plasticfarm.com/?p=2059
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Cool, the Pre-Crisis version of the Injustice: Gods Among Us Hype Pig.
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Say Nothing posted:Random unsourced without context. Does anyone here actually have the Christian tracts that were done with the Archie characters? Those seem like they'd be fertile material.
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FredMSloniker posted:Could be Frank Welker's Dr. Claw voice (which he also used for Darkseid on the Superfriends). Doubly so because when Superman did it, he spent the entire time being an rear end in a top hat to everyone he encountered.
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Gladiator gives himself a hernia lifting up a cart. Truly he is the greatest warrior of the Sh'iar.  ]Source: Gladiator/Supreme #1, art by Ed Benes from my review: http://thepouchfiles.blogspot.com/2015/03/review-gladiatorsupreme-1.html
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Woulda never guessed Benes. No butts in frame.
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Gaz-L posted:Does anyone here actually have the Christian tracts that were done with the Archie characters? Those seem like they'd be fertile material. That panel looked more like a gang-bang than an exorcism. Yes, there are a few of those tracts on google, and they are all weird.   Featuring Rapey Jesus!   In conclusion...  Shut your mouth.
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Gaz-L posted:Woulda never guessed Benes. No butts in frame. Yeah, he really half-assed it there.
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