Doomsday

[Verdammt]

I was reading the top 25 Battles list and when I got to the Superman/Doomsday battle, it reminded me of a question that I've always had about Doomsady:

Has it ever been revealed just where Doomsday came from and how did he get in that cell/cage/box in the ground?

[DonC]

Yes, it has.

[Verdammt]

Straight and to the point.

[Mat001]

It was revealed in "Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey". Here's the bio from DC's website, taken from the back-up feature in "Countdown To Final Crisis". The origin is still accurate.

http://www.dccomics.com/media/_dcu/heroes_and_villains/origin_stories/doomsday/1.jpg

http://www.dccomics.com/media/_dcu/heroes_and_villains/origin_stories/doomsday/2.jpg

[David Atkins]

I'm glad to see that we're getting less and less 'shelf-chin' Doomsday.

[Verdammt]

It was revealed in "Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey". Here's the bio from DC's website, taken from the back-up feature in "Countdown To Final Crisis". The origin is still accurate.


Like most of Countdown, I must have passed on that issue. Thanks for the info.

[David Atkins]

Before the Hunter/Prey origin was instituted, wasn't Doomsday going to be an escaped murderer from some sort of cosmic asylum (a story that was abandoned due to some kind of controversy)?

[The Batman]

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/characters/who-images/doomsday1.jpg


There was also a Doomsday: Year One which dealt with the big guy's early years. And showed us his junk (or lack thereof).

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc28/idol-head/DoomsdayWars.jpg

[Captain Smith]

Looking at that last picture - I know why he eventually started wearing those Superman Underoos. Doesn't look like the 'boys' survived his various deaths.

[Mat001]

Before the Hunter/Prey origin was instituted, wasn't Doomsday going to be an escaped murderer from some sort of cosmic asylum (a story that was abandoned due to some kind of controversy)?

Not that I've heard. There had been no origin planned. It just developed later and that's a new one on me. Most thought he was connected to Warworld when it attacked earlier in 92.

[David Atkins]

Huh. Maybe it was just one of those rumors that floats around the internet, then. Or maybe I got the whole thing mixed up with something else entirely.

Captain Smith-- At least they didn't give him crotch spikes. I don't think I could have dealt with that.

[Mat001]

Huh. Maybe it was just one of those rumors that floats around the internet, then. Or maybe I got the whole thing mixed up with something else entirely.

Captain Smith-- At least they didn't give him crotch spikes. I don't think I could have dealt with that.

Actually, there was a joke of that in Superman: The Man Of Steel #75 when Mxy created "Bada-Bing-Bada-Boomsday". He thought that there should've been more bone spurs and so he added more, but then one showed up below the belt and he said that was too much.

[Xybernauts]

It was revealed in "Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey". Here's the bio from DC's website, taken from the back-up feature in "Countdown To Final Crisis". The origin is still accurate.

http://www.dccomics.com/media/_dcu/heroes_and_villains/origin_stories/doomsday/1.jpg

http://www.dccomics.com/media/_dcu/heroes_and_villains/origin_stories/doomsday/2.jpg
Thanks for the 411. Has anyone seen the Doomsday in Smallville? This season of Smallville isn't as bad as the last few seasons. It's development has been ok. Doomsday also has developed into an interesting character. Of course he hasn't adhered to his comic book origin. In Smallville he is the creation of Zod and his wife and he seems to be a shapeshifter.

[David Atkins]

Actually, there was a joke of that in Superman: The Man Of Steel #75 when Mxy created "Bada-Bing-Bada-Boomsday". He thought that there should've been more bone spurs and so he added more, but then one showed up below the belt and he said that was too much.

Gotta love Mxy.

[dancj]

They aren't spikes. They're bones.

Umm no they're horns.

Actually lets stick with 'spikes'

[bookguy]

I dunno.
I think I like the tv series Smallville's version of Doomsday's origin better than the
comic.

:wink:

[carabas]

I dunno.
I think I like the tv series Smallville's version of Doomsday's origin better than the
comic.I have no idea what the Smallville origin is, but it is difficult to imagine it not being better.

[Mat001]

The television version and I'm putting it in spoilers for those who haven't seen the last two episodes. In "Bloodline" it is revealed that Zod and Faora created Doomsday from both their genetic stock as well as many others, creating the ultimate weapon of destruction on Krypton. The same was hidden aboard Kal-El's ship, most likely by Brainiac, and when the ship landed on Earth, it managed to get away before the Kents took it to the farm. The genetic stock mutated into a human child and was raised in various foster homes and orphanages. Davis Bloome would suffer from black outs in which he would change and kill people. When Zod went into the Phantom Zone, so did Faora and both were rendered into incorporeal phantoms. Faora took control of Lois when she and Clark were sucked into the Phantom Zone. She then stabbed Davis to trigger his ability to regenerate from that which could kill him. In "Bride", Davis changes into Doomsday and comes to the Kent farm to stop Chole and Jimmy's wedding, but is too late. Instead, he knocks out Clark and Jimmy, while taking Chloe to serve as Brainiac's new vessel. Now he and Brainiac are going to finish what the latter started last season.