Is Darkseid the most evil character in Comic Books?

[Batman9]

I personally loved Final Crisis to death. If only JG Jones could have kept up with the art. Morrison writes a great, great Darkseid. I've read Rock of Ages, FC, and JL: Origin, so not much Darkseid, but enough to know that either Morrison is great at it or John's is terrible at it.

[Mr. Holmes]

I personally think it relies too heavily on meta-physical storytelling and too much continuous building on Darkseid's powers and affect on the physical world. I really just dislike building evil up as some unstoppable force when I really think it's just banal and base at the core; it's not a negative integer(-1) of morality, it's an absense or zero of morality.

While I disagree with Morrison's concept of absolute evil, this isn't necessarily true either. There is no consistent philosophy as to how evil works. It's abstract and varied.

[MadDog1981]

Why? I can see why you'd think it was confusing or just bad, but it's hardly something insulting or offensive like some other DC stories over the years.

I don't like heavily meta-textual stories, especially in comics for starters. I thought Morrison tried to get too cute with it like he did with a lot of his Batman stories around the same time frame. I was already against it going in because Countdown was such a terrible series. I don't like this idea that it developed with Darkseid as absolute evil at all. Some of the responses in this thread about how all evil stems from Darkseid are exactly why I don't like it. I don't want to read a universe where every character who does something bad is tied in to Darkseid because of it.

[Aquacatlungfish]

Darkseid isn't evil, he's just dedicated to his Mathematical work.

[Zeeguy91]

Thanos was modeled after Metron.

He was originally. Then Jim Starlin's editor told him to beef up the character and make him more like Darkseid. I read somewhere that the editor actually told Starlin "If you're going to steal one of the New Gods, at least rip-off Darkseid, the really good one."

[Billy Batson]

He was originally. Then Jim Starlin's editor told him to beef up the character and make him more like Darkseid. I read somewhere that the editor actually told Starlin "If you're going to steal one of the New Gods, at least rip-off Darkseid, the really good one."

Well that made me laugh.

[Outside_85]

Darkseid isn't evil, he's just dedicated to his Mathematical work.

Unfortunately he is not doing it for his own personal amusement.

[Hostile Kangaroo]

Corporate control keeping us from Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain --> the greatest evil in all of comics.

[godisawesome]

Darkseid isn't evil, he's just dedicated to his Mathematical work.

Unfortunately he is not doing it for his own personal amusement.

The greatest threat to free will in the history of the cosmos....MATH.

[Outside_85]

The greatest threat to free will in the history of the cosmos....MATH.

Well if you remember this guy:


You might remember that he had broken the entire world down into a number of equations, except for that tiny thing he had to reduce to a subconscious choice, which he had to add because humans would otherwise reject it.

That subconscious choice could be considered the Anti-life equation.