History Characters / SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesApokolips

* VillainessesWantHeroes: Lashina takes an interest in Superman shortly after meeting him. While he was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed by Darkseid]] she takes the opportunity to get close to him, with it being heavily implied that the two had sex. Once Superman returns to Apokolips after returning to normal she continues to call him pet names like "lover" while asking him for a kiss and leans in for one. While it's been reported that an unused idea for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' would have revealed that this affair [[ChildByRape produced a son between the two]], Rich Fogel is on the record in his Watchtower Database interview saying "I don't recall that ever being discussed in the room at the time. The staging of the scene in Legacy clearly suggests that they were sleeping together, but whether or not anything came from that, we never really pursued that." The idea seems to stem from a fanfic posted on the Toon Zone forums between 2001 to 2005, which then had elements repeated in an act of wikipedia vandalism in December of 2007. The falsified information remained on the page for the next 3 years until another editor noted Creator/DwayneMcDuffie had also stated the information to be incorrect in a post from his now defunct forums.

* BigBad: Of ''Superman: The Animated Series'' Seasons Two and Three. [[BigBadEnsemble He, Luthor, and Grodd]] are in the running for this fifth season in ''Justice League''.

* GreaterScopeVillain: He is also considered to be this for the entire DC Animated Universe along with Brainiac. By brainwashing Superman in the series finale, "Legacy," he is indirectly responsible for Cadmus being formed after Superman's rampage in ''Justice League Unlimited'' (and to an extent, causing [[spoiler:Superman's ally Emil Hamilton to pull a FaceHeelTurn and join Cadmus]]). He also shares this title along with the Justice Lords, whose existence also upgrades Cadmus' agenda, and Brainiac, who uses the Cadmus arc to further his own personal agenda.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: His driving goal is obtaining the Anti-Life Equation, which he believes will allow him to enslave every being in the universe. [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale to ''Justice League Unlimited'', Luthor gives him the equation, Darkseid calls it beautiful as it envelopes them both and causes them to disappear in a flash of light. After obtaining his life's ambition, WordOfGod reveals that it absorb them into the Source Wall, where Darkseid will be unable to ever interact with the universe again, meaning the tool he thought would give him ultimate power actually deprived him of everything.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: He is also considered to be this for the entire DC Animated Universe along with Brainiac,. By brainwashing Superman in the series finale, "Legacy," he is indirectly responsible for Cadmus being formed after Superman's rampage in ''Justice League Unlimited'' (and to an extent, causing [[spoiler:Superman's ally Emil Hamilton to pull a FaceHeelTurn and join Cadmus]]). He also shares this title along with the Justice Lords, whose existence also upgrades Cadmus' agenda, and Brainiac, who uses the Cadmus arc to further his own personal agenda.

* BigBad:
** Of ''Superman: The Animated Series'' Seasons Two and Three. [[BigBadEnsemble He, Luthor, and Grodd]] are in the running for this in ''Justice League''.
** He's this for the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' as a whole, being its single greatest threat besides Brainiac.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In particular during the first season of ''Superman: The Animated Series'' where his existence is revealed in the penultimate episode as Mannheim's mysterious benefactor. Darkseid only becomes the BigBad in seasons 2 of the show, and by brainwashing Superman in the series finale, "Legacy," he is indirectly responsible for Cadmus being formed after Superman's rampage in ''Justice League Unlimited'' (and to an extent, causing [[spoiler:Superman's ally Emil Hamilton to pull a FaceHeelTurn and join Cadmus]]). He also shares this title along with the Justice Lords, whose existence also upgrades Cadmus' agenda, and Brainiac, who uses the Cadmus arc to further his own personal agenda. Along with Brainiac, he is also considered to be the Greater Scope Villain for the entire DC Animated Universe.

* CurbStompBattle: Batman humiliates him without kalibak being able to land a single hit.

* YouWillBeSpared: When he tries to convince Superman to join him as his vassal, he offers in return a "modicum of restraint" in his conquest of Earth, implying that he'll save the violence only toward the immediate military threats while sparing the civilian cities like Metropolis from his wrath.

* AdaptationalWimp: [[DownplayedTrope "Wimp" is relative,]] but this version of Darkseid lacks the comic version's ResurrectiveImmortality.

* AssholeVictim:

* ExactWords: Tells Bruno Mannheim he would make him a king if he helped his invasion, and when leaving him to his death states that he was "king of fools."

** After Bruno Mannheim installs an explosive at an important laboratory with the help of a few Parademons on Darkseid's orders, Darkseid [[KickTheSonOfABitch leaves Mannheim]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to die in the explosion]], but right before doing so, he uses his Omega Beam to teleport the Parademons away. Mannheim's usefulness is over, but the Parademons can still serve as frontline troops in the upcoming invasion of Earth. No sense in being wasteful.

!!! '''Voiced in French by:''' Marc de Georgi (''Superman: The Animated Series''), Bruno Dubernat (''Justice League''), Marc Alfos (''Justice League Unlimited'')

!! The Female Furies (Lashina, Mad Harriet, and Stompa)

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15255322860A44444400&page=952#comment-23783 to quote this post]]: ''"the episode "Legacy", released at the end of Superman: The Animated Series' run, has Darkseid brainwash Superman into becoming his slave. One of these moments has Darkseid send the brainwashed-but-clearly reluctant Supes to "enjoy the fruits of his conquest" with an entourage of Female Furies...who we later see him half-dressed in bed with, while they later call him "boy-toy" and "lover" to mock him when he regains his mental agency..."'' It's implied Superman had sex with them while his mental agency was too impaired to give any sort of consent.

* VillainessesWantHeroes: Lashina takes an interest in Superman shortly after meeting him. While he was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed by Darkseid]] she takes the opportunity to get close to him, with it being heavily implied that the two had sex. Once Superman returns to Apokolips after returning to normal she continues to call him pet names like "lover" while asking him for a kiss and leans in for one. While it's been reported that an unused idea for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' would have revealed that this affair [[ChildByRape produced a son between the two]], Rich Fogel is on the record in his WatchtowerDatabase interview saying "I don't recall that ever being discussed in the room at the time. The staging of the scene in Legacy clearly suggests that they were sleeping together, but whether or not anything came from that, we never really pursued that." The idea seems to stem from a fanfic posted on the ToonZone forums between 2001 to 2005, which then had elements repeated in an act of wikipedia vandalism in December of 2007. The falsified information remained on the page for the next 3 years until another editor noted Dwayne McDuffie had also stated the information to be incorrect in a post from his now defunct forums.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Can you honestly say that [[AssholeVictim Bruno Mannheim]] didn't deserve the harsh treatment (and later abandonment and death) that Darkseid subjected him to?
** He sends Steppenwolf on a suicide mission against New Genesis and doesn't bat an eye as he dies, then later vaporizes Desaad for questioning him in a moment of carelessness. Given that the former hunts people for fun and the latter is the God of Torture, it's hard to pity either of them.
** Darkseid also outsmarts and backstabs Brainiac once he felt the robot outlived his usefulness. Brainiac being the android who destroys planets for their data with no regard for sentient life, nobody's complaining.
** He does this again to Lex Luthor in "Alive!" by terrifying him and his Legion of Doom after they attempted to resurrect Brainiac. None of them are angels by any means, so them getting fried wouldn't have caused much mourning.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: This is shown perfectly in the penultimate episode of ''JLU''. He was killed three seasons before and Apokolips is in the middle of a CivilWar for who will take his place. After getting resurrected, he returns to Apokolips in the middle of a battlefield, halting the war completely. Usually, on a planet full of [[TheStarscream starscreams]] and after being dead for a few years, you would think that someone would try to rebel. In this case, however, Darkseid doesn't even have to say anything. He just stands there and everyone immediately bows down to him. "Darkseid Is," indeed.

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