That's right out of the * *_Alexander the Great of Macedon_* 's playbook. When asked on his deathbed, who shall inherit his empire? His response was _'to the strongest.'_

A good general spends his troops efficiently. No point in culling your own forces when you can spend them steamrolling your enemies.

Which makes me love him as a villain even more. Leaders of their armies perform best when they actively engage and proceed wisely with them rather than blaming them for everything or using them as punching bags

He may be evil, but he's reasonable

​@@suspectheroin7267it didn't end up well though

I actually like the distorted version, it fits better Imo, but both are good.

And then the man voices Sam Fisher and you're not sure if that man is ready to snap at any moment.

@@Baracuda520 I think the distortion is unnecessary. Ironside has such a deep and fearsome voice that anything else just ruins it.

Michael Ironside ordering a coffee is frightening enough to cause everyone in a mile radius to shit themselves

I agree, especially because Darkseid is not physically massive (big, sure, but only slightly bigger than Superman so not giant) so he shouldn't sound Thanos-sized. The main thing you need to hear in Darkseid's voice is MALEVOLENCE. You need to believe that this is a being who has never been afraid in his life, who would relish the sport of fighting Superman while not for one second fearing the outcome of the fight, and afterwards will destroy planets the same way a sadistic human would pull the wings off a butterfly for the pleasure of watching it squirm. Ironside perfectly communicated that arrogance and cruelty through every word. I don't know if he ever voiced Satan (well, at least the versions of Satan that are badass and powerful rather than a sneaky loser,) but he would be absolutely perfect for it.

Darrall Jr Williams But still get his ass destroyed by superman every time.

Darrall Jr Williams Thanos doesn’t need the Infinity Gauntlet to one shot Superman, which would happen.

No one one shots Superman below abstract

Dant e Abstract characters are a hyperbole. Superman has been beaten to a pulp by characters far below Thanos who is more powerful than Darkseid. Thanos has one shotted characters far above Superman’s pay grade.

I suppose it was silly of me to respond to a comment comparing two characters from totally different companies which is impossible, illogical and idiotic in most regards. My comment was more in response to a comment like yours which replaces Thanos with his DC counterpart Darkseid who is, based on their most common interpretation, at basic power level without any tech or power add ons his equal in an ish kind of way. in this regard my comment would make more sense. I make my comparisons as i stated just previously in this comment based on the most common given power set of all the characters rather than any one particular depiction. Of course we have certain random examples where all 3 characters have been shown ranging from fairly weak and easily defeated by weaker than abstract beings right up to depictions of all 3 as not far from supreme beings. Superman doesnt get one shotted by anyone bar abstract or truly cosmic beings inside his universe, not in a fair fight, the same goes for Thanos and Darkseid. They may get beaten in a fight, but all 3 are far too durable and powerful to be taken completely out with one punch.

But then Superman got a hell of lot more powerful by Justice League / JLU and could easily overpower him.

Pity that this Superman was so pitiful that it was no achievement.

@@JamesJohnson-nm5pu he overpowered a simple avatar but regardless

@@JamesJohnson-nm5pu Tell that yo the first season of Justice League. I HATED seeing Hades backhand him. Most insulting thing ever.

@James Jonathan I hope not. Supes seemed to even hold back against Amazo and Chaos Grundy. O.e

Tyrant-Den Your comment is gold!

Superman: "MURDERER!! Darkseid: "You've NO idea, Kal-El."

"Murderer!" "How dare you. *How dare you*. Don't you ever, ever call me a murderer. I'm so much worse than that."

I never thought until this moment that Malcolm was actually Darkseid!

Yeah he's enslaved tortured and slaughtered billions across the universe throughout eternity since he's a god.

The guy who wrote it deserves 20 awards

Same writers as Batman: The Animated Series.

Draegon Manaka no it isn’t.

@@jyetaylor6898 yes it is. The writer is Paul Dini and Bruce Timm - The creators of Batman TAS

Michael Ironside deserves many oscars for his legendary performance.

good catch

Holy fuck I love that line even more now.

Haha! The irony! That's what I like about Darkseid! Good remark!

Damn I really need to watch the Superman show

@@xbalanquebronze3171 The two had tun ins during STAS and Justice League.

Luthor, “You’re not brainiac!”

"This is the first time in your life you have been correct, Luthor. Fitting then it is regarding my status."-Darkseid, probably

9:43 - 9:51 LOVE LUTHOR’s Expression

Algahiem i know injustice 2 takes no skill with darkseid just use omega beams you usely win

mr death nah... You can just dodge

"It's like I know every combo in the game but he keeps spamming the A button."

CPTZK11 His Omega beams can redirect their trajectory. I believe it's in Justice League:War that Batman zips around dodging them while they persistently track him.

Just duck and you dodge the beams, I played as Darkseid just to level him to 20 like I've done with Reverse Flash and Joker

“I hope you appreciate, Kal-El, that everything that happens from this point is on your head. The skies will rain fire, the oceans will boil, the streets will run red with the blood of billions, and only then, after your last pitiful hope is extinguished will I end your life. Let’s go.” Arguably the greatest and most terrifying threat ever made.

@@CODmontages110 yes indeed

@@sogaojirika1351 lol

Super or otherwise, you are still merely a man and I am a god

most menacing line ever knowing Darkseid

None

Darksied makes the appearance of a brute but in truth he is a cold calculating master of manipulation and skims. He had a perfect voice.

So many of the DCAU castings were perfect. From Conroy to Hamill to Sorkin, Ironside, LaMarr, and Brown, they were all just spectacular. RIP to Kevin Conroy and Arlene Sorkin.

​@@svscaredthe DCAU may not score perfect 10s in every category, but in voice casting absolutely

​@@Harrison0411Ray Porter comes pretty darn close.

Reallyrandomcircle agree

Reallyrandomcircle I will break you for Granny goodness

Hoozah bitches! How will you survive my Omega beam?

There are no errors in Darkseid's judgement.

Whatever I can't control, I must destroy.

Angry Garbanzo Actually, I think he meant 'blood relation". The lion looking dude is actually High Father's son.

I thought the original Mr. Miracle was High Father's son,

nodinitiative - Kalibak is his biological son by his first wife. The comment was a snarky quip about how incompetent Kalibak is.

Dr.'sorders I don't think they meant with Omega Beams

He's a villain what do you expect their evil

I wouldn't have minded hearing MCD as Darkseid either, to be honest. Not to take anything away from Ironside, he was perfect.

david sobolov is close I thought he was Michael Ironside.

You've always got M.C.D in the 2003 CGI animated Spiderman as Kingpin..

I think James Earl Jones would also be a good choice to play Darkseid

@@Lordpower963if he wasn’t Vader first I agree

Such delicious karma.

He shows the parademons apathy you would show, say, nails or paperclips. Useful tools. To the king of fools he held disdain.

​@@shotgun6Xlol why did he do him dirty tho

​​@@mcbdllc28489:36

@@mcbdllc2848 because Darkseid is a heartless bastard.

Maybe in the tv shows but not in the comics

It's the voice that changes it in my opinion.

this is the best done voice for darkseid

Gerald butler. also known as king leonidas

food4j nah that's michael ironside

Tristan Taylor me too I can take a moment and appreciate what a powerful murderer Darkseid is

He is quite glorious.

He is The Badass

@@cameronwright9045 not murderer darkseid treats us the same way we treat flies,killing them for no reason and with no mercy whatsoever,we are to him what flies are to us so...

Truly bro

Queek headtaker AMEN AMEN AMENNNNN😄😄😄🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 Sorry, I just LOVE Jack Kirby's comic creations. They were my first intro to the world of comics in my old country.

@@DoReMi123acb darkseid was the inspiration behind Thanos, Vader, sidious and every other villian that came after him!

Dan Turpin's funeral and Jack Kirby's dedication at the end of it still brings tears to my eyes!

G-d also keep and protect Jim Starlin and all his derivative ideas.

Mega Shadowdemon LMAO!!!

Me: *dying of laughter*

Darkseid then proceeds to roast his ass!

lex: that's less impressive knowing you literally can obliterate anyone who isn't superman with just your eyes

Nice SpongeBob reference 😂

Darkseid IS.

5:04 😆

I am entropy. I am death. I'm Darkseid

John Huggins me too, that shit gave me chills lol and his return to apocalyptic when he just broke up the war in an instant. I love Darkseid as a villain. He's dope as fuck

Gcoastone yea Darkseid is the truth...I like him more than Superman... but I'm a Batman anyway so I might be biased lol

John Huggins yea Batman is my favorite of all time bro, and The Flash

I'm 51 years old now and I've been following the DC animation since Batman animated series and Superman Batman Beyond Justice League.. When Darkseid emerged from that chamber.. resurrected by Luthor... absolutely Blown Away! I couldn't believe the level of writing I was experiencing.

7:33 M8 you made one small ERROR.

😂😂😂

How to immediately ruin your plans for world domination 1. Fuck up trying to resurrect brainiac for darkseid instead 2. Tell darkseid you are his new lord and master immediately after he spawns.

​@masterkent1 Apparently the witch that Luthor was using to resurrect Braniac actually fucked them over. She purposefully brought back Darkseid instead of Braniac in order to fuck everything up for Luthor.

*"I am many things Kal-El, but here, I am God".

*Kal

Kalibak is a tragic figure. Always trying to win his father's love but he will never get it. All the while Darkseid says that he respects his eldest son and greatest enemy, Orion.

That has got to be the worst Father’s Day Kalibak had ever had with his father.

Michael Dorn, aka Worf from Star Trek, played Kalibak, the whole animated series had stellar voice acting, superbly done

@@saitamasensei8035 wait worf voiced kalibak? awesome.

@@richardauthement3105 And René Auberjonois aka Odo, reprised the role of Desaad.

His believability was strong. It really felt like darkseid was speaking not a voice actor

Nobody else came close to Ironside as the voice of Darkseid.

@@megamanxhunter You got that right.

Just awesome Michael Ironside voicing Darkseid is what Mark Hamill is to the Joker

A shame he wasn't asked to voice Darkseid in the movie

"And kill more I shall. Carry that agony with you to oblivion, Superman."

Dan Turpin was Jack “The King” Kirby who created Darkseid.

Dude when I saw that on TV as a kid I literally couldn't comprehend that he actually killed someone in this show

That’s my favorite line from Darkseid in the entire DCAU. God, this franchise has talented writers. And the voice artists are so good at bringing life to the characters they play.

@@jaja2084 Dan Turpin, the man Darkseid killed, was based on Jack Kirby, the creator of Darkseid, as well as countless other comic legends. That was done as a tribute to him, as he had died just before that. In the scene following his death, his funeral had mourners from DC and Marvel (though this was later edited) There would be no Marvel or DC, as we know it, without him. RIP Mr. Kirby.

What about "Beg louder!!! When I'm threw with you

@@grundianI cried in that scene. Jack Kirby is THE KING. RIP always

He's in Lego DC supervillains though.

Seriously. He's to Darkseid what Kevin Conroy is to Batman

Troy baker is a much better voice actor

Anubis Ironside _is_ Darkseid. No argument you can provide will change that fact.

david sobolov sounds like him.

AngryIrishBenjamin only because people keep accepting his vague "bargains". If so much as one person asks him to be specific he will either have to lie or his plan would be foiled.

Prinygod probly kill them on the spot

megazion34 lol hes one of the smartest beings in dc hes omniscience i think

AngryIrishBenjamin he's called the god of evil for a reason. Lol

Imagine if Braniac had simply absorbed Apokoliptan technology. Could have captured Superman all by himself.

I mean, this Darkseid... this guy was a real _jerk._

TheAbbot92 Lol what a ass. xD

KROSS777RLSH hahahaha

No fucks are given

TheAbbot92 LOL

Darkseid being a diva. " I don't know her".

He did an amazing job, but I can only hear Sam Fisher lol

david sobolov is very close to him.

kingMadnus I felt the same way. it's like, "Turpin's so cool! Tell 'Em, Dan! He's- oh... oh, man.."

Darkseid's got one answer for anyone who shoots off their mouth at him; he shoots back with omega beams.

They are Omega Beams and that is one of the things they have always been able to do.

Pretty sure he didnt know that as a kid probably why he said it

*****​ thank you for being able to read

Granny taught her "students" that all that matters is strength, so their only loyalty is to the strongest.

Furies, teach Granny the price of failure.

TheWicknator70 thanos did erase billions of stars from existence with a single wave of his hand killing trillions apon trillions of innocent people all within the span of a few seconds

yeah but that was with the infinity gauntlet, which is a useless weapon outside it own universe qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e0f63f701444a96320c343df64cc6138

to be honest darkseid wins he stronger in every way and is on higher tier, thanos only wins if battle is his universe with the gauntlet and wielding the Heart of the Universe

Well Jim Starling never meant for Thanos to be a straight up villain. He wanted him to be morally grey and have outlandish goals. Besides Darkseid in terms of personality and goals is based off hitler so yeah of course he is the ultimate evil.

Accurate lol. Thanos is a purple alien. Darkseid is a GOD

But his body did ash.... 😳

4ulight then why their army are still using primitive weapons like axe and sword then?

Considering half the inhabitants of Apokolips, I guess they just prefer using the axe and the sword.

Their axes and swords are one of the strongest materials in the known universe, also they have technology imbeded into it allowing for laser blast and boom tube transport. Some have magic imbued into it. They are a race of fighters, hand weapons will always be their first choice.

Yeah

The Omega Effect plus his fusion with Braniac certainly helps.

"Super or otherwise, your merely a man; And I am a god" -Darkseid.

Superman is Krypton's First Natural birth in Centuries and he is the direct descendants of the Kryptonian Sun God Rao. In Man of Steel Kal-EL was on Krypton's Gravity and he was still able to Fly and Destroyed the World Engine.

​@@TheSuperboy_Primeis that even canon anymore

Mike Clever.

He really hated doing that, but there is an Order to things and that man defied that Order. You can't let things like that slide.

@@Sorain1 what do you mean?

@@kingbyrd.1512 He spoke out of turn.

Eh, do you consider it bloodshed when you swat a fly?

IronCatfish oof that's what people said about hitler

Joseph That's what they said about George Washington too.

ridersonthestorm666 except George Washington wasn't a mass mudereing liberal fascist

Joseph I was talking about the inspiring part, and aren't you tired of bipartisanship?

Fascism is a conservative ideology, duder. Totalitarianism knows no ideological boundaries, but fascism is explicitly right wing.

Too long for my title card.

+EmptyMan000 thaaat does explain everything.

Sounds like a Super Friends excerpt.

Niall Reid *deviously delivers

The Despot, Despicable Darkseid is a Dastardly Duplicitous Demonic Deity who Deviously brings Death, Destruction and Devastation (I really had to)

Sasuke Uchiha I agree. It just ain't the same without Ironside. It was the case with Sam Fisher, and it's the same for darkseid

Sasuke Uchiha I would say the same about Jeaffry Combs as Scarecrow, but he's just as creepy. playing Braniac in Injustice 2. Jesus, Braniac even looks like Combs.

Fair enough, though I like who they got to voice Scarecrow, Robert Englund. rather fitting if you ask me, but I respect yoru opinion.

No, I totally agree, Englund is pretty good too. Just that Combs had grown on me. When I heard it he was in the game I was expecting a reprisal, but his Brainiac works well. There are not too many actors that can make Scarecrow sound creepy.

So true. This game has a pretty good voice cast I wont deny

Well, Darkseid is meant to be more like an embodiment of an abstract concept (in this case, evil), rather than a person.

@@mriganabhkashyap1564 Actually, that would be his father Yuga Khan. Darkseid himself is tyranny personified.

Apocalypse from the X-Men Animated Series was even more grandiose. 2 larger than life villains with perfect voices.

Speaking of mythological, the sequence starting from 10:14 is trully the definition of the word. Two extremelly powerhungry and vicious factions about to fight for supremacy, _when they are interrupted by the arrival of a higher being._ And look at their expressions. Look at their eyes! They are not bowing down in fear like cowards trying to save their lives. _They are in genuine AWE!_ Their respect is absolute. Their admiration pure. Their worship unquestionable! They look like they have found enlightment... _and are bowing to the one who brought it._ *_Their GOD has returned._*

Exactly

Does that mean darkseid exist in every timeline/alternative universe?

TrentonHark talk shit get hit

TrentonHark that's exactly what i was thinking

That emphasized what a nasty loser Darkseid is - talk shit to his retreating back, get omega beams to the face in response. Ouch.

P.J. It's not really a matter of deserving or not deserving. Dan poked the metaphorical bear. There are consequences for that. Are they fair consequences? No, but that's life...or, well, _death_ in this case.

when you're talking mad shit and powerless. It's only going to end one way.

Lips flap back, get wacked

Show some resistance, get wiped out of existence

No the difference is Thanos seeks absolute power, while Darkseid absolute control.

12:59 me too.

Eddie Lee Honestly on a Very Good Day the whole Justice Leagues combined efforts would fall to Darkseid's might alone 9/10 times. Include that he is immortal and even if someone destroys his body he can be resurrected again, unstoppable. He has beaten Superman and Supergirl to near death more than once and didn't even break a sweat. He is my favorite villain ever.

Yup. The only villians that can say they beat the crap out of Superman or near killed him are Mongol, Darkseid and Doomsday.

Eddie Lee And the thing is that it's just an avatar that he uses that only uses a sliver of his true power.

Eddie Lee Or in other words a hologram.

You must not know much about DC if you think those 3 jobbers are the only ones to beat Superman. Monarch, Superboy Prime, and the Anti-Monitor have all done far worse. And all 3 of them would obliterate villain-of-the-week Jobberseid with ease, too. Monarch is basically an infinitely better version of Darkseid, one that's not made of a bunch of retarded tropes duct-taped together. Superboy Prime is a PRE-CRISIS version of Supes that's completely fucking insane, and Anti-Monitor literally destroys universes at a time.

D johns Because Beerus isn't a conqueror. I'd akin Darksied more with Frieza.

Darkseid is an actual character not some op cat.

D johns Darkseid is scarier than everybody in Dragon Ball, including Broly, Frieza, and Buu.

@@dylanaroberts97 Yup. At least you know Darkseid can't be beaten with powerups and through brute force.

Darkseid and thanos are both my favorite villain than frieza

agree

Empathy? Where???

Solaxe S with his son, in a way. The thing is you have to completely change your worldview beyond bizarro levels of backwards and cruel.

Jefferson DeMott he killed his son and had him kill him how is that empathy

Queon Ball hes killed his son but he would kill anyone else is if they did

savage

"Allegiance," not "legions."

No. I don't want Ironside to fight that Goku op Superman.

IRONSEID

@Goku son But I don't want that hack Whedon to go anywhere near him. He already ruined Ultron. And even then normies love the MCU, Spider-Man Homecoming is anything to go by.

@jexrutin That movie was terrible beyond belief

@jexrutin I hope he fares better.

What makes him a liar? I agree with the other statements. I don’t think he has ever lied about anything. He does twist the truth, but that’s it. Oh wait yes he is also a liar. Double crossed brainiac and Mannheim

Well..really, Darkseid's thinking is "Nobody hurt my son...but me". It's his upbringing. His father was shit to him...so he killed him off. Now he expects Kalibak or Orion to do the same to him....though really he hopes Orion will. He never really think Kalibak will ever be strong enough.

He really only cared about his family in Injustice, aside from that version, Darkseid couldn’t care less about his family.

UltimateAmplify main earth is the strongest earth in the universe that's why

multiverse*

Abdul Rahman Al Raeisi *that's pretty much what he said

aѕajj have you even read the comics in superman batman worlds finest darksied destroys earth 2 which has a 15 years older and more experienced JL but on earth prime he got destroyed

aѕajj superman prime one million is main earth superman in the future

Superman, “The good man you murdered!”

@@TigerWing141 Darkseid,"If i had known one human's death would pain you so, i would've killed more, and kill more i shall"

“Carry that agony with you to oblivion Superman.”

He’s my favorite voice actor.

IRONSEID

Дмитрий Гусарев Even the funeral was unexpected.

Still shocks me to this day

They pushed the envelope but it made it so much more impactful

Which is unfortunate. Tony Todd is a great VA, he’s just completely outclassed by Ironside.

​@@crislie4149Blame direction, not the actor. He played the character as directed.

"Darkseid"

*Apokolips.

Raymond Burr?

LOL!

I am acting. I am profession. I am iornsied.

IRONSEID

Even the name is fitting

david sobolov

😆 Meet your new lord and master.

lmao hey bro

Source Material is where at it sadly people don't bother even search for themselves yet make baseless statements about the characters

@@eivor2881 Facts

And MCU Thanos is just so boring and too Mongul for my taste.

​@@mazkeraid4039honestly, better than the comics who, and this is no exaggeration, did it all FOR PUSSY

One of the best lines. Stone cold killer

More like sadistic lmao.

“Unlikely.” - Darkseid

That scene would have been even better if Darkseid had stopped with that one line, and not added anything else. Just 'That is who I am.' and boom tube away.

@@shermanlee4037 True. I think they were still trying to feel him out. Once the writers figured out that Michael Ironside’s Darkseid had more gravitas when he didn’t speak more than necessary, he became iconic.