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Warning ! incorporate spoilers for Batman / Superman : World ’s Finest # 23 !
Darkseidis by far one of the most dangerous baddie to ever appear in comics , and his ultimate goal is to gain theAnti - Life Equation . If Darkseid superintend to get that , he ’ll be capable to curb all gratis will . This has been his ultimate goal for decades , but it sprain out that one villain managed to master the Equation before him .
Readers were shown thedark blood of theKingdom Comeuniverserecently after Batman and Superman become trapped there . The two heroes learn that not only is the baddie know as Gog responsible for this dark earth , but also that Gog has been using the Anti - Life Equation to manipulate the will of this world ’s heroes .
InBatman / Superman : World ’s Finest#23 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora , Batman realizes that Gog ’s ability to influence hoi polloi could only come from the Anti - Life Equation . count Gog is idle - adjust on face up Darkseid , it ’s never been more significant to hold on him than it is now .
Jack Kirby ’s original intent for the Anti - Life Equation made it a profoundly antiwar concept , one that enriches Darkseid ’s character in DC Comics .
Batman Realizes That Gog Has The Anti-Life Equation
A long fourth dimension ago , Darkseid chance upon that the inhabitant of Mars worshiped something call the Life Equation . Darkseid argue that if a Life Equation exist , then an Anti - Life Equation must also subsist . Ever since , Darkseid has expend all of his time and resource taste to find this equation . Darkseid is the living prosopopoeia of tyranny and if he ever got the Anti - Life Equation , he ’d have the magnate to quash all free will in the universe . Darkseid has even found and acquired the equation a few time , but he is n’t the first character to have it .
There have been a few different characters who have gotten the Anti - Life Equation over the years , such as Joker , and now Gog has been revealed to have it . Gog is an Old God , part of the pantheon that existed before the New Gods came into existence . This means Gog issignificantlyolder than Darkseid and find the equation at some point in his long life . alternatively of using it to quash all free will as Darkseid would , he ’s simply used it to influence people into idolize him . IfDarkseid occupy the Anti - Life Equationfrom Gog , it would intend the ending of free will in the population .
Batman and Superman Can’t Let Darkseid Find Gog
Gog require nothing more than to be killed by Darkseid in a glorious conflict , so he can enter Heaven . Darkseid wants nothing more than to find the Anti - Life Equation . These two characters are on a collision track with one another that will have catastrophic results for the eternal sleep of the universe . To preserve the universe , Batman and Superman will need to do the impossible by forestall two literal Gods from coming into contact with one another . If the rule of Apokolips supervise to take theAnti - Life Equationfrom Gog , thenDarkseidwill finally reach complete mastery over the universe .
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